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Orange_Lazarus posted:This is awhile back: You need to pair a fire materia with an Elemental materia in a linked set of slots on your armor. I think you can get an Elemental materia from the Shinra tower, but it's easy to miss if I recall.
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Yeah, I missed it. Ugh. V - Thanks, sorry for bumping the topic. Edit: Went back to an older save and got the materia. Sephiroth_IRA fucked around with this message at 01:45 on Dec 24, 2013 |
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Dec 24, 2013 00:00
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 Specifically, you have to guess this guy's password on the first attempt.
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 I don't care how awful and retconny a remake would be, I'd buy it in an instant if it let you do this.
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Tifa was never supportive of Cloud's life decisions. Can she just be happy for Cloud just once?
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Kithrixx posted:I enjoy Barret's He is just the cutest.
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Jan 3, 2014 04:33
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The man has a machine gun for an arm and is riding around in the back of a pickup. He knows poo poo is about to go down and he cannot wait
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Kithrixx posted:I enjoy Barret's He always was a little focused on Cloud's "Spikey-Haired rear end"...
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FinalGamer posted:I would LOVE an RPG with this kind of character type, like clearly incompetent protagonists that have no business getting involved but want to be big dumb heroes and get way in over their heads. Then they start puking on each other and stripping naked and doing backflips in the woods and stealing an old barber's washing up/surgery pan and when you pick it up it goes into your inventory as "MAMBRINO'S HELMET!" with a three page item description that the main character makes up on the spot Yes, I completely agree. Related to that joke, I would like more delusional, impulsive, egocentric, assumption-making protagonists in RPGs, like, written, not just played that way. Also, what would be cool, would be setting or item text "written" by that sort of protagonist, which could act as an obstacle or puzzle in itself. For example, you as the player would have access to "objective" information only through exploration, external note-taking, and close attention, and this would be separate from your character's information, which would be what the game would present to you as the truth and actively encourage you to believe. Multiple endings are a given. you could pay reviewers to call it the "Pale Fire" of indie gaming lmao Under the vegetable fucked around with this message at 06:28 on Jan 4, 2014 |
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Chapter 86 - Red Submarine  On to our next mission: Stealing a submarine!   Another Key Item. How exciting!  The Scimitar is a pretty good weapon.   It's one of the few Triple Growth weapons in the game.  Right, so we have to kill a bunch of dudes.   These guys have the right idea.  Unfortunately these grunts offer no difficulty whatsoever at this point. Plus we just killed Carry Armor.  This is definitely a good point to save. I don't want to fight Carry Armor again and if you lose the next battle, well...  It's amusing how the enemies start to panic more frequently, I presume because our reputation is reaching them. Either that or the screams of the other 20 we defeated right outside.  Oh.  Umm...  Yes. These are the bozos we taught the special pose, way back in Junon, CD 1.  Cloud has a soft heart. We even get the option not to fight them   If you fight them, the battle will play this instead of the standard theme, for the sake of comedy. They don't do the Special Pose if they win, though, I checked.  We're taking them as prisoners, though.  For gently caress's sake, Cloud.  Good grief.     Sigh.  SIIIIGH.  How the hell were you guys intending on pilot it in the first place.   They do seem to have a lot more submarines than every other vehicle in the world.  So yeah, we're off to pilot the submarine. Which means we're soon to engage in a whole new minigame!  Screw the manual though, this can't be so h  aRDOHMYGOD.  I hate this minigame. With fury. I smashed some buttons and now I changed the view. And look at all these HUDs.  It's not hard to control once you "get it", but it's likely that if you didn't read the manual, by the time you learn how to move the red submarine will be far gone from your LOD. And you can't see very far ahead.  Conversely, if you know what you're doing and smash the Fire Torpedo button as soon as the mini-game start, you'll insta-pop the red submarine and the whole thing will last less than one second.  You can't see crap but I swear this is me firing torpedoes at the red submarine.  Hooray! Someone had to code this minigame!  Nice. Now we have a submarine of our own!  On to our third Huge Materia.  Huh.  Picture Han Solo, if you will.  "We will transport the Huge Materia from the airport... those without other assignments will report for guard duty..."   Ta-Dah!  So this is the reason for these horse-shoes all over the game.  Screw Junon we're rollin'.  Dey see me rollin'  Dey hatin'... wait, what is this crater here  OHGOD Next time: BACK TO THE SURFACE WHERE IS JUNON OH LORD Bugs & Bytes Dognapping or: What happens if you suck at mini-games  So let's say you absolutely can't find the red submarine, got blown to death by the other enemies, stepped on one too many "mines" (pictured) or the timer runs out.  Well besides the disappointment of having to see this screen, you find out that you don't actually get a Game-Over.   You get the same script as before.  But things go a little different, since you have to evacuate the submarine.  I imagine Vincent saying this in the most monotone voice possible, stating the obvious.  I can't see how this could go wrong.  The screen blacks out, we sadly don't get to see what would otherwise be an amazing animation.   We can't continue the game without a submarine. Well right now we can, since they are sending us to Rocket Town, but eventually we'll need one so we gotta go down again.  A lot of players (and magazines, heh) got confused about this entrance back in the day because you can't ever go there if you win the minigame. Which is what happens in most cases.  Oh, pleassse.  fastforwardbattle   I'm willing to bet a lot of players never get to see this screen. Look, the dog's still trying to block us.  Cloud and his bunch of sociopaths are stopped by nothing. NOTHING!  NOTHING!!  Yea, it's official. People are scared to death of us.   Be grateful for your new overlord. Seriously, this is hilarious.  Wait, bad translators, bad!  So, yeah.  You get a submarine that is red instead of gray to forever show the world you failed at a mini-game. This punishment would be more efficient if the red submarine didn't look so much cooler. 
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Jan 5, 2014 06:58
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Well, I'm happy that we spared the guys who we helped out early. I was wanting to spare some grunts for ages, and I finally got the chance to do that. They should have the opinion to take enemy prisoner more often.
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Elentor posted:
Wasn't this an episode of The Simpsons, at one point?
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I had no idea you could dognap a dog! I wish he'd follow you around while you played... I would fail that minigame so hard if that were the case. Edit: SelenicMartian posted:Take Prisoner should be a Limit Break And then you could breed prisoners, and race them for fabulous prizes at the gold saucer! Schwartzcough fucked around with this message at 07:41 on Jan 5, 2014 |
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Jan 5, 2014 07:34
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grandalt posted:They should have the opinion to take enemy prisoner more often.  And there should be a separate prisoner screen, for which you need to housenap Hell Houses for the rest of the POWs to live in.
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Jan 5, 2014 07:39
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Yeah, red sub is a million times better.
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Jan 5, 2014 07:42
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Schwartzcough posted:I had no idea you could dognap a dog! I wish he'd follow you around while you played... I would fail that minigame so hard if that were the case. Okaaay, that got creepy really fast.
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If/when I ever play FF7 again, I'm definitely getting myself a red sub.
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Some Numbers posted:If/when I ever play FF7 again, I'm definitely getting myself a red sub.
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That sub mini game was one of the few I actually enjoyed. The motorcycle minigame just becomes a pain on the thumbs later on and you can only do the Moogle one once.
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Paracelsus posted:I think that means you permanently miss one of the giant materia, and thus can't complete a certain sidequest. And? RED. SUB.
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At this point FF7 has turned into a saturday morning cartoon, only Cloud and co. are the ones who start off every episode scheming.
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I think I actually liked the sub minigame. Hrrm. Was anyone else confused when you found out the scimitar was a spear?
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Paracelsus posted:I think that means you permanently miss one of the giant materia, and thus can't complete a certain sidequest.
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Sub minigame is great. Pew pew pew.
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Ok somehow I remember the entire sub grabbing sequence except the mini game. Even down to taking those grunts prisoner.
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I had completely forgotten about Cloud's "breakdown" in the sub, but seeing it again DOES make me remember how it makes no god drat sense. I know he's not the most mentally stable person, but a) he's gotten better at this point, b) he just effortlessly fought through an entire battalion to get here, and c) he's never shown signs of claustrophobia before. I mean, seriously, the entire scene makes no sense.
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Frocobo posted:I had completely forgotten about Cloud's "breakdown" in the sub, but seeing it again DOES make me remember how it makes no god drat sense. I know he's not the most mentally stable person, but a) he's gotten better at this point, b) he just effortlessly fought through an entire battalion to get here, and c) he's never shown signs of claustrophobia before. I mean, seriously, the entire scene makes no sense. This is just my guess, but maybe he was faking it or something? It came out of left field for me too, so that's the only explanation I can think of. 
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What does it say in the original script? Maybe it was simply mistranslated.
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Frocobo posted:I had completely forgotten about Cloud's "breakdown" in the sub, but seeing it again DOES make me remember how it makes no god drat sense. I know he's not the most mentally stable person, but a) he's gotten better at this point, b) he just effortlessly fought through an entire battalion to get here, and c) he's never shown signs of claustrophobia before. I mean, seriously, the entire scene makes no sense. Well he certainly wasn't happy shut in the back of the closed-in Shinra truck...
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He snaps out of it real quick so it's no big deal in any case. I had no idea you could get another sub, and I've beaten this game three times.
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Well, I know which minigame I'm never going to attempt to beat again should I replay this in future. I did think it was one of the better ones back when I played it originally though.
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Nihilarian posted:Optional stuff spoiler Can't you get the master materia by beating one of the Weapons? Yes. As a result, the "sidequest" is kind of a waste, IMO.
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I always used to purposely fail the minigame to get a red sub because I thought red was cooler. The dognapping part is news to me though. What the hell?
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I must admit that I had no idea that you could get a red sub. Or that you could engage in dognapping. Now I feel kinda bad that I've totally missed out on one of the funniest parts of the game all these years.
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Wow, yeah never seen that dognapping thing. I always figured there were a couple things in this game I didn't know about but not entire scenes like that. Pretty amusing.Frocobo posted:I had completely forgotten about Cloud's "breakdown" in the sub, but seeing it again DOES make me remember how it makes no god drat sense. I know he's not the most mentally stable person, but a) he's gotten better at this point, b) he just effortlessly fought through an entire battalion to get here, and c) he's never shown signs of claustrophobia before. I mean, seriously, the entire scene makes no sense. It's made extra hilarious if you have Yuffie in your party, cause she freaks out too. I had her and Cid, and poor Cid had to essentially stand there and deal with two hyperventilating idiots.
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Adus posted:Wow, yeah never seen that dognapping thing. I always figured there were a couple things in this game I didn't know about but not entire scenes like that. Pretty amusing. So maybe in that case it was meant to be motion sickness they were suffering from and not claustrophobia?
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Paracelsus posted:I think that means you permanently miss one of the giant materia, and thus can't complete a certain sidequest. Can't you dig up the Huge Materia you missed at Fossil Village after Plot happens? Never did it myself, but a guide one of my friends had said so, it also mentioned the umbrella that no other thing did back in the dsay, so it should be given a little bit of credit.
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Elentor, you didn't note that failing the submarine game also means the Huge Materia is lost forever, which is very bad for endgame purposes.
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