Golbeze Devil Incarnate

[Marcus]

I've been playing a lot of Final Fantasy 4 at the moment, enjoying it a lot, never finished it, and now I'm going to try that on HardType, which is harder(duh), but way more fun...

But what strikes me as odd, is that noone ever mentions Golbeze as being the ultimate enemy. I mean, he's way more evil than other FF enemies.. He kidnaps people, takes control of their minds, kills tons of people and whatnot, he has this scary yellow/blue dark armor... I mean, he is pure evil. Way more evil than Sepiroth, for instance. In my opinion, at least.

Go on. Admit it. You hate him.

[The Man]

The only problem with Golbeza being "the ultimate villain" is (SPOILER)he's not acting himself; he's subjected to mind control for most of the events of the game, and once he is freed of that, he stops being evil.

[Marcus]

Right. I really want to know why you don't think Golbeze is evil, but I haven't finished the game yet. And I hate spoilers. Man, I just set a trap for myself. =(

[The Man]

Yup, pretty much. But indeed, he's bad-ass as HELL for the first three-quarters of the game at least; IMO, he makes Sephiroth look like the harmless little muppet that he is.

[Flying Mullet]

Then I guess that I shouldn't mention that Cecil dies.



Just kidding.

[Marcus]

Heehee, you had me there for a sec =)

[DJZen]

FF4 just has plot issues. Things seem like they might have been thrown together slopilly at the last minute. For example (SPOILER) you're collecting the crystals of lights because whoever gets them is all powerful and what-not. Then OMG!!!!!111 I just remembered! You need the crystals of light AND the crystals of dark! Oh, BTW, Cecil, I just remembered, Golbez is also your brother.

[Flying Mullet]

Originally posted by DJzen
FF4 just has plot issues. Things seem like they might have been thrown together slopilly at the last minute. For example (SPOILER) you're collecting the crystals of lights because whoever gets them is all powerful and what-not. Then OMG!!!!!111 I just remembered! You need the crystals of light AND the crystals of dark! Oh, BTW, Cecil, I just remembered, Golbez is also your brother.

Not really, that all makes sense. (SPOILER)The only reason Cecil's party finds out about the dark crystals is because Kain tells them what he overheard when he was with Golbez, as he "broke free" of the mind control of Golbez during Rosa's rescue. And as for Golbez being Cecil's brother, if I remember correctly FuSoYa tells the party that, so they had no way of finding out until they got to the moon.

[Del Murder]

I wish he joined you at some point. That wouldn't have been cool. He was a pretty good villain for his part.

[Flying Mullet]

Originally posted by Del Murder
I wish he joined you at some point. That wouldn't have been cool. He was a pretty good villain for his part.

wouldn't

[Bahamut2000X]

Golbez was one of the best villians in my opinion. I remember waiting for the next FF (FFVI back in the day) to come out I would just replay FFIV over and over and Golbez always seemed to me, to be the true evil bad guy through out the entire thing. And I'm sure Golbez could beat most of the pathetic villians now a days in FF's who claim to be badd ass.

[Del Murder]

Heh, sometimes the words go through my head so fast that my fingers can't remember them.

[Flying Mullet]

Originally posted by Del Murder
Heh, sometimes the words go through my head so fast that my fingers can't remember them.

mean I know what you.

[AaronD]

Golbez in my own words is the devil-reincarnate lol...i have played this game over and over on SNES in this case its called FF2. same thing except you dont get Cecils dark sword ability or whatever. But Golbez is hardcore with his devil horn helmet and just beastly size...he is the devil

[DJZen]

Oh, there's quite a few more differences than that....