5 Games that Changed the World

[Concept]

Golden Saucer.

Can't get that music out of my head now you've reminded me.

And I always wanted to kill that little Mog creature you had to feed and get a ****-buddy for in the virtual arcade.

[fatbatch]

Aaah, you didn't want to feed the little darling just the right number of Kupo nuts?

[Concept]

I disagree with Jezzace that the minigames in Final Fantasy VII are 'poorly conceived' - the Golden Saucer constitutes perhaps the most ingenious way of integrating minigames into a narrative. It is the setting for important events in the story and you can revisit it to replay scenarios and play other funny little games like the mog dating one. It is also fitting that you cant revisit in the darkest days for Cloud and co ...

"Dating" game. No. Let's be real - It was nothing more than a virtual pimping simulator.

[Concept]

Aaah, you didn't want to feed the little darling just the right number of Kupo nuts?

Fat bastard wouldn't fly for an age. Kept falling down on its furry flab-like arse. Think it got a thrill out of it to tell the truth....

[fatbatch]

But those mogs are so sweet.

Really, I didn't mean it's a dating sim. It's a pisstake of dating games and of Final Fantasy's own occasional cuteness. There's alot of camp in Final Fantasy VII within the drama.

[Concept]

Yeah, I know. Have you visited the Honey Bee Inn when Cloud is all 'dolled' up in Midgar?

[fatbatch]

What a beauty she was!

Quite what was going on with the wrestler types I shudder to think ...

[jimmbob]

Yeah, I know. Have you visited the Honey Bee Inn when Cloud is all 'dolled' up in Midgar?

That bit makes me roar.
Also I like the guy in the mansion who's keeping Tifa for his sex slave. He does this sort of hip thrust continuously which is so funny. [Old perv...]

[Concept]

Yeah, I remember that. It's freaky that he tries at one point to capture Yuffie, an underaged girl, to pimp.

Man, those wrestlers are creepy. Walk into one of he rooms at Honey Bee and Cloud blacks out, only later to find one of them is on top of him on the bed.

And then you've got the fetish-loved-up Shinra President. The clearly "still in the closet" Rufus. There's Mojo in denial on the beach surrouded by all those women.

Oh, and Cid and that science partner he blames... Major sexual sado-masochistic tension between the two.

Then there's Sephiroth carting around his dead mother's increasingly distorted body just for fun... Can we say necrophilia by any chance?

Let's not mention the tension between Barret and Dyne... The clear front that Cait Sith has in terms of representing his owner's true sexuality. And what about the Turk threesome?

FFVII is filled with a whole host of slightly disturbing comical perversions.

But this thread is getting off-topic. So I'll stop here.

[chocklo]

1) Pong
2) Kung Fu Master
3) Space Invaders
4) Pac Man
5) all of those old text adventures

[dataDave]

Yes it was infinitely customisable, but after a few beers who could be arsed?

Pah! That's why you can save set-ups to either the cart or a mem. card. And you don't get at least 2 of your mates shouting "Argh! My controls are messed up" when you start a game because the profiles are so easy to set up compared to other console FPSs. We all love admiring our stats too. I have over 9,000 headshots.

As for everyone's gripes about the badly conceived levels in single-player, who can possible argue with the architecture as seen on the Area 51 complex? Such a huge level that fits together over 3 missions seamlessly - take for instance the lab area with the big bay window (where you find the psychosis gun) - that's actually the raised blacked out window above the lift shafts on the previous misson. Massive stuff.

Multiplayer is where the true lifespan lies. Plus, it has the greatest ever multiplayer level on any game ever - Car Park! Host of the greatest ever shot of all time - my mates triple kill with one golden bullet on 3 strafing opponents! I wish we'd recorded that match.

PD" is the way forward guys, perhaps it will take you another couple of years to realise that. Rare didn't include quotes such as "Rare designs on the Future" and "Perfect Dark is Forever" for nothing you know.

Anyway, this is spam. Back to the main topic... I'd love a GE vs. PD thread though.