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Chocobo Hot & Cold is the fucking worst thing ever
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It's super relaxing. I remember first playing it as my family were planning out what to do over the holidays that year.
It wasn't until nearly a decade later that I did a playthrough where I really got into it and did everything.
In truth its the only really good minigame in IX. Tetra Master sucks shit and the other games like jump rope and the play fight are too damn hard.
It wasn't until nearly a decade later that I did a playthrough where I really got into it and did everything.
In truth its the only really good minigame in IX. Tetra Master sucks shit and the other games like jump rope and the play fight are too damn hard.
I can think of worse FF mini games, OP.
I was so close to the ending, but this... this stopped me from going forward, and playing altogether. I think I can safely say this is one of the worst mini games in games.
Wtf, Hot & Cold is my fav mini-game, and I really enjoyed the chocographs.
Felt like a lil treasure hunt where I had to get an good understanding of the world. They aren't even randomized, they are the same every time you play the game, and I think only a couple are actually unfair in their clues. The timing of when you get new chocographs isn't randomized either iirc. It's usually based on how many you have before, what location you are playing hot and cold, and how many items you got in a given round.
As for the actual hot and cold minigame, it can be slow and tedious at first, but once you get more places, coloured chocobos, higher levels, and you start going at blistering speeds just to try getting bonus times, bonus items, and bonus scores, it becomes blissful fun.
Felt like a lil treasure hunt where I had to get an good understanding of the world. They aren't even randomized, they are the same every time you play the game, and I think only a couple are actually unfair in their clues. The timing of when you get new chocographs isn't randomized either iirc. It's usually based on how many you have before, what location you are playing hot and cold, and how many items you got in a given round.
As for the actual hot and cold minigame, it can be slow and tedious at first, but once you get more places, coloured chocobos, higher levels, and you start going at blistering speeds just to try getting bonus times, bonus items, and bonus scores, it becomes blissful fun.
hydrophilic attack
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op, you misspelled 'best'
What a horrible opinion. ._.
Agreed I had a lot of fun with blitzball
Beatofficer
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When FFIX came out, this was the only thing that kept me playing. I loved Chocobo Hot/Cold until I had to fight Ozma.
Sterling's_Gold
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I love chocobo hot and cold. However, as much as I love IX, Tetra Master is complete shit.
Though if we are engaging in complete hyperbole with "fucking worst thing ever," the only qualifying FF minigame to me has to be the absolute garbage chocobo race in FFX. Getting a time of under 0.00 is just as much luck as skill and steering that stupid chocobo without bumping into invisible walls or getting chained by birds is a nightmare. It's not even possible to get the required time if you don't get the right setup of balloons, which is totally random. I was once got a time of exactly 0.00 as a kid, which made me largely give up on X's bullshit minigames.
It wasn't until years later with the hd remaster that I finally got Tidus's sigil. I also discovered that the other minigames everyone complains about in X, such as the butterfly catching and lightning dodging, aren't actually that bad.
I also enjoy blitzball, as nonsensical a sport as it may be.
Though if we are engaging in complete hyperbole with "fucking worst thing ever," the only qualifying FF minigame to me has to be the absolute garbage chocobo race in FFX. Getting a time of under 0.00 is just as much luck as skill and steering that stupid chocobo without bumping into invisible walls or getting chained by birds is a nightmare. It's not even possible to get the required time if you don't get the right setup of balloons, which is totally random. I was once got a time of exactly 0.00 as a kid, which made me largely give up on X's bullshit minigames.
It wasn't until years later with the hd remaster that I finally got Tidus's sigil. I also discovered that the other minigames everyone complains about in X, such as the butterfly catching and lightning dodging, aren't actually that bad.
I also enjoy blitzball, as nonsensical a sport as it may be.
GKSilKamina
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Chocobo Hot & Cold is great. What are you smoking?
You want some shit chocobo mini-games? Go play Final Fantasy X.
You want some shit chocobo mini-games? Go play Final Fantasy X.
Resident Evil King
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Having never heard of the thread topic before, I assumed this was about some sort of delicious chocolatey beverage ala nesquik.
Confession: I've never played a single FF game, somehow.
Confession: I've never played a single FF game, somehow.
Triple Triad was awesome but I couldn't get into Tetra Master. Somebody should make a thread about that instead.
I think TM is the superior card game. The rules aren't well explained in game, but basically it takes the simple number comparisons of TT and replaces them with more RPG-ish elements: monster type strengths and weaknesses, and die rolls. Once you figure out what the hell the numbers and letters represent, it really clicks.
Professor Beef
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H&C is one of the best minigames in the PS1 trilogy, OP. I'm sorry that you can't recognize greatness when it walks across your face.
Tetra Master is bullshit because it's entirely revolved around hexadecimal values that are randomized. Nobody in their right mind should like it.
There's none of this, the results are randomized.
Triple Triad was awesome but I couldn't get into Tetra Master. Somebody should make a thread about that instead.
Tetra Master is bullshit because it's entirely revolved around hexadecimal values that are randomized. Nobody in their right mind should like it.
There's none of this, the results are randomized.
shiftplusone
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I really hated the chocobo stuff in 8, but finished it anyway. Hot and cold is so fucking bad I couldn't finish it
OP is the only other sane person here
OP is the only other sane person here
lol what
Only to a point, really
http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Tetra_Master_(minigame)
Seems like the card id (and as a result, type) matters a lot in how it plays.
But yeah, ff9 doesn't really explain Terra master well. I still enjoyed it more than most though
That's why I mentioned "die rolls". The numbers on the cards represent die, but better cards still give you better odds, and there are offensive and defensive matchups of physical vs. magical types that further change how matchups work. The results are not fully randomized.
Traxtech
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You'd be surprised how many people dislike PF lol
What's not to like???
jipewithin
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Its one of my favorites.
It's a good minigame if only because it features one of the best tracks from IX's OST
Vamo' Alla Flamenco
Vamo' Alla Flamenco
Shift Breaker
Member
I can understand where the OP is coming from, it can get tedious digging aimlessly, just waiting for the next chocograph to come up when it just doesn't. I used to get so frustrated at that.
At the same time, the music is great, the base gameplay is fine and holt shit, there's so much worse out there in the series. Hell, even in this game.
At the same time, the music is great, the base gameplay is fine and holt shit, there's so much worse out there in the series. Hell, even in this game.
BlueDogAnchorite
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Lol no. Best final fantasy side quest ever
Dark Cloud
Member
God I friggin love this game.
Infinite_Daremo
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I loved that mini game. I'd always play it to exhaustion per disk. FFX takes the shit biscuit for worst mini games.
Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDEkOscjK2U
You're welcome all
I can think of worse FF mini games, OP.
Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDEkOscjK2U
You're welcome all
Ninja Kn1ght
Member
It was awful. I remember for some reason I got stuck and couldn't find the last one despite having a guide. Eventually I just resorted to grid-searching the map point by point until I got it. *shivers*
TannerDemoz
Member
ukuleles or dodge lightning? I know which has my vote
It's fun at first but it gets so tedious by the time you get lagoon..
I actually find Rikku's weapon the most boring to get in X
Well unless you owned a large linkshell those were pretty much an irrelevance
I actually find Rikku's weapon the most boring to get in X
Well unless you owned a large linkshell those were pretty much an irrelevance
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