[T] Final Fantasy VIII Playthough Diary

[Aselia]

Welcome to the Final Fantasy VIII Playthrough Diary, this is for those playing through FFVIII
This thread is for members to chronicle their progress through Final Fantasy X
Make sure you mark your first post with the date and time you started as well as any personal challenges such as a solo playthrough or a No Level Up Challenge. Subsequent posts will need the in-game time from where you loaded. Please mark spoilers with spoiler tags accordingly. Please post only once per day. Any changes you need to make, simply edit them in. The following example is from the general gaming thread, but you get the idea.

4/27/10, 1:01 AM.

I started the final boss battles. The First form of

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the Ultimate Being is a baby...thing

that was relatively easy, requiring that I simply shoot it. My grenade launcher has a 7 shot rate of fire and the ability to enter 2 commands at once so I could easily unload 14 shots per turn. The boss uses an attack that is a ring of energy that does about 50 damage per hit, so I did have to watch my health, after about 5 turns or so the first form went down.


any subsquent posts should read as follows:

Game Time: 10:15:22

The second form of

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The Ultimate Being is this larger, flying thing

, and it was a lot harder. I started the battle off using the Liberate Parasite ability, which did 7 hits of 236 Damage each. This caused the boss to split into two, a flying half and a scorpion-like half. The bird half went down in one shot, but the scorpion half was a lot harder. It runs around a lot and mainly only stops to do a laser attack that circles, so you have to run around it to avoid it. This attack can vary in damage depending on how far away from it you are, the farther away the less damage, however there is more of a chance of you getting hit. It took a good bit to kill this enemy, and I used up most of my healing items battling it, as I was trying to conserve PE for the third form. It finally went down after about 20 turns.


I will also be setting up a discussion thread to keep this thread neat.


The playthrough of Final Fantasy VIII has officially begun!


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[TheMixedHerb]

14/5/10. 7.21 PM. (Start)


-Low Level Game-


Started new game, watched the opening FMV.
I really need an excuse to start this one again anyway, and i'm playing on my PSP.
Named Squall...Squall since I hate changing the names.


Quistis pretends she knows best as usual. The whore. HE CAN FINISH HIS OWN SENTENCES.
Not going to be bothering with Triple Triad this run, so cba, had enough of that last time I played.
*shuns Selphie* time, stop taking too long. *charges ahead*.
Quistis needs to shut up. ¬_¬


Picked 10 minutes on the thingymabob – on 7:44 by the time I got to Ifrit, 5:20 by the time I finished.


Boss Battle:

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Ifrit

Attack, attack attack, his first hit was a critical – then he got Squall down to 10HPon the third (after fire), I Renzokuken'd. End of.


Went back to Balamb Garden and saved, bloody had to run into the save point THREE TIMES before “Save” would be available on the menu. ¬_¬
That's if for tonight, though. (I think. )


Game Time: 0:35
Character Levels: Squall: 7, Quistis: 8.

 

[Marcus]

FFVIII: 101% completion game

Game Started, Opening Movie Watched
Quickly Skipping the usuall boring chit chat. Kept Squalls name default cause i can continued with the boring chit chat, untill i could get to my desk, GAINED QUEZACOTL AND SHIVA. proceeded out of class room and run into selphie, offeres a tour of balamb but before accesing the elevator/lift gained 7 cards from guy standing in the hallway.

entered the lift to the groundfloor and to the garden directory, giving the selphe the grand tour of balamb, finished that headed out to the front gate and skipped the boring tutorial qith quistis, left balamb and headed up towards the mountains to battle glacial eyes, drew 200 Cures and Blizzards from them and junctioned them to my available slots, then went to the "cave of wonders" chose 10 minutes to gain Ifrit, ran from any encounters in the cave untill arriving at ifrit, battled him untill i could get within one blow of killing him, waited till the timer reached 20 seconds ( i done this to get 100 points on my seed rank), i won the battle gaining ifrit as a GF and His card

Left the cave and returned to Balamb, got a short briefing on the SeeD exam and headed for the town of balamb via car, arriving at balamb i took the "vessel" to dollet, during my time on the vessel i was briefed on my mission and listened to Zell and seifer argue like a married couple. Watched the dollet FMV and landed on the beach, junctiong my GFs to my party.

Squall - Ifrit
Zell - Quezacotl
Seifer - Shiva

also set the GFs abilities to learn refine Abilities. i then continued on my path to the city center battling Galabadian soldiers and draeing 300 Fire and Thunder. arrived at the central square listened to another argument with the potential gay couple, and then headed to dollets Comunication Tower, defeating anacondaur and seifer getting the kill shot (too my displeasing ) arrived at the summit and lost seifer to selphie, WALKED instead of jumping of the cliff so i dont lose any rank points, met up with selphie who then joined my party and gained all of seifers magic and junctions.

proceeded into dolets comms tower and done roughly 30 minutes or traing to gain some GF abilities and a few levels. battled Biggs and Wedge and anhilated them, then battled giant bird looking thing and drew siren from him before i died, reset the game and repeated the process but defeating him this time.

enter another scene where seifer annoys wedge then get the withdraw order and proceed doen the tower. noticing wedge oreders something to kill us. anyway left the tower to discover a robotic spider which decended upon me, battled it taking it down and running like a coward, once realising it aint destroyed i continued to run throughout dollet preforming the necessary actions so that od didnt battle it again or the dog didnt die. arrived back on the boat and returned to balamb intact.

i left balamb and returned to garden. arriving in garden, zell and selphie deprat leaving me to venture up into the garden, have brief talk with Xu and Quistis, the Seifer and Xu, head up to Level 2 to wait to see if i have become a SeeD...... I failed. imagine if you could fail it would be devastating. anyways recieve my certificate from Cod and proceed to leave but i get seifers card and the batlle meter from cid beofre leaving.

Have my seed party, meet rinoa who teached me to dance.... sort of, then proceed to have a long a tiresome conversation with quistis who tells me to head to the training Center, get changed head to the center and run like a chicken incase a battle T-Rex, yet another crappy talk qith quistis after that i leave and pray i dont fight a t rex, instead i battle a granado and his minions as a boss fight, defeat it, meet another women who knows me but i dont know her. she leaves, the we leave and i go to bed.

Knock Knock Knock, "its our first seed mission meet at front gate" i do just that and get briefed on my mission, which is to head to timber and assist the forest owls. Cid gives me the magical lamp and tells me its not to be used uintill dtrong enough, i leave garden and save my game, and ignore cids warning and battle Diablos, this took me a while but casting demi on iy helped me alot and i managed to defeat it, gaining diablos card, and summon, i re enterd gardem and battle dthe running kid for his Mini Mog card and the Trepie #1 for quistis card, gaining these i head to balamb to get the Zell Card. once acquired i headed out to grind Ap from fastiloca,lons untill i had all abilities and some Junctions learned, i renter balamb and battle the queen of cards to change the trade rule from one too either all or diff, the proceed with cards.

this is where i am at now, i am playing cards to gain some high level magic at the beginning of the game to make life easier for later on in the game, i am following a guide on youtube by a guy name cyric1983 i believe, anyway this was quite a long entry and i assure that my next entries will not be as long.

Total Game Time: 15 hours 3 minutes
Squall Level 14
Zell Level 14
Selphie Level 13
Quistis Level 9

 

[TheMixedHerb]

Game Time: 0:35


The amount of times i've played this game is astronomical...
FUCK OFF TUTORIALS.
<_<
I would have gone for the full marks in the SeeD exam, but there's really no point in doing so tbh, so i'll just be doing that bit 'normally'.


I think The Landing has got to be one of the best pieces of music on this game, it's just awesome.
The story feels like it's dragging on though. ¬_¬


Saved at Dollet, finishing for now, I dunno if i'll carry on for a bit, I just don't feel like it atm.
I'll be alright when the game gets in a bit. xDD


Game Time: 53
Character Levels: Squall: 7, Quistis: 8. Zell : 8, Seifer:9

 

[Marcus]

Finally finished farming cards, and using cod mod and othe abilities used i turned them in to items and then advanced magic, giving each of my main party 100 od each. the magic i learned are as follows.
Fire - 100
Fira - 100
Firaga - 100
Blizzard - 100
blizzara - 100
Blizzaga - 100
Thunder - 100
Thundara - 100
Thundaga - 100
Water - 100
Demi - 100
Quake - 100
Tornado - 100
Cure - 100
Curaga - 100
Death - 100
Double - 100
Meltdown - 100
Pain - 100
Break - 100
Regen - 100
now that i have finally done that i have continued on towards timber.

total game time - 20:35

*UPDATE*
i boarded the train from balamb and proceeded en-route to timber, whilst on the train i ignored the lecture from know it all zell. and then fell asleep and appeard in the dream world as

Spoiler

Laguna, Kiros and ward

. galbadia soldiers who are in a forest battling monsters, i proceeded through the fprest and headed towards a vehicle, after a short conversation i arrive at a large city and park in the middle of an active street, i then continue to walk down the street to the hotel where i watch a pianist play, the pianist asks me to go to here room where more long conversations happen.

after the conversation i awake as squall and the party, who after a slight discussion about the dream, arrive in timber. upon arriving in timber i encounter a man who asks me a question, i respond in th eanswer giving to me by headmanster cid, then i follow the man to train station and board another train, on this train i am introduced to the forest owls a timber resistance group who are after timbers independance from the galbadian army, after another long talk i meet up with girl in the top carrige who i met earlier in the game. Rinoa is her default name, rinoa also introduces a dog named Angelo who i renamed to "The Dog" for no reason.

*UPDATE2*
okay so basically i have done all of the timber mission

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un coupled the trains and battling the fake president

i searched around timber for a bit acquiring the girl next door magazine and the timber maniacs mag from the timber maniacs building, i then headed for the TV station, saw

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seifer kidnap the real president

went on in to assist quistis. once i had done all that i heded to a resistance members house and fromthere got the train to east academy.

once at east academy a trained for a bit ion the large forest and then proceeded on into the forest beside galbadia garden, once in the forest i was sent to the dream world again as the three galbadian soldiers laguna, kiros and ward in some sort of mining facility, i done a few events there such as releasing the trapdoor and setting off explosives beofre coming to a cliff and ending the dream world.once i awoke i left the forest but the re-entered to battle grendels so i could farm dragon fangs and fins from them, after doing this i entered galbadia.

in galbadia i was told to head up to the meeting room, in the meeting room quistis informed the party that

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balamb garden will not be attacked and seifer was executed

after a brief talk squall runs off and meets fujin and raijin. from there we head outs side and are briefed on our next mission which is

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to assassinate the sorceress

, from there i headed to the train station and then headed to deling city.

in deling city i headed to general caraways mansion, at the mansion i was told i had to have my skill tested at the tomb of the unknown king, after i was giving a map, i bought a marker and then headed out of town in a rental car, once at the tomb i entered and gained the student ID number, but instead of heading back, i headed further in.

Boss Battle:

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Sacred

i beat him to a pulp and watched him run off, i then continued on my route, heading to one place to release water into the tomb and then antoher place to let down a bridge, once i had done that i headed to the center of the tomb and crossed the bridge.

Boss Battle

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Sacred & Minotaur

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Simple enough hear just used squalls limit break to lay waste to both of them after the battlle i gained the GF Brothers and the 2 GF cards. i headed back to deling city, when i arrived at caraways mansion i gave the guard the Password and proceeded in to the mansion, in the mansion i was giving a quick briefing beofre being led out to the city. general discussed the tactics that will be used to

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assassinate the sorceress whilst she was in the parade

at the end of the briefing the genral let me explore the town for a bit. ithe first thing i did was head to the weapon shop this was because; through all of my card playing i was able to acquire the necessary items needed to get nearly everyone best weapon. so on disc 1 i now have these weapons.

The Lionheart - Squall
Bismark - Irvine
Crescent wish - Selphie
Save The Queen - Quistis
Enhergeiz - Zell
Cardinal - Rinoa

I then headed to caraways mansion where the final preperations for my assignment were carried out, squall and irvine split away from the other party members as they are in charge of one task, and the others headed towards the gateway not beofre quistis argued with rinoa, at the gateway quistis runs back out saying she must apologise to rinoa so i headed back to the mansion only to be locked in,

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the parade starts

i then assume control of rinoa who heads up to meet the sorceress only to be attacked and made under her control. during the sorceress speech

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she summons two beasts who attack rinoa

back at the mansion quistis finds a secret pasage leading to the sewers, the party head down into the sewers, a short FMV shows the parade moving now, the gates squall and irvine are standing next to open aqnd they bothe run in. After climbing boxes squall and irvine find rinoa.

Boss Battle:

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Igulion

used pulse ammo and killed them in one shot

after saving rinoa we head down in to the clock tower to await for the right moment, back as quisti i made my way to the end of the sewer anc cimbed to the top of the gate tower

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activating the lever bringing the gates down trapping the sorceress inside, after a brief jittery moment irvine fires his sniper only to miss, squall heads down to face the sorceress head on, rinoa and irvine join soon after

Boss Battle

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Seifer

used squalls limit break again to make this a quick battler

Boss Battle

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Edea

once again used squalls limit break dealing deadly damage to her.

final FMV of disc one now saved my game.
total game time: 27:34

 

[Abstract Debauchery]

This is part 1 of my video playthrough of FFVIII. The game sound is off. Luckily, I can fix that, so I'm sure it will not happen again.

Also, I do mispronounce a couple of things. If you wanna nitpick about it... Go fuck yourself.

Anywho, here it is. I hope you enjoy.

PART 1:

PART 2:

Dedicated to HisAirness.

 

[Marcus]

right where was i.... AHH YESS

the dreamworld part 3, back as laguna in a room asleep, only to be woken up by a young child named

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Ellone

telling me that there is some guy at the Pub, after giving the young girl a telling off for coming across to the house alone

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this is because monsters are roaming the streets

i left the house and wen to the pub, i the pub i meet up with kiros who tells me what has been going on since the previous dream world. after this i head out of the pub with kiros who assits me in my daily duty of

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monster hunter of winhill

after this i return to the pub and have another talk with the youn girl and her mother

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Raine

i returned to my room where i go to sleep.

I return to the real world as zell, quistis, selphie and rinoa, in what seems to be a prision cell, zell was also in the dream world but as ward, after having a brief discussion with the rest of the party i realise that ward (who was a janitor in a prision) was working in this prision, a guard comes in a beats up zell and the takes rinoa away. after another discussion with the party zell uses his fists to escape and heads up a flight od stairs to reclaim the rest of the SeeD members weapons. reclaiming the weapons i headed back to the cell.

when back in the cell i give the Girls the weapons, i am interupted by Wedge and Biggs, who i then faced in a brief battle, after that i headed up stairs to meet squall, after meeting squall i headed down via the lift to the ground floor on the i went to the door only to open it and findout its full of sand, thne after hearing gunfire, i take control of zell running from galbadia soldiers, after a short scene where zell is getting beat to a pulp squll comes in and slices up the soldier, now i have to escape from the prision i done this by heading up to the top floor.

Boss Battle:

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GIM52A x2 and galbadia soldier

easy battle just used my limit breaks as i keep my party on low HP for battles. i even got to use lion heart on one of the unfortunate robots.

now was my chance to escape, running along a short bridge i am stopped in my tracks by the bridge retracting, hanging on the edge for my life i shuffled along and headed to safety, just making it, a short sequence shows me and the rest of the gang getting into vehicles, on the driving trip we pull over to discuss about the plabs galbadia have for garden,

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we see a bunch of missiles leave a missile base heading for trabia garden

we split up in to 2 groups one lead by squall and the other by selphie, selphies team head towards the missile base, in the missile base i sneak around and find away to interruot the missile attack.

boss battle

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galbadia soldiers x3 & BGHF123356789 & gambadi soldiers x 3

once again used my limit breaks mainly irvines pulse ammo killing them in 1 hit.

afte rthe battle the self destruct kicks in perhaps killing my party of 3.

back at garden all hell broke loose the garden faculty are looking for cid, for reasons i dont understand, i search each and every area of the ground level of balamb before heading upstairs to find Xu who tells me where the head master is, in the headmasters office i inform him of the galbadia missile attack and he then tels me of a secret the garden has, he gives me a key for teh MD level of the garden i head down their through the lift, once there i make my way through the MD level to the control room.

Boss Battle

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Oilboyle

Lionheart BABY!!!!! wiped the floor with this boss.... overkill perhaps but soooo worth it.

anyway finished this then watched the FMV after that saved my game in the dormitory

game time 29:59

 

[Abstract Debauchery]

Not as funny as last time. Sound is still off. I don't know what's wrong with it. I can't get my voice over mic and game sound to work at the same time.

Deal with it.

Part 3:

Part 4:

Part 5:

Part 6:

 

[Marcus]

was asleep in my dorm, woken up by Rinoa, we went out of my dorm and Headmaster Cid announced something on the tannoy, after a brief FMV we crashed into a town, i headed up to cids office where he announced that we were in FH, he asked us to head out into the city and apologise for destroying half of it, on the way out had a chat with a few people who offered to repair garden and headed for the mayors house.

before that i headed down to meet the master fisherman who i nearly killed in the FMV, after another talk he gave me the occult magazine 3, and i then proceeded to the center of the town, at the mayors house we got straight to the business of me leaving, telling him that we will leave when gardenn is functioning as a vehicle, he offered assistance we headed out, and proceeded back to garden only to be interrupted by galbadian soldiers, at the top of the city mayor dobe came and announced that he was going to try and talk to them believing that talking is better than resorting to violence, needless to say this was going to go horribly wrong so i decided to follow him, when i arrived at the area where the mayor began his negotians, he was about to be attacked, i stepped in a defeated the guards, after that i was interrupted by teh same tank thing that i had met when i was in the missile place.

Boss Battle: BGHF12345678 (Again)
no point in discussing this as i wasted it in a few hits from squall, defeating that it reversed off the cliff, and selphie, quistis and irvine all climbed up from the wreckage, thankfull that they were alright we had a brief discussion before heading back to garden, on the way to garden irvine asked if he could borrow some of the technicians to build something as well as saying that i should try and cheer selphie up, i headed to the quad and ateempted to do just that letting rvine take over shortly after. i headed up to Cids room because of an announcement made during my failure at cheering selphie up, he announced that i was now designated leader of garden much to squalls dissapointment. formt here i headed to my dorm for a rest.

meanwhile irvine had came up with an idea to build a stage using the techinicians from Fishermans Horizon, as the Garden Commitee stage in the quad was destroyrd due to the garden becoming mobile, at this point it was up to irvine to create a band of 4 members using a mixture of musical scores, i had zell play guitar, irvine play the violin, selphie play the flute and quistis tap dance, Rinoa's role was to bring Squall down to the stage for the performance.

back as squall i got up from my dorm room where i encounterd Rinoa, who asked me to accompany her out side, i agreed and headed out to FH, after another talk with irvine i went down the stairs to the mayors house where the music began, i walked off to go join rinoa where we talked about my promotion and my feelings and other random crap. After this i could return to the garden and now use it as a mobile base. selecting my party members i was giving the town of balamb as my next destination but i decided to do a few side quests first mainly the CC Group.

i went down staires to the main entrance where i found Jack and played him, then headed to the training center to battle Joker, from there i headed tot he hallway leading to the Quad to battle CC Clubs, then back to the main entrance to battle CC Diamonds at the Directory. once i done that i headed up to the 2nd floor to battle spade, then to floor 3 to battle Xu as she was CC Queen. to get battle the final CC member King i had to first talk to the gardens pilot, fromt here head down and play dr kadowaki at cards as she was the last CC King, and then head to my dorm where i was challenge by quistis who was the CC King, whilst battling the CC Group i managed to acquire a few GF cards, Carbuncle from XU (CC Queen) Gilgamesh from quistis (CC King) and CC Joker had Levithan.

after this i headed to the town of balamb which had been took over by galbadian soldiers, by telling them i had some vital information i was able toget inside Balamb, from there i headed to the hotel to speak to the Commander, but was told to seek the Captain out first, from there i headed down to the docks to speak with a soldier who mentioned that the captain caught some fish, i then headed back up to Zells house where ma Dinct was cooking the Captains Fish he had caught, i then headed back down to the docks where the sniffer dog was who then led me to the train station where the captain was, the captain then ran to the Hotel.

Boss:

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Raijin and Galbadian Soldier x2

Irvines Pulse ammo made short work of these guys

Boss

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Fujin and Raijin

drew GF pandemona from one of them and then used pulse ammo to finish them off.

now that balamb was liberated i headed back to garden and to the cockpit, selphie came up to the cockpit and asked if i would make Trabi Garden her next destination, i agreed but i decided to do more sidequests first, aswell as AP grind with cactuars at the desert area of the Esthar continent.

game time: 37:32

*UPDATE*

Finished AP grinding, all GFs acquired sofar abilities learned now im at shumi village doin the 5 stones side quest.

39:37

 

[Marcus]

looks like im the only one playing this game..... and i have been playing IX but.

from the cactuar powerpoint i headed back to garden, back at garden i headed to shumi village. at shumi village i payed 5000 gil to draw ultuima from the point then headed in to the lift, at the ground level i heade the the sculptors building, inspecting the statue the sculptor told me to head to the elders house. At the elders he spoke a bit about Laguna (who the statue is modeled after), after this discussion, he asked me to assist the sculptor.

heading bact to the sculptors house he asked me to get 5 stones for him, blue, water, shadow, life and wind. the blu stone being right beside me i got that first, then the shadow stone up on the surface where i entered, then the wnd being in the area between the lift and the elders house, ther life stone on a clff next to the elders house and the water stone at the artisans house, collecting these stones i headed back to the sculptor to finish the sidequest and then the elders to recieve my prize...... a look at his hands.

 

[Aselia]

Final Fantasy VIII Playthrough 06/20/10, 09:47 PM

Started my game of Final Fantasy VIII. Watched the BEST game opening in history
After going through the bits in the infirmary and the classroom, took Selphie to the directory, then left with Quistis stopping at the draw point near the gates... got 7 Cures


Once on the world map, Draw-whoring. Started out against some Bite Bugs, and stocked 100 scans/fires from them. Next up I got a Glacial Eye, so I stocked 100 blizzards/cures off them.
Next fight was a Caterchipillar and two Bite Bugs, killed the bugs first, then stocked up on Thunders from the Caterchipillar, and got a Spider's web from it, so Quistis now knows Ultra Waves... also, Squall leveled up! Next was another Caterchipillar. nothing much but a battle... Quistis Leveled up. ad I got a Caterchipillar card! (early note, I do NOT play Triple Triad. Card Mod FTW)

Another Bite Bug battle, both Quezacoatl and Shiva leveled up...More Bite Bugs and both Squall and Quistis level up. MORE BITE BUGS. ooh! Shiva level up! I'm actually trying to find a Thrustaevis... I'm PRETTY sure there are some of those around Balamb, unless I'm thinking of the wrong monster... I SWEAR there was a bird thing around here...oh for god's sake. MORE FUCKING BITE BUGS. At least Quezacoatl leveled the fuck up. Another Shiva level up HOLY HELL, A GLACIAL EYE! WHAT A TWIST! that fucker went down easy, and Quezacoatl leveled. Oooh Caterchipillar, and a level up for Quisty and Squall. ...OH FUCKME T-REXAUR. RUN BITCH RUN. L2R2 BITCHES ...thank god. I KNOW I would have died >.>


Fire Cavern tiiiiiiime... and I never knew that the time limit you choose affects your SeeD ranking in the end.. I always chose 40 mins. Anywhoozles, first battle, against 2 Red Bats and 2 Bombs... SHIVA TIIIIME annnnnd dead. ooh 4 AP for that, and Shiva leveled up! Now a Buel... who went down in one hit from Quistis... I got 8 EXP for that? IFRIT TIIIME. Time to pummel him with Shiva I've always loved his "THEY HAVE SHIVA!?" Annnnd he's down! Blizzard spam with Quistis ftw.and with 3:00 to spare

Junctioned Cure to Quistis's HP, Fire to her STR and Thunder to her MAG... with Blizzard as her elemental... Squall's got Fire to his STR and Cure to his HP Right now I'm doing some running around in the Cavern to get AP so all 3 GFs learn Boost

annnd Boost learned. few battles with Bombs and such and it was easy Yikes. 160 AP for Shiva to learn Elem-Atk-J? time for some AP grinding Oh look, I leave Fire Caverns and it's return of the Bite Bug Swarm. Quistis leveled up though so Squall Leveled up next battle, against a Caterchipillar! Shiva/Quezacaotl/Ifrit level up. Also, I've never understood the logic behind an enemy casting berserk on a character... it's like ...You just made me stronger... now I can kick your ass FASTER... dumbass Quistis and Shiva leveled up agaaaain Squall did too... I'mma end tonight's diary here, and pick back up tomorrow though, as I could go on ALL night with this XD


Current Playtime:1:58
Current Levels:
Quistis:13
Squall:12
Quezacoatl:7
Shiva:9
Ifrit:2

 

[Marcus]

CARD QUEST TIME ........ well sort of

ii love the ffviii card game but despise the rules used, so time to abolish rules first destination dollet. arrived there and challenged Quistis in the cockpit to set the rules to balamb, then headed into dollet and challenge the car rental girl.

"you seem to know rules unfamilliar to this region, lets play a game with both balambs rules AND ours, Fancy a game?" YES! annnd the rules: Open, Random elemental trade rule one.... FUN!!

Would You Like To Play or Quit? QUIT PLEASE!!! after doing that it came up that the open rule has spread. didn't want that so soft reset. and start again after a hell of a lot of retrys and soft resets. "the random rule was abolished from this region" SWEEEEEEEET left dollet saved the game and challenged quistis to set the rules back to balamb and headed back in to abolish elemental. gave up after a few tries and havent played it since.

I'll be going back to it soon, just busy looking for a Job at the moment although i cant find one to ave my life

 

[Aselia]

Gametime: 2:45

Okay, after I finished journaling last night, I kept playing for a while, and managed to get Quistis up to Level 20, and Squall to 18...

I forgot to start journaling when i started playing so a quick summary... Started Dollet Mission, got Squall to level 20, Seifer to level 11 and Zell to level 10. Selphie just joined my party, she's level 8, and I'm headed up the lift. Current game time is 5:05. I spent like an hour drawing stuff for Zell >.>


Okay. Biggs and Wedge battle.Took only two turns for Wedge to come...Noticed Biggs had Esuna, so then I drew 100 Esunas with Selphie and Squall, as Zell has Item rather than Draw... annnd Elvoret tiiiiime!!!! After drawing 100 doubles for Squall and Selphie each, pummeled him with GFs XD I actually BEAT The X ATM- 095 this tims too. Never done that before.... sucks that you don't get to see that cutscene though... I LOVE that cutscene


After that, I mainly started to AP Grind with the Fastitocalons... 6 AP


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After a LOT of AP grinding, Squall is Level 29, Zell is Level 19 and Selphie is Level 16. Just kicked the shit out of a T-Rexaur too Methinks it's time to FINALLY go back to Balamb Garden >.> Current Gametime is 8:47.... DAMN I spent a long time grinding >.> now for all the talking.... and BEST.CUSCENE.EVER. I love this song!

Time for the training center shizz... now Quisty is a whole 9 levels below me
hopefully I run into loads of Trexuars that might level her quickly
QUISTIS NO MORE FUCKING TUTORIALS. I KNOW HOW TO PLAY THE GAME.

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After a shitload of levelgrinding and draw whoring, I've now got 100 of every -aga spell but Thundagaand Curaga...... just beat the Granaldo and the 3 Raldos... They gave me NO problem... Squall is now Level 36 and Quistis is level 28.... methinks I'm overleveled


Just got the Lamp with Diabolos in it... I'mm try and battle him... just to see how I do...
Shit. Squall's Down... imma phoenix down him. ...Shit. Selphie just died. She has Item.
Zell's all thats left... and he has 3 HP... I'm fucked...


OMFG
OMFG
OMFG. THANK GOD FOR IFRIT+BOOST. KILLED THE FUCKER. FIRST TIME I'VE DONE IT FIRST TRY!
and that's all for now

 

[mattbgamer]

7/17/2010 12:35 p.m

I am playing off my PS3 so I turned it on clicked on FFVIII under games. It loaded up and I skipped the beginning part and went straight to the menu. I started a New Game and went about watching one of the best opening sequences in FF history (at least I think so). Woke up in the infirmary bed and named the character Matt. Quistis came strolling in acting all big and bad and told me to get up....I did just get sliced across the face woman. Anyway we head to the classroom and Quistis berates Seifer for messing me up while we were 'training', he gets angry and she dismisses the class but calls me up. After her telling me I need to goto the Fire Cavern with her I head to my terminal and get out Quezacotl and Shiva. I junction Quezacotl to me and Shiva to Quistis, both of them starting to learn Boost. On my way out of class I decide to show cluzt of the year Selphie around this 'big' garden, and also grab the 7 first Triple Triad cards.

After showing her around I head to the front gate and go outside with Quistis and start drawing magic and learning GF abilities. I learn boost and a few other abilities and venchur into the Fire Cavern. I choose 10 minutes because Ifrit is a slouch. I run through the cavern fighting a few monsters and carding a Buel and Bomb (good to do if you play Triple Triad hard like I do). I get to Ifrit and decimate him with Shiva and my Renzokuken. I junction him to me and take Quistis back to the Garden...then I go out on my own and learn a few more abilities (Mid Mag-RF, and Card Mod) then head back into the garden. Time to play some Triple Triad. What I usually do is go and challenge the librarian and get some decent cards, she is the easiest one to beat (usually ). After getting quite a few good cards I go after the little kid jogging around the Garden and get some more cards from him including Minimog. Then I head upstairs into the classroom and challenge one of the Quistis Trepe's for Quistis's card....I get it. Now its off to the Dollet mission, I go get changed into the stupid uniform and head towards the front gate. I meet the uber annoying but super awesome character Zell and learn that Seifer is going to be our Squad leader. We get into the car and head towards Balamb after some witty banter from Seifer I get to control the car for a bit, after some fun apparently NOT running over trees with a car I head to Balamb and get into the vessel and head towards Dollet.

On the way to Dollet we get some more witty banter from Seifer and land on the beach, our orders are to secure the central square. We fight a few Galbadian soldiers and make it to the square and start waiting for the real fighting to start. Several hours pass and nothing is going on, then we see several soldiers heading up to what looks like some sort of communication tower. Seifer decides we should head up there, so we make our way up there and Seifer again decides that he is going to be a big bad ass and go fight them himself, so he runs off and we meet Selphie again and she is looking for our squad leader. She joins us and we head up the tower after him. We meet Biggs and Wedge and fight them for a bit until Elevoret shows up, I draw Siren from it and completely annihilate it with GF's and Renzokuken. We get the news that we have an half an hour to head back to the beach so Me, Zell, and Selphie head that way. Before we get too far we get attacked by the X-Numbers and letters thing and defeat it once and run away. We get to the bridge and fight it again, defeating it and getting uber AP. We make to the beach safely and start our way back to Balamb.

We get back and get told good job, and get told that we have until sundown to get back to the Garden(which is as much as you want since the time of day never actually changes). Well I choose to go straight back and learn the good news. Me, Zell, Selphie, and non-important person have become SeeDs. We get our SeeD rank (rank 9 ) and are told to get changed and go to the inauguration party. There I meet a long legged black haired beauty, that I dance with...and dance with damn well. After getting snubbed I go and sulk out on the balcony, Quistis comes out and tells me that she wants me to go with her to the 'secret' area in Training Center. I go and get changed into my cool clothes and meet her there. We make it to the secret area and she begins to discuss that she has been fired as an instructor and is now a regular SeeD. I act like an emo douche and completely act like an ass. We head back and hear someone scream we run to the direction of it, and see a lady getting attacked. We defeat the monster and its minions and save the lady. She gets take away by some guys in white....weird. We head out of the training center and Quistis tells me I shouldn't be a douche all the time...and I say well why the hell not? I wake up the next morning and we already have a mission. We are to head to Timber and help the Timber Owls. But before I go there is a few things I need to get. First off I grab the Seifer card from Cid (easily) then I go out and level up my characters a bit and learn a few more GF abilities. Then I head into Balamb and go about getting Zell's card from his mom... but as always I had to defeat her 82 times before she would use it. Seriously how can a mother who is so proud of her son never use his damn card. Well I finally get it and use Card Mod to upgrade Zell's, Selphies, and my weapons. Then I am off to Timber, I get on the train and something weird happens. We all pass out and have the same dream about three Galbadian soldiers, we soon wake up confused as hell but say we shouldn't worry about until later. We arrive in Timber and get greeted by the most needy individual ever made, his name is Watts. He takes us to the Timber Owls hideout....a sweet ass train. We get on and meet Zone the most gastronomical human being ever made, he has more stomach problems than a cow. Then they tell us to go wake up the 'princess', I head back there and find out it's the black haired beauty that snubbed me after that kick ass dance.

We learn that she is part of the group and learn that they plan on capturing the Galbadian president by capturing his train. We learn how we are going to do it and start the mission. I do it with ease and we go and start the 'serious negotiations', but it turns out that it was all a ruse and it was a doppelganger. We fight it and kill it easily. Afterwards we learn that the real reason the president was visiting Timber was to do the first live TV broadcast in 17 years, so the Timbers Owls decide to rush the station to broadcast what they want to say. We make our way through Timber and find the station, but before we can rush they start to broadcast and we decide it is too dangerous to rush in. We start watching and the president says he wants peace with other nations, but before he can finish Seifer runs in with Quistis in tow and subdues the president. We rush the studio and Seifer backs away with the president and gets approached by the Sorceress, she convinces him to go with her and we cant do anything about it. Rinoa aka the 'princess' is quite upset mostly because I believe she wanted to get into Seifers baggy pants. And again I act like a emo douche, and she gets all mad at me. We escape Timber and head to the nearest Garden which would be Galbadia Garden. Before we get there we have another 'dream' with Laguna, Ward, and Kiros, the three Galbadian soldiers from before. This time they are in something that we will find out later...but are fighting a bunch of esthar soldiers. They barely escape with their lives and the gang wakes up even more confused. They make it to the Garden and Quistis says she 'know's the headmaster and will go explain the situation. And that is where I am at right now.

(Sorry for the uber long post this is actually from playing most of the day Saturday and some Sunday but I didn't want to forget any of it)

Game time 12:38

Squall: 16
Zell: 12
Quistis: 10
Selphie: 11
Rinoa: 11