Final Fantasy X and X-2 are prequels to Final Fantasy VII

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  • If the Spirans instead came to FFVII's planet long after the Cetra, but still long enough for people to forget their heritage, it could explain the rather advanced Mako technology Shinra uses. However, would the space travel technology so easily be forgotten? (remember, Shinra still struggles with simple rockets). It is unlikely that the people of FFVII are all aliens and just happened to "forget" every single detail about their rather recent (much less than 1000 years ago) origin.
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Provided the Spirans need to use spacecraft to travel.
They could very well use "magic" to create portals.
With the emphasis of technology, magic is forgotten so they cannot travel to other planets anymore?

Wait a second...that sounds like FF6.


On second thought, could the Cetra & Spirans be a single race with different emphasis? Like the Cetra were more of the "magic" kind of people while the Spirans were more technology oriented?
 
:love: i have an idea

FF7:
it says in ff7 that there are other planets
it also says the cetra have unknown origins and that the came from the earth and will return from the earth it never ends
when a person dies they are sent back to the earth until they can be reborn

FF10:
It says in ff10 that aeons come from heaven(many retarded races refer to outerspace as heaven)
In ff10 people are sent to heaven(another world)


My Theory:
Perhaps the people of ff10 are sent to the ff7 makostream when they die
Perhaps the summoners/holy people are sent to the planet to live
If this was true then the summoners/holy people (those who rejected mecha) became the cetra (there technology and housing structers are similiar in many ways.
The unholy/comman people came forth from the mako stream later in time. They used also kept their former knowledge. This would explain why some places in ff7 have super advanced technology(midgar/zanarkand) others have some (midell and corel/al-bhed race) and those with none (costa de rica and cosmo canyon/all those little crappy places in ff10)


ff9 takes place after ff8
(many refrences are given to ff4/ff8/ff7)
ff8 takes place after ff7
(it just does)
ff7 takes place after ff6
(the technological advances of all the towns and technology brought on by mako can be show in ff7 where ff6 places still function technology is old ect)
 
ff9 takes place after ff8
(many refrences are given to ff4/ff8/ff7)
ff8 takes place after ff7
(it just does)
ff7 takes place after ff6
(the technological advances of all the towns and technology brought on by mako can be show in ff7 where ff6 places still function technology is old ect)
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I'm sorry, but you're dead wrong on that one. It's not a continuing series. I could almost buy the whole "ff8 after ff7" thing, considering on the back cover of ff8(psx) it says "an epic story based on the theme of love, set in a massive new world". Perhaps the people on the ff7 planet finally got their act together (500+ years later) and started back up with civilization. Their skinny-elbow arms grew into polygon-rich limbs. But where's the midgar ruins in ff8? ff9? If these games are in the same world, then the time where the games take place must be tens of thousands of years apart. Still..no way.

I actually could probably buy "ff7 after ff6". In both games, some idiots are trying to synthesize magic. And in the end it comes back and bites them in the ass. Considering at the end of ff6
the entire world is left in shambles, and magic is eliminated
, it would make sense that after a hundred or so years the story in FF7 could happen. But where do the cetra come in? And that's where you realize that they can't be linked. FF7 seems to be a "lighter side" of FF6, if you think about it. Let's combine Sephiroth and Kefka for a second. We'll call them "Lenny". In FF7 Lenny attempts to destroy the world for his own powers, but manages to fail. In FF6, Lenny
 manages to screw up the world, and ends up becoming powerful, but fails in the end
. So I might consider that FF7 is almost a FF6 remake. Do you?

FF8 and FF9 are in no way linked whatsoever. FF9 was more of a mixture of several of the FF games into one. FF9 was more similar to FF7 than anything else, however. To be honest, the way the story was presented in FF9 kind of made FF7 make sense to me.

And please, people, there is no way in hell that FF9 is in the same world as FF4. Except for wooden-style airships, of course. But do you see any stupidly-clothed idiots leading a party of blind fools to defeat some big bad guy in both FF9 and FF4? Of course you do! But that doesn't make them equal. But let's face it, Cecil looks like a total fruit after
turning into a paladin
. Zidane just belongs in a zoo, period.

By the way, AntiMatter, have you even played any of these games you're talking about? It kind of sounds like you don't.
 
ff9 and ff4 are the same world you fru weapons/people/items/events that occur in ff4 are found in ff9 and it relates them all to ff4 and zidane even mentions squall and cloud in ff9.

FF7 does have alot of the same story and places

the divine yevon/cetra who i pointed out are magic users from ff10/ff7
could be the thasma people from ff6 and espers/summons/aeons could all be the same.

the world of ruin bears some major resemblence to ff7
(given the time period you have to include some continetal drift, flooding, volcanic activity  a possible iceage)

ff8 follows alot of the same land mass as ff7
(given the time period you have to include some continetal drift, flooding, volcanic activity, possible nuclear winter and green house effect)
 
I think it makes more sense if you just say they're all on different worlds and not connected, cause thats how it seems to be intented to be interpreted anyway.  Although making up theories from the facts available can be interesting.
 
No! Every game in the series rips each other off in some stupid little way. If it even WAS an ongoing series on the same planet there would be some sort of menion of events that had recently happened in the previous game. With a series that hardly changes as it is, it really is hard to be original like they are. It would be really interesting if the games were interconnected, but there are too many differences.

FF9 is just a bunch of the pieces of the series put together in an interesting way. Nothing more.
 
FF does have a very loose timeline, but never on the same planet, and here's why:

FF5 takes you across three different Worlds...maybe more, never played it. The first two get blown to hell, I think.

I would go into my whole FF-series loose connection theory, but I'm too tired for it right now. It's a couple pages long.
 
FF5 takes place in the same damn world the entire time. It goes like this:
The world was split into 2 so that Galuf and his pals could seal Exdeath into the world that the main character is from. But towards the end, the two worlds merge together to become the real world.
This happened because Exdeath did something extremely magical...can't entirely remember. I should play it again.
 
i got bored in the part where you have to get on to that pirate ship. i kept circle around in the front cave and never realized its time for abording the ship  :o
 
That's a shame. The game actually does shape up a bit. I played FF5 when I was like 12, so it must've been a ton  more magical then. It still is magical. But tons of people don't like it...still don't know why.

YOU CAN'T EXPECT SOMETHING AS GOLD AS FF7 TO APPEAR EARLIER IN THE SERIES!! This goes for all games. All this week I played metroid for the nes. It was hard as hell, but I have managed to actually get somewhere in it. I recently have started playing super metroid for the snes. The overall concept is the same, but super metroid definately takes the good concept that metroid(nes) had to a higher level.
 
When you think series are linked or not take a broader stance on the world..

The earth can not be the only life sustaining planet in all of space.. I would say space is too vast for that.. though i dont know if i believe space is infinite.. Time can recycle.. Say that long long ago.. we got to a technological point that the earth was pretty advanced .. then someone set somethign off that destroyed everything.. if you believe in evoloution to a certain extent.. things could have naturally been reborn.. trees would grow back.. and a populous would resurface.. you can make a time line out of anything.. FF7 you could say came before 8.. and 9 could be after after 8.. FF8 had very advanced technology.. whos to say that something like this didnt occur.. and time just sort of started again..

Take it back to our world.. the Atomic bomb can destroy a city.. well more than a city.. the Hydrogen bomb can take out more than that.. i heard.. dont you think that sometime they will develope somethign to take out a country.. perhaps not blow it up.. but some sort of virus perhaps.. or something.. man kind just cant leave things alone.. we have to keep advancing.. its just the way it is.. Some day.. it may be our demise..

Just a thought..
 
Note to Rubicant: Games are often better than thier future counterparts.
But not FF5.  

FF5 has all kinds of cons and a single plus:

PRO
- An awe inspiring class-changing system with a secret class

CONS
- Serious lack of a decent storyline
- Character name: "Butz"? Why!?!?
- Annoying character swap between Galuf and Cara.  (Who'd of thought that a simple charm like that would give me the EXACT stats of grandpa?)
- Music that will drive you to kill faster than Exdeath
- Horrible storyline: "What they're sisters!?!?" "Well, there's not much else to do... we might as well travel to another world to fight Exdeath."

Alright, so truthfully it just lacks a storyline and tries to cover it up with a class changing system.


ff9 and ff4 are the same world you fru weapons/people/items/events that occur in ff4 are found in ff9 and it relates them all to ff4 and zidane even mentions squall and cloud in ff9.
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You have yet to point out a single weapon/person/item/event that is common.  FF9's eidolons don't seem to have a special summon world found near the dwarves underground.

FF7 does have alot of the same story and places

the divine yevon/cetra who i pointed out are magic users from ff10/ff7
could be the thasma people from ff6 and espers/summons/aeons could all be the same.
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Don't own a PS2, but the magic of the Espers is wiped out after the battle with Kefka, ref: Terra became fully human; end scene FF6

the world of ruin bears some major resemblence to ff7
(given the time period you have to include some continetal drift, flooding, volcanic activity  a possible iceage)
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I look just like James Bond after some continetal drift, flooding, volcanic activity and a possible iceage.


ff8 follows alot of the same land mass as ff7
(given the time period you have to include some continetal drift, flooding, volcanic activity, possible nuclear winter and green house effect)
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No.  But, before I point out an improbability on the side of FF8, I must bring up the point that any connection of FF games that occurs AFTER FF7 is fallable; FF7 has two endings!

In FF8 the world was CLEARLY created by the great Hyne.  Then the world had always been infested\blessed by the presence of sorceresses.  Don't try and tell me that good ole' Sepy was not only a woman, but a sorceress!

You need more proof to even TRY and bridge a gap between any FF games.

Edit by Jari: Made a single post out of two posts.

Deamon: Nice post. But please, try to avoid consecutive posts, single (even bit longer) post is preferred format here.
 
Note to Rubicant: Games are often better than thier future counterparts.
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Yeah, it may have seemed I meant that, but I worded it wrong. Very wrong. People all of a sudden "play" one of the earlier games in the series and say it "sucks" because it wasn't like their precious ff7. They say it "sucks" because of the graphics, or some stupid shallow reason. Yes, usually the earlier games in series are better. But you just can't compare the earlier games to the newers ones, because the newer ones will usually have some sort of advantage, such as funding, console capabilities, etc..

I don't know wtf I was saying back there..must've been in a sleepy stupor.

No.  But, before I point out an improbability on the side of FF8, I must bring up the point that any connection of FF games that occurs AFTER FF7 is fallable; FF7 has two endings!
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What two endings? Am I missing something?
 
Deamon....quit making shiiiii..stuff up... You now damn well that FF7 has no ending.  :roll:
 
Whats ff7's normal ending? pm it to me, because i have 2 videos on my computer, and they are supposed to be 2 other endings besides the one you normally get...
 
Ehm, what? I've never heard nor found anything about a second ending... I somehow doubt you have either. The ending cinema is split up into two or three segments, that's about as divided as it gets.
 
It must be "ending3.avi" that you must be thinking of, Mofokubik. It is shown after the credits. And that cinematic takes place "500 years later".

Please enlighten us on this "second ending", deamon  :lol:
 
*nods* Yes, please. I've beat FFVII 17 1/2 times, sifted through the videos on the cd, and on the PSX version, read the script ripped out of both of them, and I have never seen an ending besides the one. Care to explain?

O_o

Contra. Cerubedo, the blue-haired U.R.T.V.
 
One of the endings is the life stream comes and saves midgar, or something like that so I assume thats the normal one. Another one shows after the fight, red and red's kids are running up a mountain, and see a view of midgar years after seph was destroyed, and midgar had plants growning all over it.

I havent beat ff7 yet...care to know why? I got up to the last disc, then  I couldnt find it. Damn you disc 4!!!! I still dont know where it is...
 
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