Back in the day

[smilejb]

Just wondering, back in the day when FFVII was new, did anyone besides me just give up on learning about materia and got pretty far?

Because I remember my first time playing through, I knew crap for materia. Let me put it this way, I never put any materia on anyone until some time after I left mdgar >_>. So I'm wondering, am I the only stupid person to do that? >_> (I mean literally, cloud had only his 2 magics, aeris had her restore. I was wondering why those 2 are the only ones that could do magic).

Though, those were the only times that I actually used the grenade item.

[d£v!l'$ ph0£n!x]

DON'T DIS THE GRENADES!!!

on my first playthru i did use materia from the start, but not the any advanced level. and i missed a vast majority of the best ones (contain, w-item, mime, quadra magic, KotR, the vast majority of the contents of north cave). in fact the only support materia i used was all

[thegirth]

i didnt really either, EX. i often had "all" equiped by itself on a single slot, so your not the only stupid one here if i may say

[Levian]

You're not the only one. Reading English was hard enough in itself back then. I started using it in the shinra headquarters since I kept dying there, but it took a while for me to use it very well. I didn't use the blue ones for a while after that, though.

[ReloadPsi]

Man, the first time I ever had Barret cast Ice was immensely novel.

[vorpal blade]

I don't think I had a problem with it. Sure I got better as time went on and started simple, but I alway understood it.

[cloud21zidane16]

i found an old memroy card the other day and it had some really really old ff files on them , i loaded the ff7 ones and WOW:mog: were they terrible, low levels, materia equipped all wrong like an all on its own
shocking really

[thegirth]

ahh the good old daiyes

[Psychotic]

I barely used materia the first time I played it. When Aeris automatically joins your party before Temple of the Ancients, I didn't even think to give her any before going in, and I ended up getting absolutely raped by Demon's Gate, no matter what I did. Had to restart.

[thegirth]

yeah, i hate it when like that happens, in FF8 i trapped my self on lunatic pandora tottaly low leveled

[ReloadPsi]

yeah, i hate it when :skull::skull::skull::skull: like that happens, in FF8 i trapped my self on lunatic pandora tottaly low leveled

Rendering Adel completely impossible to defeat. Damn, that was one tough boss!

[Timster]

You know, my materia skills my first time through were...pretty much non-existent, but I actually survived, probably because I put as many materia I could on each character having no idea what it meant besides the fact that it did something good.

THE JUNCTION SYSTEM ON THE OTHER HAND! now thats something I didn't even use! My first playthrough, I missed Quezacotl and Shiva, didn't know you could draw GF's so I missed Siren, and I basically had no idea what the system was for. I thought the game was comepletely ridiculous, then I got good...

[thegirth]

yeah, set me back 3 or 4 discs (i forgot when you fought adel)

[smilejb]

Nice, lol. I remember sitting there wondering "what does all do?"
"I don't know, put it by itself so that it doesn't mess any of the other materia up"
"meh, sure why not."

It may be stupid, but even though it wasn't on anything, we still got an all mastered the first time through :-D. Which was great for selling, and then buying hp plus, lol

[thegirth]

from what i hear all of us had all on its own, i kept messin with it, eventually i got it on cure in like late disc 2 i was like "hey come check this out, there is a red arrow next to regen, and i can use it on everybody"