I fucking despise this game on all levels so much it's unreal.
>>724323640I always get tired of spending so much time drawing magic from foes. I guess you don't HAVE to do that.
Don't play it? Damn anon, you are pretty dumb
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Disc 1 of Final Fantasy VIII is the best Final Fantasy game of all time.Unfortunately it keeps going.
>>724323640That's okay you just have shit taste. Don't beat yourself up over it.
>>724323640imagine getting filtered by the fucking junction systemthis game made me realize how fucking retarded the majority of people really are
>>724324189The junction system isn't difficult, it's just retarded and unfun. It is a fascinating idea and I really wish Square had had a chance to refine it over new iterations in subsequent games, so that we could see what a good implementation of it looks like.But this is not that one. It sucks fucking shit, anon.
>>724323640OP here I posted the wrong picture this is what I meant to post, thanks.
>>724323861Fujin
>>724323927Basically this.
>>724323640I guess you couldn't draw any fun out of it
>>724324414How is it "retarded and unfun?"
>>724323640What's wrong anon, couldn't find the fire cave for hours?
>>724324189It's not just the junction system, it's the ass-bleedingly retarded plot with the most forced coincidences of all time like everyone happening to be your friend from the orphanage.
>>724323927disk4 is kino. Disk 3 is just off-the-rails crazy. Disk 2 is the only real "bad" part of the game, and its made up for with the sick balamb garden fight scene
>>724324704hot take but I think XV is actually worse than XIIIXIII's story was interesting enough to go through the dogshit gameplay but XV doesn't even have that, it's like they forgot to make a story
>>724325051It takes less than an hour for a new player experiencing Final Fantasy VIII for the first time to realize: >1) More spells to junction means more power to your stats, so you should find the weakest enemy you can Draw from and spend the next half-hour drawing 100 of each spell they have>2) actually casting your spells depletes your junctioned stocks and weakens you so you should hoard them like a dragon>3) you can raise all your stats to maximum via Junction so weapon upgrades are wholly meaningless and not something to even bother with This is just the surface and it's already fucking retarded. A magic system that disincentivizes you from using magic is the stupidest idea imaginable.
>>724325303your argument is invalid because FF7 + demake + debirth + spinoffs exist
>>724325597What?
>>724325524You said a bunch of words and they all mean nothing. Kill yourself you stupid brain dead retard. Retards like you should be banned from speaking on the internet.
>>724325756Explain to me how "if you use any of your spells, you get weaker" does not disincentivize you from using your spells
>>724325679those games have the most ass backwards retarded stories and are beloved
>>724326118Explain to me what is backwards retarded about FF7's story and how it is worse then "literally everyone in the plotline lived together and just forgot because GF amnesia, and the guy who didn't have GF amnesia just didn't mention it"
>>724325756Enemies scale with your party's average level, and any exp gained from battles is divided threeway between your party. If during a random encounter you kill your two teammates and you never rez them, Squall will reach level 99 in a fucking hour by just battling underleveled monsters and gaining triple EXP. The rest of the game, you can just steamroll level 50 monsters and bosses. Ultima weapon can be reached and killed in 20 hours, this way.t:I did this back in 1999.Just concede already, FF8 has hare-brained game design. You can bitch about it, cry about it, but it won't unfuck Final Fantasy 8
>>724325524>You mean... I don't get EVERYTHING I want, right at the start?>I have to invest time into playing FF8? COLLECT things I want???>Well, THAT ruins things!>LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAME
Holy cross!
>>724327326how does anything i say connect to anything you said?I'm not complaining about not getting all spells. I'm complaining about the fact the game incentivizes you to spend an hour in every encounter until you draw 100 of everything in the enemy's list and also to never actually cast any of these spells.
I just dislike the scaling level system, everything else is fine.
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>>724326287>the main character isn't who he thinks he is and just forgot because mako amnesia, and the girl who doesn't have mako amnesia just didn't mention itsame shit
>>724326287>literally everyone in the plotline lived together and just forgot because GF amnesia, and the guy who didn't have GF amnesia just didn't mention itIt's actually even more retarded than that, after leaving the Garden for the first time you have to go to the fire cave in order to get your first Guardian Force Ifrit and Quistis tells you the player that this is the first time Squall learns about Guardian Forces.>>724327326>I have to invest time into playing FF8? COLLECT things I want???FF8's gameplay design is broken to the point a 13-year-old could exploit and speed run it, I was the world's first Final Fantasy speed runner all thanks to FF8's dog shit gameplay mechanics.>NORGAsspull, never seen or heard from ever again after that one time in balamb garden.>autistic turtles who turn into furry lions.Again, utter nonsense.>Seifer getting ahold of Quistis her whip and using it on squal during a gay prison scene.Anyone defending FF8 is ripe for institutionalizing
>>724327535>the game incentivizes youNo it doesn't. Quite the opposite.YOU seem to have the goal of "MAXXX OUTTT!"The game says, "if you like, here's half a dozen ways! But, also... here's ENC-NONE and 'rubber-band' enemy leveling. So uh... do whatever you want."All you're "complaining" about is that other people have completed achieving what you wanted, so that's somehow not fair to you.
>>724323640The fans of this are laughably delusional because they’re not just casual, well-meaning enjoyers of FF8.Rather, they treat liking this game as a declaration of war against every other FF and that they’re on the winning, smarter side of their made-up conflict.They’re truly the only FF fans like this; every other FF enjoyer notes their favorite but also doesn’t dismiss the other titles, because they’re actually are aware that every FF achieves different goals and they collectively form a respected franchise.
>>724327814She doesn't "not mention it," she explicitly goes along with his delusions because she is afraid that something bad will happen if he's pushed, because he clearly gets unwell when that happens.
>>724323861>your gf is evil hags from the futureJapanese dev one miss opportunities…
>>724328438And Jecht/Tidus happily exclaim they're from Zanarkand and are extremely famous blitzball champions and remember it like it was yesterday "how come no one else believes me?," but everyone else just dismisses them as "drunk idiot losers who are Sin-Toxic amnesiacs."Tifa, Irvine, Tidus can be telling the truth all they want, but "bad memory" excuse from everyone else means no one believes them.
>>724325524literally none of those things are true and you are pretty clearly just a boring autistic person who can only think about completing games as labor for your vain perceptions of social credit on a mongolian basket weaving forum
>>724329139He just wants to watch the game.But also 40 hours is too long, so, 12 second Tik Tok, plz.
>>724329139>wtf why are you doing things the way that makes you stronger?if your game is only fun if you deliberately kneecap yourself, it's badly designed.
