underrated?

there might be something about this elsewhere here but i failed to see it so im posting this....
ive gone through VIII many.. many.... many times and i love it its one of my favorite games, but there are so many people who absolutly HATE it... i never realy understood why... the only thing i ever came up with is because of how much of a change it was from VII and people generally dont like change too well... i felt the character had much more emotion to them i really got to know squall and Squall is my favorite FF character... but i would like to hear some thoughts on why you think this Masterpiece is so hated and underrated... or tell me why possibly YOU hate this game....

By the fanboys here, yes, it's underrated, because it doesn't have their precious Sephiroth in it. By the world at large, it was quite overrated.

I think that, after 7, people was expecting too much from 8 so they didn't really want to pay any attention. I think it's great.

to UnGod Squall:

I have been wondering about the same thing. I absolutely worship VIII, it's the greatest thing ever, and even tho I'm right now playing FFVII for the first time and I do think it's great, it will never match VIII.
I've noticed while comparing VIII to VII and X, that in many ways it seems to be an experiment. There's a lot of stuff there that no other FF has, as far as I know. Maybe that can be one thing that angers people.
I've been trying to ignore the bad things people say about it. I know it's great, they apparently don't, so their loss. Please do visit my VIII-centered website www.geocities.com/kamruse :)

Although I do like it, I think it doesn't stand up with the other FF's, and there are a lot of things that I didn't like, like the magic being so weak, no equipment, too similar characters, almost no good abilities... Also a lot of things in the story stayed undeveloped in my opinion.

Personally I am big FFVIII fan too...
I think it is really really underrated...
lot of FF fans dislike it because it was different from traditional FF
and ppl didnt like Junction system which was a change was more complex then equipping stuff to learn it...
I think it was great great game...

No, its overated. Now Final Fantasy tactics, THAT was underated.

I agree, FFT was definitely over shadowed by FF7 due to a bad release date.
I think alot of people disliked the almost over-realism in VIII. Personally I liked it, even if VII did have a better plot.....im my opinion.

I like FF8. I like junctioning, I like the characters, and I like the plots.

*shrugs*

There's a lot of people that are a lot more picky than me. They're the ones that shun all the movies they see, etc. Unless something's *really* bad, I don't mind. And there's some things I find fanfrickin'tabulous that people are like 'wtp?' about.

but anyways, some people just like to nitpick. or they're not easily satisfied or something.

I just know it's an awesome game and I like it probably the best of the ffs I've played so far. . . which is most of them.

chaos: Underrated? Hardly from what I've seen. Although, the game is quite good, fanboys/girls really seem to get to me.

I liked FF 8 alot but i just think FF 7 was better. It had a better plot and i liked the materia system.

I dont see why, everytime someone dislikes someone else's favorite game, that person has to be discredited. It's not simply "Oh, they didnt like it" it's "They didnt understand" "It was too complex for them" "They're just blinded by VII". and so on.

No, a lot of people just didnt like it. For all the genuine reasons people have for liking it, others have just as many genuine reasons for disliking it.

people mention how great the materia system is... but i think it brought too much similarities to FFIII(VI) Esper system.... FFVIII was a huge change from the tradition rpg as a whole... i mean i love how Squall at the start doesnt even want to be the leader.... and let alone understand why everyone wanted him to be

I personally like FF8 better. I mean, why FF7 is so cool anyway?
Don't want to discredit things but FF8 has the coolest story.

I do love VIII's story, like everything else in the game, but VII's story is also great. You know it's a true FF-story when you just can't wait to hear more :)