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Final Fantasy VIII Remastered |OT| You're The Best Looking Remaster Here
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1 HOUR TO GO. HOLY SHIT I'M GETTING RIDICULOUSLY EXCITED RIGHT NOW
Maybe enough complaints will get a patch for the consoles version lolllllllllll
Well then PC gamers are counting on you all!
Maybe enough complaints will get a patch for the consoles version lolllllllllll
yeah not happening
Yeah was thinking so.
Then again I can just start playing the PS4 version of VIII and not platinum it until after I finish the others. I intend to go full completionist, disc one Lionheart, etc so I'll take a while.
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The best way is by using the Refine abilities offered by Guardian Force. Each has their own specific ability and you gain them by selecting from the GF ablity list and making the GF learn it. They'll learn it by getting AP from battles. Once you do that you can access one of the big game breakers which is turning the item Tent into Curaga which you would equip to a characters HP stat.
The other thing is playing Triple Triad. All the cards can be turned into rare items and those rare items can be refined into spells. Some of the cards are given to you just for beating a boss.
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I have some images saved to showcase what I'm referring to just give me a sec to add.
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The short answer is learn as many RF GF abilities as you can to get powerful magic while avoiding unnecessary leveling.
The stronger the spell the more effective it is for stats. Also the more of that spell you have the more effective it is.
Also I recommend drawing magic from every boss. If you don't you can easily miss a GF making it unobtainable later.
Also generous use of the search function on the actual board. Stuff about RNG manipulation. Prepare to reset. A lot.
Someone will post the guides soon, but the rule of thumb is that every GF (Guardian Force, a summon you can equip to your character, no limit as to how many GFs you can put on one character) has a J[unction]-[Stat] ability. It'll show up, as an example, as J-HP. That means you can literally equip magic to your HP in order to increase your max HP. There is an auto-junction option so this will be easy. But say you get to a monster that has the Tornado spell, and you draw 100 tornados on a character that has the GF that has the J-HP ability, instead of using those tornado spells in battle, you can just equip it to your HP. That way your max HP will increase from 800 to like 2500 or something.
Every GF has something stat wise. So say you put a GF-Str (strength) on Squall and equip your 100 tornados that way. Then your strength will increase and you'll be doing like 2000 damage per normal attack as opposed to 80 or something like that.
And given that you can only have 3 party members active, and you can switch GF configs per party member, you can essentially have 3 "roles" or three OP party members easily.
Thanks a lot, and to everyone else who responded.
Really hyped for this!!
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OMG WE FINALLY GOT SOMETHING NEW FROM THE FF ACCOUNT FOR VIII!
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OMG THIS TOO LMAO
So once you have learned the refine abilities you can start turning materials and cards into spells. You just need to make sure you have the particular refine ability you want unlocked since they all cover different types. The one I'm pointing at is recovery magic so spells like Cure/Life/Esuna.
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OMG THIS TOO LMAO
Here is a visual guide. Sorry if it's kind of ugly since I just made it now with images I took before haha
So once you have learned the refine abilities you can start turning materials and cards into spells. You just need to make sure you have the particular refine ability you want unlocked since they all cover different types. The one I'm pointing at is recovery magic so spells like Cure/Life/Esuna.
lol I'm doing the same thing
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It covers rule manipulation. There is guide above too for Triple Triad as a whole! :)
It has happened!!! FFVIII in 2019, baby!.
Well you fine folk, here's to a full blown FFVIII Remake in the next 20 years lol.
Well you fine folk, here's to a full blown FFVIII Remake in the next 20 years lol.
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I'd suggest the guide I posted rather than the one with just general rules. Things get messy. Also, use search function on the message board. There is A LOT to read as far as people figuring out the RNG and more recent revelations of how rules do or don't degrade. Also, many topics that cover very specific scenarios that are bound to crop up.
Without a good grasp of how to manipulate the RNG for spreading rules and such... You'll definitely give up. Hundreds/thousands of resets await you if you don't (at least if you want everything perfect).
Without a good grasp of how to manipulate the RNG for spreading rules and such... You'll definitely give up. Hundreds/thousands of resets await you if you don't (at least if you want everything perfect).
Man I actually love the way it looks, as someone who purposefully didn't watch any footage leading up to this. I can see how a lot of people might say the difference between the updated character models and the prerendered backgrounds is jarring, but I think the mix draws attention to the central characters in each scene while casting the rest of the background in a softer and more painterly relief. It's a unique look, barring visual settings on emulators.
The thing about this game that always makes replays fun is just how many little details the developers went out of their way to include. Even really simple stuff like how Quistis does a little wave to her fanclub students when she walks out of the classroom. Just a little animation that didn't have to be there, but they included it anyway. The game is filled with technically unnecessary but nevertheless extremely charming little touches like that, and I find more and more every time I play it.
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Same. It's much better in motion than what the images look like. I find the models are so well focused that the backgrounds don't look as jarring.
Fucking BARF at the herky jerky background panning while running diagonally with this non-analog control scheme. Fix this and every other overlooked flaw in this remaster. Waste of money on my favorite FF/RPG. It's like Silent Hill 2 and 3 HD all over again but I knew enough not to spend money on that...
I just learned this in the RPG Era discord: the GF and Junction tutorials can be skipped by just pressing Circle.
Maybe I'm the only person in the world who didn't know that, but I've watched those tutorials every time I've replayed the game lol.
Maybe I'm the only person in the world who didn't know that, but I've watched those tutorials every time I've replayed the game lol.
i been waiting so long for this, thank you for the OP. Switch version downloaded and PS4 version downloaded. Lets go!
The thought of my money going to whoever those other emulator devs credited before the game are really irks me.
I'll celebrate 20 years with you all with the disc in my PS2 on a 32-inch crt.
*cries and might be too tired
I'll celebrate 20 years with you all with the disc in my PS2 on a 32-inch crt.
*cries and might be too tired
Not true. I've brought it up because it's a strange difference in the way two nearly identical releases were handled, and I've said that I wish IX had gotten the same label. I don't give a rat's ass how well VIII sells; I just want to see the IX remaster get the attention it deserves for also being a remaster. Quit being so defensive.
It's unlikely the eight way run will ever be fixed because the PC release this is based off didn't have analog to begin with, right? It is what it is though. There's only so much you can do when so much code is lost.
The biggest problem with 8 compared to 9 is how they baked in a lot of NPCs into the pre rendered backgrounds... So in some garden scenes you have PS1 quality Cid baked in and then new shiny Cid in alternate shots. I don't think 7 or 9 used this technique at all, so it's a unique problem to 8 and legit more or less impossible to solve.
The biggest problem with 8 compared to 9 is how they baked in a lot of NPCs into the pre rendered backgrounds... So in some garden scenes you have PS1 quality Cid baked in and then new shiny Cid in alternate shots. I don't think 7 or 9 used this technique at all, so it's a unique problem to 8 and legit more or less impossible to solve.