Queen's Blood (Final Fantasy Thread)

[Trey]

I agree with Benji, I think that's why I didn't enjoy playing XII as much. Everytime I was playing, I was just running off to the next point to fight someone new, and each time I had to "make the connection" with the villians. I just never cared to run down Vayne, it was more of a chore.

[PkmnTrainerJ]

So, I accidentally bought FFXI and it's expansion packs for £4.87 today. Let's see how good it is.

[Clawson]

Fuck me, I forgot I can kill the boss at the end of the Iifa Tree with just a Phoenix Down so now I have to go through the damn thing all over again.

[Benji]

Everybody get FFXI now since it's so cheap and we can make our own clan

[PkmnTrainerJ]

Oh fucking hell, 10 hours worth of updates for FFXI and PlayOnline so far and I haven't started on the expansion packs yet.

[probablyoliver]

So its been a while since I played through FFVII and I've decided to start on it tonight (mainly because I cba to get some of the weapons in FFXII, and Ollie needs a rest from it). My question to you guys is; should I just play through the game, or should I take it with a challenge? I've never done a FF Challenge game before, and they intrigue me, I just don't know whether I truly can be bothered to take one on.

I've had a look on gamefaqs and some of the challenges are just absurd, if I was to take one on, it'd be the equivalent of an 'easy' or 'medium' challenge. Anyone wanna suggest?

[Guest Makaveli 84]

For me personnally i really enjoyed the series but mainly the early ones along with VII and VIII those two are probably my favourites out of them all, ever since VIII though i have found the games enjoyable but not immence like the rest.

[Cadet Ember McLain]

So its been a while since I played through FFVII and I've decided to start on it tonight (mainly because I cba to get some of the weapons in FFXII, and Ollie needs a rest from it). My question to you guys is; should I just play through the game, or should I take it with a challenge? I've never done a FF Challenge game before, and they intrigue me, I just don't know whether I truly can be bothered to take one on.

I've had a look on gamefaqs and some of the challenges are just absurd, if I was to take one on, it'd be the equivalent of an 'easy' or 'medium' challenge. Anyone wanna suggest?

Two off the top of my head are the "Cheapskate" challenge, and the "Sticky Materia" challenge.

Cheapskate: You can't voluntarily spend any money. This goes for items, inns, whatever. There are a couple of exceptions, where you are forced to spend the money to proceed. This is allowed under the rules.

There is a variation of this, in that whatever you sell is allowed to be spent before you exit the shop dialog. EG: You go in and sell 5 Ethers. You now have (IIRC) 5000 Gil to play with BEFORE you resume your adventure. You can't spend over that, and if you exit, that money locks. Think of it as a barter-type system.

Sticky Materia: The title speaks for itself. This one has three difficulty levels.

EASY: Once you equip any materia to a weapon/armour slot, it stays there. When you recruit someone that has pre-existing Materia, you are allowed the option to remove their Materia prior to their usage. You can equip weapons/armour that have reduced slots in order to remove materia. (If you have an all-cure set up, and you remove the cure, but not the all, that's bad luck.)

MEDIUM: Easy mode rules, but you can't change weapons/armour to remove materia. Any new items must have an equal or greater number of materia slots than the item you removed. Should you recruit someone with pre-equipped Materia, it must stay with them in its respective slot.

HARD: Same as Medium, but you must take the Wutai side-quest, and stick with the results. On the other difficulties, you are allowed a reset at this point.

[probablyoliver]

They both sound wonderful, but i think i'm gonna go with the Cheapskate one, as I always wanted to play around with the gil in a FF, as with the exception of XII, it's all way too easy to come by.

[Avenged Probably]

My god, when I first played through FF XII, I got to King Raithwalls Tomb and got totally owned by the Garuda. I was only around level 10/11 although at the time I didn't realise how bad it was... oh yeah and I didn't get the Eskir berries (sp?) either.

This time around, level 15. Eskir Berries BAM. Simple chain of 3 quickenings BAM. 3 rounds of physical attacks and its over. How simple, now I go on to the oh so dreaded Demon Wall I hear everyone talk about.

[probablyoliver]

Yeah, that's the good (bad?) thing about XII. If you're a level behind, it's impossible. If you're a level ahead, it's far too easy.

[Katsuya]

I got FFIII for the DS a couple of days ago, and holy crap if you don't have the Antarctic Wind, that first boss fucks you over. Ugh...

[probablyoliver]

I forgot how much I loved the first hour or so of FFVII. Honestly, if the game began and ended in Midgar V1, I wouldn't be disapointed. Terks, Rufus, Red XIII, Don Coreno, Air Buster and the entire Shinra HQ = love.

[DMN in the House]

You mean people actually use quickenings in XII? I thought they were only for extra MP

[Avenged Probably]

Seriously, If you're at the right level all you need is one or two quickening chains (use three characters, then switch to the other three) on a boss and it nails almost all their health. Well in my experience of where I'm upto (not really that far) but I did dispatch the second Demon Wall with ease. Considering goign back and nailing the first one for a little mroe of a challenge and some supposed goodie I can get ahold of.

[DMN in the House]

I don't use quickenings anymore. I can fuck things up just fine with weapons.

[Cadet Ember McLain]

I don't use quickenings anymore. I can fuck things up just fine with weapons.

Well, there are some Elementals roaming around... pick a fight with them

[probablyoliver]

Elementals are fucking easy. Go pick a fight with an Entite. Now they're hardcore.

[DMN in the House]

I was just about to say. I fuck up Elementals, not problem. Entites, nah, I'm good.

[probablyoliver]

The rare entite's in Subterra are evil, I swear. There's no sodding way to fucking kill them. The fact they're harder than most of the bosses makes them awesome though.