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What does /v/ think about FFVIII?
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Best FF.
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>>321081336
Good but the battle system could be improved
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FFX is better
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best in the series

>mfw waiting for FFVIII HD
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>>321081336
shit, even VII is better, summons are fucking movies and battle system is shit
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>>321081336
>No dungeons
>No treasure chests
>No equipment system

Unique as fuck. My favorite in the series.
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How many times
just tell me, how many times please
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My favorite. Your favorite is fun as well. Triple triad is the best minigame in existence. Pretty much the only reason I played XIV as long as I did.
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>>321081336
No need to advance your character. GF and Draw system too easily abused. Same issue FF7 has where the physical damage dealing team with multiple hits is far superior to any other party composition in the game. Dream sequences fucking annoying. 2/5 it was dull.
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It's Fuck You I Liked It: The Game.

Flawed and messy but still extremely enjoyable and probably in my top five Final Fantasy games.
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>>321081336
Best game ever made
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>>321081483
Battle system was fine. Just easily abusable.
>one GF per battle
>one limit attack per battle

That's all the game really needs. There is no greater feeling that doing this
>Triple > Triple > Haste > Protect > Shell > triple Sleep > Draw > Reflect > Triple cast all > Get 9x Thundaga without waking up the enemy.

Fucking awesome.
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>>321081336
has the best girls making it the best game
Pic related
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>>321081336
Best of the whole series.
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>>321081336
Good game aside goth main character and seifer
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>>321081706
How can you have a JRPG without those? It still baffles me.
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>>321081336
>interesting mechanic equipping magic to stats
>interesting setting
>somehow manages to make it boring or irritating

i'm always going to see it as the FF that tried too hard and failed at everything.
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Needed a better chocobo system. But, it's a really fun final fantasy.
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My dad did a Griever tattoo on my right arm. Am I beta yet?
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>>321082014
>manliest ff main character
>hates him

How does anyone hate Squall?
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If ff7 had art style like ff8's I think I would like it better.

ff7 is too anime jap jap shit
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It gets too much flak.

It is probably the worst PS1-era FF game, barely below IX.

It's still a great game, and had mindblowingly amazing graphics for its time.

The first time I summoned leviathan on my pizza hut demo disc, I was amazed at the beautiful animation.
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What do you guys thing about no treasure chests or dungeon crawling? Do you guys think those would ruin the game or make it better?
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GF summons are awesome

Lots of GF's

Balamb Garden can be reached in real life

Story is good

Gunblade is awesome!
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>>321082014
>>321082604
You can say anything you want about squall but he was a fucking profesional when it comes to his job, a badass who does what its needed to be done, he doesnt fuck around

Also, he gets a lot of development in the game
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>>321082903
the dungeon crawling is just in different locations like a school. Sure there aren't any caves, but it's basiclaly the same thing.

Who doesn't like dungeon crawling around a school or spaceship?

>Esther is so fucking big it's part of the world map
Holy fuck FFVIII is fucking god-tier.
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What the fuck was Ellone
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>>321083267
Laguna's fuck toy
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>>321082903
There's items on the ground, and draw points hidden I don't mind it as a replacement.

There's still plenty of dungeons, I don't know what people are talking about. Centra Ruins? The maze you need to go to before the assault in Deiling City? The Castle at the end was a grand dungeon, best designed area of the game. Deep Sea Research Lab? That was two in one practically.
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>>321081336
Squall is the objective leader of the final fantasy protagonists. His only weakness is his choice in women.
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>>321083429
Yeah, but you still don't have to go through a cave or a mountain to reach the next destination. You'd think that would make the game shorter than other RPGs but it doesn't. That's some brilliant design.
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>>321083546
It's not like he had a great selection of women to choose from. Even if he'd gone gay his choices would be shit.
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>>321083546
no he isn't. it's always Warrior of the Light then Cecil. But now it looks like Lightning is taking the 2nd in command after WotL.

Squall is always portrayed as his lonewolf self. Which is funny because in Kingdom Hearts, Square uses his commander personality.
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>>321081706
>in D-District Prison there are a few supply boxes in empty cells
>Zell flips his shit like a little kid when he sees them
Gets me every time
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>>321081595
mein nigga
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>3 years ago
>FUCK SQUALL IS MANLY AS FUCK
>1 year ago
>SQUALL IS A FAGGOT EMO!!! LOL FUCK SQUALL
>Now
>FUCK SQUALL IS MANLY AS FUCK

This cycle needs to stop.
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>>321084007
Warrior of Light is not capable of leading and Cecil lets personal issues take over him. Squall is the leader,
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>>321083920
It's not really a brilliant design, it's just a more modern world, and they travel as if they've been places before.

Trains, boats, automobiles. Floating war schools and spaceships.

Only thing it was missing as a submarine.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_9FiUPswJg

The best intro in any video game ever. I dare you to find me another game that is even close to FFVIII's landing scene.
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>>321084467
That's not the intro though
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>>321081336
my fav
squall is an underrated MC
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>>321084467
>intro
kek
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>>321084515
The dual was good too.
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>>321084580
That feel when no GF
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BEST FEMALES OF THE 3D PS1 ERA FF GIRLS

>Quistis
>Dagger
>Yuffie
>Selphie
>Tifa
>Aerith
>Rinoa
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I love it. The characters, story, aesthetics, and gameplay are all great.

My favorite part are the sidequests and the final dungeon. Creating Doomtrain, the CC Club quest, Deep Sea Research Center, Cetra Ruins, and Cactuar Island were all neat.

I also think the Galbadia Garden "dungeon" at the end of Disc 2 is underrated. Making the player have to think about the map in their head since the areas all looked the same was a nice touch and it has a great soundtrack to it. Plus you can fight muthafuckin' Cerberus who can easily Tornado the fuck out of you.

Pic related. Best girl.
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Whatever.
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Did anyone ever find the Alien?
>realize when Quistis has daily gangbangs with her card club
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>>321081336
It's bad. It's really abhorrently sub-awful. They must have thought having shitty graphics and lame CGI sequences would have made up for the trash balance, backwards ass leveling system and kinda cool GF system.
There is a place in Final Fantasy for junctioning or Guardian pals who learn abilities to help you out and specialize you. This place is not a game where you're punished for leveling, you have to draw magic like an asshole.

The plot being enormous ass is besides the point. It's a bad game first, and a worse plot second. FFVII is looked upon so much more fondly because it's classic gameplay with an easy to understand materia system, and a very nice plot about "stop the bad guys from killing the earth".
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>Edea, Fujin, and Raijin were all originally planned to be in FFVII but were shelved for VIII
>Irvine is based on an early Vincent Valentine design concept from FFVII
How does this make you feel?
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why do FFVIIIfags have to make a thread every day whining about how it's the most controversial FF?
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How's the Steam version? Good enough?
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>>321085068
>How do you feel about game?
>omg stop whining
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>>321085003
>This place is not a game where you're punished for leveling

But thats not true. Enemies have better magic for you to draw as you level up.
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>>321085003
>punished for leveling
>draw better magic
>get stronger
I see no problems
>drawing for magic
>takes less than a minute with good magic stats
LOL
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>>321085047
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>>321081336
The best and the worst FF game at the same time

Best enjoyed with "it's so bad it is good" mindset or by taking it as (un?)intentional parody of JRPGs.
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>>321085085
Uses midi music (maybe it's patched now. I haven't played it since last year) Other than that, it's worth picking up.
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>>321085085
it's hard to recommend because of the shit sound files, square enix drm, and it can be a pain to get a controller working properly.

good enough if you don't want the psn version or emulate or something
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>>321085205
>>321085228
Being, magic should not just be your stats. I get that they go up from Fire to Fira to Thundaga or whatever, but drawing to 100 and junctioning it as your stats is dumb. You NEED those stats if you're leveling as you progress, you can't use magic without getting weaker, the game should encourage you to actually level.

There's a reason they dropped that awful system after one single game. And Limit Breaks being only at low HP so it's a high risk high reward thing is stupid.
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>>321081706
>No dungeons
But that's wrong
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Train Train Take Us Away
Take Us Away Far Away
To the Future We Will Go
Where It Leads No One Knows
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>>321085085

Use Roses and Wine to change the music and use XPadder to set up a controller.
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>>321085537
>selphie selfie
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>>321085434
They dropped Materia after one take, too.

They dropped Trance after one take, too.

desu the 3d PS1 final fantasies all play so differently. And, they're the most fun. FFX comes close, but there's something so comfy about the overworld, and navigating it.
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>tfw you make Lion Heart on disc 1
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>>321085692
Trance was a shit "limit" system, I tell you what
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>>321085537
This always reminds me of LOTR.
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>>321085772
It could atleast reset your command input if you get it after it's been set.
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>>321085434

They could have balanced the game better. Limit breaks are too easy to abuse.

But your complaints about getting weaker as you use magic are common misconceptions. For starters, you don't have to draw to 100. You can draw here and there as you go along and you'll be fine. Secondly, you barely lose any stat when you use a magic and its no problem to just draw again. Finally, there are only so many slots for magic junctions. By Disc 3 there is no need to even junction the elemental spells or stuff like Double and Slow, so you can safely use them in battles.

Or you can bypass all that shit entirely with Enc None and refining magic from Cards. FFVIII has some of the most freedom in how you want to play. Its essentially a situation where you get to set your own difficulty.
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>>321085838
It reminds me of Inception
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>>321085529
Name another dungeon besides fire cave that isn't optional.
Protip: You can't
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>>321086010
>if it's optional it doesn't count
You are an idiot
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>>321086010

Lunatic Pandora (Laguna Dream 2)
Galbadia Garden (Disc 2)
Ragnarok
Lunatic Pandora
Ultimecia Castle
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>>321085767
>tfw you independently learn that you can make Lion Heart on disc 1
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>>321086139
Thanks
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>>321084916
what alien?
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>you will never live in Balamb Garden
>you will never practice with bros in the training area
>you will never go on a quiz with your hot teacher to tame a fire god
>you will never build yourself a shitty swordgun out of junk that you stole your roommate and hit a mighty fire demon so hard with it that he becomes your slave for all eternity
>you will never arrive too late for hotdogs at the cafeteria
>you will never get that Hot Dog
>you will never be praised by Robin Williams
>You will never be told "whatever" by Squall
>you never just fly away with your school when the missiles approach
>you will never pilot Balamb Garden
>you will never turn cards into nuclear materials
>You will never summon a Cactus to sodomize your foes
>You will never summon Eden and wonder what the hell it is
>you will never get a GF by just downloading one from your computer
>you will never live in Balamb Garden and play Triple Triad with Edea with the "Remove one piece of clothing if you lose" rule you brought with you

Why even live?
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Are people who say they like ffx trolling or just nostalgia fags? I recently played through the HD remaster since I didnt play the original version

>awful blitzball mini game
>that cringe inducing dialogue
>the mandatory grinding to beat that fuck on the mountain

Combat was ok i guess, but in the end you only use a select few party members unless youre retarded
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>>321085537
>>321081875
>Selphie
Seek professional help anon
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>>321086185
Galbadia Garden is not a dungeon. It's a "castle" that happens to have battles when you visit the second time.
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Speaking of FFX do you think this guy managed to accomplish his goal?
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>>321086264
If you had to grind to get through Gagazet, I can tell you probably didn't like the game because you sucked at it due to going in with a negative mindset and not being invested.
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>>321086264

>mandatory grinding

FFII and maybe FFIV to an extent are the only games that have this. You can just spam Aeon Overdrives on Seymour. He'll banish them but you get to use your turn first.
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>ffviii is the only ff where status effects actually work on bosses
>you can actually sleep seifer
Holy FUCK
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>>321086245
This one
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>>321086404
LMAO
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>>321086460
You can use status effect on bosses in a lot of FF games, actually.
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>>321086404
They kept that line in the HD version so it's definitely canon. We'll find out in the sequel.
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>>321086254
>tfw writing self-insert fiction based on FFVIII
It's a comfy way to waste time
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>>321086460
>sleep seifer
>draw auras
awww yeah
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>>321081336
One of my favorites.
Motherfuckin Leviathan and El Diablo are awesome.
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>>321082604
Because he's misunderstood and largely jabbers on in internal monologues.
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>>321086635
There's already a sequel, it's called Final Fantasy X-2
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>>321086254
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>>321086584
That's not funny, man. His village was destroyed. All the houses gone, and a lot of people dead. As Sin looked over the village one last time before leaving with destruction in its wake, the only thing that survived floated by: a single blitzball. To this little boy, that blitzball has the strength to survive the onslaught of SIn. Is it any wonder he wants to beomce one when he grows up?
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>>321086782
The other sequel
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>>321086254
>You will never live in Balamb Garden
>You will never trip and fall into lava on a field exam, and watch the flesh melt off your bones as you're burned alive
>You will never get torn to shreds by a monster in the training gardens and have your scattered intestines quietly cleaned up by the janitors
>You will never get painfully killed while on any given mercenary assignment
>You will never be set on fire and stabbed through the neck by one of the staff members in NORG's revolt
>you will never have to live in the same world as Rinoa
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>>321086980
The book is the prequel to X-3 you dummy
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>>321086980
I'll save that before you get banned, faggot.
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I remember playing this in one of those display playstations at a supermarket back in 1999 or 2000. I liked the music.
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>>321087050
You only do merc work if you pass, anon. A lot of students just leave when they turn 18 if they don't graduate because the school can't keep them on anymore.
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>>321086010

the area the Seed test takes place in is a dungeon,The sewers under Deling city and all the events leading to the end of Disc 1 is a dungeon, Galbaldia Garden during the battle of the gardens is a dungeon. You can't leave them once their event starts, there are random encounters and they end with boss fights. Dungeons don't have to be dark underground locations.
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>>321087119
Why would someone get banned for something sfw, faggot?
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>>321086264
Blitzball is the best minigame you faggot.
also if you have to grind in FFX you're playing it wrong
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>>321081336
Terrible game with a good soundtrack and story and writing that are so godawful that they loop around to being amazing.
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>>321087468
>severed head eating pussy
>safe for work
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>squall punches off some other poor sap hanging on a helicopter
Fuck Squall is fucking awesome.
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>>321086325

It is a dungeon you fuckwit. "Dungeons" in RPGs, JRPGs to be exact, is just the colloquial term for any fucking location the game takes you through as part of the story. Sin in FFX is the final dungeon since you mcfucking go inside him.
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>>321085692
>And, they're the most fun.
Haha fuck no, the PS1 FFs had the worst gameplay on average.
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>>321081336
Can't give it more than 7/10
The magic drawing is retarded
Very
Very
Retarded
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>>321088189
It's not retarded. You don't even draw any magic beyond the starter area, and that's only if you're an autist that's played the game before so you know to abuse it.

Really all the magic you need you get from refining items.

Draw is mostly used for GF's.
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>>321088567
>Insulting someone for playing the beyond retarded game the way it's supposed to be played
>It's not the games fault it's horribly designed, it's your fault for not knowing how to break it so that it's not shit.
>Autistic nuub
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explain how Rinoa managed to hold on to the side of Balamb Garden while Galbadia Garden was ramming at it at full speed.
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If/when they make FFVIIIR I'd like to see what they do with driving cars on the overworld, and with how roads affect random encounters
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>>321088935
She's actually a GF. MY gf
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>>321088897
>not knowing how to spam one ability in one battle 50 times for one spell for one character

Seriously it's much better to just wait until you can refine the magic you need anyway. Why abuse a tedious mechanic in a game when they put a much more efficient way to do it later in the game when it might actually make a difference?

Just auto-junction until disc 3, and then worry about what magic you need for a perfect game.

It's like maxing out a sphere grid in FFX before leaving Zanarkand.
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Why you don't have a GF yet, Anon?
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>>321089807
>Dat bush

I can only imagine how soft it is.
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>>321089330
I reiterate. You're shitting on anyone who sat through that unbelievably shit gameplay mechanic because they played the game the way it was meant to be played.

It's fucking garbage and no amount of blaming the victim is going to make it not shit.
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>>321089807
>tfw i've missed her on the majority of my playthroughs

if you're not grinding that back to back boss battle can kick your ass early on speeding through.

atleast disc 4 let's you get her again.
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>>321089807
I can't remember.
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>>321089959
>get guardian force before any battles start
>can clearly see ice magic refine ability from Shiva
>somehow assume there's no possible way to get any bit of magic from the game unless I draw 1-5 spells at a time from an enemy in battle
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dat soundtrack
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>>321089959
If you insist on Drawing for magic instead of refining all the useless items on your inventory to magic (note I said ITEMS not cards) make sure you have a decent magic stat, not only it makes Draw succeed every single time it also quarantees you will always get 9 magicks instead of 1 or 2.
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>>321089959
>played the game the way it was meant to be played.

>Game has a variety of options to get magic, including refining from cards and items, but THAT ISN'T HOW THE GAME IS SUPPOSED TO BE PLAYED

who died and made you president, anon?
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>>321088935

What's so unrealistic about that? If squall could walk off getting his fucking face slashed opened mere hours after the wound was inflicted, and be saved through healing magic after getting fucking IMPALED in the heart, why can't some broad keep her grip while two air ships crash into each other?
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>>321082653

i dont precisaly like ff7 but the art style is more colorfull, i like both if not ff8 better though
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>>321091238
Not even the incredible Hulk could hang on there and I'm supposed to believe this skinny teenage girl can? Seriously go outside and see if you can hang on a flat side of rock and then think about how much force a Garden side object ramming into that rock would have.

As for the impaled by icicle think we are talking about characters that are shot, stabbed, electrocuted, set on fire and frozen in blocks of ice to name just a few of the things that happen to them on a daily basis and just like you said they have magic and technology to heal them in FFVIII's universe but as far I'm aware they don't have stuff that allows you to hold on to a flat slippery rocks.
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>>321083546

at least he choosed the cutest
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>>321084245
this

even when he wasnt as developed squall never let his personal issues get in the way
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>>321092290
>they have magic and technology
>but as far I'm aware they don't have stuff that allows you to hold on to a flat slippery rocks.

Jesus Christ mate.
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>>321081336
GOAT
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>>321092290

>Hulk couldn't hang on there

You clearly haven't read enough Hulk if you think Hulk couldn't keep a grip on some ledge
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>>321081336

Best main series game. Which the general public offline likes. But online, everyone becomes a FFVIII hater to join the bandwagon.
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>>321093463
>tfw you get the boost that lets you mash until fade
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>>321093463

this summon gave a boner on my teenage days..
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>>321086010

>Name another dungeon besides fire cave that isn't optional.
So dungeons only count if they're on the main story path? What the fuck?

And as loose as the term 'dungeon' is, it can be anything from the sewers to the ice caves to forgotten tomb to Odin's cave to the final castle.
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>>321093662

What haters? I've never seen any actual hating, just meming. Forced meming about some nonexistent persecution where either FF7 or FF9 fans supposedly shit on FF8 fans
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>>321092876
Go and ask someone who actually has done rock climbing about how easy it is to hang on a side of a slippery rock without any safety equipment. Then ask how easy it would be if there was a city sized object banging that rock.

>>321093195
Do remember Rinoa involuntarely falls on side that rock and is hanging there on with like two fingers the whole time. Sure if incredible Hulk were to grap the side of rock on PURPOSE and with his whole hand he might be able to hang on but we are talking about a weak skinny teenage girl here.
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>>321084242
Agreed. Time must be compressed so that Squall can be emo and manly simultaneously
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>>321093981

Dude, it's a fucking FANTASY game, if the girl can launch her dog off her arm with a nonexistent sling, why can't she cling to some rocks for a few minutes? Christ, you sound like the people who keep asking why Aerith couldn't be given a phoenix down.
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>>321094104

10/10
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Ultimecia's Castle is literally the greatest dungeon of all time.
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Reminder if you didn't use Irvine you had shit taste
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>>321095575
I did my first playthrough, all bro team with Zell. After that I started using Quistis and Zell.
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>>321095092
Ultimecia is literally the best FF girl of all time.
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>>321095717
I hated using Zell because the limit break one shotted everything once you got gud

It just felt so cheap
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>>321095962

I enjoyed Zell for the exact same reason. Using his limit break made you feel like you were actually, you know, playing a game. Instead of just choosing 'attack' endlessly, you had to input button combos in a limited amount of time.
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You know you could live with us forever...
We understand that you live on earth and you REALLY wish to live here.
How do I know? Because I've been watching you, silly!
You just have to do...one thing.

I know this will be tough but once it's over and done, you'll get to live here!
What are you waiting for?

Am I alone in thinking that Balamb Garden was a pretty good VIDEO GAME related fad?
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The interactive limit breaks were a nice touch.

It felt good to get a perfect on the complex squall desperation attacks, same with good combos on zell.
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>tfw The Palace 32 was kind of popular
>tfw I found Balamb Garden server
>tfw I found it had a MOTHER FUCKING FINAL FANTASY COLOSSEUM.

OMFG I WAS SO FUCKING ADDICTED TO THIS SHIT. HAVING TO SHARE IT WITH MY SISTER IN ONE HOUR INCREMENTS AS A CHILD KILLED ME.
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>>321095962
>>321096342
You guys are aware that Irvine's limit break is the potentially the strongest attack in the entire game?

>max Irvine's Str. stat
>get 100 Fast Ammo somewhere
>use Irvine's limit break and start hitting R1 like the motherfucking fist of the north star
>????
>profit
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>>321096901

Selphie's limit break is the strongest. Because she can cast full-heal the party every single turn.

Dealing damage is fine. But you can do shit damage and still win easily if your HP never drops.
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>>321081336
The best game in the series. I personally love the battle system. The soundtrack is great, but keep in mind that if you're buying the PC version on steam, you're gonna have to replace the MIDI sountrack with the PSX soundtrack with the Roses and Wine mod.
Also Triple Triad rocks
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>>321097231
Selphie's is the strongest not because she can use Full-Cure, but because she can insta-win almost every battle with The End.
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Is FFVIII the most broken game in the FF series

QUAKE, TRIPLE, CURAGA
three junctions which can be gotten as early as the twins in disc 1 boss make the rest of
the game a fucking joke.

Characters reek of little to no development
Ass backwards time travel plot
drawing is one of the dumbest gameplay elements in any of the series.
no reason to cast magic just attack or draw to have better junctions.
no way to skip summoning animations
nomura designs yet another cast of full on homosexuals
soap opera tier love story complete with a love triangle, a loss of life, and a whole lack of sexual tension that makes every scene about it either cringeworthy or just plain boring depending on the scene.
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>>321100651
I forgot to add one thing
Triple Triad is one of the best minigames and almost makes this game worthwhile. ALMOST.
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it belongs in the garbage can.
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>>321100651
the junction system being easy exploitable is true, but the no character develpment?, fucking play the game instead of repeating what shitposters say, dumb fuck
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>>321100651
You're not allowed to skip summon animations for a reason, you're not supposed to rely on them, which is what makes the timed portions easy if you don't use gf's except for blocking purposes
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>>321101102
The reason is because you can boost them with the square button, not because of whatever you mentioned
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well shit I was gonna start dumping my scans of "the sky" but file size limit fucking me and I dont feel like converting 5gigs of shit
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It was pretty fun. Easily broken and the story was hilariously bad, but fun.
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>>321100651

>Is FFVIII the most broken game in the FF series
Yes. But so is pretty much any FF game.

>Characters reek of little to no development
Just Rinoa. All the other characters have development, either directly through story or indirectly by exploring their home towns/gardens to learn about them.

>Ass backwards time travel plot
True.

>drawing is one of the dumbest gameplay
It could have been done better. But its still better than many other FF systems.

>no reason to cast magic just attack or draw to have better junctions.
Or junction less used magic to your Magic stats and spam magic for high damage. By your logic, its pointless to use magic in FFVII when you just have overpowered materia that makes basic attacks, limit breaks and summons overpowered.

>no way to skip summoning animations
Don't summon if you hate them so much? By your own argument, you can skip everything besides spamming attack.

The ability to boost summons is one of the few things the FF series has done right.

>nomura designs yet another cast of full on homosexuals
That's why half the cast is female? And all of them want Squall's dick (except Selphie who wants Irvine's). And one of the few games where the main male protagonist actually gets with a girl at the end?

>soap opera tier love story complete with a love triangle, a loss of life, and a whole lack of sexual tension that makes every scene about it either cringeworthy or just plain boring depending on the scene.
True. The story connected to Rinoa is really its major flaw. But as usual, all FF games have stupid plot twists or weak love plots that ruin them. Just look at Final Fantasy X.
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Ok ill dump 2 I felt like converting
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>>321101367
still not supposed to rely on them, getting kills with gf doesn't count towards your seed rank experience
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got some stuff that isnt from the artbook also that are already jpg's if anyone wants those
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>use boost
>get too eager
>reset back to 75

FUUUU
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>>321101483
>drawing is better than other FF systems
no
The only one even remotely arguable as being equally bad was the debuff your characters had for X amount of battles when you switched their job in 3
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>>321081336
my stepbrother who's a giga chad loves it...

He was a football star and has worked at his dad's company making dosh for years. He got married recently and his wife kept her last name and they had a kid with both last names.

He moved in with her and her folks and helped them out with bills and shit and he did everything he could to help them but recently he got kicked out by her dad cause he disagreed with her father over something stupid and small.

Now he's a mess and staying with my mom and his dad in their basement, rotating his time between being a broken shell of man and bawling his eyes out and playing COD and other shitty FPS's, and watching whatever trash is on tv nowadays for single white males.

Meanwhile im getting my boipussi fucked by my boyfriend and playing video games with him and watching anime, ordering out most nights and living the dream of playing video games in panties and thighhighs
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>>321102159

>drawing for magic is comparable to being gimped with class changes

What's next. You're gonna compare the learning system in FFII to Zidane's steal rate?

To explain, since I know you don't get it, they're not fucking related at all.
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>>321102778
No out of all the shitty mechanics across the FF games that is the only one I could think of being even close to equally shitty.
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>>321102630
this literally has nothing to do with FFVIII
you fucking dumbass
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fucking garbage game
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>>321102778
Not him but i find it hard to believe anything could be as bad as Zidane-catboy for hire-fuck me anytime-tribal

>>321102990
I was giving you backstory into the people that enjoy that final fantasy game, like how i'd talk about what a faggot you are if you enjoy it :3.
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>>321084761
>tfw Rinoa was a whore trying to make her bf jealous by flirting with squall
>tfw Squall popped his cherry with used goods
Favorite of the franchise and in Dissidia, but he got a shit girl.
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>>321103140
>zidane being some little part of your faggy fantasy
>not blonde alien bartz chasing princess ass

I mean from the post above its obvious you are sick in the head being a fag and all so I really shouldnt make fun of the mentally handicapped but still.
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Nah it really isnt fair to say that about Zidane, it just lets me know how much you really know about the game since most people on /v/ dont really play video games anymore.

Anybody that's played the game knows what a lovable skirt chaser he is and remembers the scene on the first disc where he grab's garnet/dagger's booty when they get on the airship.

He really doesn't look the part though and is really skinny and emo looking, compared to so many other final fantasy protags who look manly as fuck but are super emo and gay
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>>321103675
thats ok
I was just using ad hominem to bully you anyway I dont give a fuck if you suck dick more power to you
Youre right about most people not playing them., which is extremely easy to spot in 7 threads with people talking about Cloud being in soldier or being friends with sephiroth
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>>321103351

>not blonde alien bartz chasing princess ass

More like Goku who isn't pure of heart.
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>>321102985

You're not trying hard enough. If we're gonna consider every single mechanic in the FF universe, then stuff like OHKO bosses, losing the best weapon in the game by not opening a chest at the right time, missing party members by not doing hidden quests or story locked events are easily the worst things the series does.

But you're mostly just trying too hard to hate on drawing. Which is dumb since you can avoid it completely by using draw points, card refining and etc.
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>>321104158
I really hope those people are trolling though, I want to believe they are just trolling but with the amount of idiots inhabiting this board increasing with everyday, i'm not sure who's being ironic and who is being sincere.

it's okay my boyfriend's parents believe i'm an abomination and a sin against god and i'm dragging his soul down to hell, they won't even let me inside their house and it tears me apart inside because I love him and want him to spend time with them because I believe family is important

Anyway, I AM playing growlanser 2 right now after playing wayfarer of time and needing to take a break from the absurd and stupid battles in that game before I do a second evil playthrough. How about you anon are you playing anything fun?
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>>321104158

>which is extremely easy to spot in 7 threads with people talking about Cloud being in soldier or being friends with sephiroth
I'm really getting tired of this being the defacto argument in every FFVII debate. Most people have played FFVII. They just have a different view of the character than the FFVII defense patrol.

If any other game came out with a character who was so insular and brooding, then was stuck in a wheelchair with mako aids, he would be a joke. Yet FFVII fans have to work as hard as they can to explain how 'deep' Cloud is.
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>>321105564
I hate to stifle video game threads but its gottentto the point with the circular arguments I wish we could throw them all into the FF general, lots of us have already played the game years ago and dont see any point in rehashing the thought again.

I like the occasional old FF thread on v but at this point its just fucking ridiculous when we could talk about other games.

>>321104613
This is my post and I play old rpgs all the time and no one wants to have a thread about them, I wish more people would give these old rpgs a chance but I doubt itll ever happen. I'll never get to discuss say Xenogears even a tenth as much as these final fantasy faggots get to discuss their rehashed game even though xenogears would have benefitted a million times more from a remake to fix the second disc.
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>>321101480

Eh, not like any FF has a completely flawless plot
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>>321103140
>>321103675
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>>321104276

>the Zidane is just Goku meme

Fuck
off
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>>321107706

>Sakaguchi obsesses over Akira Toriyama
>makes four games with him
>copies Dragon Ball and Dragon Quest often
>Zidane is an alien with a money tail

Yeah. Zidane was totally an isolated incident with no inspiration from Goku.
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>>321081336
best in the series
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I liked the romance and the setting was different enough. Gameplay was easy to break but I tried not to and got enough enjoyment out of it.

It's my favourite FF.
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>>321110020

>mfw I just ran through the game without worrying and my characters got to level 100
>still beat the end boss with no issues

Honestly don't know why people go to all the effort to run from everything and keep their level below 20. Its not like the game is hard even at level 100.
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>>321081336

It's a great FF game, only buttmad FFVII fanbois shitpost about it.
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