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I'm pretty new to Final Fantasy, I've played the three Playstation games since 2019, and while I think FFVII is the best of the three, I keep thinking about FFVIII because it's so drat weird. At one point, one Hogwarts for Child Soldiers attacks another Hogwarts for Child Soldiers by launching rocket-powered motorcycles off ramps. The man character's sword has a gun on it which translates to an easy button that lets you do extra damage. The main villain talks like she's from Mortal Kombat. It's bonkers as poo poo, while also making room for great character bits like Squall risking his life to save Rinoa while she's floating through space. Not to mention how busted the combat is if you do a little bit of reading.
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also The Man with the Machine Gun deserves a post all to itself https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9-eJvYM4vc
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Dec 10, 2021 02:55
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TheGreatEvilKing posted:FF8 is good, I'm like one of five people who likes Squall as a kid in way over his head, and the soundtrack slaps. I like Squall too, he feels like a mix of Shinji and Rei from Evangelion. He’s cold and aloof to people around him because he doesn’t want to let anyone into his life in case they abandon him. But also he was raised for the sole purpose of battling a great evil that threatens not only the world, but the very fabric of reality.
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Dec 10, 2021 19:28
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I said come in! posted:Yeah card mini-games are a weakness of hers. I think she went all in on the one for FF9 too. Woof, Tetra Master sucks. Edit: page 2 snipe 
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Dark_Swordmaster posted:. I also usually despise card games in RPG's so I literally have never played a single hand of 8's card game and don't know the first rule. Hilarious to find out apparently that's a major avenue of progression in this one. Triple Triad (at least until they start introducing rules like Same and Element) is really straightforward, to the point you can learn it in one game without a tutorial. It’s simple, quick, fun, and if you do it enough at the beginning of the game, you can power level enough to not be threatened for hours. Sensenmann posted:It goes off the rails fast and never bothers to slow things down. Quite the opposite. Everything gets dialed to 11. Are you sure it doesn’t go off the rails like some kind of… Doomtrain? 👻
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Dec 17, 2021 13:49
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Relax Or DIE posted:i like that you can rent a car and collect a paycheck I wish my job would give me a raise every time I completed a quiz with easily googleable answers.
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Dec 18, 2021 04:30
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NikkolasKing posted:She figured out Laguna was Squall's dad a lot faster than I did. I remember when I first beat the game in the early 2000s I felt so proud for eventually piecing it together when Kiros and Ward basically spell it out to you at the end of Disk 3. Here she is at the start of Disk 3 and she's on the ball. I somehow missed this is while playing and only got it by listening to Retronauts’ FF8 episode. I think I have trouble retaining information from text-heavy JRPGs. Asterite34 posted:Another useful tip: render Squall Blind This loving rules. zakharov posted:There's some frame rate issue in the remaster that makes the gunblade trigger much harder to use than the original. It took me a little bit to learn the timing, but it’s loving hilarious FF8 has an easy button that lets Squall do 50% extra damage.
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Jan 5, 2022 19:54
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You don’t need to draw repeatedly to get moves, AFAIK the list that first comes up for the Draw is all they’ll have, barring changing their level with abilities. Also it’s surprising you find it slow. Granted I came into 8 off the Switch port of FF9, but it felt really slick and responsive to me. Granted, I never used GFs in battle, but I’ve heard that the animations get very old very quickly. aperfectcirclefan posted:2. The systems seem convoluted but fun once you get the hang of it. I can't tell if its good to have multiple summons in my GF or if I should just stick to one? Can you clarify what you mean by this? I think you’re asking if it’s okay to junction multiple GFs to one character, which is good and recommended to give your characters the most abilities and buffs.
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Jan 7, 2022 16:57
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aperfectcirclefan posted:I just got up to Timber and that train mission. This game is cool but I think I don't like the junction system and wish I could just play this like a normal FF. I think the junctioning would have been a lot more confusing if I hadn’t read a guide laying out who gets what GF and what order to learn their abilities every time I got a new GF.
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Jan 11, 2022 14:08
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aperfectcirclefan posted:Oooo where is that guide https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps4/266152-final-fantasy-viii-remastered/faqs/72431/walkthrough-disc-1
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Jan 11, 2022 15:49
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NikkolasKing posted:Squall, called "Leon", is a semi-prominent character in KH, at least KH1 and 2, dunno about any of the others. He's voiced by David Boreanaz in KH1 IIRC. You forgot Selphie has blink-and-you-miss-it roles in both KH1 and 2. She’s Someone you can practice fighting with on Destiny Islands in 1 and I’m pretty sure she’s only in the first cutscene with Kairi in 2 (I didn’t 100% it so she could be in some other cutscene but I don’t think so.)
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Jan 20, 2022 19:59
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Kingdom Hearts hits the existentialism strong in the opening, with Riku asking if there are so many worlds out there, why were they born on this one, specifically? But then the rest of 1 and 2 are stopping little shadow dudes from messing up Disney movies and figuring out who the gently caress Ansem is.
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Jan 20, 2022 21:56
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKhHwpkL17o
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Feb 7, 2022 15:32
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Aren’t they from the Moon? Because I think someone with the hockey team uses Lunar Triple Triad rules.
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Feb 7, 2022 23:34
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OhFunny posted:I'm a little further in now and FFVIII certainly has the most interesting system of the classic Final Fantasy games. If you don’t want to grind fighting enemies, you can grind Triple Triad instead! If you do that and turn on Enc-None you can bypass a ton of combat.
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Feb 13, 2022 21:21
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Ultimecia forcing all challengers to go through the gauntlet of beasts to cover for the fact that she only has like Creeps and Geezard cards.
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Feb 14, 2022 17:20
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Dark_Swordmaster posted:I did not even play the tutorial for TT in my playthrough. To this day I don't know anything about it or how it works. I loving hate tacked on RPG minigames so I'm glad it was 100% optional and you didn't even need the tutorial match. Is there even a Triple Triad tutorial? It starts really simple and gets more confusing as the game goes, but if you just play with Balamb rules, it’s very simple to grasp.
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Feb 14, 2022 21:37
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Dark_Swordmaster posted:Started FFIX last night and it's a perfect loving example. The rules to its card game are minimally explained at the start of it and I promptly lost every beginner match to where the game told me I couldn't play anymore. Cool, I likely never will again. hahahaha Hahahahaha HAHAHAHAHAHA I hope you don’t mind not finishing FFIX
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Feb 16, 2022 20:05
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Dark_Swordmaster posted:But it did have mandatory snowboarding and submarines and motorcy-- I challenge you to a squat contest right now. Rooney McNibnug posted:VIII has "Squall! punch and block the Galbadian paratrooper!" and "Laguna! Block and slash at the very real dragon with this prop sword!" Oh god gently caress that Galbadian paratrooper minigame, the low point of the whole drat game.
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Feb 17, 2022 14:33
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Time Kompression, that’s what.
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Feb 17, 2022 15:58
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Dark_Swordmaster posted:This line of Googling is how I learned you can devour Rinoa and get a game over. I love this stupid game.
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itry posted:I require video evidence I did some googling to confirm it; apparently during the Adel fight, Quistis can devour Rinoa to permanently gain 10 HP. Unfortunately that’s also an immediate game over.
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