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i understand your reasons for not liking it, but that same reason is a reason why i DO like it... a lot of final fantasys to hold a love/hate relationship with a lot of people, we could go forever on who is wrong and who is right, but really no one is right and no one is wrong... its not like im here to change someones point of view, i was just wondering if anyone else felt the same way i do about FF8... a lot of people do... a lot of people dont
This game is the best ff ever made and will be because everything about it was brilliant, so it was under-rated in that sense. i think some people didnt like it because it was a more serious game than it predocessors, which some lifetime players of ff didnt want to accept. i hope that they make another game like this, or even better a sequel of some sort ;)
Yes, but no one is insinuating you're dumb for liking it, so please do us the same favor.
The Junction/Draw system was not difficult, it was annoying.
And FFVIII fan... really, gimme a break. More serious? There are plenty of serious FF games. I really dont think it was that terribly serious anyway. There were plenty of funny, odd scenes in there, as much as any other really. The main theme wasnt that it was serious, but that it was romantic, and while almost every FF had a bit of romance, this one made it the main focus. Which can be good, but in VIII it just served to spotlight two characters and shun the rest.
XD. Since when was a monster in FFVIII hard anyway?Quote:
Originally Posted by FallenAngel411
The intressting thing is... in my opinion, the battle system was the good part of FF8. Story and characters could have been done much better but the battle system was great. The only bad thing was that you could be a god by just drawing/refining a few times... and that the battles where to easy. But other than that, everything about the battles were perfect. Oh, and I also have to say that most magics sucked when used. Since your stats are being wasted when you're using spells, they should have been extremely powerfull, not extremely crappy.
But that's just my opinion. :cool:
it's pretty cool when meltdown does consistant 9999 damage though ^_^ one of the more useful spells.
Yea, there's a few usefull spells. But 95% of the spells in the game are just crapp. And the few spells that actually are good are almost overpowered instead. Aura and Meltdown can turn a tough foe into a Bite Bug.Quote:
Originally Posted by rubah
You gotta have balance somewhere.
it's like having 1/2 * 2/1 and getting 1, instead of just 1*1 to get 1.
(of course 1/2 would be scan. Hateful thing)
Wow i couldnt agree more..FF8 is AMAZING!!!! It's the most original FF by far and i respect that phenominly (er however thats spelled :rolleyes2 ) like someone stated earlier pepole cant adapt to change...especially pepole who dont appreciate things for what they are...but without change *gulps* everything would be the same....and thats **Boring** and noone likes to be bored :p i can understand why pepole would hate it...but you gotta respect it...if you dont then you dont understand FF and you dont understand rpgs and above all you dont understand PANDAS!! (ok maybe not pandas..or rpgs..but ff definatly :cool: )
my favorite one so far :) . the best memories lie in there :love: :p . i had a great time in FF7 too, but FF8 was the one that started it all :jap: . i started to write my own fanfics and everything after it :jap: . i don't think it was underrated ;) , but it sure seemed to be that way for FF9 :mad: .
ill tell ya what, i have been playin the game since feb. and i am stuck on disc 2. i think the graphics are terrible. i really got into the game until i got stuck. i never use walkthroughs or cheats i like to figure it out. i just beat ff9, today, it was excellent. my fav one is ffx of course, and i still have all the other ones to play.
another thing ive noticed, is it seems to me that a lot of the ones who really dont like it are the ones who picked up on the FF series around IX or X.. its hard to play a modern game and go back to one which in every way is obselete.. ive tried getting a few of my friends into VII and VIII but they talk crap on it before they start because of they "blocky" graphics... they just cant get over that to get into them.. but right now he got X and loves it because it has better graphics and such...
ive been playing FF since the US release of FFII in 1991 so when i look back at VII and VIII graphics i still see them as amazing, sure 9 and 10 have sharper graphics and a bit more developed features, but that doesnt remove any of the greatness of VIII or VII does it?
I've been playing FF as long as you have, UnGod. Good way to generalize people, though.
Nope. While technically I played ff5 first, I played ff8 after a year or two of playing ffx and x-2.Quote:
it seems to me that a lot of the ones who really dont like it are the ones who picked up on the FF series around IX or X.
The graphics were a bit of a shock, but I got used to them quickly. So really unless you have a lot of materialistic (graphicalistic?) people, it's a null point.
very true, but im just saying that there are a lot of people who put graphics above anything else when picking up a game, and when people look back at VII and VIII they just dont even give them a chance... sorry if i was misunderstood
That's really not the case with the Playstation FF games. People are obsessed with VII, it's their big hit and still sells copies. The graphics are far worse than VIII, so that isnt the reason people arent liking VIII. I played VIII as soon as it came out, so it was top of the line graphics for me.