How fast did you beat FFVII?

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First start with only Barret and cloud in your party.
Have barett almost ready for a limit break
Make sure that Cloud has W-Item (Pronounced "Double-Item")
Use Hero Drink (英雄の薬) twice on barret.
The hero drink will push barret's limit over and then select "Anger Max"
Barret: POW! POWPOWPOWPOWPOWPOWPOW!
The emerald weapon will attack back at barret.
Barret has Mime and a maxed Counter linked togeather in two different slots on his weapon. (mime-couter) (mime-counter)
Skip cloud's turn.
On Barret's turn, select "mime" and then select barret.
Anger Max will roll over and over and over again.
Wait 1:18 for emerald to die.
 
I think thats the greatest thing ive ever seen.  It often
amazes me to see videos of japanese people playing
video games. Cause they kick the crap outa them.
 
I think thats the greatest thing ive ever seen.  It often
amazes me to see videos of japanese people playing
video games. Cause they kick the crap outa them.
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Koreans are worse. Especially with Tekken, Star Craft and a few other titles. All about English anyway... if only we weren't so damn lazy ^^
Like blaytant, I don't see any Japanese heads doing this: http://sircanealotshome.homestead.com/files/10000030.jpg (note: it's a level from Tomb Raider 2, completed in an insanely fast time by a friend of mine, years ago...)

The last time I played FFVII, I tried to zoom through it; I made a few mistakes (like forgetting to set battle speed to max till half way through the game), but I was at about 18 hours at the end of disk 2. So I would have gussed about 22-24 hours.
I guess if I didn't make so many mistakes, I could have done it in under 20.
I've been REALLY tempted recently to dust FFVII off and try again... well, we'll see... ^^

I REALLY don't think 12 hours is possible unless you either, yes, suffer from a bug or go to insane lengths to complete the game fast.

Infact, I wonder what's better for speed play, PC or PSX? I mean, you can skip the movies and stuff on the PSX, but does the timer run while loading? You're going to save seconds here and there since the PC NEVER has to access the slow-ass CD medium while playing...
 
I would guess that if you were to do it in 12 hours, you would increase the message speed and avoid a lot of battles, but then you would not be able to beat Sephiroth because you would be so weak.
 
Hmm, ok, allowing for cheating for a moment, I wonder how fast it would be possible to do the game, if you maxed out every character... There's a lot of dialog and so on to go through, and random battles are of course immensly annoying when you are trying to do something quickly, but even then... I don't think it would be possible in any less than 8-10 hours. And that would be cheating your ass off.

I might try that - it'd be interesting to see how quickly it can be done with super powerful characters, because if it still can't be beaten in less than, say, 10 hours, I'd seriously be of the opinion that 12 hours is simply impossible with normal characters and no time to level up etc..
 
yoshi314: A quick check at FFGuides revealed this. I'm not gonna test it, but it sounds solid. It explains exactly how the Jenova ~ SYNTHESIS fight influences the number of parties, too.
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yeah i read this. but is that true? [checking such things out really makes ff7 kinda boring, maybe someone bothered after all]

sfx199:
I would guess that if you were to do it in 12 hours, you would increase the message speed and avoid a lot of battles, but then you would not be able to beat Sephiroth because you would be so weak.
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it would be cool at least to be able to skip movies. since they take a lot of time actually.

and if ff7 had ff8's GF system geez....:D it's possible to beat ff8 even with _avoiding_ leveling up, since you get so much stat boost from magic junctions. and most enemies' levels are scaled to yours.

maybe if someone would invest a lot of effort into stats increasing materia...but that would take a looong time. and getting those stat items is really tough as well.
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heh this movie rocks, but still the trick with mimicking KOTR all the time sounds way more awesome :D
 
Ok, I've decided to test this :) Kinda bored, so it gives me something to do between modelling stuff.

I've given all characters their ultimate weapons (and the next one down for certain characters like Tifa, since Premium Heart is pants unless you keep her on full limit).

Each character has 1 Master Magic, 3 Counterattack, 1 Double Cut (giving 4xCut) 2 HP+ and 2MP+ materias, all mastered. Additionally, each of them has a wizard bracelet and Ribbon.

Limit Breaks are all at either level 3 apart from Tifa who is on level 4.

At the current time, I am just running across the railway bridge towards Corel, before heading to Gold Saucer for the first time. That's taken a little over 3 hours already, running away from almost every random battle and not stopping for any items or being sidetracked by anything.

So, bearing in mind I can easily take out any monster or boss within 10 seconds of the battle starting... and having 9 hours remaining to complete the rest of disk 1, all of disk 2 and disk 3 (north crater), before finally getting to sephiroth... who else thinks this isn't going to happen in under 12 hours? And this is allowing for cheats of course, playing properly would be even less likely.

Well, back to the game :)
 
Mime + Limits + knights of the round (I if memory serves) freaking rawked hard.  I usually had Cid + Barret + Cloud...and someone always had final strike with pheonix, in case I really messed stuff up.

Fastest time: 4 years ago... about 30 hours.  

Best game:  50-60 hrs.

First time through: 75 hrs.

Good stuff.
 
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Lemme think... hmmm... my it sure was a long time ago! I did play it thoroughly though... my guess would be about 40 hours... maybe 50? ^^

xeriouxi.
 
I never tried for a spedd record, so I usually get the 100 hours, A lot of that however is me leaving the game on and walking away to do other things and comeback 10 hours later :oops:

Ultima Weapon is not insanely hard
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I hate bringing up old things but Ulimate weapon was a joke, I had already gotten knights of the round, 1 hit KO's.
 
I think under 20 hours is possible problem been is the normal bosses in the game are too weak, so there is no need to do any real levelling up to get through the game.  The only bosses that pose any challenge is the secret bosses and perhaps sephiroth at the end.
 
That thing was easy. Cloud unleashed his ownage when I played him (meteorain).
 
Lieron, Lieron... your spelling has degraded. Seriously. And your avatar is too big, now that I look at it.  :P
 
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i love my avatar... and i always spelled that way.. i think\
 
Well you can still love it if you shrink its height and compress it better... Seriously, the file size is over 70% of an uncompressed version.
 
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