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Siliconemelons

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Never knew Sean would come in and "Shit up every FF thread with 8, 8 sucks long and hard" or whatever that quote from FoH was ;-) I used to have it in my sig.

I need to get back into playing 9 from the begining again, but I have to finish CV:LoS-MoF first
 
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xadion_sl said:
Never knew Sean would come in and "Shit up every FF thread with 8, 8 sucks long and hard" or whatever that quote from FoH was ;-) I used to have it in my sig.

I need to get back into playing 9 from the begining again, but I have to finish CV:LoS-MoF first
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What on earth are you talking about? I'm one of the few people who liked FF8.
 
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Awesome, love ff8! Tried playing through it again a few years ago, but something got fucked either with the game or my ps1 so I couldn't finish it. Only downside is Ihaveto do everything in this game, so there went my life
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Siliconemelons

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Sean_sl said:
What on earth are you talking about? I'm one of the few people who liked FF8.
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Remeber the FF thread on FoH and the 20+ pages of ff8 love vs hate oh my... someone said what I quoted, well close to it and I always found it funny. There was another FF thread made after that one about CC or whatever at the time and someone started the FF8 thing up again lol

but it does suck ;-)

But maybe this version will be a good chance for me to play it- and apply the squall is dead thoery that I have chosen to agree with... but I have so many other games ahead of it :-/ oh well
 
Sidian

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I haven't played FF8 in a loooong time but iirc the card game was so much damn fun lol. It's probably really stupid now a day but back then I loved every piece of it. I'd get so pissed off losing my sick ass Ifrit card or whatever and having to reload my save. I don't remember much else about the game besides that. I'll have to play through it again sometime.
 
Lenas

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FF8 was pretty badass. I'm not sure I can play it again without an HD patch, but at the time the game was great. I know the re-release is supposedly "HD" but I doubt they are going to redo the pre-rendered backgrounds. Most likely just added some AA and fixed fonts.

Edit - just looked up FF7 modding again and holy shit that community never stops. Dat background:http://i.minus.com/imJpVOWvJ96s1.gif
 
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So I'm confused on how the FFVIII combat system works. Tried reading about it but the description was written by an autistic chimp. Someone else explain.
 
Noodleface

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Been playing FF6 this week on an emulator with my PS4 controller. So satisfying. Masterful game.
 
Sinzar

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Troll_sl said:
So I'm confused on how the FFVIII combat system works. Tried reading about it but the description was written by an autistic chimp. Someone else explain.
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In a nutshell, you draw (steal) magic from enemies in combat, then junction (socket) those spells to stats of your choice, based on your equipped espers. Different magic buffs stats in different ways, for example Fire may boost strength more than Cure (been a while, don't recall exacts). Usually stronger magic gives higher boosts.

To summarize the gameplay in a few words, you want to stockup on 100 of the good magics, junction them to your stats, then auto-attack your way through the rest of the game never casting anything, since casting spells uses up your stock, thus lowering your stats (and requiring the tedium of restocking it later). It's a really goofy system, which penalizes trying to build casters.

Edit: Also, if you want to really break the game, you can access some high end magic like Tornado right at the start of the game through grinding out the card game + crafting. Socket 100 of that to strength to destroy things until you've leveled some (enemies always scale to your level, another poor system in 8).
 
Arbitrary

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Drawing in combat sucks. You select the Draw action, pick a spell you want that the enemy has, it goes into the animation, and you get 1-9 (usually 3-5) stocks of that spell. Each character has their own magic stockpile so if you start out and want everyone to have 100 stocks of Cure then the game is going to look like a pile of shit.

In reality you very rarely use Draw. The espers in the game all have abilities you can unlock to convert items into magic and to convert cards into items. If you want Curaga, for example, you can "refine" 20 stocks out of a Cabin. So you just do that. If you spend a couple hours playing Triple Triad, the card game, at the start you'll get enough shit to set yourself up and only ever need to Draw specific magics from bosses. Later on as you get more and more espers the amount of shit you can refine will get massive and it'll never be a problem.

I hated the game as a kid and literally shelved it for almost two decades. With some help from GameFaqs I was finally able to learn how to play it properly and now really its game play.

edit - and you get like four different espers right away
 
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The combat and leveling system is definitely terrible, and probably the reason so many people say they didn't like FF8. I still like the game since I enjoyed the story (after it made sense), the setting, some of the characters, and the card collecting.

If you can look past the flaws, you can still enjoy a lot about the game.
 
Arbitrary

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Leveling system?

Leveling?

Oh, you mean running around the entire game with No Encounter junctioned.
 
Wombat

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FF8's gameplay was shit, with auto-leveling and the Draw system some of the worst ideas to come out of the entire Final Fantasy series.

The music was pretty damn rad - The Landing, Maybe I'm a Lion, Mods de Chocobo, Don't Be Afraid, and motherfucking Fithos Lusec Wecos Vinosec.
 
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I loved the triple triad side game. But the massive negative was trying to eliminate ballshit rules from regions and constantly having to reset when the Queen of Cards didn't abolish what you wanted gone.

I think it was possible to get the lionheart via triple triad before the end of disc 1 as well.
 
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