Ugh. Is there a "dummies" guide to the FFXIII-2 pokemon monster training?
I'd really rather just find a combo of monsters I can pick up pretty quickly and carry through the whole story. I'm having a hard enough time wrapping my head around the crystarium as it is.
Ugh. Is there a "dummies" guide to the FFXIII-2 pokemon monster training?
I'd really rather just find a combo of monsters I can pick up pretty quickly and carry through the whole story. I'm having a hard enough time wrapping my head around the crystarium as it is.
Chocobos, Flanitor, Dragoons, those dancing creatures, Behemoths.
But really, Chichu - with Improved Moogle Throw active, toss Mog into a patch of red flowers in the Archlyte Steppe. Also toss Mog into the green globe thing in Academia 4XX (I think, the good future).
Ugh. Is there a "dummies" guide to the FFXIII-2 pokemon monster training?
I'd really rather just find a combo of monsters I can pick up pretty quickly and carry through the whole story. I'm having a hard enough time wrapping my head around the crystarium as it is.
As somebody who recently did a platinum trophy run of this game, let me tell you, if all you're trying to do is beat the game and not 100% it, do not worry AT ALL about what monsters you recruit. Just get them as you get them, use whichever ones you think are funny looking or cool, put hats on them, and beat the game. There's not much challenge at all in the main storyline of the game.
If you're interested in min/maxing monsters, it requires getting ones you want, and then levelling up feeder monsters and feeding them to the main one in a certain order to utterly make the best monsters you can. There are lots of good gamefaqs guides that will lead you through this if you're interested in doing so.
I can tell you if you are interested, it's not as much of an investment as it sounds, because by end game you will have fragment skills that make you capture more, find rare monsters if you need easily, get more materials for levelling up your monsters, etc. Plus when you're just levelling the feeder monsters you can just use whatever is the cheapest crap you can get at the late game vendor to get them to X level before you use them up. And buying the stuff is easy because late game there's a rare monster you can farm easily for basically unlimited money. Raspatil I think is the name.
I did all the fights with different combinations of colored chocobo. There are certain monsters that make things easier (Chichuu, that goblin chieftain) but its all doable with whatever. Aww yiss Silver Chocobo.
IMO FFIX is the most underrated entry in the series, and used to be that way for me too. The first time I played it I didn't even finish it. Just wasn't in the mood for that kind of game I guess. But since then, i've 100%ed it more than once and my only complaint at all is how slow it is loading in to the battles, and that's not enough to make me not love it.
I love the characters, enjoy the story, love the FF6 throwback style of learning abilities, and it has some very good and rewarding optional content with chocobo hot and cold, Ozma, etc.
I didn't like it when it came out because it wasn't cool like Final Fantasy VII and VIII and also I was a child.
Replayed it this summer and had a blast. There are some parts where you have a lame party for a while, and Freya/Steiner take way too long of a break in the middle, but overall, I found it really fun.
FF IX is a collector's wet dream and it was intentionally set up that way for mega fans.
I love that bosses have two steals and that you can get both of them and that a good deal of their steals are once per game things. I love how the game knows which chests you've collected, and if the card game didn't suck it's emphasis on collecting was commendable. I could see why people wouldn't like it.
Tidus is sort of annoyingly simple mechanically though, but then again so is everyone in FF IX. It's again an entirely intentional design feature though and is a throwback to FF IV in particular.
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I loved FFIX when it first came out and I wouldn't even say I was old school.
6 was the only pre-VII FF I'd played at that point.
You mean delay buster*12873298345 til the end of the game, right? Because that's all I ever used. Moved people into his grid to get it too! Beat every boss, did everything, just spam delay buster all day erryday.
Did he have anything else? I don't even remember and this is me being completely serious here. Delay attack/Delay Buster were just literally the only thing you needed in that game. Maybe that and Rikku's mix thing.
The first continent of IX is one of my favorite FF areas/sequences ever. Unfortunately, the rest of the game is largely bland and boring. It's like they used all of their creative juices on that one continent, were spent, and said, "Fuck it... brown and barren from here on out."
But man, I the Black Waltzes.
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That's the second time in two days I've confused Tidus and Zidane. I get that those two games came out on top of one another and both are blond skirt chasers who have their own existential angst issues but I need to remember:
Tidus is the star player of the Zanarkand Abes, looks like Meg Ryan, does not have a tail.
Zidane is a thief with a tail. Does not look like Meg Ryan.
You mean delay buster*12873298345 til the end of the game, right? Because that's all I ever used. Moved people into his grid to get it too! Beat every boss, did everything, just spam delay buster all day erryday.
Did he have anything else? I don't even remember and this is me being completely serious here. Delay attack/Delay Buster were just literally the only thing you needed in that game. Maybe that and Rikku's mix thing.
Sounds like someone never made it to Quick Hit! :P
IMO FFIX is the most underrated entry in the series, and used to be that way for me too. The first time I played it I didn't even finish it. Just wasn't in the mood for that kind of game I guess. But since then, i've 100%ed it more than once and my only complaint at all is how slow it is loading in to the battles, and that's not enough to make me not love it.
I can't see how anybody could think FFIX is underrated. The characters are all either dull(Amarant) or actively annoying(Steiner). The battles themselves are slow, the battle loading is slow, the skill acquisition is slow, and the story is boring. All the throwback references to older games just remind me that I could be playing better games instead of wasting my time with FFIX.
Plenty of people here love IX. And plenty love V for the humor and the awesome job system. There wouldn't be a job fiesta every year if V wasn't a good game.
FF9 is a fun adventure that oozes character and never stops being charming and optimistic despite how grim things get. You're not a soldier, or a mercenary, or a freedom fighter, or a weapon, or a sacrifice. You're a thief, a princess, her bumbling knight protector and an assorted motley crew. It often embraces being silly, which is a welcome change of pace to how self-serious all the other mainline games save V are.
It's a game that's packed to the brim with mini-games, quests, secrets and treasures. There's not been another FF with environments as rewarding to explore as Alexandria, Lindblum and Treno. There's not been an FF world with so much character and such a well developed supporting cast as experienced through the ATEs. It's a game about making the most of the limited time you're given, and explores that theme more artfully than most of the other FFs.
...Hm. I guess I really like FF9? Didn't realise 'til I typed that out, haha.
So now that old threads are back, is there a way to make a 360 controller work with the steam VII? I'm having issues. What if anything should I do to VII to play? I don't care about cloud saves.
So now that old threads are back, is there a way to make a 360 controller work with the steam VII? I'm having issues. What if anything should I do to VII to play? I don't care about cloud saves.
I've not tried it, but I imagine using Joy2Key or XPadder to map keys to the controller buttons would probably work.
IMO FFIX is the most underrated entry in the series, and used to be that way for me too. The first time I played it I didn't even finish it. Just wasn't in the mood for that kind of game I guess. But since then, i've 100%ed it more than once and my only complaint at all is how slow it is loading in to the battles, and that's not enough to make me not love it.
I can't see how anybody could think FFIX is underrated. The characters are all either dull(Amarant) or actively annoying(Steiner). The battles themselves are slow, the battle loading is slow, the skill acquisition is slow, and the story is boring. All the throwback references to older games just remind me that I could be playing better games instead of wasting my time with FFIX.
I found most everything about FF9 to be incredibly charming, from the characters to the story. The skill acquisition is not slow to me. It takes some grinding to have everybody learn every ability from every piece of gear they can learn, but that's just old school JRPG design. Plus, there are a lot of bosses in the game where you pretty much won't win unless you equip the right status protections and what not, which is sometimes lacking in overly easy FF installments.
Everybody likes different things, so definitely not saying your opinion is wrong, but it's definitely not one I share.
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I'd really rather just find a combo of monsters I can pick up pretty quickly and carry through the whole story. I'm having a hard enough time wrapping my head around the crystarium as it is.
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Also those sprites for the smartphone FFVI look like so off to me.
Chocobos, Flanitor, Dragoons, those dancing creatures, Behemoths.
But really, Chichu - with Improved Moogle Throw active, toss Mog into a patch of red flowers in the Archlyte Steppe. Also toss Mog into the green globe thing in Academia 4XX (I think, the good future).
What's it like in your world?
Let 'em eat fucking pineapples!
As somebody who recently did a platinum trophy run of this game, let me tell you, if all you're trying to do is beat the game and not 100% it, do not worry AT ALL about what monsters you recruit. Just get them as you get them, use whichever ones you think are funny looking or cool, put hats on them, and beat the game. There's not much challenge at all in the main storyline of the game.
If you're interested in min/maxing monsters, it requires getting ones you want, and then levelling up feeder monsters and feeding them to the main one in a certain order to utterly make the best monsters you can. There are lots of good gamefaqs guides that will lead you through this if you're interested in doing so.
I can tell you if you are interested, it's not as much of an investment as it sounds, because by end game you will have fragment skills that make you capture more, find rare monsters if you need easily, get more materials for levelling up your monsters, etc. Plus when you're just levelling the feeder monsters you can just use whatever is the cheapest crap you can get at the late game vendor to get them to X level before you use them up. And buying the stuff is easy because late game there's a rare monster you can farm easily for basically unlimited money. Raspatil I think is the name.
I must have forgotten how to read roman numerals because you can't have just said what my brain is telling me you said.
CAN'T HAVE!
Seriously. I just played IX. Even if you hate the characters and leveling system and music, it's still a pretty playable, straightforward game.
II just exists to mess with you. Oh wow ANOTHER empty room, huh.
I love the characters, enjoy the story, love the FF6 throwback style of learning abilities, and it has some very good and rewarding optional content with chocobo hot and cold, Ozma, etc.
Replayed it this summer and had a blast. There are some parts where you have a lame party for a while, and Freya/Steiner take way too long of a break in the middle, but overall, I found it really fun.
Seriously, Zidane's give no fucks attitude is pretty great.
They really stepped it up in X though. Tidus has a great set of abilities.
I love that bosses have two steals and that you can get both of them and that a good deal of their steals are once per game things. I love how the game knows which chests you've collected, and if the card game didn't suck it's emphasis on collecting was commendable. I could see why people wouldn't like it.
Tidus is sort of annoyingly simple mechanically though, but then again so is everyone in FF IX. It's again an entirely intentional design feature though and is a throwback to FF IV in particular.
6 was the only pre-VII FF I'd played at that point.
You mean delay buster*12873298345 til the end of the game, right? Because that's all I ever used. Moved people into his grid to get it too! Beat every boss, did everything, just spam delay buster all day erryday.
Did he have anything else? I don't even remember and this is me being completely serious here. Delay attack/Delay Buster were just literally the only thing you needed in that game. Maybe that and Rikku's mix thing.
But man, I
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Tidus is the star player of the Zanarkand Abes, looks like Meg Ryan, does not have a tail.
Zidane is a thief with a tail. Does not look like Meg Ryan.
Sounds like someone never made it to Quick Hit! :P
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Hence one of the reasons it is terrible.
I can't see how anybody could think FFIX is underrated. The characters are all either dull(Amarant) or actively annoying(Steiner). The battles themselves are slow, the battle loading is slow, the skill acquisition is slow, and the story is boring. All the throwback references to older games just remind me that I could be playing better games instead of wasting my time with FFIX.
Plenty of people here love IX. And plenty love V for the humor and the awesome job system. There wouldn't be a job fiesta every year if V wasn't a good game.
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Up yours Wind Dragon.
It's a game that's packed to the brim with mini-games, quests, secrets and treasures. There's not been another FF with environments as rewarding to explore as Alexandria, Lindblum and Treno. There's not been an FF world with so much character and such a well developed supporting cast as experienced through the ATEs. It's a game about making the most of the limited time you're given, and explores that theme more artfully than most of the other FFs.
...Hm. I guess I really like FF9? Didn't realise 'til I typed that out, haha.
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It's a damn sephirot.
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I've not tried it, but I imagine using Joy2Key or XPadder to map keys to the controller buttons would probably work.
I found most everything about FF9 to be incredibly charming, from the characters to the story. The skill acquisition is not slow to me. It takes some grinding to have everybody learn every ability from every piece of gear they can learn, but that's just old school JRPG design. Plus, there are a lot of bosses in the game where you pretty much won't win unless you equip the right status protections and what not, which is sometimes lacking in overly easy FF installments.
Everybody likes different things, so definitely not saying your opinion is wrong, but it's definitely not one I share.