Forsaken Lover
04-21-2014, 07:57 PM
So my last playthrough of FFVIII kinda ended in failure. It was a hubris/challenge run where I used pseudo-Job Classes by only Junctioning to certain stats. For instance, Squall was my Warrior and could only Junction Str and Vit while my other two party members were mages. Obviously they both Junctioned to Mag and Spr but one was a Black Mage and the other was kinda just everything but attacking - White Magic, Support Magic, Status Ailments, etc.. Anyway, I lost because I insisted on leveling up those Ruby Dragons in the Deep Sea Research Facility to 100. That...didn't end well.
Anyway, I gave up not just because of that, but becaus eI was bored. I was tired of limiting myself. Even by doing this, the story bosses were a joke. I purposefully even only used the worst Junctions most of the time but nope, still no problem.
And then I found FFVIII Requiem, a difficulty and re-balance mod.
The person who made it said that Triple Triad would no longer be breaking the game - it would be the only way to even survive. Now, having never once grinded with the infamous card game, I was worried. I had never been good at it when i tried it before. However I soon began to cackle like Emperor Palpatine at the UNLIMITED POWWWAHHHH. It's easier to get Curagas than Curas! And what moron thought of 1 Mesmerize Blade for 20 Regens? They aren't really uncommon cards. I had 300 Regens to slap on my party's HP before I knew what I was doing. Blitz'es are also easy to come by and one of them equals 20 Thundagas. I think next to Mesmerize/Regen my favorite has to be Grendel/Doubles. I got 300 of those pretty easily too. I am at the start on Disk 2 and my game time reads 30 hours. (and it's really much more of that if you count all the resets and the time I spent on the Dollet Communication Tower boss...Elvoret or whatever. I hadn't gotten Card Mod yet when I challenged him and he kept kicking my ass) I'd say at least 15 of those hours were Triple Triad grinding. It's probably more like 20 hours.
Anyway, like I said, it's a difficulty enhancer too. That's why I made my first ever game recording (well of me playing a game) to show you all. Now, I beg your pardon for the quality being terrible. You will see some slowdown and even that's with the settings lower than they could be. Anything better and it be twice as slow. I know it may not look pretty but I love this game and wanted to try and show it off is all.
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That's Lvl 34 Squall, Lvl 16 Irvine and Lvl...maybe 20 or 21 Rinoa. All 100 Regen for HP, 100 Tornado's for Squall's and Rinoa's Mag and I have 60 Triples for Irvine's Str. Edea had about 20,000 HP... I forget what level she was.
Now, having replayed this fight over and over and over again to try and record it, you gain an appreciation for game AI. In my second run she used Ultima, Tornado and then another Ultima. Needless to say I died. It's almost as funny as my second time against Seifer he immediately started teh battle with Flare which one-shotted the Shell-less Squall. Then in another battle he never even used Flare at all but just kept attacking.
You might not be able to tell due to bad quality but Squall has the Punishment. i could have gotten the Lionheart but I didn't want to. Punishment looks way cooler. I wasn't even aiming to get it - 20 hours in and just about to head for Timber, I happened to stop by the Balamb Junk Shop and boom, I had all the necessary items for it. I did get Selphie's Strange Vision though. I'm only one Force Armlet away from getting Rinoa's best weapon but hell if I know where to get those. Someone said you can get them from Level 30+ Forbiddens in the Tomb of the Unknown King but I never ran into them even though I stayed a while to grind. (The Encounter Rate there is super frickin' low) Irvine has the Bismark.
But yeah....I think I know why the story sucks so bad. My brain hurts from trying to remember all the Card Mod items and in turn all teh uses for these items. I'm pretty sure they spent 96% of development time setting all that up and then someone said "the game's coming out in a few months and we still don't know what it's about."
I have never made full use of this system before and I must say it's thoroughly addictive.
So...there you are. I intend to try and beat the game, all the way up to Final Ultimecia with her 1,000,000 HP. Or it's close to that...900K-something. I'm having a lot of fun and this will tide me over until next month and maybe even then some if I continue at this sluggish rate.
P.S.
Fuck Random. Who thought of that? And I still have no idea how to abolish it.
Anyway, I gave up not just because of that, but becaus eI was bored. I was tired of limiting myself. Even by doing this, the story bosses were a joke. I purposefully even only used the worst Junctions most of the time but nope, still no problem.
And then I found FFVIII Requiem, a difficulty and re-balance mod.
The person who made it said that Triple Triad would no longer be breaking the game - it would be the only way to even survive. Now, having never once grinded with the infamous card game, I was worried. I had never been good at it when i tried it before. However I soon began to cackle like Emperor Palpatine at the UNLIMITED POWWWAHHHH. It's easier to get Curagas than Curas! And what moron thought of 1 Mesmerize Blade for 20 Regens? They aren't really uncommon cards. I had 300 Regens to slap on my party's HP before I knew what I was doing. Blitz'es are also easy to come by and one of them equals 20 Thundagas. I think next to Mesmerize/Regen my favorite has to be Grendel/Doubles. I got 300 of those pretty easily too. I am at the start on Disk 2 and my game time reads 30 hours. (and it's really much more of that if you count all the resets and the time I spent on the Dollet Communication Tower boss...Elvoret or whatever. I hadn't gotten Card Mod yet when I challenged him and he kept kicking my ass) I'd say at least 15 of those hours were Triple Triad grinding. It's probably more like 20 hours.
Anyway, like I said, it's a difficulty enhancer too. That's why I made my first ever game recording (well of me playing a game) to show you all. Now, I beg your pardon for the quality being terrible. You will see some slowdown and even that's with the settings lower than they could be. Anything better and it be twice as slow. I know it may not look pretty but I love this game and wanted to try and show it off is all.
Ivq8rRLtyas
That's Lvl 34 Squall, Lvl 16 Irvine and Lvl...maybe 20 or 21 Rinoa. All 100 Regen for HP, 100 Tornado's for Squall's and Rinoa's Mag and I have 60 Triples for Irvine's Str. Edea had about 20,000 HP... I forget what level she was.
Now, having replayed this fight over and over and over again to try and record it, you gain an appreciation for game AI. In my second run she used Ultima, Tornado and then another Ultima. Needless to say I died. It's almost as funny as my second time against Seifer he immediately started teh battle with Flare which one-shotted the Shell-less Squall. Then in another battle he never even used Flare at all but just kept attacking.
You might not be able to tell due to bad quality but Squall has the Punishment. i could have gotten the Lionheart but I didn't want to. Punishment looks way cooler. I wasn't even aiming to get it - 20 hours in and just about to head for Timber, I happened to stop by the Balamb Junk Shop and boom, I had all the necessary items for it. I did get Selphie's Strange Vision though. I'm only one Force Armlet away from getting Rinoa's best weapon but hell if I know where to get those. Someone said you can get them from Level 30+ Forbiddens in the Tomb of the Unknown King but I never ran into them even though I stayed a while to grind. (The Encounter Rate there is super frickin' low) Irvine has the Bismark.
But yeah....I think I know why the story sucks so bad. My brain hurts from trying to remember all the Card Mod items and in turn all teh uses for these items. I'm pretty sure they spent 96% of development time setting all that up and then someone said "the game's coming out in a few months and we still don't know what it's about."
I have never made full use of this system before and I must say it's thoroughly addictive.
So...there you are. I intend to try and beat the game, all the way up to Final Ultimecia with her 1,000,000 HP. Or it's close to that...900K-something. I'm having a lot of fun and this will tide me over until next month and maybe even then some if I continue at this sluggish rate.
P.S.
Fuck Random. Who thought of that? And I still have no idea how to abolish it.