Just finished "Final Fantasy VII"

Omegainf · November 25th, 2003

7:02 am here and I'm starting this thread just to say how happy I am for beating FF7 PC =D A great game that made me play for 40 hours and still want more

Well, being the FF fanboy I am it's not anything new but.. damn... I loved this game!!!

They could have done a better ending tough (FF6's was perfect!) but it's ok... the game was good anyway

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Kaiser Sigma · November 25th, 2003

Actually the open ending was a great thing... it leaves you with lots of questions and doubts, definitely much better than those "happy" endings... it's just complex and a nice change over average endings... a pity that Advent Childrens could ruin all of that...

**hushypushy** · November 25th, 2003

i loved the ending. a lot of my friends hated it....but i loved it

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Shadow_Cast · November 25th, 2003

I lost my copy - think I'm gonna head on over to gamestop and net me a used copy (for ten percent cheaper

)I was already at the waterfall, too.

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**Cid Highwind** · November 25th, 2003

40 hours?? You must've rushed through it and never revisited a place..... A pity, if you have, because it has a lot of things to offer.

The ending was great, I totally agree on that with Kaiser.

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Exodus · November 25th, 2003

no, 40 hours can easily get you through the game with all the sidequests. the only thing that you might end up spending more time on is getting ready to fight emerald and ruby weapon.

i agree about the ending, one of the best ones.

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Boltzmann · November 25th, 2003

FF7's open ending is great - too bad there're few open endings in RPGs

(and as Kaiser Sigma likes to say, FF: AC will probably ruin this one)

And speaking of time, it took me 45 hours to finish FF7, and I did most of the sidequests (except getting a gold chocobo - it was too boring).

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**Cid Highwind** · November 25th, 2003

Well I reached the 100 hours, playing things real thoroughly, looking everywere, leveling every single materia up (I owned almost 2 KOTR), and getting me a 4xCUT for everyone

And still haven't beaten those weapons......

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Boltzmann · November 25th, 2003

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Originally Posted by Cid Highwind

Well I reached the 100 hours, playing things real thoroughly, looking everywere, leveling every single materia up (I owned almost 2 KOTR), and getting me a 4xCUT for everyone

And still haven't beaten those weapons......

I never had the patience to level up all those materia - it's too boring for me.
But I've defeated the weapons - it's more a matter of strategy, rather than strength.

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Exodus · November 25th, 2003

well, yeah, if you have enough patience, you could spend 100 hours on it. i did, getting all that materia up, but i'd never do that again.

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Kaiser Sigma · November 25th, 2003

What ? The first time I played the game it took me 105 hours to finish it (taking the time to talk to every single being on the world and doing some subquests)... the second time I was around 160-170 hours

Omegainf · November 26th, 2003

Open ending? Lots of questions??? It didn't leave me any question at all and I thought it was pretty straightforward...

Yes, I kinda rushed through this game, didn't kill any Weapon (except for the one who is attacking Midgar) and didn't even get the famous KotR materia... :P

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**Raziel** · November 26th, 2003

The first time I finished FF7, it was in 45 hours, I only missed the last summon materia, and a few of my materias were at max level

2nd time took me approx. the same time, but with pretty much everything obtained, then, took me hours to level up those materias, so, for people who plaid 100 hours, half of that is for leveling materias

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**hushypushy** · November 26th, 2003

first time i played it was about 56 hours i believe. kicks the ass of FF9, first time in 36 hours. (no guide either way).

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Omegainf · November 26th, 2003

Yeah, I've noticed that I'd spent 36 hours and was still on the 2nd disc while I had finished FFIX in about 39 hours.

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November 26th, 2003

I've probably been through FF7 more times than all of you combined, and I've never, and will never get tired of it, hehe. To get everything, it's never taken me more than 50 hours. My current FF7 game (I had to play through the PSX one because I was in Wyoming on a job June/October with no PC), and I'm gonna go through it again on my PC. MAN that's a great game! And the trick to leveling up your materia is knowing where to fight. Getting a few thousand AP per battle is easy. Not to mention multiplying that by 3 with some weapons equiped.

And... not sure if any of you know this, but the underwater weapon can be slowed, hehe. All you need for underwater weapon is Phoenix at maybe level 3 or 4, final attack materia, ultima (preferably maxed level) and quad magic. It *does* help to have KOTR, but it's not necessary, and it really makes weapon angry enough to use revenge stomp on ya, hehe.

psicomaniaco · November 26th, 2003

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cid Highwind

Well I reached the 100 hours, playing things real thoroughly, looking everywere, leveling every single materia up (I owned almost 2 KOTR), and getting me a 4xCUT for everyone

And still haven't beaten those weapons......

I once leveled my materias for 170 hours (thats right! 170 hours JUST for leveling up the materias!). I ended up with 8 KoTR!

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Exodus · November 26th, 2003

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Originally Posted by Omegainf

Yeah, I've noticed that I'd spent 36 hours and was still on the 2nd disc while I had finished FFIX in about 39 hours.

yeah, imagine how hard it'd be to finish it in 20 (25?) hours to get excalibur 2

with all these hours in the hundreds, we were all very easily amused, patient, and determined.

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Kaiser Sigma · November 26th, 2003

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Originally Posted by Raziel

(...) for people who plaid 100 hours, half of that is for leveling materias

Nah, I tell you, talk with everyone to get the different lines of dialogue (yeah... sometimes they change after some events) and you will most likely spend such big amounts of time on the game... now the question for those who finished below 50 hours is... frameskip at which level ? 150 ?

Exodus · November 26th, 2003

frameskip makes the time go faster too.

as for talking to people, thats why i hate towns in rpgs now. i can't go through a town without talking to everyone, and i end up getting very bored with it... i have to force myself to leave those damn villagers alone.

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November 25th, 2003	#1 (permalink)
Omegainf Penadinho Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Rio de Janeiro Posts: 2,595	Just finished "Final Fantasy VII" 7:02 am here and I'm starting this thread just to say how happy I am for beating FF7 PC =D A great game that made me play for 40 hours and still want more Well, being the FF fanboy I am it's not anything new but.. damn... I loved this game!!! They could have done a better ending tough (FF6's was perfect!) but it's ok... the game was good anyway __________________

November 25th, 2003	#2 (permalink)
Kaiser Sigma ~ Lord of Darkness ~ Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: A place darker than the night. Posts: 14,637	Re: Just finished "Final Fantasy VII" Actually the open ending was a great thing... it leaves you with lots of questions and doubts, definitely much better than those "happy" endings... it's just complex and a nice change over average endings... a pity that Advent Childrens could ruin all of that...

November 25th, 2003	#3 (permalink)
hushypushy the only one you've ever SEEN Join Date: May 2003 Location: San Francisco Posts: 21,978	Re: Just finished "Final Fantasy VII" i loved the ending. a lot of my friends hated it....but i loved it __________________ Dedicated to mediocrity and repetition since 1994.

November 25th, 2003	#4 (permalink)
Shadow_Cast Registered User Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: East LA Posts: 302	Re: Just finished "Final Fantasy VII" I lost my copy - think I'm gonna head on over to gamestop and net me a used copy (for ten percent cheaper )I was already at the waterfall, too. __________________ 2.8Ghz Pentium D - 1024MB DDR2 RAM - It's been a 7800GT for a while now -- just never updated the sig - 250 GB HDD (7200 RPM) I hate Myspace. I love facebook.

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Cid Highwind Human Metal Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Holland / Hungary Posts: 13,541	Re: Just finished "Final Fantasy VII" 40 hours?? You must've rushed through it and never revisited a place..... A pity, if you have, because it has a lot of things to offer. The ending was great, I totally agree on that with Kaiser. __________________ PC Specs: CPU: Intel Q8200 @ 2.8GHz GPU: Sapphire ATi HD4870 / 1024MB / Core: 801 / Mem: 1000 Mobo: Gigabyte EP35-DS3 (rev 2.1) SPU: Creative X-Fi Xtreme Music RAM: 2GB Kingston HyperX DDR2 1066 @ 4-4-4-12 ~ 800MHz HDD: 1TB Samsung Spinpoint, 32MB PSU: Hiper Type-R 580W Monitor: Iiyama B2403WS / 19201200 Geometry Wars: 198.400 Lumines: 999.999 Join the NGEmu Folding @ Home community NOW!*

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Exodus ...and now they do. Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Null Posts: 16,916	Re: Just finished "Final Fantasy VII" no, 40 hours can easily get you through the game with all the sidequests. the only thing that you might end up spending more time on is getting ready to fight emerald and ruby weapon. i agree about the ending, one of the best ones. __________________ No, I don't like anime, Street Fighter, Japanese music or download video game music. Yes, I know, I'm weird.

November 25th, 2003	#7 (permalink)
Boltzmann Registered User Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: São Paulo - Brazil Posts: 7,651	Re: Just finished "Final Fantasy VII" FF7's open ending is great - too bad there're few open endings in RPGs (and as Kaiser Sigma likes to say, FF: AC will probably ruin this one) And speaking of time, it took me 45 hours to finish FF7, and I did most of the sidequests (except getting a gold chocobo - it was too boring). __________________ 'You're spying and betraying Switzerland to try and keep alive somebody with a hook and spinal fluid and no skull in an irreversible coma? And I thought I was disturbed. You're making me totally reorient my idea of disturbed, mister.' - David Foster Wallace, "Infinite Jest"

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Cid Highwind Human Metal Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Holland / Hungary Posts: 13,541	Re: Just finished "Final Fantasy VII" Well I reached the 100 hours, playing things real thoroughly, looking everywere, leveling every single materia up (I owned almost 2 KOTR), and getting me a 4xCUT for everyone And still haven't beaten those weapons...... __________________ PC Specs: CPU: Intel Q8200 @ 2.8GHz GPU: Sapphire ATi HD4870 / 1024MB / Core: 801 / Mem: 1000 Mobo: Gigabyte EP35-DS3 (rev 2.1) SPU: Creative X-Fi Xtreme Music RAM: 2GB Kingston HyperX DDR2 1066 @ 4-4-4-12 ~ 800MHz HDD: 1TB Samsung Spinpoint, 32MB PSU: Hiper Type-R 580W Monitor: Iiyama B2403WS / 19201200 Geometry Wars: 198.400 Lumines: 999.999 Join the NGEmu Folding @ Home community NOW!*

November 25th, 2003	#10 (permalink)
Exodus ...and now they do. Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Null Posts: 16,916	Re: Just finished "Final Fantasy VII" well, yeah, if you have enough patience, you could spend 100 hours on it. i did, getting all that materia up, but i'd never do that again. __________________ No, I don't like anime, Street Fighter, Japanese music or download video game music. Yes, I know, I'm weird.

November 25th, 2003	#11 (permalink)
Kaiser Sigma ~ Lord of Darkness ~ Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: A place darker than the night. Posts: 14,637	Re: Just finished "Final Fantasy VII" What ? The first time I played the game it took me 105 hours to finish it (taking the time to talk to every single being on the world and doing some subquests)... the second time I was around 160-170 hours

November 26th, 2003	#12 (permalink)
Omegainf Penadinho Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Rio de Janeiro Posts: 2,595	Re: Just finished "Final Fantasy VII" Open ending? Lots of questions??? It didn't leave me any question at all and I thought it was pretty straightforward... Yes, I kinda rushed through this game, didn't kill any Weapon (except for the one who is attacking Midgar) and didn't even get the famous KotR materia... :P __________________

November 26th, 2003	#13 (permalink)
Raziel Beta Administrator Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Nantes, France Posts: 6,246	Re: Just finished "Final Fantasy VII" The first time I finished FF7, it was in 45 hours, I only missed the last summon materia, and a few of my materias were at max level 2nd time took me approx. the same time, but with pretty much everything obtained, then, took me hours to level up those materias, so, for people who plaid 100 hours, half of that is for leveling materias __________________ System Specs: OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Edition CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 @4GHz Video Card: MSI GeForce 8800 GTX Motherboard: ASUS Maximus Formula SE RAM: 4GB OCZ XMS2 PC6400

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hushypushy the only one you've ever SEEN Join Date: May 2003 Location: San Francisco Posts: 21,978	Re: Just finished "Final Fantasy VII" first time i played it was about 56 hours i believe. kicks the ass of FF9, first time in 36 hours. (no guide either way). __________________ Dedicated to mediocrity and repetition since 1994.

November 26th, 2003	#15 (permalink)
Omegainf Penadinho Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Rio de Janeiro Posts: 2,595	Re: Just finished "Final Fantasy VII" Yeah, I've noticed that I'd spent 36 hours and was still on the 2nd disc while I had finished FFIX in about 39 hours. __________________

November 26th, 2003	#16 (permalink)
Modem Guest Posts: n/a	Re: Just finished "Final Fantasy VII" I've probably been through FF7 more times than all of you combined, and I've never, and will never get tired of it, hehe. To get everything, it's never taken me more than 50 hours. My current FF7 game (I had to play through the PSX one because I was in Wyoming on a job June/October with no PC), and I'm gonna go through it again on my PC. MAN that's a great game! And the trick to leveling up your materia is knowing where to fight. Getting a few thousand AP per battle is easy. Not to mention multiplying that by 3 with some weapons equiped. And... not sure if any of you know this, but the underwater weapon can be slowed, hehe. All you need for underwater weapon is Phoenix at maybe level 3 or 4, final attack materia, ultima (preferably maxed level) and quad magic. It does help to have KOTR, but it's not necessary, and it really makes weapon angry enough to use revenge stomp on ya, hehe.

November 26th, 2003	#20 (permalink)
Exodus ...and now they do. Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Null Posts: 16,916	Re: Just finished "Final Fantasy VII" frameskip makes the time go faster too. as for talking to people, thats why i hate towns in rpgs now. i can't go through a town without talking to everyone, and i end up getting very bored with it... i have to force myself to leave those damn villagers alone. __________________ No, I don't like anime, Street Fighter, Japanese music or download video game music. Yes, I know, I'm weird.

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