hello people

[Squall_Lionheart!]

hey guys i'm just kind of new so i'm just presenting myself, I'm a final fantasy VIII dieheart so the ones who are agree with me please reply this: Final Fantasy VIII is the best Final Fantasy ever!?

waiting for answers and to know new people

that's all

[remi07]

Welcome to EOFF!
FF8 my second favorite

[Ki Ki]

Yeah!
Me too!
I love FF8.
It was the first FF game I played...so I love it.
But i think I'll soon come to like FFX and FFX-2 more.

Woops...off the subject!
Hi! Welcome!
Have fun!
Post alot!
:)

[ShivaBlizzard8]

Welcome to EOFF! :) *hands newbie welcome basket* I enjoy FF8 quite a bit, and I enjoy discussing new aspects of it even more. See ya around!

[Meow]

i'm pretty divided on the game, though i definitely enjoyed it. On the one hand, i thought too many of the characters were cookie-cutter imitations of real people, despite that the game is so character-centric. Quistis could have been an excellent character if only she'd been developed better, and her sorta-kinda interest in Squall had been more fleshed out. i firmly believe that alone would have given her room to be a much better character. Zell, Irvine and Selphie were akin to packaged stereotypes. The storyline, quite simply, annoyed me. None of the revelations in the game were too shocking or interesting, and - again - seemed so very flat. For example, when we discover that the characters were all from the same orphanage , it came off as silly and cliched to me - when it could have been a great plot point. Not to mention that the whole time compression thing is just damn dumb, in my opinion. There were some other, more curious holes too, such as: let's go into space for no flippin' reason!! Grr...

But on the other hand, i thoroughly enjoyed Squall. Lots of people said he was too much of a jerk for his character to ever reconcile himself, or absolutely hated Rinoa. Though, since i've come to this board, i've realized that Rinoa may not have been that great a person, i still think she was what Squall needed - at least for a little while. The most interesting aspect of the story, and the story for which i continued to play, was the growing bond between those two. Anytime the rest got iffy, i siply held out for another step in the love story.

The actual gameplay pretty good. Outside of the battle system, everything was standard FF fare, which was fine with me. Though i didn't like the really open-ended town setups. i like scouring every inch of the cites i visit in a game, and FF8's multiscreened, zillion-pathway city setups left me wandering around far too long sometimes. i liked the junction system, though it did get tedious at times. i had no problem sitting for half an hour just drawing magic, but it got to me that i was doing the same draws for every character. Sucking out the exact same magic for the sake of filling up the exact same stock, six times over... it got annoying. i know it would would be far beyond FF8 to adjust the draw system for each party member, but it doesn't change that the magic system got rather slow at times.

Monsters had too many hit points!! What should have been short battles took far too long.

As critical as i am about this game, i really enjoyed it. i liked that Square invested more time in the 'love' aspect of the game, definitely; 7 and 9 may have been intriguing, and we all may have been rooting for the hero to end up with his girl - but within the scope of the games, we didn't see much unfold relationship-wise. Junctioning, no matter how crazy or confusing or tedious, was highly original; kudos to Square for that. And maybe the music sucked at times (*cough* Ragnarok-in-flight score *uncough*) but in the end, i kept playing it. Playing the game through to its ending and being satisfied sits many plinths above all else in my personal rating system. And that's what really matters. To sum it all up, i suppose, FF8 was far more than the sum of its parts.

All in all, i'd say it was a damn decent game. Not spectacular, but pretty decent. Besides,
how easy can it be to follow up a game like FF7?

[Ouch!]

Welcome to EoFF newb.

FFVIII was okay. The first two discs were pretty enjoyable. I cannot say the same about the other two.

[Sapphire]

Heyya! Welcome to EoFF! :)
FFVIII was the very first Final Fantasy game I played.. and I simply love it!! ^_^ <3<3

Oh, and you should go post a thread in General Chat to introduce yerself to the whole board instead though.. ^_~ (not everyone comes here all the time. :p)
Oh, and here ya go.. :save:*hands ya a Fuzzy toy*:save:

[Squall_Lionheart!]

ok hello again, hey thank you for the welcome, it was pretty nice, for the ones who want it, my e-mail is luigi_realmadrid@hotmail.com, so if you want to add me to your msn I don't mind...well thanks for the advice sapphire, I've just posted on the general chat so thanks ^_~ jejeje, well that's all!

Bye

[Maxico]

Hey welcome. hmm i personaly think that the first disk was abosolutly great. I mean with the mission, the band of mercenarys, the assassination attempt, the conspiricys, and so on. later on it seems to lose direction with the "I want to compress time and kill everbody for some reason or another" any way it is a classic game.

oh and welcome to the board.

(yet again i say the same thing as everybody else but later and worse) damn.

[Khemetian_Netcheret]

Welcome to the forums!!!!! ^____^

Final Fantasy VIII is the best Final Fantasy ever!!!!!

[robfinalfantasy]

Welcome to the forums. FF8 is great and so is the junction system.