What the fuck is this bullshit
git gud
One of those Windows 95 screensavers as a final boss.
>>320954046
A superball.
>>320954046
>those names
>bringing Freya to Ozma unless that one dragon ability is maxed out
Why was this person allowed to play this game?
>>320954046
>Those names
>>320954267
>final boss
>>320954046
So you finally up to one of the most bullshit bosses in vidya history. Good luck
>>320954046
Ozma? Just the laziest designed enemy in FF history. Also probably the most difficult.
>>320954046
>the names
You are a faggot
>>320954046
Same framerate as the actual game.
>>320954046
Lore wise, it's supposed to be so powerful it doesn't have a definite form.
Instead it just gives people the impression that they just got lazy in designing a superboss.
>>320954046
bounce back to 2002
>My Ps2 had no other games than this
>"You play that game too much anon" Mom said
>Doesnt know what she's talking about
>I play the game just as much as anyone else
>Cant afford other games anyway(only 11)
>Knowing the game's huge, mom "loses" disk 3
>"If I find it I'll put it in it's case, I promise"
>Stupid slut never puts it in its case...
>Really agitated that she wont find it
>Only game I got
>"Can you please get it for me mom?
>Killing me not being able to play
>Hadn't seen it in weeks
>A boy defeated, I gave up and went outside
>Realizing what she did, mom said:
>"Defeated you are, to find the game, you should read the first letter of every sentence
>>320954967
Fuck you for making me read your blog post only to see it's just a shitty meme bait LE VEE KULTURE xDDDD
Ozma is easy
>Garnet
>limit
>summon Bahamut forever until Ozma is dead
Takes like an hour but you can watch TV or do something else
>>320954967
>.jpeg image and filename giving away the suprise.
2/10 literally reddit levels of subtlety. You post the pasta as is and let the replies provide the reaction images for you.
>>320954967
fuck off retard
It's only really bad because it can cast Curse before you even get a fucking turn. I guess Meteor is a little bullshit too. But it's not that bad when you manipulate the AI.
>>320954652
>>320954915
The lore is that the form of an eidolon is based on the stories told about it. When the dead pass through the Crystal of Life, their memories of those stories are given form. Ozma was born, and then sealed away and forgotten a long time ago. So he exists, but the stories about him are gone so he's formless.
>>320954967
>ps2
>disc 3
wat
>>320954967
>>320955716
You can play ps games on a ps2
..you do know that right? And FF9 had like 4 discs
>>320954513
>Not having Dragon's Crest maxed out
It's like you don't even want to hit cheap guaranteed 9999's every turn.
>>320954046
>those names
>>320955850
>mfw much of the old areas are blocked off on disc 4 to make room for all the goddamn CGIs
They should have made a separate disc for the ending or something, this shit was annoying. If I remember correctly there were some items you needed to craft some of the best stuff that you couldn't get anymore on disc 4. Mythril Sword for Grand Armour comes to mind.
>>320955716
FUCKING UNDERAGE REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>320954046
a meteor spamming superboss
I was never man enough to beat Ozma, killed Hades at least.
>>320954046
It's FF9. It disappointed more than a few people.
>be ausfag
>FFX gets the international version where as EU/US didn't
>mfw fighting the Dark Aeons
>people had no idea what I was talking about
>>320954046
>those character names
Actual autism
>>320956252
>tfw forgot octagon rod
>>320956693
Except EU did get the International version. At least where I live it was the only version available.
>>320954046
Leliel from Evangelion.
>those party names
>cant beat Ozma
Kek, Why am I not surprised
Fighting Ozma reminded me of fighting Ruby Weapon from FF7. A cheap ridiculous boss that has a answer to just about everything, that you are forced to cheese it if you expect to win. Only difference is that you could paralyze Ruby Weapon, while Ozma you just had to deal with in general. There is no set up that gives you a 100% chance of victory against Ozma, there is always the chance that he will do something that ruins your entire plan.
I used Zidane, Vivi, Steiner & Garnet and just spammed my most powerful moves and made sure Garnet was on standby to heal
Apparently that's not even a good team for that boss, get good
>>320955683
come on man, thats 2deep for the average neo/v/ anon
In retrospect the Zodiark fight is a lot like Ozma's.
>>320955683
But she did have a formBeing the most OP character in LUCT
Anyone else only 100% FF9? I was too scared to fight the optional bosses in 7, 8 & 10
Probably because FF9 was the only system I fully understood, in the other games I struggled through whereas in FF9 I was immune to every boss' bullshit before even challenging it
> implying Rinoa is a bad guy
Pls stop
>>320955683
I totally dig how Ozma looks. Giant, beautiful sphere of death. What's not to like? It's a better design than most bosses.
>>320954046
>This game has a super boss
Nigga, i could only get past Necron by constantly trying again and hop grand cross wouldn't finish fuck me over by relying on RNG and giving everyone as many atarus reaustinces as i could.
Iirc in came down to steiner being the only one alive spamming elixers and that meteror sword.
This game is hard.
>>320957765
*status resistances
>>320955683
Ozma is wonderfully terrifying in its simple, uncanny design. Is it a dragon? Nope. Is it a gigantic angel of death with one wing and bloody eyes? Nope. It's a swirly sphere of death, and it will fuck your day up.
In a game full of imaginative designs in world and enemies, I think Ozma was completely deliberate. I can appreciate it for what it is.
Also easiest boss once you know how to handle it.Wear Dark-absorb gear, grind out Thievery and Dragon's Crest, and fuck its shit up.
>>320954046
Something so dumb even Duke Nukem poked fun at it.
>>320957761
NO it's not. Ozmo was one of the worst designed bosses in the final fantasy series and I love FF9 to death
>>320958224
Well, I just think it looks cool.
>>320955683
All things considered, they could have done a lot better than a ball if formless was what they were going for.
>>320955914
How long to grind for that?
>>320958224
>a tripfags opinion
>>320954046
no one beats ME at marbles, faggot!
>>320954046
the ENDGAME BOSS NIGGA
>>320958558
Not long at all. Level 5 Death kills Grand Dragons instantly and you only need 100 of them, minus how many other dragons you've killed through the game. Grinding Thievery or Frog Drop takes way longer.
>>320954046
Protip: Every time you enter a command for a party member, Ozma will always get to act before the command you entered is executed. Essentially giving Ozma 5 turns every round.
wow this thread is just overflowing with underage.
arent you kids still in school? christmas isn't for like 4 more days
>>320954046
Ozma has some sort of special property other bosses dont have.
I dont remember what it is exactly, but its something like, for every 5 times you move the cursor, he takes an extra action.
Thats not exactly it, but it was something that was along those lines. I think for some reason attacks with long animations were better.
>>320954046
this boss can be easily beaten solo with just vivi if you have Ninja Gear
Theres a face on that ballTheres also a flower above that face
>>320955683
Don't forget that Ozma's two halves represent the two planets.
>>320959213
>When Ozma uses curative magic on itself, the top half of the sphere is shown casting the spell. However when using magic that causes status ailments (except for Mini) or black magic, the bottom half is shown casting the spell. Finally, when casting Doomsday, Ozma will spin around, representing both halves casting the spell.
Man FF9 had some cool details
>>320959213
>>320954967
Beautiful
I've played FF9 as a child, but never did most of the big side stuff (no guide, or internet).
I'm playing through it again, on Disc 3 after just getting the airship and I'm goiong to try and beat Ozma and get the secret ending. I'm really excited.
>>320959061
I looked it up.
Ozma gets a free turn every time you input a command while hes neutral.
"Neutral" means not in the middle of an attack animation.
HOW THE FUCK DID SHE SUMMON EIDOLONS!?
Why the fuck is Superboss lore so much more interesting than regular lore?
>>320957750
Dissidia makes it blindingly obvious.
>>320959061
Nah. Every time you input a command, Ozma gets its ATB gauge instantly filled and gets an action before the one you input. The way to avoid that from happening is only inputting commands while Ozma is locked in an animation.
Is there a game where you basically become optional superboss tier?
>>320959775
Because Necron has zero lore or possible explanation.
>>320959862
Live A Live
The fantastic pc to psn port of ffvii REALLY makes me want the same treatment for ffviii-ix. For those unaware that means 3x game speed, off/on for random encounters and if you're a total scrub, limit break/full health cheat.
>>320957714
I regularly 100% VII, it's way easier and I find it way more enjoyable since there are many dominant strategies that involve basic grinding, unlike IX's frog/theft grinding. I've never truly 100% IX though in that I've never done an Excalibur 2 run.
>>320959945
Necron is the opposite to the crystal, and they form a logical pair.
Crystal = life and memory
Necron = death and oblivion
The crystal isn't foreshadowed either but nobody complains about that.
>>320960289
Pretty sure the game box mentions the crystal. Not that I have any idea what it's significance is.
>>320959747
Kuja hooked her up with the means to artificially summon Eidolons, the same way he himself can.
It's magic, I ain't gotta explain shit.
>>320960214
Does it even keep track of if you use the cheats? Any kind of mark on the save file or anything?
>>320960289
>>320960579
It's right there in the fucking logo.
Honestly, if they'd just dropped some sort of line saying that Necron is the "Soul of the Iifa Tree" or some shit, it would've been fine. Seeing as the tree dies when he's killed, it more or less makes sense.
>>320954046
>changing names
>not using Vivi and Steiner
Your a fag OP just reflect his spells
>>320957765
Necron isn't hard, just nullify the worst status effects and leave the non-lethal or interrupting ones
I beat Necron in a single try the first time I played because I knew about Grand Cross
>>320959747
Brahne had to have the black mages channel their energy in some manner to summon Bahamut, if you forgot. Since there is a thematic connection between genomes and black mages, it's fair to assume that the latter are based on Kuja himself and their power is similiar to his but on a much smaller scale.
>>320960808
>what is Doomsday?
>>320961112
>Not wearing darkness absorb/resist gear to have it deal 0 damage or even heal you
>>320956693
>FFX gets the international version where as EU/US didn't
>EU didn't
Uh....Anon...
>>320961112
>what is darkness absorbing/nullifying armor?
Do the friendly monsters sidequest and he ends up hurting himself with it and healing your party to full.
>>320961259
Did you honestly expect an australian to be right about something?
Eternal reminder that Beatrix gets away with everything she does
>>320961417
Much like mercenary officers have throughout real world history.
>>320959213
Is it Tidus' face? Because that shit looks like a blitzball to me. Is FF9 a sequel for FFX-3??!?!
>dumbfucks miss the themes of the game just like in FF8 and complain Necron has no foreshadowing
Necron is the end point of all the game's themes, the characters find their meaning of what is to live, but Kuja cannot. And the truth of his existence as an inferior is too much to bear, this opposite force combined with the release of the power of the crystal (by its shattering) summons a being who embodies Kuja's feelings, and is ready to destroy the world. Kuja did not want the world to continue without him
Once again dumb fucks can't get simple JRPG stories and their themes. Just goes to show how simple FF7 was, since every moron got it but couldn't understand FF8 or 9
It does make me feel like the localizations needed the verbal ticks to make the dumb Western audience understand, although I feel Rinoa's personality was easy to get, as was Kuja's
>>320961417
I thought her attack was total bullshit, it's like you totally fuck her up and then that one attack just floors you and she goes I WIN PATHETIC FOOLS despite taking a fuckload of damage
>>320961623
I thought it was more like officers getting away with what the generals tell them to do?
But I guess they went after the Nazi generals so it's a moot point.
>>320958909
nigga its the 21st. What school waits till the day before?
>>320961268
Weren't there other quests/events you could do to affect Ozma or was it only the friendly monsters sidequest?
>>320962169
>MFW trying to steal Mythril Sword from her in Bermecia
>>320962079
FF8's story is simple.
FF9's story is complex
FF7's story is stupid.
>>320962556
I love FFIX but how is the story complex? It was pretty straightforward from start til end.
>>320962556
FF8's story isn't simple if we use the word 'story' correctly so that it refers to the presentation, which was way too difficult for most people.
>>320962450
>mfw trying to steal anything
I was on that ogre boss for fucking hours trying to steal its shit
>>320962781
>>320962556
Why do people say 8's story was difficult to understand?
At what point do people lose track of the story? I always assumed it was fairly comprehensible even if it's not straightforward
>>320962969
>Trying to steal the Fairy Flute
>EVER
>What's that? You want my flute?
>Good luck.
>>320959747
I supposed once extracted to gems everyone can use them to a limited amount of times?
>>320962656
The Black Mages, Genomes, different worlds combined, world at war, summoners, Kuja, Brahne. It's pretty complex.
As opposed to FF8 being kill the sorceress. The end goal was the same as the start goal.
FF7 had the whole Shinra/Sephiroth/Hojo dumb shit, hurka durka i'm not real, hurka durka yadda yadda.
>>320959213
It'sexdeath
>>320963320
I guess if you put it like that it's pretty complex.
>>320963034
Explain the symbolism and thematic significance of Lunar Cry. No, not the in-universe reason for how it happens, but why the game was made in a way that such a sequence could be included in the first place.
>>320959061
look up ozmas script, its pretty crazy what he does depending on the situation and your parties defenses and immunities.
>>320954046
IIRC everytime you perfomed an action Ozma would get a free turn before you, so you had to wait for everyone bar to fill at once
that angel from Evangelion
>>320962359
Pretty sure doing the friendly monsters is the only thing. Makes him not be too far away for melee attacks and makes his dark absorb into dark weakness instead.
>>320963320
What I want to know is why does Mist Continent have three human cities based on Europe, and then a random India themed rat-people kingdom?
Ultimecia is the best final boss and villain
ALL EXISTENCE DENIED
>>320962556
>FF7's story is stupid.
FF7's story is fucking awesome, you mean.
Evil mutagenic shapeshifting lifeforce-vampire alien crashes to earth. The planet (which is sentient) tries to destroy the alien using drastic measures, while the treehugging denizens of the planet manage to seal the alien (but almost all perish in the process). One or two thousand years later, a bunch of fuckhead non-treehugging humans unseal the alien and clone it. The resulting human/alien-clone hybrid (believing that its alien "mother" is the worthy inheritor of the planet) tries to help the alien use a giant meteorite to crack the planet open like an egg so the alien can suck all the runny goodness out and then ride the empty shell like a surfboard across space and find another planet to crack open and eat the contents of. Your characters (including a guy who is jacked up on mutagenic alien cells that are mindfucking him) have to stop the alien and its humanoid clonebaby. Also, the planet, realizing the alien is back, goes back to its original plan of trying to fight the alien using gigantic Evangelion-style biological robots, which your characters also end up having to stop.
It's a simple, fun story, brimming with eldritch abominations, giant biological robots, sentient planets, evil clonebabies, etc... I can't wait for Square Enix to completely fuck it all up in the remake. I mean just literally fucking ruin it on every level. Take a wonderful, wacky JRPG adventure and just skullfuck it to death by taking everything too seriously, y'know?
>>320963952
FF is pretty terrible when it comes to geopolitics: most worlds have 1-3 kingdoms/countries made out of 1-2 cities and yet there is a "balance of power" between them. FFT was the only one with a shred of plausibility
>>320961417
She also has the best theme song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxZlJGtFGcw
>>320962969
you can't, its bugged in a way where you can NEVER steal it's item.
gl trying though...
>>320964308
What about FFXII?
And hell, the story of FF2 is the lack of balance since the empire fucks everyone up.
>>320964353
I adore it, but protecting my devotion is better.
>>320964279
But FF8 had zombie president train hijack
That's way cooler
>>320964398
Mate I watched someone play IX and steal that goddamn flute. It's not bugged, it just has the lowest probability value and the real mystery is why the devs thought this was okay to do.
>>320964279
The world would've been a lot cooler without the Avalanche crew. If it was the world defending itself with the Weapons it would've been pimp as fuck. Made a better movie than a game.
Could've been a monster movie with a twist. The monster is saving the planet, only by collaterally destroying big parts of the world.
So what was eden from ff8? 50 fucking years later and it still bothers me. Was it a proto garden? An organic sentient garden? There was no lore explaining it
There was also that one crater in the world that had "?" every time you examined it
Please help me
>>320963952
Cleyra probably had past influences from whatever civilizations were out in the rest of the world before the planetary compression and Iifa Tree fucked everything up.
>>320954513
>That foreshadowing
>>320964112
>Ultimecia
>not Kefka
no
>>320964353
I thought Beatrix was a dude for a bit when I first started the game.
>>320964696
Either some ancient Esthar garden prototype, or some future WMD garden for taking out sorceresses since the world got terrified of them after Ultimecia's bullshit.
>>320964636
The Timber train mission is a good sequence. The Owls have a fake train car and a fake president and switch it with the real one, but even the real president is fake! It's a great punchline.
>>320964952
It's scary as fuck
>>320964398
>can NEVER steal
Actually thats not true, Its true its bugged, But it is possible to steam, its just a really really low chance, 1/256 if i remember.
You know how i know its not completely bugged?I stole after 2 hours
>>320964279
ff7 has the same plot as chrono trigger but without time travel.
>alien comes to earth to eat the planet
>humans try to utilize its power
>oh no bad thing happen
>aerthith was a prostitute
>>320964945
i thought kuja was a grill ;_;
>>320965384
>humans try to utilize its power
They didnt try to utilize Lavos, they didnt even know about him until judgement day,did they?
>>320963557
>>320963557
It represents the consequences of power and peoples desire to continuously gain more.
The Lunar Cry is established as a counterpoint to the success of Sorceress Adel and the Estharian army.
Ones desire for power, and rule ultimately creates the very atmosphere for every event in the entire ff8 universe.
Without the Lunar Cry the conditions for ff8 wouldn't exist
In that regard it's like an earthquake, or other natural event. People often live in areas where natural events can cause deaths, notice I didn't use disaster since disaster is an outdated term based on the assumption that the particular event was unknown to occur.
Going back to the Lunar Cry, we can assume that it's the same kind of natural event, occurring without regards to human kind.
Like how nature acts in ways that go beyond our level of though, as if nature is not inclined to answer our questions, it rarely is without proper probing.
However Sorceress Adel goes too far, and when Esthar discovers the crystal pillar they've achieved a way to artifically create these natural events, to draw more and more monsters onto the world.
These Artificial Lunar Cry's act as the binding that brings the whole world together. It's one of the main reasons Dr. Ondine
Lunar Cry is the greed of humans. Humans actively and knowingly put themselves in areas/situations which are knowingly negative.
But why does the moon cry for humanity? Because of what humanity does to itself, to each other. The need for power, the desire for that power and control it causes the moon to cry.
To show it's displeasure in the only way it can, to fight against the rule of humanity and it's greed it tries to introduce a foreign life.
One thats meant to unite people, to focus on whats important, to instill morals and ideas of togetherness and dispel ones of personal greed and the pursuit of power.
>>320965204
FFIX's steal algorithm is so complex that, 15 years later, there STILL isn't a code to modify a steal rate to 100% without something else fucking up too.
>>320965536
>>They didnt try to utilize Lavos
What is the entirety of 12000 BC?
>>320964696
>>320964952
>>320965097
The gardens are apparently ancient Centra constructs that were remodeled into awesome gigantic moving mercenary orphanages. Esthar is also a remnant of Centra technology.
>>320965536
Zeal's magic was all powered by Lavos.
>>320965536
12,000 BC, the Zeal kingdom had the Mammon Machine for harvesting Lavos's power
>>320965807
>>320965785
>>320965707
Fair enough, I didnt remember fully, Thanks
>>320965905
Sounds to me like it's time for you to go back and play the game again, anon
>>320960807
there is mention of him when you try to get the gulag stone I think
>>320965536
http://chrono.wikia.com/wiki/Mammon_Machine
>>320965557
How did you not even mention the blatant sexual imagery?
>>320964472
>protecting my devotion
Mein nigger.
>>320965707
The best portion of the game is what it was
And the least amount of time spent in. Its criminal
1. use amarant
2. equip pumice piece
3. use curse (weakness to shadow)
4. wait for doomsday
5. ???
6. profit
>>320965704
Wait, really?
>>320964112
that was necron too
>>320966206
Well when I played the game I was 10, so I honestly missed that.
I guess I should go back and replay it, everything I wrote earlier is probably incredibly wrong and I just look retarded.
>>320966328
I would love to be proven wrong. But even the best ones generally rely on taking no turns in between stealing or an item in the steal list will get skipped entirely. Shit is fucking unreal.
>>320966598
I mean, it's not particularly subtle.
There's a big fucking FMV of an egg menstruating all over Esthar because it was attracted by a floating phallos. Not everything can or should be read as sexual but this time it's inarguable. It's tied to the whole feminine power thing the sorceresses have going on. Esthar isn't incidental in this either. It's characterised by being very sterile and clean, with focus on technology instead of magic or nature, which makes it distinctly masculine and explains why being hit by Lunar Cry is presented as the apocalypse.
>when it clicks that OP changed the party names to the main antagonists of 7-10
>>320962316
The one in my town. Kids are in school the 24th and have until the 1st off.
>>320963124
>>320963304
Still can't believe I put myself through that hell.
>>320954046
>those names
Wtf.
>>320968527
>Garland
>Rinoa
>Main Antagonist
m8
>>320967043
This just makes FFIX even cooler. Though now I'm doubting if I ever managed to steal a Fairy Flute...
>>320969023
>implying Garland isn't the main antagonist even if he's not the final boss
>implying Rinoa isn't the main antagonist either
Anon, come on here.
