Final Fantasy general

You mean Titan? He one shots the little flowers surrounding it but they get summoned back immediately.

No, Golem, the dude who blocks physical attacks.

This dude.

Oh, I remember that thing! It occasionally showed up on the way to the Dragonpod only to slap one of my party members for 200 damage before running away immediately.

Yup, but then you help him from enemies and then he's a summon.

You get him in the same area. There'll be a weird battle early on where a rock guy attacks you and then leaves, and then one later on in the area where he's being accosted by two dragons, and begs you for help. If you beat the dragons, he'll join you.

And let me tell you, he's probably the third-most useful Eidolon in the entire game, next to Bahamut, Phoenix, and possibly Syldra. You summon him, and he negates the next (50 * (your level + 20)) points of physical damage. If a physical hit would attack you, it instead just impacts a hand made of sand that takes the damage instead. There's no visual indication of when the wall's gone, so either calculate it, recast the summon every coupla rounds and see if it takes, or wait until you start taking physical damage again.

edited 20th Apr '12 11:30:56 PM by Enlong

Yups!

He also helps in like everything.

Carbuncle's also pretty cool. Yeah, reflecting your own White magic hurts, but there's extreme fun to be had in reflecting five firagas off of your teammates, all to impact one enemy.

I never really used Carbuncle.

That does sound satisfying though.

It was a lot of fun when I did the Four Job Fiesta. I didn't have any White Mages anyway, but I did have Black Mages and Summoners, so a lot of my single-target strategies involved Carbncle followed by a wave of reflected -aga spells.

Woah.

Four Job Fiesta?

It's an annual event where everyone who enters is given a random assortment of four jobs, one from each Crystal. Those are the only four jobs you can use, everyone in the team must be using one of them at all times, and you must have as many of the four jobs being used as possible at all times.

It's a fun challenge, and a great opportunity to see how classes you didn't think would work can turn out great. I made out like a bandit, honestly. I got Black Mage, Summoner, Geomancer, and Samurai. I pity the ones who wound up with Berserker.

Without White Magic, I learned just how useful Phoenix is, just to give an example.

Last summer's event had a sort of charity drive going. At one point, several people pledged to donate $[X] amount for each person who managed to complete the game. It really was a blast, and I hope to do it again if they start it up again.

edited 20th Apr '12 11:45:49 PM by Enlong

Yeah, I think I remembered hearing about it but didn't remember the specifics.

Seems like fun, but I'd probably give up.

It's a very fun Self-Imposed Challenge, and the way they set it up had a very nice group atmosphere to it. Everyone was working on the same challenge, and it was both a race and a total hoot.

Oh cool!

What's the worst possible Four Job Fiesta combination?

EDIT: Wait, never mind.

edited 22nd Apr '12 3:28:09 AM by TheHeroHartmut

So, my thoughts on FFVIII were pretty accurate so far.

The game is actually decent until Disk 3. It's at this point they just lost their damn minds.

Reading Edea's exposition about being "possessed all along by someone from DA FUTURE" just made me roll my eyes. The game doesn't do itself any favors by having all the Galbadian soldiers suddenly knowing Ultimecia's name. Some of the grunts in Deling City just tell you Seifer is in charge now and that works. The fact they now knwo the name of the hidden Big Bad however is just absurd.

They just didn't need time travel at all really. It's so completely unnecessary.

But yeah, up until this point, I've had very little to complain about the game. Seifer is a good character (probably the best in the game), Squall is forgettable but not bad, Rinoa is pretty, and the rest of the cast is at least colorful, even if they are completely two-dimensional. I did notice the dialogue was pretty nice and smooth apart from Squall's occasional melodrama.

Actually, that's the only thing that has bugged me thus far. Well, there are three things including that.

1. Squall's freakout after they get news Seifer died. Never mentioned or talked about again. It was random and very stupid.

2. Rinoa's father falls off the map. She never resolves her issues with him at all. The game saw fit to amek us talk tO Zone and Watts again but not her damn father?

3. The error ratio for the Galbadia missiles.... What? Why?

But now I'm on Disk 3, everything is piling up like a dung hill. Where did Galbadia Garden go?

EDIT:

Okay wait, four problems. NORG is never really mentioned or seen again. I liked that dude.

edited 22nd Apr '12 10:01:57 PM by Nikkolas

Yeah, them ignoring Squall's outburst was weird.

And isn't NORG dead? BJURURURURURURU~

Prevent Behemoth racism. Make yourself aware.

edited 23rd Apr '12 8:41:06 AM by Hobgoblin

NORG wasn't dead he was morphing most likely into one of the little guys.

If you go back to that underground town they will explain a bit about NORG.

I didn't know Behemoth rights were so behind the times, somebody should start a thread about that in OTC...

One scene that always bothered me is the orphanage reveal scene. I know it was foreshadowed, but the way it was played was just so...random.

edited 23rd Apr '12 9:38:56 AM by lu127

See the Orphanage bit doesn't bug me because it's totally inconsequential.

"So...we all know each other from childhood? Cool."

And then you can ignore it.

As for NORG, it's still rather odd he played such a minor role in the game. He got his own theme song and everything.

Still, who's with me in regards to Seifer being a cool antagonist and character? I just love how he is totally The Hero in terms of personality and characteristics but he's still a villain.

edited 23rd Apr '12 12:59:20 PM by Nikkolas

More XIII-2 DLC info!

White Mage Costume for Serah, and A Black Mage costume for Noel.

Also apparently there are also some Moogle costumes on the way...

Kupotastic!

It looks like by moogle costumes, they mean costumes for Mog.