It just gets better the older you get

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Anonymous Fri Sep 23 18:16:57 2022 No.9280492 [Reply] [Original]

It just gets better the older you get

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 23 18:22:46 2022 No.9280497 It’s very much a teen’s game.

Anonymous Fri Sep 23 18:29:18 2022 No.9280510

>>9280497
I can confirm since I played it in my senior year of high school and beat the game for the first time under a very awkward living situation with a girl I was having a long distance relationship with but then broke up with her cause I found a GF at school but broke up w/ that girl and the first girl ended up still flying down to visit me for New Years Eve week. She found a new boyfriend so it made things extra awkward so I spent a lot of time just sitting in my room playing FF8 sometimes she'd come in and just watch with me. She even watched me beat it.

Probably why it's my favorite FF because it's the most personal to me.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 24 04:39:50 2022 No.9281860 >>9280510 >I found a GF at school We get it, you attended Galbadia and acquired Cerberus.

Anonymous Sat Sep 24 05:05:26 2022 No.9281914

>>9280492
This is very true.
>>9280497
And so is this.

For all it's problems, the Squall/Laguna dynamic hits on a lot of the themes that resonate with people at two completely different stages of their life. Playing the game again in your 30s and suddenly you "get" Laguna in a way that you may not have at 15. People want to talk nostalgia? Laguna and Raine's backstory functions as an analysis of nostalgia as a concept and the bittersweet nature of the passage of time. You feel it in your fucking chest. ...And you just don't get it the first time you play if you were still in high school. FFVIII does that thing Pixar movies are famous for where you start to question if it's actually meant for kids because it's suspiciously tailored to making you reflect on things that a kid wouldn't yet have experienced. As a whole the game has serious pacing problems and a few major instances of plot points that rely on characters being idiots. But a good bit of the game, and everything about Laguna, is shockingly well written for a PS1 RPG.

Anonymous Sat Sep 24 05:12:25 2022 No.9281926

>>9280492
Nostalgic from day 1; Balamb/Balamb Garden themes perfectly conjure the feeling of hanging out at school after hours in early summer, literally playing cards in the cafeteria.

Furthermore, a brilliant juxtaposition where the school's top students are also the nerds and misfits. Makes me think the haters are the preppy normal kids desu.

Anonymous Sat Sep 24 05:58:25 2022 No.9282002

>>9281914

Kind of unrelated but I feel the same way about Kingdom Hearts too. (But I guess FF8 and Pixar are in it.) Winnie the Pooh levels especially hit hard. Not retro but 3 put you in limbo where you watched 11 hearts pass on. And it's shit like a mother who died when her child was still a newborn and a small kid who thought she was playing hide and go seek with her dad.

Being older makes you understand how shitty the sorceress war must have been if it caused that many orphans.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 24 08:02:06 2022 No.9282164 >>9280492 My favorite JRPG. And I'd agree it get better. Some of that is personal memories though.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 24 16:38:49 2022 No.9282896 >>9280492 >already thought it was great when I was 14 and it came out feels good to have always been more mature for my age

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 24 18:34:48 2022 No.9283154 >>9282002 >Being older makes you understand how shitty the sorceress war must have been The world has obviously been decimated in a MAD-level Lunatic Pandora event.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 24 18:47:54 2022 No.9283182 >another FFVIII thread Mental illness. Grow up already. Outgrow your childhood.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 24 18:55:43 2022 No.9283202 >>9283182 You must realize how silly you sound telling a board for manchildren to grow up.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 24 18:56:39 2022 No.9283207 >>9283202 Not as silly as making one weekly FFVIII thread.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 24 19:05:05 2022 No.9283221 A THREAD PER WEEK?? WHAT IS THIS MADNESS??? SAVE ME JANNIES AAAAAAAAAHHHHH

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 24 19:10:08 2022 No.9283232 >>9283207 FFVIII is far from the only game that gets weekly threads.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 24 19:11:19 2022 No.9283236 >>9283207 Given a choice between >an eternal weeb flamewar about FF and >blatant advertisements for RasPi knockoffs and assorted cheap dongles sourced from recycled kitchen appliances I know which I prefer.

Anonymous Sat Sep 24 19:16:14 2022 No.9283240
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>>9280492
its not just the best final fantasy
its not just the best role playing game
its the best videogame of all time, ever made

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 24 19:21:10 2022 No.9283248 >>9283207 and somewhere in the middle, you got e-celebs cribbing /vr/ arguments for their trashcan yt channels and podcasts, that's pretty unaesthetic

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 24 19:24:33 2022 No.9283257 >>9283248 >you got e-celebs cribbing /vr/ arguments for their trashcan yt channels and podcasts I don't know what's sadder: that happening, or you being aware of it.

Anonymous Sat Sep 24 19:57:19 2022 No.9283308 [DELETED]

>>9280492
I'm going to play it soon. I was watching some of a longplay (I saw my friend playing this start to end when I was in high school, not every detail) and the world and story are more interesting now. The characters realize GFs made them lose their memory, I thought this was something you have to read into the story. And there's something sinister about Rinoa.
I'm not saying she's Ultimecia, I'm aware of that theory, but it's obvious there's something going on. She's an outsider to the group, and she targets the emotionally vulnerable Squall like a jaguar pouncing on a gazelle. I want to see the full story to try and understand what's going on.
It's very dark, intimate, and fascinating. A world dominated by sorceresses, but on the surface people don't know about it. There's the mindfuck factor of the story about the orphange, and it's just creepy, like the whole history of the world could be a lie.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 24 20:13:24 2022 No.9283346 >>9283308 I hope you die in a car accident.

Anonymous Sat Sep 24 20:13:54 2022 No.9283347 [DELETED]

>>9283308
ultemecia targeting squall makes sense
i would say she both herself and rinoa
timeline fractures & there is only one path to find her again

no matter what happens soulmates will try to find eachother for all eternity

only people who were truly in love understand

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 24 20:24:13 2022 No.9283372 >>9283347 I have a more cynical view of their relationship. Rinoa knows exactly how to push Squall's buttons, she doesn't really love him, she only wants to lock him down.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 24 20:33:54 2022 No.9283394 >>9283346 I hope all your female relatives get raped and any woman you impregnate miscarries.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 24 20:37:31 2022 No.9283398 >>9283347 >only people who were truly in love understand this retard got played by a thot and doesn't realize it

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 24 20:39:11 2022 No.9283407 >>9283394 I want to make clear that I shat on you because of your shitty retard post >i was watching a longplay >my friend did this You are garbage. You are barely even human. Live your own life.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 24 20:42:23 2022 No.9283417 >>9283240 This but unironically

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 24 20:55:18 2022 No.9283439 >>9283407 Based. At the very least, we don't need that information and absolutely never wanted it. fuckin blogpost

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 24 20:57:17 2022 No.9283447 >>9283407 >>9283439 I hope your cats and small animals get mauled to death by pitbulls, and police shoot your dogs.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 24 20:58:03 2022 No.9283450 >>9283447 Calm down, glownigger.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 24 21:00:08 2022 No.9283454 >>9283447 sorry to hear you live in niggertown

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 24 21:02:06 2022 No.9283458 >>9283450 >>9283454 I hope your family members who get cancer begin to make a recovery, enough to give you hope, then fail to recover.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 24 21:03:17 2022 No.9283463 >>9283458 bitch i worship death, grow the fuck up

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 24 21:08:33 2022 No.9283475 >>9283463 I already knew you were homosexual without that clarification.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 24 21:09:48 2022 No.9283481 >>9280492 It's a good example that writers can produce kino without fully understanding what they are doing evinced by the story of R=U.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 24 21:13:16 2022 No.9283486 >>9283475 oh, he's a feisty one. give us a little kissy, zoomzoom

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 24 21:16:53 2022 No.9283492 File: 82 KB, 754x1024, 1657138909543.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9283486

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 24 21:20:55 2022 No.9283501 File: 134 KB, 486x635, shlomo.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9283492 kissy kissy

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 24 21:21:31 2022 No.9283504 File: 510 KB, 838x450, 1652765869706.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9283501

Anonymous Sat Sep 24 21:23:34 2022 No.9283509 [DELETED]

>>9283407
If you honestly extrapolated from my post that I don't play video games, you have subafro IQ, although I'll give you some credit insofar as I think it's more likely that you have some kind of mental illness.
I didn't play every single game my friends played. He played FF8, I didn't like it at the time. Now it seems more interesting. This is directly responsive to OP's observation that the game gets better as you get older, you cunt hair.
As for longplays, I was looking at games that I'm going to emulate and deciding which ones I want to play first.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 24 21:23:49 2022 No.9283510 >>9283504 you posted that awfully quick, feels like you were waiting to use it. I think we've about covered everything.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 24 21:24:18 2022 No.9283513 >>9283509 If you watch games instead of playing them, you are a faggot. There is no two ways about this.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 24 21:25:08 2022 No.9283515 >>9283513 Great, then I'm not a faggot. Thanks for that, faggot.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 24 21:25:30 2022 No.9283518 >>9283510 >you posted that too quick, it can't possibly be real The absolute fucking state of communists.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 24 21:28:53 2022 No.9283523 File: 119 KB, 847x639, Untitled.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9283518 ...yeah, that's gotta be it

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 24 21:29:21 2022 No.9283526 File: 141 KB, 723x1024, 1649138194881.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9283523

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 24 21:31:55 2022 No.9283531 >>9283513 100% this! People that watch other people play games are pathetic ugly faggots. The kind of bullied people you stick in a trashcan and kick around.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 24 21:33:25 2022 No.9283537 >>9283526 you do have a bunch of these saved. 'Bout what I expected. My time's better than this, frankly, and you're still the one who posted your gay diary so I'm cool on all this. cheers faggot

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 24 21:34:23 2022 No.9283541 File: 100 KB, 896x895, 1661882320526.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9283537 Does any part of this post sound like you're above it all? You sound desperate.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 24 21:44:28 2022 No.9283570 >one guy arguing back and forth with himself for 20 minutes You said you worship death but I think I broke you.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 24 21:47:40 2022 No.9283578 >>9283570 We are not the same, you and I. Nice try though.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 24 21:53:52 2022 No.9283596 It's funny how FF8fags say their game is the most intelligent game ever created but the threads are always an IQ-decreasing shitshow. Meanwhile all other threads about other FFs are heaven in comparison.

Anonymous Sat Sep 24 21:54:54 2022 No.9283598

>>9280492
For some reason, liking this game induces extreme mental illness and sperging from other people. I just think the game is really interesting, it's like the developers had a million ideas and rejected none of them, it's like they just found ways to make whatever crazy shit someone pitched work.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 24 21:55:16 2022 No.9283601 >>9283596 If people actually cared about FF gameplay, there would be a weekly FFV thread, but we're in hell.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 24 21:58:53 2022 No.9283608 >>9283596 FF8fags aren't the problem, it's that the unhinged rants almost always come from the haters.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 24 21:59:55 2022 No.9283612 >>9283608 sure

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 24 22:01:24 2022 No.9283614 >>9283596 >FF8fags say their game is the most intelligent game ever created headcanon >threads degenerate at a rate disproportionate to my favorite gaem more headcanon

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 24 22:02:01 2022 No.9283616 File: 128 KB, 380x480, sd.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Did you know? Squall is Jotaro Kujo. Laguna is Joseph Joestar. Adel is Kars.

Anonymous Sat Sep 24 22:07:41 2022 No.9283634 [DELETED]

>>9283578
You might not be the samefag, I could be wrong, that's my reading of the thread. But I'm definitely not the samefag. Are you suggesting that the samefag did all that samefagging to make it look like I was the one going back and forth with him? Because to me that would be additional evidence that you are both the samefag and him. In any case fuck you.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 24 22:10:12 2022 No.9283642 >>9283614 funny, fans of VIII are the masters of headcanons.

Anonymous Sat Sep 24 22:10:47 2022 No.9283647 [DELETED]

>>9283634
it ain't me. It might not be you. Only the samefag knows for sure, and he might not even be samefagging, just playing you and me against one another. I don't care enough to go through the thread again, because the stormfag kikespam is nauseatingly fucking boring and I should never have responded to it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 24 22:13:08 2022 No.9283652 >>9283642 touche

Anonymous Sun Sep 25 01:13:42 2022 No.9284006

One thing I like about ff8 is the world itself. Its so mysterious, probably by accident. There are hints of a lost golden age with large statues of sorceress' from the past, the deep sea research center and the Garden technology. But it's so obscure it may not be there at all.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 25 06:52:32 2022 No.9284545 How tight was Rinoa though?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 25 06:59:21 2022 No.9284550 I'm on disc 2 just after the missile base, at what point does it start being worth it to do things OTHER than spamming GFs? Even with 99 fire junctioned to strength my attacks do dick-all damage in comparison

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 25 07:15:23 2022 No.9284571 >>9284550 If I recall, this changes when you can junction the really powerful magic (like Ultima, etc.). Then you can arrive at kino mash x to win most battles.

Anonymous Sun Sep 25 07:38:11 2022 No.9284607

I recently played it with a fan rewrite mod. He removed the whole superfluous amnesia thing and adjusted the story for that. The dialog is also way less... juvenile? At least it felt like the characters were real people. It was pretty good. Unfortunately, my gaming station died just when Lunatic Pandora hit. I still highly recommend it though. It's called Succession Mod.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 25 07:40:48 2022 No.9284614 >>9284550 >missile base >99 fire junctioned to strength Anon, that's a starter magic. Convert that shit to Firaga at least.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 25 07:47:12 2022 No.9284619 >>9284607 > fan rewrite mod. >removed amnesia I don't think that's a fan rewrite mod, more like a hater rewrite mode

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 25 07:48:45 2022 No.9284620 File: 494 KB, 375x375, 1541122624896.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9284614 is there a GF ability to upgrade magic or do i need to specifically farm firaga from enemies?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 25 07:54:42 2022 No.9284628 >>9280492 I love this game so much bros

Anonymous Sun Sep 25 07:59:29 2022 No.9284634

>>9284620
Yes. If you just want to convert fire elemental magic, I think Ifrit has it. Shiva has ice and so on. Ideally, you want to convert cards into items and items into high level magic instead.

I remember when I first played it in high school and having lots of high level magic before I even got to assault the sorceress but that was because I was having fun with the game a lot and accidentally unlocked the other GF abilities.

Anyways, missile base had a boss with meltdown and aura as drawable magic if I recall. Meltdown makes this easy game to very easy imo

>>	Anont Sun Sep 25 19:41:02 2022 No.9285583 A masterpiece, not everyone was graced with discernment.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 25 20:27:00 2022 No.9285682 File: 56 KB, 1280x720, maxresdefault.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9280497 Teen games are tight!

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 26 14:29:47 2022 No.9287278 >>9280492 I've enjoyed it more and more each time I've experienced it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 26 14:50:33 2022 No.9287302 File: 133 KB, 1200x964, How to win at Blitzball.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] It sucks because it doesn't have Blitzball!

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 26 15:05:17 2022 No.9287321 >>9281860 >Galbadia and acquired Cerberus GF. kek. i got that reference

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 26 15:06:59 2022 No.9287326 >>9287302 You have to be at least 30 to post here.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 26 15:44:36 2022 No.9287397 >>9280492 The Draw System is still the dumbest system implemented in a jrpg ever. >"What's that? You have Firaga? Are you fucking retard?" :::DRAWLOLOL::: BOOOOOM It makes the idea of carrying spells around stupid.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 26 15:51:58 2022 No.9287407 It was great until Squall died at the end of disc one [_spoiler]

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 26 15:54:42 2022 No.9287412 >>9287397 This is one of the dumbest things I have ever read. You could tell me that this was written by an 80 IQ amerimutt and I would believe it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 26 15:55:26 2022 No.9287417 >>9280492 >It just gets better the older you get Yeah the schoolgirls look even juicier now

Anonymous Mon Sep 26 16:48:08 2022 No.9287535

>>9284634
Meltdown is arguably the most broken thing in FF8.
>Inflicts a status effect that reduces Physical Defence to zero
>Also reduces Magic Defence, despite this not being mentioned anywhere
>There is zero immunity to this status effect, for both the player and the AI
>Only a small handful of enemies use it, whereas the player can easily spam it against every enemy from Disc 2 onwards

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 26 20:13:10 2022 No.9288019 File: 2.76 MB, 1440x1080, 1663588254714286.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9280492 true

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 26 20:48:40 2022 No.9288071 >>9287397 >It makes the idea of carrying spells around stupid. I've never done a no-junction playthrough but saw a streamer do it up to the final boss. It can be done but you're relying on RNG a lot and hoping Ultimecia doesn't cast apocalypse on you.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 27 11:01:48 2022 No.9289487 Bumping so they'll bite for the Disciplinary Committee

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 27 11:07:38 2022 No.9289491 >>9283240 agreed

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>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 27 14:18:54 2022 No.9289776 >>9284607 Thanks for the heads-up I'll be glad if it removes a few of the "whatever"s

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 27 15:32:26 2022 No.9289924 >>9289553 I didn't know that was in the game. Dollet was a weird town I keep feeling I'm missing something in it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 27 18:22:17 2022 No.9290325 File: 191 KB, 480x368, Winhill_6.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9280492 Based. Best prerendered backgrounds of all the PS1 games.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 28 04:29:09 2022 No.9291750 File: 180 KB, 512x400, East Galbadia Station.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9290325 >Best prerendered backgrounds of all the PS1 games. FF was pretty good about that.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 28 04:32:52 2022 No.9291767 >>9289553 Based Japs dunking on troons

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 28 04:54:39 2022 No.9291820 >>9287407 based squall is dead believer

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 28 05:02:41 2022 No.9291843 File: 861 KB, 1856x1408, DzJXwvwXcAATXl4.jpg_large.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9290325 What game has better cut scenes as well? Or a better sound track?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 28 19:13:44 2022 No.9293418 >>9280497 It's very much a card game I'd buy every final fantasy if they all had triple triad...

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 28 19:15:44 2022 No.9293423 >>9284607 Dope no way the amnesia stupidity is what tmade me feel the need to quit. It just felt lazy story writing for a final fantasy tier experience.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 28 20:04:47 2022 No.9293515 >>9287397 I liked sucking out the magic out of my enemies until I was full manually.

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