So I'm going to go play FF VIII now
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I went off it because I invested loads of time in that damn card game and then my memory card died. I was not happy.
Not a terrible game at all, just had some rather bizarro gameplay decisions which I wish had been tighter. IX and VI are my favourites. I also really liked XII until the random unnecessary chest stuff at the end which got too boring.
R
Not a terrible game at all, just had some rather bizarro gameplay decisions which I wish had been tighter. IX and VI are my favourites. I also really liked XII until the random unnecessary chest stuff at the end which got too boring.
R
Actually my first FF game and my favourite one in the series, i play on it still time to time.
Same, i managed to get all the cards on my third playthrough though i let my friend have a go and he went and refined my best cards...(though for a 100 holy wars i wasn't complaining)
You know i never really got into IX, i tried on three seperate occasions it just didn't grab me like the others. Not helped by the fact that someone shown me what the final boss was...-_-
Rui said:
Same, i managed to get all the cards on my third playthrough though i let my friend have a go and he went and refined my best cards...(though for a 100 holy wars i wasn't complaining)
You know i never really got into IX, i tried on three seperate occasions it just didn't grab me like the others. Not helped by the fact that someone shown me what the final boss was...-_-
Lupus Inu said:
Good on you, tis my favourite of the FF series. My bro recently restarted and made it his mission to get all the character cards as well as basically everything else in the game, not sure how far he got with it. I restarted it a year back and was doing so well until bloody memory card reset
I'd love to see an anime based on the game but i'd rather not tarnish the memory like i now have with FF7 due to all the silly spin offs and cash ins.
CitizenGeek
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Everything about Final Fantasy VIII is truly amazing and awe-inspiring .... except for the battle system. Which devolves into a tedious snore-fest as the game goes on. It's such a pity because the music, story, art direction and characterisation are miles and miles ahead of most games. The fact that I still enjoyed FFVIII immensely despite hating the battle system (which is the biggest part of the game) is testament to how great everything else is in FFVIII! :]
Ho'****, geiz, this game is better than I remembered, and now I'm not a dumb thirteen year old kid, it's not as hard as I remembered, it's pretty easy. [Except enemies level up with you, wtf is this ****?] Leveling up my party and GFs, a lot, heading for Galbadia Garden atm, not far from the end of disc 1. I like how Squall is a moody bitch but actually fights.
CitizenGeek
Guild Member
I'm envious of those who can appreciate the broken battle system :/ It starts out nice, but it gets so awful and tedious and difficult. I'm pretty sure I was just playing it wrong - but that shouldn't have happened, games shouldn't require you to play in a certain way to enjoy it. Meh, I'll go back and replay it eventually :]
Er, that's not why I didn't like FFVIII's fight system. I finished the game with no problems at all.
The reason I am lukewarm about it is similar to the way I feel about FFIII - it penalises you if you want to be flexible about how you play it. I am a very big magic user in FF games. The draw system was innately flawed if you play the way I prefer to and actually use your magic - it rewarded you more to spend hours drawing tons of magic then hoard it instead of using it. If you cast any serious amount of magic your stats dropped or you had to spend another 15 minutes getting it back again. That sort of thing does my OCD no good at all! Interesting, but a little disappointing.
FFIII is exactly the same - it feels more balanced for melee classes and abilities (limit breaks in particular featured quite heavily in VIII or whatever they called them in English in that game - I played it in JP). I struggled in FFIII until I gave up and started playing the way I was clearly "supposed to" be playing it with my party configuration and it was suddenly very easy. Still a fun game, but not as fun as one where I feel more able to experiment.
The GFs were brilliant in VIII. I did feel they rather replaced the utility of other magic though, even more so than in other summon-heavy games in the series.
I also really, really hated Squall. I get what they were trying to do with him and I know it's not always realistic to like every character but I genuinely felt gratification each time he bought it and left him lying there dead far longer than I needed to before resurrecting him. Irvine was fun though.
VIII had some fantastically innovative concepts (particularly the playing around with the standard storytelling format that they tried) but I felt it needed more polish to give it a chance of being one of my favourites (which are, as mentioned before, VI and IX). It wasn't rounded enough to make it for me but I don't regret playing it at all. Twice. Thanks to my memory card
Anyway sorry for the ramble, just couldn't let that deliberately argumentative attend to undermine everyone who dares have a different preference to you stand without an attempt at a rebuttal!
R
The reason I am lukewarm about it is similar to the way I feel about FFIII - it penalises you if you want to be flexible about how you play it. I am a very big magic user in FF games. The draw system was innately flawed if you play the way I prefer to and actually use your magic - it rewarded you more to spend hours drawing tons of magic then hoard it instead of using it. If you cast any serious amount of magic your stats dropped or you had to spend another 15 minutes getting it back again. That sort of thing does my OCD no good at all! Interesting, but a little disappointing.
FFIII is exactly the same - it feels more balanced for melee classes and abilities (limit breaks in particular featured quite heavily in VIII or whatever they called them in English in that game - I played it in JP). I struggled in FFIII until I gave up and started playing the way I was clearly "supposed to" be playing it with my party configuration and it was suddenly very easy. Still a fun game, but not as fun as one where I feel more able to experiment.
The GFs were brilliant in VIII. I did feel they rather replaced the utility of other magic though, even more so than in other summon-heavy games in the series.
I also really, really hated Squall. I get what they were trying to do with him and I know it's not always realistic to like every character but I genuinely felt gratification each time he bought it and left him lying there dead far longer than I needed to before resurrecting him. Irvine was fun though.
VIII had some fantastically innovative concepts (particularly the playing around with the standard storytelling format that they tried) but I felt it needed more polish to give it a chance of being one of my favourites (which are, as mentioned before, VI and IX). It wasn't rounded enough to make it for me but I don't regret playing it at all. Twice. Thanks to my memory card
Anyway sorry for the ramble, just couldn't let that deliberately argumentative attend to undermine everyone who dares have a different preference to you stand without an attempt at a rebuttal!
R
I don't get why everyone complains about the junction system, i never found it hard to get my head around it, also first time i played through i finished the game without ever touching upon junctioning magic to HP and STR and ****. So i don't see what is to really complain about it.
If people don't like it then they should just not use it.
If people don't like it then they should just not use it.
BlackWolf said:OMFGLOL said:
hahaha thanks
same goes for me but i am even more of a noob because i didn't realise you could junction stuff to your stats until my second playthrough when i actually listened to the tutorials .I did what you did on my second playthrough now realising i could junction stuff to my stats, by the end of disc 1 i had over 3000HP with my main party, i was like WTF!