So What's Next?

[Cat Rage Room]

The Compilation is dead (for now), the Staff here are bored to tears and none of us are really motivated, there's really no new activity or fresh members, and the board and the community grows further and further away from FF every day.

As it stands, the place is still active and everyone is having fun, but in the long run, what's next? It honestly can only go on like this for so long before it just fizzles out. Personally, I don't really know. What should we do? We were talking in the Staff forum about how to address things and how we should organize ourselves, but overall, the fire is hard to keep alive right now.

I always want this sites focus to be Final Fantasy. We've already built so much; it would be a shame to let it all go to waste, and I think that we could really build on that further, we just need to possibly refocus our efforts? What do you guys think we should do?

Personally, Mako and I thought it would be pretty rad to turn our attention to the older, classic Final Fantasies.

 

[ShuShu]

You interrupted my fake beauty pageant for this?

Well, anyway.

In terms of the forum's quality, yeah alot of stuff has been translated, hosted, and given to fans of Final Fantasy, and it would be a major waste to let all that die out.

Not to mention the moderators at least seem to care what happens to this place.

Personally, Mako and I thought it would be pretty rad to turn our attention to the older, classic Final Fantasies.

Not only would that create alot of new things to talk about, and also host on your frontpages, but it might attract members who are more partial to other Final Fantasy games.

I say go for it. Final Fantasy 7 has been talked about to death and back.

 

[Max Caulfield]

What do you mean the Compilation is dead? We still have the LTD!

I think that opening the site up to talk about other FF games is a great idea! Would it be all of them, or just the older ones?

 

[Dashell]

Define classics, I haven't played any before 7

 

[Ⓐaron]

I might be willing to do FF6 content depending on how bored I get. I've done quite a bit with rom hacking programs in addition to playing it obsessively several years ago so I'm pretty familiar with the content, even if I haven't done anything in awhile. I'd also be willing to work with hito or someone on a retranslation project; I actually already started a semi-retranslation project myself that I intended to be halfway between Woolsey's and Sky Render's before getting bored with it and abandoning it. If there were more interest though I'd probably be able to pick it back up.

Other than that there are lots of things I could do to the boards to liven them up given the power, but I don't know if any of them would be related to Final Fantasy.

edit: I should clarify, though, that the programs I used were pre-made for hacking FFVI; I haven't done any ASM work on my own.

 

[Dashell]

It's not a bad idea to have a section for hacking actually

 

[Max Caulfield]

I'd be interested in learning how to hack.

 

[ShuShu]

Well that took two seconds to go off-topic xD

I'd like to see Final Fantasy 4-6.

Anything about them.

 

[Makoeyes987]

Define classics, I haven't played any before 7

YOU GO TO YOUR FUCKING ROOM RIGHT NOW AND PLAY THE CLASSICS. NO DESSERT FOR YOU UNTIL YOU'RE DONE, MISSY.

I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY.

 

[Celes Chere]

I'd like to see Final Fantasy 4 & 6.

Fixed.

 

[Max Caulfield]

YOU GO TO YOUR FUCKING ROOM RIGHT NOW AND PLAY THE CLASSICS. NO DESSERT FOR YOU UNTIL YOU'RE DONE, MISSY.

I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY.

I probably shouldn't tell you that I haven't played any of the classics except for I and III and I can't remember really anything of them...

Yep, I probably shouldn't tell you that.

 

[Dashell]

YOU GO TO YOUR FUCKING ROOM RIGHT NOW AND PLAY THE CLASSICS. NO DESSERT FOR YOU UNTIL YOU'RE DONE, MISSY.

I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY.

Am I allowed to go to work tomorrow?

Also, a section for hacking WOULD be neat, I know Rob had done some stuff in FFX, and it was pretty neat I think it was stuff we all knew but I still liked it. I could submit all that stuff if I still have it.

 

[Cat Rage Room]

Yeah I honestly think everyone who hasn't played the classes should do so immediately. Grab an SNES, download a ROM, whatever.

Speaking of which, making that move would attract a lot of new blood.

As far as my ideas go, I think coverage on the plot/character details is always welcome. I've always wanted to see some the creation materials for the older ones translated if possible, and FFII even has a mini-novel. I think we should also maintain a focus on the gameplay; we might be able to ask Dijbriel, resident god of the FF classics, namely FFVI, for that.

 

[Celes Chere]

People that haven't played FFVI? You're not welcome here, quit the internet. =/ I love all of the classics. Focusing on them is an excellent idea, imo. A lot of us thought FFXIII would be a big deal... but really, it wasn't, lol.

 

[Ⓐaron]

Fixed.

Not fixed. FF5 was also awesome. The story may have felt a bit lacking the first time one played it but the second time reveals that it has more depth than is initially apparent, and in every other aspect it's more or less the equal of the other games.

That said, I think we should focus on one game at a time, and FFVI is the natural choice. Although really, whichever game gets the next remake is probably the one we should focus on.

 

[Cat Rage Room]

Yeah, FFV was great. You just gotta see it for what it is. I'd be honored to help cover that.

 

[ShuShu]

Fixed.

Hoe. I like FFV

Though 4 and 6 totally as well. :3 They all impacted me in that way that games should knowadays but don't.

 

[Hisako]

Should expand on the Final Fantasy sections, give them individual sub-sections, and extend focus in news articles and other paraphenalia in other big Final Fantasy announcements as well. The scope of this place always did seem a little more limited in comparison to AC.net.

That's my shitty idea, but it's the only one I got

 

[Tennyo]

THIS!!!! :http://www.flickr.com/photos/tennyomelime/4867666614/

 

[Celes Chere]

Um... chill lolz. I appreciate the gameplay in FFV, but the storyline and characters (besides Faris ) mostly bored me to tears.

 

[ShuShu]

Um... chill lolz. I appreciate the gameplay in FFV, but the storyline and characters (besides Faris ) mostly bored me to tears.

Gameplay was pretty cool. I liked the jobclass system alot @_@

<3 Faris.

Lol yeah the other characters were less awesome than Faris, imo.

 

[Cat Rage Room]

Um... chill lolz. I appreciate the gameplay in FFV, but the storyline and characters (besides Faris ) mostly bored me to tears.

The idea is that the storyline and characters were meant to be lighter and less serious and intense than other FFs. It boils it all down to what it's really all about, the stellar gameplay. If you're expecting FFV's plot to be heavy like FFIV/VI's, you're looking at it wrong; it's intended to be an old school to the core, visceral, gameplay focused adventure. The story is just a vehicle to move the game along.

And if nothing else, Galufs went out like a fuckin' G.

 

[Max Payne]

WELL I GOT AN IDEA OF WHAT TO DO NEXT

 

[looneymoon]

Strange thing is, I see active FF7 fans in places like LJ and such. Perhaps people just cba to join an FF exclusive forum? idk, it's not like there's a lack of love for the game going around. While expanding to the older FFs would be awesome, I'm a little skeptical of how much it's actually going to do. Not trying to put down the idea though! By all means, we should go through with it - it'll keep the community busy and no doubt it would widen the demographic scope.

The AC/ACC commentary was a good idea. Perhaps we could record Let's Play! The FF7 Compilation. Certainly there are enough funny members to make decent Let's Play commentaries. IMO, fan generated projects like the audio-books are probably more appealing than official translations. I say this because from my experience, the typical FF doesn't really care to read an Ultimania or whatever else.

 

[Alessa Gillespie]

I vote that we make additional sections for old classics for us to discuss, since we only have the Final Fantasy board as of right now. Which is fine and all, but let's face it: most of the people here are so sick of the same old Compiliation shit that it's just tiring by now. However, I do feel like people would enjoy discussing something like Kefka's motivations, since he's not Gackt and actually has a personality worth discussing.

IDK, I feel like there's still potential in older Final Fantasies or even discussions about FF7 itself, but the Compiliation is like a tired old whore at this point. You can still discuss it, but it's gotten pretty dang boring.