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Final Fantasy VIII Remastered |OT| You're The Best Looking Remaster Here
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Played some more and got up to the train section and I unlocked Diablos (sp?) GF from Cid right before that. Enjoying it more then I remember back on PS1.
Interested to hear what that Switch patch does. My two big gripes with the Remaster are the MIDI Landing and the opening credits being unsynced with Overture (which is a nitpick, non factor). If they can cross out either, I'm happy. And... here we go again with FF ports and patches.
I'm finding the last dungeon more fun than the last dungeons in all other Final fantasies, perhaps save VI.
the picture riddle I looked up right away, and I may look up the organ stuff.
i got the key for the treasure room (and found the treasure room) by randomly running around and running into walls.
Ive been drawing for what seems like hours ensuring all my characters are balanced.
I honestly feel the last dungeon could be a game in its own, if a little tweaked.
the picture riddle I looked up right away, and I may look up the organ stuff.
i got the key for the treasure room (and found the treasure room) by randomly running around and running into walls.
Ive been drawing for what seems like hours ensuring all my characters are balanced.
I honestly feel the last dungeon could be a game in its own, if a little tweaked.
FF8's final dungeon is great. It's better than a fucking cave, that's for sure.
XIII-2 is maybe the most memorable to me, it has a couple of really beautiful dungeons that are absolute hell to get through.
XIII-2 is maybe the most memorable to me, it has a couple of really beautiful dungeons that are absolute hell to get through.
You don't end it, you just walk out of the room.
I was gonna go all in on min-maxing in my lastest run of FFVIII, but it's honestly not that fun to break VIII to the most extreme extent possible. I'm gonna play VIII straight up, no power leveling guides, no going out of my way to get the final weapons on the first disc or anything, just like the first time I played VIII. VIII is so easy to break that I'll probably do it by accident anyway, but I'll save the power leveling and grinding until I'm near the end of the game.
All the FH scenes and sidequests are so great (I'm really taking my time playing obviously, I enjoy doing an hour a night). It's also when Squall's character really starts to grow. His inner monologue gets a lot more detailed.
He has an attack that will kill your party. Don't bother drawing from him. He's the hardest boss.
Probably, but I don't know what they are, and this is right in front of me. I understand it probably won't work. I think I have two more bosses to beat and then I can continue.
I got Eden and ran from that one boss, so I still have to fight him.
Make sure you aren't targeting them except for heals.
This includes not using limits with multi or random targets, such as Squall's.
Can someone who has the PS4 version please tell me how the CG cutscenes look
Do they look about as good as they do in the FFIX remaster? I consider that to be super super crisp (compared to what it was originally at least)
Do they look about as good as they do in the FFIX remaster? I consider that to be super super crisp (compared to what it was originally at least)
Yeah, some of Squall's limit finishers are multi-target, so you got lucky.
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Yeah I'd say they look pretty good.
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Finished 1000 kills achievement on Steam so I'm done all of them. I went and got all the character cards on Steam and also grabbed foil Squall. The rest are like $10 so I'm going to hold off for now.
I need to finish a couple of other games but once I do I'm back to doing a third playthrough on Switch.
I need to finish a couple of other games but once I do I'm back to doing a third playthrough on Switch.
You can Draw the Ultima spell(and every other powerful spell in the game) from the islands closet to Heaven and Hell. It's much safer and easier than doing it from a superboss. You just set no encounters and run around the island clicking for spells to draw. You can get Full-Life, Meteor, Flare, Triple, Holy, etc.
finished the remaster today on switch, filling in one of my biggest gaps in final fantasy games.
this game's really good. definitely reasonably high up on my list of favorites.
managed to avoid most spoilers for this game for literally my entire life (somehow) and was really surprised by how much I loved the story and the characters. will now be eternally confused by how people view squall, given how he actually is in the game. (seriously, if your takeaway from 8 is that he's an angsty teenager who says "...whatever" a lot, you uh... did not get far.) really enjoyed making my characters absurdly powerful through the dark art of children's card games, and... honestly, I don't think there was anything about this game that I DIDN'T like.
also, on a more systemic note, the 3x speed increase button is actually the best thing to ever happen. sure, there's some cheese you can do with it (since it doesn't speed up clock timers), but outside of that, it still just makes the (minimal) grinding or traversal way less painful. and also the eden summon animation. (I summoned it once, to see if it was the same as in the 14 raid. never again.) using it here has made me much more interested in doing the 10/10-2/12 remasters, now that I know they won't take nearly as long as they did the first time.
this game's really good. definitely reasonably high up on my list of favorites.
managed to avoid most spoilers for this game for literally my entire life (somehow) and was really surprised by how much I loved the story and the characters. will now be eternally confused by how people view squall, given how he actually is in the game. (seriously, if your takeaway from 8 is that he's an angsty teenager who says "...whatever" a lot, you uh... did not get far.) really enjoyed making my characters absurdly powerful through the dark art of children's card games, and... honestly, I don't think there was anything about this game that I DIDN'T like.
also, on a more systemic note, the 3x speed increase button is actually the best thing to ever happen. sure, there's some cheese you can do with it (since it doesn't speed up clock timers), but outside of that, it still just makes the (minimal) grinding or traversal way less painful. and also the eden summon animation. (I summoned it once, to see if it was the same as in the 14 raid. never again.) using it here has made me much more interested in doing the 10/10-2/12 remasters, now that I know they won't take nearly as long as they did the first time.
Thanks for letting me know!
I finished the game this morning. I relied solely on Squall's limit break, elixers (one card gave me 100 elixers I believe) and Cura to slightly heal Squall, but not enough so that he can't get limit breaks.
I enjoyed the game a lot more than I thought I would. I mentioned it before, but I hated the game at age 14. This time I have seen the light. For numbered Final Fantasies, I would put it at number 3, behind VI and XII. In some ways, it feels like the most "Final Fantasy" game of the series. I wonder if seeing the light on VIII means I may actually be able to stomach XIII too?
I beat XI, VII, XII, X and VIII on Switch this year. Great fun! Here's hoping for a Chrono Cross remaster.
I made it to the final dungeon but went through a portal back to the overworld for a bit
Is there an easy way to get the ship back?
Can I go into the final dungeon and then come back out at any time? Or are you locked in once you start?
Is there an easy way to get the ship back?
Can I go into the final dungeon and then come back out at any time? Or are you locked in once you start?
You can come back anytime before you engage ultimecia. The ship is in Kashkabald desert so go in the gate nearest to it and take a chocobo
There's going to be a physical release of the Switch version in Asia. It's going to have English and Japanese text. It's going to be a twin pack that has Final Fantasy VII and VIII.
I can't imagine the fun of an Omega Weapon who isn't on level 100 by default! People are understandably disappointed about the lack of analogue and rumble, but this weird scaling Omega is the most tragic of all! By the time you're level 100, I imagine he'd be awfully easy. I think the most maxed out game I ever had on the PS was around level 70 or so, and I just used my GFs as shields together with Aura on Squall, as I recall.
I was in Deling the other day and the experience with the baked-in NPCs was pretty rough. It did not bother me in Balamb Garden at all, but to see the most bustling and huge RPG city I'd ever encountered in 1999 appearing as this ghastly town of pixel zombies was a downer...I wanted to get out of there as soon as possible. It would be nice if the PC modders focus on restoring this great city to its former glory!
Well I kinda also levelled up to the max using Spr Up Str Up HP Up and Vit Up. Maybe I should try him on base stats as well. Not using Magic junctioning.
It took me a few hours, and I looked up a thing or two on the way.
Trabia and Burmecia in FF9 have a really similar vibe.
On the big twist: it really doesn't seem that much of a stretch, they're what, 4 years old? I can't remember anyone from when I was 4 at this point. GFs just exacerbate it.
On the big twist: it really doesn't seem that much of a stretch, they're what, 4 years old? I can't remember anyone from when I was 4 at this point. GFs just exacerbate it.
It also makes sense in its full context.
The game tells you about children all over the world being orphaned due to the war. There is nothing unlikely about the main cast of the game being from the same orphanage, because of the time loop. Squall from the future makes sure that Edea from the past takes action against Ultimecia, and of course she and Cid would make GARDEN the new home for the children once they were of age. Memory loss as a side effect of relying too much on the use of Guardian Forces is also hinted at several times in the game prior to the big reveal. They're of course all drawn to each other even after forgetting their past beyond just having been orphans, because somewhere in the back of their minds they still have that connection. It's why Quistis believes she has feelings for Squall, before she realises it's the sisterly instinct from childhood that's lingering.
A lot of people complain about the fact that Squall and Rinoa found the Ragnarok in space and it just so happened to be floating by there. I really think people aren't paying attention when they bitch about that scene. The ragnaroks were used to bring Adel's Tomb up there in the first place. The guys on the space station also mention that Adels Tomb is so big it has its own gravitational pull. of course the ragnarok would be floating around there.
Everything in the game is explained, it's just not spelled out, which people struggle with.
I think a lot of people played it first as a kid and that didn't help.
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The final boss is harder than all of them except Omega but Omega is a super boss so that makes sense.
Overall I don't think you'll have major trouble but you should still be a little more prepared compared to all the other fights. My recommendation if you want to ensure everything goes okay is to mod the Gilgamesh card and have a character equipped with Item so that you can make your party invincible. Other than that, save before the fight(there is a save point right outside the door) and see how you manage. If you end up losing just post where you died so that we can give some tips for avoiding it.
