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Let's Play Final Fantasy 7 - Part 3 - It is NOT the only way goddammit
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Ah Super Dunk. I don't know how difficult it is to animate a basketball but apparently the person that worked on this mini-game thought the ball weighed 15 lbs, was made out of bricks and covered in quick binding adhesive. Also, they decided to call a free-throw shooting mini-game... Super Dunk. Which is just awesome. Awesome to the max.
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Can't say I'm very good at any of them, but at least my terrible playing will be captured for posterity.
If there's any more stuff you guys want videos of, let me know.
Do... Re... Mi... So... Fa.... Do... Re.... Do...
Forget it...
In all honesty, 73 hours of Super Dunk would make my day tasty. But don't kill yourself doing that. Make sure you take breaks for water and voiding.
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This needs a remake so bad.
Yeah, just add your own thoughts on certain events, as well as parts you didn't get or wonder more about. That way we have more opportunities to respond. For example:
It always looked to me that she was giggling here. I believe she admitted later on that she wasn't being serious at first with the whole "Cloud will come protect me" promise.
More screenshots would be ideal, as many as you can fit in.
It could have waited until Disc 2's "in your face" FMV. O_o
I believe it was even confirmed somewhere that the boobs were the result of SE's first 3D efforts unable to nail down the human body. Even with the AC redesign, Tifa is still paying for it via fanart, doujins, and very very creepy internet postings. Not sure if the remake look from above will fully rectify things, but at least they won't be as much a distraction while you play it.
But then again it's never been just Tifa. Right now Rydia is the the focus of legions of fanart, and most of it isn't exactly worksafe. That's more disturbing in my opinion since she started out as a loli.
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One of the internet laws is that, if it has a vagina, it's been drawn naked.
It's also probably been drawn with a penis.
The real internet law is if it has any semblance of curves, it will be drawn naked (additional parts sold separately).
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Rule 34.
Ha,ha, that was actually my thoughts too. And I kinda wanted to ask if you were a girl, but I thought it might of been rude. (Especially if you turned out not to be ^^;.)
"Rule 23: Never pull sentry duty on an empty stomach"
"Cut the chatter 6-2"
Dangit, when is some one going to lp THAT game? Maybe I WILL.
Just one request:
As a local expert in the FF7 engine. You can covert the save game from the PC version to a PSX version and back again using this utility here So then when another wants to play, you can take the save from any platform and play it on the platform of choice.
Also when playing with the graphic mods, I'm not sure how stable the PC game is with those. They are largely experimental and to even say they are beta is a big stretch.
Have fun!
Whoops. Good job with the LP though. I'll be watching the 2.0 version when it comes up.
edit: Also, it sounds like you have a dog.
double edit: just read your post. whoops again.
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I would love to have the scroll Snuggleworth posted on my wall.
DAMMIT SQUEENIX PLEASE TAKE MY MONEY
I constantly wait every day for when/if these scrolls will be available for purchase, as I would make room for all four corners of my room to display every single one.
But as much as I prefer her AC design over everything else, I do agree with everyone how wonderful the oldschool Tifa image is, especially if it ends up being an official look into the remake. They kept the more realistic curves of her AC look, and managed to make her old outfit look natural.
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When we last left our heroes they had just blown up the No. 1 Mako reactor and Cloud had a little reunion with his old friend Tifa. At that point it's sleepy time, so we'll pick up as Cloud wakes up.
Speaking of Barret, the first time I played FF7 I thought Barret and Tifa were married and Marlene was their kid. Later I learned that was not the case. It alleviated a lot of confusion.
So now we'll have Tifa in our party. Yay! I've always liked Tifa as a character. She's also pretty useful in battle. She starts off at level 5 though, so I'll have to do a bit of level grinding before we hit the boss.
Also, I originally thought FF7 was going to end up as this mission-based game where you run around and do missions with AVALANCHE around Midgar for the whole game. Boy was I wrong! Though as I understand it, Crisis Core has the whole mission thing going on, right?
Man, thinking back on the first time I played 7... I was so confused about everything.
Explaining it brings up the materia tutorial, but since I've played this game a hojillion times, I'm pretty comfortable with materia already. Now the Materia option is in the menu, and we can equip our new materia.
I always like the materia system. It was easy to understand and it fit well with the backstory of the world. I guess the only drawback was that it essentially made all your characters the same aside from their inherent stats and their limit breaks. If they could have figured out some way to make each character more unique in battle, it would have been perfect. As it is, 7's system is third behind Chrono Trigger's and FF10's for my favourite battle system.
The ability to swap materia is good if you're forced in to using an underleveled character. Just slap some high-leveled materia on them and they're not as useless.
This makes it seem like the weapons shop man lives above the bar. This is not the case. It is in a seperate building. Way to translate and make sense, guy(s) that did the translating.
Wait wait whaaaat... Marlene's like 8 years old. Tifa, as much as I like you as a character, what the fuck are you thinking leaving an 8 year old to watch a bar by herself in the middle of the slums? And Barret, you're her goddamned father! What the fuck man!?
Marlene's probably having crazy drunken blood orgies while you're gone! Bet 5 bucks she ends up with cirrhosis before she's 12.
In any case, we'll go to the weapons shop to buy everyone an iron bangle and sell the bronze ones. We can't sell Barret's gatling gun, which is the case with everyone's original weapons if I remember correctly. Upstairs is the beginner's hall, where all the tutorials are. If you go around and talk to the people in there, the tutorials are set up as Cloud explaining everything to them, which I thought was a nice touch. It makes Cloud seem a lot more battle-hardened and experienced instead of the typical Noob RPG Character. I also find that it sets him apart from the player a bit. In a lot of games, the developers try to go for 'this character is a representation of YOU in the game!!', but to me, Cloud stands out as more of his own person.
We don't need to listen to any of these tutorials, but we can pick up an All materia and an ether. All materia is super useful, and we'll be slotting that alongside the Restore materia that we picked up in the first part.
Also, we'll stop by the other shop and pick up an extra phoenix down, a couple potions and a Fire materia. I never like having fewer phoenix downs than there are members in the party.
So now that our equips are all sorted, we can get on the train. The rest of AVALANCHE runs ahead of us.
Barret's a baaaad dude, ain't he? I always thought he was a bit uh.. conspicuous... given he was riding on a Shinra-owned train filled with Shinra guards to a Shinra-owned Mako reactor to go blow it up. You'd think he'd figure out that laying low = identity kept secret. But, no, he's gotta go around and start trouble.
Okay, seriously, Barret is the worst leader of a secret terrorist group. He just threatened an employee of the corporation he's fighting against, giving them a clear view of his face, AND now that employee knows Barret's name. Basically a retarded cat could find Barret now. gj. Also his 8 year old daughter is alone watching a bar in the midde of the slums WHAT IS UP WITH THAT
I remember being all nervous about this when I first played the game. I had still not adjusted to the concept of cutscenes, and thought that I had to do something to make Cloud jump off that the right time or else zomg game over man!
So the train is being locked down car by car and we have 15 seconds to move up to the next car. There's a douchebag in the third car that steals gil from you when you walk by him. I've never been able to avoid him, so I don't know if it's possible. Also, I just noticed now while playing this part, but when you first get in to car 3 and you don't have control yet, there's some old man fondling Jessie. He runs to the front of the car, and then she runs up and punches him out before she moves to the next car. Creepy.
There are a bunch of naked, unconscious people in the next car... what
Oh, we find out that they were KOed by Biggs, Wedge and Jessie who then stole their clothes. It's like a Hitman game!
Here we get to see a little more of Tifa's character. Cloud kinda acts like a jerk with the way he questions why she'd come along. I think, if the circumstances were different (and Barret didn't cut them off), she woulda given Cloud a piece of her mind on that one. She comes across as a character who really tries hard and doesn't like having her abilities doubted.
So anyway, our crew ends up in the tunnel.
If you go the opposite way, through about 5 identical screens, you'll reach a Shinra guard post where they'll exclaim "You're the AVALANCHE!" and attack you. I didn't get an opportunity to go through the battle because the game crashed. *shakes fist*
I remember running around, trying to find an alternate route the first time I played this because I thought Barret's objection meant I shouldn't go down there. Then I learned that Barret's a big wuss and complains a lot.
And people call Cloud a pussy...
So, not much to say about the reactor interior. We pick up an ether in what looks like an air duct, and there are a lot of ladders. We'll see Wedge, Jessie and Biggs (in that order) scattered throughout the area. Jessie explains that she screwed up the ID cards, and we'll take this opportunity to grab a potion, a tent, level up a bit, and save.
I don't get how they all get in there so fast, because they're stuck on the train going away from Cloud, Barret and Tifa, and it pretty much takes 5 minutes to get under the plate to the reactor area, and then all of a sudden they appear. There is no teleport materia, dammit.
I had to split the video up into 2 parts due to compression and uploading issues. I didn't plan it that way while filming.
VIDEO - PART A - I HATE ANIME FANGIRLS
VIDEO - PART B - CLOUD IS A TERRIBLE DONKEY KONG
I say in the second video that there's going to be more in the post after it, but I have decided to leave that for the next update because it's late and I want to get this posted now and I haven't played through and gotten screenshots of that part yet.
tl;dr
The crew sets off to blow up the No. 5 Mako reactor. They plant the bomb, but things go awry! They are attacked by a Shinra techno-soldier named Airbuster. They soundly defeat Airbuster, but the explosion of the robot sends Cloud tumbling from the upper plate and.. WHAM! Through the roof of a church. He meets the Flower Girl from part 1, and it turns out her name is Aeris and she is being pursued by the Turks, one of Shinra's special groups. They call her 'the Ancient' for some reason, even though she looks about 20. Cloud helps her evade capture, and the duo set off for her house....
Do... Re... Mi... So... Fa.... Do... Re.... Do...
Forget it...
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Not to mention that Tifa old design had tits that were bigger then her head.
Do... Re... Mi... So... Fa.... Do... Re.... Do...
Forget it...
I havent mess with the PC version of FF7 for a long long time, but there was a mod that allows you to play the PSX music instead of the horrible midi version, which I believe you already have. It took me awhile to get it to work correctly, but I think you have to change some of your sound settings to something obscure and weird. My only problem with it is that it doesnt repeat once the song has ended.
There's so many thing wrong with the PC version of VII that I gave up on it and sadly (like most 3D PS games) the graphics aged so badly that I find it hard to go back to play FFVII again. It's a real shame because the PS is when Squaresoft truly shine with Brave Fencer Musashi, Parasite Eve, Xenogears (though amazingly, at about disc 2, Squaresoft took a turn to the worst and start churning out games that I hate), Threads of Fate, and so on.
Seeing the updated graphics and game play on Crisis Core makes me want to buy a PSP, but FFVII is dead. There's nothing more to tell and it's becoming obvious that SquareEnix is just milking a dead horse.
Okay, the "real woman" crack wasn't neccesary at all. Don't be an asshole.
I wasn't saying OMG BOOBZ, I was saying I prefer the old design to the new one. I prefer the slightly anime look to the realistic look. The AC design just looks very dull, IMO.
As far as the BEWBZ go, what's wrong with the actual ingame model on the FF7 design anyway? Like, the one you see in battles? She's got a big rack, but it's not nearly as bad as people make it out to me. Hell, Lulu in FFX and the DOA girls are a hell of a lot worse. Aside from the ridiculous mammaries in the CG cutscenes, Tifa's not so bad.
She looked more upbeat in the pre AC design, i think she looks a little too sullen and reserved in the AC style
I named the main character Zack, after myself.
Cue total confusion for the second half of the story.
Ha.
Oh man. That's totally awesome.
I had a friend who named Red XIII Nanaki.
Totally useless.
(same criticism goes to almost every girl who's way into Ace Attorney)
Why? Because you build up your LBs by using them. The second one of each level is earned by using the first one a certain number of times, and the first one in each level is earned by the number of enemies you kill (counting only when you deliver the final hit) with that particular character. Thing is, you really want to build up to the later Breaks as quickly as possible... especially for a certain someone whose shore leave into your party gets cancelled early, if you catch my drift.
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Forget it...
Honestly it isnt even worth it unless you really, really, really, enjoy achieving 130% of your games.