Now here's a question for you, kids.

[Inuyasha23]

Who carews you play the game you beat the game you have fun, end of f**king list

[Aya Nekoneko]

I jumped into FFVII's materia system as blind as a bat. Granted that it was actually the first RPG that I played so the entire concept was new to me.

And when I chose for Barret to give me that stupid materia tutorial... Goddamn I never picked that option again. If I had known I'd learn nothing from his little speech I wouldn't have chose for him to "teach me" in the first place. Honestly, it must have lasted about 15 minutes. The materia (and turn based attack) system wasn't that hard to grasp at all (as confusing as it seemed at first due to Barret's misnomer "tutorial") so I mastered it in no time. ^_^

[Zild]

Iundertsood the basics of the materia system from the start, but I wasn't too sure about some of the finer points - so when I saw the official strategy guide had materia hints in there, I had to snap it up...

I will NEVER buy a strategy guide again! In fact, I lent that one to somebody who never returned it, but I'm not exactly unhappy about it! That strategy guide, in my opinion, spolied the best game I have ever played (okay, as I play more of 10 it might get the new title...)

To be fair, however, my brother got me a guide for 8 and I decided to read it only after I'd done each section - it was nice to find out that (SPOILER)you CAN defeat the robot near the beginning. I was sure you could somehow, but never would have guessed how to do it!

I tend to understand the systems easily enough.

However, plot? I swear I will kill the next person who gives me a major spoiler! (BTW - BigD, there's a major spoiler in one of the first messages in the "Sephoroth VS Auron" thread - it's not blanked out properly so I accidently read it - Yay, another plot-twist spoilt... Any chance you could properly spoil it, for everybody else's sake? Actually, thinking about it I had quessed that what the spoiler said was true, but that still wasn't confirmation!)

I am happy to run into every game without knowing anything about it. In fact, I prefer it.

[§håd0w]

i just play it. and when i get stuck (very unlikely) i goto a forum/faq and get help

Zild: i went back and edited my post. i didnt know how to do spoilers then, but i finally went and looked up how to do them