Professor Beef
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Seems like a stretch to me.
Exclamation-One said:Don't think it's a coincidence. Zidane has a tail!
Note: Haven't played the game very far... NO SPOILERS, please!
Roto13 said:Coincidences happen sometimes, you know.
Well, Steiner IS a hardass but he has a heart and then there's that one (Kind of a big plot point so yeah!)jaxword said:It's a complete coincidence. The characteristics of the Oz characters do not match the FF9's, even subversively. Vivi's not looking for a brain, Zidane's not looking for courage, and Steiner isn't looking for a heart. If anything, Vivi is looking for a heart and Steiner needs a brain.
I could do other teams of fiction and get a similar outcome:
The goof-off hero: Fry - Zidane
The Tin man: Bender - Steiner
Team mascot with a small stature but great power: Nibbler - Vivi
The Girl: Leela - Garnet
Not to mention there's 4 other FF9 characters, who do they match up with in Oz?
Exclamation-One said:Just started playing Final Fantasy IX for the first time, and I realized...
All four starting characters are an homage to Wizard of Oz.
Exclamation-One said:For instance,
the Fantastic Four represent Fire, Water, Earth, and Air.
Exclamation-One said:I'm not going so far as to say the characters completely correspond (that would be a videogame adaptation), just saying that they were an homage/starting point for the creators. A lot of artists take iconic and classic themes and build off of them. The Wizard of Oz is popular around the world, and especially in Japan.
For instance,
the Fantastic Four represent Fire, Water, Earth, and Air.
{:-/Exclamation-One said:I'm not going so far as to say the characters completely correspond (that would be a videogame adaptation), just saying that they were an homage/starting point for the creators. A lot of artists take iconic and classic themes and build off of them. The Wizard of Oz is popular around the world, and especially in Japan.
For instance,
the Fantastic Four represent Fire, Water, Earth, and Air.
tedtropy said:The clocks in Duke Nukem Forever show the actual time set on your system. I kid you not.
Also, that I'm playing DNF.
Choppasmith said:Speaking of which, the clock tower in MvC2 does this as well.
Huhtedtropy said:The clocks in Duke Nukem Forever show the actual time set on your system. I kid you not.
Also, that I'm playing DNF.
tedtropy said:The clocks in Duke Nukem Forever show the actual time set on your system. I kid you not.
Also, that I'm playing DNF.
the Fantastic Four represent Fire, Water, Earth, and Air.
jaxword said:It's a complete coincidence. The characteristics of the Oz characters do not match the FF9's, even subversively. Vivi's not looking for a brain, Zidane's not looking for courage, and Steiner isn't looking for a heart. If anything, Vivi is looking for a heart and Steiner needs a brain.
I could do other teams of fiction and get a similar outcome:
The goof-off hero: Fry - Zidane
The Tin man: Bender - Steiner
Team mascot with a small stature but great power: Nibbler - Vivi
The Girl: Leela - Garnet
Not to mention there's 4 other FF9 characters, who do they match up with in Oz?
Metal Gear?! said:
There was some half-life singleplayer mod... I don't know anymore if it was "they hunger" in which the fish followed you on land too.Metal Gear?! said:
I freaking hate that thing. Nightmare fuel.Metal Gear?! said:
There was one more staff member, and the two of us decided on it. We attached android to the metro subway and thats how we got Metroid. - Hiroji Kiyotake
- Before the game was called Metroid, the name was Space Hunter
- Samus name is based on Edison Arantes do Nascimento, the soccer player better known as Pelé
Even the name of the protagonist could be put together in this manner, and if I wanted to give someone a strange name, I could refer to Pelés name. - Hiroji Kiyotake
Kiyotake, If you check if Pelés real name was Samus Arantes, thats a little incorrect. Hes called Something Arantes Nascimento, and only Aran matches. (Laughs) - Yoshio Sakamoto
Chev said:The game is FF9, the opponent Ragtime Mouth. It asks quiz questions which the player has to answer to win the fight. Note the quiz card he's holding:
Now, the other face of the quiz card, which is probably near-impossible to get a close look of in-game:
Texture:
It reads: "Pop Quiz! FF10's theme is GUTS! True or false?"
Several monster textures also have little doodles hidden in the alpha channel of unmapped regions but no specific message.
(crossposted from Selectbutton)
cacildo said:Pelé´s real name is Edison Arantes do Nascimento. Meaning, they said "Something Arantes" which became "Samus Aran"
Something Arantez in Japanese will quite naturally become Samus Aran...Erigu said:You're not arguing "something" became "Samus", right?
Chev said:The game is FF9, the opponent Ragtime Mouth. It asks quiz questions which the player has to answer to win the fight. Note the quiz card he's holding:
[...]
It reads: "Pop Quiz! FF10's theme is GUTS! True or false?"
Several monster textures also have little doodles hidden in the alpha channel of unmapped regions but no specific message.
(crossposted from Selectbutton)
You're thinking of the Journey West story, not DBZ.vareon said:I thought the FFIX - Dragon Ball Z similarities was way more obvious.
ZephyrFate said:You're thinking of the Journey West story, not DBZ.
ZephyrFate said:You're thinking of the Journey West story, not DBZ.
Actually... no. The amount of shit that Son Wukong pulls off in that story is literally cooler than every videogame protagonist combined.Gravijah said:But DBZ is kewler.
ZephyrFate said:Actually... no. The amount of shit that Son Wukong pulls off in that story is literally cooler than every videogame protagonist combined.
Gravijah said:Does he go Super Saiyan?!
Sun Wukong possesses an immense amount of strength; he is able to lift his 13,500 jīn (8,100 kg or 17,881 lbs) staff with ease. He is also superbly fast, able to travel 108,000 li (54,000 kilometers or 33,554 mi) in one somersault. Sun knows 72 transformations, which allows him to transform into various animals and objects; he has trouble, however, transforming into other people, because he is unable to complete the transformation of his tail. He is a skilled fighter, capable of holding his own against the best generals of heaven. Each of his hairs possesses magical properties, and is capable of transforming either into a clone of the Monkey King himself, or various weapons, animals, and other objects. He also knows spells that can command wind, part water, conjure protective circles against demons, and freeze humans, demons, and gods alike.[1]
ZephyrFate said:Even better.
Gravijah said:Does he go Super Saiyan?!
Sun Wukong possesses an immense amount of strength; he is able to lift his 13,500 jīn (8,100 kg or 17,881 lbs) staff with ease. He is also superbly fast, able to travel 108,000 li (54,000 kilometers or 33,554 mi) in one somersault. Sun knows 72 transformations, which allows him to transform into various animals and objects; he has trouble, however, transforming into other people, because he is unable to complete the transformation of his tail. He is a skilled fighter, capable of holding his own against the best generals of heaven. Each of his hairs possesses magical properties, and is capable of transforming either into a clone of the Monkey King himself, or various weapons, animals, and other objects. He also knows spells that can command wind, part water, conjure protective circles against demons, and freeze humans, demons, and gods alike.
Lesath said:Well, no, but he calls himself the Great Sage Equalling Heaven, fucks up Hell's filing system so he can't die, eats the Empress of Heaven's immortality peaches, beats the crap out of heaven's army, and only gets his just desserts when takes a piss on the Buddha's fingers and gets flattened under a mountain for 500 years.
Kulock said:Sounds like Star Wars stats from whenever MamaRobotnik makes a versus topic. "Our ships are... 45265626 Giga-Megametermiles long... and... a single laser can shoot 23809 times per second, with the power of 10... hundred... BILLION suns! Yeah! And each ship has 52075200 of these lasers! And Darth Vader can just force-choke everyone from a galaxy away."
Lesath said:I apologize for my enthusiasm for a hilarious character in Chinese literature?