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The Spoony Experiment
- Thread starter Shard
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Man... He's really stretching it with FF13.
Putting quotes from the game out of context to prove a point, always fun.
That one at the end where Snow scares off a bunch of civilians is a particularly egregious example.
"The game sets it up like a straight fight." Like hell it does. If it did, why would it give you another tutorial?
And other than that, not a word about the gameplay with which you can and should take much more tangible complaints than with poor attempt at thinking with abstract sprites when making a high-budget modern 3D game.
I don't get the trend of trying to criticize games as movies, even those as cutscene-heavy as Final Fantasy titles.
Putting quotes from the game out of context to prove a point, always fun.
That one at the end where Snow scares off a bunch of civilians is a particularly egregious example.
"The game sets it up like a straight fight." Like hell it does. If it did, why would it give you another tutorial?
And other than that, not a word about the gameplay with which you can and should take much more tangible complaints than with poor attempt at thinking with abstract sprites when making a high-budget modern 3D game.
I don't get the trend of trying to criticize games as movies, even those as cutscene-heavy as Final Fantasy titles.
Sub_Level
wants to fuck an Asian grill.
I know, right. That just made the game look so silly and dated.
It really is a hallway. When the game came out in Japan, I imported FFXIII for $100+. I was able to get past the crash scene in this Spoony review before I dropped it out of boredom. I didn't read or speak any Japanese. I can't imagine the game being even more mind numbingly simple when you're playing it in your own language.
http://www.tubechop.com/watch/1127600
YES! YES! YES!
Going to watch it in a bit, glad to hear it's great as usual!
YES! YES! YES!
Going to watch it in a bit, glad to hear it's great as usual!
Dat feel when Spoony releases an actual review
Yeah, pretty much! Besides like RedLetterMedia, he's the only person on the internet I get excited to watch/listen to. I wonder if part of that's cause he releases his videos so sparsely?
His complaints about the violence dissonance and the ending aren't nitpicks
Never said they were.
PairOfFilthySocks
Member
This is fucking amazing. Passionate, angry, unlikeable yet still somehow sympathetic. This guy would be a great template for a villain in a film or something.
Yeah, after a while it was just sad for eveybody involved. It felt like he was waiting for the right moment to jump down the guy's throat, and he took it.
I have no idea. I can say I put 12 hours into the game and I could stomach no more. The gameplay was alright, but the story was awful, the characters all unlikeable, and SE relied on a Codex system to explain most of the plot and setting. The problem with the last point was that, unlike Mass Effect, the world was completely boring and sterile, so you weren't slightly interested in following up on things and reading their way-too-long entries.
Oh, and I actually did like Lightning, but only for the sole fact that she felt relatable in that she also hated every single character in the game. (Just kidding, I disliked her too.)
indigo-cyclops
Member
Yea I really enjoyed the Bioshock review. The longer the video the better I say. I've been really enjoying Counter Monkey lately too, even though I don't play pen and paper games. I've pretty much watched all his stuff now.
His most recent videos are very good tho.
He'll probably talk more about the gameplay when he gets to the part where the game trusts you to have more than two characters and choose among them. For the first, what, 30 hours of the game - the story is the only reason to push forward. The only challenging fights, from what I remember, are the ones against your summons.
SlowRevolution
Member
Think he's finally on the right meds too, if I remember right his last doctor wasn't even treating him for the right thing. Nice to see such a big difference.
Good video.
Meccanical
Member
The whole game is dumb.
Yeah, pretty much.
That's good to hear. It's funny to see how Spoony has changed within his videos over the years, and it's nice to see he's back on his way up again after he's told us how bad things have got. Gives a nice hopeful sense of things in general.
Rodney McKay
Member
So glad I gave up on FF13 after "just" 3-5 hours.
After that long I still had no idea what was happening, who these characters were, or what their goal was.
I get that they tried to do a cold open like in FF7 with the reactor attack, but in that game that part was maybe 1 hour before a character explains what is going on.
After that long I still had no idea what was happening, who these characters were, or what their goal was.
I get that they tried to do a cold open like in FF7 with the reactor attack, but in that game that part was maybe 1 hour before a character explains what is going on.
indigo-cyclops
Member
Most definitely. I really want to see him do an LP of Black Dahlia. His FMV stuff and shitty movie stuff is the best. Phantasmagoria 2 is the best LP out there. Funny and entertaining. The game is also cool regardless of popular opinion.
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I'm really glad that I didn't buy it back then. I mean I knew about the corridor stuff, but I didn't imagine that everything is that bad.
Been hoping for that ever since Ripper finished up. He mentioned back in like...I want to say it was 08', in a seperate video, that he had a copy of Black Dahlia, but couldn't get it up and running. The only thing is that I think he said he remembered it being a pretty good game, so that might be a problem. It's always funnier when the acting and gameplay is super-shitty.
Those videos are pretty solid.
indigo-cyclops
Member
I've actually found a patch that makes the game work with Windows 7. I remember that video, believe it was the first FMV Hell he did. Or from Johnny Mnemonic.
So much truth in his FFXIII videos. Very reminiscent of my thoughts playing through it cringing at almost every line of dialogue. I did eventually enjoy the combat in gran pulse 40 hours in but man the plot and characters were always terrible to the end.
Looking forward to part 4
Looking forward to part 4
We need to get a grass-roots twitter thing going then or something. Probably wouldn't start until he finished up FF XIII though.
huh, he didn't post the first two parts on YT...
Doctor Decimate
Member
whoa, it's the animated intro again
indigo-cyclops
Member
Napalm_Frank
Member
i think he actually went through all of FFVIII. i forget. but FFXIII has so much more to complain about. Can't wait til he gets to the Gran Pulse section.
Jawmuncher
Member
Hopefully he's planning on it when he wraps up FF. would be a good in between before he does 13-2
Napalm_Frank
Member
Can't wait for Versus review in 2018
Napalm_Frank
Member
Even stuff like this wouldn't bother me so much if the earlier games like FF7 didn't do this stuff way better. Soldiers would fire at you and people would die/lose their arm because of it. And with that more silly graphical style FF7 could have gotten away with stuff like this easier too.
Why couldn't they even come up with a lame story reason. Like l'cie have magical barrier that can protect from gunfire or something.
mysteriousmage09
Member
Just watched FFXIII part 3. So good.
Would have taken too much time to think up.
Actually, the Focus thing made me think of something about the game that I have never thought of before.
So, yeah, Fal'cie give L'Cie's focuses so that they eventually do some vague task. But...
Anima died, and had to have known it was going to die, when it turned the cast into L'cie. For the sake of argument, I'll assume that L'cie brands are on a timer or something.
Anima was going to die and most likely did know that it was one of the few pulse L'cie left on Cocoon, if any,
the thing will be fucking dead and won't be able to give any further guidance.
Actually...
It was the god Pulse, not Anima or a Fal'Cie, that gave them their focus and their brands
The Xtortionist
Member
Fimbulvetr
Member
Pulse is still a fal'Cie actually, albiet and absurdly powerful one that can create other fal'Cie. There were only ever two actual gods in the XIII mythos and one of them already died prior to the game.
Wait, what the hell?
I actually dug out my copy of XIII and pulled up the datalog for this. If your assessment is correct, then the game itself flat out lies to the player about this.
The datalog for Anima pretty much holds Anima responsible for the branding and everything.
Yeah, this shit is bananas.
Edit: Oooh, it's the goddamn Ultimania that actually clears up this detail, and not the game itself.