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Your Dumbest Mistake

Posted: 13th July 2004 01:54

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Underestimating Gau is, fortunately, not something I am guilty of (MAJOR GAU FANATIC). The only big error I made was... playing through the whole game, levelling ALL up to 99, PERFECT save... and I accidentally saved over the slot with a new game! =v.v=

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Posted: 13th July 2004 02:55

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I still never use Gau. I don't like that I can't control what he does. sad.gif

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Posted: 13th July 2004 06:01

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My very first game I got a sketch bug that gave me unbelievable loot. Infinite Gem boxes, Illuminas, Palidian Shields, Gradius's, and Muscle Belts????. I saved over this game, cause I was like...oh it's a bug and I don't need it. But I miss my Uber party sometimes...I want them back. thumbdown.gif

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Posted: 13th July 2004 12:42

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Posted: 13th July 2004 14:48

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Oh yeah, that reminds me of another really really dumb mistake I made playing FFVI. Attempting the Sketch Bug without saving for a pretty long while beforehand and having it not work properly. sleep.gif;;
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Posted: 15th July 2004 17:11

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The stupidest thing i've ever done on FF VI was on the first time I played it - the game had just came out, so I borrowed it. Unfortunately I never listened to the in-game instructions so I got to the Floating Continent without once equipping any espers. blush.gif

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Posted: 15th July 2004 19:18

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I let Shadow Die in FF6 and was unable to get him in the WoR. I wound up then getting only 13 out of 14 of FF6's charactars, and would getting the Raknarok as an Esper instead of the sword be dumb as well (I wanted Ultima super badly!!) , because then I could not get the Illumina but yet I still have Exclaibur.
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Posted: 15th July 2004 19:30

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Wow, just before the WoR with no magic, that's rough man.

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Posted: 16th July 2004 01:45

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my biggest mistakes we're probably accidentally causing the game to glitch and reseting mid battle because i thought my game was ruined...i lost all those items, all those levels, all that magic, all that time, etc.etc.
Had i known what i know now i would have been dancing my sweet ass off

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Posted: 16th July 2004 02:04

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I just remembered another really dumb thing I did:

I just found out that if you dance the same dance as was meant for your terrain, you won't stumble!!!!!! I always found dancing useless since it took many tries to complete. lmao

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Posted: 16th July 2004 06:37

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Quote (l)arkShadow @ 11th July 2004 12:37)
my biggest mistake ever was at kefka's tower. i finnaly got to the part where i was fighting kefka(my first time playing the game, i had no i dea what to do, then i used a warp stone...mistaking it for a potion............. and the last time i saved was at jidoor....  pinch.gif pinch.gif


Holy freaking crap. That is the WORST I have ever heard of. Ouch! That is freaking PAINFUL. PAINFUL. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! <runs away>

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On my first time through, I couldn't find the hidden room to activate Phunbaba battles three and four, and therefore couldn't get Terra back into my party.

Phunbaba was a douchebag.

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Posted: 16th July 2004 12:27

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mmmmmmmmmm...black francis

everyone! Go get a Pixies album right now!

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Posted: 16th July 2004 14:40

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It's not really a mistake, but it's surely The worse Bad luck i ever had.

It was the first time i fought Magi Master. Not knowing any tricks to kill him I was having hard time...
Then after a While I only had Terra alive at half HP and almost ouf of MP.
knowing he was almost dead, I decided to use a Magicite...
I'm like damn I really dont have any other choice...I guess...
(Even a hit while in full HP could kill her, she was half HP because of Bolt 3 on all party)

Then guess wich summon came?!?!?!

CRUSADER: terra and the Magi master died of 8000 damage... so great... THANK YOU CRUSADER I HATE YOU!!!

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Posted: 16th July 2004 17:38

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You would have died either way...Ultima my friend...Ultima...

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Posted: 16th July 2004 19:07

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I would rather die of his Ultima than that bad luck, Crusader from a magicite..

At least I would have know he uses Ultima at the end of the battle.

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Posted: 20th July 2004 18:21

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I almost gave up on getting odin in the castle because when you get your character to the right spot you are supposed to press the A button and I forgot. I got so frustrated I left and only later did i realize "holy crap you haven't slept in a day and a half and have forgotten to press the A button"
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Posted: 21st July 2004 04:31

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My worst mistake is Daril's Tomb. The Puzzle about THE WORLD IS SQUARE. I didn't know what language the riddle was so I had to take the paper and write it down the words. It took me over 5 hours to figure out the right words. Damn you square. Oh that's when I was in 4th grade smile.gif

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Posted: 21st July 2004 04:56

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I think mine would have to be when I bought the cart, someone had a game-genied save slot, and I accidentally saved over it. I really wish I would have kept it, to just see what was on it and stuff. It was saved like by figaro and everyone was at like level 99 and stuff. I was showing a friend, he still remembers it, and said I almost cried. lol@me almost crying for a saved guy.
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Posted: 21st July 2004 05:32

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I was recently reminded of another mistake of mine, and I really don't know how I could have forgotten it in the first place. Well, like my other mishap I mentioned, "mistake" may not be the right word, but "something stupid and time-consuming that I did" would.

In Cyan's dream sequence, during the flashback where your party pilots Magitek Armor, the "trick" is of course to go back rather than to keep proceeding through Narshe's mines. Easy, right? Well, what I naively did instead should be self-explanatory.

Two...hours. I spent over TWO HOURS trudging through those mines, taking breaks every once in a while. Eventually I figured it was either the longest looping dungeon EVER or something was wrong with my game. I was fed up, so I briefly backtracked ONCE on a whim when I started looking veeerrry carefully for clues to get out of there. I don't think I've facepalmed myself so hard since.

That was...just sad...

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Posted: 21st July 2004 18:33

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Many Mistakes on the First time through (5 yrs ago):

Shadow died in my game, the bastard told me to get out of here quickly and that he could handle it! Now everyone tells me I did the wrong thing and that I'll never get to see the sequences that reveal his story.

I never got any Rages

I never got any Lores, or ever used him after the burning house.

Same niglectfulness applies to Relm

I never bought any of Edgar's tools

Never figured out how to Blitz

I didn't know how to unequip Espers

Mog, Umaro, and Gogo might as well not have existed

Never used Runic

I never opened treasure chests fearing Monster-in-a-box

I missed most of the Espers

Terra, Locke, Strago, Relm, and Gau were never found in the WOR

I sat there for hours maxing out the levels of my unskillful and poorly equipted party of 5 early on so I just fudged it through.

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Posted: 21st July 2004 21:06

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I'm goin with Silverfork those mines had me looking for hours on end. Over and over and over. My party was so crappy, I was slowly being killed by those Iotas.

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Posted: 22nd July 2004 21:50

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Wow, reading these makes my mistake look sorta small. Well, come to think of it, I did let Cid and Shadow die, and It took me forever, (and the generous help of people on here) to figure out that you talk to the bird in Maranda, and then it will lead you to Zozo to find Cyan. And when I finaly looked at the walkthrough on here I realized just how much stuff I missed. But that wasn't really a mistake.

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Posted: 25th July 2004 22:00

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the first time I played, I didn't wait for Shadow. It took me a while to figure out that he died!

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Posted: 26th July 2004 20:26

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I was trying to un-curse the Cursed Shield, and I played for over 3 hours and fought well over the 256 battle limit, but I never got the Paladin Shield...

I had the Cursed Shield equipped on GOGO, which is apparently a bug and you cannot un-curse the Cursed Sheild if it is equipped on GOGO!!

Dumb mistake? Yes. Obscure and frustrating bug? Absolutely!!! mad.gif

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Posted: 26th July 2004 21:35

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Locke fans: Since Locke is never on my list for high damage fighters, I always use him to uncurse the shield. Which makes sense, since you only ever steal with him anyway! Good luck everyone!

(I can't blieve that you can instantly kill the ghost train with a
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Posted: 2nd August 2004 06:17

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There seems to be a lot of people that lost a lot because they didn't save their game. Fortunately that wasn't the case for me. My mistake would be not getting Mog's Water Rondo in the WOB. sleep.gif
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Posted: 4th August 2004 18:08

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My biggest mistake was when I was trying to uncurse the cursed shield, I only needed one more battle and than WHAM!!! a bracosaur or something like that used ultima on me and I could start all over again mad.gif that was making me so made that I started a fight whit my sister!

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Posted: 4th August 2004 18:17

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...you sure about that, ziegfried? Because the battle counter doesn't reset if you die. You would have just needed to win another battle and you'd have been fine.
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Posted: 4th August 2004 21:20

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Not unless he fought 254 battles without saving. wink.gif

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Posted: 16th August 2004 07:23
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ha,
yeah i was just scrolling through here and notice this f.rum and realized i coul n't pass up sharing a few: (br>
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the next is equally dumb, but maybe not quite as funny. another friend i had let play my ffvi was talking about the best weapons, and when i mentioned that atma weapon was one of them, he got a funny look...apparently he had sold it after finding it maybe a couple towns later to a shop. he couldn't have made that much money off of it, and i wouldn't (won't) let him live that down for the rest of his rpg days.
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