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Anonymous01/20/26, 22:29No.3912900FFVIII the king of enemy variety.
Is there any game that can even match FFVIII in enemy roster?
FFVIII has the most variety of enemies I have seen in any RPG.
No recolors other than Elnoyle/Elboreth.
They were cooking with the enemy designs with the like of Hexadragon, Snow Lion, Ruby Dragon, those alien fucks, etc.
Cool summon bosses like Cerberus, Odin, Jumbo Cactuar, etc.
This is why I think 8 beats 9 since the art style is a little less cooler. Like the strongest and most dangerous monsters in 9 are some angry sheeps! But 9 still beats most RPGs in this department too.
Any other RPG that you think beats anny of these games in the monster department?
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Anon01/20/26, 22:35No.3912905
Digimon world
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Anon01/20/26, 22:39No.3912907
Ah sweet another FF8 thread
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Anon01/21/26, 01:38No.3912995
yeah it does have quite a few enemies, i always wonder why they added level scaling with such a huge bestiary.also a shame most don't see too many as the gf that disables encounters is one of the first few in the game
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Anon01/21/26, 08:15No.3913136
I played FF8 for the first time last year and thought it was a lot of fun. I liked it more than FFX even.
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Anon01/21/26, 08:21No.3913137
But not the king of encounter variety. I'm left feeling like there's only 2 or 3 battles per area.
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Anon01/21/26, 08:39No.3913143
Encounter variety matters the most and Dragon Quest 2 was the king in that regards
>randomize enemy types in the encounter depending on enemies within the area
>randomize the amount of enemies per type
>randomize the enemy grouping so even if you get a fight with identical enemies the strategy could differ
>randomize the HP values, -/+ 10% of base valueIt's amazing how much they got right the first time around and it baffles me that I've never seen a single JRPG even attempt to replicate half of this. Instead they all have entirely set, pre determined encounters, and yes FF8 wasn't that good in that regard but FF9 felt worse.
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Anon01/21/26, 09:50No.3913155
I can't tell what 25% of the enemies in FFVII are.
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Anon01/21/26, 09:57No.3913160
It has like 40 enemies total.
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Anon01/21/26, 10:50No.3913164
I hate FFX because there are 10 recolors of each enemy.
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Anon01/23/26, 16:11No.3914423
You compare apple to Oranges.
FF8's semi-realistic, gritty, high-tech aesthetics are nu-FF.
FF9's more fantasy, whimsical and colorful aesthetics are oldschool FF. It was the last hoora before Squeenix abandoned that style.
FF really are just two completely different game series stapled together.
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Anon01/23/26, 20:47No.3914527
>zoomers are calling Squaresoft games “Squeenix” and “SE”
Grim.