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Woozy posted:We need an update to keep the thread from going supernova with FF-chat. I am fully prepared to post a 1000-word essay entitled "In Search of Cloud: Gender and Identity in a Post-Nuclear Midgar" if necessary. I've got a shitload of SS and videos ready, I just need to edit them. I'm past Midgar right now sitting with 12 videos and 2500 screenshots.
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Elentor posted:I laughed at One-Purpled Haze hahaha. The first time I heard it I thought it was okay (I thought that the one before the-song-that-must-remain-nameless was better though). It's just that the song kinda loses its effectiveness the more times it's repeated and unaltered. I thought the best version was on Crisis Core. [E] Dauntasa posted:Yeah, I honestly don't like that song. S-P-O-I-L-E-R-S is better, in my opinion. I just got this and it nearly made my mind explode (yeah I'm slow). Bravo! 
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Jun 18, 2011 22:26
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Pfft, everyone knows this is the best FF7 remix ever made 
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it that both Son Goku and Zidane Tribal are both based on Son Wukong from Journey to the West, and any similarities they have are due to ripping off the same source material?
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Patter Song posted:Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it that both Son Goku and Zidane Tribal are both based on Son Wukong from Journey to the West, and any similarities they have are due to ripping off the same source material? You are correct. As for Spoiler Spoilered Spoiler, the thing that really soured me on that track (and the OST in general) was when Uematsu described it as "Jimi Hendrix meets classical music." and I laughed for hours
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Elentor posted:I've got a shitload of SS and videos ready, I just need to edit them. I'm past Midgar right now sitting with 12 videos and 2500 screenshots. No rush. 
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Jun 18, 2011 22:36
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Man, I can't wait until the next update. While I'm not one to rush an LPer -- they are giving us free entertainment and we oughtta be grateful for it -- I'd very much like this thread to return to "Let's Play Final Fantasy VII!" and take the 'sperg back to the deep, dank hellhole from which it came. Although FFXIII-2 looks exactly like more of Squareenix's "style over substance" bullshit and the designs look as lovely as they have been since FF8. 
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People are really over-exaggerating the level of "sperg" in this thread.
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Patter Song posted:Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it that both Son Goku and Zidane Tribal are both based on Son Wukong from Journey to the West, and any similarities they have are due to ripping off the same source material? I haven't watched any Dragon Ball stuff in about a decade, but I don't think they explained Goku's backstory until Z and they were done with the Son Wukong homages by then, weren't they? I don't know that Zidane is based on Son Wukong, but his backstory is largely the same as Goku's.
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Jun 18, 2011 22:49
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Just replace fighting and eating with skirt-chasing and thespianism.
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So when I started replaying this game, I decided that I wasn't going to grind levels or limits or AP, since I always end up doing that and I wanted a bit of a challenge this time. Flash forward to me having just finished the optional area near the end of Disc 1, and my characters are all over level 40, I have three characters with all of their limits and the others all have their second lvl 3 limits, and I have quake 3, bio 3, fire 3, ice 3, lightening 3, regen, esuna, mbarrier, and a whole bunch of other spells that I shouldn't have for probably half a disc longer. I don't know what is is about this game, but apparently I can't not powerlevel when I play it.
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Do you guys think we could take the non-FF7 discussion (and probably some of the FF7 discussion) to the Final Fantasy thread? That would be super-cool I think.
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The White Dragon posted:Pfft, everyone knows this is the best FF7 remix ever made The best FF7 remix is without a doubt the one that combines the final boss music with Soulja Boy.
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Dr. Dos posted:The best FF7 remix is without a doubt the one that combines the final boss music with Soulja Boy.  This is the strangest thing.how is it so drat addictive
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Dr. Dos posted:The best FF7 remix is without a doubt the one that combines the final boss music with Soulja Boy.
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Dr. Dos posted:The best FF7 remix is without a doubt the one that combines the final boss music with Soulja Boy. Somehow, it made both songs listenable and better. Awesome.
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Dr. Dos posted:The best FF7 remix is without a doubt the one that combines the final boss music with Soulja Boy. Seriously laughing so hard right now. Even with my music education I still just can't understand how it fits so well.
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Here's a version without that distracting generic beat in the background.
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AndwhatIseeisme posted:So when I started replaying this game, I decided that I wasn't going to grind levels or limits or AP, since I always end up doing that and I wanted a bit of a challenge this time. Flash forward to me having just finished the optional area near the end of Disc 1, and my characters are all over level 40, I have three characters with all of their limits and the others all have their second lvl 3 limits, and I have quake 3, bio 3, fire 3, ice 3, lightening 3, regen, esuna, mbarrier, and a whole bunch of other spells that I shouldn't have for probably half a disc longer. I don't know what is is about this game, but apparently I can't not powerlevel when I play it. I think it's something about the great music and actually quick pace of the gameplay, but leveling up in FFVII is really soothing. That's probably why everyone went so crazy in power-leveling this game, and goes a long way toward explaining everyone's fondness for it. DocFrance posted:Do you guys think we could take the non-FF7 discussion (and probably some of the FF7 discussion) to the Final Fantasy thread? That would be super-cool I think. Games megathreads are no fun to follow, and everyone's been mostly well behaved for the last couple of pages. We honestly just need more updates if people aren't going to go crazy talking about the series as a whole. I think it's impressive that Final Fantasy games manage to provoke discussion of one another despite not technically being connected.
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Dr. Dos posted:The best FF7 remix is without a doubt the one that combines the final boss music with Soulja Boy. Well I mean since we're on the subject...
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I thought it was proven that anything can be remixed with Souja Boy.
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George posted:...We honestly just need more updates if people aren't going to go crazy talking about the series as a whole. There's already been 13 Updates in 3 weeks, I think that's a fair amount of updates considering the size and scope of this LP. It's just the Elentor's tackling FFVII and it's gonna generate this much posting one way or the other. This isn't meant to be taken as hostile and I hope it isn't, just wanted to put it in perspective what the game is, the amount of attention and the amount of content already put into it.
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Great thread! Thanks to the Final Fantasy general thread in Games, I actually just re-started FFVII. Despite being my first FF and first RPG, this will only be my second playthrough. I preferred VIII and Chrono Cross and some other RPGs to VII, so they always got additional playtime. Which is weird, because I loved it when I played it (though I was young). I am actually very close to where your last entry left off (slightly farther), so it's interesting to see everything I missed the first and even second time around. I actually enjoy your B&Bs a lot, especially because I don't want to grind (I'm not very good at RPGs, so even easy ones like FFVII are hard--or were hard--for me. I haven't died this time around though, so maybe its difficultly was due to age). The thread title amused me, because that quotation is simply spectacular. Also, way back when I first played through, I though that when your party left Midgar was truly an awe-inspiring moment. I really thought that the area was gigantic. But after this playthrough I do not find that to be the case. It felt too linear (not that other areas won't be). So, while at one time I agreed that the first six hours were once the best, my opinion may change, but it's too early to tell. And I don't think the graphics suffered either! (I'm playing it on my PS2 on a non-flat screen TV.) Alec Eiffel fucked around with this message at 18:28 on Jun 19, 2011 |
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Alec Eiffel posted:Also, way back when I first played through, I though that when your party left Midgar was truly an awe-inspiring moment. I really thought that the area was gigantic. But after this playthrough I do not find that to be the case. It felt too linear (not that other areas won't be). So, while at one time I agreed that the first six hours were once the best, my opinion may change, but it's too early to tell. I don't think it was the best, but I do think that the time you spend in Midgar is the best in Disk One.
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FF7 was my first RPG and I remember expecting the game to actually be you blowing up all 8 reactors and then fighting Shinra. I also remember reading the manual in the car on the way home and wondering if I should play as Barret or Sephiroth first.
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Alec Eiffel posted:Great thread! Thanks to the Final Fantasy general thread in Games, I actually just re-started FFVII. Despite being my first FF and first RPG, this will only be my second playthrough. I preferred VIII and Chrono Cross and some other RPGs to VII, so they always got additional playtime. Which is weird, because I loved it when I played it (though I was young). Azure_Horizon fucked around with this message at 00:20 on Jun 20, 2011 |
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The White Dragon posted:Well I mean since we're on the subject... Is that voice sample from Tecmo Super Bowl?
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Dr. Dos posted:The best FF7 remix is without a doubt the one that combines the final boss music with Soulja Boy. I always enjoyed that one. But I have to wonder under what circumstances do both songs play at relatively the same time, heard by the same ears, and someone realizes they line up so well. Azure_Horizon posted:While it may be linear, the rest of FFVII's world suffers from not being as awesome-looking as Midgar, or has nearly the same amount of atmosphere. Yeah, Midgar is this amazing super city that you only really explore a very tiny fraction of. Everywhere else is pretty much a small rural town, at best. Skaw fucked around with this message at 22:45 on Jun 19, 2011 |
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Elentor posted:Because doing his gimmick is the absolutely first thing this little pita does, I got myself the second set of limits from Cloud, Tifa and Aeris. Although it's possible to do that without gaining levels at all, Wait, what? How would one go about doing that? It's funny, I've beaten this game three times at least, and this thread keeps showing me how not good I am at it.
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WELCOME THRILLHO posted:Wait, what? How would one go about doing that? For x-2 limits: Find an enemy with a lot of health. Attack him with a limit, heal him, wait until limit bar fills, repeat 7 times, finish him off. For x-1 limits: Find a group with a lot of enemies that give you low experience, have only the character you want to level alive. I'm not sure if the Battle Arena counts. If it does, then it's possible to kill the enemies there for no experience. Otherwise you'll gain some levels. The thing is that I could have kept two characters dead to level up the limits and get only 1/3rd of the experience I got, but that would not allow me to put the game on auto-pilot and go read a book.
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PunkBoy posted:Is that voice sample from Tecmo Super Bowl? Yes, yes it is.
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Well now I wonder how many videogame songs can match that terrible track? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x08jBMIAd0
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Olibu posted:Well now I wonder how many videogame songs can match that terrible track? It really DOES go with everything. e: I think the best part about Crank Dat One-Winged Angel is if you're playing the PC version it would be very easy to replace the original song in the game with the mashup. Distant Chicken fucked around with this message at 15:41 on Jun 20, 2011 |
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All that dancing around saying the actual title, ruined!
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Watching that Versus XIII trailer made me remember that that is exactly what I thought The Spirits Within was going to be like. God drat that movie would have been much better. At least better than "eh" anyways.
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I think the saddest part about FF7 is that it's easy if you know what you're doing. I reinstalled the PC version months ago and beat the whole drat thing without a single game over. Even with the "weapon" bosses, they aren't worth the entire trek through easy and very common random encounters. I think FF8 had the right idea with Diablos' enc-none ability, with that ability you could check out an area's enemies, then equip it and avoid all random encounters in non-dungeons. Brilliant. Lastly, what the hell is the point of the KOTR summon, just makes easy battles EASIER. Enough said
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cyrus106 posted:WEAPON Ahem. Is it really that hard to not spoil things?
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Lance Streetman posted:Ahem. I don't know about you, but my enjoyment of a game would not be altered in the slightest if I found out there were bosses that were referred to as "weapons". I guess it's technically a spoiler, but would anyone really care to have that spoiled for themselves?
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Lance Streetman posted:Ahem. Shut up. Bosses that have the word 'Weapon' in them are not a spoiler. More things that are not spoilers: Cid is in this game! Yuffie joins you in this game! There's chocobo breeding in this game! There is an Aero 3 spell in this game! I would post examples of things that are considered spoilers, but the OP explicitly states that they do not want any spoilers.
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