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[Anonymous No.6128549]

Well, /vr/ what do you say? Aquire GF Y/N?

FFVIII thread disguised as a shitpost, please talk about FFVIII, not girlfriends

[Anonymous No.6128554]

Reminder that if you think drawing magic is a bad system, you’re autistic. You don’t need to immediately draw 100 of anything and obsess over keeping it fully stocked.

[Anonymous No.6128557]

>>6128554
Drawing magic was fine, it's the leveled monsters that kill my interest in the game. Leveling should never be counter-productive.

[Anonymous No.6128558]

[Anonymous No.6128563]

>>6128557
It’s not though. The majority of enemies are still trash and easy. It barely affects the gameplay. They get an extra spell or two if they level, big fucking deal.

[Anonymous No.6128568]

>>6128549
There really should be a THE at the start of that sentence.

[Anonymous No.6128572]

>>6128554
Just get the card ability early on and the refine abilities. Turn enemies to cards and turn cards to magic. Boom, done. Then when you get diablos (also early) get encounter half or none and turn it off only when you need to level (meaning get more magic). FFVIII is so easy to cheese.

[Anonymous No.6128574]

Is this the Gackt thread?

[Anonymous No.6128575]

>>6128574
No, anon, this game has one too many "I's". Your bishi husbando is FFVII.

[Anonymous No.6128578]

>>6128575
Final fantasy 8

[Anonymous No.6128579]

>>6128558
>You and your friends will never rape Selphie

[Anonymous No.6128584]

Is this cheating?

[Anonymous No.6128585]

Losing your memories is terrifying.

[Anonymous No.6128586]

>>6128554
The only thing I hate about ff8 is some GF is miss-able. FF7's materia was fine because summon is just a magic. But FF8 means you miss the truck load of abilities.

[Anonymous No.6128593]

>>6128586
You can get any GF you missed in the final dungeon.

[Anonymous No.6128601]

>>6128554
>You don’t need to
why would you play suboptimally?

[Anonymous No.6128603]

>>6128601
You have autism.

[Anonymous No.6128605]

>>6128585
It is (which is why alzheimer's is scary), you are your memories and your experiences. I view the body as a treasure chest and memories as the treasure it holds, what's the point of an empty treasure chest?

People complain about the orphanage reveal being the biggest issue with the plot, but mine is that headmaster Cid never gets called out on turning orphans into child mercenaries and giving them memory erasing monsters
If I was Squall and I realized that Cid is the reason I can't remember anything I'd gut him like a fish with my gunblade. And I definitely wouldn't stay in Garden after beating Ultimecia

[Anonymous No.6128606]

>>6128603
dilate

[Anonymous No.6128607]

>>6128603
Yes, we are on 4chan, I am aware. Are you?

[Anonymous No.6128609]

>>6128605
>>6128585
What bugs me about the memory loss is how inconsistent it is. You lose your entire childhood from minimal GF use but then when the game starts proper you're slinging them left and right and the only show of amnesia is some random ass NPC you don't even have to talk to because the writers were desperate to fix their shit at the last second.

[Anonymous No.6128621]

>>6128601
>not grinding to level 100 as soon as you can encounter random battles
Why are you playing sub-optimally?

[Anonymous No.6128624]

>>6128621
Actually, because enemies scale with you it's suboptimal to grind to 100. Best idea is to have good junctions on multiple stats and a low level.

[Anonymous No.6128643]

>>6128621
>as soon as you can encounter random battles
because drawing 100 of a spell in FFVIII takes less time than grinding to level 100 in the starting area of an rpg? why are you pretending to be retarded?

[Anonymous No.6128649]

>>6128624
>>6128643
>he doesn’t farm 100 of every item and max the gil counter before leaving Balamb to be optimal

[Anonymous No.6128653]

>>6128554
Why is the max number of spells you can draw in a single attempt 9? Why not 99? It's like whoever designed the system specifically designed it to be more tedious than it needed to be

[Anonymous No.6128658]

>>6128653
Goos question. Come to think of it, why do you need to make so many commands in general to win a battle? You should be able to win any encounter by choosing one option if you want. It’s just tedious to keep doing the same actions over and over.

[Anonymous No.6128663]

>>6128658
Ah yes, making drawing less tedious would simply be too overpowered. Being able to refine endgame spells on disc 1? Nah that's fine

[Anonymous No.6128695]

>>6128663
>going out of your way to unbalance the game
>complain when the game gets too easy
Yeah, I’m thinkin he’s retarded.

[Anonymous No.6128696]

>>6128605
Maybe the GF's made Squall forget that he's supposed to be angry.

[Anonymous No.6128702]

>>6128695
>get 100 curagas from 10 tents
>now you have 4000 HP two hours into the game
maybe you're the retard for thinking this is out of your way, or well designed

[Anonymous No.6128720]

>>6128696
lol

[Anonymous No.6128746]

>>6128605
>we all grew up in the same orphanage teehee!

Shit tier.

[Anonymous No.6128757]

>>6128746
How many blacks do you see in FFVIII's world? There's not a huge need for orphanariums.

[Anonymous No.6128764]

>>6128593
You know what, I never knew that before. The game manual I used back then said that they are "misable" and I fucking believed them.

[Anonymous No.6128882]

GFs are brains goblins.

[Anonymous No.6128902]

>>6128557
The level of the monster determines the spells you can draw from them. It's not counter-productive because the boost you get from junctioning better magic is higher than the stat increase the enemies get from leveling up and a lvl 100 bite bug is obviously not as strong as a lvl 100 behemoth.

[Anonymous No.6128914]

>>6128764
>missable until the very final dungeon on the final disc when you can't go back to any other towns in the world
Yeah, I think that counts still.

[Anonymous No.6128936]

>>6128586
>>6128593
Diablos, Brothers, Tonberry, Cactuar, Bahamut and Eden are not drawn from enemies, they're never missable. Add the mandatory ones (Quetzacoatl, Shiva and Ifrit) and you already have plenty of abilities.

[Anonymous No.6128945]

I never used most of the spells, I just junctioned and left the characters at low health to spam turn switching until I got the limit. Later there was aura, which increased survivability, and meltdown which fucked everything's DEF stat. You could also replace meltdown with Doomtrain for free VIT 0.

[Anonymous No.6128947]

I've always been interested in this game.
What's the deal with the Junction system I see everyone mention?

[Anonymous No.6128967]

>>6128947
Magic comes in single-use units that you can steal from enemies (1-9 units at a time) and store up to 100 of each spell on a character. There are also other ways to get spells, by converting items (basically crafting). You can link those spells to your stats to increase them.

[Anonymous No.6128972]

>>6128945
I played the card game to break everyone's stats and then shamelessly spammed zell's infinite on anything i couldn't steamroll

[Anonymous No.6128976]

>>6128947
"GF junctioning" means assigning a Guardian Force (kind of similar to FF6 espers) to one of your party members to give him/her the abilities of that GF.
The most important GF abilities are the magic junctioning abilities, which allow you to increase the character stats by linking them to magic. For instance, junctioning Fire to Str increases the strength, but you can also junction it to one of the elemental attack slots to increase the damage against enemies weak to fire. There are also slots for elemental defense and status attack/immunity.
In FF8 humans are weak on their own and most of their power comes from the GFs, there's even a command to switch all the junctioned GF and magic between two party members.

[Anonymous No.6129019]

>>6128575
You're supposed to completely ignore that guy. If you reply, he will reply.

[Anonymous No.6129020]

>>6128947
>>6128976
It should be noted this also applies to abilities: characters in FF8 are so retarded they can't even use items without a magic goblin eating their memories

[Anonymous No.6129025]

>>6129020
FF5 did the same with the Mime, but I never see anyone complaining about it.

[Anonymous No.6129046]

Is FF8 better than FF7?
I've bought FF7 for my Vita (was a Nintendo kid and only saw and played PlayStation games as a kid) but the german translation is horrendous, one of the worst I've seen in any video game and the story was kinda shit
Is FF8 worth playing?

[Anonymous No.6129051]

>>6129046
I like FF8 more.

[Anonymous No.6129056]

>>6128554
>You don’t need to immediately draw 100 of anything and obsess over keeping it fully stocked.
These are the words of a loser.

[Anonymous No.6129057]

>>6129025
>here's this one optional class whose whole shtick is miming other characters and that is somehow an argument for every FF8 character being a retard

Also even the mime has its own skill, MIMIC, in addition to other equippable ones.

[Anonymous No.6129064]

>>6129057
Why should being a Mime prevent you from using items by default? Miming is not everything you're able to do since you can choose other abilities.
The real reason is to force the player to make a choice, not everything the game does has to be justified logically. Being able to instantly switch between jobs and gain superhuman abilities is silly, so is equipping "the knowledge of the acients" to weapon slots or needing the plwers of a monster to use items.

[Anonymous No.6129082]

>>6128549
I haven't replayed it since I was a kid, but I remember not liking the story. Something about a group of mercenaries, but they like in like a high school prep school rom-com building that eventually flies, something about witches kompressing time, and monsters come down from tears from the moon

[Anonymous No.6129087]

>>6128549
what about gamefan?

[Anonymous No.6129117]

>>6128947
first you equip GFs, they let you steal or refine magic, then you equip that magic to your stats (also thanks to GFs)

[Anonymous No.6129141]

>>6128585
I really wish they doubled down on it. FF8 jams everything it could think of and only explores everything it does at surface level.

>Child soldiers losing their memories
The orphanage reveal is the ONLY thing this builds up to and it's inconsequential in the grand scheme of things. Going into FF8 I really thought the orphanage scene would have been a bigger scene.

>Quistis is an instructor around the same age as her students and this is a problem
We're only told about this and it's never explored or has any impact on her character or anyone

>Ellone's unexplained powers and her projecting Squall and co's consciousness to Laguna and the others
>Ultimecia's foggy role as a tragic villain and the game's world creating her due to their massive paranoia
>Monsters flying in from the moon
>The not-Cetra
>The mutant benefactor of the Gardens
>no one talking about Edea and who she is to Cid prior to the assassination attempt

Still love the game though

[Anonymous No.6129497]

>>6128549
It really is the best in the series

[Anonymous No.6129959]

>>6129087
Oh Gamefan was great.