Welcome to Balamb Garden.
Time to farm cards. I shall now proceed to steal cards from everyone in the middle of the night.
>tfw getting the last hotdogZELL'S GONNA FREAK
Whatever.
Whatever
>>350713201I'd like to cancel my enrollment
I told you about the Trex bro.
>>350714126>It's a T-Rex!>Quick Squall, open your junction menu and assign a spell to the blind stat to be able to have your blind spell hit more but you need more spells>It also has 10,000 HP!What the fuck was this game doing
>>350714324I loved that shit. It's insane enough that they kept the T-Rex in this zoo like enclosure for people to train in. But the T-Rex itself was so powerful that it worked canonically.
>>350713201Dude the chicks in balamb are dtf bro
>>350714324>Here's a lamp that I won't tell you about, just use it whenever I guess.>it has the devil in it
>>350713201https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eU0tRBHnE0
>>350715112>can't use items sold in every town without some godlike beings to help youpathetic
>>350715254never really understood why is that. what hell was the devs thinking
>>350713201>Finally get to live my life with SelphieAnd all I had to do was kill myself. Best decision I've ever made!
>>350713201Transfer me to Galbadia Garden. this place sucks.
>classroom study consoles just installed a bulletin board feature>it just turns into a casual online chat room>which turns into an all-out flame war>faggot disciplinary committee try hard tells people off onlineSay that to my face Seifer you faggot
I think the female uniforms need a shorter skirt
I can't be the only one who thought the Magic system was cool can I? I'd always loved blue mages and having the magic work like this always made me go "oh shit a new enemy! What kind of spells can this fucker get me?"
I miss Trabia Garden, I'm thinking of going home.
>>350713258https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74ZXp_5M_7c
>>350715254>not knowing that every person that uses items is blessed by GFs. You didn't understand the lore, anon
That infirmary's seen some shit
>>350716059What magic system? As soon as it turned into a commodity, I never used magic again. Only summons and attack. Magic became boosters for everything else. Imagine setting yourself up with boosts only to literally be fucking your stats every time you wanted to use a weak magic attack and then having to wait hours for that magic to respawn so you could get 2 of it back.Fuck that.
I know a way to actually go to and live at balamb garden like in real lifeAsk me how
>>350716059Me too. The problem is that idiots grinded 100 of every spell and then never used it, while probably complaining about the game being too easy.>>350716617
Anyone else see this shit? Why are all Trabtards such fucking elves holy shit
>>350716790That text box reminds me of that golden Squaresoft age of RPGs. They fucking reused it for Front Mission 3, but I don't give a shit. What an amazing time to be a gamer
>>350716849You're shitting me, its a different textboxt. someone who's played both FF8 and FM3Emma Route > Alisa Route
>>350716707Literally nobody ever complained the game was too easy.The problem with the game is that it's unnecessarily convoluted.The menu and UI are way too cluttered and poorly designed for what amounts to "stat goes up, stat goes down."
>>350717048Dunno man, that looks pretty damn identical to all the text boxes you'd see in the internet portion of the game in FM3. Emma route is the best route. I think the only good thing about Alisa route was getting to recruit that cop chick cause her wanzer looked cool
I like when you fight squalls rival whats his face and he reverses zantetsuken then gilgamesh shows up and slaps his shit.
>>350717373Miho was cute, her wanzer was shit, so were her weapon affinities. Anyone who had Rifles was shit, Lou, Dennis, Jose, all must be benched.
>>350717568I was maybe 13 or 14 when I first played it so I couldn't follow any of the affinity shit or knew what it meant. I just stacked shit with high attack because of dumb kid shit. I think every one of my wanzers at the endgame had those spider legs.
>Watch the Charlie's Angels movie>Two kids are playing Final Fantasy VIII>Believe there's some secret two player co-opWho fucking knew back then, especially with all of the archaic PlayStation Pocket and other peripheral shit.
>>350717684>candy dish ON THE PLAYSTATION
I didn't like FF8 all that much.
>>350715015
>>350717684The PSX version of VI had co-op
>>350717671I ended up making shit I saw on Gundam Wing, but I've played it a lot more since then and learned to balance my mechs, never use Linny and sacrificing a little attack for more weight capacity is acceptable.
>>350717684I know there is a mode like that for FF9 at least.
>>350715020I can never not hear this whenever I see OP's pic
>Tfw used to believe that "Found a draw point. No one can draw." was about Triple Triad, and could never really work out how the game prevented you from drawingTook me years to realise how utterly retarded that was
>>350718207I didn't understand guardian forces at first and just gave them all to one character, deciding she would be my summoner.
>>350717671It's a shame the game is so easy you really don't have to pay attention to the finer details. Just stack high power shit on everything and wreck the opposition with hardly any resistance.
>>350718325In retrospect, Quistis is pretty hot.
>>350718325The scenes between Quistis and Squall depress me for some reason. Maybe it's because Quistis ultimately gets cucked but no other teen drama gives me the feels like this.
>>350718647It's genuinely awkward. Much like teen drama would be.I liked this game. Too bad about the whole game after the first disc.
THE MUSIC IN THIS GAME HNNNNNNGGGGGG
Best FF8 OCREMIXhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcwFa7hLFw4&feature=related
Find a comfier place
>>350718926>not https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JDQtJSafl0
>>350719083>comfy >RANDOM ENCOUNTERS EVERYWHERE
>>350719083OP already posted it
>>350717938What? I know Tactics had but FFVI? I just googled it and it seems both V and VI have co-op, and in both SNES and PSX versions. Nice.
>>350713201fuck this game
>>350719083Dali, Lindblum, Costa Del Sol, Cosmo Canyon
>>350719157>random encounters with GIANT MAN-EATING CATERPILLARS EVERYWHERE!
I'm a hardcore fan with FF8, so many times I would even try to escape reality with lucid dreaming, I would be in Balamb Garden where I would often train with Zell in the training center and help Selphie with the Garden Festival, but one day as I was talking to Selphie, we went to my dormitory for a private talk. She immediately said, "You know you could live with us forever.." I gave her a confused look and she continued, "We understand that you live on earth and you REALLY wish to live here". I then said "How..How did you know?" She then giggled and said "Because we've been watching you, silly!"This was a dream come true and I almost cried right there. She then said, "I talked with Headmaster Cid and he agreed that you would be PERFECT for SeeD, you just have to do...one thing". She then held my hand and looked deep into my eyes and said "...You have to kill yourself for the transfer to work correctly." I then gave her some questions, "How long do I have before the deal expires?" She then said "Cid said 3 months.." I added by saying "What's the most painless way?..." She giggled again, "Suicide will require pain buuut...if you want it quick...Get a gun and a nice shot to the head works.I then agreed and she gave me a kiss on the forehead, "I know this will be tough but once it's over and done, you'll get to live here!" I then woke up and this was last week and i purchased a gun. I might actually kill myself because that dream just felt too real to be fake and my life isn't doing so grand.
>>350719269>no mention of Golden Saucer FAG
>>350719414The strange thing about this pasta is that Selphie is actually in-character.
>>350719556Wow it's almost like the guy who made it wanted it to be believable.Wow go figure.
>>350719157>>350719320>He doesn't find slaying monsters relaxing>>350719269Dali, Lindblum, >FF9>Comfy>Costa Del Sol Pretty comfy>Cosmo Canyon>Weird to navigate>built into a now haunted mountain>terrible music>not!Native Americasnah
>>350719994>FF9>not comfyIX is the mainline FF with the least tension.
>>350720121All the more reason its not comfy, for maximum comfort you have to be stressed to appreciate the lack of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0WdQDPRwb4I still listen to this shit sometimes.
>>350718302>She>Giving Quistis anythingActually I did that same as I figured Squall didn't deserve any for being a mopey shit
>>350716849Front Mission 3 is garbage.
>>350719994>Cosmo Canyon>terrible musicHoly fuck, now this is what I call a shitty opinion.
>>350713201Hi! My name is NORG, I'll just see myself in thanks.
>>350713337*melonpan
>>350720968Go back to your titanfall shit, fag
>>350716849Which front mission was the one where your wife's brain gets transferred into a CPU near the end? That was freaky.
Laguna should've been the main character
>>350721607FM3 is an insult to the rest of the series. The only reason why people like it is nostalgia.>>350721675The first one. The main villain was using it first until Royd blew him the fuck up and stole his waifu CPU back.
>>350713201da na naaaa na nada na naaaa na nada na na-na, na na naaaaaaaaada na naaaa na nada na naaaa na nada na na-na, na na naaaaaaaaa naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
>>350721991Have 1,2 and 33 is the best, 1 and 2 were OKNewer ones are plain shit
>>350722164You have no idea what you're talking about. FM3 is a huge step down from even the first game in the series, let alone FM2. There's no defending the asinine plot, stupidly immature characters, low deployment size, bad skill system, or completely backwards ranking system.
>>350715254>>350715440>carrying 100 of every item worth having as a SeeDThere's your fucking answer.
>>350716059I liked it a lot but only because I love the idea that I'm stealing someone's power to use against them. This is also why Quistis is my fav character.
>>350719269*Lindbulm
>>350719994>cosmo>bad music
>>350722328Stop baiting. God damn.
>>350722576Give one good reason why 4 deployment slots is better than 12.
>>350722662You had to have actually diverse equiped and specialized units (and pilots) depending on the map, not put every unit on every map
>>350713201If Balamb was real, I'd want to have gone there and just teach.Also, collecting and cataloging all the GFs in existence would be so nice.
>>350719937Its real.There's more to life than suffering here on earth anon.Think about it.
>>350717373>>350717568Which route lets you recruit Pham? I love that redheaded spoiled bitch who also happens to be from a mudskin country.
>>350721991cheers m8
>>350722891Front Mission 1 had nearly 20 characters.>diverse equiped and specialized units A shield on everyone and then any combo of a melee attacker, a machine gun user, and a missile user is hardly specialized.
>>350715015I've been holding on to Satan for a while, but I want you kids to have it ~
I hate how easy it is to break this game.
You know what, I like VIII.As much as I hate it, I love it.
>Giving Shiva to SquallI know you idiots did this.
>>350716059>magic systemIt hardly even really counts as a magic system.Your 'spells' in this game are more like items.
>>350718325>Brick walls get by on their own
How will you be enrolling?You must have an agony score over 50 to be considered for SeeD.
Something that always strikes me about 8 is that regardless of how bad it is overall, the game is full to the brim with memorable moments.The exam. The assassination, the prison stuff, flying the garden, the missile base, going to esthar, going to the moon. The garden battle.So many great and exciting moments that really stick out in the memory. The only problem comes when you try and string them all together and you end up with... the disastrous mess that is the FF8. It's no wonder they never wanna touch the plot again. It's a total catastrophe.Compare to other titles like 12 which weren't quite as messy (though 12 was still pretty damn bad) but don't stick out as memorable like 8 because the game is just this long boring slog.
>>350725760It and 7 also hit the right amount of linearity while also giving you the chance to explore.
Protip: Quistis is not wearing boots.
>>350726460Why have you done this?
>>350723239well fuck then, time to drink some bleach
So lemme get this straight, after you fight Seifer in Galbadia Garden, you back downstairs to fight Edea for the last time. You run into Seifer again but this time you kill him in battle, you defeat Edea who is now no longer possessed by Ultimecia but has her powers passed over to Rinoa (who is now possessed) who then revives Seifer but puts her in a temporary coma but is still susceptible to being controlled as seen on the space station on disc 3 right?Also>Adel>she
>>350727702You missed the really confusing part.Why the Galbadian military still follow Seifer? The notion that the Sorceress was mind controlling everyone is the only thing that justifies an even more previous problem: why the crowd cheers as Ulti-Edea talks about how she's going to kill them all.And how they managed to dig up Lunatic Pandora. And if it was so easy why aren't Esthar protecting it? I mean they have that super flashy space station as well as Tear's point and yet they can't be bothered to protect the one gigantic flaw in their setup?
>>350725452>1 out of 4 people who set themselves on fire survivelol
>>350727702IMALIVEHEREBRINGMEBACKTHEREIWILLNEVERLETYOUFORGETABOUTME
>>350728247Depending on how things work, burning yourself to death is pretty tough. You only die as a result of blood loss/associated damage. The real way "setting yourself on fire" works is if the fire consumes the oxygen surrounding you at a fast enough rate that you asphyxiate.Also, the sensation of burning is one the absolute most lasting and painful things to endure.
For all the jokes Squall is actually one of the more entertainingly charachterful protags of the series, mostly due to all the internal dialogue.
>>350722351that doesn't anything answer you greentext shit
>>350718647>tfw you'll never able romance Quistis
What is a Lamb Garden? Take me to a public Shinra school, not to this shiny faggot factory.
>>350726460hahaha oh shit
>>350727702He looks like a fag. it's pretty obvious
I just started playing. Can someone explain the card game to me?I am so confused.
>>350727702>>350729406Love the fact that she junctioned Rinoa.
>>350726460one more reason to hate this game
>>350729440Numbers fight the one adjacent to them. There's also a "tutorial" menu that explains all the additional rules like same, plus and combo.
Not enough towns/cities in this game to be immersive. Most of the map was just empty space
>>350713201Remake when?
>>350730112That's par for the course with FF games. VIII has eleven inhabited place that I can remember. I don't remember how many VII had but I'm pretty sure it's less than that.
>Be called Chicken-Wuss>Is the only one who beats the shit out of things>Is the most knowledgeable out of the entire cast, with the exception of cid and odine>Single-Handedly and successfully staged a prison break while everyone else was moping around>Is the only one who doesn't have a breakdown during the entire plot>Loves hotdogs. >Is the only one that doesn't actively try to hit on girls, but has girls swooning over him>Has a shrine dedicated to his grandfather. He knows about RESTECP>On another note, his father used shotguns, everything points to him being doomguy.>Was teamed up with Edge McPouty and the Anime Protagonist during the SeeD exam, and still managed to come through despite both their failures.>Is the only orphan who managed to get adopted.>So intelligent he can devise his own fighting techniques just by reading.>Anime levels of determination: He'll take a lap around the world to punch someone in the face who angered him.Name another character as awesome as Zell. Protip: You can't.
Which Garden is comfiest? Why does Galbadia Garden have no girls?
>>350731503Galbadia does have girls.You just didn't look hard enough.
>>350731363He was an orphan, nobody knows who his father was.
>>350731629Where do I find girls in Galbadia Garden? Where do I find their panties, for research purpose.
>>350728958Your GFs find and deploy your items from the bag for youThink how hard it is to find exactly what you need from a bag with 20 things in it when you have time to rifle around in it. Now imagine doing it with over 100 different things and in the middle of battle
>>350715503Would you take her on a romantic date riding on a train, murdering small cute creatures and wearing their still bloody skin during an intercourse?
The "Squall is dead" theory actually makes this game more interesting.
>>350732045Explore the fucking garden for once.
>>350733759No, its not my Balamb hugbox.
>>350732376A hundred different things with several copies too.
>>350719180>I know Tactics had but FFVI?Tactics had co-op?
>want to play triple triad>200hp GF battle tomorrowhelp
So, there's this guy down at the beach, turning fish into cards.What the fuck is his problem?
>>350736818I don't even know how he's doing it.
>>350719994>FF9>Not ComfyThis it. The pinnacle of wrong opinions.
>>350736818I saw that guy in Fisherman's Horizon asking a woman to play cards then changing his mind a bunch of times. Then he proceeded to win the woman's entire deck.Seriously, don't play with these hooligans.
>>350713201let's take some time to explain the junction system
>>350738252Quistis was so damn sexy.
>>350738382Squall and the gang has horrible taste.
>>350718608>Not thinking she was Best Girl from the start>Not wondering why the hell he gave her so much shit, while he let Rinoa get away with literally fucking anything>Not getting mad when the realization that it's all just the writer hamfistedly shipping characters sets in
>>350726460WHAT
>>350721594>...Whatever.
>he doesn't have a GF
>>350739031Diabolos one looks better desu. Then again, Diabolos is one of the best looking GF in the game.
>Using a GFEnjoy your memory loss, faggots.
>>350740802>believing Galbadian military lies
>>350713201Comfy thread
>>350740802What?
>They pull some bullshit about Irvine keeping his memory because he was at Galbadia garden most of his life>Quistis was, too, but fuck consistency>Either that, or she transfered to Balamb, keeping a years-long crush on Squall, and GFs eventually cockblocked thatChrist...
>>350737878FF9 fags are the worst, at least 10 and 12 fags will admit their game is flawed.
>>350741182The only reason Irvine's memories were intact was that he hadn't junctioned a GF until meeting the party. Balamb Garden's training makes heavy usage of GF, so anyone undertaking the SeeD curriculum will forgetting their shit momentarily. Quistis also trained at Balamb Garden so naturally, she's already forgotten.
>>350741415FFIX is flawed, but the visuals are top notch.
>>350741182Dude, Quistis is a prodigy. Remember, in Galbadia Garden, people who can become SeeD are transferred to Balamb and those who fail become part of their military. She's been using GF way longer than everyone in the team.
>>350715015>we have to go check on Sorceress Adel>okay sounds easy enough where is she>the fucking moon
I'm going to marry Miss Quistis!
Reminder that if you just grinded out 100 of everything as soon as possible you were playing the game in the least fun way possible.One draw per battle is plenty.
>super soldiers tend to have memory problems>not encouraged to write a diary or something
>>350742059What I did was learn the card ability as well as the card-item and item-magic refining as quick as possible. Then, it was all a matter of playing triple triad, getting good cards, refining them into items and then into magic.You can easily get 100 tornadoes junctioned to your attack within some hours. Never have to junction ever again afterwards.
Final Fantasy VIII is one of the best Trading Card Game with exploration that's unfortunately bogged down by the drama.
It seems like I'm the only one that actually liked drawing 100 of each spells from every new enemy, instead of doing it from cards and items for the most part. I like the 'natural' progression of running into new magic and from monsters that leveled up as you did
>>350742959>I like the 'natural' progression of running into new magic and from monsters that leveled up as you didBut, that didn't really happen though. Most monsters had the same magics that were useless once you had 100 of them. Not even for casting were they good, since your junctioned attack was way stronger, and didn't use up resources.Also, monsters didn't really level with you as much as people say. They pretty much had ''difficulties'' that changed when you hit two specific levels. I guess it rewarded using item refining and other tricks over battling, but it was kind of shitty how you couldn't 100% the game if you accidentally got your level too high from fighting monsters.
>>350742959I honestly didn't mind the drawing in my first playthrough but the card thing is way more fun in 2nd.>tfw game got stale I had to make challenge runs>each character has set GFs and magic>no drawing and summoning command, just item>cannot attack but can use other command abilities like mug and recover or whateverWas really fun.>>350743380Higher level monsters get better spells, I thought. At least, that's what I remember.
>>350743380Yeah, it didn't always happen, but it was neat randomly checking a monster I already fought and seeing that they had a new spell to draw from. And once I got an upgraded spell, I would discard the lower level spell, or ones that didn't benefit me later on. It also made boss fight a bit more fun for me, since I had to focus on surviving while getting all three members to draw 100 of each new spell>>350743613I tried the card thing on my second run, but for some reason I always found drawing from enemies more fun, even though the card thing was more rewarding in ways
>>350713201Played this as a teen and wished so bad I could be a student there.
>>350744126>since I had to focus on surviving while getting all three members to draw 100 of each new spellIs that really fun though? It was just tedious in my opinion. It wasn't really difficult, it just took time. A long time.I suppose it's optional, so I shouldn't complain.
>>350716586Rinoa btfo
>>350726460fuck yourself
>>350744151Played this as teen and wished so bad I could kill every fucking one in the party Also I fapped a lot to shiva
>>350726460What are those then? am I missing some joke?
>>350744302I can see why most people wouldn't have fun with it, but I did. Most Final fantasy games are easy, so doing that added a bit of challenge, even if it wasn't much more than normal. I just really enjoyed it for some reason and didn't like how playing cards could break the game and make it even easier than it is already
VIII remake when
>>350744914Hopefully never, it was shitty enough on its own without modern squareshit
>>350741586Not better than any other PSX era FF, including Tactics. Also the designs are shit, just pure shit like Kuja, Eiko and whatever the fuck Quina and Amarant are supposed to be.
>>350744773She wears normal shoes, when everyone thought there were some sexy thigh high black boots
>>350745073Get fucked, it was a great game in many aspects. Only ADD kids who couldn't read tutorials or pay attention to the story think it's a bad game. You're right about modern square enix at least.
>>350745176>>350745345
>>350745176>>350745345what the fuck
>>350745703So uh, she have pants under the skirt?how horrible
FFVIII had the best ending sequence in any game I've played, I keep the .mp4 of it for the feels, timeless
>>350725452>seppuku 51.5%how?
>>350745306Shit taste desuQuina was pretty bad I guess, I'll give you that.
>>350745781If you paid attention to the story and thought it was good, then man you have shit taste. Somany fan theories exist (Squall died at the end of disc 1, Rinoa is Ultimecia, etc.), but they are just there to try to explain why this game made no fucking sense
>>350746897you're lodging a sword, held backwards, into your gut, it's not exactly a precise science as far as suicide goes.
>tests are overTRIPLE TRIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD
>tfw you will never visit Fishermans HorizonIf the game ever gets a remake I hope they use this version in it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck294MtGHAU
>>350740993contrived plot line to explain how the cast came from the same orphanage, but didn't remember each other. aka the part where the game stops being good.
>>350750793I want to go back. Why can't I go back?
>FFVII gets an actual remake before VIII>you will never see Galbadia in full next gen HD gloryJust end this world already
>>350745176>>350745345Woah, he draws other stuff than light BDSM?
>>350714324>throw zombie powder at it>hit it with a phoenix down>get 9 levels instantly>grind for a couple of hours>then: "fuck, why is this game so hard? I've level 100 for god's sake and I'm facing the first boss at the communications tower!"Man, FF8 was amazing.
>>350750863
>>350751024Because fuck you and your hopes and dreams. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWbKOkd3OlM
>>350751058>The VII remake will have compilation faggotry forced into what was a perfectly fine narrative>Meanwhile VIII is the game that would actually benefit more from a rewrite
>>350750863Except its a good and original twist you fuck.Summoning has always been one of the most OP magic in the series, and I'm glad that in VIII they actually have side effects to them, because it makes sense.
>>350750863>contrivedGo away Polygon.
>>350751493>VIII is the game that would actually benefit more from a rewriteexplanation pls
>>350751594Yeah, the plot was more like a major fuckup of different elements that did not work together.
>>350751706You are never going to write an article for a gaming publication so stop taking seriously your retarded opinions.
>>350751583But, it doesn't make sense, anon.
>>350751982It literally does make sense. It's even fucking explained to you. Holy shit.
>>350751982What part of "sideffects from controlling god like beings" is so hard for you to understand?Ever since the beggining of the series summonings were a magic type exclusive to the Summoner class. For normal people to use it so freely it only makes sense for it to cause severe side effects. Or straight up death, like in Type-0
>>350753124No. It doesn't make sense. Why does using fucking Ultima or other retardedly powerful magics not cause memory loss? Your argument is that because it's strong, it should damage the user?
>>350753464Are you mentally disabled? Magic isn't a living fucking entity occupying space inside your brain like GFs are you contrarian mongoloid. I sincerely hope you are baiting.
>>350753464>Why does using fucking Ultima or other retardedly powerful magics not cause memory lossHoly shit you retard.GFs are not the same as normal magic. They are like God's that SeeD students junction to their own bodies.You know what, why the fuck am I wasting my time replying to your retarded questions when its clear you havent even played the game.
>>350753842This just raises more questions about just how stupid GFs are as a concept.The occupy space in your head? How much space? How many can you shove in there? Do they talk to you in there?