Final Fantasy 8 - day 4

[@ThatGumYouLiked]

VOD Goblin reporting for duty

[@RussSchauermann]

VOD Goblin here, just wanted to say I enjoy your vods, and that 2:37:30 is why I love FF8 xD

[@JessVODricorn]

ITS SO WILD LMAO

[@Loroths]

I have never understood the widespread hate over the junction system. 12 year old me without any help, guides, Internet or anything picked it up quickly and loved it. I also figured out this dungeon on my own, no need for rage quitting. It still surprises me adults have trouble with it. Of course, I'm very glad you picked it up quickly and enjoy it just as I do. Thay makes you awesome.

[@Codermiguel]

Agreed, I feel like the junctioning system is perfect for people who love exploring every square inch of a game.

[@Codermiguel]

Doing the Tomb in less than 3 hours first time blind without buying no hints is actual gaming! Very impressive! I spent days on that puzzle.

[@saulmadrid9950]

I've only had paella once, and it was prepared with shrimp. So good.

[@TheOneFaust]

the tomb is giving Gargan Roo flashbacks but amazing job figuring out the gimmick in the tomb! lol

[@TheOneFaust]

also i have no clue how you got rising sun for Rinoa so early, maybe a glitch? cause im pretty sure its a disc 3 weapon.

[@JessVODricorn]

wait REALLY????? that's so weird

[@TheOneFaust]

@@JessVODricorn it's not game breaking or anything but I can't find another instance of it happening.

[@TheOneFaust]

I'm just stupid. After asking the discord turns out if you have the materials you can make the weapon, I thought the magazine unlocked the weapon, but the magazine just tells you the ingredients. Sorry if that's too much of a backseat.

[@loudnoises213]

draw draw draw, junction junction junction, explore explore explore, save save save, cards cards cards, not necessarily in that order. Also I love watching people trying to figure out the Tomb.

[@Rottypops]

"Enemies scale with Level" Is a 2-part system designed to #1 keep every enemy caught up to the player's "level" and #2 coerce the player into adopting/exploiting the Junction system. Gaining levels too fast without stocking up magic to build your junctions will make the game much harder because there's an assumption of "Since you're level 40, you can handle tier 40 enemies" as well as the assumption that you've had lvl 40's worth of time to have learned/stocked the junction system. So leveling your character ahead of your understanding of Junctions will make the game harder. However the reverse is just as true. Understanding/exploiting the Junction system ahead of your level makes you more powerful than enemies. Stocking 100 Protects as early as you can and junctioning them to your Def stat makes you as tough as brick wall incredibly early in the game. So when people are saying to not level, what they're really saying is you're not ready yet to be gaining more levels.

[@CrowsofAcheron]

This is why I hate all the RPG mechanics of FF8. I love the characters, setting, and overall story of FF8. But the junction system, level scaling, and insentive structure of the game is awful.

[@Rottypops]

@CrowsofAcheron it's literally the best part of the game what you smoking?

[@CrowsofAcheron]

@@Rottypops I would understand it's the best part if you are a challenge or speed runner and know the intricacies of the system. Here's some examples: You have summoning available from the start. It does massive AOE damage and doesn't cost anything. But guess what? Summoning lowers your seed rank, so you get less money if you summon too much (The game never tells you this.) Greater stacks of spells provide bigger stat boosts for junctioning (The game also doesn't explicitly state this). This incentivises sitting in combat and drawing max stacks which is boring. You could also refine items for magic, but this requires foreknowledge, something a beginner doesn't have. You have to get max spell stacks because... Monster level scaling. This is a terrible mechanic in whatever RPG it's implemented. It goes against the beginner's intuition that leveling up is a good thing. FF8 punishes you for leveling and not getting max spells. Again, the tutorials, for all their length, never say higher spell stack = greater stat boost. All these points means it's actually a good thing to draw max spells in combat and run, or keep Squall dead so that enemies remain weak. And to top it all off, there's no way to discard old spells from your characters' inventories. You'd think they would have added this feature in the remaster, but no. The only reason you think the system is good is because you are familiar with it. Hell, I'm familiar with it and I hate it.

[@fabledpaladin]

Proud to be a VOD Goblin! 😂

[@TheMMADE]

Time zones ruin my ability to catch a stream live but proud to be Vodgoblin deeznuts… wait..

[@adamcallaghan2135]

what up g have fun! dope content

[@anthonykay635]

At 1:53:42 you would have figured thia out soo much quicker if the background was rendered properly, whoever did this remastering.. infuriates me so much.

[@TheDoctor323LDS]

I love your FF play throughs but this was the most frustrating this I’ve ever watched 😂😂😂 over 2 hours for tomb of the unknown king is wild

[@JessVODricorn]

you are the only person who has said this to me, everyone else said i did really well LMAO are people really flying through this in less than two hours playing totally blind?? i'm an experienced jrpg gamer and puzzle gamer and it def took me a sec