Let's Sperg Let's Stream FInal Fantasy V. - Something something Gilgamesh and una-void-able puns.

[Ravelord]

So as I said to @AngeloTheWizard , I called dibs over Final Fantasy V, because it's my favourite game after IV. The only problem is I want to do a 100% run and that involves some grinding (for job mastery, rather than levels) and farming (for Blue Magic or completed Bestiary).

So instead of doing a Let's Play, I'll Stream every Saturday, for at least 2-3 hours. Then, I'll probably edit the videos to make it more watchable. I would like to know when it would be a good time to set the stream. Thanks in advance.

Edit: 6 pm it is, then. https://www.twitch.tv/kfravelord.

Edit2: Changed to Saturday, instead of Friday.

 

[AngeloTheWizard]

I would say 6 PM Pacific if you're doing a shorter stream like this, feels like a good start time. Also I would say don't be afraid to do some off-screen grinding/farming and just tell people/show them what you did at the start of a stream/edited recording.

Spoiler: Historical Autism

Anyway, since I've looked into the history of each game to the point I could do a retrospective, I may as well offer some tidbits to you lovely Kiwis, the big question being "Why didn't we get FF5 on the SNES?" After all, we got 4 and 6, didn't we? The reason we didn't get 2 and 3 was because by the time 2 was translated enough to be shipped to America, the SNES was coming out, but obviously that doesn't work with 5 because we did get 6.

Square's answer is that the game's tone was so different from the other games America got and it was so difficult that they intended to release FF5 as a standalone game. This answer comes straight from Ted Woolsey, the man behind the translations for a lot of the Golden Era of JPRGs, so it's about as legit as we can get.

FF5 as a standalone was planned for a release in 1995, but these plans fell through for unknown reasons. A second attempt is rumored to have been made, with the working title "Final Fantasy Extreme" but it's unknown if this was even a thing to begin with. There were two attempts to port FF5 to Windows PCs, first a collaboration with Top Dog Software, a game company that to my research has fucking disappeared. They DFE'd and it actually worked. The second attempt was with Eidos Interactive whom had already done the fairly decent port of FF7. Both of these attempts fell through, though it's unclear if the Eidos effort was a continuation of the Top Dog Software localization or an actual third/fourth attempt. Basically this game was shrouded in mystery for the longest time until some autists got together and made their own fan translation.

America finally got a full on, officially localized copy in 1999 in the form of the Final Fantasy Anthology, and a standalone version on the GBA in 2006. Other releases included a release for Android and iOS, a PSN release, a Steam release which Wikipedia calls a "Microsoft Windows" release, and Japan got a Virtual Console release on every Nintendo console-the Wii, the Wii U, the 3DS, and I'm betting they've got a Switch release in the pipe.

We now turn to Ravelord for your regularly scheduled autism.

 

[Ravelord]

I would say 6 PM Pacific if you're doing a shorter stream like this, feels like a good start time. Also I would say don't be afraid to do some off-screen grinding/farming and just tell people/show them what you did at the start of a stream/edited recording.

Nah, I don't plan to do too much grinding until the last quarter of the game. Problem is, when I do that grinding that's gonna be a grind session until I max out (bonus content grinding). That's why I want the streaming, to not lose too much sanity on the bonus content.

 

[Fareal]

Dox your twitch on here so we can watch

 

[Ravelord]

@AngeloTheWizard , @Fareal . Get your asses in here.

 

[Ravelord]

Welp, first session done. I just reached Walse, and I just stored the stream as a highlight so no one has to watch 5 minutes of dead air. If you would prefer a session on Saturday instead of Friday's, just let me know and we'll see if we can make an arrangement.

 

[AngeloTheWizard]

Saturdays would technically work better for me, I do Friday Night Magic, but I'm also cool watching it after the fact-I'm going in mostly blind anyway, yeah I know the history from some research, but I have yet to play a second of it and I'm probably gonna get on that starting this week.

 

[Sable]

I have been waiting for this.

FFV is one of my favourites in the series.

 

[Ravelord]

Sadly I won't be able to stream today, I hung out with some friends and didn't check the clock. My apologies, I'll try to sneak up something tomorrow. Or I will make a recording off-screen up until Karnak probably.

 

[The Shadow]

FFV is probably the most fun FF to me, gameplay wise. I also love its less than serious tone. I don't think there's any FF villain I'm as nostalgic over as Gilgamesh (although Seifer gets a point for inventing the excellent insult "Chicken-Wuss").

 

[Ravelord]

I'm not gonna be able to stream this Saturday, so I'll be doing it in 5-10 minutes. I hope to reach the Library of the Ancients today. Anyone is free to come.

 

[Ravelord]

Session finished, I apologize for the terrible Fire Ship, I always tend to get lost there. At least I did the escape sequence on the first try (I normally run out of time). I also hope I didn't forget anything, specially Bestiary entries.