Quote Originally Posted by Mirage View Post
Yes, it can be broken easily, but when you know how the other games work, those games are really smurfing easy too. It doesn't matter that you can get 5000 HP on disc 1 in FF8, because you wouldn't have died with just 2000 anyway. It's also no different from all the twinky crap you can do in for example FF5. You can get insane attack power really easily there too, and breeze through the majority of the game. I can't think of any FF game that is difficult in any way past the first playthrough.
Though FF8 is probably my least favorite of the series this is something I think should be re-iterated. Just because a system can be broken when you know in depth how it works doesn't make it a bad system. The fact that a single player game can be exploited by players who know what they are doing shouldn't be a major strike against it. (Of course games that players routinely break on their first uninformed playthrough are a different story)

That said, if you have no outside knowledge of the system you are way more likely to spend hours drawing because you don't know the effective ways/places/monsters to do it