Queen's Blood (Final Fantasy Thread)

[Ruki]

FINAL FANTASY VII GETTING A REMAKE..........

..................sorta

[Benji]

Worse than Hitler :/

[Benji]

Never did get around to finishing Lightning Returns because of X (though I was finally enjoying it), and never got around to finishing X because I was obsessed with grinding for the superbosses so I got bored. Someone help - which do I jump back to first?

[TKz]

Stick something on TV and finish X. Do what I couldn't be assed to, Benji. Do it for all of us.

[Benji]

Oh yeah, I'll be doing something else whilst I grind, but it's still so tedious due to item limits meaning that every so often I have to stop using the Don Tonberry method and head off to get more spheres.

[stokeriño]

When you say "finish" X, do you just mean actually bothering to stroll through the final Jecht/Yu Yevon fights, or defeat every ridiculous thing the game has to offer?

I've embarked upon the even-more-tedious activity of slowly upgrading the sphere grid with all +4s and such. About 30 spheres down...just under 700 to go.

Might amble down to the bottom of the Omega Ruins and take out the Omega Weapon at some point, just to break it up. Will be a doddle with the stats that I've currently got Auron/Wakka/Yuna up to. Not taking on Dark Bahamut yet though...he scares me.

[Benji]

Every ridiculous thing. I have no reason to go for the final battle because I've already seen it, so I want to make beating Jecht the end of "my" story and not some random superboss.

[stokeriño]

Pfft...good luck.

What Dark Aeons have you left to defeat?

[Benji]

All of them, I wasn't even going to start until I was fully levelled, but it's such a nightmare grind.

[stokeriño]

I'm probably only about 50% levelled but took out the first four without much difficulty, so that's something else you could do to break up the grind a bit...

Dark Bahamut is kicking my arse at this very moment...the git.

[probablyoliver]

I can't remember ever bothering with super grinding on FFX but I might start playing again soon.

What does it actually involve?

[TKz]

To min-max with super grinding, you need to grind for spheres that'll give you +4 to each stat, which means farming "superbosses" from the Monster Arena for spheres, then replacing all current spheres with +4 spheres. You typically get something like 1-4 spheres per battle (depending on which Sphere you're trying on) and there's a few hundred slots on the sphere grid.

Then there's the Celestial Weapons, powering them up and getting armour that'll do the jobs you need it to do, which generally requires grinding Dark Yojimbo for Dark Matter or other Monster Arena Superbosses for other bits.

And of course, to get those Monster Arena Superbosses, before you can do anything, you need to catch 10 of each enemy type from every area in the game.

[probablyoliver]

Okay I'm out.

[gunnar hendershow]

Bravely Default should be here any day now. Any pointers from those who played it?

[Ruki]

Tell Square to make that game again, slap Final Fantasy in the title, and put it on the PS4?

[TKz]

Once you reach the last few chapters, I think it's Chapter 5 or 6 onwards, you'll feel like the game is starting to repeat on itself. (literally). At that point, assuming you've levelled yourself up enough already, just power right through, don't even bother with the extra quests. Just trust me, it'll kill your interest.

[gunnar hendershow]

Once you reach the last few chapters, I think it's Chapter 5 or 6 onwards, you'll feel like the game is starting to repeat on itself. (literally). At that point, assuming you've levelled yourself up enough already, just power right through, don't even bother with the extra quests. Just trust me, it'll kill your interest.

Sounds like a good old-fashioned JRPG then!

[TKz]

Oh I dunno, I've never played many JRPGs with time travel, I missed Chrono Trigger as a kid - so maybe it's more common than I know. But there's something like 12 Chapters in the game? Chapters 6-10 are pretty much an identical repeat of one another, with some slight variations of bosses.

[gunnar hendershow]

Oh I dunno, I've never played many JRPGs with time travel, I missed Chrono Trigger as a kid - so maybe it's more common than I know. But there's something like 12 Chapters in the game? Chapters 6-10 are pretty much an identical repeat of one another, with some slight variations of bosses.

So basically stretching out the game? I'm used to it, I played nearly every SNES and PS1 JRPG and they were famous for it. That stuff doesn't really bother me.

[Benji]

Eurgh, do I get FFXIV in the Steam Sale? So tempted >_>