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  • Oh my GOD, I will conquer Final Fantasy 8 or I will die trying...

  • Because playing them is not enough, we have to bitch about them daily, too. We had a Gameplay forum, but it got replaced by GameFAQs.
Because playing them is not enough, we have to bitch about them daily, too. We had a Gameplay forum, but it got replaced by GameFAQs.
 #26932  by Lee
 Fri Dec 28, 2001 10:16 am
<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Every time I try to play through FF 8 I end up quitting because of how much I hate it, and every time I regret it because I think I need to conquer it, mostly because I actually went out and <i>bought</i> the damn game. Previously, the furthest I had managed to get was a very small ways into Disc 2. This time, though...this time, I think I can make it happen. I'm actually on Disc 4. I spent an insane amount of time leveling up characters in the beginning of the game (an action which I now realize was worthless due to the way the entire junction system works; my guys would be so much more powerful had I concentrated on <i>decreasing</i> the amount of experience they got while <i>increasing</i> the AP my GFs got), so they're quasi-powerful, if nothing else. And you know what I've discovered about this game?

I fucking hate it more than I ever have before.

Everything about this game is crap. It's horrible. I wish it was alive so I could drive a knife into its skull. I hate the characters, I hate the story, I abso-fucking-lutely hate the junction system, but I <i>will</i> conquer it. I am not going to be this game's bitch. It won't make me quit. I will make Final Fantasy 8 <i>my</i> bitch. And I'm not <i>even</i> going to be friendly with it. I will bend FF 8 over and do it dry. Then I'll take a baseball bat to it and beat some pretty onto its ugly face.

God damn it, I'm going to play it again, now. I want to kill something.

--Lee S.</div>

 #26934  by Kupek
 Fri Dec 28, 2001 11:37 am
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I really like the game, but seriously, why are you playing it? Playing a game - a GAME, for crissakes - that you don't like is absurd.</div>

 #26935  by S.Cody2
 Fri Dec 28, 2001 11:45 am
<div style='font: 10pt "Times New Roman"; text-align: left; '>Kupek, you just don't get it. It's Moby Dick to Lee's Ahab.</div>

 #26938  by New and Improved Zeus
 Fri Dec 28, 2001 12:56 pm
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Now let's see you put that same level of determination into beating Ghosts and Goblins for the NES. That's the hardest game I've ever played. Beat the SNES one but got my ass handed to me with the NES one</div>

 #26940  by Kupek
 Fri Dec 28, 2001 2:12 pm
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Probably not the best argument, seeing as how Ahab was dangerously obsessed to the point of ruling his life, and that's certainly not something one wants to emulate.</div>

 #26942  by Gone to Shakers
 Fri Dec 28, 2001 3:01 pm
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Damn, I remember that game, I don't think I ever did see far past the first level, did you ever finish it?</div>

 #26943  by Lee
 Fri Dec 28, 2001 5:32 pm
<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>If it's about as much fun as beating all 100 levels of Bubble Bobble only to discover that you have to just START OVER due to a lack of a fucking ENDING...then I'd rather not. I've had my fair share of annoying NES games.</div>

 #26944  by Lee
 Fri Dec 28, 2001 5:36 pm
<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>I'm of the opinion that once I've exacted my vengeance on this game, my life will be nothing but fields of chocolate and topless chicks with big knockers.</div>

 #26945  by Eric
 Fri Dec 28, 2001 6:15 pm
<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>God can I relate. I made it disc 3 the first time, disc 2 the 2nd time, and the end of disc 2 the 3rd time. I hate FF8. The slow pace, the stinking garden, the emotionless characters, the battle system, the card battles, the junction system. I hate that fucking game!</div>

 #26949  by Ganath
 Sat Dec 29, 2001 12:49 am
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Why don't you just kick yourself in the fucking balls. Not only is it quicker, but it's also a little less painful.</div>

 #26957  by New and Improved Zeus
 Sat Dec 29, 2001 3:36 am
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Ah, so you didn't find the secret door on level 99, huh? There is an ending, you just have to get that door on 99 or you start over. Ghosts and Goblins is just HAAAAAAAAARD. I got to the third level before I used a code to beat it</div>

 #26959  by S.Cody2
 Sat Dec 29, 2001 10:02 am
<div style='font: 10pt "Times New Roman"; text-align: left; '>Read the original post. Why are you so needlessly argumentative?</div>
 #26983  by S.Cody2
 Sun Dec 30, 2001 9:43 am
<div style='font: 10pt "Times New Roman"; text-align: left; '>"Great kegger, huh?"

"Well, the principle definition of the word 'great' according to Merriam-Webster dictionaries is an object or occasion of exceptionally voluminous size. Seeing as this party is relegated to just one house, I feel the label of 'great' is misleading and insufficient. Now if you'll excuse me, I must now astrally depart to experience 'Boy Sets Fire' in my own personal universe."</div>
 #26985  by Kupek
 Sun Dec 30, 2001 12:43 pm
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I have fun at parties. See, this is a place where I go to talk about things. So I do that. At a party, I go to have fun. So I do that.

Not that that's relevant to this; why try to turn it into a personal attack? Seriously, do you want people to not to talk to you?

No, I didn't know the intentions of your simile—how could I? There's not much room for interpertation in all of those twelve words.</div>

 #26987  by G-man Joe
 Mon Dec 31, 2001 1:19 am
<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS"; text-align: left; '>Hehe......you missed out on the little flame war he and I had. At the end, he called me gay. Everyone was amused.</div>

 #26988  by G-man Joe
 Mon Dec 31, 2001 1:21 am
<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS"; text-align: left; '>He hate me. =8^)</div>

 #27022  by S.Cody2
 Thu Jan 03, 2002 4:35 pm
<div style='font: 10pt "Times New Roman"; text-align: left; '>Wow, backbiting in a conversation you're not in regarding what should be a long-forgotten incident. I was ribbing Kupek. What's your story?</div>
 #27023  by S.Cody2
 Thu Jan 03, 2002 4:38 pm
<div style='font: 10pt "Times New Roman"; text-align: left; '>Seems like you do a lot less assuming when conversing with me than with other people. It seems almost...intentional. What exactly is your deal, man? You seem to be able to have normally rolling coversations with other people. Where does that ability go?</div>

 #27025  by Kupek
 Thu Jan 03, 2002 4:47 pm
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I guess I don't know your quirks? Got me.</div>
 #27026  by S.Cody2
 Thu Jan 03, 2002 4:57 pm
<div style='font: 10pt "Times New Roman"; text-align: left; '>If you had, you're certainly not as bright as you've lead me to believe with exemplary manner in the last five years. Or you're just subconsciously jerking around because of G-Man's malevolent mind control.

Come to think of it, you did ask me "When did I stop being civil?" a while ago - What exactly did you mean by that?</div>
 #27028  by Kupek
 Thu Jan 03, 2002 6:58 pm
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>As for the civil question I made a while ago, it seemed to me that you were consistently acting like a jerk, and I had just recently noticed it. It's been long enough, though, that I can't remember what in particular you said, and I haven't seen you say enough since coming back to know if that's still my perception.</div>

 #27031  by Blotus
 Thu Jan 03, 2002 9:17 pm
<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>Cody's always goes out of his way to be a jerk, that's his thing. We're just used to it by now.</div>

 #27037  by Ganath
 Fri Jan 04, 2002 3:59 am
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>He's just like that. Never take his insults seriously, and you'll be good. :)</div>

 #27073  by S.Cody2
 Sun Jan 06, 2002 12:50 pm
<div style='font: 10pt "Times New Roman"; text-align: left; '>Yeah, I've got to retire the old bit. I'm thinking of going out of my way to kill you all, now!</div>