I bought Final Fantasy 7 on steam for 50% a while ago but I never got around to playing it and wanna get started now

I bought Final Fantasy 7 on steam for 50% a while ago but I never got around to playing it and wanna get started now.

Does anyone have any tips/tricks? I HATE missables but if I use a guide then I won't be able to "discover" the game on my own

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It's a braindead game that requires no strategy

Use the cheats and you'll miss nothing from the experience IMO

God there's probably a bunch of little shit cause there are places you only visit once and then are locked out of.

The two main points for missing things I imagine would probably be leaving Midgar and finishing the northern crater.

There are tons of shit you can miss. Just play through it blind once and then go through it with a guide later

if you do the sidequests, you become OP

if you care about steam cheevos make sure to grind aeris to get her 4th limit

There's nothing really "missable" that's worth noting except one characters final limit break, but even then it's a pain in the ass to get and have that character learn it unless you're really really dedicated.

There are these two extra bosses before the final boss but thats just optional

Don't use a guide, the missables are pretty irrelevant from what i can remember.
I played through it blind for the first time a couple months ago.
You might get bored within the first 10 hours and don't feel like playing it once you take a break, atleast i did.
But it's worth pushing through because the game gets much more fun later on when you can fuck around with lots of overpowered materia.

Biggest tip I can give is to always go for the weapon with the highest growth rate. No matter how shitty the stats are or how few materia slots there are; the growth rate is all that matters. Leveling up materia fast nets you a huge advantage in the long run. In terms of missables, there's only one of note that comes to mind: near the end of the second disc, try to keep Barrett in your party; otherwise, the chest containing his best weapon doesn't spawn, and it's a pretty good weapon once you learn what the gimmick is to power it up.

Emulate it instead. The PC port looks awful in the way it mis-matches high res low-poly models with super low res 240p backgrounds. It makes characters look a lot more super-imposed and it crushes the art direction and hurts the immersion a lot.

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There aren't really any game-ruining missables until Disc 2. If you're just worried about beating the game though, then there's nothing you really need to worry about. If you're a completionist, you either guide it up or do a second playthrough.

You can miss barret's ultima weapon when you drop in to midgar if he isn't in your party.
The only other thing I think you can miss is the Turtle Paradise poster on the lobby floor of the Shinra building

Thank God someone other than me noticed that, although that particular flaw helped me find the elusive Magic Counter materia in the Northern Cave; it's a white sphere against a white bit of background, but thanks to the up-res, it suddenly gains a shadow and is visible. No walkthrough or wiki mentions its specific location, and it gets confused with other materia that have similar names. No joking; 20 years later, and I found a new item that no one else seems to be able to find. Getting Magic Counter is a nightmare for completionists like me who want every materia; I thought I was gonna have to grind out the chocobo races.

Don't bother. FFVII is one of those games that you had to play when it was still a relatively recent game, because it's aged so poorly from a technical standpoint that if you didn't sit through it back when it was the standard then there's no way you'll be able to adequately enjoy it now.

Just play the fucking game. Worry about perfectionism if you like, but you won't be achieving it unless you have your nose glued to a guide. Just have a good time for your first playthrough.

>Does anyone have any tips/tricks?
yes. go get the the reunion mod right now. there's also some decent graphics and music stuff well on the community hub.

Yes there is stuff you can miss, but playing a game using a guide makes the game lose its charm.

>hey don't bother about anything you can miss, they're irrelevant

>missables include two entire characters along with their own side story content

When I was a little kid, I would read the strategy guide while my dad played the game; then I tried it later and still enjoyed it even though i knew all the tricks. Knowing a game and playing it just aren't the same thing, or at least they aren't as long as you know how to enjoy gaming to the fullest. I'm not saying guides enhance the experience, but I wouldn't necessarily say they diminish it either.

No fucking mods, you retard.

If he's smart enough to grind for Limit Breaks at some point in the game, and if he's smart enough to notice the side door in Shinra Mansion, he should be fine.

Extremely dated.

Do yourself a favor and get the fan translation instead

>FFVII is one of those games that you had to play when it was still a relatively recent game
Bullshit. I literally just started my first ever playthrough couple weeks ago, now on disc 2, and it has blown all my expectations out of the water, tenfolds.
AMAZING atmosphere and visuals for its time, the story's actually pretty grim and cool, and the gameplay's fun and varied.

This is coming from someone whose first FF was 10.

Which character's limit break are you referring to?

>I'm not saying guides enhance the experience, but I wouldn't necessarily say they diminish it either.
You are not only full of shit, but also dead wrong.
I played 7 for the first time at the age of ~15, with a guide, just because I did not want to "miss" anything or replay such longass game. I did not get it, and practically ended up hating it.
Skip forward a full decade, I somehow got an itch to go check out some older vidya again, and ended up replaying FF7 all the sudden. Fortunately I'd forgotten a lot of it, so I decided to go in all blind this time around. I can tell ya: the difference is goddamn NIGHT AND DAY. I'm actually immersed in the story and the world, have to think and follow what's going on, and the scenes and my actions actually hold some meaning to me now.

The fuck are you talking about? Magic counter isn't a secret lol

Should I install a translation fix mod instead? I heard there's a shit ton of errors that make some dialogue awkward and confusing. I don't know if any items/locations/names change in the translation mods, if they changed then it'd be harder to look for them in guides.

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I have heard that the new PC port has some fixes, but don't quote me on that.
The game's totally playable with the OG translation. You'll just notice bizarre grammar mistakes from time to time ("This guy are sick!"), but nothing game breaking.

what the fuck happened to sneaky?

>Does anyone have any tips/tricks? I HATE missables but if I use a guide then I won't be able to "discover" the game on my own

You got the same playstyle like me, so i found a guide where the guy put the loot table at the top of every section. So i dont have to read a step by step guide for the item, i know what i can find in taht area and i freely explroe before proceeding.
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Just play it. There aren't all that many completely missable important things in the game as a whole, but the chances are you're gonna want to play through a second time once you have a hold on it to do all the optional bosses and optional extras cause there's a bunch

use the Reunion mod, it also fixes some glitches and bugs with the pc port

Barrets ultimate weapon is missable if you don't have him in your party at a certain point in the game.

Theres several pieces of equipment and materia that can be missed forever like mystile or barrets and cait siths ultimate weapons.
Aeriths final limit break can be missed aswell but not like that matters.
Also if you fuck up getting the huge materia I think you lose one of the bahamut summons but you might be able to get that from bone village digging

You can miss a certain materia that you may want to use its glitch for later. It's called W-Item and you get it on Disc 2 when you return to Midgar. Same with Barret's ultimate weapon.

Aeris. Has to be done as soon as possible for obvious reasons.