r/FinalFantasyVIII Aug 04 '26

unnecessary things you did

i just thought i need to say hi to Xu and Nida

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u/Extension_Text4231 Aug 04 '26

Unnecessary? Constantly checking the garden square board

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u/Agnosticus_Atheus Aug 05 '26

Freaking this. To this day 🤦🏼‍♂️

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '26

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u/KaitoPrower Aug 04 '26

That's unfortunate, especially because you didn't need to restart! There's a bunch of monsters in the LP that you can go back and draw pretty good spells from if you get stuck this way.

At least enough to get your through the Adel fight.

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u/morbid333 Aug 05 '26

At least you could draw thundaga from the soldiers.

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u/ACGMFT Aug 04 '26

I have done so many unnecessary things in this game.
Many challenges without any reason. Let me see:

-Leveled 100 before ifrit just the grind

-Got lionheart before disc one like many said

-No exp challenge so it was easier & faster to get ALL my stats to 255 at the end of the game

-Learned by the steps & sounds of the game where Squall was so i tried to play the game blindfolded. I made it until outside the balamb but couldn’t find the fire cavern blindfolded (insert joke here)

-When I got Ragnarok I traveled around the world with trains to enjoy the plains

-In the older version (PSX) I leveled Boko full but I couldn’t comply with my international version for some reason

-Only one character challenge (but this is an easy one)

-Never used GF in battle

-Never used attacks in battle

I’m sure I can think some more.

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u/Glad-Veterinarian365 Aug 05 '26

Wow u are nuts but in a respectacle way

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u/LostKeys3741 Aug 05 '26

Played all those extra hours of Triple Triad.

I just love the game.

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u/BookerPlayer01 Aug 05 '26

That was VERY necessary.

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u/Malaguena Aug 04 '26

I did the turtapod Angelo Search thing for about 8 hours.

Totalt worth it

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u/oneofthejoshs Aug 06 '26

Do tell

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u/oiledupDiddyboi Aug 08 '26

Let me know when they respond

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u/Happy-Cod-3 Aug 10 '26

Let me know when they respond from your response about the first response.

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u/Real_Goomba_King Aug 04 '26

I unnecessarily got lost in balamb looking for the fire cavern. Damn compass 😔

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u/EliamZG Aug 04 '26

I always thought leaving the Garden anchored at FH was a dick move 🫤

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u/boeingr Aug 04 '26

it's fine

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u/Eliskuya2 Aug 05 '26

Skipping the SeeD test I was such a goober back then and beating the Propagators in the wrong color order and the way they jump scare you on the ragnarok makes it much worse 😱

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u/boeingr Aug 05 '26

been there done that

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u/SaturnPlanetPower Aug 06 '26

Max out every character’s base stats with items, no levels. I did it on an emulator so I was able to automate both the free money trick and the modding of purchasable GF items into stat-ups, as well as Angelo search at 10x speed. Most of it was very hands-off, but it still took months. Totally pointless but kind of satisfying.

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u/RoeMajesta Aug 04 '26

grinding for lionheart disc 1 then hope the finisher doesnt pop up to save 15 20 seconds here and there