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Glad to find a place with other FFVIII lovers. It was my very first FF game (so obviously, it is my favorite). I played it as a 14 year old, shortly after it came out. It was, to my memory, the first true JRPG I played as well, so I was new to a lot of the JRPG-style systems (like random encounters). This led me to fleeing from most battles to try to blitz through the game. But at the same time, I wasn't grasping the systems enough to do a "low level playthrough." The Adel fight probably took me close to 10+ hours of repeatedly slamming my head against the wall. Eventually, I made it all the way to Ultimecia, but I just couldn't beat her. Frustrated, I actually started the game over from scratch and played through it "properly," and in the end had very few problems with any bosses. Game is good. I was a moody, brooding teenager, so Squall landed perfectly for me.
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I loved FFVIII so much that fifteen year old me actually printed out a fan fiction of the game. It was a long loving fan fiction too! Like 100k words. Was like 300 pages when I printed it out. edit: FOUND IT! https://www.fanfiction.net/s/76718/1/The-Promise-of-Nightmares
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Randallteal posted:The actor swap-outs for Kingdom Hearts 2 were such downgrades, especially Squall and Aerith's. Not that the original performances were such hot poo poo (and they were probably crazy expensive for what they were given the stunt casting), but those characters have such flat, weird sounding line reads in 2. The early 2000s were a really dark time where video game companies realized they should probably get people that aren't just the developers doing voices crossed with the idea that if they had actual Hollywood actors, they might reach a broader audience. Except almost every Hollywood actor who did voice acting in the era sucked poo poo at it.
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I would burn down an orphanage for a FF8 remake that expands the story but doesn't have fate ghosts.
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Feb 8, 2022 22:38
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“tacked on” loving yikes, dude.
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ngl a Triple Triad game like Thronebreaker would immediately wreck me. It’s me. I’m the person that collected every one of the 350+ triple triad cards in FFXIV.
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zakharov posted:Relying on GFs for damage is a fine strategy until the first boss on Disc 4, st which point you'll be screwed if you've mostly ignored junctions like teenage me. FF8 was my first Final Fantasy and honestly probably the first JRPG I went all the way on. I ran from most random encounters but I also ignored cardmodding and junctioning. Fighting Adel took me roughly 10-15 hours of repeatedly trying because I had basically relied on GFs heavily for fights I couldn't avoid and Rinoa kept dying that fight. Ultimecia's castle was a loving nightmare for me. I actually made it all the way to Ultimecia but despite trying for 15 hours, could not beat her. I then started the entire game over from the very beginning, brought up GameFAQs, and went full completionist.
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