QUOTE(HolySin @ Apr 25 2006, 09:06 PM)
Final Fantasy isn't that great, for the most part, they just recycle the same story over and over. Let's look at the possibilities:
General Plot:
-Something is ready to take over or destroy the world.
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Villian:
-A person of high status (e.g. Queen, Emperor, Priest) or some dark lord.
=Incorrect. Was Sephiroth of high status throughout FF7? Nope. Kuja was only a weapons dealer to a lesser evil till he decided to own everyone. And If there was a general evil in FF8 of high status, tell me. Really your statement here was only true to FFX. Seymour was in high power and a general evil.
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Hero:
-Outcast or just another losoer who learns to fight with a sword.
pfft. Cloud wasn't a outcast and he wasnt an eX-Soldier. He was an orginary soldier in the Shinra Milita. Zidane was a thief for Limblum, no outcast there. Squall was a SeeD mercerary, highly trained to use his weapon. And Tidus was a dream. None of those fit your discription.
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Other:
-The party generally includes some chick (usually a princess), a mercenary, an ex-soldier, some elvish person that seems to be very wise, and a friend you've known for a long time.
The only game with a princess in it as a character or princess at all was FF9 and maybe FF12 assuming it actually comes out. Mercenary? Cloud? He was the main character so hes not really a 'mercenary' and thats the closest character I know to being one. There was no game with an ex-soldier, for the last time Cloud was NOT in 'SOLDIER' . He took stories from his best friend Zack(who was part of soldier and 1st class in it not to mention in that flashback in Cloud's place) and he re-formed the story to be Cloud there and not Zack. And for the friend for along time only really applies to FF7 and FFX. I don't remember anyone in FF9 or FF8 being a 'close friend they knew for along time' or I'm just crazy.
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-There's always some level 99 secret boss.
oooooooo. Ya so. btw They're just rigged bosses it doesnt mean they're level '99' . Levels only apply to your own party, the monsters or boss levels mean nothing.
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-Stupid yellow birds, chocobos, are in every single one.
I like them
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-All of the games have something to do with a stone or crystal. The object is usually something that could destroy the whole universe.
Sin wasn't really an 'object' but ya thats generally true.
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-Almost always the same stupid jobs: Warrior, White Mage, Black Mage, Monk, Theif, Red mage.
Right and what would you make it then?
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The only one that's slightly different because of the variety (though not that great) in a party and the hero, is Final Fantasy XI, but overall, it's still the same thing.
FF9 was different in a bad way, althought I still enjoyed it.
Just to add to the new movie, the voice actors for Cloud and Tifa are actually pretty good and fit them. Everyone else is kinda wierd..Cept Reno and Rude.