[ SECRET POST #257 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #257 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 074 secrets from Secret Submission Post #037.
Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, 0 not!secrets, 0 not!fandom, [ 1 2 ] repeats.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Thursday, September 20th, 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[powercorrupts.livejournal.com]

12. Points for trying! I really don't care whether or not someone has played the game all the way through, because although the Compilation ensured that a huge number of fans hadn't, the FFVII fandom had a high percentage of that to start off with.

It's more a matter of the people who honestly believe that they can formulate theories, or carry on indepth discussions about the game. Or even more annoying to me - the people who write during or pre-game fic. Nothing ruins a fantastic fic for me like someone totally borking up the order in which events happened, or describing them wrong. People like the secret poster yesterday, and others, who say they have no interest in playing the game, but want to write fic and are convinced that they're not making mistakes - those are the people who I find annoying in the fandom.

I'm one of those crazy FFVII "PLAY THE GAME OMG" people, and I wish it wasn't such a divisive issue, but so many people honestly think that wikipedia and their best friend's summary of a 40+ hour game is sufficient for being an expert and an awesome FFVII fan.

As for the game, like someone else suggested, watching a friend can help. Have you tried gamefaqs.com? When in doubt, I suggest grinding - I think the only boss in FFVII with a level that's adjusted by yours is the last one, so if you're having trouble beating things, just beat on some little monsters and get exp. I never found FFVII that hard, because it's a cakewalk compared to FFIV and FFVI, but compared to games like Kingdom Hearts or FFXII, it's a lot more difficult. If it were the newest FF game, I'd say to hell with it, go to youtube and watch the cutscenes, but FFVII's FMVs actually covered very little of the plot, and it's so old that it's probably hard to find all the other scenes anywhere.

[annwyd.livejournal.com]

Kind of OT but I don't think FFXII was that easy; I think it was actually a bit of a throwback to the days of harder games. (I know that some people, used to the games getting progressively easier, were shocked that you had to actually grind in FFXII.) FFX would be a better example.

...but then, I'm someone who started with FFX and then went back and played everything (except for FFT or FFTA) from FFIV on up, using emulators when necessary, so I may have a bit of a skewed perception.

[powercorrupts.livejournal.com]

Maybe I was just way better at FFXII's battle system, then, than with the other ones. I didn't think FFX was extremely easier than the playstation FF games, though the SNES FF games regularly hand my ass back to me. FFXII was the first one I had absolutely no difficulty with at any part.

[kinneas.livejournal.com]

Fuck, I can beat the shit out of Zeromus and DoomGaze with my eyes closed, but I've yet to beat FFXII because of the ass-kicking parts of it give me. As long as I grind, I'm fine, but if I just race through like I always do in FF games (I made it to Kefka's Tower at level 30 the first time, no joke), then it hands my lily ass to me.

[powercorrupts.livejournal.com]

Zeromus tears me into little shreds. xD I hate that guy. I race through the games too, I really only do the plot and then run from random encounters. I'm usually around lvl 35 or so when I make it to any given final boss, and then I have to grind my way up to being able to beat them.

I only did the story parts of FFXII, not the hunts or other stuff, but I beat the final boss on my first try for the first time with any FF game(if you don't count FFX's, since you can't lose). Maybe I'm some sort of freak. xD I thought the game was so easy compared to all the others.

[kinneas.livejournal.com]

because of the ass-kicking parts of it give me

durp I am tired and made no sense.

Yeah, so far I've done nothing but (lackluster) storyline, just beat up Balthier's dad and I think my main party's around 40. I don't know, maybe I've had so much difficulty because I didn't figure out Quickenings until about five days ago.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

When I saw that post yesterday, I was like "oh shit, mine's going to be coming up soon and people are going to totally hate me." It's people like that that give us noobs a bad name. But actually I've gotten a lot of good advice from people, which is great! <3

I definitely don't write fic, but I would never consider it until I'd finished the game... I still wouldn't feel comfortable until I'd sat down and taken notes. There are just too many things to get wrong.

And thanks for the suggestions; I'll look into gamefaqs. The random battles were always a major turn-off for me, but I'll try and get a new attitude with that. The only reason FFVII is so difficult for me is because I have a real problem grasping the turn-based battle system. It's like nothing I've ever encountered before. I do a lot of playing in Guild Wars, and I'm used to just... running up to something and stabbing it a lot.

Re: OP

[dia-aren-marie.livejournal.com]

I do a lot of playing in Guild Wars, and I'm used to just... running up to something and stabbing it a lot.

That sentence made me smile more than it should have XDDD