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Seán C.C.
Canada
Приєднався 28 жов 2010
I guess I am doing UA-cam now. Videos about games that exploit my nostalgia and poor life choices.
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Signalis Will Make You Appreciate Storytelling
Signalis made me lose my mind twice: once after trying to figure out the story, and again after deciding to make this video.
I forgot to mention it at the end, but as per usual if this (admittedly strange) video stunk, feel free to let me know in the comments. That way I'll know to take my medication before writing and recording it. There was a ton of stuff I cut from this video just to make it as coherent as it is now.
I'll be in the comments for this one for a little while, pinning comments if I think they add to the conversation. Please try to avoid any giga spoiler stuff, but y'know, its the comment section.
Credits:
- Signalis was made by Rose Engine, AKA Yuri Stern & Barbara Wittmann.
- Some Signalis footage comes from the music video for DON'T TRY by HEALTH. You should check it out.
- All music is from the Signalis OST made by 1000 Eyes and Cicada Sirens, with the exception of their version of Schubert's Serenade. It does feature in the game but not on the soundtrack.
- The B-roll clip of the spinning brain is from Vecteezy.com
- Everything else was stolen fair and square or is posted with full context in the video, a la the VaatiVidya references.
- If I missed something obvious then scream it at me in the comments.
My (Stinky) Patreon: patreon.com/user?u=114582266
I forgot to mention it at the end, but as per usual if this (admittedly strange) video stunk, feel free to let me know in the comments. That way I'll know to take my medication before writing and recording it. There was a ton of stuff I cut from this video just to make it as coherent as it is now.
I'll be in the comments for this one for a little while, pinning comments if I think they add to the conversation. Please try to avoid any giga spoiler stuff, but y'know, its the comment section.
Credits:
- Signalis was made by Rose Engine, AKA Yuri Stern & Barbara Wittmann.
- Some Signalis footage comes from the music video for DON'T TRY by HEALTH. You should check it out.
- All music is from the Signalis OST made by 1000 Eyes and Cicada Sirens, with the exception of their version of Schubert's Serenade. It does feature in the game but not on the soundtrack.
- The B-roll clip of the spinning brain is from Vecteezy.com
- Everything else was stolen fair and square or is posted with full context in the video, a la the VaatiVidya references.
- If I missed something obvious then scream it at me in the comments.
My (Stinky) Patreon: patreon.com/user?u=114582266
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Gundam Evolution Deserves to Be Remembered
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Gundam Evolution was a fantastic game despite it being far from perfect. It's a shame that it's gone as it makes it much harder to talk about, but G.EVO perfectly encapsulates the kinds of games I find most fascinating: broken, fun and genuinely inventive. Meet the GM Sniper - Video by Dwheim ua-cam.com/video/5nxKlKBxAig/v-deo.html The dude has more content like this on his channel, go check hi...
What's Up With This Channel?
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Too Long; Didn't Watch: I've hit a few delays but I'm working on two new videos. I'm going to be trying out different kinds of videos, and I'm also looking to monetize this channel in the near future. Sorry for the long absence once again. I never plan these things, but this last year was very busy for me. Not bad by any means, just busy. I'm going to prioritize uploading videos to this channel...
Why You Should Ignore Your Character Sheet
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Sorry this took so long to upload. You wouldn’t believe the odyssey I went on trying to get this video made and uploaded. Here’s hoping it doesn’t get flagged for some reason. The video is about tabletop games this time, specifically about a lot of the roleplay traps I’ve personally seen people fall into. I’ve always wanted to make content about TTRPGs in general, although I’m not really sure w...
Why FF8 is a Great Game (Despite its Many Flaws)
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[This video contains major spoilers for FF8/FFVIII throughout, light spoilers for FF10 and FF12] A deep dive/essay on why FFVIII is my favourite of the mainline Final Fantasy franchise. I figured it’d be fun trying to outline why I like this game so much considering how generally maligned it is in comparison to the other games Square was putting out at the time. Hopefully by the end I can convi...
The Update Video
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This video is just a quick update to talk about what videos I’m planning to make next, as well as to answer some of the questions/comments I’ve been getting on my last two videos. When I sat down to record this video I was still under 800 subscribers, and I kind of knew that wouldn’t be the case by the time I finished editing it. Man, you guys rock. I can’t thank you enough for the amazing feed...
I Didn’t Know Shin Megami Tensei Was Pokémon with Demons
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[This video contains very mild spoilers for SMT If…, Devil Summoner, Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers, SMT Nine, and maybe others] A much shorter video than my last one, but I hope it's still entertaining. Big thank you to Marsh again for inspiring me to pick up this franchise. Appreciate it man. ua-cam.com/users/MarshSMT Check out his stuff. He channels some AVGN energy into his videos that I real...
I Spent 1000+ Hours on the Final Fantasy 14 Free Trial.
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[This video contains minor spoilers for A Realm Reborn & Heavensward] This project really got away on me. To be 100% honest, it took me so long to finish that I sort of lost passion part way through after considering the rewrites, weird shifts in tone and what seemed at the time to be a pretty cataclysmic audio error that occurred right near the end. Any comments and criticisms you have is dear...
Undertale - Analytical Review (Reupload)
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As the disclaimer says, this is a reupload (Original Posted May 30th 2016) from my other channel. I don't really want to exist on two channels at the moment, and even though this video is old, I put a lot of work into it and I am (relatively) proud of this. I don't agree with EVERYTHING that I said here in hindsight, and this was obviously made way before the release of Deltarune Chapter 1 or e...
Gunk Brain
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Another ramble-y video about mostly nothing, but feel free to watch if you just want to hear me talk about life or whatever. It was a good excuse to flex my narration and video editing again, what can I say? I'm happier with how this one turned out, but I still think it is lacking, at least on the narration side. I managed to write and record the whole thing in under three hours, but the energy...
I Ran Dungeons & Dragons For My Parents
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Link to the original post: www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/opm1by/i_ran_dungeons_dragons_5e_for_my_parentsfamily_it/ I didn’t want to put this in the video, as I thought it would undermine a lot of the effort I put into it, but boy I wasn’t happy with how this one turned out. If there is one thing I learned during the recording of this, it's that reading from a script is shockingly harder than I ...
The First Video
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Hey! I'm tired as hell because rendering this turned out to be a nightmare. All this tuckered out tyke wanted to do was have a video uploaded by the end of the night. It's been two nights. Edit: Hey, it says the upload date is August 1st, so I guess I won with seconds on the clock. EDIT 2: GOD DAMNIT. Feel free to ignore this one. The point of this way to practice the process of creating a vide...
I did not know the Rinoa theory! I’m on disc 2 right now so now I will play this game with a different connection.
Since I don’t see any one else ask.. What is DeeS?
Just started playing FFVIII again around 3 days ago. It’s all I think about while at work. FFVII is my favorite of all time but VIII Is still incredible.
And not a single word about dog hand-canon, dog wrestler, dog for riding, dog posing in front of the moon... The most important part!
Sooo what dues DeeS stand for ?
if people are oh so annoyed with the junction system they should just use auto.
Missed it started with 10. Truth be told. Jecht's song is my actual fav XD
Aragon & Arwen is the only love story that I don't hate.
Over 300 hours in, it’s my first time hearing about squadrons
31:15 Vaan is actually the most important character in the game. Without him joining the hunters guild and advancing in the ranks, the final hunt Yiazmat would have destroyed Ivalice. It is hailed in npc opinions and in statistical fact that Yiazmat is the most powerful creature in Ivalice. The kingdom battles and wars meant nothing at the end of the day, as Yiazmat would kill everybody anyways. So really, the rest of the team are all side characters, and Vaan is DEFINITELY the main hero AND the most powerful being in Ivalice after he completes the final hunt.
bruh that fucking happened to me with the giant snake in ff7. i spent two weeks fighting it eventually killed it. and then my save file corrupted ;-; tbh i havent played it since
Omg we have the same favorite ff tactics and first then 8, then 7 and then x. This was also my first final fantasy.
FF8 has a fake President that scared me then transformed FF8 has great bosses and this is not my final form Ultimecia I beat her so many times years ago
7 was my first, 8 was my second and the one I got to try the most before I got a PlayStation. Definitely gets more hate than I think it deserves. Definitely has issues but I actually like the breaks it has.
Wait that's nuts! SeeD is actually Dees backwards??!?
19:35 Yes, defeating Midgar Zolom when you first encounter it is super-satisfying. It's not as hard as it appears. You can even defeat the Zolom in a no-random-battles challenge. It helps to keep everyone tranquilized in the back row, with Cure materia, give the Enemy Skill learner an Elemental-Fire combo on their armor and don't have them attack until they're the last fella remaining, rely mainly on Limit Breaks for your attacks, use Beta on the Zolom once you've learned it. Experiment from there. Good luck!
I like to kill off Squall before I go to the Ifrit cave, so that Quistis does his deity-capturing assignment on her own.
I know it's not the point of the video but since you brought it up I gotta disagree about the heat towards vasn in ff12, he has agency to be in the group and even jf he didn't it wouldn't matter, he's their because his life choices led him their, he wants to be a sky pirate because adventure and goes along with bal and Fran because he wants to be like then, and even then you could argue vaan has every right to be in the rebellion for what the empire and vash brother did to vaan brother leading him into his life of thievery in the first place, just because a character is under qualified or are their of their own volition doesn't give then any less right to be their and I think a lot of people forget that by your argument Han and chewy shouldn't be helping Luke and Leia because they got no REAL agency against the empire like the rest kf the cast but their their because they want to be. Besides all of that though we saw what happens to ff when you don't got an every man, exposition is turned into walls of text in ff13
Absolutely love this game :) always been my favourite. Love the parts of the game people hate :) the junction system is great, story is a little messed up but if you do multiple play throughs it’s not so bad. Love the characters and triple triad, I have to have a play through every year. I love many other FF games but FF8 remains at the top for me, my first FF game :) and always my turn to when I don’t know what to play :)
More like... Why it's so bad despite it's great aspects.
FF8 is a banger, worth the time and learning
One challenge I set myself is to finish the final boss with the first three characters that are arbitrarily selected to be the party, without fail. This means, first off keeping their levels balanced and not just playing favorites. Then, playing in the first style you mention because I hated and avoided Triple Triad, and blithely unaware of the power of Refining, arranging to have a complement of GF's on all characters that Junction and boost all stats. Which doesn't happen by itself, you have to map out what you have or don't have, and then Teach the GF whatever abilities are needed to fill in the gaps, and Junction them to the right characters accordingly. And then mind-goblin your way to collect and hoard 100 each of decent if not perfect junction boosts. I've unfortunately now lost my graph paper sheet with this solution, but I remember doing it.
44:32 ; I've played this game about a dozen times and I never realized Irvine didn't shoot because he knew Edea was Matron. That totally changes my whole viewpoint of Irvine, who was my least fave character. Thank you. Gonna have to replay it again. XD
I have a video that proves i was the best guntank ever.
FF8 is my favorite Final Fantasy!
I'm about to start a free trial. would you say it's still something worth diving into? Do you still play?
JK Rowling and Ridley Scott suffer from "George Lucas syndrome". "George Lucas syndrome" is when an artist creates something genuinely great, but their obsession with it won't allow then to leave it alone. This can but won't always destroy the original work.
I love ff8 and this video rocks. That being said, Squall is SUPER emo. That dude probably has wake me up inside set as his alarm clock.
I was introduced to FF8 by a classmate, afterwhich i tend to seek answer on the high seas, stumbling onto FF6, which becomes my #1 whilest FF8 being a solid #2 for the Final Fantasy Games itself, followed by Tactics, whilest non-FF i only played Secret of Mana and ChronoTrigger lateron, with only having played the latter around its 20y anniversary
Complaining about the junction system because holding x to farm mindlessly doesn't let you overpower every boss says a lot more about the complainers than the game
I actually enjoyed the junction system but to be fair if you know how it works than you can exploit the junction system and become over powered throughout the game and never have to level up
@21:44 Squall getting ‘limit breaks’ from Quistis whipping him could be one of two things… 🤷♂️
card mod breaks the game.
I just started playing trying to learn all the mechanics
Can someone explain the SeeD DeeS thing
I mean...sure...the Junction system is "flawed" but that's a mindset thing imho...most everything is flawed, but what we do with it and work around it, is what makes it special to begin with. Sure, your stat will slowly decrease if using a junctioned spell, but is that so important if you can wreck a boss in halve the turns? If you lose 20 casts of a spell...just junction a 100 stack of an equal spell or...just auto junction again. The tedium of drawing...yes...exists, but it ignores the fact, that you can use GF abilities to "mass produce" magic. If one ignores mechanics the game gives you, you can't complain that the other 50% are making everything boring or bad.
100% agree with your conclusion on ff8. great analysis man....(hate this draw system though )
This is my favorite FF game. I want to show it to my BF but I always felt like the mechanics were too complex and boring. Would love to hear more about that easier gameplay you mentioned.
When i heard the news, i entered a depression and stopped playing completely. I had grown so attached to this game instead of playing overwatch 2, I played G EVO every day after school. I had just unlocked Zaku 2 (melee)... I'll still look at my steam achievements and reminisce over the 2 achievements i still needed.
What are "DeeS"
The English localization of the game changed so much dialog it made some characters seems worse like Squall and Rinoa.
This is my favorite final fantasy. It was also the first one I played. Those facts might be related...
It was my favorite of the pre PS2 Final Fantasies.
What the mess?
Fft video when????
THE FUCKING NEOPETS SHOP! OMG IM DEAD! This game was my favorite. I preferred it over ff7 due to the strange love story. The epic music. The weird card game. I wish this game got the love that 7 did. It feels like final fantasy stopped being good shortly after.
Deckard is a replicant!
just beat it last night. this is one of the best games of all time.
I wrote lyrics for Laguna’s theme cos it’s that much of a timeless irresolute Banger. That battle music is just amazing… I’m glad you brought it up, cos like there’s a lot of video game songs that go hard, but this one hits so hard. That’s why I kinda made my own lyrics out of it.
You gottta be NutS if you think I know what DeeS stands for Did you know that it's actually possible to StuN SeeD?
First playthrough: Wow this story is great, but hard. Make it to Disc 3. Disc. 3. It FINALLY sinks in that I need MORE magic, not just 1 magic, to get the effects. Restart. Become DISGUSTING before leaving Balamb. Breeze through game using pretty much just Squall and Attack. Once the junction/mod/refine systems are understood, the only diffocult enemy in the game is Omega.