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Mr Kuro VS Kyogi (Card Battle)

The frozen wasteland was silent, even the wind seemed oddly hushed. It was like the very enviroment itself was bracing itself for the showdown between the two battlemages. Standing roughly 20 feet away from each other was a gambling drifter with his head low by the name of Jaques LeRoux and almost directly inline with him was an unknown knight clad in battle armor. Neither of them spoke, but the voice of the 'Tall Man' Mr Kuro could be heard in the ether.

Don't panic young man, you're still at school, or at least your physical body is. This duel will all be over in a second in real time, and you will be comfortably sleeping after I am finished with you.....know that this was not my original intention, but just like you and your fellow ring wielding students, I too have a destiny to fulfill, now prepare your cards.

In the spirit realm where Kuro and Kyogi were inhabiting the decks were now in their hands and they began to to Draw:

I first summon the Elite Maruader and both my War Axe and Glacier Guard!!

The rangy pirate appeared out of nothing and while gripping his flintlock and rapier he trudged through the snow fairly slowly attempting to find a decent range to aim a shot before closing in. While the Unkmown Knight now armed with his Axe and Shield was dashing much faster towards LeRoux, getting ready for melee combat.

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Blood Orange work?

@TheRedWatcher

Yes that works, your deck is finished by the way, I'm just finishing up the final touches on your Battlemage, but if you want to post in the IC while I get that done go ahead.

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Sorry for the slight inactivity its been a very work heavy weekend, will get @Ammokkx's duel very soon and then I'll have Yojima address all the other students in my next post, thanks for being patient.

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@Fabricant451 I'm not arguing popularity, I'm not even saying that final fantasy 1 wasn't a landmark. I'm hesitant to call it a total pioneer, as Phantasy Star literally was relased 2 days afterwards, and had a female lead character to boot. But much like Resident Evil 1 just becuase a game was 'important' doesn't necessarily make it great or even good. I honestly dont think FF games suck (apart from 2 and 13) but I do think a whole half of them are dull/kinda boring/average and the others are decent, with maybe one or two being truly great. Which is the case for basically every longer running RPG series.

12 was widely acclaimed and was the first Final Fantasy game to get a perfect score in Famitsu. .

@Fabricant451

Hahahahahahaha guess what else got a perfect score by famitsu?

My Hider

My Hider

And of course..

I'm glad you've come around to seeing the light which is Japanese RPG reviews!

When it comes to FF the games which are argued as the best are 4 by the throwback people 7 by the widespread consumers 6 by the 7-sucks hipsters and maybe maybe maybe 10 by some of the slightly younger weeb-ish crowd, but I understand they are a minority.

None of these games, (apart from 7 due to the music, presentation, and my own heavy personal bias for this game) can even make the case for being a pimple on Chrono Trigger's ass.

And yes Persona 5 despite the weeb army and hype train is probably the best JRPG of this decade. Final Fantasy 15 was a good effort, but it's clearly not as amazing as it wanted to be.

EDIT: Oh and 14 is irrelevant, its a different genre. What makes a good MMO isn't necessarily what makes a good JRPG experience. That's like saying Donkey Kong is a better platforming series than Mario, because Diddy Kong Racing is better than Mario Kart 64 (which isn't saying much).

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Then you should spend some more time on some RPG forums and communities because boy. There's a subset of RPG fans that hate FF just because it's popular so the numbers are wonky all the same.

Point is, the series was and pretty much still is the top of the ladder in terms of the genre and appeal. It's one of the landmark franchises in gaming because it's got far, far, far more decent entries in its history than bad ones.

@Fabricant451

Is this the Regina George defense?

People hate COD, GTA, Battlefield and Madden because they are popular too, and they sell good just like FF.

Yes no one is denying the appeal of the games, its the McDonalds of RPGs, a lot of people know it and purchase it, doesn't make half the mainline series any less tepid. I feel like 'decent' is misleading and setting the bar a little to low. I don't think any of the games outside of 2 and 13 are outright crap, but the non-great entries are really just average, enjoyable sometimes, kinda dull, if 1,3,5,8 and 12 didnt have the name final fantasy in the title they would be as throwaway as the Shin Megami spin offs (barring persona).

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Back onto the thread topic.

This is going to be a controversial pick for an underrated game; Duke Nukem Forever.

No, it's not a very good game, but it's not that bad. Like, people mention this in the same breath as Ride To Hell Retribution, Rogue Warrior, and Daikatana, but it is far, far better and more playable and functional than those and to compare them is just insulting.

@Silver Carrot

Rouge Warrior was fantastic if only for the overlay profane and anti communist dialogue.



When @Dinh AaronMk and @Vilageidiotx hear what's said at 3:05, you know some jimmies are going to get rustled.

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Most of the games in the Final Fantasy series are decent,

@Fabricant451

Sonic had one good Genesis game and managed to convince people that its 3D games were good because of a fucking whale.

@Fabricant451

I dont really want to debate the value of sonic games because I fucking hate sonic. But depending on who you talk to, a good chunk of people in the platforming community, think that sonic 1,2 and 3 were good games, and they like sonic colours and generations too. I hear a staggering amount of defense for the running parts of unleashed and a few weirdos liked Sonic CD too.

That's about 4-5 games on average that people say are good, with maybe one or two being argued as great.

A lot of final fantasy fans seem to gravitate to roughly the same number of games in the series, with being lukewarm or extremely critical to the rest. RPG fans in general seem to only like a couple of the games I've never heard a non-final fantasy RPG fan give any significat level of praise to 1,2,3,5,8,12,13,or any of the god awful spin offs. Its a tepid series with some standouts, sonic is a shit series with some standouts, comparison is close enough for me.

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That would be Final Fantasy 8.

Or 6 if you want to count Gau.

@Fabricant451

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@Fabricant451 The comparison was because it's a genre where a small number of decent games in the franchise has tricked the fanbase into buying a lot of shit.