I was 12 in 2005 when I first played this game. Since then I never got pass the dancing scene cause I don't understand how the stupid Junction/GF System works. I want to like it cause the story seems cool and it has cool music but It makes no sense and I read online through the years that you shouldn't Draw magic and shit cause enemies scale with you, so the weaker you are the easier the game actually is.Can someone explain the Junction GF shit to me like I'm a retard? How does it work and how should you be using the Draw system as well.
>>12042858GFs learn abilitiesGFs are "junctioned" (equipped) to characters, thus granting them those unlocked abilitiesSome of those abilities are the ability to junction magic to character statsMagic that is junctioned to stats however means that character power is dependent on quantity of said magic, so using the magic depletes statsEnemy levels scale with character levels, but I dont think it matters how much you draw. Anyway the game has a lot of ways to play it, which is the main thing about it that's good besides the music and art styleThe story is kind of a convoluted mess after disc 1 so just be ready for that
>>12042858>Can someone explain the Junction GF shit to me like I'm a retard?sorry to tell you but if you still cant understand it as an adult you are in fact a retard.i played it for the first time a couple of years ago and had no trouble understanding it,the game explains it to you.
>>12042858>I read online through the years that you shouldn't Draw magic and shit cause enemies scale with you, so the weaker you are the easier the game actually is.You do realize you've been listening to retarded autists that belong in some mental asylum.And why would you want it to be even easier? Bunch of pansies.
I always hoarded spells and spammed gf's and limitbreaks.
You equip a GF which lets you equip spells to your stats, how is this complicated>like I'm a retardYou ARE a retard
>>12042858>Can someone explain the Junction GF shit to me like I'm a retard?The game will do it for you.It's not that "you don't understand."It's not even that you want to.You genuinely don't care.
>>12042858>listening to retards onlineThat's your only mistake. Just play the game. It's not that complicated. Even if you don't get it initially, it wont affect much.
>>12042858I loved the junction system more than the materia from ff7, because I love that feel that is basically gives you the power of the GF
R+U is real
>>12043687Yeah, I don't think any FF game has as comprehensive a tutorial system as 8. There are in-game tutorials for all of the major mechanics and they're all available in the menu along with a ton of other stuff.7 has a tutorial for materia. 9 has those posters that explain how tetra master works.
>>12042858Since >>12042873 summed up the basics nicely I'll expand a little more>the stat junctions are different for different GFs. One might let you junction magic to HP and another to strength, for example. So you want to pay attention to who gets which GF because it kind of determines their combat style. You most likely want to give Squall a GF with STR-J so he does as much damage as possible, then have a support character who maybe has stronger magic and so on. >GFs also have unique skills that they learn as they level up. As soon as you get a new GF you need to IMMEDIATELY go into the menu and manually select which skills to learn because by default they will learn Guardian force HP up and summon magic + spells and those are only useful if you want to spam summons which is the most boring, braindead and tiresome way to play the game. Lean magic refining abilities first so you can convert items into magic, then junction magic to your stats. Also get card mod as soon as possible so you can turn cards into items and refine those into magic>enemies scale with level, not strength so if you increase your stats through junctioning instead of just grinding you get ahead of the curve, so to speak. Doesn't mean you should deliberately avoid leveling, just that you shouldn't go out of your way to grind for levels because it's not that helpful. Junctioning magic is way more efficient >don't get in a twist about using basic magic even if it's junctioned to a stat. You can always get basic elemental and cure spells or whatever, and using a few between refills won't lower your stats that badly. Just don't be too trigger happy with rare spells because those are harder to replace.>draw whenever you feel like it. There's no downside other than losing a turn. But if you learn the magic refine abilities as soon as possible refining items is a lot less tedious. But ALWAYS check to see if bosses have a GF you can draw because you only get one shot at those until disk 4
>>12042858Ever try Xenogear?
>>12044979>draw whenever you feel like it. There's no downside other than losing a turn.i'd also mention that if you're gonna draw your spells make sure your magic stat is high as possible so you draw the max amount per turn at least
>>12045291No thanks
>>12045291Thank you
Limit breaker?
>>12042858what does the junction has to do with the dancing scene? you don't even need to know how the junction works, you can spam win the game just by spamming GFs. Only adel is going to give you trouble for it
>>12044661Fact
I played this game when I was 10 and I didn't struggle with it at all. If you are too stupid get the GF mechanic as an adult, please find another hobby
>>12042858Well, it seems I'm late as other anons have already explained how it works in full detail.Keep playing it. It's very underrated, probably because a lot of people were disappointed it wasn't like FF7 when it came out and the MC's personality starts less like the typical hero and more like the teenager he is.
>>12042858>2005>12 years oldMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODS
>>12042858quistis explicitly explains all of the systems to you via an in game tutorial you cant even skipif you cant even read theres not much help we can give you anon. just stick to legos and GTA.
>>120472564chan already two years old.
>>12047256OP is like 19 now
It's just a stupid system. Punishing you for casting spells is stupid.
>>12042879>the game explains it to you.This, in great detail, numerous times
>>12047968I think the game also had help files ingame incase you thuumbed past the tutorials. OP is retarded
>>12047958it's really not that bad, the main problem is most spells just suck when cast outside the main utility onesat the very most a spell that increases a stat by 100 would lose a whole 1 point per cast and by the time you're using spells that strong you'll have the means to refill the stock after battlebut seriously FF8 is easy enough that it barely matters, just cast your spells when you want to see the cool animations
mainly, the problem is just that it's incredibly unintuitive>ah yes I will equip 35 Sleep spells to improve my defense stat, that makes sense
>>12048096it's not like you're forced to guess, you can see how much a spell increases a stat and it mostly makes sense which spells would be best for which stats
>game was just an excuse to bust a nut to shiva's pixelated assyeah, couldn't be me
i never really understood how it works and i still beat the game multiple times, i just spammed GFs in every fight until i won
>>12047983this is a funny catch 22 with tutorials being available in menus afterwards, the people that are so stupid that they need to look things up again also happen to be so stupid that they don't either don't remember or don't realise in the first place that the tutorials exist.
>>12042858SE better remake this and xenogear
>>12042858Magic is a form of consumable. Magic can drawn from enemies or found in the world. Junctioning (aka assigning) these consumable magics to a particular stat will increase or decrease it depending on the magic type and the amount you have. For a braindead playthrough, just draw 99 of every magic you find from enemies as soon as possible and auto junction them.
>>12049071NO! They'll fuck it up by making it an action game, then they'll hand it over to a consultant like Sweetbaby to deliberately uglify the fuck out of it while forcing in DEI bullshit everywhere. Then they'll mangle the shit out of the script to "update it for today's gamers." FF7R should have been a wake-up call that remakes are a bad idea.
>>12049083>For a braindead playthrough, just draw 99 of every magic you find from enemies as soon as possible and auto junction them.this is the worst advice for ff8, doing that is a complete waste of time. i really dont understand how someone couldnt comprehend the junction system if they just even tried a little bit
>>120491037 remake is good though. We need the same treatment for 8
bump
Whatever the gameplay work.
>>12049283I think FF8 is a game that's especially easy to break with grinding but also one where grinding is especially tedious, which you think would discourage people from doing it. It also gives you a great non-tedious way of grinding in the form of a mostly great card game, but then people act like that's a problem too.There's just a certain kind of person who can't relax and enjoy FF8 for what it is.
>>12049103Unless of Tifa was added
>>12042858story ends up being some gay time bullshit. they struck gold with the materia system but since theyre japanese developers, theyre incapable of improving a good thing.fuckin mc name is "squall" for fuck sake
I'm convinced the reason people are filtered by this is because the tutorials are recited by a woman, and man has a natural inclination to shut off his brain when a woman is speaking.
>>12049103Well, anon?>>>/v/721526172
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwEAUeX4nOUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrez6J-d67ohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZu6ApF63ZY
