one of the best scenes of all time in this game. watchin it today gave me goosebumps remembering the 40 to 60 hours trying to beat this bad boy. ID is no joke. this game needs to be remade to todays standards.
@@allysonchen4286 yes: Citan really a bad ass! Awesome speed - with speed ring S and Speed Shoes, well, your defrnse is low but the enemies dies anyway with five or six attacks in a row!! Citan is a awesome second character!!!
"But dropping a warship on me is cheating... Take it back!" Well Id, you can definitely see where they thought doing something like that was necessary.
9999 = The classic Square max damage. You see that you know you got effed up. *Gear does more attacks to add a 1 next to it. * Ok, now this boss is just showing off.
That moment was a breaking point for me in this game. I'd grown up believing 9999 was _the_ limit that video game damage could go to; Id's attack boosting the damage into the 5-digit range shattered that perception even worse than it shattered Bart's Gear.
I remember the first play through with this scene and just being in awe of id's power. Same feeling when seeing Sephiroth for the first time in the flashback sequence in FF7. This was a special game. Unfinished, but remarkable in its scope. And so many memorable characters (this was when Square actually made great characters and stories), and that soundtrack, damn the feels
The "using the gameplay to demonstrate Sephiroth's power" is just one of the many examples of stuff in Final Fantasy games that Tetusya Takahashi wasn't properly credited for. So the whole bit showing Sephiroth hitting enemies for 3-4000 damage was Takahashi's idea. A little thing in the long run, but IMO it had a major impact. FF7 had a number of things, but FF6 is probably the game he gets the least amount of credit for, being credited as a graphics director when he was responsible for narrative and design elements in the game, and similar stuff with Chrono Trigger. Also, Kaori Tanaka (AKA Soraya Saga) wasn't properly credited for her work on FF6 which included narrative and character creation.
@@adrian_veidt I find Tetsuya Takahashi and Nomura are both vastly superior talents to Sakaguchi. Probably not something we'll agree on, but those are my views. As far as arrogance goes, Sakaguchi is the guy who understaffed projects at Squaresoft that and forced ridiculous work hours and short SNES length dev cycles when PSX games were significantly bigger - not to mention he gave himself and a team of 45 over 3 years to produce FF5 when he only gave Takahshi 2 years to do Xenogears with a smaller dev team. This is on top of his Spirits Within film project that killed the finances of the company. It was due to his mismanagement that half the best talent walked out of Square between 1998 and 2001. He also takes the Director Credit of Final Fantasy 4 when he had little to do with that game (almost nothing to do with the SNES phase), that role was mostly done by Takashi Tokita and Hiroyuki Ito (Sakaguchi was handling FF5 at the same time as FF4). Tokita also had great follow-up projects, Live a Live, Chrono Trigger (along with Masato Kato) and Parasite Eve, but Sakaguchi basically gave that franchise to some Resident Evil guy they picked up. In the end, I'm not a big fan of all the credit Sakaguchi takes. He's a very unoriginal writer, and stuck his name on credits where it didn't really belong (at least he didn't do that with FF6, and Kitase got the credit he deserved). Yeah he was one of the first guys hired into the leadership of what would become (IMO) perhaps the strongest and most talented lineup of game devs outside of maybe Nintendo, and then when he took control, he tore it apart, until he himself left in shame.
Do u know how f***ing Amazing this cutscene would be with today's graphics. I think we need a hug petition sign & sent to square for a remake of this. I played this years ago in 98 I was only 12 & didn't understand it until I played it years later on my PS3 as an adult. This was the best rpg I ever played in my life.
Still my favorite game of all time and it won't ever be dethroned. I am now 32 and I played this back at release for the first time. A timeless classic that will transcend time itself!
Same here. I also never paid much attention to how ID only showed up when Fei was "occupied" Then when it all came together I had to put the controller down and process all that epic build up and reveal.
It's like you feel you know what the gears battle all about, using weapons, technology and such and also limited by those mentioned. Then come ID with Superpower element that basically throw everything you think you know away.
This game would be amazing remade on a newer console, the cut scenes would be epic. Id's theme behind Ramsus looking at a monitor watching Id destroy shit would be chilling
Funny how everyone now acts like they knew the connection between Fei and Id back when the game released when in fact most ppl who played the game were kids and highschool teenagers. 1st and foremost one would think that Weltall and the powerful red gear that just shitstomped Ramsus and Bart is one half of a pair of sister gears. Similar to how zone of the enders did jehuty and anubis, a pair of sister orbital frames. Dark Blue vs Dark Red. Utilizing the same Kishin deathblow, how awesome would it be once fei and this mysterious red gear pilot finally meets when Fei himself is capable of utilizing Weltall's true power. Yet a fabulous twist awaited the players. Also Fei, Grahf, Wiseman, and Id used the same martial arts so that was also used to throw the player off and made us think Ramsus was just crazy and obsessed, as he definitely was, with the deathblow punch that Fei also knew how to use. Also they impressively threw the player off with the animation scene where Fei's father was confronting Grahf and this unnamed person in red who later turned out to be Id. Fei was brought to Lahan as a child by his father so Id cant possibly be Fei as the Id looked more adult than a child. Also the characters first only met Id in person during the scene where Emeralda is retrieved by the enemy. Such great storytelling and definitely a gem buried under the games with 2 F's in its titles. Disc 2 isnt even that bad as what ppl said. In fact I felt like it ended up being quite an artistic take after the team got screwed by Sakaguchi them prioritizing budget for the FF titles. The emotions, mood, and tone of disc 2 was artistically crafted. What I find beautiful is that Elly shines the most out of all ps1 female heroines and only those who know of her and understand her can appreciate her. Lastly every character in the game were pretty much unique and didnt fall into any anime archetypes which is extremely rare.
If you played the game back when it was initially released, after you finished playing Xenogears, you had changed, grown, back in the day many of us didnt know about many of the concepts we had been introduced to, and they were an integral part of the story, best RPG ever made, hands down.
Easily the best RPG - how they brilliantly tied Jungian psychology into Fei’s growth and development throughout the game was well done. Didn’t really understand the depth of this game until I got older.
His obsesion actually makes sense if you know Ramsus' story... Yet, he talked like he can stand his ground against such a monster... I mean, dude, it took him 3 attacks in 25 seconds to wipe the floor with your Gear and you STILL insist to fight? That's an obssessed bastard
I M A FINAL FANTASY FANATIC BUT WHEN THIS GAME CAME OUT I SAY HOLY COW. ALWAYS GOING 2 BE MY FAVORITE GAME FROM ANY GENERATION CONSIDER WHAT THE DEVELOPER HAD 2 GO THRU. I JUST WISH ONE DAY SOME DEVELOPER REMAKE THIS. BY THE WAY EPIC SCENE HERE.
The fight with Id and Bart always annoyed me later, he does like 19998 damage and, in a world where 9999 had always been the upper limit, I was floored. Then later, when you have Xenogears, you still can't do more than 9999 damage. : (
I have always been of two minds about cleaning this game up and putting it on modern hardware but this sequence is one of the major points in favor of doing that.
Sigurd: Jericho, let's get Yggdrasil to Jump Jericho: But sir, the ship Sigurd: No young master, no ship..JUST DO IT Did Sigurd just Thanos' meme before it was cool?
I dont know what make Id a badass. He single handly defeat ramsus. He toying with bart even tho he say bart is strong. He survive the yggdrasil impact and throw it like a toy. All of this after he defeat the super powered vanderkaum.
I don't think there has ever been a game that could match Id's level of OP. Telekinetic power strong enough to lift a God only knows how heavy of a Warship after being crushed by it, then only to throw it back? Id's the O.G. O.P.!
2020 and I am here ahahahahah For me, this is the best sequence off all game: Id appears on desert. In 1998, when I first saw and we don't have idea who is the WTF red gear and he knock out pieces of Hamsus gear, well, me and my friends almost jumping playing this ahahahahahahahaha
I miss games like this where if you put in the work and grinded the early game, you could buy several magnetic coats and be rewarded for your effort…. No “pay for convenience” nonsense
LOLS, to be honest, if the gear's graphics in this game was more detail and artistic back then , imagine if this release on 2003 2002 (assuming squaresoft never gone backrupt) should obviously everyone about 60% who play the game already guessed this red gear design is familiar with welltall escpecially in the head , on the dessert everything is on stressfull situation and dissaray even no one ever realized welltall and fei are "missing"... I know last time they lost contact with him and the pirate crew.. but no one ask how about fei, (is he alright..?), etc
Once you played the game you knew who the gear was. Back in the day finding out Fei is Id was right up there with finding out for the first time that Darth Vader was Luke Skywalkers father.
Monolith and Square better team up and remake this! I don't care if Nintendo is funding it and making it a Switch exclusive because we all know Monolith can do wonders on that machine already!
me at 10 years old: OMGWTF I didnt stand a chance and I didn't save. Oh wait it's apart of the story lol. Mom: Yea gonna need you to turn this game off with you cursing like your father
Just started playing this again on my 4k tv^^ the graphics are terrible on it, there's a high pitched whining sound, and using the ps2 (ps1 died last year....R.I.P.) controller is clunky as hell. I love this game so much.^^
I played it again on my Vita several years ago. A nice portable experience right up until the Steam Deck came out and now that is how I play the game. That is unless Square Enix graces us with a remake that gives the game it's due. I would buy it without hesitation the moment it released onto steam.
It's 2020 and im still watching this, dear god
holding up that a remake is soon coming.
Same here. Great game
Me too
Epic moment
Its a brutal, yet beautiful scene.
one of the best scenes of all time in this game. watchin it today gave me goosebumps remembering the 40 to 60 hours trying to beat this bad boy. ID is no joke. this game needs to be remade to todays standards.
Man Doc is my fave. He's a bad ass already but once he gets his sword he's even more bad ass
Not just best scenes in this game but one of the best scenes of all games!!! 1998 - 2020 and I am here ahahahahahahahaha
Xenogears the best rpg!!!
@@allysonchen4286 yes: Citan really a bad ass!
Awesome speed - with speed ring S and Speed Shoes, well, your defrnse is low but the enemies dies anyway with five or six attacks in a row!!
Citan is a awesome second character!!!
wishing I could just go into an unconscious rage like Id and eradicate Putin... then awaken soon after to only see the remains
Really wish they would remake it to todays standards, but unfortunately they dump so much time into remaking FFVII for like the 5th time
"Commander, pull out!"
The first time Miang said that to Ramsus with clothes on.
"But dropping a warship on me is cheating... Take it back!"
Well Id, you can definitely see where they thought doing something like that was necessary.
Nothing compares to this game still to this day 23 years later.
9999 = The classic Square max damage. You see that you know you got effed up.
*Gear does more attacks to add a 1 next to it. *
Ok, now this boss is just showing off.
That moment was a breaking point for me in this game. I'd grown up believing 9999 was _the_ limit that video game damage could go to; Id's attack boosting the damage into the 5-digit range shattered that perception even worse than it shattered Bart's Gear.
8:45 godlike moment in this game,
Id was AND ALWAYS WILL BE MY FAVORITE CHARACTER
I remember the first play through with this scene and just being in awe of id's power. Same feeling when seeing Sephiroth for the first time in the flashback sequence in FF7.
This was a special game. Unfinished, but remarkable in its scope. And so many memorable characters (this was when Square actually made great characters and stories), and that soundtrack, damn the feels
The "using the gameplay to demonstrate Sephiroth's power" is just one of the many examples of stuff in Final Fantasy games that Tetusya Takahashi wasn't properly credited for. So the whole bit showing Sephiroth hitting enemies for 3-4000 damage was Takahashi's idea. A little thing in the long run, but IMO it had a major impact. FF7 had a number of things, but FF6 is probably the game he gets the least amount of credit for, being credited as a graphics director when he was responsible for narrative and design elements in the game, and similar stuff with Chrono Trigger. Also, Kaori Tanaka (AKA Soraya Saga) wasn't properly credited for her work on FF6 which included narrative and character creation.
SquareSoft, as it was called. The peak of its time. Square Enix can't hold a candle to it.
@@lindenstromberg6859Takahashi and Sakaguchi>>>>>> That pompous hack, Nomura
@@adrian_veidt I find Tetsuya Takahashi and Nomura are both vastly superior talents to Sakaguchi. Probably not something we'll agree on, but those are my views.
As far as arrogance goes, Sakaguchi is the guy who understaffed projects at Squaresoft that and forced ridiculous work hours and short SNES length dev cycles when PSX games were significantly bigger - not to mention he gave himself and a team of 45 over 3 years to produce FF5 when he only gave Takahshi 2 years to do Xenogears with a smaller dev team.
This is on top of his Spirits Within film project that killed the finances of the company. It was due to his mismanagement that half the best talent walked out of Square between 1998 and 2001. He also takes the Director Credit of Final Fantasy 4 when he had little to do with that game (almost nothing to do with the SNES phase), that role was mostly done by Takashi Tokita and Hiroyuki Ito (Sakaguchi was handling FF5 at the same time as FF4). Tokita also had great follow-up projects, Live a Live, Chrono Trigger (along with Masato Kato) and Parasite Eve, but Sakaguchi basically gave that franchise to some Resident Evil guy they picked up.
In the end, I'm not a big fan of all the credit Sakaguchi takes. He's a very unoriginal writer, and stuck his name on credits where it didn't really belong (at least he didn't do that with FF6, and Kitase got the credit he deserved). Yeah he was one of the first guys hired into the leadership of what would become (IMO) perhaps the strongest and most talented lineup of game devs outside of maybe Nintendo, and then when he took control, he tore it apart, until he himself left in shame.
It’s 2021 and I’m still watching this. This scene will forever embedded into my memory.
Takahashi did wonders in conveying ID and Fei's dynamic throughout the game, and what a great start to that
anyone watching this in 2017 and saying, god pls remake this
A fan can dream :(
Especially w the news of a Ff7 remake.
2019... i still want it
2020 still want it😭
2021, still want it.
... Oh, wait, am I too early?
"Unknown unit approaching! Huh? It's three times faster than the others!"
Do u know how f***ing Amazing this cutscene would be with today's graphics. I think we need a hug petition sign & sent to square for a remake of this. I played this years ago in 98 I was only 12 & didn't understand it until I played it years later on my PS3 as an adult. This was the best rpg I ever played in my life.
Still my favorite game of all time and it won't ever be dethroned. I am now 32 and I played this back at release for the first time. A timeless classic that will transcend time itself!
Let Monolith remake it tho
I am right there with you. I'm playing later on today
To be fair this game was an actual incomplete game. So remaking this game wouldn't be a bad idea.
Today they might screw it…
The limitations of PS1 hardware made them surpass themselves regarding the mise en scène.
8:03 Sigurd: "what in the hell?"
That moment you realize who you just fucked with.
yes, this one is the bad egoistic version of your next gear, Xenogears
the destructive personality ..
When I first played it back in 98, I had absolutely no suspicion that Id's gear looks a lot like Welltall. I thought it was a different gear.
Same here. I also never paid much attention to how ID only showed up when Fei was "occupied" Then when it all came together I had to put the controller down and process all that epic build up and reveal.
The fact that ID can catch an entire warship, even by surprise, and just lift it up casually is a testament to a fraction of his true power.
It's like you feel you know what the gears battle all about, using weapons, technology and such and also limited by those mentioned.
Then come ID with Superpower element that basically throw everything you think you know away.
This game would be amazing remade on a newer console, the cut scenes would be epic. Id's theme behind Ramsus looking at a monitor watching Id destroy shit would be chilling
Funny how everyone now acts like they knew the connection between Fei and Id back when the game released when in fact most ppl who played the game were kids and highschool teenagers.
1st and foremost one would think that Weltall and the powerful red gear that just shitstomped Ramsus and Bart is one half of a pair of sister gears. Similar to how zone of the enders did jehuty and anubis, a pair of sister orbital frames. Dark Blue vs Dark Red. Utilizing the same Kishin deathblow, how awesome would it be once fei and this mysterious red gear pilot finally meets when Fei himself is capable of utilizing Weltall's true power. Yet a fabulous twist awaited the players.
Also Fei, Grahf, Wiseman, and Id used the same martial arts so that was also used to throw the player off and made us think Ramsus was just crazy and obsessed, as he definitely was, with the deathblow punch that Fei also knew how to use.
Also they impressively threw the player off with the animation scene where Fei's father was confronting Grahf and this unnamed person in red who later turned out to be Id. Fei was brought to Lahan as a child by his father so Id cant possibly be Fei as the Id looked more adult than a child. Also the characters first only met Id in person during the scene where Emeralda is retrieved by the enemy.
Such great storytelling and definitely a gem buried under the games with 2 F's in its titles.
Disc 2 isnt even that bad as what ppl said. In fact I felt like it ended up being quite an artistic take after the team got screwed by Sakaguchi them prioritizing budget for the FF titles. The emotions, mood, and tone of disc 2 was artistically crafted. What I find beautiful is that Elly shines the most out of all ps1 female heroines and only those who know of her and understand her can appreciate her.
Lastly every character in the game were pretty much unique and didnt fall into any anime archetypes which is extremely rare.
If you played the game back when it was initially released, after you finished playing Xenogears, you had changed, grown, back in the day many of us didnt know about many of the concepts we had been introduced to, and they were an integral part of the story, best RPG ever made, hands down.
Easily the best RPG - how they brilliantly tied Jungian psychology into Fei’s growth and development throughout the game was well done. Didn’t really understand the depth of this game until I got older.
just finished this game for the first time in january 2021.... i freaking love id
This scene was really iconic for me. Showed juat how powerful berserker Fei was.
This game aged so well.
3:55
"I still have one arm!!"
Who does he think he is, the Black Knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail? What the hell is wrong with this guy?
His obsesion actually makes sense if you know Ramsus' story...
Yet, he talked like he can stand his ground against such a monster... I mean, dude, it took him 3 attacks in 25 seconds to wipe the floor with your Gear and you STILL insist to fight? That's an obssessed bastard
"It's just a flesh wound!"
you'll know once you reached 2nd disc
ARE YOU STRONG?
We need Xenogears on Switch!
Watching this in 2018 and will keep watching forever
Loved this gear so much I even made a skin of it for counterstrike waaaay back, yeah - the good ol days
bart got lucky to survive his judgement day 😱😱😱
bring xeno gears back!
I M A FINAL FANTASY FANATIC BUT WHEN THIS GAME CAME OUT I SAY HOLY COW. ALWAYS GOING 2 BE MY FAVORITE GAME FROM ANY GENERATION CONSIDER WHAT THE DEVELOPER HAD 2 GO THRU. I JUST WISH ONE DAY SOME DEVELOPER REMAKE THIS. BY THE WAY EPIC SCENE HERE.
still watching it in 2016
edit: still dont know how Bart survived 19998 damage, highest damage values in the game other than Alpha Welltall.
You could say Bart needs to WHIP out of his shape after that defeat. xP
It took me so long to figure out that this ID person was actually the main character Fei the whole time. Such a mind blowing development in the game.
The whole ship bending around him as it hangs in the air is such a cool detail
"That was pretty interesting. But dropping a warship on me is cheating. *Take it back."*
*_*flick*_*
Literally sends it back!
The fight with Id and Bart always annoyed me later, he does like 19998 damage and, in a world where 9999 had always been the upper limit, I was floored. Then later, when you have Xenogears, you still can't do more than 9999 damage. : (
my most favorite seen in any game
7:40 - *_The_* Id moment.
My goosebumps have goosebumps
Such an underrated game. Still my 2nd favorite game of all time. They dont make em like this anymore.
What's the first?
@@darkaoshi27 Propably Chrono Trigger. That one is my personal number 1.
[Stand Tall and Shake the Heavens]
Bart: I can't believe it!
Id: That's why you fail.
Poor bart must have duced up the cockpit upon seeing that.
That Myang's "ha ha...", so manipulative !
Well... just like 2020, now is 2024 and I am here agaaaaain ❤
I forgot this part in the game.
My brother and I played this game for 40 hours
Strait just to finish it.
in all rpg history aside from vagrant story, characters are the most op. of all.
Miss this Game they Need to remake it on the Ps4 this game was one of the best.
totally agree
Virgo if they made this the first game on the ps5. I would wait. Either way they now working on final fantasy 7... again...
Best game I've ever played in my life!
Now I want to play this game again. It's so wonderful.
emulate it
emulate it
@@EmeraldaKasim do you realise i wrote this comment 11 years ago? Wtf
@@Sum2k3 I am reminding you to play xenogears again
yeah this is a masterpiece :)
Ramsus has already spilled Id's identity here
I have always been of two minds about cleaning this game up and putting it on modern hardware but this sequence is one of the major points in favor of doing that.
I literally defeated ? about 20 minutes ago.
"OH MY GOD ITS THE MONADO" - Me Seeing this for the first time, much to my friends dismay
Seriously !! ID is so OP
Dec 2023 and I'm stil here
Sigurd: Jericho, let's get Yggdrasil to Jump
Jericho: But sir, the ship
Sigurd: No young master, no ship..JUST DO IT
Did Sigurd just Thanos' meme before it was cool?
I dont know what make Id a badass. He single handly defeat ramsus. He toying with bart even tho he say bart is strong. He survive the yggdrasil impact and throw it like a toy. All of this after he defeat the super powered vanderkaum.
I don't think there has ever been a game that could match Id's level of OP. Telekinetic power strong enough to lift a God only knows how heavy of a Warship after being crushed by it, then only to throw it back? Id's the O.G. O.P.!
its 2022 just realized bart's gear joint isn't connected 😂😂
When I was a child I thought Ramsus was the main villain then I saw this and realized how wrong I was.
If xenogears got the mario rpg treatment, it could easily be the best rpg ever made.
The ultimate kiss of death!
Now imagine this game getting the remake touch that FFX is getting.
*ID break Ramsus arm*
Bart: oh hell no stay away from 😨
I wish they would remake this
yes brother. i am strong
Are you strong?
2020 and I am here ahahahahah
For me, this is the best sequence off all game: Id appears on desert.
In 1998, when I first saw and we don't have idea who is the WTF red gear and he knock out pieces of Hamsus gear, well, me and my friends almost jumping playing this ahahahahahahahaha
I miss games like this where if you put in the work and grinded the early game, you could buy several magnetic coats and be rewarded for your effort….
No “pay for convenience” nonsense
This game is so fucking awesome.
LOL Bart was so unlucky in this scenario
Even with GameShark you can’t beat him I remember doing 9999 damage he still wouldn’t go down plus he does more damage then your max health
I'm watching it in 2021. I love it..still the best rpg ever..for me
You strong.....Huh?
Legendary game
LOLS, to be honest,
if the gear's graphics in this game was more detail and artistic back then , imagine if this release on 2003 2002 (assuming squaresoft never gone backrupt)
should obviously everyone about 60% who play the game already guessed this red gear design is familiar with welltall escpecially in the head ,
on the dessert everything is on stressfull situation and dissaray even no one ever realized welltall and fei are "missing"...
I know last time they lost contact with him and the pirate crew.. but no one ask how about fei, (is he alright..?), etc
Grahf's gear is almost identical as well though, at least the core part.
Once you played the game you knew who the gear was. Back in the day finding out Fei is Id was right up there with finding out for the first time that Darth Vader was Luke Skywalkers father.
Don't fuck with Id.
Pisses me off that Ramsus was written to survive this encounter. 😒
Monolith and Square better team up and remake this! I don't care if Nintendo is funding it and making it a Switch exclusive because we all know Monolith can do wonders on that machine already!
Took me nearly 99 hours to beat xenogears the first time!!!!
only game equal to final fantasy 7!!
LMAO u fool FF7 is not even on the same level as this story combat sequence man this game is unique and before its time.
comparing ff7 to this masterpiece is an insult
Xenogears is a Game that will go throughout history....
me at 10 years old: OMGWTF I didnt stand a chance and I didn't save. Oh wait it's apart of the story lol.
Mom: Yea gonna need you to turn this game off with you cursing like your father
You gotta admit though, Od was a bad motha....
SHUT YO MOUTH!
I'm just talking about Id
Keep the soundtrack
Just started playing this again on my 4k tv^^ the graphics are terrible on it, there's a high pitched whining sound, and using the ps2 (ps1 died last year....R.I.P.) controller is clunky as hell. I love this game so much.^^
I played it again on my Vita several years ago. A nice portable experience right up until the Steam Deck came out and now that is how I play the game. That is unless Square Enix graces us with a remake that gives the game it's due. I would buy it without hesitation the moment it released onto steam.
19k damage lool
神ゲー？
Stop putting " ' " around 'him'. I am sick of this game's grammar. *turns into Id*
@6:16
I forgot this part in the game.
My brother and I played this game for 40 hours
Strait just to finish it.