Quote Originally Posted by Forsaken Lover View Post
Quote Originally Posted by Quin View Post
VIII may be easy if you exploit its system
Okay Stop.

Stop.

STOP.

I am sick of FFVIII apologists using the word "exploit" or "if".

It is not a matter of going out of your way to break the game. it is not a matter of grinding. It is not in any shape or form difficult to bend FFVIII over your knee and snap its difficulty in half.

In fact, it is the exact opposite of difficult because you are REWARDED for NOT DOING ANYTHING. Don't level up? Don't fight any random encounter?S Now the game is a laughing stock to you because you spent five seconds buying 10 Tents at Balamb and gave your character a billion HP in the first hour of the game and all the bosses will be scaled to fight someone at level 10 so they do only triple digit damage at best.

FFVIII is not a game you have to be smart at, or to know what you're doing. You just need to read the damned mandatory Tutorial and then bam, the game is a joke.

Can you have Firaga, Curaga and Thundaga in the first few hours of any other FF game? I don't think you can. Level 3 spells are easier to come by than Level 2 spells in FFVIII.
Care to explain how you got the Refine abilities which let you get all of those wonderful magic spells without exploiting the systems or grinding?

Yes, it is incredibly easy to break. If you know how to break it. If you know what abilities to pick up from GFs first, and what items give you good spells from refining them.

Most players, upon casually playing for the first time, don't realize half of that. Junction abilities and combat abilities are almost always grabbed before Refine abilities are.


Also, I hate to break it to you, but "not fighting anything" is exploiting the system itself. Again, it's not something that will be casually done. Heck, you can't even get Diablos for a while, and he's the only source of Enc-None. Most players don't actually run away from every fight (and even then, you can be screwed by some enemies if the RNG hates you).




Also, FFXII is the easiest. I got through about 75% of the game with two Gambit setups, and literally doing nothing except directing my characters around with the Analog stick (then I got bored and gave up).