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Final Fantasy VIII |OT| Gabe Finally Passes the SeeD Exam
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Draw/Cast Demi on him. Boom. Take advantage of a Limit aaaanndddd battle over.
Zantetsuken88
Member
I'd go a step further and say draw/stock demi - then next turn cast it on him from your magic reserves and he'll counter you by casting curaga on the character who cast the spell.
Silly little GF.
tiggerkiddo
Member
Lionheart felt so good to hit. I love the unique animations for Renzokuken...
H3avyM3tal
Banned
I don't remember a 'zombie' spell being in the game?
I remember when I was younger buying this game but skipping it because one of my friends said that leveling up increased monster's levels. I threw the game into a corner of my closet because I love grinding and leveling up. I will buy it now because I don't care as much.
It's probably the same reason why I have The Last Remnant but never play it. I kinda don't like that mechanic, but TLR's is worse in my opinion.
It's probably the same reason why I have The Last Remnant but never play it. I kinda don't like that mechanic, but TLR's is worse in my opinion.
Zantetsuken88
Member
You can still do a crap-ton of grinding in VIII if you want to. It's just mostly more important to draw and stock loads of spells to assign to your stats than it is to gain actual levels.
If you don't grind at all, you would eventually hit a wall where certain bosses are just too difficult to get past.
Basileus777
Member
Console TLR's handling of levels and enemy scaling is borderline broken. Thank god the PC version fixed it.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
You're right, the OP was indeed updated! Thanks man.
Did you not read the OP or are you wondering about a better fix?
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
Read above.
TheContact
Member
Anyone get the dpad to work? I'm using ps3 controller with the tricked out 360 drivers posted earlier here. (was using motioninjoy before) Only the analog stick is working for me, I like it for movement but hate it for selecting on the battle screen
Oddly enough, I had the worst luck drawing Demi, so I had to resort to using GFs
The
Fake President
I dunno, but VIII has always been my least favorite FF. Everything felt really watered down in the game (the characters were extremely bland, story had potential but failed, the draw system broke the game for me in first few hours without even trying etc.) Still played +50 hours of it, so I wouldn't say it was bad. Wouldn't buy the steam-version though.
Unknown One
Member
drawing is dependent on your magic stats.
AdawgDaFAB
Member
Cross posting from the release thread. Anyone tested this yet?
And Holy Water and Zombie Powder refine into Zombie spells.
Ok, I knew I was forgetting something. Thanks! It's been a while since I've played this, so I can't exactly remember everything
I'm pretty sure there are level 1 playthroughs around.
EDIT: Unless you mean grinding to simply stock spells/items.
Lumpy Onion
Member
Oh man thank you for linking that! I used to have a huge poster of that Squall wallpaper, and now it will grace my desktop in style. YES!
Terra_Ex
Member
Indeed, one of my favourite playthroughs was a no-junction challenge run, really mixed up how you had to approach the battles. Can't remember if I actually finished that run but I did enjoy it.
Squall find the carefree Rinoa fascinating
Spelling & grammar issues right on the first page of the site, you can tell Square takes great pride in their work. That page is a nice throwback to the ps1 glory days, would love to see proper remakes of the ps1 trilogy in the future, just not from the current SquareEnix.
You don't even have to grind to stock spells. You can get all the spells you need from Triple Triad and hidden draw points. Last time I played the game, I didn't draw a single spell from enemies.
^^^ True, but the argument started with Ryne saying he/she loves to grind.
Triple Triad is basically the best way to win the game easily, for me.
Wait, wait... if you don't Junction a GF, you can't do shit but attack, not even use items in-battle.
Or do you mean not junctioning magic to stats?
Triple Triad is basically the best way to win the game easily, for me.
Wait, wait... if you don't Junction a GF, you can't do shit but attack, not even use items in-battle.
Or do you mean not junctioning magic to stats?
Touch fuzZy. get BizZay
Member
Oh man, tempted to drop all the big games I've got queued up and just replay this yet again...
Just wanna wreck some fools with final heaven lol...
Just wanna wreck some fools with final heaven lol...
The challenge uses Limit Breaks to get through the game.
Terra_Ex
Member
As I recall you had to abuse low-HP states to get more limit breaks, hammer the circle button to trigger said limits and make use of characters who could heal via limit breaks. Battles are very hectic and rough going. But you are correct, items and regular magic are certainly not available.
Correct, except instead of healing you just leave everyone in critical HP and use Rinoa's Invincible Moon to keep yourself alive.
encephalon
Member
This is a good idea. I think I'll try this.
Has anyone modded the Xinput wrapper thing to have the control layout match the PSX version yet? I know someone on Steam made an Xinput or whatever patch but that's a third party program or something...
Ah, nevermind this works from the Steam forums:
X/O - 1/2 (A/B on 360)
Square/Triangle - 3/4 (X/Y)
L1/R1 - 5/6 (LB/RB)
Select/Start - 7/8 (Back/Start)
L3/R3 (stick click) - 9/10 (same on 360, stick click)
The triggers (L2/R2) aren't supported in the 360 drivers apparently. So you can't config to those.
Ah, nevermind this works from the Steam forums:
k8Faust Dec 7 @ 8:21am said:
X/O - 1/2 (A/B on 360)
Square/Triangle - 3/4 (X/Y)
L1/R1 - 5/6 (LB/RB)
Select/Start - 7/8 (Back/Start)
L3/R3 (stick click) - 9/10 (same on 360, stick click)
The triggers (L2/R2) aren't supported in the 360 drivers apparently. So you can't config to those.
Link1110
Member
I just got the Vita one, and this is probably Japan only (though feel free to correct me if I'm wrong) but there's a Pocketstation app for Vita, so you can play Chocobo World on there as well. That and the original music makes Vita my platform of choice here. I've been wanting to give this one another go for a long time!
And 9/9/99 wasn't just FF8 and Dreamcast. Suikoden 2 came out that day. I have no idea what Konami was thinking there.
Link1110
Member
Well, FF8's been out on JPSN for a while, but only last month it seems the Pocketstation app comes out, so I don't know if they're gonna release that app for games that include it. They have a whole Pocketstation games section on JPSN, and there are a few surprises. I didn't know Grandia had that option. Makes me wanna buy that and replay it, but I got the Saturn version, so if I do replay Grandia it'll be that version.
Yeah. The Pocketstation app is Japan only.
HolyBaikal
Banned
I don't think all that much of Final Fantasy VIII. But I bought it. Like with Final Fantasy VII, I feel like I want to support Japanese RPGs on Steam.
It also sounds like this port is better than than the Final Fantasy VII re-release. It sounds like they've learned and improved from their last release on Steam. So that's encouraging.
I hope this leads to good things. I also hope they continued to give updates to their ports like they did with Final Fantasy VII's music. That will help improve the quality, fan approval, and sale of this title. And will put it on its way to being the definitive version.
I would like to see this do well so that we can get more Square Enix games, and other Japanese RPGs on Steam. In particular, again, I'd really like to see Final Fantasy IX.
It also sounds like this port is better than than the Final Fantasy VII re-release. It sounds like they've learned and improved from their last release on Steam. So that's encouraging.
I hope this leads to good things. I also hope they continued to give updates to their ports like they did with Final Fantasy VII's music. That will help improve the quality, fan approval, and sale of this title. And will put it on its way to being the definitive version.
I would like to see this do well so that we can get more Square Enix games, and other Japanese RPGs on Steam. In particular, again, I'd really like to see Final Fantasy IX.
indigo-cyclops
Member
Bought it. It will be my first time playing it. Not sure when I'll get around to it, but I'm somewhat excited to give it a go.
Is the general consensus that it's a shitty game or a good game? I wasn't a huge follower of the series during the PSX years as I didn't own one.
Is the general consensus that it's a shitty game or a good game? I wasn't a huge follower of the series during the PSX years as I didn't own one.
It's a very good game.
indigo-cyclops
Member
Awesome, looking forward to playing this now.
StoppedInTracks
Member
It's an interesting FF game with "difficult" mechanics (they are not brain-dead easy as the job system or Materia in previous games).
The story is very good up to a point then it goes down the shitter.
Incredible soundtrack.
Very much worth playing.
It depends on who you ask. It's probably the most divisive game in the series. You either love it or hate it. There's no middle ground.
Why is there even an achievement for killing 10,000 monsters
I can't think of an area that even has 4 mobs/encounter consistently
10,000 / 3 * (roughly 45secs per encounter) = about 40 hours of simply just grinding monsters Unless it's playthrough-independant, and even so you're replaying the game a shit ton of times.
Why Square Enix. WHY?
I can't think of an area that even has 4 mobs/encounter consistently
10,000 / 3 * (roughly 45secs per encounter) = about 40 hours of simply just grinding monsters Unless it's playthrough-independant, and even so you're replaying the game a shit ton of times.
Why Square Enix. WHY?
As a frequent defender of this game and how its flaws are eminently fixable, if I were redoing this game I would have made many more draw points, and had them give out much more magic.
When you first start the game, it feels like there are three ways to acquire magic (drawing from monsters, drawing from draw points, and refining cards), but drawing from monsters is so much more efficient (though grindy) that it becomes natural to do it that way. The draw points should instantly give you up to 100 of whatever they offer, and should recharge much more quickly.
When I read about Hiroyuki Ito re-positioning and re-assigning a whole bunch of treasure chests in the FF12 Zodiac version, I wondered what he'd do with this game. I suspect it would be more fun with more draw points.