Minor things that piss you off/you fear during gameplay.

[Mikeneko Rocker -- Tim]

I still remember the time when I was playing the game, Omega Weapon took out my party, then, all of the sudden, Phoenix appeared, and yes, resurrected my party (Irvine, Zell, Selphie) -- at the expense of Omega Weapon, gaining +9999 HP.

Another related scenario was when during a similar fight, Gilgamesh appeared, using Masamune; again, giving Omega Weapon + 9999 HP.

Lastly, the scenario I fear the most was Gilgamesh, showing up in the boss fight VS Adel.

Ok, let's discuss...

[Moon Rabbits]

Running into a Malboro without the proper stat junctions. Eep.

[Chris]

Running into a Malboro without the proper stat junctions. Eep.
Ditto. Those are the worse creatures ever made by Square.

[wingHEART]

When you use boost and you're at like 145 (yes. i suck with the boosting. :P), and you have to restart because you accidently pushed the button when it said not to ><

[Yuffie514]

Ultima/Omega Weapon = Light Pillar. instant Death to one of my characters and since the next one can come really fast it gets me into a slight panic.

[TheSpoonyBard]

Dr. Odine. I never liked him as a character. I thought his accent was forced. Odin showing up at inappropriate moments was annoying at times.

[Zeromus_X]

Running into a Malboro without the proper stat junctions. Eep.
Oh yes. I also hated the Deep Sea Research center, with it's fixed battles.:cat: I should've not killed Ultima Weapon to keep getting rare items though...

[u2girl1966]

Checking out a newly aquired GF on the wrong monster.....(Doomtrain summoned on Malboros - NOT a good idea!)

Is it just me or do the Malboros remind you of Audry ala ''Little Shop of Horrors''?

[Twilight Edge]

Running into a Malboro without the proper stat junctions. Eep.

Terrible,horrific,scary,etc.etc.

[Moon Rabbits]

Is it just me or do the Malboros remind you of Audry ala ''Little Shop of Horrors''?

Yes. Alot actually.

I also hated on my first spin through the game, I killed NORG and Elvoret without aquiring Leviathan and Siren respectively. I didn't mind missing Siren so much but I really didn't want to miss Leviathan, but staying true to my FF method (beating it once without a walkthrough, then going through a few more times to get all the secrets aided by a walkthrough) I didn't restart till i beat it without them...I think I might have missed Pandemona (Raijin) and I know that I didn't get Eden, Bahamut and Doomtrain...wow I missed alot on the first spin.

[Zeromus_X]

Well, all the draw-able GFs can be drawn from the final bosses in Ultimecia's Castle. (Unless you already knew that :cat: )

[Moon Rabbits]

Well I do now...i didnt in my first game though, because I didnt unlock the draw ability cuz i figured i wouldnt need it on a final boss.

[Acid Raine]

Zell.

[Moon Rabbits]

Zell.

[Ramza Beoulve]

Fighting a Malboro without the proper junction.

The horror... the suffer... the fear... the pain...

[HowlingMonkey]

Squall. But I suppose that's a major thing actually. Ditto for spending ages drawing 100 spells.

Erm, the Malboro thing comes to mind. Also those damm Ruby Dragons.

[IceAngel]

Ruby Dragons suck unless you've got Level Down. They are like playful kittens.
When you have to get the objects from Marboros to refine into things for Doomtrain - thats annoying.
Also when you first start going to Island Closest to Hell and the first monster is a ruby dragon or T-Rex and your characters aren't quite high enough to defeat them first time. That also sucks!

[The Last Oath]

After you've levelled up heaps on I.C.T.H and then a malboro comes along and also the Ruby Dragons Breath before you get spr 255 which makes it piss weak

[Vivisteiner]

Being forced to walk really slowly sometimes, e.g.inside houses.

[*~Angel Wing~*]

Running into a Malboro without the proper stat junctions. Eep.
Yes, especially when you just leveled up or got a good item and were just going to a save point, then you run into one and die!!! :exdee: Another thing that was annoying was when I needed the Malboro tentacle for Doomtrain. (in my opinion, the hardest GF to get) So I put the Mug ability for Squall and Pain spell on for his status defense. My real problem was Berserk though. So I needed to go stock up a ton of Berserks from Wendingos. Confuse wasn't a big deal cuz I just made sure I didn't equip Item to anyone. So I get into a battle with a Malboro, and it uses Bad Breath and then Squall gets unconfused so I'm ready to Mug it. I tried to mug it like 10 times and I couldn't get anything!!! :Oo: I was sooo pissed off!!! :hot: Finally, after it used Bad Breath another 6 times, I was able to mug a few tetacles, then I ran like hell outa there to go save!!! :D

[sephirothkevbob]

thing that pissed me off so bad was i went into ulti's castle for the first time so everythin was sealed, i beat sphinxaur/sphinxara and i think i unblocked gf then i went to fight tri-point in the basement/winecellar (whatever that place is) and i was like 1 cm away from tri-point until random battle with ...

MALBORO!

ulti's castle basement, malboro, i died, i was so pissed off i repeatedly hit my ps2 on/off button like ten times, then i jus re-loaded, lol

[Masamunemaster]

when you fight ulti and she constantly changes, it is so annoying bc I will start doing good then need to heal, but she cast reflect on ALL your characters.(my healers magic was toped so it healed her all the way)

[DudeSon2004]

Yeah, fighting Malboro's without the right juction is a ''Pain''.
Just running around after a battle with a decent junction, 2 seconds later you're fighting one of these.
Junctioning Pain serves well.

Ruby Dragons,
First they're easy than they're hard.

[xXthedarkestlightXx]

I was on the Ragnarok (when you first arrive) and I was fighting all the monsters..it was before I knew you had to do the colored pair and stuff, so I was fighting the same monsters over and over. Then, I finally figured that you had to kill one of a certain color then kill another monster with that same color. So I had killed about 3 other pairs and then I went to go save...but there was a yellow dragon there in front of it. Well, my characters were so weary from the other battles (and for some reason, I was low on healing magic and i had not assigned anyone the 'item' command..) and it killed me. -.-

[NeoCracker]

Chicken-Wuss always bothered me, it just sounded stupid, and the Marbros. And since this is little things that piss you off, I'll just stop their.

[Masamunemaster]

Chicken-Wuss always bothered me, it just sounded stupid, and the Marbros. And since this is little things that piss you off, I'll just stop their.

That is what this thread is about

[IceAngel]

It annoys me when you go to get bahamut and you have to walk really slow towards the light and you have to stop when the light glows. That gets on my nerves.

[Jessweeee♪]

Running into a Malboro without the proper stat junctions. Eep.
Oh yes. I also hated the Deep Sea Research center, with it's fixed battles.:cat: I should've not killed Ultima Weapon to keep getting rare items though...

Yes those were both really annoying! Luckily I found a way to avoid the fixed battles!
and chicken-wuss was a censor i believe...

[Kamrusepas]

Rinoa.

[DoaJ]

Hmmm...not much annoyed me or anything, but Seifer and his arrogance annoyed me I guess. I never had problems with Malboros or Ruby Dragons, I was surprised to see all the fuss about them. I dont think either of them ever killed me. Biggs and Wedge are kinda nnoying, just because it calls them a bodd fight, but they're so easy and simple to beat.

EDIT: Also, the damn XATM092 annoys me when he chases me and whatnot. Although the AP makes up for it :) I still dont like all the different things needed done to avoid attack.

[Acid Raine]

and chicken-wuss was a censor i believe...
A censor for what? chicken:skull::skull::skull::skull:?

[DoaJ]

yeah, most probably. I honestly dont think it would be anything else. Also, Zell says fricken', im assuming we all know that was a censor as well. :)

[Xiedo]

I came across something potentially diastrous and unfair...

In the first room of the missile base, when you approach the left door your two allies are supposed to run up next to Selphie and initiate a dialogue. However, since I ran to the door, Quistis was still on the entry ramp so when she tried to get in position she got stuck running in place. All I could do was reset, but thankfully I had saved recently. If I hadn't it would've sucked much more, especially since it's more of a glitch than player error.

[Acid Raine]

I also dislike the REALLY SLOW beginning. The SeeD test is fun, but the rest is mostly crappy dialogue showing Squall's insecuritites.

[_yeojina_]

What pissed me off:
1. Ultimecia's accent on the "c"
2. The falling flower petals
3. The falling feathers
What scared me:
1. Ultimecia's accent on the "c"
2. Quistis' whip
3. Zell's tattoo

[Twilight Edge]

What pissed me off:
1. Ultimecia's accent on the "c"---god i hate that
2. The falling flower petals---no comment
3. The falling feathers---no comment
What scared me:
1. Ultimecia's accent on the "c"---same as above
2. Quistis' whip---man...it makes Quistis look like a slut who likes *beep*
3. Zell's tattoo---i like that

[Takara]

What pissed me off abour Marlboros wasn't that they were so darn hard to beat. It was that when I needed to fight some to Mug some tentacles to get Doomtrain, I could never find a single Marlboro anywhere for HOURS. Then when I finally gave up, I got attacked by one and died. Bleh.

I also remember spending 7 hours trying to spot the UFO near Winhill during the UFO encounter side quest.

Okay, so most side quests in VIII ended up pissing me off. So did Rinoa.

[Xiedo]

I get all my Malboro Tentacles through card games and Card Mod. Don't strain yourself. :tongue:

Other annoying thing - you can't skip tutorials. Or I don't know how.

[Acid Raine]

Other annoying thing - you can't skip tutorials. Or I don't know how.
Its easy. Just mash the triangle button until it stops.

[Jessweeee♪]

i got a turbo controller. just set X to turbo and sit back for a minute.

There's a scratch on my disc that makes the game freeze on the FMV in dollet with the Spider-robot thing...forgot the name..., so I have to go to my little brother's room and shove it in the ps2 for a while.

[Mirage]

Uh, I've always been able to skip tutorials by pressing cancel.
I fear encountering Malboros without suitable status junctions, and power brownouts.

[Laugh at face of Danger]

Gilgamesh appears and uses something crap tastic, though gilgamesh hardly ever shows up - mainly when i'm marlboro hunting, which is annoying! i find it and bam, it dead already! *anger*

defeating tonberry and not getting a chefs knife - that really got me steamed

~~ aww, i really loved Zell!

[Jessweeee♪]

i didn't mind Zell...though i could never manage the library girl thing.

[Jack]

Odin. Fricken waste of time, considering he never turns up when you want, but shows up on really weak enemies. Frustrating.

[The legendary Shadow]

The random hand rule.
I hate it!Because of that **** I loosed all my good cards so I stopped playing.

[farplaner]

About Odin. True, he isn't very useful as a GF, but you can draw triple from him, which junctions quite well.

About random- that's why you manipulate card rules and get rid of random, and that is why you save before any risky card games...

My annoyances involve the card game actually- all of the time spent travelling back and forth trying to get good cards (card queen quest). Basically, anything that is repetitive like drawing all the top level spells from I's. C. T. Heav. or Hell.

[Jessweeee♪]

Or...You know...just don't play cards and refine all of them...

[BrokenWingzStillFly]

the thing that buged me is when i'm playing the game and all of a sudden the words disappear.:mad2:
Once my sister was trying to get Bahamut(sp?) and in the 2nd battle with the ruby dragons tha words disappeard and didn't come back untill after the battel with Bahamut:cry:
But she still beat boss.

[Mace o' Zeus]

Propagators. They were easy if you Blinded and Silenced them, but I'd always get caught by one before I got to the second in the pair.

[Jimmy Dark Aeons Slayer]

The most thing i hate in the game is RINOA GOD I HATE HER SO MUCH I CAN`T STAND HER...:mad2:

It always pissed me off to talk to her i always tried to avoid her but there are a lot of points in the game where the conversations with her are necessary i was always hoping that she got killed in the game like Aeris i didn´t want to safe her when she was stuck during the Garden confrontation and i waited a lot of time before saving her from the Iguions i thought she was going to die there... once i killed her during a batle against a monster just for fun.
Also the sudden death rule and the random rule piss me off.

[farplaner]

wow. why such resentment toward rinoa?

[Skyie]

How useless the girls are in combat compared to the boys. Limit Break-wise I mean.

[Jimmy Dark Aeons Slayer]

Don´t know she just is so annoying and i hate it that i had to always have to talk to her to get the story going and her attitude at the begining of the game like "It´s the princess nap time sir" by Watts how old is she 5!? And her fit atacks god i swear it made me not want to play those parts of the game...i only use her in combat cause i put all of my characters at maximum level.

[goldraine]

Hmm...

Damn Ruby Dragons with Squall at LV100. They obliterated everyone with Spr less than 200, which means Zell was out, Rinoa survived with yellow HP, and Squall was barely above yellow. Before I had tried the Quistis Shockwave Pulsar strategy, I had all kinds of trouble with the double Ruby Dragon fight, and it's still one I dread today, even more so now because I can't find that damn ammunition for Shockwave Pulsar.

Another annoying thing is passing up limits. I do this all of the time with Quistis and Selphie.

What do I hate the most? Confuse, The most ANNOYING status effect ever.

And Jimmy Dark Aeons Slayer, lay off of Rinoa. With proper training and junctioning, I've been able to do 4000-8000 with basic spells(Fire, Blizzard). In this game, right after the visit to Trabia Garden, she's doing around 6000 with Fira and only slightly less for other -ra spells, at level 39. She's a very powerful character and should not be underused.

[Jimmy Dark Aeons Slayer]

I´m not questioning her power i´m questioning her personality which is simply unbarable. And since your mentioning her level and the damage she makes when i was at Trabia Garden my Rinoa was at level 37 and my Quistis which was at the lowest level was at level 34 and believe me the damage Rinoa did with her limit break didn´t pass 2000 points while Irvine Zell and Squalls limit break did about 5 times that damage especially Zell who did with Duel 25000+ damage.

So she isn´t on my most powerfull list either.

[Punkrockerithink]

I remember the final boss battle of Disk 1, i had everyone almost dead, then Edea casted a spell on me a few seconds after i finally hit her, thought my character had died and the ending FMV was for game over

[goldraine]

I´m not questioning her power i´m questioning her personality which is simply unbarable. And since your mentioning her level and the damage she makes when i was at Trabia Garden my Rinoa was at level 37 and my Quistis which was at the lowest level was at level 34 and believe me the damage Rinoa did with her limit break didn´t pass 2000 points while Irvine Zell and Squalls limit break did about 5 times that damage especially Zell who did with Duel 25000+ damage.

So she isn´t on my most powerfull list either.


Never teach Angelo anything. I consider her real limit break Angel Wing. You realize that leveling has minimal stat increase, and junctioning is the only way to get truely stronger. You obviously must have given Rinny low amounts of magic for junctioning. Until you can at least tell me what she had on her for magic/junctioning, I won't believe the above statement.

[Jimmy Dark Aeons Slayer]

I´ll check that and tell you but i think it was demi by the time i reached Trabia Garden and she had mag+40 also i think but i have to confirme that.
Note that i meant she did 2000 damage with angelo cannon not wishing star but i remember that when i fought Ultimecia for one of the first times her magic did around 5000+ damage which i didn´t consider worth it since she also used status magic that didn´t have any effect...of course i didn´t know the tactic to use by then.

[Comet]

who hated it when you are walking then a battle comes and you have to wait long until you can escape.

who hated it when you go to the research center and you walk and a monster comes every second then you fight the ruby dragon and then you fight the second one and then it kills you. And start again with everything mentioned above.

or them cock pinion things who petrify you

or the wendigos whos attacks take so long and he does them all the time

or them cock pinion things who petrify you

or the looooooong sequence when rinoa jumps into space

thats enough for now

[Zeromus_X]

What's funny is that my friend always gets Odin/Gilgamesh on like every two battles.

Yeah, I know.

Someone doesn't like kreepy konniving sorceresses that use ks for words that begin with cs? :P

[StarChild]

i hated when during the garden take over, before the missle launch, when you'd have to fight the grendel, i almost always die! -__-

[jjturtle12]

I was boosting GF Pandemona and was setting a personal record 225 when i accidentaly screwed up and dropped all the way back down to 75.

[Demon Lancer]

What pissed me off (and was my own fault) Is when I killed Squall trying to wake him up... justctioning 100% death stat and attacking a Party member to awaken them = BAD

[Guitarmandan1988]

Ruby Dragons that use Breath Straight Away..

High Level T-Rexuars just after Pain or St-Atk-J- Blind Misses

2x Iron Giants.

Dr.Odine.

Oh Yeah.. And Goddamn Fastiocalons Around Hasberry When im trying to find and Adamantamine.!!! :@:@

Odin Coming out 4/5 times when i was trying to mug a Blitz For a Power Generator..

theres gotta be more..

Please use the 'edit' button rather than double posting. Thanks! - Miriel

[Laguna]

Two words: Terra Break

Can you say "Game Over"?

[Jessweeee♪]

How useless the girls are in combat compared to the boys. Limit Break-wise I mean.

what? I though Angelo was very useful with Invincible Moon and Angelo Reverse...i didn't like using angel wings much, but it was pretty.

[Hayabusa]

having my GF's fight for me

[the holy meteor]

The tediousness of climbing up and down those stairs in that desert prison.

I agree with the person that said being forced to walk in certain places was uber frustrating.

[BardTard]

The most thing i hate in the game is RINOA GOD I HATE HER SO MUCH I CAN`T STAND HER...:mad2:

It always pissed me off to talk to her i always tried to avoid her but there are a lot of points in the game where the conversations with her are necessary i was always hoping that she got killed in the game like Aeris i didn´t want to safe her when she was stuck during the Garden confrontation and i waited a lot of time before saving her from the Iguions i thought she was going to die there... once i killed her during a batle against a monster just for fun.
Also the sudden death rule and the random rule piss me off.

I'm with you on this. You should go to my anti-Rinoa club. Nobody else does... :cry: www.freewebs.com/rinoamustdie I hated her so much! Like you have to save her every 5 minutes! It toally sucks the fun out of the game! And Squall+Rinoa=bad match. Not likely either.

What I fear during gameplay: (don't laugh) I'm always scared that the power will get shut off after I've been on a mission and I haven't reached a save point. The power goes out alot at my house. And it's happened before when I was playing FF7 and my PSone completely died... :cry: I was sad for a long time cus I couldn't play any video games... then I bought my PS2! :D

[Devourment]

To be honest, fighting any of the beasts from either the Heaven or Hell Islands. Haha.

Nah, when you're on the snowy bit near Selphie's Garden, when fighting those Snow Lions, sometimes a Blue Dragon appears. :cry: Haha, if you're not protected against Death then it's quite annoying if you've just been leveling up & not saved for a while.

[daggertrepe]

Actually, isn't Selphie's Limit break good?

What pisses me off...let's see...The Tomb of the Unknown King does. And I don't like it when the Garden gets taken over. That sucks, because that's where I am currently in the game.

[Darkwing Bahamut]

Every time I run into a Malboro without proper status defence junctioning.

[Devourment]

Actually, isn't Selphie's Limit break good?Erm.. Against the Snow Lions or Lv 100 monsters on the two islands?

Quistis' limit break has the best effect, but it's really tiresome.

Perhaps you weren't even talking to me. :p

[Twilight Edge]

Blue Dragons and Snow Lions didn't really pose a threat to me,all I did was pwn him with my limits.

Rinoa's OK,but next time I'm NEVER teaching Angelo Angelo Strike.GOD,everytime I'm in a tight spot,all she does is Strike,strike,striek.

Malboro's still give me a bad time.I wanted to get doomtrain and went to I.C.T.Hell and ran around for MAlboro's with death junctioned as status atk.I only need to kill two because......
1st.I sucessfully mugged the tentacles.
2nd.Odin killed him.HAIL ODIN!:D

All the maigc sucking and GF breaking when fighting Ultimecia.

In every boss battle,if I fight it long enough,I can almost always guaranteee that Gilgamesh will show up.but the bad thing is,he shows up and uses ZANTETSUKEN,and I shouted,"WTF?!THIS FREAKIN' ATTACK HAS NO EFFECT ON BOSSES WHATSOEVER???!!!" :mad:followed by huge amounts of swearing.

My best luck with Odin was three battles in a row.

the research center was tough when finding ulti weapon.bahamut only threatened me with Mega Flare which can NEVER kill me in one shot.(I kept all my characters hp at 5000 and boom 4000hp off and I hacked him with my limits)

And Ultimekia dosen't annoy me.I like her askent.saying "k" for "k".

Does anyone think of Ultima weapon as a challenge?I didn't because only his light pillar I feared most but I countered woth a phoenix down and hacked him with renzokuken twice and it's bye-bye ultima.

[Jessweeee♪]

Ultima Weapon was pretty easy. Omega weapon was a more formidable opponent.

[renoa]

first time playing, got a bit too high level wise at the beginning of the game (drawing takes a lot of time;; ), had NO clue where to get remedies, ran across a glacial eye, Quistis got petrified, I yelled "OH S***!!!" and instantly ran.

I didn't know they would petrify me once I got to certain level, my boyfriend conveniently forgot to mention this and it wouldn't be the first time a friend left out important details.

like my friend, who shall remain nameless, told me to leave the person behind in FF7 the first time I played it. 3 things wrong with that: 1. it was Tifa 2. the door locked 3. everything went boom! to this day I'm the only one I/they know who died that early in the game do to a noobs mistake I didn't want to make but was urged to do so by someone who beat the game several times.

moral of story: Peer pressure sucks!!! ><

[Jessweeee♪]

Wasn't it Jessie?

[Hambone]

hmm... Squall, Zell, Rinoa, Irvine, Cid, Seifer, Selphie, Cutting Trigger, Malboros, Ultimecia, Tri-point, Tonberrys, Galbadia, Trabia, Siren, Shumis, NORG, hotdogs, monsters, and Jumbo Cactuar.

[G SpOtZ]

hmm... Squall, Zell, Rinoa, Irvine, Cid, Seifer, Selphie, Cutting Trigger, Malboros, Ultimecia, Tri-point, Tonberrys, Galbadia, Trabia, Siren, Shumis, NORG, hotdogs, monsters, and Jumbo Cactuar.
Grease Monkey

[daggertrepe]

hmm... Squall, Zell, Rinoa, Irvine, Cid, Seifer, Selphie, Cutting Trigger, Malboros, Ultimecia, Tri-point, Tonberrys, Galbadia, Trabia, Siren, Shumis, NORG, hotdogs, monsters, and Jumbo Cactuar.

Quistis NOT included! :)

[General Beranger Stone]

how fast you can beat it.... ZELL and the fact that that woman is Squall's age but is also a teacher...thats just wrong... also so many of the boss fights are easy.... i just spent an arse load of time lvling at the begining (always does that)

[LunarWeaver]

also so many of the boss fights are easy.... i just spent an arse load of time lvling at the begining (always does that)
I enjoy this statement.



Cactuars running away always piss me off...

[BardTard]

Those stupid cactuars kept running away from me today!!!! I was like grr! I dunno what else to do on my game before I go to Lunatic Pandora...

[Hayabusa]

GFs

[BardTard]

I was trying to get the Tonberry King but I got sick of fighting the Tonberries. So I am making my people stronger trying to find strange items that are like impossible to get.

ok... maybe I just have a fear of Adel... :( she's ugly
but it doesn't matter really cus I already beat the game and I have it saved on disc 4 if I wanna play...

I'm bored...

[Jimmy Dark Aeons Slayer]

I can´t stand that Zone and Watts they are so stupid.
One of them calls everyone sir and is pretty dumb and the other is always ahhhh...you know.
Plus when you go to the white SeeD ship and you tell Zone that Rinoa is knocked out cold and he calls you a lot of happy names, at that time it appeared that he was gonna fight Squall, and i just thought to myself go on make my day you idiot i´ll kick your farting ass.

[Twilight Edge]

Those stupid cactuars kept running away from me today!!!! I was like grr! I dunno what else to do on my game before I go to Lunatic Pandora...
Here's a trick that might help.

Get Irvine to have high hit rate as Cactuars have high evasion.Then,get his HP down to critical so that you can access limit breaks easier than having to cast Aura and wait another turn.Then,when you run across three or four Cacvtuars,JUST SHOOT THEIR ASSES WITH FLAME SHOT OR SCATTER SHOT!!!!!!

Hope this will help.;)

[Jessweeee♪]

I LOVED Jumbo Cactuar!!! That's one of my favorite FF boss fights!

I hated how all of the towns were sealed after you go to the LP! I'd like to be able to go to my game after I beat it and go to some towns.
Once when I was at Ulti's castle before I unlocked Resurrection Phoenix kept coming and missing over and over until the thing died. Then I got game over, but I think I've said this already.
As for cactuars running away, I noticed that a high Luck stat helps a lot. I decided once to use a cheat and make Squall's luck all the way up to 255 and that's all I noticed really.

[Carl the Llama]

well i still remember it as tho it were yesterday... my very first trip to the woderful world of ffviii and i had just saved rinoa and cleared the ragnarok out and decided to go to TICTH (not knowing what i was doing and i got into a fight with a malboro... i thought hey hey new monsters.... that is untill he did bad breath... panic begins to set in squall dies... rinoa dies... zell recovers and immidiatly start to run, malboro does that spitting move and misses twice... zell still running he does BB once more... i die.... game loads and im in space again.... in true ffviii stile... RAGE!! lol

[Jessweeee♪]

well i still remember it as tho it were yesterday... my very first trip to the woderful world of ffviii and i had just saved rinoa and cleared the ragnarok out and decided to go to TICTH (not knowing what i was doing and i got into a fight with a malboro... i thought hey hey new monsters.... that is untill he did bad breath... panic begins to set in squall dies... rinoa dies... zell recovers and immidiatly start to run, malboro does that spitting move and misses twice... zell still running he does BB once more... i die.... game loads and im in space again.... in true ffviii stile... RAGE!! lol

Once I spent my entire spring break playing FFVIII through the first time. I got to the end of disc two and got a little stuck, so I went through a new game because I wanted to see something and I overwrote my old one. I was very angry, and proceded through with my new game, then later my little brother wanted to play. Instead of taking my memory card out and replacing it with his, he just stuck his in slot 2, but I didn't realize it. I saved the game for him because he had to take out the trash...and over wrote my game. Ever since then I save several files when playing long RPGs. (I should add that I didn't quite get the junction thing down until the third file.)

[Squall_VIII]

I was playing for the very first time, I did'nt really understand lots of things. (I was quite young about 10 years old.) I had blundered through untill I was on the train just before fighting the fake president I decided to use the magic lamp...........and so Diablos comes out ....Result= 1 new GF and 1 nearly dead party. With no healing items or magic and about 10hp left on each character, I restarted my game later finding out you can kill gerogero with a X-potion or another healing item!!!!!!!!!!!!!:mad2: :mad:

good job I was'nt far into the game! :)

[Twilight Edge]

I LOVED Jumbo Cactuar!!! That's one of my favorite FF boss fights!
Plus you get to see the funniest Renzokuken performed by Squall!:D


As for cactuars running away, I noticed that a high Luck stat helps a lot. I decided once to use a cheat and make Squall's luck all the way up to 255 and that's all I noticed really.
Well,this I dont' really know cause I don't really know the purpose of Luck junctioning.

[anacacia]

Something that pisses me off durring gameplay... well lets talk about Odin...

Well, when I'm fighting a monster, how come when the monster only has a little HP left, Odin decides to come??? Hmm??? Or he comes when there is a really easy one???

[Twilight Edge]

Huh?Do you mean Gilgamesh the four armed god?Because Odin only appears at the beginning of the battle to grant you instant victory.

[Jessweeee♪]

XD yeah the renzozuken was pretty funny. Or anything that would toss him in the air really.


Once I ran into a single bite bug in balamb, just the one bug, and Odin came. I also wanted to mug an enoyle and then Odin killed it :O

[Carl the Llama]

Once I spent my entire spring break playing FFVIII through the first time. I got to the end of disc two and got a little stuck, so I went through a new game because I wanted to see something and I overwrote my old one. I was very angry, and proceded through with my new game, then later my little brother wanted to play. Instead of taking my memory card out and replacing it with his, he just stuck his in slot 2, but I didn't realize it. I saved the game for him because he had to take out the trash...and over wrote my game. Ever since then I save several files when playing long RPGs. (I should add that I didn't quite get the junction thing down until the third file.)


lol i once did the same thing with VII and for that reason alone i dont let anyone play my new game untill iv completed it

[Diddy21]

The very most annoying thing is when u save somewhere and u get involved and interested in the game. All of a sudden Uber boss splits the gates of hell from beneath u and u die, thinking o darn o well. Then: File -- Memory Card Slot 1 -- Reading -- Crap! i havent saved the game recently!

[Marly]

The little sequence you get every time you choose to use a GF. Nice to look at, maybe the first and second time, tremendously tedious when you get to the hundreth time of viewing.

[Hearts]

Running around up and down stairs forever in the prison.
Forgetting to change my junctions before a big battle.
THOSE EVIL GREEN EVILNESSES! (You know what I'm talking about..)
Selphie.

[leonheart292]

omega weopon and bahumut didnt bother me that much, it was those darn ruby dragons that freakin ambush you then use breath... uhhhhhh.

[Lionheart00]

For other perfectionists (like me) trying to beat the entire game collecting EVERYTHING.................one of the hardest things was getting some of the cards........:mad2:
UFO card, Chocobo card......and completing the Card Queen's Quest

[Summoner Yuna]

Cid annoyed me. Also, when your junctions are taken off you. The ruby dragon in the Laguna dream sequence isn't so easy when all Kiros can do is attack. Now I check before major events.

[King-Killer]

As for cactuars running away, I noticed that a high Luck stat helps a lot. I decided once to use a cheat and make Squall's luck all the way up to 255 and that's all I noticed really.
Well,this I dont' really know cause I don't really know the purpose of Luck junctioning.

High luck junction increases the chances of a cirtical strike.

At 255, you always do critical damage.

But Squall is the only one you still have to use his trigger. (Annoys me)

Seifer is way too easy to beat. (Make him the more challenging)

Ultimecia's too easy. (Make her more challenging)

...

Make all enemies more challenging.

Make Ruby Dragons Breath Stronger, they don't hit hard enought. (I'm totally serious.)

And that damn Bad Breath, couldn't they add 100& Death Strike in it too, instead of waiting 4h for your party to perish? (That makes it more interesting...)

Apart from everything being more challenging, I don't see anything wrong or bothered me, except Seifer, could have been MUCH MUCH More harder!

[licence]

I agree. Seifer was far too easy.

Also if you've been junctioning correctly and have an idea what to do, Bahumat is easy to beat as well as Ultima Weapon.

I've never attempted Omega so I can't comment. Nothing in this game reeaaaalllly pisses me off other than that incredibly slow walk.

[Cookie]

Irvine
Malboros
The fact i can never find an Elvoret
When i have trained for ages and die before chance to save
Griever's move (can't remember name)
Dream World

[chocobo25]

Stupid gilgamesh
uses amazing attacks for easy monsters like fuguar and farstifacalon
but when i fight ruby dragon or malboro it uses excalipoor

[Goldenboko]

Nothing this game was easy with the proper junctioning, and Gilgamesh never appeared when I didn't want him to.

[Julian Lionheart]

- Malboros, without a good junction
- The "Random" rule
- Selphie's Slots, if you want "The End"
- Omega Weapon's "Terra Break"

[Iceglow]

Dr. Odine. I never liked him as a character. I thought his accent was forced. Odin showing up at inappropriate moments was annoying at times.

You never hear Doc. Odine speak! Final Fantasy VIII only had songs with spoken words not voice acting!

Thing that got me was Ruby Dragons¬_¬

[DfKimera]

- The annoying ammount of small monsters that appear when your walking around, specially when you can't escape from them

- How horribly done was the conversion of FFVIII to PC, making me experience horribly-rendered backdrops and an awful MIDI Synthetizer that made the perfect soundtrack of FF8 look like a GBA game soundtrack

- How I kept not being able to choose my favorite characters like Rinoa and Selphie

- How the saving system for the PC version was put together, exactly the same way as the PSX one, making me think alot if i was going to use a new slot for this part of it or not

- The annoying Black Widow in Dollet that kept chasing me, and just refusing to goddamn die

- The last dungeon, Ultimecias Castle... Your like, all deep into the story and then you have to run around a huge and confusing castles, being bothered over and over by stupid silly battles, making you fight the least bosses necessary, so you could hurry and go on with the game.

- How Squall was a jerk on the Ragnarok Air Room by not hugging Rinoa after like SUICIDING to see her again.

- The lame excuse Square invented to explain why the Orphanage Gang forgot everything. There was like no real reason, so why not blame it on the GFs? Though that didn't really screwed up the story

- How confusing Esthar can be when your looking for a contact point in the first time you play it

- How you keep wasting your time when Drawing and Casting magics so you can make sure your doing it on the right person, because the lame hand that shows who is going to be the target dissapears below the combat menus and the character HPs

- How quick the game can be, rushing it or not, the story is just small

- How the possibility of Square-Enix making a sequel can be small :(


But even after all of that, FFVIII is still my favorite Final Fantasy game and RPG game!

[Iceglow]

As mentioned Ruby dragons suck ass even more so than a marlboro (I can junction everyone properly so it wasn't an issue with those but Rubies do 9999 damage at level 100 and there is no saving you if you're junctioned for a marlboro on hell)

Hex dragons sucked a bit too since Flare was nasty to experience

The fact that the spider boss in Dollet could be completely destroyed (something someone once bragged to me so I checked it with the official guide) and yet however much I leveled up my thunder magic and Quezacotl's stats I could never do it! I had 50 Thundaga's (100 firaga to mag stat and 100 thundara to attack on squall) and couldn't do it even when casting the doubles I meticulously drew from the fight at the top of the tower....

Esthar being so huge and after the lunar cry the tube seats were replaced with monsters running across the city was annoying. Also Esthar was like massively huge and yet you could go in like 3 buildings, why? Also why couldn't you go back to the salt lake and fight more undead creatures? just because you find Esthar the area becomes useless.

The fact that sometimes I needed Magic stone pieces not the magic stones or wizard stones but M-stone piece and yet as early as disc 2 I couldn't get any from wild monsters only by carding the damn things and modding the cards.

A slight annoyance and yet one I loved to do was eradicating all but Open in every area of the game for Triple Triad, omg that was hard stuff to do but still made the card game a real walkthrough including on the rag on disc 4 as the CC club play by different regions rules meaning that Open was the only rule to worry about.

However though this game might have had me annoyed at times with a few things, I truly do love it it's easily one of my favourite games of all time so I shouldn't complain about it really.

[testifytotruth]

I never had the trouble with Ruby Dragons, they were easily killed by me and that was with forgetting to junction one of the characters. The annoying thing to me is Griever's Great Attractor damn thing took so long for so little damage. And then fighting Final form of ultimecia where she only attacked me like once every 3 turns then uses Hells Judgement and brings down to zero and before i can use megalixer she used Ultima so i died but got lucky with the pheonix thing (don't know the name) and hoping i still had a chance i tried another megalixer and what do i know before i could use it another damn ultima and this time no second chance.

[Broken_cloud]

I still hate the accidental freeze up or something of the sort. That always pisses me off.

[G SpOtZ]

Viator.

And his lack of ability to back up his outrageous theories/arguments.