you don't get alot of gil. you have to either sell stuff or just keep finding it in those floating orb things.

i wouldn't necessarily sell weapons just yet. if the weapon has a good attribute, you can upgrade it down the line with all those weird parts and pieces you've been collecting. plus, you can also dismantle weapons/armor to get more of those pieces to upgrade others.

seems as though they focused all their effort and energy on upgrading the characters with the crystal things, but paid virtually no attention to the weapons/armor.

i'm on disc 2 now. hopefully you get way more playing time out of discs 2 and 3.

Yep, I like it being a little more difficult to earn money in the game. In previous FF games it was way too easy to get money and you were never short on cash. By the end of the game my gil total would be in the millions but had nothing to spend it on....just went to waste.

What chapter does disc 1 end on?

5. i was about 8 hours or so in when it asked me to switch.

It's all those standard def cut scenes.

I'm on chapter three now I think.

i really would like a good summary of this plot. it's making absolutely no sense.

It's really simple:



Does that help?

I hate the names fal'Cie and l'Cie or whatever. What stupid names!

that sums it up pretty well. I'll take a stab at it:

How can you tell if a new weapon is better or worse than an old weapon? Especially after you've upgraded an older weapon?

well, if you look at the magic/strength it'll go up when you upgrade it. i've not seen a weapon go down when upgraded.

So how is everyone handling this whole crystanium thing? Are you only upgrading certain roles for certain people or upgrading everything that's available to each person? I can never tell the best way to go about these things in RPG's.

It's kind of lame, IMO.

So i had decided to take it back since I haven't needed a strat guide for any of the other ff's. Looked at my receipt to try to make sure i take the right receipt back and it turns out they didn't charge me for it. Guess I'm keeping it now

i'm upgrading everything for everyone, but i do the upgrade the role that i use the most with that character first. so with lightning, since i use her as commando most, i'll upgrade that first, then do reaver, then medic. the only way that changes if i'm close to getting a skill crystal, then i'll hit that first, then go back to what i do above.

Ok that's exactly what I'm doing

The plot makes a lot more sense and is much easier to follow if you keep up with reading the frequent datalog udates. I'm reading everything.

It also may help those who miss text-heavy RPGs.

Yeah I've been reading everything too and that's why I'm not lost. Though that whole fal'cie l'cie shit is weird no matter what you read.

anyone to the point where it goes off rails yet? if so, let me know how close i am.

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Nerds.

im about 9 hrs in, on chapter 5. It just switched me from controlling hope to lightning now

lol @ the youtube video posted above

Ten hours in and On Chapter five as well. Those reviewers that said the game is dull the first 15 hours must've been sedated. The first hour or two were kind of boring but after that I started to enjoy the battle system and story.

And I'm also loving the fact that there's no need to grind in this game. Do you have to grind later on?