Author Topic: Something I just learned (Read 12275 times)

nfitc1 · « **on:** 2010-06-01 18:40:38 »

This might be neat as a continuous "I just learned that..." topic, but it doesn't have to.

Anyway. I was sifting through PrC weeding out some lingering bugs when I discovered an enemy I had never heard of before. It's the Flower Prong. It appears to be in the Gongaga Forests and possibly as a Battle Arena though I don't think it's in a referenced chain. You can apparently Side attack it and it's supposed to change forms as it gets weaker.
It contains data for an attack called Energy Siphon that is supposed to drain 7/8 of a target's HP/MP and give it to Flower Prong. Has anyone ever fought this enemy before? I've never heard of it before today.

Timber · « **Reply #1 on:** 2010-06-01 18:59:03 »

Yup I remember the first time I fought this guy, I was really surprised because in the 10 years or so I had been playing FF7, I had never seen it before.
That, and it was a really interesting enemy, it was a side attack, and it actually changes form several times, growing stronger with each, starts out as a little bud, and grows into a big man eating flower.
Pretty rare encounter considering he is only found in such a small area. It's a bit of a shame really haha.

DLPB_ · « **Reply #2 on:** 2010-06-01 19:14:59 »

yup many a time

though its name is a mystery to me. It looks from japanese to be prang and not prong.

Flower Prong
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furawaapurangu
Flower Prang
[probably Prong or Prang because of the things on its head]

DarkFang · « **Reply #3 on:** 2010-06-01 19:38:10 »

Kurt Cobain is left handed?!

obesebear · « **Reply #4 on:** 2010-06-01 23:47:19 »

DLPB_ · « **Reply #5 on:** 2010-06-02 00:54:13 »

haha class!

nikfrozty · « **Reply #6 on:** 2010-06-02 05:17:02 »

Quote from: obesebear on 2010-06-01 23:47:19

Wow I never noticed that!! Well its still ok during those times. I love Mario!!

ff7rules · « **Reply #7 on:** 2010-06-02 08:34:52 »

Quote from: obesebear on 2010-06-01 23:47:19

:S I have played Mario games for 19 years (since I was two) and i cannot believe i never noticed that! That is so funny! wow were they lazy:P

nfitc1 · « **Reply #8 on:** 2010-06-02 11:53:41 »

Quote from: obesebear on 2010-06-01 23:47:19

This was actually one of the first things I noticed when I started playing.

It was a good idea at the time. Saves space for other more complex things later on.

DLPB_ · « **Reply #9 on:** 2010-06-02 13:41:40 »

:S I have played Mario games for 19 years (since I was two) and i cannot believe i never noticed that! That is so funny! wow were they lazy:P

Actually, it is called being efficient. These were the NES days, and space/resources were in short supply.

ScottMcTony · « **Reply #10 on:** 2010-06-02 14:46:45 »

I never noticed...
My, my childhood, it's dying.

obesebear · « **Reply #11 on:** 2010-06-02 15:12:37 »

Well since Mario nostalgia is so popular, here's this one too.

DarkFang · « **Reply #12 on:** 2010-06-02 15:14:09 »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZaeFgmksJA&feature=related

DLPB_ · « **Reply #13 on:** 2010-06-02 15:40:18 »

That is also true obesebear....how funny I have never thought of it like that!

ScottMcTony · « **Reply #14 on:** 2010-06-02 18:20:40 »

Well, now I have to kill myself.

DarkFang · « **Reply #15 on:** 2010-06-02 20:07:34 »

OMG Green day is a three man band?!

ScottMcTony · « **Reply #16 on:** 2010-06-02 21:05:41 »

OMG NiN is just Trent Reznor?
Wait I knew forever.

DarkFang · « **Reply #17 on:** 2010-06-02 21:07:33 »

NiN is a band... But Trent Reznor retired.

sithlord48 · « **Reply #18 on:** 2010-06-02 21:24:58 »

Quote from: DarkFang on 2010-06-02 21:07:33

NiN is a band... But Trent Reznor retired.

Trent is not retired. he just don't put out albums ne more cause of the RIAA, the last few NIN albums have been put out under the creative commons and you can download them from his page.

DarkFang · « **Reply #19 on:** 2010-06-02 21:28:20 »

Oh I didn't know that.

titeguy3 · « **Reply #20 on:** 2010-06-02 21:57:15 »

There's a starbucks in the Forbidden City???

ludokreshx · « **Reply #21 on:** 2010-06-04 01:01:55 »

well so i read this in the FF wikia idk if that site is official so what i just learned could be total bull
but the storyline totally supports the idea and it fits O_o

Squal Leonhart is actually ... (wait for it....)

Squall Loire O_o

"HOW?!" u say?!
SPOILER ALERT!

cuz when Laguna fought the Estharians, anyone who played and beat ff8 knows this o_o
but when he met little Ellone, he wanted to protect her like his own child with that woman
Raine who nursed him back to health after the Estharian Galbadia war (The Sorceress War)
Well, Adel was bent on taking Ellone, and the Estharians came for her again, and took her.
Before Laguna left for his journey, he and Raine did the naked dance O_o (they were married =p)
But she never told (if she knew) or got a chance to tell (if she didnt kno b4) that she was
prego. Well over the 9 months of her pregnancy, and beyond, Laguna was still on his mission
to get Ellone back from the Estharians. He - no knowing his wife was prego - sent Ellone back
to Winhill ahead of him to help the Estharians rebuild their government after he helped them
overthrow it. Ellone Returned to Winhill around the time Raine went into labor and Raine
died durring childbirth. She had a little boy, Squall, her death left them both without caretakers
They both ended up at Edea's orphanage, Squall never knew anything about his parents
Laguna knew nothing about his son O_o, Ellone was too young to understand, and Raine
was too dead to tell anyone the facts x_x. GF's ruined Squall's memory of his past so he didnt
know WHY he called Ellone "Big Sis" when he was a child, but WHILE he was a child, he knew
that Ellone was the only one at the orphanage that knew who he was to a point and loved
him like that (kinda) little brother that he was (not blood, adoptive)

So with the possibility that the boy Raine had being squall and that final fantasy stories have
weird creepy twists like this i totally believe it O_o

Example
SPOILER WARNING

Hojo/Lucretcia/Vincent love triangle (twisted guinea pig triangle actually =p) birthing Sephiroth =p

btw... who the fawk are clouds parents O_o

BlitzNCS · « **Reply #22 on:** 2010-06-04 01:47:45 »

Quote from: ludokreshx on 2010-06-04 01:01:55

Squall is Laguna's son

...Wasn't that an integral part of the storyline? I thought that was definately part of the plot, I knew it since forever o.O

Quote from: ludokreshx on 2010-06-04 01:01:55

btw... who the fawk are clouds parents O_o

Cloud's father is never mentioned for some reason, and Cloud's mother resided in nibelheim (one of the buildings on the right, you could actually go and visit her in the flashback) until the whole town burned down, apparently killing her.

DarkFang · « **Reply #23 on:** 2010-06-04 01:49:26 »

Cloud's father is Rufus.

ludokreshx · « **Reply #24 on:** 2010-06-04 01:55:27 »

Quote from: DarkFang on 2010-06-04 01:49:26

Cloud's father is Rufus.

well we kno THATs not true being that rufus isnt more than 5 or so years older than cloud lol, dude is like somwhere between 25 and 28 durring the main FF7 game lol

Cloud is 22 or 23 in that game i think lol