It's hard to play when you never played the game :(
@musenji - March 15, 2011, 4:06 a.m.
Riddles are really friggin fun. Verily!
The rules:
One riddle at a time. Whoever correctly guesses the riddle (and has the answer confirmed by the riddler) gets to post the next one. They have 48 hours to do so, then the floor is open. (They can also decline to post, and leave the floor open, but c'mon guys, give it a shot.)
The riddler gets to decide whether to give hints, and whether to answer questions. (i.e. It's not 20 questions folks.)
Something that has worked very well is for guessers to post the reasoning behind their guesses--which gives the riddler a chance to steer them along, in an organic fashion. And it keeps people from just randomly guessing.
Riddles are to be made based on Square Soft games (pre-2003) that were released in America. (The reason for this is to limit the field and keep it relatively accessible to all.)
If you are posting a riddle, pick one game to riddle about, and state it in your initial post.
So, the first riddle. It's from Final Fantasy VII:
I reside in darkness where evil’s enlightened Mostly contorted, but sometimes I’m heightened
If you look around, you can tell I’ve been preying Though when I appear, the guitarist keeps playing
@jit - April 5, 2011, 6:26 a.m.
It's hard to play when you never played the game :(
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@musenji - April 5, 2011, 9:35 a.m.
I think it would be cool to see charts for each person, which games they played and feel like they have good memories for, it'd help with what to expect when writing a riddle for a certain game. Like "very strong" would mean you remember the entire main storyline, plus pretty much all the side stuff as well, and probably a good deal of slightly more obscure info. "Strong" would mean you remember most of the storyline and a good deal of the side stuff. And on down the list. My chart would look like: Very strong: FF7, CT Strong: FF6 Decent: FF8 Fair: FF5, FF4, Mario RPG, Mana, CC Poor: FF9 None: Evermore, any other FF
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@xuwawa - April 5, 2011, 10:05 a.m.
auriplane said
Final Fantasy IV What little the Japanese know of this, they learned from the French Everything else, they learned from the Greek But I know none of that; I know only of a small dog And that all dogs come from Heaveni just wanted you to know you made me google "dog named democracy" which is probably the weirdest string i've typed there and it brought up this, where there is circumstantial evidence that all dogs do not go to heaven, in the 4th full paragraph :P oh, co-inky-dinks. also i just realized right now that the 2nd line doesn't start with "everyONE else" though now that i think about it that doesn't make sense to the way i interpreted it anyway, that being japanese learned from french learned from greek.
so i guess... burt reynolds?! wait, small dog, dom deluise? no, FROM heaven, melba moore as annabelle?? have i effectively run this joke into the ground yet?
yeah i never played much of the game. even though i still have ff chronicles, my brother was the one who played that and only til he got stuck mid-way.
i really should... but i probably won't.0 likes
@musenji - April 5, 2011, 11:41 a.m.
Line two refers to the Archfiends: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malebranche_%28Divine_Comedy%29#In_popular_culture They guard a part of Hell in Dante's Inferno. Cagnazzo means "nasty dog"... But I don't have a guess or any knowledge about what they got from the French. [edit] "have i effectively run this joke into the ground yet?" Yeah, you're such a Terd.
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@Ranulf - April 6, 2011, 1:24 a.m.
I thought that's what line two meant Chart: Very Strong: nothing really because I haven't played any of these games in a long time Strong: FF4, FF7, Chrono Cross Decent: SMRPG Fair: FF9 Poor: FF's 5, 6, and 8, Legend of Mana, and Chrono Trigger None: Whatever's left
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@Ranulf - April 7, 2011, 3:10 a.m.
Has everyone given up on this riddle or what?
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@musenji - April 7, 2011, 3:28 a.m.
I thought I'd sit out for a bit, see if anyone else had input...looks like it's you and me, Tennessee. And xuwawa makes three. repost: What little the Japanese know of this, they learned from the French Everything else, they learned from the Greek But I know none of that; I know only of a small dog And that all dogs come from Heaven -not the moon -not a character
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@auriplane - April 7, 2011, 3:32 a.m.
Should I give more hints? First and third line - first word Second and fourth line - second word Two words.
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@musenji - April 7, 2011, 3:38 a.m.
oh wow, it says "the greek" not "the greeks". As in: "the Greek translation", so I'm gonna guess that the answer is actually IN Dante's Inferno. Cerberus? ...Crap, Cerberus isn't in the game. Okay, the French translation is "hellhound"? So.......Flame Dog? [edit] ah. no. [edit 2] Okay, so Canis Minor is the "lesser dog" constellation ("in heaven")....
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@Ranulf - April 10, 2011, 7:39 p.m.
If somebody knows it, then please answer because this is driving me crazy.
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@musenji - April 11, 2011, 3:23 p.m.
Is the answer from a version that came out post-2003? either way there was no way I was getting even close to that, lol
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@Ranulf - April 11, 2011, 9:18 p.m.
I have no idea what that even is, I recognize the last half though.
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@musenji - April 14, 2011, 5:34 a.m.
Since auri gave the answer and it's been more than two days since a post, I'll put a new one up. I won't specify the game. ;-) What kind of weapon is forever?
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@auriplane - April 5, 2011, 4:22 a.m.
Is it time to give hints? No, not the moon. The first two lines are probably too hard, but I hoped someone might get them :-) You can find the answer from the first two lines alone, or the last two lines alone.
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