Quote Originally Posted by fat_moogle View Post
Materia in FFVII was pretty self explanatory. Equip it, level it. Same went for weapons. Buy it, use it. Then FFVIII came out and everything seemed really overcomplicated. Quistis' tutorials were pretty daunting.

Also I ALWAYS had crap weapons because I never could find those damn magazines. Or if I did find them I wouldn't have the parts to make them.

If junctioning was more accessible and there were shops to buy weapons without having to find a bloody magazine then I may have enjoyed FFVIII more. It is the system that lets it down for me.
Fun thing about VII for me: it took about 6 playthroughs and ten years before I realised that when you have 'all' materia combined to a magic materia, you can choose to only affect a single target by pressing R1.