Uploaded December 2013 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
ACHIEVEABLEMENTS! What else truly matters in life? Friends? Money? Food? Grenades? Oh my sides, of course they don't. Only the cancer that is ACHIEVEABLEMENTS matters!
And as it has transpired, FF8 Steam has one or two interesting ACHIEVEABLEMENTS over it's predecessor FF7 Steam. There's Card Collector, which was probably an accident because every Square-Enix ACHIEVEABLEMENT thus far seems to be 'Max this, you &%#@$'. But there is also the interesting ACHIEVEABLEMENT which was likely added by an intern who was SHOT for adding a little imagination to the mix, called 'Contrived Finish'.
-Contrived Finish-
Beat the game with Squall at Lv7.
Well, first of all that's basically a no-level challenge lite. You can just bop Squall on the head and drag his ass through the game. But that ain't good enough. As MEN (and ladies) we must make our ACHIEVEABLEMENTS that bit more difficult to ACHIEVE(ABLE).
So I'll be doing a proper No-Levelling challenge with a bunch of bells and whistles tacked on to hopefully make it a little more interesting to watch. Maybe.
Here's the rules of this challenge, which we'll call the
FF8 NLNSJNLNH/HWNCWNC/CM Challenge.
Or the FF8 Contrived Challenge for short.
-) No Levelling: Includes GFs
-) No STR Junction
-) No Limit Breaks
-) No Hero/Holy War
-) No Chocobo World
-) No Card/Card-Mod
-) No Skipping Disc 2 With A Save Editor (No matter how intense the pain becomes)
Basically, we're getting through the game with a set amount of AP to work with. The lack of STR-Junction and Limit Breaks pushes us to use spells and items, as well as experiment with set-ups a little more, so hopefully fights will be nice and varied. Not having AP, items and spells on tap from Card should also keep things moving along. I should say now that I have a plan, several pages of plan. That's enough plan, right?
TL;DR
Video games or something.
ACHIEVEABLEMENTS! What else truly matters in life? Friends? Money? Food? Grenades? Oh my sides, of course they don't. Only the cancer that is ACHIEVEABLEMENTS matters!
And as it has transpired, FF8 Steam has one or two interesting ACHIEVEABLEMENTS over it's predecessor FF7 Steam. There's Card Collector, which was probably an accident because every Square-Enix ACHIEVEABLEMENT thus far seems to be 'Max this, you &%#@$'. But there is also the interesting ACHIEVEABLEMENT which was likely added by an intern who was SHOT for adding a little imagination to the mix, called 'Contrived Finish'.
-Contrived Finish-
Beat the game with Squall at Lv7.
Well, first of all that's basically a no-level challenge lite. You can just bop Squall on the head and drag his ass through the game. But that ain't good enough. As MEN (and ladies) we must make our ACHIEVEABLEMENTS that bit more difficult to ACHIEVE(ABLE).
So I'll be doing a proper No-Levelling challenge with a bunch of bells and whistles tacked on to hopefully make it a little more interesting to watch. Maybe.
Here's the rules of this challenge, which we'll call the
FF8 NLNSJNLNH/HWNCWNC/CM Challenge.
Or the FF8 Contrived Challenge for short.
-) No Levelling: Includes GFs
-) No STR Junction
-) No Limit Breaks
-) No Hero/Holy War
-) No Chocobo World
-) No Card/Card-Mod
-) No Skipping Disc 2 With A Save Editor (No matter how intense the pain becomes)
Basically, we're getting through the game with a set amount of AP to work with. The lack of STR-Junction and Limit Breaks pushes us to use spells and items, as well as experiment with set-ups a little more, so hopefully fights will be nice and varied. Not having AP, items and spells on tap from Card should also keep things moving along. I should say now that I have a plan, several pages of plan. That's enough plan, right?
TL;DR
Video games or something.
