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Gwent, I guess. Kinda makes me want to go back and try that card game in FFVIII. I probably won't though.

>>14097369

Yea, until that psyches goalie gets up into the thirties with his blk stat.

>that one minigame that gives you a stupidly overpowered weapon or skill early on if you spend enough time at it

>always do it right as it's available

What's her name, /v/?

Hell yeah

I really hated blitzball at first but holy shit was i consumed on it by the endgame, i really wanted Square to make a full game on blitzball but well that is now a dead dream.

>>14098217

I really hated how by the time I got to the end of ff9 on my playthrough around 2009 I was missing one ability on a piece of equipment that could no longer be obtained on disc 4. It's my fault but I didn't become invested into the ability system until too late.

I enjoyed tetra master more than I probably should have.

>>14098229

I hated it as a kid and was told it was actually really good up to the point where I am now playing it, I was skeptical at first, and the first few losses felt like a grind but once I started winning it came together and I really enjoyed it.

More games in general need minigames, not necessarily of the depth of blitzball, but in short yoko taro was right when he said every RPG needs a fishing minigame.

>>14098217

I can't even remember the last time I played the game without touching it. It must've been back when my TV was so bad I couldn't even see the chocobo tracks so I never knew it existed.

>>14097424

Can't the Jecht shot remove the goalie too?

>>14098330

They actually made this its own game but it was shut down and probably shit anyway since it was for phones.

>>14097751

>FF8

>get squall's last weapon on first disc before even leaving balamb garden

>by playing cards

>trivialize the rest of the game

Triple Triad was fun as fuck though

FF8 Triple Triad

I'm a sucker for card games

Also, what is it with Final Fantasy and mini-games that are better than the actual game?

>>14098368

It's because the minigames are usually designed in a vacuum without scenario writers, animators and artists coming and fucking it all up. Stuff like inconsistent animations, arbitrary story related constraints and level design always hold back each game's main combat systems.

>>14098352

>Before even leaving Balamb Garden

Well that's bullshit, because there's no weapon store in the Garden.

Any box pushing puzzle. Tales of the Abyss especially because the rest of that game was a piece of shit.

The card game in Cold Steel was better than the actual game too, I haven't actually moved past the train yet.

>>14097369

>play FFT as my first Final Fantasy game

>holy fuck everything is so good

>decide to play FFX

>what the fuck is this shit, everything is so goofy

this is so polarizing

>>14098508

Well just cut the word 'garden' from there

>>14098352

>Triple Triad

My nigga.

>>14098624

I thought you needed a certain item from a <Lv28 monster that was only encounterable around Deling city?

>>14097369

I found it to be piss easy after the championship match, when you can replace almost everyone with actually good players.

>>14098265

Jecht shot removes 2 blockers. I think there was a jecht shot 2 that also removed the goalie but I never got it. For getting it on my save i would need to:

>Search the game world for the level 1 nobody that has never played blitzball but happens to know the ONE last prequisite skill Teedus needs to learn PS2 (meme status shot S, not even X)

>Hire him then level him up to 20ish so it would become remotely desirable to other teams

>Fire him then reset until some random team hires him

>Play against that team to have Teedus copy the skill

>win the Cup to get JS2 as trophy

I just rolled with JS1 plus the slippery shot skill that lowered the effective BLK of the goalie by some %, never really had any issue. If I wanted JS2 in my lifetime I'd have to cheese dozens of matches 1-0 by baiting everyone into my field, passing Teedus sitting by the goalie, JS, park bus. It would still take a lot of time and would be extremely boring.

>>14102416

The plot championship match with the Goers is doable, it certainly is almost impossible for a new player but once you figure out the mechanics at play and how to game them it becomes merely difficult. I've done it a couple of times.

>>14098252

>I enjoyed tetra master more than I probably should have.

>Not triple triad

Do you even convert your cards?

>>14098705

I double checked, you really can't get the Lionheart that early, but it's still possible to get it on disc 1 which is still early as fuck

This thread is just reminding me that FF used to have fun mini-games before the games went completely to shit.

I don't know if any would be my favorite but Mario RPG may have had the most mini-game content. Favorite might be Overworld Zero from SS2.

Not really mini-games, but Lufia II had a ton of puzzles. And the Ancient cave was like a separate game in itself

>>14097369

is FFX enjoyable despite having such a gay main-character?

>>14103882

And the one good minigame the series has had in over a decade was fucking paid DLC.

>>14105829

that was localization fault

>>14105832

what was the original dialogue then?

>>14105844

Takes five seconds to find nigga.

>>14102930

I never played ff8

>>14105170

its surprisingly fun, the combat is good and a lot of the other characters are great. lulu is excellent and tidus can have some moments of actually being pretty funny like telling lulu "he's her type"

>>14105170

Tidus actually develops as a character and his daddy issues are actually interesting

>>14105929

Between his design, and how bad he is at the start, it isn't surprising that people hate him so much. First impressions are important.

>>14098330

I liked the snowboarding game more.

>>14105170

He gets better later in the game. Imagine a soccer star getting sent back into the middle ages. He would probably be out of place and a bit of a whiner at the start, but he would slowly win everyone over with his athleticism and good nature assuming they don't burn him for being a warlock because there happened to be a crop failure that year. That's Tidus in a nutshell.

>>14105170

No. It's linear poorly written trash.

>>14103882

Too bad FFX is completely shit.