Final Fantasy VIII

Wow, I actually never had any trouble with Marlboros in VIII or X.

And in XII, well...they should be extinct, the way I went around killing them ermm

Originally posted by Lana
Wow, I actually never had any trouble with Marlboros in VIII or X.

And in XII, well...they should be extinct, the way I went around killing them ermm

Took me forever to get enough magic junctioned to beat them. Plus by then my characters were pretty strong, so the Malboro's had leveled up as well. So I'd try to have Tonberry by then, so I could use the level down trick.

Originally posted by Lana
Wow, I actually never had any trouble with Marlboros in VIII or X.

And in XII, well...they should be extinct, the way I went around killing them ermm

Only thing I ever had any trouble with in FFX was the very first time I went in Omega Ruins, and then the Monster Arena creations 😛 everything else was dead easy.

Originally posted by Lana
Only thing I ever had any trouble with in FFX was the very first time I went in Omega Ruins, and then the Monster Arena creations 😛 everything else was dead easy.

Well, you know, this is all part of a game design debate.

Should it actually be a design objective to make FF games difficult? There can be a big debate on that one.

Most of the time it's good to have some difficulty in a game to make it challenging, but to go into a game with the intention of making a difficult game is not good in my opinion. Try and make a fun game and then flesh out from that as need be.

Not to say that Final Fantasy games aren't fun......because they are.

I think Final Fantasy III is a fine example of a game that doesn't need to be as difficult as it is. They could have revamped the remake in that respective. The lack of save points in dungeons just made that game not fun for me. Having to replay a dungeon over and over can get rather daunting and therefore make a game unenjoyable after a while.

Anata wa wakarimasu ka.....

Originally posted by Lana
Wow, I actually never had any trouble with Marlboros in VIII or X.

And in XII, well...they should be extinct, the way I went around killing them ermm

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the only time I considered Malboros hard was in FF8, and that's cuz I didnt understand the mechanics of the game, I relied way too much on GFs... what was hard was to get that Malboro thingy to make the weapons... boy I hated when they didn't dropped it

Originally posted by S_D_J
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the only time I considered Malboros hard was in FF8, and that's cuz I didnt understand the mechanics of the game, I relied way too much on GFs... what was hard was to get that Malboro thingy to make the weapons... boy I hated when they didn't dropped it

At least VIII Marlboros gave decent xp when killed. One issue with FF is that solo monsters, even if very difficult, normally give crappy xp, disproportionate to how hard they were to beat.

Well the one who seems impossible to kill is yiazmat from xii

Originally posted by S_D_J
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the only time I considered Malboros hard was in FF8, and that's cuz I didnt understand the mechanics of the game, I relied way too much on GFs... what was hard was to get that Malboro thingy to make the weapons... boy I hated when they didn't dropped it

I always tried to just Mug them.

One thing I disliked about VIII, was that bosses give you no XP at all.

ff viii was relitively easy. no need to level your characters as the monsters and boses were in direct proportion to you current level.

Originally posted by SelphieT
I always tried to just Mug them.

heheheh... i mugged everything... they were SO not getting away without me doing damage and stealing their stuff... maybe that's why Rikku was my favorite in X-2...

Originally posted by Violent2Dope
One thing I disliked about VIII, was that bosses give you no XP at all.

Its better to get an assload of AP, rather EXP. Monsters get hella stronger when you level up, but if you are low level, with high AP, hells yeah!

Originally posted by JaccArlington
heheheh... i mugged everything... they were SO not getting away without me doing damage and stealing their stuff... maybe that's why Rikku was my favorite in X-2...

Yeah, once Diablo FINALLY learned Mug, I was muggin everything!

Originally posted by SelphieT
Yeah, once Diablo FINALLY learned Mug, I was muggin everything!

Diablo? 😕 ... was that the dog? 😕

Originally posted by Manslayer
Well the one who seems impossible to kill is yiazmat from xii

yiazmat is fairly easy... it' just takes way too much time to be done with....

I remember I left the controller at a side and watch TV instead, it was an "all Gambits" battle... lots of panacea...or elixir ..or whatever it's called, and Bubble, strength up (don't remember its proper name), berserk and speed up in stronger tank.... and:
any 50% HP ------ Curaja
any 30% HP------- Phoenix Tail
any 30% HP ------ Revive

...and he was all done with 😄

Originally posted by S_D_J
Diablo? 😕 ... was that the dog? 😕

yiazmat is fairly easy... it' just takes way too much time to be done with....

I remember I left the controller at a side and watch TV instead, it was an "all Gambits" battle... lots of panacea...or elixir ..or whatever it's called, and Bubble, strength up (don't remember its proper name), berserk and speed up in stronger tank.... and:
any 50% HP ------ Curaja
any 30% HP------- Phoenix Tail
any 30% HP ------ Revive

...and he was all done with 😄

Cerberus was the dog 🙂

Diablos was the Demonic looking Devil thing... ( I named him HellSpawn. XD)

well, using only Irvine Kinneas and Selphie Tilmett (save for the select few times to this point that I couldn't use both, in which case I used Selphie, as she's harder for me to build up) I am about to get to Trabia Garden on Disc 2, and I have all the GF's (so far), every level on the GF's up to 100, all their skills, and Irvine and Selphie up to level 78 with 9999 HP each, and a perfect 255 on all their other stats. Also, Squall is dead, and the others have followed his lead into death, leaving only Selph and Irvine to fight... And I only have 10 hours of game time... I love this game...