Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

I'm a girl and still disagree with this.
Nothing says that a story of any kind must have at least one or more women, or one or more men, or gays, or black people, or whatever just cause if one category is missing everyone screams at sexism, racism, and so on.

A story has to fit itself, we can't always put a gay character in there cause otherwise some gay somewhere will get offended that there's no gays. And if the story is about a bromance then it is what it is and there's no reason why there should be main females.

This happens in so many contexts and it kinda bugs me..cue

If you're talking about XV it's not saying that women are bad, there are women in the story and they have important roles

They're just not in the main cast because he's supposed to be kinda awkward with women and the friends he grew up with are all guys and they go on a broventure together

Oh, I didn't mean in that there should be diversity quotas to fill, but that the lack of diversity beyond male, white, straight guys is usually a symptom of poor writing. If a character could be arbitrarily switched with someone of a completely different background and still fit into the story, then they must not have had much of a background to begin with. Game makers are, for the most part, very weak writers.

We've had 3 games with a female main character and all previous ones had mixed, it's not so bad to try something new with an all male main cast (but not all characters obviously)

Gender doesn't bother me as long as the character is written well, I just don't like how Lightning was written.

I didn't mind her design, I liked it

She just felt kinda blah and boring to me

Vanille did too but she was too much in the other direction personality wise


Fang was great imo

But why would she be in it, she makes no sense

Why not switch between Cloud and someone else in the actual game

What the ***

Tifa maybe.

When I can't play a game I watch youtube story collections. Someone always post them for every game. That way you just go through the story like a movie.

In FFIV, at any point in the game if you change the pov character and open the menu you can see what that character is thinking about the current situation during the story.

I couldn't stand playing through the first one, first time I actually found the characters too annoying to play through it. Never had that in an FF before

Would be nice to be able to play through the game as each character to get a more in-depth backstory for them.

I stomached through the first game, I bought it, I'd beat it. But I'll never recommend that game to anybody while I am sane.

I would go on a 10 pages essay about the whys and stuff about FFXIII, but I'll refrain.

Never question me about any FF or I'll never stop talking about it.

Similar happenstance with FFIV. In the original Japanese version which was supposed to be "vastly more difficult than the NA Easy Type" you had a plethora of items that did things for you that you wouldn't normally have access to until late in the game in the NA version. I.E. The firebombs and lightning bombs that Cecil uses in the airship intro, you can find in chests/off monsters. In the Japanese version Cecil as a DRK has Dark Wave, which eradicates the entire enemy side until about Octomammon. You find Lunar Curtains and such that let anyone cast Wall on themselves. Bacchus Wine for self induced Berserk. A few more things on the list I can't remember.

The only difference between the two other than the above, is that the Active status in the config menu in the Japanese version paces the enemies a second faster than the NA version. You can still set either version to wait, and negate what is an artificially inflated difficulty(like a difficulty setting).

Also, either version can be beaten in the Active setting with the same exact strategies, albeit, you can do things earlier in the Japanese version/a bit easier with the extra items that they took out of the NA release.