I swear it's the hardest FF i played. But it's cool since i like a challenge. There's lots of complicated stuff like Junction and GF system. (Having to always have 100 of each spell is time-consuming)

Everyone give your opinions here as it was fun/hard for me i wanna hear what it was like for you:)

I'd hardly call this the hardest FF. Doing nothing but summoning GFs all the time will get you past 3/4 of the game.

Junctioning wasn't that complicated, just time consuming, and putting in lots of hours does not mean the game is hard.

The opening fmv got me so excited about this game when I first put it in my playstation, I can't remember being more excited about playing a game than I was about FF8. Too bad it all went downhill from there.

Originally posted by Durendal
. . .Too bad it all went downhill from there.

what bad taste you have! i <3 ff8. and you still dont like dolph, either ;_;

it definitely wasnt the hardest. i died the most in 7 or x. i hardly ever perished in 8. and i never died in 9, so 9 gets my vote (plus it was made to be super easy).

Bad taste? I still enjoyed the game, it just wasn't the most bestest uber rocking game ever that the opening movie led me to believe :p

One of these days you and I are going to get together and watch every Dolph movie ever made, then I will be proven right once and for all :cool:

okay, i get it now. so you arent saying viii sucks, but that it was a let down from the awesome opening. ill let you get by with that (though i disagree).

what an awesome idea! but im afraid you would change your mind about ol' dolphy boy if you watched his work.

I just realized that I died a lot more in FFIX than I did in FFVIII, and if FFIX was made to be easy does that mean I'm mentally impared?

Yes.






Besides, you don't like Dolph.

i didnt find 8 hard at all. the battles were fearly easy, junction system was a breez and only time comsuming. all i had to do was attack and use the accosional item if my magic was junctioned right.

The only actual hard part of FFVIII I can remember is fighting Diablos when you first get that lamp.

I've changed my mind about Dolph, we'd be great friends, both of us are mentally challenged after all

I found the game very easy. After a couple of times through I can out my stats up pretty high. After I leave Balamb for Timber Squall has nearly 3000 hp. his strength is well over 100. I never even summon a GF.

I thought X was alot harder.

Personally, I don't think any of the final fantasys were hard.... maybe the weapons in final fantasy 7, but that's just about it. I always seemed to have my characters up at the perfect level and had good enough equipment. FFX-2 is the easiest if you're not trying to hit for a 100% score... trying to do that without the game FAQs is a bit challenging.

FF8 was only hard the first time around. But FF5 is alot harder!

When I first played the game, it was kind of hard. But now, it's not that hard. :)

Definitely the hardest of the Playstation era FF games.
Some of the old nintendo ones were ridiculously tough.
FF8 can be very hard if you make the wrong decisions about leveling up and dont utilize your GFs. Make sure you are getting stronger faster than your enemies. Find cactuars and get Item Refinement. Also, its probably the hardest when it comes to knowing where to go without help from a strategy guide or walkthrough. I know I was stumped about where to go in many places, not so much by the actual fighting.

the only time i thought it was hard was when i brought my underleveled quistis with me to battle adel. that blew. badly.

Well I found VIII difficult only in the game where I remained low leveled to increase my stats later with cactuar. Even though I'm low leveled the game is still one of the easier ones. My Squall (at level 9 and right after Timber) Has well over 3000HP and is in the 100's with his Strength. (Same with Zell and Rinoa except for Rinoa she has over 100 magic not strength) The game is easy it all depends on junctioning. See the only way I have those stats is because I'm a crazy card player and have a full stock of Pains, Meltdowns, Tornados, Quakes, Deaths, and even waters.

Well I found VIII difficult only in the game where I remained low leveled to increase my stats later with cactuar. Even though I'm low leveled the game is still one of the easier ones. My Squall (at level 9 and right after Timber) Has well over 3000HP and is in the 100's with his Strength. (Same with Zell and Rinoa except for Rinoa she has over 100 magic not strength) The game is easy it all depends on junctioning. See the only way I have those stats is because I'm a crazy card player and have a full stock of Pains, Meltdowns, Tornados, Quakes, Deaths, and even waters.

Precisly thats why I think the Junction system made the game too easy.

I didnt think FF8 wasnt that hard first time round, i think FF7 was harder, i got stuck for so long.
FF8 was a bit strange for me, with junctions and drawing GF's, confusing :confused:

I thought FF7 was eaiser then FF8. All you hgad to do is but a Materia in a slot.

FF8 isn't hard at all! You can just whiz through disc 1 and 2 by summoning GFs non-stop (it's so cool how you can use it as much as you want without wasting any of that blast MP =P) and whiz through disc 3 and 4 by belting everything with limit breaks. That's no fun, but that was how I beat the game twice in three months =P You want hard, play FFTA *shudders*

All final fantasys are easy if u work at them. Theyre really not that hard. There are plenty games that are harder.

FF8 was definately harder than FF7 because of Junctioning...I had a lot of trouble with 6 though....

nah, it's definetly not the hardest FF. but i've heard that almost everyone who have started with FF8 have stopped playing FF-s because of the junction system:(

8 isnt hard as long as you know what the hell your doing. and the junction system i thought was an amazing system and made perfect sense and was really cool how easy it was to mke ur characters resistant to magics and statuses. and it made maxing stats easier. X's sphere grid i thought was the most retarded thing in the world.

the junction systems easy to use i think but i still think ff8 is the hardest game out of ff so far i've been playing it since i was about 8 or 9 and still haven't finished mind you i id leave it for a long time plus many of my chracters levels where low so i'm starting again and i hope i can do better this time

Good luck on your next FF8 game, Terra Fire. BTW, FF8 is not hard at all, and the junction system is really simple. I finished FF8, and I didn't use a GF a SINGLE TIME. FF8 is not really that hard once you get the hang of it.
Terra Fire, a little advice for FF8: get as many cards as possible. You can refine magic, items and also materials for new weapons with the right GF abilities. I had tons of cards nad I had no problems with items or magic. Hope you listen to my advice - it's gonna make your life a lot easier. ^_^

nah, it's definetly not the hardest FF. but i've heard that almost everyone who have started with FF8 have stopped playing FF-s because of the junction system:(


Oh God forbid that they actually become intelligent and stop being lazy.


Actually though, FFVIII was "statistically" the most challenging FF to date because Square decided to make the monsters level up with you.

yeh i'll take your advice on that one but i still think it gonna be kinda hard doing training though but still thatnks monk... :)

don't mean to sound rude or nothing monk but i know about refinieing and remodling but thanks anyway :)

I have very little concept of how hard ff games are. This is because of the insane amount of leveling up I do. I usually have Squall at level 25 before the field exam. Plus, I get 100 tornadoes for his str stat from abyss worm cards. So he has attack over 100 before the field exam. Really all you have to do to make FFVIII way too easy is learn how to junction stuff. In my opinion, FFI was the hardest just because you had to level up at every city, even when you're not playing with all thieves.

I thought that ff6 was hard but they are all easy if your prepared to learn everything about the games and work hard. All the ff games are so indepth though which is a good thing

8 isnt hard as long as you know what the hell your doing. and the junction system i thought was an amazing system and made perfect sense and was really cool how easy it was to mke ur characters resistant to magics and statuses. and it made maxing stats easier. X's sphere grid i thought was the most retarded thing in the world.


You've GOT to be joking!! FFX's sphere grid was WAY better than juntioning. (IMO..)

It was kinda hard the first time through but now i know the whole game like the back of my hand, it is my favirate game ever. 9, 10, and 10-2 were alot easer. 7 was hard becouse the first disc seemed to go on foreveeeeeeerrrrr.

after ff7 i found the battles hard in eight...gotta love the limit break system though, what a live saver! the maps on eight were a lot easier....theres no place like midgar! did anyone figure out the trick with laguna's card though? if you card mod it you can make 100 of the hero item, games a lil eisier that way....

I found Final fantasy 8 pretty difficult the first time through. But after that it was pretty easy cause you can prepare your characters. Like when i had the first fight with edea all my characters were at 4000 HP.

yeah, very true, junction can make you god like very early on, specially when you can turn items like tents into spells for juntioning, i fought ifrit with 2000+ hp!! an the level up sysem i love, only 1000 all the time :D

I don't think it was really that hard. If anything, it would be easier, because you can't be "weak." Since the monsters level up with you, it's really not possible to be weak. Also, GFs, if using them enough times, could wipe out any bosses. That was easy too, because there were no limitations on using them.

I found FFVIII to be the perfect difficulty level. It was challenging and interesting. I couldn't stand X--there weren't any side quests... and everything was just too.. elementary? The graphics were amaizing! But I just couldn't take it anymore. I quit ten a few hours into the game. I hate that it was horrible. I've even tried replaying it.. but still there's the lack of interest! However; Final Fantasy VIII will prevail!
I have a question: Is VII anything at all like VIII? Is it just as good? Is it better (like I've been told--unbelievably!)? Is it worth playing at all? Thanks!

~Guenevere~

I found FFVIII to be the perfect difficulty level. It was challenging and interesting. I couldn't stand X--there weren't any side quests... and everything was just too.. elementary? The graphics were amaizing! But I just couldn't take it anymore. I quit ten a few hours into the game. I hate that it was horrible. I've even tried replaying it.. but still there's the lack of interest! However; Final Fantasy VIII will prevail!
I have a question: Is VII anything at all like VIII? Is it just as good? Is it better (like I've been told--unbelievably!)? Is it worth playing at all? Thanks!

~Guenevere~

You shouldn't have asked..now your going to be bombarded with FFVII fan boys and girls shouting, "OMG FFVII is the best game ever! Why? It just is!"

it was hard but not the hardest i think...

I didn't think it was that hard, with the exception of the side quests and option stuff. Like Tonberry King, Jumbo Cactuar they were hard. Ultima Weapon he was annoying, Light Pillar inparticular. Omega Weapon... Not even going to start. Also final battle was hard, especially when she had that move that brought all your health down to 1.

Whoever said FF8 was the first to have the enemies level up with you was an idiot, Tactics did it first. And Tactics remains the most difficult FF of any of the PSX releases, bar none.

Seriously, this is almost as bad as some of the FF7 threads...

Tactics is definitely the hardest PSX FF, you are right Odin.

actually, i think it was the easiest. because i played it so damn much. hell, ffx is harder than this.

and tickettack, jumbo cactuar and tonberry king were not hard. you need alot of patience to beat gfs.

It was hard for me but only cause it was the first final fantasy game i had played and i was like totally confused about it. So I don't know...it was hard compared to the others i've played now.

8 WAS the hardest.

8 WAS the hardest.

definitly.
the first time thru, it was so hard that i could literally draw the "Game Over" screen by heart. i wasn't really good at the junction system, and i could barely beat the monsters. for example:
Ruby Dragon= instant game over.
a group of 3 Imps= instant game over.
an Iron Giant= instant game over.
T- Rexuar= instant game over
I couldn't even beat Shpinxuar, the first boss in Ultemecia Castle. i started the game over, i sucked that bad.
but the second time, i did a LOT better. i still died alot, but knew how to junction right. I even beat Ultima Weapon.
I'm now on my third way thru, at the part where u meet Quistis at the meeting center, and Squall is on lvl. 40, and i still die every once in a while. (Damn T- Rexuars!)
This is the time when i master FF8 once and for all. Maybe Omega Weapon will help me get re- aquainted with the "Game Over" screen...

No way.

Final Fantasy VIII might be mildly challenging at best, in respect of getting used to the junctioning, menus, commands, and so on, but past that its pretty simple. Even with hard bosses, most times I just held tapped x for attack and never bothered with magic. The trick is, knowing leveling up will actually cause enemies to level up with you. The best way to simply avoid this, is to maximize AP while minimizing exp, and getting strong exotic spells to junction. This causes enemies to have low levels while a person has extraordinary stats.

One of the hardest Final Fantasy games is easily Final Fantasty Tactics. You want a challenge, this is the real game to play.


Whoever said FF8 was the first to have the enemies level up with you was an idiot, Tactics did it first. And Tactics remains the most difficult FF of any of the PSX releases, bar none.

Seriously, this is almost as bad as some of the FF7 threads...

Amen to that Odin. :)

No way.

Final Fantasy VIII might be mildly challenging at best, in respect of getting used to the junctioning, menus, commands, and so on, but past that its pretty simple. Even with hard bosses, most times I just held tapped x for attack and never bothered with magic. The trick is, knowing leveling up will actually cause enemies to level up with you. The best way to simply avoid this, is to maximize AP while minimizing exp, and getting strong exotic spells to junction. This causes enemies to have low levels while a person has extraordinary stats.

How can i get those "strong" and "exotic" spells when the monsters that i'm fighting are at low levels? I found that if u level up, then the monsters level up, and then as the monsters level up, they have better spells to draw from. For example, i could never get quake from T- Rexuar if i get minimum exp, not leveling up? The monster won't level up, so that spell won't be available, only some thundara. the same for the blue flyin bird outside of Deling City, Thrusuvius (where i can draw tornado from) and some other monsters.

Its rather simple:

You get them from you ability magic refine and drawing points. It can be time consuming, but its rather easy. You can simply steal items from an enemy without killing them, you can refine low magic to medium, medium to high, and so on down the line.

You can find a ton of these spells on a certain island on FF8, I forget whats it called. It has stuff like meteor, ultima, etc. Then, you take into account the use of cards to refine items as well. Further consider, does FF8 not have a level up and level down command? So that you could selectively level up a monster, steal its magic, and then run if you feel like it?

All of these are long process, but they are not that difficult.

FFVIII wasn't that hard... once you've got used to (or had someone explain {the system} enough times!!) the junctioning, and drawing magic from anywhere and everywhere!!! mind you... i think junctioning's easier than the Sphere Grid (which i HATE!!!!!) in FFX... but that might only be because FFVIII's the first in the series that i played.

I think so long as you stack levels in certain places, and don't try and rush through the game (examples being up to Vegnagun in X-2 with only 37% completion!!!!!!!!!!! and up to Sin in FFX without any 3rd level spells etc... yes, i DO keep meaning to re-start and do it properly, but in my defence, i did both those files in less than 2 weeks simultaneously!!) none of the games (not counting 1-6) are particularly difficult.

I found FFVIII to be one of the easiest FFs

I had more trouble with FFVI

I swear it's the hardest FF i played. But it's cool since i like a challenge. There's lots of complicated stuff like Junction and GF system. (Having to always have 100 of each spell is time-consuming)

Everyone give your opinions here as it was fun/hard for me i wanna hear what it was like for you:)

OMG, so did I! I hated the last battle cuz it took me and HOUR to beat! The ending was okay, not worth the battle though. I would actually have liked to see a close up on the kiss, but NOOOOOOOOO they had to zoom out and ruin it!

8's the easiest, the first 3 were much more difficult...

I found FFVIII to be one of the easiest FFs

I had more trouble with FFVI

Purrr is right. FFVI was alot harder. So where most of the earlier FF's. BUt In my opinion it definetly was not FFVIII that takes the title for the hardest Final Fantasy.

FFVIII was kinda hard I suppose, but other final fantasy's were harder, like VI and VII. FFVIII Isn't really that interesting to me though... -_-

IF YOU DIED ALOT IN FF7 OR FF9 YOUR A MORON! those were so easy the only one easyier was FFX all of the final bosses died in one hit ONE MEASLY HIT! if you die alot that is the games way of telling you to train more.

Yeah, I know. Shame though that nothing ever clicked on in your head about turning off the caps lock key, or formatting / spelling your posts better. Hmm... guess you're a "moron."

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i found 8 the hardest i givin up on it cuz i hate the junction to complicated for me and how could anyone find sphere grid confusing i thought it was the easiest level up system in a ff and 9's is also easy as hell same with 7

its hard but fun

the first final fantasy I played was FF8 .. Now if you don't remember then play it again because wasn't it the first one with tutorials and weren't they awfully boring if you played it again ? So to say that the junction system was hard ... then you didn't pay attention, I got it from the first second ...
then I played FF9, now that was EASY ..
I did FF7 too, he's a little harder than FF8
Now I'm playing FF6 .. He hasn't been too hard for me yet, I'm in the changed world already ..

Overall : FF6-FF9 : FF7 is the hardest

I think, FF-VIII was one of the easiest FF games. The final battle was a bit harder than the most others though.

I have never completed FFVIII. Know what the ending is, so my desire to complete does not go too high.
It was bloody hard when fighting Griever. That was my downfall.

I didn't find FF-8 that hard just mind numbing boring, thats why I never finished it....

i didn't like ff8 or ff9 too much. my brother played those ones, i started hem, but i dind't really like them. i liked ff8 till the middle of the 2 disc.

Yea I don't think this game was the hardest, after playin FF7, this one seemed like a peice of cake, but it was a good slice.

I found FF8 the easys't because of one thing.
I just refined one of my cards into 100 megalixers (Squall or odin icant really remember :-( ) and i was safe With full healing all members i breezed though the last boss. Has anyone else done this or anything like it?

Yeah, sure, but you can do that sort of thing in pretty much any FF game. So that doesn't really make it any different from any other. Final Fantasy VII has W-Item trick, Final Fantasy VI has Vanish/Doom, etc. etc.

each Final Fantasy is hard in its own way. althoguh everyone else has an opinon otherwise.

FFX isnt really too hard....FF8 was pretty hard for me...but the second time i beat it, it was SO simple.....but that may just be cuz i did it with a gameshark the second time around :D o and FFX sucks with a gameshark it messes up ez and the game itself is WAY too ez i tried it after beating it the real way its not even fun

FFVII is difficult, even with all my people at level 100 i still died that one time. Im telling you. HARD.

NONE OF THE ff'S ARE HARD IF YOU ARE PREPARED!, i have a 300 page folder for all of the ff's,that way combined with my obsessive training i never die(ever) but ff was most likely the most complex system , FF7 was easy FF9 Yawn................., but FF8 was the best combo of story, graphics and gameplay, but FF7 takes second and FF1 gets third place

FF9 got the most basic system thats out there, ff7 was kinda complicted when it came to linkin materia, but FF8 u could control every stat of every player anytime u felt like it, which was amazin, but some people dont realize that u had that privelige......dumbass junction sytem haters

My opinion:

FFVIII is the best FF game ever created! The Junction system is a religion in itself (anyone wanna join the church?) Graphics and storyline are top-notch.

However, there is one drawback: it's too short! Of course, if it all went my way, it'd be 10 discs long.

Thanks, but for anyone else, take further opinions of your general feelings of the game to the thread "What Makes FFVIII Stand / Fall" at the top. This thread is only to discuss the relative difficulty or easiness of the game.

8 is so easy the god damn junction system made it TOO simple

sometimes it was hard, if your level wasn't high enouhg, and you saved right before a boss battle, and then you couldn't fight, thats what makes it hard........

also that the enemies level up with you but i kinda like that becuase then you dont have to search for a place to get good expierence when u get to higher levels.

The Junction system is easy, and lvling up is easy also, so the game is east right??? and if u find what i call the grand experince spot, the games a piece of cake...

It,s both easy and hard , it just depends on what kind of gamer you are. for me it was quite easy though , i jus spent most of the time stealing spells from enemies in the begining and juctioned them to my characeters hp/str/spd..etc. Lol i never really bothered leveling up that much so the enemies remained weak throughout the game.

I thought Final fantasy 8 was the hardest of all other final fantasies. I had to steal magic from my enemies. So I was reluctant to use magic.

I thought it was really easy up until ultimecia, she was rather hard.

also that the enemies level up with you but i kinda like that becuase then you dont have to search for a place to get good expierence when u get to higher levels.
oh yea, that too......that was a god thing and a bad thing cuz then they aren't too easy *no experience* or too hard *game over*

the juction at first was hard but it's actually easy, and all the stuff in there are easy, all the bosses of course, well... maybe except for omega weapon...
but all in all, it's easy.


I thought it was really easy up until ultimecia, she was rather hard.
ultimecia is not hard, the battle is easy, but long
i just finish her battle for like 10 - 20 minutes.

I'd say yes, ff8 is the hardest compared to all of them but it's my fave and it wasn't that hard so long as you dont compare it to the other ffs

i thought ffIX was hard as shit. i never got into it, and i sucked. FFVIII is a piece of crumb cake compared to IX or even VII. even the fight with omega weapon was very possible, as i beat him w/o using any heros/holy wars/invincible moon on my second try. i was surprised, too, that no one could put up a good fight after i beat ultimecia 10 times, but there you go.

i wouldnt agree that ff8 is the hardest... but it definitly is the best :D
i am actually having a harder time with x-2.. not because it is a harder game, it just sucked so bad i couldnt get myself to spend time and levle :)

I loved this game. I thought it was the best Final Fantasy.

what an ancient thread!

DuckyOnIce --- please don't go digging for old threads, especially to say things aren't even particularly related to the topic anyway. Also, please try to include more substance to your posts, instead of posting simple one-line declaratives for every message.


Thanks, but for anyone else, take further opinions of your general feelings of the game to the thread "What Makes FFVIII Stand / Fall" at the top. This thread is only to discuss the relative difficulty or easiness of the game.