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All you have to do is find the book that doesn't belong in that section to get a letter. For example, if you find a book about Ancients in the section about Engineering/Construction you would use the letter corresponding with the number from that book for 1/4 of the password.
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loving Cloud and his psychosomatic reactions to headless women. Get over it.
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Jun 22, 2011 12:15
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Bocc Kob posted:That's gotta be some moth.
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Jun 22, 2011 12:23
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Yes, yes, yes! Shinra tower owns. The swinging bar isn't so hard, by the way. There's an audio cue that tells you when to jump. 
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Jun 22, 2011 12:40
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Every time i see Shinra tower, this plays in my head now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pJFpG9oJ1A It's pretty hard to find good Trance remixes (most are predictable average droning poo poo), but this is powerful stuff. Very dark, very cold, practically exuding the evil money grubbing planet-killing company agenda. This is pretty much boss music and, as such, well-suited to this level.
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Jun 22, 2011 13:00
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Back when I first played this I didn't have a memory card and this being my first big RPG I didn't really think I'd need one. This was about as far as I got (And I played the game often, always trying to get a little bit further.) I only got a memory card months later and could finally continue. The stuff we'll be seeing in the next few updates blew my mind back then. Oh and you've been slacking a bit with soundtrack links in your updates Elentor. This song starts playing when you're climbing the wire to Shinra HQ, good stuff. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLPBeyU2V4U&feature=related
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John Luebke posted:Back when I first played this I didn't have a memory card and this being my first big RPG I didn't really think I'd need one. Between you and the guy who read the book during the car ride home wondering if he should play as Barret or Sephiroth first, I'm trying to remember what game related ignorance I had back in those days. I mean, my whole childhood is a lie since I grew up thinking that the level select code in Sonic 1 started with pressing A, B, C and then pressing Up, Down, Left, Right. That is just a misunderstanding though. My friend got this game before I did, and whenever I played I think I only got about as far escaping the church with Aeris before I would have to stop so we could do something else. I began thinking that all of disc 1 must be Midgar since I was sure I saw my friend running around a world map, but he was on disc 2 at that point. I didn't learn the truth until I finally owned the game myself. I had no idea that you could get such great stuff from stealing in this game. I'm getting really tempted to pop my discs into my computer and transfer it onto my PSP now. Elentor posted:Anyway let's move to the next floor. I'm sure you meant to say, "Let's mosey."
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Jun 22, 2011 13:59
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It probably doesn't really come through these days, but infiltrating Shinra HQ really was really cool and atmospheric when I did it as a kid. The entire building seemed so ominous. Something is wrong, and you don't really know what. Those experiencing the game for the first time still don't. Much, much better than any other "dungeon" area the game throws at you later on. Maybe it's memory and imagining overriding what's actually given to the player, but I still think it's an awesome sequence to this day.
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Jun 22, 2011 14:08
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A little late to the party, but I just want to echo the "I love taking the stairs" sentiment. Something about Barret and Tifa bitching all the way up makes me laugh every time. Especially "Stop acting like a retard and climb!" That and one of Barret's lines coming up in the next update are a couple of my favorite lines in the whole game.
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Jun 22, 2011 14:10
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If you didn't steal enough Carbon Bangles for the party members you are going to get before you can buy them in a store, you didn't steal correctly 
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Jun 22, 2011 14:45
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Wow. Would you believe I've never seen the stairs? I never went that way because I had heard of the fights in the end and the lack of Items. More fool me, I guess. Thanks for showing that off. And you have to love how cartoonishly evil everyone on the Board seems to be. Also, loving that remix, HenryEx! Very nicely done.
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Jun 22, 2011 15:05
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I never figured out the bookcase puzzle either, I just randomly guessed and got it right on dumb luck. I absolutely love the first couple of hours in this game, it really hooked me in and wowed me when I was young.
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Jun 22, 2011 15:55
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Timber_Wolf posted:I never figured out the bookcase puzzle either, I just randomly guessed and got it right on dumb luck. I was like that on my very first playthrough. I simply guessed "Mako" and got it right on my first try. 
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Jun 22, 2011 16:01
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What I don't get is that they are here to stop Shinra. They are in an airduck just above all key members of Shinra and Barret has a gun for a hand. Why isn't 1+1=2?
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Jun 22, 2011 16:30
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Because this is a universe where bracelets can stop bullets. Just because they look defenseless doesn't mean they are, and there's a ton of them in there. Plus, the whole "Save Aeris first, before we make a commotion" thing.
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Grimlook posted:What I don't get is that they are here to stop Shinra. They are in an airduck just above all key members of Shinra and Barret has a gun for a hand. Why isn't 1+1=2? President Shinra is easily final boss material. He could have had 150,000 Hp and an array of horrible, bullshit attacks. And he probably would have turned into a giant monster or a robot or something.
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Jun 22, 2011 17:06
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Grimlook posted:What I don't get is that they are here to stop Shinra. They are in an airduck just above all key members of Shinra and Barret has a gun for a hand. Why isn't 1+1=2? The answer to "why don't they just shoot President Shinra??" is forthcoming soon.
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Dauntasa posted:President Shinra is easily final boss material. He could have had 150,000 Hp and an array of horrible, bullshit attacks. And he probably would have turned into a giant monster or a robot or something. The world of a JRPG, where nothing is what it seems and some guy who you accidentally shoulder-check on the street can and will mash you into pulp.
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Jun 22, 2011 17:27
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Doody the Clown posted:All you have to do is find the book that doesn't belong in that section to get a letter. For example, if you find a book about Ancients in the section about Engineering/Construction you would use the letter corresponding with the number from that book for 1/4 of the password. I knew I was forgetting something. Shame on me. I told you guys I didn't remember everything. 
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Jun 22, 2011 19:50
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Elentor posted:
Haha, when I was a kid playing FFVII for the first time, my reaction was pretty much this.
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Grimlook posted:What I don't get is that they are here to stop Shinra. They are in an airduck just above all key members of Shinra and Barret has a gun for a hand. Why isn't 1+1=2? I think it's pretty much canon that in the world of FF7 you can't kill someone by just shooting at them. Like the life force protects them or something. Everyone would just go "drat that's some scratches" and start running while performing kung fu moves against you.
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Jun 22, 2011 20:28
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Elentor posted:I think it's pretty much canon that in the world of FF7 you can't kill someone by just shooting at them. Like the life force protects them or something. Everyone would just go "drat that's some scratches" and start running while performing kung fu moves against you. This sounds a lot like Bleach. Honestly the FF7 cast would fit into that anime pretty well.
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Jun 22, 2011 20:48
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Elentor posted:I think it's pretty much canon that in the world of FF7 you can't kill someone by just shooting at them. Like the life force protects them or something. Everyone would just go "drat that's some scratches" and start running while performing kung fu moves against you. I can think of two people who die from getting shot. Oddly enough, they both have 4-letter-names.
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Jun 22, 2011 20:57
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Dauntasa posted:Oddly enough, they both have 4-letter-names.  Why is that important?
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zenintrude posted:
It's not. I just realized that the only two characters from this game I can remember dying from bullets have 4 letter names. It's an odd coincidence, is all.
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zenintrude posted:
Because "guns" and "shot" also have four letters! Also;  Elentor, this is your fault. This is all your fault. Maybe this time I'll actually finish it!
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Jun 22, 2011 21:18
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Dragonatrix posted:Because "guns" and "shot" also have four letters! Oh God don't tell me you farmed for 99 Ghost Hands.
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Jun 22, 2011 21:37
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Good God, you're actually going for 100%? I certainly hope you enjoy farming 99 of every entirely useless item out there.
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Before seeing that screenshot of Jenova, I had never been able to grasp what was actually being shown. Every time I played it, it looked more like a huge head to me (sort of like a blue version of Red) and Barret's line never made sense.
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Jun 22, 2011 21:47
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Are... are you going to make a giant set of chainmail with all those bangles? 
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Jun 22, 2011 21:48
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Dragonatrix posted:Because "guns" and "shot" also have four letters! Wouldn't it just be easier to steal 1 of each of those items and use that glitch later on in the game to increase your supply? 
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Nope! You can't get Iron Bangles anywhere else, and that glitch only works for items you can use in battle, like the aforementioned Ghost Hands. No such luck for weapons/armour; gotta steal or buy 99 of them.
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Dragonatrix posted:Nope! You can't get Iron Bangles anywhere else, and that glitch only works for items you can use in battle, like the aforementioned Ghost Hands. No such luck for weapons/armour; gotta steal or buy 99 of them. You... you are truly insane. So this is what madness looks like. I salute you.
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Dragonatrix posted:Nope! You can't get Iron Bangles anywhere else, and that glitch only works for items you can use in battle, like the aforementioned Ghost Hands. No such luck for weapons/armour; gotta steal or buy 99 of them. I meant the items like Ghost Hands. Real pros max out an all materia, then sell it for 1.5 million gil, spending the money made on 99 of everything from then on, as well as fast cars, loose women, and prime real estate  Then get someone else to farm that crap for you. Although for stuff like hard to come by weapons and armors, I would get enough for the maximum number of party members (it occurs to me now that you're going for the straight-up "perfect game").
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drat, and I thought my attempt to follow Ulillia's 70-hour method of achieving level 99 in FFXII was crazy.
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Doctor Roosevelt posted:I meant the items like Ghost Hands. Real pros max out an all materia, then sell it for 1.5 million gil, spending the money made on 99 of everything from then on, as well as fast cars, loose women, and prime real estate It never even occurred to me to get 99 of every item, and I've played through this game tons of times. I always sell the crap I don't need. I don't like it making GBS threads up my inventory. So, I guess I'm more in your camp about what I consider "perfect game." I mean, I still do all the sidequests and get multiple sets of master materia. I still break the game into a thousand pieces. That, to me, is much more important (and a lot less tedious, good God!) than getting 99 of every item.
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Dragonatrix posted:Nope! You can't get Iron Bangles anywhere else, and that glitch only works for items you can use in battle, like the aforementioned Ghost Hands. No such luck for weapons/armour; gotta steal or buy 99 of them. So, there's an armour that you're only supposed to be able to get 2 of, but you can actually get 3 if you do a certain glitch. Does only having two count as 100%, since that's the most the designers intended you to get?
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Dauntasa posted:So, there's an armour that you're only supposed to be able to get 2 of, but you can actually get 3 if you do a certain glitch. Does only having two count as 100%, since that's the most the designers intended you to get? I doubt the designers intended for you to get 99 iron bangles, so I imagine that third armor counts. Then again, this entire idea is just loving warped, so who knows?
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I remember being struck by how Hojo's ponytail looks like a necktie being worn backwards.
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Well, following the set rules of the game, 2 would be 100% of them. Just like in the Metroidvania games, if you can get more items than is supposed to be possible or uncover more map squares than is supposed to be possible, you go above 100%. It is important to not confuse how the developer intends you to play and what the game tries to allow. I'm sure the developer didn't intend for me to run Star Ocean 2 with only Claude and Rena, but I'm doing it anyway.
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