Gaming The Final Fantasy Thread
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Nice. It's downloading for later now.
The amount of stuff I missed on the first playthrough was criminal. Holy shit, is there actually more loot than FF7 or is my mind playing tricks?
There's loot 'erry place!
There are alsot tonnes of sneaky winks and nods to older Final Fantasies.
There is a lot of things to loot. An advice, there is a strange moogle who offers you to buy things from him. He sells only three things for fixed prices (333 gil, 444 gil, 555 gil etc). Buy them always from him. He goes in all the places and when he changes the city he gets new equipment to sell. Regardless if you like them or not (although they usually are well worth it) buy them. Near the end of the game - if you have buyed in all cities from him - he gives you a free ribbon (?) - maybe was an another equipment - which costs 50000 gil and you can find only a limited amount of them.
Oh, and in case you're not doing it anyway, steal like feck, steal all the time, and against big enemies and bosses, more than once, some can have a few items. I mean, the main character being a thief, it seems they placed more emphasis on it than they ever did, and it was pretty damn good in every FF.
Plus it builds an important skill, IIRC.
Plus it builds an important skill, IIRC.
Check and check, take note too @Snowjoe. I got a mythril dagger by the ice cavern. Detect is a wonderful ability.
Yep. That was my bane cause I had then to spend a lot of hours making that skill. Basically @Tomalonge you need around 1000 steals in order to make a powerful attack with Zidane (9999 no questions asked). To do that, it is better to steal from every enemy in every battle and sometimes during the ending you will have that skill completed (stealing increased that all the time). You need two party members doing 9999 damage on every turn in order to defeat Ozma.
And always still from bosses. They have 3 items on them, though it is very hard to get all of them. Try though, one of the items all the time is amazing.
The other two are at least useful.
So I got up to just setting off to Lindblum. Done some grinding and exploring and have everyone at level 10, 99 potions, 25 tents and 11,000 Gil.
It's going good.
It's going good.
My kinda setup.
All the things!Most of the people I've seen play Final Fantasy seem to fly through the story way too fast as they have "nextscreenitis". I have the exact opposite, I don't move on from one screen to the next unless I'm absolutely convinced I haven't missed anything.My kinda setup.
Likewise, with levelling; every time I get a chance I do, and I don't move on the story unless I've got at least one of my characters to a milestone (10, 15, 20.etc).
As for abilities, whenever I get new equipment I stop everything and grind until it's learned. I never actually properly move around without the top equipment for the characters either.
Weirdest thing of all though; My son absolutely loves watching me play games.
Yeah, I'll almost always stop and grind at each town until my entire team has the best available gear from the shops, even if I know there'll be something better stealable or in a chest coming up soon.
9 makes that twice as long, since you often have to buy the gear, then have it synthesized.
9 makes that twice as long, since you often have to buy the gear, then have it synthesized.
My brother advised me to stop buying weapons and only Synth them, as you'll pick up millions of them dotted around or be able to steal them from bosses/enemies and it'll cost a lot less if say you already had a mage masher to make the Ogre and only had to buy the one (after a good scout around the town first of course).
Sure enough, everyone's got better weapons than they did at this point last time around and more abilities and I haven't spent 1 gil on a weapon so far, whereas last time the first port of call was the weapon shop. (I will need to do this in Lindblum though to synth the crazy good weapons.)
Sure enough, everyone's got better weapons than they did at this point last time around and more abilities and I haven't spent 1 gil on a weapon so far, whereas last time the first port of call was the weapon shop. (I will need to do this in Lindblum though to synth the crazy good weapons.)
I still have to buy everything, even though I know better, or know they'll be of limited use...
I'm at work!
Any excuse Joe. 
Ah! Refreshing to see another collector. Albeit one who is more collector-y. I make sure I have one of every weapon (if possible) at the end, I'm assuming you'll have quite a few of each by the end.
Often have three or four of some junk weapons towards the end. And always get every accessory in every FF, you never know when you'd need what ever, heh.Ah! Refreshing to see another collector. Albeit one who is more collector-y. I make sure I have one of every weapon (if possible) at the end, I'm assuming you'll have quite a few of each by the end.
Oh! Make sure you keep one each of the weakest weapon for each character in 9. Important that.
I keep everything, I'm a United fan, we don't sell.
If I need more money I just go on the grind again.
If I need more money I just go on the grind again.
Perfect!
Tommy how long is your play time so far?
Just found out the 12 hr thing for Steiner's ultimate weapon.... That to me defeats the whole purpose of the RPG, they are meant to be time sinks not a speed run. Rushing through the worlds as quickly as possible ruins the fun IMO.
Probably why in one playthrough of 9 I had over 40 hours clocked and had just started Disc 3.
Just found out the 12 hr thing for Steiner's ultimate weapon.... That to me defeats the whole purpose of the RPG, they are meant to be time sinks not a speed run. Rushing through the worlds as quickly as possible ruins the fun IMO.
Probably why in one playthrough of 9 I had over 40 hours clocked and had just started Disc 3.
I clocked up way too many hours on disc 1 of FF8 in one play-through because of Elnoyle cards. They just would not drop.
It was coming up to three hours I think. Might be a bit more.
I'm not assed about Steiner's ultimate weapon, it's been posted how to get it in this thread and I'd rather... y'know... enjoy the game.
Aye....... aye.
Did X come out today? Or was that just in yank land/Japan?
Think it's the 21st here.
Welcome to the club!Cool. Another game i might buy and not play then
Although this one I must play...
X for PC?
Naw just PS3 & Vita(
).Tfft. I can't afford another game this month anyway.
Tbh, me either(off to watch the Armoyesgeddon this weekend), but I have to have this on my Vita, and Football Manager next month. Mario Golf on the 3DS at some point too.
I mean, there are a freaking tonne of games I want, but them three are priorities.
So I had a bit of a break last night, I'd just made it into Lindblum and it's before the story starts there so my party is all together at the moment. This would be an excellent time to grind/shop, oui?
Sounds as good a time as any. Oh, click on the rack of swords in the weapon shop, if you haven't before.
Btw, always wondered this. When you meet a new character (eg. About to meet Freya), does the level of your party affect what level the new character starts at?
Pretty sure yes. If you level up heavily, the new party member comes in a high level too.
Planescape Torment is the bitch when it comes to this, because the new party members have a fixed level when they join you. Which means that if you have leveled up quite a bit by doing all the sidequests, they will be total noobs when they join,
Cheers Rev, I always thought it did but wasn't completely sure.
Back then internet was not available, was playing FFVII when Aeris died (spoiler? nah) and I keep on playing till the very last thinking it's just a plot
Oh.. those were those days when puzzles are meant to make you bald from tearing your hair instead of making you walk to your pc and tube it....
Nowdays, the real hardcore gamers is those who actually don't use internet
Oh.. those were those days when puzzles are meant to make you bald from tearing your hair instead of making you walk to your pc and tube it....
Nowdays, the real hardcore gamers is those who actually don't use internet