Group FFVII Playthrough - Week One

[paperclipchains]

There’s been a few changes to the timeline, just FYI. First of all, I’m posting this earlier than anticipated due to unexpected scheduling conflicts. Secondly, I’m giving us an extra week to finish everything due to February being a short week! The full schedule will be at the bottom.

Discussion Post 1
Jan 2nd: Opening - Tifa’s Bar

Comments

[paperclipchains]

NP! Hope your stuff gets handled. ♥

[paperclipchains]

- Loveless is supposed to play on 6/25? The day before my birthday!

Which is weird because I had it stuck in my head that the game starts in December for some reason?

[wheatear]

On the discussion points

[asylumiss]

haha I was going to ask if people gave certain materia to certain characters because that's the same materia I give to Cloud and Tifa too.

[wheatear]

It makes sense in my head. It must for the characters too because otherwise why else would they send Cloud off to Mr Dolphin?

[paperclipchains]

I think I'm a bit set in my ways with how I play the game now. Like I always give Cloud the Bolt and Restore materia. Tifa gets Ice.

I do this too!

[asylumiss]

Discussion

- Booting up the game's like coming back to an old friend, it's been so long since I last played it.

- Names. Cloud - Kuraudo, Barret - Barreto, Tifa - Tiffa you can probably tell where I'm going with this... though I haven't decided on whether to name Cid Shid or Shed, depends on how stupid I'm feeling. I switch up the part members regularly... because I like looking at the weapons I get for them /lame

- The opening always takes me back to the first time I saw it and how amazed I was when I first took control of Cloud. PERSPECTIVE. He can move forwards AND backwards and he gets smaller when he runs further away MIND BLOWN. I also like the length of the FMV cutscenes, I'm not a fan of overly long cutscenes.

- The ATB, it's so slow and that's going to annoy me. I can't wait to stock up on a ton of hastes.

- A mannerism of Clouds I never noticed before, when he stands on the tips of his toes (though he's only done it twice so far so it might not last). He did it in paperclipchains screenshot then downstairs in Seventh Heaven and gets

[paperclipchains]

- Noticing more random capitalization and odd punctuation this time, oh game.

Shi't!

- The first reactor blew up just after 3:35 according to the clock in the slums.

Must be PM, too, since an NPC tells you that it was done during broad daylight, not while people were asleep.

What's everyones battle strategy? I have everyone attack one enemy at a time and I don't use magic that often except in boss fights.

I used to be super stingy about MP but I've stopped that now. I try to pair at least one attack spell with an all to speed things up, or target-all enemy skill materia. Usually I let Aeris play mage. She tends to have more than enough MP to carry me through.

Which materia do you give to the characters?
Beyond the initial distribution (Cloud - Lightning, Tifa - Ice, Barret - Restore), I have at least two party members with restore-all, though usually all three.

[personasystem]

- The ATB, it's so slow and that's going to annoy me.
Coming off of FF13, the battles are so slow it's killing me.

What's everyones battle strategy?
I use a lot more magic than I did the first few times I played through the game.

Which materia do you give to the characters?
Cloud gets Restore and Bolt-All. Tifa gets Fire, Ice, and Restore-All, Barret gets nothing for now because he's already long-range.

Not-quite-newbie

[auronlu]

This will be my third start, and I've only played it through once before. So while I've soaked up edges of the fandom, I don't know the game the way I know every nook and cranny and NPC of Spira down to the little boy who wants to grow up to be a blitzball

Re: Not-quite-newbie

[paperclipchains]

As one of about three living fans of Dirge of Cerberus

Oh, honey, no. They have support groups for that kind of thing.

Not really going for any particular date, although I always kinda want to get the Barrett one .I think I've already blown that by not giving flower to Marlene.

Probably, yes, but I can get you an affection guide and you can see if you can salvage it if you want?

I'm glad you're joining in!

Re: Not-quite-newbie

[auronlu]

RE: DoC -- my lizard brain loves shooters, but I'm physically incapable of playing most of them due to arthritis. A poorly-made shooter, one that's too easy for gamers with actual REFLEXES, and a 3D virtual world with lots of pretty, vaguely FF-themed landscapes is just my cup of tea, even if I have to mentally bleep out most of the plot.

Thanks for the offer, but no thank you! I think I know where to go for an affection guide. However, I am trying to fight my Completist tendency and just enjoy the game. Lately I've been forcing myself to play games by exploring and messing about, rather than using guides to get every little last thing.

This discussion means I don't have to, because someone will mention the good stuff. :)