It seems I taught him well. Perhaps a bit too well since he's taking all of the least favourite results.Originally Posted by Del Murder
Who is this mean person and what did he do with Jiro.
Well, you know what young Mr. Jiro? Anyone can be negative when given such ample fodder as the seething hatred of an entire forum. It takes a truly bitter and spite filled human being to deliver such disgust as the world has never seen when confronting their love and enthusiasm however. Indeed, I'm absolutely sickened by the positive emotions regularly displayed by these sorry meat sacks and lone genderless robot. So allow me to once more crush your hopes, spit on your dreams, and flay alive any feelings of happiness you still have.
For now we come to:
Favorite customization system (job,materia,sphere grid, etc...)
Of course, we start with the single votes. The ones so miserably unpopular that only the most broken of spirits and shattered of psyche's would ever vote for them.
Dead last:
License Board
FFXIII-2 Monster Development
Yes, the license board. Much of it's hate probably stems from the mistaken impression that FFXII is a bad game. Given how many of you count FFVII among your favourites, and even consider FFXIII to be worth playing for more than five minutes, your opinions are worth less than nothing. I won't claim the license board is anything special however. It does the job and is functional, but there's little else to say about it.
FFXIII-2 is something I'm not familiar with, but safe to assume that by carrying the number XIII it is utterly offensive to the senses. Who would vote for such a thing anyway?
No surprises here, and just as wrong as ever I see.
Next we have a tie for almost dead last with 2 votes each:
FFTactics Jobs- 2 total votes
FFIX Ability System - 2 total votes
Once again, we see how much you all disgust me if these two lovely systems only got 2 votes each. FF Tactics, hailed by many as the best game to carry the name Final Fantasy and equipped with a customization system rife with job classes, useful abilities, and a large degree of customization combined with sufficient limitations to allow for interesting decisions and combinations. Obviously such a marvelous system is lost on fools such as yourselves.
FFIX, by the same token, is in many ways a simplified version of FF Tactics but no less rich in strategy and experimentation. Job classes themselves are set, but with a rich variety of additional abilities to learn and select from, there are myriad variations in party builds which are a delight to explore, yet once again we find brilliance lost on you all. All, save perhaps my partner in crime for this event.
I'd like to wish that you were as disappointed in yourselves as I am, but we all know that to be impossible.
Instead we shall move on to another tie with 3 votes each.
Second Place:
FFV Jobs- 3 total votes
Sphere Grid - 3 total votes
And once again, we see the preference for shallow, unfulfilling tripe over actual substance on display. I can little complain about FFV. It was a brilliant system for many of the reasons Tactics was, and we could imagine that that game would be unrecognizable had it not been for FFV laying it's brilliant ground work. Yet only 3 people recognize it. And shall we hear from one of those 3?
Little surprise who voted that way. I suggest you all take note of what an acceptable answer looks like.
Now for the final tie for First Place:
Materia - 7 total votes
Ah yes. That one from the fan favourite title which everyone loves to put on their rose coloured nostalgia glasses for. Really now? I'll grant that the Materia system allowed you to customize abilities beyond simple attack and item however you wanted. But it ceases to be interesting beyond that. The minor stat changes and abundance of materia slots for the necessary abilities, combined with the general lack of difficulty all lead to one inescapable conclusion: for all of it's supposed customization, FFVII offer little in the way of interesting choices to be made. Where's the excitement when there is no appreciable consequence to your decisions? When trading a weaker piece of gear and some stats for more materia has absolutely no effect on how you progress? How can naming such a system to first even be defensible?
In fact, only one person tried to defend it:
Off the top of my head, choices that actually mattered could outmatch it easily. Hell, I find the choice of whether or not I'm going to shave today infinitely more interesting.
But I said there was a tie for first didn't I. So without further ado:
Job System (General) - 7 total votes
Now this is certainly a better choice, sort of. In the sense that it's a choice that's not the Materia system. But what is this non-commital load of horsefeathers? There have been several job systems over the years, each with a substantially different implementation than the others. Yet here we have people who are either so ill prepared, grossly uninformed, or completely incapable of casting a specific vote that instead they simply said job and left it at that. Instead of committing to one great system to stand out amongst the dregs that this series has frequently thrown upon us we get guarded and fearful half answers.
Frankly, you all disgust me. So given my powers as a Starfleet Captain I hereby disregard all votes for the Materia system, and count all votes for the "job" system as being for FFV and declare that the undisputed winner. If you have any problems with that, you can take it up with my chief of security.
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Now finally, before I go, we have something new we're starting this year. Throughout the results reveal we will be giving out various awards to this years participants. In usual census fashion, you don't want to win any of them.
Now this first award is a special one because we have a three way tie. Now as some of you may or may not be aware, participation in the forum census by the female gender is somewhat lacking. This time around, we literally had 3 young ladies enter. That's 3 out of a total of 24 entries. Not even 15% of the responses were by women. But surely the staff must be doing their part: leading by example as it were? Surely our resident Cid's Knights and Administrators who happen to possess vagina's got their entries in?
You'd think so wouldn't you. Now without further ado, I present:
The award for most active female forum staff who consistently disappoint me by failing to participate in a forum event no matter how much HC spams their inbox or I berate them for their undeniable apathy:
And the winners are, in no particular order of course:
Pike
FOA
Shlup
This census has been in need of better representation from the fairer sex from the beginning, yet these pillars of the community failed to get their entries in. Shlup in particular has decided to abstain in several of these over the years. I even berated her repeatedly for it in one reveal some time ago. At this point, I'm at a loss as to what would get her to actually send us a response since the insults aren't working.
So I leave it to you, people of EOFF. Is this forum event something you enjoy? Do you expect better of the people who protect you and nurture the... well welcoming probably isn't the best word... slightly less toxic than other forums perhaps, environment that we have here? Does not participation make all events more enjoyable? So I say demand that they show more interest. They should be first in line to participate in all forum events and yet they have been nowhere to be found.
So to end this post I will leave you with the names of the three who were kind enough to participate. For there is a storm coming, and may they take their rightful places when the glorious revolution is ended and the apathetic are laid low:
Freya
Melissaur
Jessweeee♪
I think Jessweeee♪ in particular deserves special mention. I have never failed to berate her opinions and treat her as though she is something less than human since I took over the census results for her inexplicable love of games like FFXIII, and if memory serves, FFVIII. Yet she responds everytime we start a new thread mining for answers which we will inevitably use against every last one of you. It's easy to support an event when you aren't continuously picked out of the crowd for being wrong, yet she takes it like a champ and keeps coming back for more.
For that she has my respect. Because god knows she'd never earn it for her taste in games.
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