So why didn't you guys just steal it?

If this game was actually challanging this would probably be my favorite rpg of all time. I keep wanting to go back to it but now as a 30 year old boomer I just understand the mechanics way too well. Thats the other thing thats fucked up. I like the pre-set jobs and how abilities are tied to gear which encourages exploration but your characters just get so strong if you do that.

>It can be bought for 4,500 gil at Oeilvert's or Desert Palace's Mogshop

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Which I'd say it's the only FF game like that since they usually only differentiate by their overdrives. Still, not very happy about the system.

I tried to steal that shit until I was literally out of potions and phoenix downs.

>Playing through Lost Odyssey
>Didn't realize you could steal two Slot Seeds from the Black Cave boss
>Sarah is still short on slots as a result

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But you can go back to Potatoes to get my f*cking Power Wrist

That's the problem with a lot of rpg's from the 90's or early 2000's. They're balanced around brainlets who just play the main story and never go into any optional building or talk to random npc's or go down the obvious side path in dungeons.

FFIX really proved how tiresome ATB was. FFX going back to proper turn-based was a good call. Unfortunately they've gone too far and fell for the action meme.

Can't you turn off ATB in the options tho

I forgot how grainy this game was

It would be nice if RPG developers put more effort into their difficulty modes, usually they either don't have them or just lazily tweak the enemy damage and RNG.

>tho
no, wait mode is just ATB but it freeze when you pick an option

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IX still feels huge and full of optional content. Are there hacks to make the game more interesting, balance wise?

I wanted to play this game so much, but holy fuck, the artstyle is atrocious.

Not the same thing.

this is a shit opinion.

good thing the game is pixelated low res jumble like in op and leaves a lot of room for your imagination.

Well at least in squares case it was a bit more that they had locked 18 month dev cycles.
That was it, no allowances. With FF9 we have a fun romp that does provide challenge if you desire to seek it out, and the ability to do shit like level 1 runs.
Then you got stuff like Xenogears
Which I also love, but I'd rather have the more finished product we see in 9 than the mess that is Xeno disc 2.

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idk atb was a good way to handle buffs and debuffs that handle action order, like slow/haste and stop/freeze etc

Too bad those are never useful in any pre-X FF.

Joke's on you. This shirt has helped me score pussy more than once.

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I did. It took fucking forever. Pretty sure it would've been faster to just keep playing and buy it from the vendor later.

There's a patch for the original Iso that's supposedly really tough and supposedly really good. It's called "unleashed", you do have to run an emulator to play it tho.

For the pc version I think there's a hard mode mod but that one isn't as comprehensive.

>Haste/slow never useful pre-x FF
>Probably the most busted buff and debuff in any Final fantasy game

wtf are you talking about?

Anyone remember FFVIII where you had fucking guardian forces on bosses that if you didn't "draw" them you had to wait untill the final fucking dungeon of the game before you could ever get it again? Let's not forget that Guardian forces were like 70% of your character development

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>Bush

No fucking way this isn't an edit

Or the one summon that takes like 80 seconds to fucking resolve
8 was weird

You're an S-rank retard

That's literally what the job system is...

It's not. This is how it looks.

>Bush
It's a shell. Is this your first time seeing a low res game?

>he didnt play FF8 on the PSX and see Siren and Shiva's pubes

haha fag

Awe shit, my nigga and manapilled

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>not checking the draw list on every boss for some good shit
Though I agree that siren is easy to miss since it's really early in the game, and one of the most important GF's because of refine healing

Summon animations were incredible though.
But only a kid can stomach watching them over and over.

My dad would watchme play and go "damn this looks cool", but then he would give up after seeing me summon Ifrit for the 8th time in a row because I was too young to understand how to play properly.

Man, 90's rpg's were so much less scared of "mature" imagery. I remember seeing this as a kid and not thinking much of it, nowadays people would lose their minds over something like this in FF.

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>tried to steal some shit from some random boss for literally over an hour
>no success
>stopped playing and never played again
What a piece of shit.

It probably helps back then everything was in garbage resolution on your shitty little tv so it was harder to tell what things were supposed to be. Can't really get away with that now when the visual quality is so crisp.

Yeah they would totally flip out an

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>than the mess that is Xeno disc 2.
All of xenogears was a fucking mess, I hate when people say otherwise, that game was an absolute clusterfuck from beginning to end.

FFVIII was pretty amazing but held back by some dumb ideas. Making magic consumables was pretty dumb, but the idea of equiping magic was pretty cool.

Didn't play ff6 I see.

What do you need this for? The game is easy enough.

Interesting but this only half makes your point. Yes it uses the same design as FFVIII shiva but they changed the colouring of her skin into actual clothing making it less lewd.

There's a big difference in society between being nude and wearing lingery or a bikini.

>tried stealing an item for hour
>couldn't and quit a great game prematurely
>item isn't even very useful

If anything it's more lewd because it implies she has genitals. The original may as well have been a zentai suit.

>going out of bounds and looking at giant shiva butt

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It's at least fun and keeps alright pacing despite being fucking odd as hell in disc 1.
Disc 2 is like a parody of jrpgs being visual novels.

That's the thing, kids literally don't care.
But once your hormones go wild and your brain is reprogrammed to reproduce, it's hard to ignore all of that if you're into what you see.

I did

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8 was a weird mismatch of ideas, the income tied to rank, junction, drawing, carding, and refining was absolutely amazing but the level scaling, loss of rank for exploring, and nonsensical plot after disc 1 was terrible. If FF8 ever gets remade they need to just make it balls to the wall difficult and force people to learn how to abuse the system because doing so without a guide or the internet was the most rewarding shit.

I'm proud of you bro.

That was the worst part of it all, it just annoyed the shit out of me.

The latter half of disc one was a god damn VN, the entire game while interesting was drakengard 1 levels of flawed.

>tfw get to Timber
>go to school
>friend tells me about Siren
>realised I didn't draw it
>have to wait until the final dungeon to get it
>have to look at that stupid gap in my gf list
>oh well, i get over it
>friend then mentions about a lamp that headmaster cid gives you if you speak to him one specific time on one specific screen
>I missed that too
>rage

Why did FF8 love shit like this?

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If you guys think Fairy Flute is bad, try stealing a Mythril Sword from Beatrix on disc 1. Same retarded 1/256 ratio, but only 10 turns to succeed at getting it.

Is this the game where the brunette has a really, really detailed tight ass

What, it's possible to miss the diablo lamp? Do you have adhd or something

Not that guy but i'm not 100% sure if you have to talk to the headmaster to get the lamp or if he gives it to you as part of the conversation.

He talks to you and then you can either leave or talk to him again to get the lamp.

How was cid able to nail a 10/10 chick like Edea

NORG funded it probably, just like everything else

Yes it is

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A lot of people were chads when they were younger user, pretty much everyone is a chad in their early 20s. Hell this is what Drew Carey looked like when young.

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>using the lamp for the first time
>badass looking demon out of nowhere

Fuuuck, good stuff

You DID leave your game on overnight with Marcus auto-leveling using the Blood Sword so Eiko had boosted stats, right Yea Forums?

Why does a princess need to have a very big squeezable ass?

I did on my last playthrough probably took an hour of just stealing to get it.

she wasn't the only one

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For efficient royal breeding? Are you retarded?

Have you not seen the newer FF titles or XIV? They all got this kind of shit in them.

So she can sit down for a long time

Because not actually a princess but a lewd summoner chick from different continent.

thanks senpai. i even subjected myself to tetra master to make up for all the shit i couldnt do (jump-rope, crowd pleasing, fucking hippaul racing).

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Go all the way with it son.
>tfw spent like 50 hours leveling up all the cards only to get a fucking glitched out max score, thanks squaresoft.

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> unique in style
except every single character has massive forearms and a general pear shaped outline

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Name 5 more games where everyone is a pear then

>that subtle jiggle

>in order to get the best weapon for a character you have to talk to some guy that's literally only there for one screen and if you miss him you can't go back
literal boomers think this is great gameplay

The kind of shit I hated in those games.

FF8 is the series casual filter.

This game had some serious curves going on

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Whoever did the 3D design for her knew what was up

Yeah, the hair is nuts

Superior PS1 ass coming through
Unfortunately I can't find a good image so you'll have to take my word for it

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I think her soldiers all wearing leotards gave my my first boner

why is this game so slow. i fall asleep mid battle

how in the fuck do you even play tetra master

>i fall asleep mid battle
activate Insomniac to protect against sleep

i only ever fell asleep playing ff9 and shadow of the colossus

Joke went over your head, never mind.
More tits coming through.

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k friendo

>o poo

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>but now as a 30 year old boomer
You're a millennial, user. A retarded user, who doesn't understand that generational names go by birth year groupings. Boomers were born between 1946 and 1964.

lurk more boomer

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It's basically dumbed down Triple Triad

Still don't understand how that stupid card game works.

>have much bigger numbers than opponent's card
>his card still wins

The last sentence is the reason Tetra Master is fucked. Would have functioned perfectly fine otherwise.

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Ah yes, just like the "random" element in blitzball that always works in favor of the opponents.

Yeah it's dumb. Had that not been there, and the values simply work out the way you'd expect them to, I might have even prefered it over Triple Triad. It works almost the same but no changing rules per region bullshit.

Fuck blitzball I'll literally never understand how that game is supposed to work

>Release PC remaster
>Don't implement the partymember you had to cut due to time constraints.

It's not fair bro's

>Don't implement the partymember you had to cut due to time constraints.
Source? I've never heard that before. I know there's been some speculation that Beatrix might have been planned as a playable at some point, since she has her own character slot and her stats aren't linked to other party members like they are with Blank/Marcus.

No, nobody thought this was good gameplay. Even boomers of the time bitched about games that were made to force you to buy the strategy guides. You'd know this if you weren't a zoomer and knew what a book looked like.

I’ve done it. Stolen everything possible from everyone. I reset many times.

I also had that Aqua gun or something in FF12 before Raithwall. I oneshot the wall.

I just score and hide behind the goal, at least there's a trick to stop that rng bullshit.

I always thought that monster's ears were its eyes, just blew my mind

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Just recruit the most overpowered players

Literally complaining about something not happening

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I love everything about this game except the combat. Everytime Zidane is solo I make sure to power level him, I was level 50 by the time I got this this Giant and gave up after 20 minutes of trying to steal that flute.

FF minigames are some of the easiest shit in existence, even as a 12 year old I had no problem with Triple Triad or Tetra Master

I felt the same about Blitzball, but apparently most people can't even win the game in Luca for the power sphere. It's not even that hard to figure out, just keep passing until you're close to the goal and baited the enemy team towards another character.

You can get them in the final dungeon? I've played FFVIII in its entirety at least six times and I never knew that.

Why are her shorts unbuttoned and panties sticking out?

Yeah if you miss them throughout the game you can draw them from the bosses in Ultimecia's castle.

I did, I've done it within 5 steals every playthrough

It's like morons don't understand that Thief's Cuffs exist

I did, and I swear to god the steal rate must've been upped on pc because I've never gotten it that fast before.

>Thief's Cuffs
He didn't ever steal it

Mainly just by stocking up on stronger cards with lots of arrows.

literally all you have to do to win is recruit Wedge whose right there in the first city and just have him score goals until he levels up to like 50 or something by which you should have every best player in the game. You can constantly rack up 12-0 wins because the AI will just swim right into him the second they get the ball allowing him to steal it and shoot it right into the net for an easy goal. The only other thing you need to do is control the ball carrier so you can swim where you need.

>they had locked 18 month dev cycles.
FF7 took 3 years to make.

>jump-rope
>crowd-pleasing
>hippaul racing
>the chocobo racing in X
>lightning dodger
>butterfly catcher

nigga that's just from 2 games. even the ones that aren't hard are annoying enough that its not worth bothering with them

Did you put on the max damage cheat thing, because I've read before that also ups the steal rate.
FF7 was the first time developing for the PS1, makes sense that for 8 and 9 it took less because they knew better what they were working with.

But it's such a good clusterfuck, you can feel the unfulfilled ambition bleeding out of it.

>Did you put on the max damage cheat thing, because I've read before that also ups the steal rate.
I don't use the cheats because FF games are too easy to make them necessary.

In 8's case they also make a tech demo game for its graphics with Parasite Eve.

Just checking because of the steal rate thing. Sounds like you just got lucky then, I don't think the chance ratio for rare steals was changed.

6 was like that but it lead to everyone just spamming their unique thing. Like Edgar should basically always use Drill, and Sabin whatever Blitz command you want. I absolutely loathed using espers to stat manage the characters or give the main cast Ultima

>FF7 was the first time developing for the PS1
Originally it was developed for N64 but the game was the same, what had to be changed was coding for that specific system.

CTB was my favorite battle system, and each character having a unique enemy counter combined with the in battle character switching means the whole cast gets utilized instead of just your fave 3, but somehow ATB gets to be in a million games and spinoffs and CTB only gets the one outing.

IX is my favorite FF but I agree, X's battle system is superior. I wish they had used it more.

I really liked the battle system from Legend of Dragoon. I really wish that game had turned into a franchise. Would have loved to have seen it evolve.

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im only fucking sour about triple triad because of the level scaling on ff8

getting card from quetzalcoatl and noexp from diablos as early as possible so that enemies arent scaled to autistic numbers is just one of the stupidest shit ive ever seen in videogames as a kid

wiki.pcsx2.net/Fatal_Frame

goddammit wrong thread

This was the FF9 endgame anyways. Everyone had an ability that all but guaranteed 9999's; they were just acquired differently.

Beating Ozma almost always involves a combination of the 2; Frog Drop, Dragon Crest, Wind-Elm Bird-Killer Amarant Phys Attacks, Theivery, and/or Reflect x2 + Doomsday spam. Pair that with healslut eiko and a dedicated item/status cure bitch and the whole game plays itself.

>Wind-Elm Bird-Killer Amarant Phys Attacks
Only worthwhile thing you posted honestly. The rest is just busywork (killing 100 dragons, catching 100 frogs). I would go full melee. Have Freya with Holy Lance and Steiner with Excalibur (or II) and holy elem boost. Bird Killer and MP attack on everyone. Auto-Life and regen and as many status effect guards as possible for curse.

Ozma's difficulty came from praying rng would let you steal everything before you got wiped out

Reminder that Square loves FFIX now.

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It's the best game in the series in everything except how slow the combat is. Comfiest and most soul too.

why do most of the characters look like lolis? Very different from FFVII and FFVIII...

I never bothered to steal much in JRPGs.
If one of my usual party members had the ability I tried it on each boss once or twice, that's all.

I can't even remember this boss and I did the game 5-6 times
in what cd do you fight him?

I like the more fantasy-like style in this game instead of everyone looking like regular humans.

Wish the game didn’t forget about Freya and Amarant had a better reason for being there but I still love this party.

Why are Kuja, Quina and Eiko petrified?

Amarant was just kinda thrown in, but I agree with Freya. She had the coolest design even if she's an anthro.

Shame that Bring Arts figures are fucking trash...

>why do most of the characters look like lolis?
Half of them are. Eiko is a little girl. Vivi is also a basically a child. Zidane and Garnet are like 15 or 16.

No other Final Fantasy game up to that point had an average age that was so low. Usually the main characters were 18-24 and maybe you had a token child as a minor side character like Relm or Palom. In FF7 I think the youngest is Yuffie who is 16.

The problem with FF minigames isn't that they're hard it's that they're annoying filler. Chocobo Hot&Cold is the worst, literally just mindless button-mashing.

No thats a baby boomer not a boomer.

The best FFs are the ones with job system and it's the single best addition the series has made to the JRPG genre as a whole, this is fact.

It is a shell but I totally fapped to it like if it were a bush instead.

They always did

You've obviously never played Final Fantasy XII

>waste half an hour on every boss in combat slog trying to steal gear
>also, there's a piece of gear you'll miss for wasting time
I feel like IX legitimately hated its players.

I own a bunch of strategy guides, including the completely worthless final fantasy 9 one that told you to go online for everything. boomers absolutely think hidden shit and obtuse mechanics are good. they justify it with "but don't you remember having fun talking about what you found with friends?"

GO TO PLAYONLINE MOTHERFUCKER

What was the fairy flute needed for?

Teaches Esuna, Regen, and most importantly Haste

>Reminder that Square loves wringing money out of FFIX fans now.