Lots of people go straight to the guard at the front gate or the Trepie in the cafeteria, but these two are so easy to beat when you only have the starting cards. If you need Elnoyle, Abyss Worm, Tonberry King, Adamantoise, etc. just head to the library as soon as you get your first cards. These two are seriously bad at Triple Triad and drop everything you need in the early game.

  • Mango@lemmy.world
    15·
    10 months ago

    I am definitely guilty of making a beeline towards the character cards.

    I’m actually pretty good at the game so long as the god awful random mode isn’t on. Even with “weak” cards, there are excellent tactics for playing off the weakness of your own cards! I love the ‘same’ rule.

    It’s hecking great to see some FF8 content on Lemmy! My favorite game ever!

    • Omega@lemmy.world
      6·
      10 months ago

      Random is my least hated extra rules. It’s kinda fun to use random cards, and I usually use Card Mod on my common cards.

      Same, Plus, Combo, Direct, Elemental, and Sudden Death can all eat my ass though.

      • Mango@lemmy.world
        6·
        10 months ago

        Ugh, I forgot about sudden death.

        Random is extra bad for me though because I’m a collector. I’m one of those guys who tries to 100% down to getting every item and every card. Gotta get all the Rosetta stones and megalixers and never use them. 🤣

        I’ve played through the game like 40 times collecting everything; damn near 4,000 hours of FF8 despite how it fails traditional replayability standards. What really fucks me up though is that I never had a pocket station!!! Motherlicking boko stuff ruled out!!! I have the steam version now and could do it all again, but I straight up cannot get over the whole 16fps menu bs and being locked to 8 directions.

        • Omega@lemmy.world
          7·
          10 months ago

          At some point I decided that unlocking the card was good enough for me.

          Also, interesting you mention it failing replayability standards. I’ve recently (within the last couple years) tried replaying the game with different restrictions. Like no grinding. So, I’d only draw once if I saw “???”. No card games. I only went after items for GFs and ultimate weapons. The game went a lot quicker and was still pretty easy. I still refined items I picked up along the way though. I realized just how many different ways you can get OP.

          Then I played through while spreading the GFs and magic across everybody instead of just the main party. That was fun. It made it harder to get OP too early.

          • Mango@lemmy.world
            3·
            10 months ago

            Spreading the GFs out sounds kinda fun. I couldn’t possibly not junction my brains out though. 🤣. I considered trying minimal levels, but it’s so hard and I don’t have it in me to tiptoe about it.

            • Omega@lemmy.world
              3·
              10 months ago

              The limitations are nice to force me to not overcomplicate my playthrough. On another one I randomized my GFs for each player. I just tried to have 1 HP and 1 STR junction available for each. So all bonuses and abilities were left to luck every time my GFs got removed by the story.

              I’ll never do a low level game. But in my no grind game, they were all still very low until I got to the Deep Sea Research Facility.

              • Mango@lemmy.world
                3·
                10 months ago

                HP and STR are basically everything. 🤣 Tornado ftw!

                Ultimecia Castle always drives me completely nuts since there’s no going back. I’m not sure I ever actually completed it properly either.

                Do you have a favorite GF? Mine is Alexander. Maybe Gilgamesh because of the scene with Seifer. I always try to get that scene.

                • Omega@lemmy.world
                  3·
                  10 months ago

                  Diablos definitely. The time and status magic refine, early Mug, Ability X3, his % based attack. And then his whole design and cutscene. His fight is really fun too, even though Cid is a total a-hole for giving you a lamp that might kill you.

                  Doomtrain might be number 2.

  • the_weez@midwest.social
    14·
    10 months ago

    Sick! I’ve been thinking about starting a playthrough on my deck. I wonder if I should emulate the PlayStation version or just run the PC version.

    • Omega@lemmy.world
      10·
      10 months ago

      The Playstation emulated version should have rumble and omnidirectional movement. AFAIK, the PC version doesn’t have rumble and is limited to 8 directions.

      Edit: The upside of the Remaster version is that Angelo Search can find a bunch of items that you could only get from Chocobo World.

      The FF wiki says that Chocobo World is playable directly from the original PC port.