Embarassing First Games

[Laugh at face of Danger]

Was your first conquest a disaster that made you resort to casting GF's at a Bite Bug? (okay, an exaggeration)

Mine was, i was eight years old when i first turned on, I finished the mission at Dollet and eagerly awaited the disk change ¬__¬"

I had five GF's by disk three...but i did have Odin! (those would be Quezacotl, Shiva, Ifrit, Cerberus and Diablos)

I was running around and was forced to cast a GF on anything that appeared

I didn't know about the joy of equipping GF's until quite late in the game..

...and i didn't know how the hell to boost...

...and to get rid of first and second stage magic i used to triple cast it, rather than push square

Post any of your mishaps in the realm of Final Fantasy Eight!

[Seifer]

Yeah, summoning GFs without boosting was pretty much all I did the first time I played the game up until Mobile Type 8 kicked my ass. Then I started going other places in the game and learned how to actually do stuff.

[DoaJ]

Well, of course there was boosting. My friend, Aaron, always told me to get boost first, but he never told me how to use it. The magic junctioning was very confusing for me, so I just didnt do it. yeah, I cast GF's on a lot of crap, but somethings, I knew I didnt need to. haha. The junction exchange I never used..still dont realy, just cuz I prefer to junction them myself. dont know why, its sorta like a security precaution I guess.....

[Laugh at face of Danger]

i mean, where does it tell you about boosting in the manual or in the game!? do they just expect you to push random buttons as you watch the pretty pictures?! sheesh

[a nirvana fan]

I played FFVIII when I was about 11 and played previous FF's so I had a good knowledge on the game at hand but then again I still did pretty shocking, by disc 4 Squall was level 34(crawls in corner of embaressment) and for some reason Selphie was 48(weird indeed). But I dont have that save no more thankfully:D

[Griff]

my first ff8 game i didn't realize that i could draw gfs or that enemy strength depends on yours until the fujin/raijin battle

[Xiedo]

my first ff8 game i didn't realize that i could draw gfs or that enemy strength depends on yours until the fujin/raijin battle

What changes? I thought enemy strength was always based on player level. It goes constant or higher?

[IceAngel]

I didnt look on squalls pc at the beginning of the game so i missed out on Quezacotl (if thats how you spell it) and Shiva. I only realised when I my older brother came in to watch. I don't mean to sound like a know it all but I did already know how to boost. Thats only because I'd watched my older brother do it so I wouldnt have known otherwise.

[boys from the dwarf]

my first game was awful. i somehow manged to get to ultimecias castle out of sheer luck but i realized all of the mistakes and things id missed out and my next games were very good. i dont know if its possible to miss quezacotl and shiva because i almost never look at the computer and quistis always gives them to you just before you leave balamb garden.

[theundeadhero]

My first game was horrible. I junctioned well but I didn't know how to boost and missed out on ultimate weapons and some GFs. I barely killed Ultimecia. It was one of those times when your only doing 100 damage a round and if I didn't kill her this turn she was going to kill me. Man, was I happy about that. My second playthrough was much different.

[Griff]

my first ff8 game i didn't realize that i could draw gfs or that enemy strength depends on yours until the fujin/raijin battle

What changes? I thought enemy strength was always based on player level. It goes constant or higher?

i meant that's when i realized it, not that it changes then

[DudeSon2004]

The first time I played FF7, I had no idea what to do.
I didn't know what an RPG was.
Amazing how you're new at something & then how you become a master at it.

[Acid Raine]

I NEVER figured out how to junction. Believe it or not, I actually made it through the game on just using the "Attack" command, albiet needing A LOT of Tents.

[Xiedo]

I NEVER figured out how to junction. Believe it or not, I actually made it through the game on just using the "Attack" command, albiet needing A LOT of Tents.
My god. You should write a No Junction Walkthrough.

[Acid Raine]

My god. You should write a No Junction Walkthrough.
And I would do it, too. IF! I! COULD! GET! THAT! DAMN! GAME! TO! WORK! Sorry. I only have a Ps2, andf since Sony designs them so crappy, the laser eye is detiriorating rapidly.

[purplepenguin]

I didn't do any junctioning either until I got to the castle gates and had to jump back through the portals to gain any decent magic to put in my stats because I didn't stand a chance against the guard monsters let alone ultimecia.
I only played Rinoa, Zell and Squall so Irvine was still on level 14 at the end of the game!
And I kept saying Rinoa's name wrong, can't remember how I said it now

[Jessweeee♪]

I did nearly all of those things. It was my second RPG (threads of fate being the first...so i guess you could say VIII was my first because ToF wasn't all that good).

Didn't know what boost did.
Didn't understand Junction (heck, who does on their first time through?)
Didn't draw GFs
Called Rinoa "Riona"...still do somtimes...
Didn't make it past the missle base...
Tried again...
Understood Junctioning a little better...
Survived on GFs only (still not drawing)
Overwrote game on disc 2...then again on Disc 3...

By then I was much better and kicked ass with the junctioning AND got all of the GFs and that good stuff.

[Dax]

I understood little about the junction command, never upgraded weapons and survived on high levels, Pheonix and Odin nearly the entire time...i got most GF's.
I remember sitting on the edge of my seat while fighting Malboro's going "PLLLEEEAAASSSDEEEE ODIN!"

I card modded all my cards the moment i got them *I only do it to Gilgamesh, Bahamut, Laguna and Angelo now* So icouldnt win high level cards...i did how ever get Edea's card with only monster cards and a GF.

I gave up Shiva's card to keep the Gilr Next door mag.

I called Squall Blabe...it was supposed to be Blade...

I pronouced galbadia Gal-ib-d-a and pronounced Rinoa Rino-aye *now i pronounce it Rin-Oh-Ah*

I sailed through the game until i reached the Mobile Type 8 *which i spent a year being stuck on(sad i know) Then on my second time round it was the easiest boss everf *While RaJin and FuJin were always hard*

I didnt get Diablos till disk 3 before cypher *even then it was on accident...i clicked the wrong item*

Very sad i know. If you all wish it...you ma laugh at me

[IceAngel]

I remember sitting on the edge of my seat while fighting Malboro's going "PLLLEEEAAASSSDEEEE ODIN!"


Thats what I used to do...actually come to think of it...I still do. Especially with Ruby Dragons! :tongue:

[crazybayman]

it was freakin terrible. I borrowed the game from a friend, and it was the first FF I played since FF1. Yep, it had been a long time. I assumed it was just fight, fight, level up, stay at an inn like FF1 :p , and hence didn't bother to read the instruction manual. And I didn't pay any attention to the ingame tutorials.

I think I just auto junctioned, but I didn't realize I could draw magic from monsters, and I didn't realize there were hidden draw points I could find with move-find. So I would just draw from the non-hidden draw points. My stats were crap-tacular, to say the least.

As well, I had no idea about the extra GFs, and that you could draw them from certain bosses.

I do remember having a really hard time with Adel, but managed to beat her after many attempts.

I got to Ultimecia's castle, and was stuck there for quite a while, because I didn't have enough potions, I didn't have GF Tonberry, and obviously not his call shop command, and didn't realize I could draw magic like curaga from monsters. It was a disgrace.

Then my friend came and took his game back, and because of university I didn't get to play it until a few years later.

The next time I played it, which was just 1 or 2 years ago, I did it right, and owned it. And have ever since.

Edit: I also didn't bother with the card game - at all. I also had the gunblade set to auto, and didn't know anything about limitbreaks, until one day Squall started "freaking out" with Renzokouken, and I was like "WHOA!!!!! How'd he do that!?!?!!?" :p

Yep, it was the definition of terrible.

But I became so engrossed in the storyline, that my poor play didn't matter at all. I loved it, and was addicted. Well, I guess I didn't realize what I could have been doing in the game.

[Twilight Edge]

I have no idea how to draw GFs after Siren and never attacked.All I did was GF here,GF there.Then,at the start of disk 3,everyone was still at 30+ level.I never leveled up my weapons,by the time I fight Adel,everyone still has their initial weapon and I have no idea how to get items.i never card-moded.Auto-junctions.All I got was the first five GFs(namely Quezacolt,Shiva,ifrit,Siren and Brothers.I got my ass handed to me when fighting Diablos.)

By the time my friend told me the awesomeness of the limit breaks,I thought I treid it out.Man was it awesome.My second game started with a different perspective and I used nothing but limit breaks in the whole game.

[Laugh at face of Danger]

I didnt look on squalls pc at the beginning of the game so i missed out on Quezacotl (if thats how you spell it) and Shiva. I only realised when I my older brother came in to watch. I don't mean to sound like a know it all but I did already know how to boost. Thats only because I'd watched my older brother do it so I wouldnt have known otherwise.
on my game, i didn't have to check the PC! none of the times, quistis just agve em to me when she said i'd forgotten them and i was like "oh well, two easy GFs"

~~ and i still do pray for gilgamesh (damn you Seifer! *fume*) when it comes to Marlboro, unless i feel lucky

[InuYashaON]

-I didn't know what Boost was the first time.
-I didn't understand Squall's limit break (I bought the game used so as usual, the manual wasn't included).

Other than that, I pretty much explored a lot, including the drawing of GF, and it helped that I had cheat codes from PSM.

[Shaun]

I think I did excellent, and it was my second FF game! I recall even getting Eden! My favourite limit was Wishing Star - I totally owned the final Ultimecia boss with it! It was so satisfying to complete the game, but I don't remember any moments when I was majorly stuck. I gained most knowledge from FFVII.

Haha, on FFVII I was nine when I first played it. I didn't know how to run away from battles until a couple of discs in, so I was near level 99 when it came to the final bosses. I could defeat them all in a few hits, and I even got Knights of the Round! :)

[Jimmy Dark Aeons Slayer]

OMG my first game that was actually the first final fantasy i played.
I did learn how to juction but the spells i used where really weak... i only got Quezacolt, Shiva, Ifrit, Brothers,Diablos,Cerberus and Bahamut...i got knocked down by Adel...and didn´t dare to use Rinoa or Irvine by the time i reached Lunatic Pandora Irvine was at level 16 and Rinoa at level 17 or 18...I didn´t know how to use boost and the only things that kept me alive where limit breaks and summoning i didn´t have any special weapons...eventually i defeated Adel by using flare stones at that time my Squall was at level 43, Zell was at level 37 Selphie at level 34 and Quistis at level 30 of course i had to restart the game after understading that i couldn´t get pass Griever...and at my third attempt i was already near perfection:D

[~SapphireStar~]

Yeah, summoning GFs without boosting was pretty much all I did the first time I played the game
Same here. I was bored when I summoned a GF and started messing around with the controller. I hit select and there it was!? I was wondering what Boost was when it said I had learnt it!

[anorexorcist]

i thought my first game on FF8 was quite good actually but :

spent something like 3 or 4 hours in garden at the start of the game because i couldnt find the front gate
i missed out pretty much all of the un-obvious GFs
didnt understand magic junctioning, so asigned random magic to them
used GFs every battle
went card crazy and when i'd got loads just card mod them to hell
oh and died a lot

however:

i knew how to use boost straight away
eventially defeated ultimecia
and actually upgraded some of my weapons

[starseeker]

I just remember being so dependant on GFs that Adel owned me in about 3 moves.

[Shin Gouken]

I missed Tonberry, bahamut and Doomtrain on my first go. I worked out the junction system at once (i mean it tell you how to do it) and the boost is pretty straight forward so i got that. I did everything the hard way though, i had no decent weapons or limit breaks, and next to no decent magic. I beat ultimecia and griever by casting triple and Tornado consistantly.... that took forever o_0

[Bart's Friend Milhouse]

i went through till disc 3 leaving GF's junctioned to inactive characters. Also didn't draw Leviathan, too scared to face Ultima Weapon, spent about three hours winning Armadodo cards so I could get some Quake magic, couldn't find the Tomb Of the Unknown Knight, Duel and Renzokuken were left on Auto mode until disk 4...
OK I'll stop now

[chaos_ghost]

I only had Shiva, Ifirit, and Quezacotl(sp?) when I got to Disc 3.I didn't draw Siren, Carbuncle, Leviathan, Pandemona, or Alexander. i fought Diablos once and lost, so I never fought him again. I didn't go to get Tonberry. I got the number of the Tomb of The Unknown King and left without Brothers. And in the funniest one of all, I saw Cerberus sitting in the Garden and walked right around like he wasn't thier. I thought he was just a big monster.

[Cledarius]

My first time playing FFVII was not that bad.
I missed Eden, Pandemona, Tonberry and Leviathan, 'cause I was to scared of the bosses who carried them and simply threw anything I had at the bosses to defeat them as quick as possible.
I spent a week to find the damn gakking White Seed ship. I couldn't find them and threw the game in a Corner and cried aloud in despair and inability. After my little crazy phase, i tried again and wooohooo i found the damn White Seeds.

[~SapphireStar~]

Oh yeah I missed a load of GFs the first time round also. And yeah locating the White SeeDs was annoying. Such a pain.

[Nick Schovitz]

the first time, I rocked at FF now this is FF, i found every GF except for Bahamut and Alexander, but I was doing very good at it, disc 2 froze though.

[Materia Hunter Yuffie]

I got through all the way to disk 4 with upper twenty-lower thrity level characters without knowing what the heck I was doing.

[f f freak]

I done ok but I relied entirely on selphie n rinoas limit breaks. I learnt how to boost and junction really quick but when i got to Adel i was totally owned my characters sucked coz rinoa had all the healing magic n my characters were Squall lvl 29
selphie lvl 28 and irvine lvl 17. i got owned . i was pissed at seifer for taking away odin and givin me gilgamesh i was so annoyed at ultimecia on my third game when he came. i was like ha ur gonna get owned then he dealt 1 damage i got mega pissed off

[Guitarmandan1988]

I Was Like 10 when i first played it.. Didnt Understand How to junction.. SOMEHOW managed to get to disk four on a pathetic amount of HP. Now i Never use magic..Only For Junctioning. i always Use Meltdown>Aura>Renzokuken/Shot/Duel.. Kills stuff like that. i also only had the twin lance up til the end. i rememeber the 1st time i did the final battle. i had 9999 luckily. but i kept tripling ultima and stuff. took days! nowadays its easy. i killed the first 3 stages of the boss pretty much instantly. the last one takes ages..luckily the lionheart whooped her!

[Bluntknife]

Wo, I thought I was the first one to all these things. I'm still actually on my first go through, I've just got to the fourth disc, and Adel kepps owning me. I've basically gone through the entire game just using GFs for every battle (even the random field battles) I think my highlest level person is Squall at like, 35. Luckily I saved it disc 3 whilst the world is all still there the same.

So questions... All of you keep mentioning boost. What's that? Seems I've done the same as everybody else. At the moment I'm just trying to work out how to use the whole junction thing, and getting some good magic to junction. I've got a good few GFs actually. That's basically all I ever use.

I never use limit breaks or anything. I think the only thing other than GFs I use is magic like hast and protect. That's it.

P.S. Yay! First post!

[Mirage]

My disaster was to level up :p.

[Hambone]

I get embarassed when I talk about my first game. O.k. Here it goes. By the time I had gotten to Ultimecia's castle, I didn't know how to Junction, so I was doing, at the most, 1500 damage per hit, with Squall. Squall was at level 74 and was using Cutting trigger, no spells junctioned, Rinoa was at level 29, using Rising Sun, no spells junctioned, and Zell was at level 32, first weapon, no spells equipped. That was my party. I was missing Bahamut, Doomtrain, Cactuar, Tonberry, Siren, Brothers, Alexander, and Eden. I didn't get everything or understand anything until my 3rd playthrough, which is my perfect best file.

[Auragaea]

My brothers and I were new to RPGs so we didn't understand how to do a lot of things. The first place we got stuck on in our first game was Switching characters in Galbadia Garden. Although we had done it lots of times before getting there, everything seemed to change when they gave a tutorial on switching. It took us a good 20 minutes before we could figure out how to Switch. Secondly, we got stuck on the boss in the Missle Base because we didn't know how to junction spells or GFs on any other character than Squall. Again, FFVIII was one of our first games (it was our first RPG as well) so we didn't know the full usefulness of the L1 and R1 buttons.

[xX.Silver.Wings.Xx]

The first time I played... I never attacked or cast magic... I summoned and summoned and summoned.... (you see where this is going?) Then I hit a snag at the castle....... no GFs....crap.... :D Geez.. I was so crap then.... I did have all the Gfs though.... except alexander.. I forgot to epuip draw... :mad2:

[the holy meteor]

Ugh my first time around I was completely lost with all the terms on the menus. I believe I got the hang of junctions by the end of my first game, but every one of my party members had only one GF junctioned so I didn't have to "switch" junctions with party members like I do now.

The very, very first time I turned the game on, I had no GFs junctioned to Squall and Quistis, and only used the attack command. Pitiful! I just mashed X to win Bite Bug battles.

[Blitz Ace]

first time i played, i mustve missed the whole bit about being able to draw GF's from bosses... so i pretty much had like 4 of them by disc 3... i thought, something just aint right here. i went back over the tutorials, and was like, noooooo!!! so i started again...

worse thing happened second time round. i knew that i had to draw Alexander from Edea in disc 2, i told myself so many times, and then i forgot somehow, and saved over it... which was really annoying, cos then i couldnt get doomtrain until disc 4.

third time through i aced everything.

[Cruise Control]

Oh yeah I missed a load of GFs the first time round also. And yeah locating the White SeeDs was annoying. Such a pain.I'm on my first and cant find them T_T

[Yuffie514]

i never knew how to boost my GFs, until after i've completed the game. i just summoned them out and let them do their work. too bad i discovered it late, but this game is absolutely worth a brand new start...