I know. Political corrctness is ruining my country.

I have NEVER played final fantasey ever!
i doubt i'm missing much
Racing games are my genre!

I like racing games also...
But one game I absolutely love is Zeldo on the Wii.

Hey, you changed your avatar. What does VT stand for?

Yeah, it's Virginia Tech.

It's really sad what happened, but it really annoys me the that the media eats it up just for ratings. They say, "Hey, look! We have footage of what this guy had to say before." That just isn't appropriate and it's disrespectful. I can't stand the media sometimes.

True, the media is stupid sometimes.

>But anyway, has anyone actually killed Ruby Weapon in Final Fantasy VII?
Yes. Personally, I thought Emerald was harder.

>Any tips or hints or strategies for it?
You're going to lose two members of your party, so make sure that all of them can cast a powerful life and link it to an all materia. Alternatively, you can kill two of the members before going into the fight, but that's kind of a cop out and I don't like to do it. Then just cast knights of the round and mimic it until Ruby dies. It replies with ultima each time though, so you have to heal carefully too.

If you don't have knights of the round, get ready for a really long fight, and victory won't be assured.

With Elmereld weapon I used W-summon with two knights of the round and I had two mimics. The difficult thing with Ruby Weapon is that it will always hit with Ultima afterwards and if it kills me, then I have to use the Life2-finalattack combination with mega all. After that I can't mimic knights of the round until I cast it again and I only have one knights of the round left (It's at level three). I could master the materia, but that's so time consuming. On top of that it's only vulnerable when its claws are in the ground. I'll give it another shot after I level up some more materia.

In FFVII, Ruby weapon was a lot simpler to kill than Emerald. IIRC What made him hard was that he was invulnerable until he killed a couple of your guys. If you went in with only one member of the party alive, he would already put his tentacles in the ground or whatever and you could hurt him. That way you already knew what guy was going to be alive and so you could load him up with all the materia you wanted, like final attack phoenix and w summon knights of the round etc.

I missed out on VIII, never really played it.

I liked a lot of the aspects of IX, once I got past the main character having a tail for whatever reason.

X was interesting, I enjoyed some of the characters, and once I got into it, the story. But the ending really rubbed me the wrong way. Maybe its a culture thing, I don't know but personally it made me feel like I wasted all my time getting into the developement of the characters. It is kinda the same thing as how in film school they tell you to avoid writing scripts that end with "it was only a dream" or employ Deus Ex Machina because it will just tick off the audience.

I'm currently playing XII, and it seems pretty fun but then again I haven't beaten it yet so I can't say for sure.

Alot of the newer FF's rely heavily on the characters and the ending, at least that for me is what seems to make them memorable and good or the other way around.

I've been increasingly dissillusioned with the main characters in recent releases as they seem to follow the exact same architype and it is getting old. A blonde young teenager that is usually some poor rogue with an anger issue against something (Empire, Father, Whatever) and if you can give him baggy cracked-out shorts that must be a bonus.

Maybe they are trying to market to a younger audience, maybe I am an old codger who is out of touch, but all of the Zidane's, Tidus's, and Vaan's, the kid from Bouncer, the kid from Kingdom Hearts are starting to run together.

Enough of my ranting about the newer FF's, I will say that FFVII was a very compelling and ground breaking game. I enjoyed it immensly.