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cheshirescat on 25 February 2015
tokilamockingbrd said:
The Order learned something from FF8.... unskipable cutscenes.... Except in 8 you have to see the same scene EVERY time you use a damn summon (wait to you get Eden, the damn summon animation takes like 5 minutes).

9 was better as was 10. In fact 8 is my least favorite mainline FF game. Back in 1998 the game was one of the most beautiful ever made so that gave it some redeeming value, now it just looks horrid. I is the only FF fame I refuse to replay.


The only gf you ever need to actually summon is doomtrain, and you don't even need that one if you don't want as long as you have meltdown.  I do agree though, 8 is shit and if it weren't for 13 would be my least favorite final fantasy.  The junction system is broken and the story is maudlin and has one of the all time worst plot twists not just in video games, but in the history of story telling.



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InnocentSin on 25 February 2015
DakonBlackblade said:

I know Im in the minority here but I never liked the Suikoden series, the games never went very well with me, I guess the hughe number of playable characters anoyed me somewhat becuase Im always trying to play all of them and I cant wrap my head around why would I have an army of companions and only ever take like 4 to battle, its easier to acept this sort of thing when your party is just 8 or so.

Admittedly, trying to get 108 party members might seem daunting but it really isn't that bad. Most characters are actually quite easy to get (Atleast in S1&2). The cool thing is that some characters actually aren't used for battling and have other purposes. For example, a recruitable character is able to store all of your unwanted items or perhaps even better, in S2 a character can be used to gain information on certain party members and/or how to recruit them (Kinda useless now because of GameFAQs but still..). Also, Suikoden games allow a party of upto six for battles with the exception of Suikoden IV which reduces the party limit to 4 (Although, S4 is considered the worst entry in the series by many). Not to mention the army battles are really cool and feel grand. 

But I digress, different strokes for different folk. I mean, I don't like the Xenosaga trilogy or the Kingdom Hearts series.





artur-fernand on 25 February 2015
BraLoD said:
artur-fernand said:


I heard Suikoden 1 is a great game too. Not sure if they're connected though.

And why don't you just create an US account and buy Xenogears there?


I don't like getting the US cards here, stores are always overpricing it. I dunno why it's not on our PSN though, we always get what the US store get...


Amazon sells digital codes for the "right" price. As in, $10 cards cost $10. I always buy PSN cards from there.

All you need is an international credit card. You don't have one?



DakonBlackblade on 25 February 2015
BraLoD said:
artur-fernand said:


Amazon sells digital codes for the "right" price. As in, $10 cards cost $10. I always buy PSN cards from there.

All you need is an international credit card. You don't have one?

Nope, it doesn't work with international transactions.
Anyway, I'm not going to play it so soon, I already have quite a list of old games I'll play and the PS4 can get right in the middle of it and make it take really long to me to play other old games. Well, if it pops up in our PS store I might get it, if not, well, in the future I'll decide about if I'll get a card to get it. No need to think so much about it right now.
I though about asking why the game is not on our store into the ps blog br, but no one ever answer us there, so I didn't do it as well

It's really strange though, they just need to put it there, they got a lot of old games in english there already anyway.

Xenogears has always been a super hard ot find game in Brazil, it took me almost a year to find a copy of the game back in the day.



etking on 25 February 2015

FFVIII is the best Final Fantasy game ever made.



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artur-fernand on 25 February 2015
Ka-pi96 said:
etking said:
FFVIII is the best Final Fantasy game ever made.




cheshirescat on 25 February 2015
Ka-pi96 said:
tokilamockingbrd said:
The Order learned something from FF8.... unskipable cutscenes.... Except in 8 you have to see the same scene EVERY time you use a damn summon (wait to you get Eden, the damn summon animation takes like 5 minutes).

9 was better as was 10. In fact 8 is my least favorite mainline FF game. Back in 1998 the game was one of the most beautiful ever made so that gave it some redeeming value, now it just looks horrid. I is the only FF fame I refuse to replay.

The ones in FF8 aren't just cutscenes that you'll be watching though. Them being long is good since it gives you so much time to boost.


Like I said before, all you need is doomtrain, and you don't even need to bother boosting, you're only summoning him for the status effects, vit 0 in particular.  Though doomtrain isn't available until fairly deep in the game, you still don't really need to summon too much as there are other, more efficient ways to do damage fairly early in the game.



artur-fernand on 25 February 2015
cheshirescat said:
Ka-pi96 said:
tokilamockingbrd said:
The Order learned something from FF8.... unskipable cutscenes.... Except in 8 you have to see the same scene EVERY time you use a damn summon (wait to you get Eden, the damn summon animation takes like 5 minutes).

9 was better as was 10. In fact 8 is my least favorite mainline FF game. Back in 1998 the game was one of the most beautiful ever made so that gave it some redeeming value, now it just looks horrid. I is the only FF fame I refuse to replay.

The ones in FF8 aren't just cutscenes that you'll be watching though. Them being long is good since it gives you so much time to boost.


Like I said before, all you need is doomtrain, and you don't even need to bother boosting, you're only summoning him for the status effects, vit 0 in particular.  Though doomtrain isn't available until fairly deep in the game, you still don't really need to summon too much as there are other, more efficient ways to do damage fairly early in the game.


He's not using a guide though. So the odds of him actually getting Doomtrain are almost non-existent.

It's fairly easy to find Meltdown though. Especially with Refine and Mug.



TheBlackNaruto on 25 February 2015

FF VIII is EASILY my favorite game of the entire series with 10 being a closed second. Everyone else raves about FFVII but for me FFVIII will always be best. After you finish this try out Legend of Dragoon, Legend of Legaia and Vagrant story! And of course Chrono Cross!



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cheshirescat on 25 February 2015
artur-fernand said:
cheshirescat said:


Like I said before, all you need is doomtrain, and you don't even need to bother boosting, you're only summoning him for the status effects, vit 0 in particular.  Though doomtrain isn't available until fairly deep in the game, you still don't really need to summon too much as there are other, more efficient ways to do damage fairly early in the game.


He's not using a guide though. So the odds of him actually getting Doomtrain are almost non-existent.

It's fairly easy to find Meltdown though. Especially with Refine and Mug.


All you really need in the game is meltdown then maintain squall and/or zell in a critical state, unless you get a bunch of aura stones.