Originally posted by SpadeKing
He wasn't even trying to leave the island in the first place.
Never said he was but whenever you go to run off the bridge the militray would launch missles at him and he would have to run back to Manhattan or get killed by them. That just shows the limitations of his power. And yes i realize some people are saying "Its because they couldn't make that map the full world" but to deal with this the game designers limited his powers to where he would die if he tried to leave. See what im trying to say?
Originally posted by MooCowofJustice
So far that sounds like a more creative version of an Invisible Wall, and Invisible Walls suck, so be glad you have that.And I garauntee I hate Alex Mercer more than any of you, but it took a Nuke to put him down for a good amount of time. Sure he needed a crow to reform, but he still survived.
Ok think of it this way, the game could have made the military blow up the bridges so there was no way out of the city, then they could have made the sea "endless". But instead they limited Alex's abilities.
If Sephiroth can level buildings in one sweep and it takes Alex to throw vehicles and tanks at it (Example: military bases and hives.) then i just dont think he'd last very long. And going by what the games said Sephiroth's true power still is'nt even known. Sephiroth was also able to destroy more powerful creatures than Hunters in one hit. (Example from the video game: Serpents like the Hyda).
Originally posted by Nemesis X
Mercer can survive an atomic bomb but can he survive a big ass meteor crashed on him?
True because a meteor would be much bigger. There would be no life for him to consume after that. Plus sense Sephiroth has infected the lifestream (from AC) as long as the life stream exists so will Sephiroth. Meaning unless that atomic blast can destroy the planet Sephiroth will still be fine.
Originally posted by fortinbross
Ok think of it this way, the game could have made the military blow up the bridges so there was no way out of the city, then they could have made the sea "endless". But instead they limited Alex's abilities.
Thats like asking why can't spiderman leave NY in his games ermm
You do realize how much of a waste of disc space & money that would be as well correct?
Originally posted by SpadeKing
Thats like asking why can't spiderman leave NY in his games ermmYou do realize how much of a waste of disc space & money that would be as well correct?
None the less they dealt with this by limiting Alex's abilities.
But either way this doesn't really matter due to the fact Sephiroth infected the lifestream.
Originally posted by wammamram
alex mercer definetlay. he would kill sephiroth with his blade arm thing and his suit of armor.
Ok, heres the thing, sense Sephiroth infected the lifestream in Advent Children he became life itself. He can manefest through any form of life, the only way to beat him would be to kill all of life itself. And i really rather dought that armor would do anything, Sephiroth can cut skyscrapers in half with one slash. Also if he really needed to keep alex away from him he could just hold him in mid air with his telekinesis and alex would be helpless, and don't say something stupid like "he is so strong he can escape his telekinesis" because as someone stated here before Sephiroth lifted a 1800 ton airship 1 to 2 miles in the sky with his mind in 7-10 seconds.
Originally posted by Phanteros
actually Cloud beat simply with sword slashes. not saying anything on the thread though
Thats because Cloud was a peice of Sephiroth. Otherwise he would have never won. If your talking about in the original FF7 all Cloud did was stop Sephiroth's true form from manefesting. If your talking about in Advent Children, the Final Fantasy 7 Comentaries said the soul purpose of AC was for Sephiroth to mess with Cloud to let him know he was still there. It even said he could have manefested all along. So basicly the entire point of AC was for Sephiroth to tell Cloud he infected the lifestream and connot be killed unless life itself ceased to exist, unlike what cloud thought. (Cloud thought he could only manefest through Jenova cells.) If you don't believe me read the book or watch Final Fantasy 7 Comentaries.
Originally posted by SpadeKing
don't you mean cloud had a piece of sephiroth's cells in him? before Hojo's experiment cloud was a bottom tier soldier who still kicked sephiroth's ass. the same guys you kill in one hit with cloud at the start of the game.
Yeah, but if you actually played the game you would know Cloud wasn't made like the other SOLDIER's he was made as a clone of Sephiroth, but was ruled as a failed experiment. He had much higher Mako exposier any Jenova cell exposier than and other member of soldier except Sephiroth himself, Angeal, and Genesis. If you also recall Cloud had the power of Holy on his side.
But the fact is i can't see Mercer's armor doing any good if Sephiroth could level skyscrapers in one sweep. It takes Mercer several minutes to level a skyscraper where as in the time it takes Mercer to level one Sephiroth could have done the whole city. i could see Sephiroth just holding Mercer in place with telekinesis (which we all know sent a 1800 ton aircraft into the sky in seconds) and slashing and/or using his master of all magic to kill him. (if you remember the game said he mastered all the materia.)
Originally posted by fortinbross
Yeah, but if you actually played the game you would know Cloud wasn't made like the other SOLDIER's he was made as a clone of Sephiroth, but was ruled as a failed experiment. He had much higher Mako exposier any Jenova cell exposier than and other member of soldier except Sephiroth himself, Angeal, and Genesis. If you also recall Cloud had the power of Holy on his side.But the fact is i can't see Mercer's armor doing any good if Sephiroth could level skyscrapers in one sweep. It takes Mercer several minutes to level a skyscraper where as in the time it takes Mercer to level one Sephiroth could have done the whole city. i could see Sephiroth just holding Mercer in place with telekinesis (which we all know sent a 1800 ton aircraft into the sky in seconds) and slashing and/or using his master of all magic to kill him. (if you remember the game said he mastered all the materia.)
As I said before, Cloud was nothing but a grunt before the experiments & still managed to flip sephiroth over a walkway, if you recall that? I'm sure I already knew that or I wouldn't have mention any of that stuff. He didn't have Holy on his side the first time they met or the third time. They put Jenova cells (whom Sephiroth controls) inside Cloud which is why it made it easy to make Cloud, Sephiroth's puppet.
Originally posted by fortinbross
He had much higher Mako exposier any Jenova cell exposier than and other member of soldier except Sephiroth himself, Angeal, and Genesis.
Care to put that part in English for me? Also note that Angeal & Genesis were given weaker cells than the ones that Sephiroth got.