Quote Originally Posted by kriminal99
FF9 Freaking pisses me off. Whats the point of having monsters with items that you can't actually steal? Some monsters I tried stealing stuff with zidane and went like 200 rounds before I realized that it wasn't like other ff7 games where it just takes quite a few tries to be able to steal stuff from harder monsters. These same monsters I could steal from easily when I had my whole party with me rather than just zidane. But then I got to the antlion boss and couldn't steal his golden crown/helmet thing after some humongous number of tries. Which was really annoying because he would use this attack which lowers all your characters hp to like 5 and gives them all darkness every couple of turns. THis caused me to go through all of my recovery items just about...

Then theres battles that you automatically lose... I HATE that, and I just got done playing star ocean 2... Its so rediculous when you have enemies that you beat the heck out of them or could beat the heck out of them and then the story line kicks in and it just pretends like you lost the battle.
About stealing. You got -very- unlucky. PLAIN AND SIMPLE. I never had problems with Stealing. I have Thievery doing 1500~2000 damage WHEN I GET IT. I manage to steal Lani's Gladius in 3red attempt, and Coral Sword on the 7th. Rarer items are harder to steal, obviously. The only one that I spent a lot of time was.... Masked Man's Mage Masher XDDDD

And the battles you automatically lose against Beatrix (The only ones you automatically lose, anyway. I don't think that Kuja counts, he doesn't use Ultima in the battle itself o.o; ). And Beatrix kicks your ass, always. And, Beatrix doesn't use Stock Break/Climhazzard and make everyone's HP go down to 1 because you damaged her enough. She does that when the battle dured a certain time.