Be Excellent To Each Other

Then you sit for two hours tapping the button while it recaps the whole thing so far.

Still, at least you can tap the button rather than being forced to sit and listen, right?

When I did a speed run tapping through the dialogue made my thumbs really hurt.

Despite having completed the game more than once I remain unclear what the deal with Cloud, Sephiroth and Jenova's lineage actually is. Jenova is an ancient but not really, Cloud and Sephiroth were made from Jenova, sort of, somehow. Cloud wasn't really in Solider, he was a grunt. Something something.

I need to read more wiki pages.

Also: A translation that wasn't rushed out the door

I am back from reading some Wiki pages. The subtlety of the story definitely isn't conveyed in the game, from what I remember.

That's been fixed quite recently.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015- ... -fantasy-7

Look at the "journo's" losing their shit.



(I'd have been exactly the same, to be fair)

iOS FF7 is a-comin' - and you can turn off the random battles.

Woohoo!!!!

I'm having that, yay!

I'm going to finally play this on the Vita so I can have an opinion.

Neither my phone or iPad mini are new enough to support it according to The Verge. 5s and above or iPad mini 2 and above.

Sad face.

I feel ridiculous putting plot twists and shit into spoiler tags for a game this old, but...

Nah, its bollocks.

£12 is a bit too steep for me, considering it is £8 on PSN, and that version doesn't have silly virtual buttons.

Bit lazy of them not to make a touch native interface, considering it would work quite well if they tried.

Oh man!

It's free with FPSe

I have *random battle* this!

You'd be doing it all wrong if you did, obv.

I have still never played FF7

You wouldn't like it.

Would have been nice if they'd added in the ability to save anyway. I'm taking loooong breaks today.

75% of the video is FMV and the rest are limit breaks and summons. Not quite representative of the game I'd say.

I completed FF7 again recently. Like always as soon as I win I can't be arsed to go back to beat the weapons.

I'm also near the end of FF8 and my enthusiasm has dropped off again.

We all heard you the first time. No-one cares, is all.

Huh. that was supposed to be an edit.

You didn't even edit anything!

Yeah, I did.

where

way

So you did.

FF7 has the best quartermastery system. Granting your characters additional discrete abilities is way more important to having options in battle than having greater stats (kinda by definition).

It's been so long that I'm scared playing it again now would ruin my perfect memories of it.

FF7 relied a lot more on buying stuff. Buying weapons, buying armour especially, to give you slots to junction materia to be able to cast summons and have cool abilities.

FF8 is much different. You can mod your weapon but the benefits are minimal and guides tell you to not bother for anything other than Squall's sword. No armour of any kind. You junction magic to stats for different bonuses. Ablilities are contained in GFs (summons) who also contain abilities and effects you can apply to characters.

I couldn't really say which was better, except that in FF8 you can game the method extremely early on to make your characters laughably overpowered and one-shot nearly every generic enemy from almost the start of the game. The best you could do in FF7 was to steal a weapon from an enemy a bit earlier than you could buy it, which was handy but in no way game-breaking.

The FF8 Junction system was rubbish until you realised you could go to Hell Island and grind for stupidly powerful spells and just leave 100 of them junctioned to every slot. Then, as you say, you were practically invincible.

I loved the Waltz For the Moon dance sequence in that: I had a demo disc of FFVIII that had that FMV but all in sepia, which wasn't in the main game.

I liked the junction system. You can only go to hell/heaven after you have the Ragnarok, and by then you're stupidly overpowered anyway.

Basically in FF8 if you could stand the card game you could sit in Balamb Garden and mine cards for items, convert them, and get a dickload of free magic.

In my current FF8 playthrough I have two cards left to collect. I've done every card quest in the game and the last two cards are optional GFs that I have to go and beat.

I liked the card game.

Now available as a mobile download!

https://www.google.az/url?sa=t&rct=j&q= ... GFoHZg0YJA

Playing it in the game was fine, but fuck that as a stand-alone. The FF8 guide I used this time around to make sure I got everything included a strategy to ensure disadvantageous rules were abolished from different regions by manipulating the random seed generator. Random, closed-hands, same, plus, and plus-wall were the worst rules. You're winning the game but the CPU has pre-calculated all of the possible Plus permutations and more often than not drops the last card to get a Plus flip which combos into flipping the rest of the board and them winning.

Bollocks. Went to Wutai too early and now I'm stuck with no Materia and needing to kill a boss that can instakill any character whenever it likes.

What's the work:ff7 ratio like now?

About 50:50. I am definitely not a good investment by my employer.

Are you in the dojo? Can't you just exit and choose to lose progress through the levels?

The whole point is that you have no materia whilst in Wutai because Yuffie is a bitch, so there must be something you can do to help beat him. To Mr Google!

Try: Man up.

Nope, before the dojo. Yuffie's been kidnapped by Don Corneo, and no way to get my materia back without killing the next boss. It's potentially achievable. Google suggest's Barrett's Mindblow limit break helps a lot. Still going to require luck and many attempts though, I feel.

And obviously I have no pre-Wutai save, because duh

My Man Up materia got taken too

Which character do you equip that to?

Wait is that Aeris' Level 4 Limit Break?

SHIT YOUR PANTS, FFFANS!

I reckon it'll be released Jan 31, 2017.

Oh, and the PS4 port of the original version is out today.