Lookie what I\'m playing

[GmanJoe]

It doesn\'t show you where you should go next but pressing Start (or is it Select?) will toggle on the large map.

[Cerberus]

Originally posted by Metal Gear
How does the map work in this game?

Because I see a blue dot(tiny bronco),a red dot(buggy) but I never see where I need to go.

[GmanJoe]

He\'s got only four fingers!

[Paul2]

Originally posted by Metal Gear
One question:I just entered Gold Saucer for the second time(I have to get the Keystone).

Do I really need to buy a special pass wich will allow me free entrance for 30.000 Gil?
I mean a normal pass is 3000 Gil.
So let\'s say that I have to enter GS 3 times in the main storyline and that I go back there 3 times just for the mini-games.Then I\'m better of NOT buying the special pass.

So unless I need to enter GS 10 times in the main storyline(wich would be lame) I don\'t see the advantage of a lifelong pass.

Cheers!

if later in the game if you have plenty of money left, i can\'t see why not spend 30,000 gils for a lifetime pass.  I think you may enter for more than 10 times later in the game.

[Cerberus]

Originally posted by GmanJoe
He\'s got only four fingers!

3 fingers.

Technically speaking, a thumb isn\'t a finger.

And anyway, you don\'t need more than 3 fingers to give someone a 3 fingered bitch-slap

[Bobs_Hardware]

You should have done the Wutai quest on the first disc, then you would have gotten a really powerful weapon for Cid (Dragoon Lance). Can\'t believe I remember that.

I remember my first time through the game when that bitch stole all my materia. I was about to go out to the Temple of Ancients and I was just like "wtf".. Awesome quest though.

Alright, I\'mma play through the game again when I finish KOTOR.

Hmm.. who did I use in my party my first time through the game? Cloud obviously, Cid was my other favourite. Might have been Tifa, because I always wanted to get into her pants, not Aeris\'.

Oh, and that story about Barret having all your healing magic (why Barret?), you know you can actually transfer Materia from people not in your party to those that are? I didn\'t figure that out until my second time through the game.

OH, another thing I didn\'t figure out until my second time through, the single most useful items in the game: Tents. I didn\'t use a single one my first time through the game, just to add to the difficulty.

[GmanJoe]

I never knew what Tents was for til I tried it the 2nd time around.

I did the Wutai on the first disc. Wow. That was a challenge for a fledgeling Yuffie. I even finished the Golden Saucer monster thing with Cloud. That enemy skill "????" saved my ass more than I can count.

With the Gold Chocobo, I\'m gonna do the Ancient Forest trip. As far as I recall, there were hopping frogs in that forest.

just got to shinra headquarters
cloud\'s a monster at lvl 18 already

First time through the game i didnt know any of the secrets didnt get vincint and had no idea what or how to use half of the materia in the game. A lot harder than now.

Right now I\'m up to the northern crater but i\'m just going around finishing up everything, gonna go kill the weapons get all the secrets and such.

Also I took one shot at sephiroth when I first got there, and has anyone else been hit by super nova? It\'s pretty cheap IMO. Also it takes about five minutes. Any hints for that?

Bob\'s Hardware:

I know you can transfer materia but sometimes in the game you\'re forced to take a certain character.

In my case Red VIII,I hadn\'t used him so I slapped some summon-materia on him.Later I discovered that I forgot to put Restore on someone in my party of three.


On tents:In the begining I didn\'t use them much because you HAVE to use them at savepoints.When you get to the worldmap however,you can save everywhere so I just use my tents while I\'m on the world-map and then save.


I just defeated Demon\'s Gate in the Temple Of Ancients.I put a Ribbon on Aeris during the fight.

We al know Aeris leaves your party after this to search for Sephiroth alone.

I\'ve read that you loose the equipment she had on!

So now I lost my Ribbon!

I\'m gonna load up another file and hope that it\'s near the fight with Demon\'s Gate otherwise I\'ll go on with this file.

[Paul2]

Originally posted by Metal Gear
We al know Aeris leaves your party after this to search for Sephiroth alone.

I\'ve read that you loose the equipment she had on!

So now I lost my Ribbon!

I didn\'t know or realize that.  But even if she left with the ribbon, that should be okay until that event, and after that event.  the ribbon return right?  or it\'s forever gone for you?

btw, i just got out of mythril mine and i am in junon area.  I learned another enemy skill while in the mine: Flame Thrower.  I know you can learn choco buckle around the ranch area but I don\'t really remember how to get it but i do remember its kinda tricky.

[GmanJoe]

The items returned in my inventory, as far as I know.

[GmanJoe]

Originally posted by Paul2
I know you can learn choco buckle around the ranch area but I don\'t really remember how to get it but i do remember its kinda tricky.

I got chocobuckle....and it\'s not worth the gil to buy the mimmet greens with. The damage incurred by Chocobuckle = the number of escapes you make from a battle.

So, if you\'ve escaped 3 times, the damage of chocobuckle is three hit points.

Not even a mosquito bite level.

[Bobs_Hardware]

Oh fuck you guys. All these memories coming back. Clouds Mythril Sword which you get soon after leaving Midgar is the best looking sword in the game! I just remembered that..

Demon\'s Gate.. that was the hardest boss battle for me. If your level is as low as mine usually is he\'s near impossible. It was even worse my second time through the game, because I had Vincent in my party, and his limit break turned him into a monster which attacked with nothing but fire attacks... which would just heal the Demon.

Fuck, I just remembered how the first time you fight Jenova (Birth) and the batle has Aeris\' theme playing during the whole fight...

[GmanJoe]

There\'s a glitch in the game...or maybe some lazy programming where if you enter the Church where Cloud first meets Aeris, there\'s a half second image of her in the aisle. This happens also while Aeris is still in your party in the first disk. People thought it was intentional. As it was intended to be a breif apperition or ghost of Aeris.

So, when I started playing this game again a couple weeks ago, the part where Cloud was sneaking out of Aeris\'s house, I had Cloud go to the Church. Sure enough...the image of her was there. Then I went to the area where Aeris finds Cloud and they team up. Took her and cloud back to the Church....Aeris in the aisle.

MYTH BUSTED!