Board 8 > Stifled plays through Final Fantasy 8 despite the fact he hates it!

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I really hate FF8. It had potential, but the awful cast and odd Junction system made me not want to finish it. Well this time, unless I feel tortured by it, I will finish the game! And I will post reactions here.

Here we go.

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Always fun.

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Sweet

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You're going to get burnt out some time during disc 3. Always happens to me when I try to replay FF8 (and I don't even hate the game.)

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whatever

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ONLY FIVE CAN LADDER.
Sushi, kamikaze, fujiyama, nippon-ichi...

Someday I will have to give FF8 another shot.

First comes FF9 though.

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Uggggh FF8 and your strange controls. Triangle is cancel? Circle is menu? FF7 was odd as well with that, only Circle was accept and X was cancel. FF9 had the controls in the right spots thankfully.

Opening movie is cool. Rinoa is hotter than I remembered her being. Quistis though...holy crap. Something about a chick in glasses just drives me nuts.

Squall and Seifer are fighting. Cool. Maybe they'll kill each other and we can have two new characters! No? Aww...

I want to like Squall because he looks cool as hell. Has the biker/tough guy vibe about him. Like maybe if the Fonz was a bit emo? But ugh that personality. THAT ROTTEN EMPTY SHELL OF A PERSONALITY!

Call me immature, but I named Squall "Turd". It makes me giggle.

Ok, so blah blah blah, exam later, talk to hot teacher after class, etc. I booted up the desk thingy because I'm thinking you can find stuff stashed in it. Or is that later? So many options. Ok, let's look later. I wanna talk to hot teacher.

lol Squall didn't do his prerequisite. Naturally. Lazy oaf.

Ok so we're on the way to that and...Squall bumps into ANOTHER hot girl. Chicks are like magnetized to this guy or something. I'm trying really hard to make this guy likable by picking the nice choices, but he's still a douche somehow. This girl is Selphie right? I'm now taking her on tour. She's happy and bubbly, the complete opposite of Mr. Personality I'm controlling here.

She's taking the exam too eh? How exciting! Ok, now let's go find sexy teacher and advance the plot.

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"THIS is how you make Nintendo win another generation. Good job, Sony and Microsoft, you're idiots." - Vlado

It sounds like you are out to not like this game.
Or Squall at least.

Squall does really nothing douche-y yet.
The only person I ever thought he was kind of an ass to was Quistis and maybe Rinoa, but she had it coming.

And you can change the controls guy.
I do it all the time with FFVII and VIII.

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From: pjbasis | #008
It sounds like you are out to not like this game.
And chances are good he still won't!

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. . . tag

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Just get Lionheart on disc 1 and destroy the other three discs.

tag...i guess

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Not true. I want to like it this time around. And the game itself is good enough so far.

By douchey, I mean Squall's "whatever" and other assorted cold responses to like...everything. I don't like those kinds of people. Especially when Quistis is just trying to be nice to him and get to know him.

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From: StifledSilence | #013
I want to like it this time around.
Yes, and naming the main character "Turd" is a sure sign that you want to like the game!

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Thinking the main character is a turd doesn't mean I don't want to like the game! Actually, I usually name the rival some sort of nickname of fecal matter in Pokemon games and I love those. It just makes me laugh to see a character referred to as "Turd" or "Crap" or "Stool" for some reason.

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From: TheArkOfTurus | #004

You're going to get burnt out some time during disc 3. Always happens to me when I try to replay FF8 (and I don't even hate the game.)

this happens to 99% of JRPGs i try to replay that i'm not playing in an emulator with frameskip, and usually closer to about 20% of the way through.

UGH TUTORIALS! UGH UGH UGH!

I shall name you...TurdBird and IceHo! lol yeah yeah, immature, etc.

Ok, so world map, battle this floating thing, draw some magic, yay.

The drawing thing bugs me. I hate finite supplies of magic. I mean, running out of MP isn't an issue with this system, but having to steal magic from enemies to keep a supply is just lame. I loved FF9's system of learning abilities through equipment. Even Materia in FF7 was pretty cool. But this? Meh...

Ok, so Fire Cavern. I'm guessing Ifrit will probably be here (I seriously don't remember, but it makes sense.)

Time limit? Fine. I can probably do this in ten minutes, but I want to draw you...I mean draw the magic from enemies! So let's go with 20 minutes. Any longer than that and I will lose my mind in this likely easy dungeon.

Bats? Weird winged beastie? Bombs yay! They no go boom though. I purposely dragged a fight out for a boom just for laughs, but no boom. Aww. Die then!

Ifrit chamber! Wow, he has a ton of HP for an early boss. Or was I supposed to just use Shiva a few times in a row to get him to give up? Either way, I wrapped it up with 8 minutes left on the clock. I shall name you...HeatMiser! I kinda wish I named Shiva SnowMiser now...

UGH TUTORIAL AGAIN STOP IT!

Alright, I'm back out on the world map and I saved. That's enough for the moment. More to come probably later tonight!

For the record, I'm enjoying it so far. I remember it being good for awhile but then everyone gets so...whiny. But that's for later. Thumbs up for now!

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Press triangle to skip Tutorials.

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For real? Good. I'll remember that for next time.

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"THIS is how you make Nintendo win another generation. Good job, Sony and Microsoft, you're idiots." - Vlado

you can change the controls. i always change FF8 and 9 to FF7's controls.

as for spells, you can easily stock up more than 300 if you want to both junction and use them. or stock up on refining items. and if you're not both junctioning and using the same spell, you don't really have to worry about quantity.

yeah, 2-3 years ago I was determined to finally beat the game despite hating it

...still couldn't finish it. I got pretty far, though

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i remember that. you were in pretty bad shape going into the Adel fight and gave up, lol.

Learn refining abilities as soon as possible. Don't bother with drawing as much.

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Learn your Mag-RFs.

Draw GFs from bosses.

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yeah there is nothing worth drawing outside of bosses for a decent bit, and by the time you can draw something decent in a random encounter, you probably could have refined it already

What a chicken wuss.

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Random encounters are best for dropping items which can be refined.
And AP of course.

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Mug is the best for getting items to refine.

Also the best for getting stuff for weapon mods.

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If you want to make the early-mid game really easy, win some rare cards and refine them into items. The Zell card can be gotten really early, and gives you three +60% strength items.

Of course, half the fun of the game is getting/playing cards, so you'd be missing out!

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Level grinding at the moment. Encountered a T-Rex and whooped its ass. Like I would run away from it, silly Quistis. Damn thing sure had a ton of HP though.

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"THIS is how you make Nintendo win another generation. Good job, Sony and Microsoft, you're idiots." - Vlado

here stifled let me tell you how to break the game that makes it fun

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ONLY FIVE CAN LADDER.
Sushi, kamikaze, fujiyama, nippon-ichi...

if you want to grind in this game, play cards or card monsters. levels will not help.

More for GF levels and AP than anything else. The t-Rex got me 10AP.

What's the game breaker, Nee?

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Plot and stuff! Zell looks much more girlish than I remember. Like a butch lesbian or something. And the face tattoo is bizarre. But he seems interesting enough. Mr. Downer wants a partner without a personality. And Quistis mocks his coldness XD. She's so awesome.

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"THIS is how you make Nintendo win another generation. Good job, Sony and Microsoft, you're idiots." - Vlado

you get AP from carding, and GF summoning isn't as strong as your characters if they're junctioned well. many cards can be modded into useful things.

Nifty. I like weapon modding so that sounds like a fun distraction.

Also, XD Headmaster Cid's glasses are HUGE!

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"THIS is how you make Nintendo win another generation. Good job, Sony and Microsoft, you're idiots." - Vlado

XDDD chicken-wuss. How could anyone possibly be offen...oh it's Zell never mind.

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"THIS is how you make Nintendo win another generation. Good job, Sony and Microsoft, you're idiots." - Vlado

Ain't nothin' but a G-Army, baby

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"THIS is how you make Nintendo win another generation. Good job, Sony and Microsoft, you're idiots." - Vlado

The real way to break the game is use Zell, keep him at low life, and use Limit break to insta-gib anything. with Booya>Heel Drop>Booya>Heel Drop xN or do the easier one and do Booya>Punch Rush xN.

Children card games also is godlike for being broken. Can easily get All the junctions you'll need early and Everyone's 3rd tier weapons at the start of the game by just abusing the card game+Refines.

If you want to make the game more challenging. Actually leveling up makes it harder. Since all the enemies scale on your level for the most part. Their drops do too actually.

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Whatever...

Instead of playing a game you hate, you could play a game you don't hate

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From: TheKnightOfNee | #031
here stifled let me tell you how to break the game that makes it fun
In FFVIII's case, it actually does!

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To be honest. Pretty sure what FFVIII was really about was Triple Triad and Squall is just a precursor to Yugi.

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Whatever...

StifledSilence posted...

Uggggh FF8 and your strange controls. Triangle is cancel? Circle is menu? FF7 was odd as well with that, only Circle was accept and X was cancel.

FF7's control scheme was actually the norm for a lot of Japanese RPGs. SNES RPGs used the same button placement for the most part, as well. And MGS stuck with it through MGS3, oddly enough.

FF8, on the other hand. I have no idea what the f*** was up with that.

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Playing FF7 after FF8 made 7 the weird one though.. never could get used to circle being accept..

well you could always go to options and switch it.

But then there's that one tiny glitch in the Choco stable.

Was super busy yesterday but I'll probably play some tonight.

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"THIS is how you make Nintendo win another generation. Good job, Sony and Microsoft, you're idiots." - Vlado