What the crap was that? An eight year olds attempt at fan fiction? o_o..."No! I must kill the aleins" he shouted
The radio said "No, John. You are the aleins"
And then John was a flood.
[copypasta]Sephiroth is the number one most over-rated character in any video game ever. He gets way more credit than is due. He's not a villain, he's a plot device. He's got little will or motive of his own. He's basically a glorified, overpowered henchman, a mama's boy, and little more.[/copypasta]Sephiroth was a frikkin sweet villain.
Wesker from Resident Evil.No, I actually wrote that myself on another forum, in a thread attempting to find who the most badass video game character of all time was if I recall correctly.
That game was never really well spoken of, nor recieved very good reviews. I don't think that counts as over rated if everyone claims it to be either mediocre or kinda crap.Wesker from Resident Evil.
Over-rated game: Battlefield 2142
It's fun, yeah, but we're on Patch 1.5 now, you'd think they would have fixed some things, like bases becoming glitched and therefore uncapturable, or not leveling up until 10 matches AFTER you get enough points, or not getting the points you earned because you have to stay in through an entire match to get them, but get booted out because some punk decides you're so good you MUST be cheating, even though THEIR K/D is something like 1/10.
Fuck you, EA.
I gotta disagree with you here.[copypasta]Sephiroth is the number one most over-rated character in any video game ever. He gets way more credit than is due. He's not a villain, he's a plot device. He's got little will or motive of his own. He's basically a glorified, overpowered henchman, a mama's boy, and little more.[/copypasta]
Granted he's a very powerful, very cool plot device, but I'm afraid the above stands.
That's directly copied from Mirriam Webster's Online Dictionary, found atvillain
One entry found.
Main Entry:
vil·lain Listen to the pronunciation of villain
Pronunciation:
\ˈvi-lən\
Function:
noun
Etymology:
Middle English vilain, vilein, from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin villanus, from Latin villa
Date:
14th century
1 : villein 2 : an uncouth person : boor 3 : a deliberate scoundrel or criminal 4 : a character in a story or play who opposes the hero 5 : one blamed for a particular evil or difficulty <automation as the villain in job…displacement — M. H. Goldberg>
THISI gotta disagree with you here.
That's directly copied from Mirriam Webster's Online Dictionary, found atYou must be registered to see the links. Definitions 1 and 2 clearly do not apply.
3. Sephiroth does what he does of his own free will; he chooses to kill people for his own ends.
4. Sephiroth opposes Cloud Strife.
5. Sephiroth is blamed for killing Aeris and summoning Meteor.
To call someone or something in a work of fiction a mere plot device is to say that the nature of the subject in question is unimportant. This is not the case with Sephiroth. After discovery of his origins he becomes a psychopath. This leads him to the destruction of Nibelheim and eventually to the murder of Aeris. Some call his motivations unclear, but I see no reason why we should make a game's creator explain the motivations of a psychopath.
You can call him a mama's boy or whatever else floats your boat (remember that Norman Bates was a psychopath who obsessed and served his dead mother in the Alfred Hitchcock movie, "Psycho"), and you may be right. However these broad oversimplifications fail to destroy his stature as a villain and furthermore they fail to prove him a mere plot device. Your conclusions are debatable at best.
For the record, I don't believe him the greatest villain ever, or even close. But I still think our long-haired little psycho with the dead mommy and the big sword was "a frikkin sweet villain."
He becomes psychotic, not psycopathic. There's a big difference between the symptoms of the two, but more importantly in this case you have to be born psycopathic while psychotic episodes occur from large amounts of stress. I'm not trying to disprove your argument, it just REALLY REALLY pisses me off when people confuse the two disorders.I gotta disagree with you here.
That's directly copied from Mirriam Webster's Online Dictionary, found atYou must be registered to see the links. Definitions 1 and 2 clearly do not apply.
3. Sephiroth does what he does of his own free will; he chooses to kill people for his own ends.
4. Sephiroth opposes Cloud Strife.
5. Sephiroth is blamed for killing Aeris and summoning Meteor.
To call someone or something in a work of fiction a mere plot device is to say that the nature of the subject in question is unimportant. This is not the case with Sephiroth. After discovery of his origins he becomes a psychopath. This leads him to the destruction of Nibelheim and eventually to the murder of Aeris. Some call his motivations unclear, but I see no reason why we should make a game's creator explain the motivations of a psychopath.
You can call him a mama's boy or whatever else floats your boat (remember that Norman Bates was a psychopath who obsessed and served his dead mother in the Alfred Hitchcock movie, "Psycho"), and you may be right. However these broad oversimplifications fail to destroy his stature as a villain and furthermore they fail to prove him a mere plot device. Your conclusions are debatable at best.
For the record, I don't believe him the greatest villain ever, or even close. But I still think our long-haired little psycho with the dead mommy and the big sword was "a frikkin sweet villain."
I consider myself corrected. Please don't hurt me.He becomes psychotic, not psycopathic. There's a big difference between the symptoms of the two, but more importantly in this case you have to be born psycopathic while psychotic episodes occur from large amounts of stress. I'm not trying to disprove your argument, it just REALLY REALLY pisses me off when people confuse the two disorders.
Agreed. Ryu just exuded genuine badass in everything he did. The story was honestly ridiculous, but it still managed to make the nonsense look awesome with every turn. I've sadly yet to play Ninja Gaiden 2, but the combat is without a doubt the best I've seen. It made you feel like a real over the top ninja. The fights could often end up looking like things were to hectic for the player to be in control, but not so. It never got you stuck in irritating end of move animations, and the enemies had none of the strange politeness seen in so many other games. They simply go at you all at once, and the game says to you "deal with it". Staying alive took literal split second reactions, but when you really got into it, it all became natural. When I played Dynasty Warriors for the first time after having played Ninja Gaiden it just felt wrong. Why is everyone just standing there letting me kill them? Why can't I evade that slow strike I saw coming a whole half second ago.Ryu Hyabusa (sp?) from Ninja Gaiden was pretty bad ass. Though the game's story was lacking, the combat was smooth as silk, and he honestly was a bad ass.