Sephiroth

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by James [/i] [B] [color=royalblue] The Australian version of Tekken III ran absolutely smoothly...it was surprisingly quick. Perhaps this is another case of the UK being screwed over?[/color] [/B][/QUOTE] perhaps it is because you have not played the japanese version of tekken 3? sure the pal version runs smoothly, but compared to its japanese counterpart it runs pretty slow.... and yes, this is a case for the uk being screwed over as usual, lol....

[the lifeless body of sephiroth remained in the arena, a huge hole in his chest, his one good eye, blank and lifeless as blood continued to spill from his body, his sister nadia appeared in front of him] nadia: brother..... [a tear made its way down her cheek as she knelt next to him, her head down in respect of her fallen brother] nadia: all flames on a candle must burn out over time, and your time is now, you were good to me dear brother, you fought to protect this planet, you are indeed a true ancient, I love you brother, you are a true warrior..... [she then erupted in tears, crying at the loss of her brother, who went out like a true warrior, though he was dead, the amulet around his broken neck began to glow] nadia: ......brother? [she grabbed the amulet in her hand and looked into it] nadia: as long as I have this amulet....you will always be by my side, I thank you for everything brother, may you rest in peace.... to be continued....

[as the light and explosion dimmed, sephiroth was lying on the floor with his back against the wall, he returned to his normal self, coughing up large amount of blood, he looked at dread with his one good eye, the other one lost in the blast, his whole body was numb, he couldn't move a single part of his body, basically paralyzed, he knew when he was beaten, and this was it, he quickly made a telepathic link with his sister nadia] seph: sister, please go back, it is done.... nadia: ......... [she disappeares from the ring, as dread walks over to sephiroth, standing in front of him] seph: pretty.....good dread, but as you....can see, I'm.....dying now, please.....give me a.....warriors death.... to be continued....

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Dragonballzman [/i] [B]Seeing as this is a SEGA topic, did anyone else used to collect Sonic The Comic? I canna believe they stopped it!! WAAAH!!! I'd been collecting for years!!! :bawl: P.S. I got all the questions wrong :D [/B][/QUOTE] what are you talking about? they're still being made, I keep seeing them at newsagents.... didn't SEGA used to stand for AGES?

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Crazy White Boy [/i] [B]You know, it's pretty funny to realize that Mario and I are the same age. Nonetheless, Mario'll probably be around longer.:smirk: I guess it's just a coincidence that 1981 was the year, that two legends were born. On one hand you have the mushroom eating plumber and on the other you have the Godfather of Gaming. Go figure. [/B][/QUOTE] 3 legends actually, I was also born in 1981 :smirk:

if I remember my facts straight, which I don't, integral was the name of the japanese version of vr missions, though I think it had a few extra bonuses....

[as the darkness dims, sephiroth lay there on the ground, beaten and battered, he slowly gets up to his feet] dread: guess I should have put more power into it [sephiroth looks up at dreadnaut, he looks down to see the orb in his stomach had cracked, and his own arm had been vaporized in the attack, suddenly a strange feeling overcomes him as a new arm burst out of its socket] dread: huh? how can this be? [nadia looks on at the battle and shouts at dread, he looks up at her] nadia: he did not just eat your arm for no reason, he shaers the same genetic make up as you do for now, he is able to instantly sprout lost parts of his body dread: is that so? well no matter, I guess I will just have to vaporize him then.... to be continued....

finally, the final chapter, only some of it though.... ----- CHAPTER VII NOR PAR TELLEMAR... Cloud opened the hatch on the submarine and they all stepped out, looking around. They had surfaced in a large cavern. A pale green glow surrounded them, the unmistakable glow of the lifestream. It filled the air, growing stronger toward the back of the cave, which slowly shrank until it turned into a narrow but brightly lit tunnel. They had returned to the sub without incident in the Tiny Bronco. Cid quickly diagnosed the problem with the submarine and corrected it. And now here they were, late on the day after they left Rocket Town. "Looks like your vision from Aeris was correct," Vincent said, looking at Cloud. Cloud nodded. He had never doubted it. "So where do we go from here?" Cid asked. They turned to ask Red and realized for the first time that he had not yet come out of the submarine. But even as they noticed this he appeared. He looked at them soberly. "I have been attempting to translate the exact procedure we need to follow in order to successfully complete our mission," he said, walking over to them slowly. "And I am afraid I have discovered something extremely disturbing." They all waited for him to continue. Cloud knew Red had been working hard, and had spent almost all his time the entire trip with his nose buried in that book. "We can bring Aeris back," he said, "but to do it requires the sacrifice of someone else." "What?" Barret exclaimed. "It's not so much a resurrection as an exchange," Red said slowly. "In order for it to work someone else will have to die." They all looked at him in shocked silence. Standing beside Cloud, Tifa went deathly pale. "Are you sure?" Yuffie asked. "As certain as I can be," Red replied. "The translation is difficult, but I have analyzed it over and over, and it seems pretty clear. The procedure itself is relatively simple. We need to be in the lifestream, a step we've already accomplished," he said, glancing around them. "The next step is to find a flux, a place of power, which would manifest itself as something familiar to us." "What's that supposed to mean," Barret asked. "We need to enter the lifestream and look for someplace familiar," Red explained. "Someplace we know from the surface of the planet. It could be a town, or any familiar location. In this place will be a focal point, a bright area of intense light. This is the doorway. Standing there and holding the Crystal Materia, all the person has to do is ask for someone's return." "Just say, hey, bring back Aeris?" Cid asked. "Not exactly," Red said. "You must ask in the Ancients language. You have to say Nor par tellemar and then the name of the person. Then you are both transferred through the doorway." "Bringing the other person back and sending you...", Vincent said, "elsewhere." "Exactly," Red replied. "What were those words again?" Tifa asked. Red looked at her. "Nor par tellemar and then the person," he replied. "Then the exchange takes place. But if we continue with the mission, who would use them? I'm afraid this changes things drastically. I think the question now is, do we continue the mission at all?" The others were silent for a long time. From the looks they gave him, it was clear to Cloud they were waiting to hear his opinion. All except Tifa, who moved off by herself and did not look at him at all. So this must have been what Aeris meant when she had spoken of a sacrifice, he thought. She hadn't been kidding. This was a doozy. It seemed a shame to end the mission now, when they had come so far, but he knew he could never ask any of the others to make such a sacrifice. And even if he did so himself, would that be what Aeris wanted? Would she want someone else to have to die, even to save herself? There had to be another way. "Are you sure there's nothing else we can do?" he asked, not because he thought there was, but because he desperately needed another option. "I don't think so," Red replied. "There is still some more translating that needs to be done, and perhaps another option will reveal itself then, but it's doubtful." "Well then I think you should continue with your translating as quickly as possible," Cloud replied. "What we have now is unacceptable. We need another alternative." "I'll do what I can," Red replied. "But I don't know how long this will take, and it may be that there are no other alternatives." "We'll just have to face that when we come to it," Cloud replied. Red nodded, then turned and padded back into the submarine. "So what are we supposed to do in the meantime?" Yuffie questioned. "Sit down and relax," Cloud replied. "Looks like we're going to be here awhile." Barret grumbled. Cait strode over to Cloud. "I'm afraid we don't have much time," he said. "What do you mean?" Cloud asked. "Tarkin is here," Cait responded. "Who the hell is Tarkin?" Barret perked up and walked over to join them. "The man who stopped the Turks from taking the Crystal Materia," Cait answered evenly. "So you did know him!" Barret exclaimed. "You really are spying!" "No!" Cait said quickly. "Not exactly. I was just keeping him informed of where we were, and where we were going. But I was really trying to find out what he was doing so I could tell you." "What?" Barret said angrily. "I know he wants to use the Crystal Materia to bring back Sephiroth." "What?" Barret said again. "But that's the same thing Lucrecia wanted to do," Vincent said. "It that were true, why didn't he just let the Turks take it and give it to her? It seems to me it would have saved him some trouble." "I'm not sure," Cait replied. "That's what I was trying to find out. He has something else in mind. Something more. I don't know what it is, but I know it involves you, Cloud. He wants to make sure that you are the one who brings the Crystal Materia into the lifestream. But I don't know why. That's why he stopped the Turks, and that's why he's been sending you those dreams." "What?" This time it was Cloud's turn. "He has something called Influence Materia," Cait said, looking at Cloud sympathetically. "It works kind of like Manipulate. But with Manipulate you know you're being manipulated, and you fight against it, although you may not be successful. Although it can be used that way as well, Influence is usually more subtle, and can affect you without you even realizing it. With Influence, you think what you are doing is your own idea." Cloud stared at him for a long time. "And you're telling me that he's used this to make me think that Aeris is trying to contact me." Cait nodded. "I'm afraid so. I know he's been using it on you for a long time. It was given to him by Sephiroth, and I've a feeling Sephiroth used it on you as well, which kinds of puts everything that happened to us in our previous adventure in a new light. But the whole point behind his maneuvering was to get you here with the Crystal Materia. I pretended to spy for him because I wanted to find out exactly what he was up to, but now it's too late." "You say he's here," Yuffie cut in, "but how did he get here? Does he have a submarine too?" "No," Cait replied. "There are many entrances to the lifestream, if you know where to look." "Why didn't you tell us any of this sooner?" Barret questioned. "Because if he found out I told you, I wouldn't be able to find out what he was up to, now would I?" Cait answered sharply. "I don't know the full extent of his powers, I don't know what other spies he may be employing. I didn't want to show my hand before I found out anything, but now I'm afraid I have no choice. I didn't want you to run into him unprepared." Cloud looked at him for a long time. He felt anger, disappointment, and disbelief, and he wasn't sure which of these emotions to go with. Was it safe to believe anything Cait told them? Once a spy always a spy, hadn't he said that once before? How were they to believe him now? How were they to know that anything he said held even a shred of truth? The real truth, he told himself, was that he didn't believe the story, couldn't believe the story, because of what Cait had said about Aeris. Could it be that the whole thing was a lie? Could it be that he had been manipulated again, that this entire mission had been a farce, a charade caused by yet another Sephiroth clone? Could it be that he had not seen Aeris, not talked to her at all, but just some illusion that had been planted in his brain? Could it be that she was really and forever dead? He could not believe that. No way. Barret shook his head. "Looks like you were sort of right, Tifa..." he started to say. He stopped and looked around. Tifa was no where to be found. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The ground sloped sharply down in front of her. Tifa moved slowly down the tunnel. The lifestream flowed around her now almost like a living thing. She moved forward slowly, as if unsure of herself, and a few times she hesitated and looked back, but each time she took a deep breath, turned ahead once more, and moved on. As soon as she had heard Red she had been gripped by a deadly fear. She knew what Cloud would do, no matter how much he delayed, or how long they discussed it. There really wasn't any other choice. Which gave her no choice. She couldn't let it happen. She had to act before he did or it would be too late. She slowly took out the Crystal Materia and looked at it, thankful that he had never asked for it back. It glowed faintly with reflected green light of the lifestream. The best thing to do would be to destroy it, she thought once more. It was the simplest solution, and probably the easiest thing to do. But she knew she couldn't do it. She couldn't take away this chance on her own. Though it might be prudent it wouldn't be fair to Cloud or Aeris. She wished she could bring it back to Cloud to let him destroy it, but she knew that would never happen. The tunnel dipped even more steeply down, and suddenly she lost her footing. She felt herself sliding down rapidly. She grasped desperately for handholds but found none. The air around her grew bright and she found herself falling, much as she had in Mideel the last time she had been in the lifestream. She seemed to fall for a long time. She stopped falling and the bright green glow faded into blue sky and wooden thatched houses. She looked around and immediately recognized where she was. Nibelheim! She walked slowly into the center of the town, which appeared to be deserted. She looked around. One building stood out. It's windows were brightly lit with a greenish glow. It was the old Shinra Mansion. She walked swiftly over to it and entered. She followed the glow, which brightened perceptively to the right. She found herself walking though the secret door that led into the basement. The stairs down creaked and groaned as she walked down them, but they held, and nothing disturbed her as she walked down the now brightly lit corridor and into the old library. There she stopped. For in front of her was what appeared to be a circle of light, and she knew she had reached her destination. She stood there unmoving for a long time, looking down at the Crystal Materia in her hand. She couldn't let Cloud sacrifice himself. She couldn't live with that. There was no other choice. But still she did not move. She took a deep breath and with all the resolve she could muster started forward. "Foolish girl." She jumped and turned to see Tarkin standing a few feet away. "Stay away from me," she said, taking a step back. He laughed. "Don't worry," he said. "I have no intention of harming you as much as you seem to want to harm yourself. Foolish, and noble too, but your attempted sacrifice would have been useless. Apparently there are still some things you don't know. The Crystal Materia cannot effect a transfer unless both people are of the Ancients race or infused with Jenova's cells. It wouldn't have worked for you." "What do you want?" she asked, somewhat defiantly. She had gotten over her surprise. "I want to see the return of Sephiroth," Tarkin replied. "And revenge against the one that destroyed him. And I must say that your little escapade has played right into my hands. I'm sure he'll come running when he finds out you are gone. In the meantime why don't you just give me the Crystal Materia. Don't worry, I'll take good care of it until he gets here. I wouldn't want anything to happen to it." She stepped back again and felt her back touch the bookcase against the wall. "I don't think so," she said. "What, don't you trust me?" he said with a smile. "I assure you I have every intention of seeing that Cloud takes possession of it as soon as he arrives. It'll be the perfect revenge, don't you think?" "I don't know what you mean," she said suspiciously "Well, it's just so ironic," Tarkin replied. "Here Cloud has come all this way thinking he's going to bring back Aeris, when the whole time he's just been my puppet. And his one final act will be to sacrifice himself to bring back not Aeris at all, but Sephiroth!" Tarkin laughed again, and Tifa shrank back. She looked around, but he was blocking the only exit. "It'll never happen," she said angrily. "He'd never use the Crystal Materia to bring back Sephiroth. You can't make him do it. And even if you could, I'd destroy it first." She suddenly lifted the materia up above her head, ready to smash it to the floor, but he just laughed again. "I don't think you'll do that," he said casually. "Cloud will bring back Sephiroth, and you will hand over that Materia. I'm afraid you have no choice." He took a step toward her, and even as he did, the yellow orb in his hand flared to life. the rest of chapter 7 posted with demand, heh....

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Rick Hunter [/i] [B] Well I will give G Gundam some points on originality but some of the Gundams were a bit stereotypical. Also the whole part about Domo(hope that was his name I don't remember) Gundam turning gold when his anger grew to its fullest extent reminded me of the whole Super Saiyajin thing from DBZ! I however am curious as to how the English Dub will be like and how much the names will be changed! [/B][/QUOTE] his name was domon, though I myself liked rain and allenby better, lol.... yeah, I see where your coming from with the whole super saiyajin thing from dbz, the series was released after dbz and I hear that the creator was a bit of a dbz fan.... a lot of the names have been changed, there's a thread here somewhere in gundam stating what the name changes are, I personally don't see why they would get so upset with 2 gundams, one names god, the other devil, ah well....

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Transtic Nerve [/i] [B]I think there are only a few reasons they stopped making Subbed VHS. They are something like: a) VHS can be easily copied, thus taking away ALOT of profits from Anime Companies. b) Alot of companies who make subbed tapes, aren't really popular with the "kids"... Kids just buy that crappy FUNimation stuff and don't look twice at the subbed tapes. c) Why buy a tape when you can get a DVD for $3 more and it has 3 times the stuff? [/B][/QUOTE] yeah, I'd have to agree with you there, TN, I myself usually buy dvd's rather than tape's nowadays....

even though its on adult swim, its still cut, no good, I don't like anything thats cut....

[dreadnaut received no answer from sephiroth, instead sephiroth howled in anger and charged straight at dreadnaut, who was blocking all of sephiroth's attacks, dreadnaut grabbed sephiroth from the throat again, and held him up, staring into his berserk eyes] dread: what is the point in fighting a battle you cannot win? [what happened next dreadnaut did not expect, sephiroth raised his right leg and kicked dread straight in the stomach, sending him back, sephiroth, however, remained clinging to dreadnaut's arm, as dreadnaut began to angrily swat at sephiroth] dread: get the hell off my arm! [and then, sephiroth opened his huge gaping jaws and ripped dread's arm clean out of its socked, he held it in his mouth and jumped away from dread, who stared down at him missing arm, blood dripping on to the ground, he looked ahead to see sephiroth with the arm in his mouth, eating dread's arm] dread: what kind of creature are you.... [sephiroth finished eating dread's arm, and a blank look appeared on his face, as he suddenly began to howl in anger, his power level rising to incredible lengths, nadia watching over him] nadia: yes sephiroth, become one with his arm, share the power that he shares through his blood! [sephiroth's power continued to rise, the force easily going through the arena's field, if he kept this up then the arena would be totally obliterated from the force of his power] to be continued....

mgs integral was the name of the game....

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by James [/i] [B] [color=royalblue]That's rubbish. There is no difference -- no [i]noticeable difference[/i] anyway. It's a myth. Any slowdown you experience in a fighting game will have nothing to do with the 50Hz setting. Case in point -- when you play Dreamcast games on 50Hz, the only difference is that you see the black lines on the top and bottom...there is no visible speed difference. [/color] [/B][/QUOTE] I must disagree with you there james, I do indeed notice a speed difference on DC games with the option to play the game at 50 or 60, on 60 there are no borders, and the game plays nice and smoothly, on 50 the black borders are present, and there is a noticeable difference in speed.... I noticed this with phantasy star online, the game even suggests that you play the game at 60 to be able to play with other countries online.... I have two copies of tekken 3 on the ps, one is PAL, the other NTSC, and there is definately a speed difference, which is why I always play the japanese version of the game, rather than the PAL version....

ff6- terra, edgar, sabin, celes ff7- cloud, tifa, vincent/cid ff8- squall, rinoa, zell/irvine ff9- zidane, garnet, vivi, amarant

I've seen many years used on the internet, not sure if many of them are right though, and I don't remember the real ones either....

after you beat him, you should use your time to level up the rest of your pokemon, and try and catch more of them to add on to your pokedex....

[the gang prepared themselves to fight, as the howling continued, however, half an hour later, the howling still continued, yet nothing attacked them] sabir: umm, whats going on? sarah: beats me moe: forget it, lets just get out of here [as soon as they started walking, moe spotted an opening] moe: hey look, I think thats the exit [and indeed it was, as they stepped out they were on the other side of the cave, looking into green fields, way ahead of them they could spot fort condor, with a new condor sitting quietly on top of it] moe: looks like were out, should we get a move on to junon or do you guys wanna go to the fort and rest for a while? [the vote was unanimous, everyone wanted to rest at fort condor] moe: ok then, off we go I guess.... to be continued....

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Final_Flash [/i] [B] Ah, I thought so.. Well anyway, does it really matter that much? I mean, 60 to 50 isn't [I]that[/I] big a change, is it? o_O? [/B][/QUOTE] play any fighting game and THEN tell me there's no difference, lol.... its almost slow motion O_o;;;

[chaos tried his best to fight dreadnaut, but every attempt he made was countered by a fist to his face, bloody and battered, chaos flew to the top of the arena] chaos: this shall be.....my final attempt.... [chaos aimed the soul reaver at dreadnaut] chaos: ultimate.....end [as was done to warlock, the ground under dreadnaut opened up, as 12 huge knights attacked him one after the another, as the darkness faded, dreadnaut remained standing, apparently no worse for wear, he replied with a huge fist to chaos' face, sending him crashing to the ground, bloody, and beaten, as he began to detransform back to sephiroth] [in the fighters lobby] zylius: sephiroth cannot win, he will lose azreal: what will become of us now? [just then, nadia appeared in front of them] warlock: nadia? what are you doing here? nadia: its been a while warlock, sephiroth has not lost yet, take a look warlock: what? [the fighters glance back into the arena, sephiroth slowly gets up, looking at dreadnaut] seph: I.....will not be....beaten so easily! [and then it happened, the amulet given to him by nadia began to glow red, and then sephiroth erupted in a huge amount of energy, far surpassing that of even chaos, the huge force easily going through the arena forcefield] warlock: what the....I don't believe it, whats happening? [sephiroth began to transform, a horn sprouted from his head, his eyes began to glow, his entire body began to deform, his arms dropped out of their sockets and sprouted new, deformed ones, his jaw became rigged, and a strange orb grew out of his stomach, purple armo plates surrounded him now] nadia: behold the true form of the ancients! to be continued.... here's a little piccie of Berserker Sephiroth, looks like an eva, no? ;)

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Final_Flash [/i] [B] Bah, I don't have a PS2 right now anyway, so I don't really care.. :p 50mhz? Wha? Mesa no get it.. o_O [/B][/QUOTE] speed, basically, how fast the game is, it will be slower on pal than ntsc....as usual -_-

erm, so is it the higher the score the better? I can't do the test on this comp, its not working properly, I'll try a different comp later on....

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Final_Flash [/i] [B]oh, w00tness to a large tangent. Us PAL countries really have it sweet, don't we? :p [/B][/QUOTE] not really, considering were getting games 6 months after the US -_- and I hear that ffx will be 50mhz, instead of 60, dammit....

to be quite truthful, I never got to play the vr missions game, I didn't think it was worth buying, being able to play the ninja kind of drew me towards it, but not enough to allow me to buy the game....

[whilst dodging juggernaut's attacks, chaos began to notice that slowly but surely, juggernaut was raising his strength, and so, chaos decided to do the same thing, he held up his arm in front of him] chaos: REFLECT!!! [a field shaped like a wall appeared in front of chaos, juggernaut's ki blasts bouncing off it harmlessly] chaos: you are strong juggernaut, but with an arm missing, you are no match to me, I still have a large amount of power stored away into my being, allow me to show it to you [a huge burst of energy erupted out of chaos, the force so strong it began to penetrate the arena field, the entire arena shaking, as chaos stared into juggernaut's eyes at full power, before juggernaut could make his move he found chaos' knee smashing against his face, juggernaut stumbled back slightly, and looked up at chaos] chaos: too much for you, juggernaut? to be continued....