Final Fantasy VII Strategy Guide

In 1996 (really old meesage) Zeromus (zeromus@flash.net) 1996/11/14
said.

Have you ever noticed how lousy FAQ's are?

Especially some of the more recent giant suckers, like the FF3(a)
ones? Or
how ridiculous commercial strategy guides/gaming magazines are?
Filled
with advertisments and illustrations, but a wee bit skimpy on good
information? I firmly believe that Square fans deserve more,
especially
for the upcoming game Final Fantasy VII. Regardless of which system
its on
(although I'm personally glad its not on N64 and ONE of the reasons
why is
that nintendo would do what they've done to the past couple of snes
rpgs
(mangle) and make it out to be, what can only be described as, "hip").
I
am going to try something very interesting here with Final Fantasy
VII(a).
Bear in mind, my ideas are not the Voice Of God, just ideas. What I
am
trying to do is to organize what can only be called a Strategy Guide
for
Final Fantasy VII(a). Of course, this won't start much until Final
Fantasy
Vii(j) is released, but I am trying to get organized now. What I have
seen
in the past is everyone (understandably) ripping apart at new games
like
crazy. After a while, an FAQ comes out, and its disjointed and in
some
places inaccurate, and people who need help or want information end up
picking through a hellish newsgroup looking for emails of people who
might
give some advice. Well, if everyone (allthough everyone is
impossible; i'd
settle for considerably less...) would still play through the game and
have
fun (the most important thing), but be looking out for certain things
as
they rip into the game, then information would be more accurate,
organized,
and would be released quicker. What I propose is to hand out jobs to
all
who want to participate. (We would all contribute to a rather large
strategy guide, rather than have some editor come along and throw
together
lots of scraps.) In this way, all the information could be
researched,
allowing for an orderly presentation of basic information. This would
facilitate the search for secrets, special items, spells, MATERIA
ORBS,
etc... It's quite hard to describe the effect I project this would
have,
but I hope you get the picture. For a better expression of this idea,
visit my page, the Final Fantasy VII FAQ page at
http://www.flash.net/~zeromus . I am warning you, its still quite
crappy,
as I threw it together last Sunday night and its my first page ever
(for
some reason building a page never appealed to me until now). you can
mail
me at zeromus@flash.net if you have any questions.
One of the more interesting feautures of my strategy guide is
gaming-magazine type maps, with shrunken screenshots, which would be
absolutely wonderful for dungeons etc. Check out my page for more
information.

This post is already to long, so I'll wind it down. Let me know what
you
think!

--Zeromus

This is one of the oldest threads I could find on my weekly look on
this groups history (jk about weekly history thing) lol.

In article <c0e9e43b.0309090214.451cc18e@posting.google.com >,
imnotscurrilous@yahoo.com.au (Ben) wrote:

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The sad thing is that I remember when he posted that, and I remember
thinking it wasn't such a bad idea (if I only had a PSX at the time).

Dan.

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