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I thought Selphie was one of the best.
The only reason I chose Rinoa over her was because I felt I had to, because Squall and Rinoa are meant to be together, so it fitted.

But Irvine and Selphie were the best.
Besides Squall.

Zell was irritating and Quistis was a bit of a black sheep.

At 6/3/08 05:20 PM, Nev wrote: But Irvine and Selphie were the best.
Besides Squall.

They were pretty weak though :(

Zell was irritating and Quistis was a bit of a black sheep.

Zell was strong, and had a great limit break. Quistis was just average.

At 6/3/08 05:51 PM, Life-Stream wrote: They were pretty weak though :(

They were as strong as you made them. And Selphie had a great limit break... if you ever got to use it :P.
Besides, Squall's limit was good enough for all :).

At 6/3/08 06:01 PM, Nev wrote:

At 6/3/08 05:51 PM, Life-Stream wrote: They were pretty weak though :(

They were as strong as you made them. And Selphie had a great limit break... if you ever got to use it :P.
Besides, Squall's limit was good enough for all :).

It depends, each characters without any bonuses would have different stats to characters with different levels.

At 6/3/08 03:38 PM, Life-Stream wrote:

At 6/3/08 03:17 PM, Bahamut wrote: Haha, yes. They were indeed awesome. I think if you killed three in one battle, you'd get 2400 AP and EXP...Another thing I've forgotten.

Combine that with a Triple AP weapon and you have mastered Materia in no time!

If it's a basic materia, that is. Something like Knights of the Round will of course take ages, even with the Elixir Pots.

Selphie was ok. I just didn´t like her limit break at all >:(

I agree. Her limit break sucks.

I always try to keep my people on similar levels though. I wouldn´t like to have 3 characters level 99 and the rest level 30.

I just raised three characters and thought "Screw the rest!" If it was like on FFVII where non-party characters also gained EXP, that would have been better.

At 6/3/08 05:51 PM, Life-Stream wrote: Zell was strong, and had a great limit break. Quistis was just average.

I think I had some problems with Zell's Limit Break, but overall, he was one of the three characters I normally used.

At 6/4/08 09:00 AM, Bahamut wrote: I agree. Her limit break sucks.

You're wrong.
Selphie's was very powerful.
You just don't understand.

At 6/3/08 09:25 PM, EvilJesus wrote: It depends, each characters without any bonuses would have different stats to characters with different levels.

Exactly what i meant.

At 6/4/08 09:00 AM, Bahamut wrote: If it's a basic materia, that is. Something like Knights of the Round will of course take ages, even with the Elixir Pots.

Well, some of those strong materias took ages to level up :(

I agree. Her limit break sucks.

Yeah it did. You had to spend like half a minute skipping through all the spells because they were always crap. In that time the enemies could be attacking you.

I just raised three characters and thought "Screw the rest!" If it was like on FFVII where non-party characters also gained EXP, that would have been better.

Well, that´s it. If you wanted all level 99s you´d have to work for it in VIII.

I think I had some problems with Zell's Limit Break, but overall, he was one of the three characters I normally used.

I was great at Zells limit. I knew what button combination would come up nect so i could do it in miliseconds. When you have like 9 seconds, i could be doing his limit break for about a minute then when you only have about 1/4 second left i´d do a finishing move.

At 6/4/08 12:32 PM, Nev wrote: You're wrong.
Selphie's was very powerful.
You just don't understand.

Power of yellow dress.

At 6/4/08 05:51 PM, Life-Stream wrote: Well, that´s it. If you wanted all level 99s you´d have to work for it in VIII.

You're knowledge of VIII is poor :P.
The level up experience was capped at like 1,000 or something similarly low.
One fight on the Island Closest to Hell (which was easy come level 60 or lower) and you'd go up about 5 levels.

It was very easy.

Power of yellow dress.

Power of The End more like :P.

At 6/4/08 05:59 PM, Nev wrote:

At 6/4/08 05:51 PM, Life-Stream wrote: Well, that´s it. If you wanted all level 99s you´d have to work for it in VIII.

You're knowledge of VIII is poor :P.
The level up experience was capped at like 1,000 or something similarly low.
One fight on the Island Closest to Hell (which was easy come level 60 or lower) and you'd go up about 5 levels.

Try doing it with low levels, very hard indeed, only killed one monster there so far D:

At 6/4/08 08:22 PM, EvilJesus wrote: Try doing it with low levels, very hard indeed, only killed one monster there so far D:

How low we talking? I've never been there and had a problem. But I've never done the whole low level challenge thing.

At 6/4/08 08:48 PM, Nev wrote: But I've never done the whole low level challenge thing.

Being low level doesn't make FFVIII a challenge.

It makes it easier.

Except maybe for Omega Weapon, but he's easy anyway, if you just do a little strategising first and then use some holy wars.

I'm beginning to believe that SE is taking the same route that the Duke Nukem people went with the new Duke Nukem.

No new screens, trailers, announcements, etc of any of the 5+ games that they're working on in the past couple of months.

At 6/4/08 12:32 PM, Nev wrote: You're wrong.
Selphie's was very powerful.
You just don't understand.

Random slots are stuff I don't rely on for FF games. This is why I wasn't fond of using Tifa or Cait Sith on FFVII.

At 6/4/08 05:51 PM, Life-Stream wrote:

At 6/4/08 09:00 AM, Bahamut wrote: If it's a basic materia, that is. Something like Knights of the Round will of course take ages, even with the Elixir Pots.

Well, some of those strong materias took ages to level up :(

Yes, but that's reasonable. At least mastering All materia was easy to do and could give you millions of gil by selling them. Because of them, I once had over 50 million gil, but had nothing to spend it on.

I agree. Her limit break sucks.

Yeah it did. You had to spend like half a minute skipping through all the spells because they were always crap. In that time the enemies could be attacking you.

Quistis had blue magic-like abilities for her limit break, right? Those I'm also not fond of, but I didn't mind the Enemy Skill on FFVII.

At 6/5/08 12:57 AM, Xtesh wrote: I'm beginning to believe that SE is taking the same route that the Duke Nukem people went with the new Duke Nukem.

No new screens, trailers, announcements, etc of any of the 5+ games that they're working on in the past couple of months.

At least we haven't waited at least 10 years for one FF game in the main series to come out. If that were to happen, I wouldn't be too happy, unless I stopped caring about the newer FF games altogether, which is not so for me.

At 6/4/08 08:48 PM, Nev wrote:

At 6/4/08 08:22 PM, EvilJesus wrote: Try doing it with low levels, very hard indeed, only killed one monster there so far D:

How low we talking? I've never been there and had a problem. But I've never done the whole low level challenge thing.

The ones i just posted with Squall, Zell and Irvine.

At 6/5/08 09:58 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At least we haven't waited at least 10 years for one FF game in the main series to come out. If that were to happen, I wouldn't be too happy, unless I stopped caring about the newer FF games altogether, which is not so for me.

Depending on who you ask, there hasn't been an official FF game release since FFX.

But those people are stupid, since they didn't count the remake of Tactics.

At 6/5/08 09:58 AM, Bahamut wrote: Random slots are stuff I don't rely on for FF games. This is why I wasn't fond of using Tifa or Cait Sith on FFVII.

Tifa's weren't random :P.

At 6/5/08 11:22 AM, EvilJesus wrote: The ones i just posted with Squall, Zell and Irvine.

It'd be easily do-able :P.

At 6/5/08 03:41 PM, Nev wrote:

At 6/5/08 11:22 AM, EvilJesus wrote: The ones i just posted with Squall, Zell and Irvine.

It'd be easily do-able :P.

Then you can officially call me shit.

At 6/5/08 12:43 PM, Xtesh wrote: Depending on who you ask, there hasn't been an official FF game release since FFX.

I can understand XI, but FFXII can't be excluded.

At 6/5/08 03:41 PM, Nev wrote:

At 6/5/08 09:58 AM, Bahamut wrote: Random slots are stuff I don't rely on for FF games. This is why I wasn't fond of using Tifa or Cait Sith on FFVII.

Tifa's weren't random :P.

Well, yes, but her limit break requires perfect timing and I don't feel like getting too many misses with it. Wakka's Attack Reels, however, were pretty good.

At 6/6/08 11:37 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 6/5/08 12:43 PM, Xtesh wrote: Depending on who you ask, there hasn't been an official FF game release since FFX.

I can understand XI, but FFXII can't be excluded.

I'm talking about certain people who despise XII that much. Not that we have someone like that here.

Rhymes with mindow)

At 6/4/08 05:59 PM, Nev wrote: You're knowledge of VIII is poor :P.
The level up experience was capped at like 1,000 or something similarly low.
One fight on the Island Closest to Hell (which was easy come level 60 or lower) and you'd go up about 5 levels.

Ok, sure, you might level up faster, but whle you´re leveling up 3 people, the other 3 aren´t leveling, so you have to level your whole team twice.

In some other FFs all your playable characters level up even if you´re not using them. They don´t level up as much, but they do level up as your main character levels. Which makes it easier.

Power of The End more like :P.

It wasn´t that good. It didn´t work on all monsters, and you had to skip through loads of magic to actually find it >:(

At 6/5/08 09:58 AM, Bahamut wrote: Yes, but that's reasonable. At least mastering All materia was easy to do and could give you millions of gil by selling them. Because of them, I once had over 50 million gil, but had nothing to spend it on.

There´s never anything useful to buy at the end of FFs :(

Quistis had blue magic-like abilities for her limit break, right? Those I'm also not fond of, but I didn't mind the Enemy Skill on FFVII.

Never did like blue magic.

At 6/6/08 02:34 PM, Xtesh wrote: I'm talking about certain people who despise XII that much. Not that we have someone like that here.

Rhymes with mindow)

EvilJesus?
I don't despise enough to be kicked out of the final fantasy series but it was a real let down, where's the blood thirst we used to have? I don't want to go around picking daisies up even if i do enjoy doing it in college...

At 6/6/08 02:34 PM, Xtesh wrote: I'm talking about certain people who despise XII that much. Not that we have someone like that here.

Rhymes with mindow)

Whats mindow :S? Is that even a word? Couldn't you have said window :P?

At 6/6/08 04:06 PM, Life-Stream wrote: Ok, sure, you might level up faster, but whle you´re leveling up 3 people, the other 3 aren´t leveling, so you have to level your whole team twice.

You can level everyone up faster on FFVIII :P. Even if we have to do two seperate teams. It takes about half an hour.

It wasn´t that good. It didn´t work on all monsters, and you had to skip through loads of magic to actually find it >:(

It can kill bosses, I'm pretty sure it can kill monsters.

Never did like blue magic.

I liked it on FFVIII. Everyone could use it and it was an actual benefit.
On the rest it just seems to be an ability they give to mediocre and useless characters. Quistis, check. Quina, check. Kimarhi, check.
The latter two being fucking awful. I hate them both, well not so much Quina, but Kimarhi definately. Quistis was nice and whatnot, but there were more interesting options available.

At 6/6/08 08:20 PM, Nev wrote: You can level everyone up faster on FFVIII :P. Even if we have to do two seperate teams. It takes about half an hour.

lmao. Half an hour XD

It can kill bosses, I'm pretty sure it can kill monsters.

Still, Zells, Squalls, Rinoas and probably Irvines limits were all better.

I liked it on FFVIII. Everyone could use it and it was an actual benefit.
On the rest it just seems to be an ability they give to mediocre and useless characters. Quistis, check. Quina, check. Kimarhi, check.
The latter two being fucking awful. I hate them both, well not so much Quina, but Kimarhi definately. Quistis was nice and whatnot, but there were more interesting options available.

I guess you meant to say FFVII there. The enemy skill was ok, because there were alot of them, and like you said, everyone could use them, but Quistis´ limit was pretty crap because there were only 10 or 12, they were pretty easy to get, and they were very weak compared to other peoples limits.

Quina and Kimahri do suck balls though >:(

At 6/6/08 08:20 PM, Nev wrote:

At 6/6/08 02:34 PM, Xtesh wrote: I'm talking about certain people who despise XII that much. Not that we have someone like that here.

Rhymes with mindow)

Whats mindow :S? Is that even a word? Couldn't you have said window :P?

Mendou is pronounced the same way.

At 6/7/08 05:17 AM, Xtesh wrote: Mendou is pronounced the same way.

I´ve always called him men-dough, but meh.

At 6/7/08 05:48 AM, Life-Stream wrote: I´ve always called him men-dough, but meh.

That's how it's supposed to be pronounced, since he takes his name from Urusei Yatsura.

At 6/7/08 06:04 AM, Kuro wrote: That's how it's supposed to be pronounced, since he takes his name from Urusei Yatsura.

I think we´ve talked about this before but how do you guys pronounce these names?

Yuffie. I´ve always said Yuf-e, not You-fee like in the movie.

Cait Sith. I´ve always said Kate-Sif.

Tifa. Teefa, not Tif-a.

At 6/7/08 05:48 AM, Life-Stream wrote:

At 6/7/08 05:17 AM, Xtesh wrote: Mendou is pronounced the same way.

I´ve always called him men-dough, but meh.

Mindow= Window= Mendou = Men-dough.

Hope that helps.

At 6/7/08 06:41 AM, Life-Stream wrote:

I think we´ve talked about this before but how do you guys pronounce these names?

Yuffie. I´ve always said Yuf-e, not You-fee like in the movie.

Same here.

Cait Sith. I´ve always said Kate-Sif.

I do too, but his name is in Gaelic or something(some Irish language), so the official pronounciation is "Ket-shee". I name him "Reeve" when I play the game now.

Tifa. Teefa, not Tif-a.

I can't stand people who say Tif-a.

SUDDEN CHANGE OF TOPIC.

You know who needs their own game? Cid Highwind and Auron.

Think about it. They fly across universes on a new Highwind, dealing justice as they see fit while cursing, drinking, and doing some complaining about how kids these days have all these spiky hairdos and big swords and how back in my day we didn't have any of those fancy Phoenix Downs and Flares and insane enemies who want to kill people. When I was your age, we had to build our own swords with our bare hands and some lava. And that was in the middle of a blizzard on a hill that went uphill both ways.

And that's just ten minutes from a cutscene fourteen minutes in.

At 6/7/08 06:58 AM, Xtesh wrote: I do too, but his name is in Gaelic or something(some Irish language), so the official pronounciation is "Ket-shee". I name him "Reeve" when I play the game now.

Yeah, Gaelic is an irish language. Ket-Shee counds stupid though.

I can't stand people who say Tif-a.

They think it´s short for Tiffany, BUT IT¨S NOT!

SUDDEN CHANGE OF TOPIC.
You know who needs their own game? Cid Highwind and Auron.
Think about it. They fly across universes on a new Highwind, dealing justice as they see fit while cursing, drinking, and doing some complaining about how kids these days have all these spiky hairdos and big swords and how back in my day we didn't have any of those fancy Phoenix Downs and Flares and insane enemies who want to kill people. When I was your age, we had to build our own swords with our bare hands and some lava. And that was in the middle of a blizzard on a hill that went uphill both ways.
And that's just ten minutes from a cutscene fourteen minutes in.

I think Cid should get more coverage in the whole FFVII series there is now. He was just so cool. Auron was ok, but not as cool. Besides that, he´s dead, so he couldn´t take part in travelling the universe to tell those younguns how it was.