The only JRPG I can still enjoy as an adult

The only JRPG I can still enjoy as an adult

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  1. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Whatever

  2. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    What's with all the FF8 threads? Did an eceleb talk about it?

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      I played it this weekend and I'm the main character

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        I literally did the same thing and made 5 threads about it btw

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        I have a problem with giant rats in my basement, PM me

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      squenix not su8re if they should try to remake it next so they push their money into finding out if people would pay for it. so threads but pencil pushers...

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      It's the only psx FF game that will garner on-topic shitposting and potential discussion
      VII will bring in comp shit, coomer shit and remake arguments more than anything
      IX just brings lol OK moron because the game was never actually divisive to people over the age of 12
      Tactics is only going to bring out that one seanig who hates matsuno

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Maybe because it's the fact that FF XVI is about to be about and XVI is VIII x 2 so XVI promises to be about as good as VIII at least.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        14 is 7x2, and it somehow sucks worse than 7.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          We don't talk about 14 here

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        as long as XVI isn't a disaster like XV, I don't care.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          XVI is looking like it'll actually be a solid game.
          I don't know if it will be as captivating and charismatic as the PSX/PS2 era titles though.
          But if it's at least solid I think it'll help rehabilitate Final Fantasy's reputation after the disaster that was XV.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            >XVI is looking like it'll actually be a solid game.

            and that is all I want.

  3. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Why? FF8 is even more childish and moronic than FF7, especially because it tries to go for a more realistic angle.

  4. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I played it again during the pandemic after first playing it in 1999. I beat it again, but I really had to force my way through it at times.

    As for a JRPG I can enjoy as an adult, it is FF1 Randomizer.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      You should give modded FF7 a try, New Threat mod along with 60fps and updated graphics is definitely worth a playthrough.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        This looks absolutely abhorrent

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          There's an option for better Chibis instead if you're a brain damaged weeb. You can switch between the models used by the game anytime.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            NTA, but I will pass up games entirely if it has a terrible anime art style. The image you initially posted is more outputting than even that.

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              >terrible anime art style
              What's so terrible about it? You're always free to play with original graphics at 60fps and bask in your own moronation

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                Soul. 8 is still better though imho

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            Ninostyle chibi is the best compromise between old style and better models imo

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        I really appreciate this graphics style, wow. My question, is the script identical to the original version? I'm no expert but I have definitely played two different script versions of this game.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          The guy who made the FFVII retranslation doesn't allow other mods (7th Heaven) to use his. Shame really.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            I can understand the reasoning I suppose.

            The graphics mods obviously don't affect the script, but New Threat mod has a Type A (original script plus some cut content that was reinstated) and Type B that changes things up quite a bit and adds loads of new bosses and chance to save Aeris. I've been playing Type B recently and its been a blast for someone who already completed the original 15+ times. It gives you the option to skip a lot of stuff too, like most of Midgar, flashbacks etc.

            This is interesting, I might play it some time. Thanks!

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              It's worth it. Picrel got me in the feels, after 25yr and people reverse engineering what they could of the game, she finally gets to go on the Highwind.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          The graphics mods obviously don't affect the script, but New Threat mod has a Type A (original script plus some cut content that was reinstated) and Type B that changes things up quite a bit and adds loads of new bosses and chance to save Aeris. I've been playing Type B recently and its been a blast for someone who already completed the original 15+ times. It gives you the option to skip a lot of stuff too, like most of Midgar, flashbacks etc.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        The hardtype modes for FF 7,8 and 9 are fricking amazing. Also they don't frick with the models or anything so it's just different combat experiences.
        8gays might not like the fact that it removes the level scaling.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          Haven't tried them yet but they're next on my list. Do the mods for 8 and 9 add completely new boss fights or just tweak gameplay? Stuff like opening the Nibelheim safe expecting Lost Number only to be confronted with that...thing was pretty neat.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >I really had to force my way
      Ba dam tish.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >I really had to FORCE MY WAY through it at times.

      Oh you.

      one of the best boss theme in the entire series btw.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >They remix it in the mmo
        >It's better than you'd expect it to be

        where the frick is the
        Arr Equals Yuu
        poster?

        Dead and buried, just like that shit theory.

  5. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    two major issues keep me from enjoying the game:

    not being able to 100% the game without reading some sort of guide

    and the fact that leveling up makes you weaker

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      What? No it doesn't, it makes enemies stronger, it does nothing to make you weaker, these are not the same.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >it makes enemies stronger

        and they outscale the player

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          You have not played the game.

          Leveling up is absolutely necessary, despite what autists who bash the game think. All the best drops are more frequent at level 100.

          Eh, Level Up and Level Down exist, so it really isn't.
          It's not like you have to play far into the game either, since I'm pretty sure you can get Tonberry literally right after the prison break.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            >You have not played the game.

            I beat it once and had to resort to cheats due to being able to beat that robot boss on disc 3 because I leveled too much

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              If you mean the shit Selphie's party hides in, you suck hard.

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              Sounds like you are just bad at the game and got punished for it.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            >Level Up and Level Down exist
            And they exist solely for item drops, because Tornberry is the israelite GF.

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              I mean, Tonberry does become your only possible shop on Disc 4.

              >You have not played the game.

              I beat it once and had to resort to cheats due to being able to beat that robot boss on disc 3 because I leveled too much

              >I lost because I leveled too much
              No, you just flat out sucked shit at the game.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                >No, you just flat out sucked shit at the game.

                in my defense, at the time I didn't know that level scaling was a thing in FF8. IF, and that is a big if, I give this slop a second chance I know to never level up

                If you mean the shit Selphie's party hides in, you suck hard.

                >If you mean the shit Selphie's party hides in, you suck hard.
                that is a disc 2 boss. I mean the one in the Lunatic Pandora.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                I'm getting sick of repeating myself.
                Level. Scaling. Is. Not. Why. You. Lost. To. That. Boss.

                If you mean the shit Selphie's party hides in, you suck hard.

                No. He's talking about the actual filter robot.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Level. Scaling. Is. Not. Why. You. Lost. To. That. Boss.

                it is when you have leveled up and still have basic shit like Cure/Fire/other rank 1 spells Junctioned.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                Anon, you could have not leveled at all and still been fricked by that boss with those junctions, holy shit.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Level 1 spells junctioned on disc 3

                User error.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                This is not level scaling problem, it's literally your brain malfunction. Most monsters already have stronger spells so you could've even resorted to just drawing it from them as the last "I am a complete moron" resort.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                How the frick were you still using L1 spells on Disc 3? It's been a long time since I fricked around with FF8 but I feel like you can get a handful of L2 spells shortly after the radio tower invasion right at the beginning of the game.

                I swear the people that b***h the hardest about level scaling in this game refuse to just try and play it like a normal person and ignore it. They instead spend the entire time trying to cheese the scaling system and just end up fricking themselves over. It's a frickin kid's game from 1999. If the spell is stronger, use it. If it bumps your stats in the right way, it's better. It's not frickin rocket science...

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                so youre moronic then

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                >when you have leveled up and still have basic shit like Cure/Fire/other rank 1 spells Junctioned

                Are you like this with other things in your life? Like, do you buy food, not eat it and then complain about how the food sucks because you're still hungry?

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                no

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          Which literally doesn't matter, they just match the average group level, but it's not like they get ridiculous stats, by Junctioning stronger magic you get as you level up you outpace them way faster even if you are lazy about it.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Leveling up is absolutely necessary, despite what autists who bash the game think. All the best drops are more frequent at level 100.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Can't you get everything with card mod way earlier?

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          The only card that matters is Laguna.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            >needing heroes
            >not just rerolling selphie lb until you get The End during gf animations

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              Terra Break is fricking terrible.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      There is no JRPG ever created that you can 100% without a guide. There's always some obscure random sit you wouldn't know about

      Junctioning makes leveling irrelevant. If you're getting your ass handed to you because of level scaling then you're fricking moronic because you can completely break the game before the end of disk 1 if you really wanted to.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >There is no JRPG ever created that you can 100% without a guide. There's always some obscure random sit you wouldn't know about

        And this somehow makes it less shit?

        >Junctioning makes leveling irrelevant. If you're getting your ass handed to you because of level scaling then you're fricking moronic because you can completely break the game before the end of disk 1 if you really wanted to

        Yes, junctioning makes leveling irrelevant.
        And that is nothing I enjoy. I like to level my characters and make them kill things quicker as a result.
        It is fricking moronic to have the easiest, most efficient playtrough and in relation strongest team by skipping all random encounters.

  6. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I played it for the first time 3 years ago since I grew up with Nintendo systems, and I absolutely loved it. Figures it filters people since the best games tend to do it. Frick that guy who told me to skip it entirely.

  7. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Dunno what inspired this sudden interest in FF VIII but I am thriving on it, haven't talked about the game in a long time, might replay it actually because of it, all discussion positive and negative has been most engaging conversations I had on Ganker in years. Thanks anons. Except for that moron who thought that Ultimecia's plan didn't make sense because he has schizophrenia or something.

  8. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Because you never liked JRPGs to begin with. That’s a common thing among FF8 fans, they’re casuals

  9. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Uematsu had a live show during covid I believe it was called Contiki where he played a remix of blue fields, which made me cry like a little baby because it was so beautiful, but they deleted it from youtube

  10. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    When people complain about level scaling in FF 8 it really makes me realize why they made each subsequent game more railroaded as they went along with each boss fight becoming easier and easier. Final Fantasy X was already devoid from challenge, and the last truly tough boss fight was probably Ozma in FF IX

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Ozma
      Literally the superboss.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah, which is sad in itself. Even Yizamat isn't hard, it just takes a shit ton of time by design. FF IX was the last good FF anyway.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      No FF main storyline boss has been a challenge since the classics. In fact the only ones I can think of that had any kind of neat gimmick were from FFX. Depending on which version of the game you played it did have at least a couple of good story fights (final Seymour and Yunalesca with the zombie/death mechanic).

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        I don't remember Seymour being a challenge at any point in time, it's partly why I can't take him seriously at all. Yunalesca did make you think just one step ahead, so I'll give you that.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          I think it was the original NA release of FFX was so easy you could get trio of 9999 by the time you fought seymour flux so you could just fricking mog him and ignore the mechanics. The PAL/INT version locked all that fun shit to end game. He's definitely not a faceroll fight if you've been playing casually up to then.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            To be honest, I've replayed FF X with the Remaster, and it's either because I already knew what I was doing, but the big problem with FF X for me while replaying it was that there was no other way to play it other than intended way. And I am not criticizing the game, I like it just fine, boss fights is not something that will make or break a game for me. What I mean is that its first 20 hours at least, before the whole reveal that Yuna should kill herself to save the world, the game has a very set in stone pace similar to how Fallout New Vegas wants you to follow a single pass to the Vegas. The only choice you can make from that path is either grind some more or not grind some more, but if you choose either scenario the game is structured in such a way that you always end up at character progression level the game wants you to be and there's not much you can do about that.

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              >The only choice you can make from that path is either grind some more or not grind some more, but if you choose either scenario the game is structured in such a way that you always end up at character progression level the game wants you to be and there's not much you can do about that.
              Isn't that all FF games (or JRPGs for that matter) though? Unless you're doing something like exploiting those dragons in FF9 for mad XP, the amount of XP needed to get insanely powerful by grinding is almost always slower than just playing until you reach endgame farms for XP.

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              That's not a great comparison because there are very intentional methods to bypass that route in New Vegas should the player know what they're doing, but you're stuck on rails in FFX even as an expert at the game.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                New Vegas does try it’s absolute hardest to force you down a path by pitting you against the hardest enemies in the game if you stray too far from the beaten path.

                I get your point though— Square has a weird relationship with level design across their games in general (not just FF). Some of their games are relatively open-ended and non-linear (FFV, second half of FFVI, FFVIII, FFXII, KH1 etc.) while others are complete hallway simulators despite being part of the same franchise (FFII, FFX, first half of FFVI, FFXIII, KH2 etc.).

                I swear that the cycle is that people complain about one game being too linear, so they make the next game open-ended, then people complain about that game being too open-ended, so they make the next one more linear.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            In the PAL/INT version you can still get trio of 9999 by doing the chocobo race at remiem for 30x wings to discovery, which is doable before gagazet
            Most will not bother with this on a first playthrough, admittedly

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              Didn't realise this. I pirated the NA version originally, finished it then about a month later got a legit PAL copy, I just remember there being quite a few changes to item placement and having to change tactics.

  11. 10 months ago
    Anonymous
  12. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Ultimecia Castle puzzles

    What in the frick were they thinking.

    I had to look it up because i couldnt believe they would pull shit like that out of nowhere. Absolutely fricking senseless.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      The painting puzzle sucks

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Everything sucks in that part.
        >Random organ piano
        Hm.. What if i play the songs main theme or something here? (like the song in FF7 which unlocked Tifa's Ultimate weapon)

        Nope, just mash all the keys at the same time and something unlocks in some other room (It doesnt tell you tho)

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      The puzzles are the best part about ff8!!

  13. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    where the frick is the
    Arr Equals Yuu
    poster?

  14. 10 months ago
    Anonymous
  15. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    FFVIII has such a unique atmosphere.

    Are there any other games with that vibe? I absolutely adore the vibe FFVIII has.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      It's hard to explain, but going through my JRPG memorybanks, probably Phantasy Star IV.

  16. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    How is the FF7 beacause retranslation?

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