Sephiroth
is classier than a First Class SOLDIER

That conversation takes place three quarters of the way through the Huge Materia quest. It should've been said at the outset - as I said in the deleted thread, it should've been a conversation between Barret and Cid on the Highwind. "I don't need to bring in lore that was already introduced on CD1 just because some people want to hear it again on CD2. " I disagree. The events on Disc 1 took place many hours ago and a lot has happened since then. It is a basic principle of storytelling to set the stakes and to constantly reinforce those, especially in a video game medium where you are providing players with a task to do. As I also stated in the deleted thread, a debate of this nature to explore those concepts would've also been much more interesting and given the chance for them to grow.

As such I don't believe in the argument of "Need". In that case, do we "Need" Barret to say "Besides, I want to show Cloud the huge materia, he'll be shocked!"? We do not. Especially when he could just as easily say "This huge materia is vital to the planet's survival" in the same number of text boxes. You don't "Need" to reinforce any concepts if you are a storyteller, but it's better written - especially in a dialogue heavy game - if you do.

Also, they don't borrow the Huge Materia's powers to save the planet. They sit there, inert, in Bugenhagen's observatory.

Gotcha.

Was it? I'm terrible with dates. I just saw you wishing more people would visit your thread, then your next one talking about FF7. I assumed the two were related, but didn't see a new FFVII thread, so I was wondering if one was hiding somewhere.

Happened to catch sight of your posts on Fynn's profile.

What thread is making you threaten the destruction of Earth?

Looks great, thanks!

Oh they'll come

Be patient

I hadn't realised about that too. I am sorry you lost your pictures too.

Same

Sorry you feel that way, I do feel it is a shame we lost the FFVII Talk thread too as it was a good discussion.