Vote on the next Community Playthrough :D

[Lex]

Vote for your next community playthrough

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[Ami]

FFI because I haven't played it, and I know someone will be happy I voted.

FFVI, because someone recommended it and haven't played that either.

FFVIII, because it's one of my personal favourites in the series.

 

[Lex]

I've set the poll to close 5 days from now.

 

[Obsidian Fire]

FFVIII cuz I like it and Chrono Trigger because it's fun to see how stories handle time-travel and the battles system looks interesting.

 

[Kuroto]

I have voted:

FFI because I haven't played it either and I'm intrested to see the first game in the series.

FFIV because I haven't finished it, but I love it, and it was this game that got me intrested in the series (even though I had started to play X, VII and XI at the point).

FFVIII because I haven't played it yet, but I'd really want to, and I've been looking forward to playing it one day

FFX because it's the best FF game ever! Deal with it.

 

[Flintlock]

I nominated Tactics as well, Lex! It was in a separate post though, so I don't blame you for missing it. If it's too late to add to the poll, then perhaps people could give it some write-in votes, though I'm not expecting it to win or anything.

 

[Fangu]

I'd do Tactics

 

[Lex]

Tactics has been added.

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

Voted VIII. No explanation needed, I would assume.

 

[ForceStealer]

If VIII wins, will you be joining us, Tres?

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

I actually will.

 

[AvecAloes]

Will you perhaps be leading us? I've heard tales of your vast, deep, and intimate knowledge of VIII. Legendary.

 

[ForceStealer]

I'm sure he's got the vast, deep, and intimate part down, at least.

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

I don't know if I want to commit to the pace leading would demand. I think Lex is already quite good at it anyway. Or maybe Carlie? I definitely want to see new players' reactions to everything and what they discover off the beaten path, though.

 

[Lex]

Please dear god someone else do it.

I will if I have to. I don't mind/ actually quite enjoy doing it but I just do not have the time this year. I know VIII quite well so if that does end up being the choice I can decide the chapters for whoever's running it, I don't mind doing that part. And I'll definitely be participating either way. Might play it on Vita actually.

 

[Flintlock]

I voted for all the games I nominated. That's everything in the poll besides VI, VIII, X and CT. Looks like VIII is going to win though

 

[Lex]

I don't mind playing VIII, but I'd really like us all to do V at some point. There are too many people that haven't experienced it that should.

 

[AvecAloes]

I agree. V is such a great game. Flies under the radar too often.

 

[Flintlock]

Assuming we end up playing VIII:

Instead of giving just one player the burden of leading us through the whole game, why don't we - to quote Samwise Gamgee - share the load?

We could base our chapters on the segments of Absolute Steve's walkthrough, as follows:

{1} Balamb Garden & Fire Cavern
{2} The SeeD Examination
{3} After the SeeD Exam
{4} The Forest Owls Mission
{5} Timber and Optional Dollet
{6} Lunatic Dream & Galbadia Garden
{7} Deling City Mission & The Tomb
{8} Winhill
{9} D-District Prison
{10} Galbadia Missile Base
{11} Panic at Balamb Garden
{12} Fisherman's Horizon
{13} The Mobile Garden
{14} Balamb under lockdown
{15} Visiting Trabia Garden
{16} Clash of the Gardens
{17} Finding Ellone
{18} Esthar
{19} Lunar Base & Ragnarok
{20} The Awesome Ragnarok
{21} The Lunatic Pandora
{22} Ultimecia's Castle

We can change the structure as we see fit, but that's probably a good starting point. Then, if anyone wants to do a particular chapter, they just have to sign up for it - first come, first served, but we'd try to make sure that everyone who wants to do a chapter gets one

If half a dozen of us (or more) take a few chapters each, it wouldn't feel like so much of a chore for any of us, and we'd get loads of different perspectives on the game. What do you think?

 

[AvecAloes]

How many chapters did our playthrough of IX have? Could we combine the contents of any of those segments to make for fewer chapters? 22 chapters = 22 weeks of gameplay, and I'm afraid that that might end up being kind of long and stretched out.

But I think that sharing the load is a decent idea. I, however, have never played VIII (beyond maybe the first hour or so, simply because Force wanted to show me how it works), so I don't think that I'd be a very good leader...

 

[Lex]

IIRC, I forecasted IX to last for 22 chapters, then as time went on ended up with somewhere between 16 and 19.

The main problem is that - even though it's not at all difficult to get through a chapter in a week even if you're the busiest person on the planet - people tend to see long chapters then just stop updating/ playing. There's sadly a kind of guarantee that of the 10 people that have so far voted for VIII, it's likely only about 30% of them will make it to the end.

I would love to be wrong about that guys. Seriously, stick with it

 

[Flintlock]

We could always do two a week, if the chapters are short.

 

[Fangu]

VIII won, eh? The funny thing is, I bought this game on PSN a few months ago and started playing it, so I can hop in when we get there. I didn't get very far though - I do remember getting the ballroom scene and running from some crazy machine thingy that had lots of nice magic I could take.

 

[Kuroto]

Yay for VIII!

I wouldn't mind hosting some chapters, the only problem is that I've never actually played this game, so I have no idea what's going to come up before I play the chapter myself. This means that it will be nearly impossible for me to come up with good questions for the chapter and so on. :/

I don't think 22 chapters is too bad. As long as the chapters are not too long, I'll be fine.

I'm really looking forward to this!

 

[Obsidian Fire]

Yey! Time for me to uncompress those VIII ISOs.