Flintlock
Pro Adventurer
Race me!
Edit: please see the second post in this thread for a challenge
I'm sure you've all heard of speed runs, right? As interesting as they are, I think there's a much more exciting time-based challenge involving Final Fantasy games (or any other, really, so long as it has a definite end point): racing.
Two or more players pick a game and set up on their respective TVs (emulators work well too). Both players press "New Game" at exactly the same time, and then it's a real-time race to the finish. Real-time means that if you choose to reset or end up getting annihilated, your opponent keeps playing and can move ahead (or catch up) in the game. So unlike a speed run, sometimes it's worth investing a little more time into the menus, or learning abilities, in order to ensure smooth progress later and avoid having to redo anything. Everything becomes a calculated risk. Should you save regularly, wasting time but ensuring that you won't have to replay a huge chunk if something terrible happens, or should you save sporadically to save time and take a bigger risk? Luck can have a huge impact, changing the dynamics of the race in a single stroke. You could be feeling confident, twenty minutes ahead of your opponent, but suddenly you could be ambushed my a malboro and have your lead wiped out.
Obviously, both players have to have a similar level of knowledge of the game - you can't have a veteran racing a noob, or at least you'd have to have a serious handicap.
I first heard about the idea eight or nine years ago, but it wasn't until about four years ago that I finally found someone to try it with. I let her choose whichever PSX era game she wanted, and she chose IX. We weren't actually together, just playing on our own emulators and chatting about our progress on IRC when there were FMVs. I got as far as the world map outside Dali (she was still in the Ice Cavern pre-Black Waltz) before we stopped for that day, and for some reason we never carried on, which was a shame.
But now I've joined here, there must be someone willing to give it a shot
What do you think of the idea? Have you ever done anything like it? And would you be interested in trying it? I'd be happy to give more details about exactly how the finer things work (like taking breaks), if anyone wants to know.
PS: I hope I posted this in the right place. There doesn't seem to be a forum for general (cross-game) FF chat, so I decided to put it in the VII forum.
Edit: please see the second post in this thread for a challenge
I'm sure you've all heard of speed runs, right? As interesting as they are, I think there's a much more exciting time-based challenge involving Final Fantasy games (or any other, really, so long as it has a definite end point): racing.
Two or more players pick a game and set up on their respective TVs (emulators work well too). Both players press "New Game" at exactly the same time, and then it's a real-time race to the finish. Real-time means that if you choose to reset or end up getting annihilated, your opponent keeps playing and can move ahead (or catch up) in the game. So unlike a speed run, sometimes it's worth investing a little more time into the menus, or learning abilities, in order to ensure smooth progress later and avoid having to redo anything. Everything becomes a calculated risk. Should you save regularly, wasting time but ensuring that you won't have to replay a huge chunk if something terrible happens, or should you save sporadically to save time and take a bigger risk? Luck can have a huge impact, changing the dynamics of the race in a single stroke. You could be feeling confident, twenty minutes ahead of your opponent, but suddenly you could be ambushed my a malboro and have your lead wiped out.
Obviously, both players have to have a similar level of knowledge of the game - you can't have a veteran racing a noob, or at least you'd have to have a serious handicap.
I first heard about the idea eight or nine years ago, but it wasn't until about four years ago that I finally found someone to try it with. I let her choose whichever PSX era game she wanted, and she chose IX. We weren't actually together, just playing on our own emulators and chatting about our progress on IRC when there were FMVs. I got as far as the world map outside Dali (she was still in the Ice Cavern pre-Black Waltz) before we stopped for that day, and for some reason we never carried on, which was a shame.
But now I've joined here, there must be someone willing to give it a shot
What do you think of the idea? Have you ever done anything like it? And would you be interested in trying it? I'd be happy to give more details about exactly how the finer things work (like taking breaks), if anyone wants to know.PS: I hope I posted this in the right place. There doesn't seem to be a forum for general (cross-game) FF chat, so I decided to put it in the VII forum.
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If I was to do something like this, I'd have to find someone to do it with (like, here in my apartment) because I can't play for more than 4 hours without getting tired. Also I'd have to set up a strategy for which characters to use and how to level them, like skip using Aerith, don't bother with Yuffie and Vincent etc.
