[General Discussion] How does Sephiroth manage to destroy the solar system, yet still fail to KO my party

Originally Posted by Scratch and Sniff

OH SHIT, ONE WINGED ANGEL comin’ through. You’ve all seen Seph’s mega attack that wipes out all the planets then only does perhaps 6000-7000 on Cloud and the gang from some miscellaneous RPG made back for the PS1 a few moons ago which barely anyone has heard of, I'm sure. Then he has the audacity to do it again! This is proof that planets grow back to normal shape in a matter of about 6 minutes.

So why is it, especially, for RPGS, that you see power house attacks than can be basically ALL SHOW, NO GO, where some enemy fires a mega blaster cannon lazer 9000 at your party, manage to light up the entire world in fire till kingdom come, and still somehow your party, as well as your physical surroundings still stay intact?

How and why? Well because it’s just for show of course! And because it’s to make it look more dramatic, instead of just a simple punch or sword slash. :3

In this thread, post and describe the most awesome display of force by a boss or player mega attack that looks like “holy shit”, yet it just seems to be so weak, and your natural surroundings just remain the same – obviously because it needs to keep the gameplay on the same level, as well as the processing power to alter the natural surroundings takes up too much on current generation RPGS.

Ok, here's one from FFXII:

FFXII final boss:

Vayne's quickening/summon like cinematics looked like they could split God's ass in half, yet they were ridiculously weak. You can beat the game at around level 40-45 and it's still easy to survive them. Heck, he even starts using Bahamut techs and they're still the same thing.

Summons in general would competely fuck up the country/world you're trying to save when doing their ultimate attacks if they have one. I prefer that attacks stay like this, since I'd hate to have a final boss with an existence deletion technique it can use at random.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Scratch and Sniff

Metal Sphere, funny because the FFXII final-final-FINAL boss' attacks are what I had in mind. Him and his multi rail gun nethicite powered SHOOTER magick stuff was impressive sight to behold, but did like 500 damage out of my 9999 health. What a weakling. Then Fran just went up to him and smacked him around for 3000 damage with her ears and ass cheek. Silly goose.

Now, if Fran actually attacked with her ass cheek like Jessica and dealt 3,000 points of damage, that would be the single strangest thing in all of FF (combat wise).

And ditto about the final boss' final form (and the ones before). I think the one you're talking about is Tetra/Giga Flare but they all started looking the same to me. Sephira Tree was also ridiculous, even though it barely harmed a team comprised of a teenage girl and boy and furry-lover.

What the hell, The Battle for Freedom just came on the playlist.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by SouthJag

Since we're rabidly making fun of FF7, I'll throw in the summon for Alexander. Earth splits apart, huge mega giant robot comes out and rests itself on its laurels and KA-BLAM!

500 HP damage.

Rogue Galaxy. The Supernova tag team attack has all three zooshing through the sky, they touch weapons and a glyph forms. Then it fires straight through the planet, reducing it to little more than pretty light and pebbles.



...then you get back, the enemies croak and you gain the weapon experience you fiend for.

It actually does a shitload of damage, especially after your characters get their damage boost revelations, but I'd expect the planet to be history.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.