I have never played it before. And I wanted to know.
What system is it on?
good cutscenes?
likeable characters?
worth the time to play?
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I have never played it before. And I wanted to know.
What system is it on?
good cutscenes?
likeable characters?
worth the time to play?
Its on Playstation 1, but its graphics are on the top end for most PS1 games. The cutscenes are pretty exciting, one of the better parts of the game imo. Some of the characters can get on your nerves. super-emo main character, hyperactive sidekicks, and although the only real love story driven storyline, its also rather weak imo. The junction system is needlessly confusing as wellQuote:
What system is it on?
good cutscenes?
likeable characters?
worth the time to play?
Its worth the time to play yes, but I consider it one of the weaker FF games *ducks*
Well, it has one of the most moving love stories in the series.
It's widely concidered to be a somewhat "stiff" game, though, because of the complicated Junction system and the rather slow pace.
I say give it a try, but don't expect too much at once.
This game needs some time in order to grow on you.
It has a great story (confusing though) and Junction system takes time and the graphics are great compared to other ps1 games and has a cute love story if you have the time you should try the game out :greenie:
Good Graphics.
Aside from that though, its seriously lacking. In all Catagories.
Well, the musics good too. But the game itself, not that good.
Not the greatest Final Fantasy ever but still very good and worth playing at least once for all the reasons mentioned.
it may not be as good as the others but the characters and the story is great its alot to get your head round though and if you junction them up right they can kick assQuote:
Originally Posted by NeoCracker
I personally dislike this game for many reasons, however you should play it anyway so you can see whether or not you like it. Personally I found the characters boring, the only ones that got any development were Squall, Laguna and Rinoa, though the development they got made the story worse in my opinion. I loathe Rinoa. She's probably my most hated FF character. The only story is the Love story and thats pretty weak itself, though if you play you should see why.
Most peoples problems with this game is the Junction system but I actually found that quite fun. What I didn't find fun was the Drawing magic part.
Responding to the post of an FF VIII hater? When will you silly fans ever learn that can only lead to a response of even more hate?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rianoait may not be as good as the others but the characters and the story is great its alot to get your head round though and if you junction them up right they can kick assQuote:
Originally Posted by NeoCracker
The STory isn't all that great. It had potential to be Great. In fact FF VIII had a lot of great Ideas. THe problem is Square took all those great Ideas and :skull::skull::skull::skull: on them. The GF Memory thing? Not a bad Idea. However it realy didn't effect anything in the story. Accept making Irvine look like a total douche.
I mean he doesn't have a problem with putting a bullet in his Adels head, regardless of the fact she raised him. (The reason he coudln't shoot is he was nervous he would miss, it didn't seem to have anything to do with Adel.)
There is virtually no character develpoment for anyone accept for Squall and Rinoa. Both of which are really annoying.
The Love triangle between Squall, Seifer, and Rinoa? Not really a bad Idea, but not original. Not that it mattered, as it really didn't effect anything.
Ultimecia? Not a bad Idea again, villian from the future. Wants to rule all time. But why? What are the reasons? Is she really just that much of a bitch?
FF VIII is the horrible Catastrophe that comes about when you try to shove to many things into one game.
In FFVIII:
- You won't have to busy yourself with leveling its characters!
- Triple Triad is very, very fun and addictive!
- You can obtain nearly all items that are used for upgrading characters' weapons by refining cards!
- Selphie is very cute!
- Each location has a unique appearance and a special atmosphere!
- Moombas are very cute!
- Its ending is great (Laguna x Raine might melt you)!
Its dialogue is annoying, but you should play, play, play it!
It's also available on PC but you'll need a patch or something to play it on XP
Its a very enjoyable game
One of the reason FF VIII gets a bad rep is because of the VII fanboys. They claim it's too complicated, or lacklustre. Chances are they're just too stupid to play it.
The Junctioning system is overwhelming, but AT FIRST ONLY. Why? Because there aren't many skills to use with it yet. You aren't sure what you are doing is correct, when you probably are doing just fine (the game does not allow for bad moves.) Junctioning basically means you are taking character A and GF's (summoned monsters) B-however many you choose, and they are leveling together. The GF boosts your player with stats and magic. I thought it was very well executed. It doesn't take a PhD to work this beast.
I prefer VIII over VII anyday. the whole ensemble just trumps VII.
FF VIII may not be the greatest FF but sure is one of the best! I just love it. The story is really exciting and moving develops extremely well. It's a fantastic game and I just don't have words to express how much I like it so just play it and you'll see for yourself if you think it's worth. Still I do recommend it to you ! ;P
Playstation Part 1.Quote:
Originally Posted by thr33chears4Rikku!
Yes, in my opinon some of the best came from VIII.Quote:
Originally Posted by thr33chears4Rikku!
Very likeable, but you need to give them time, as they are not as they appear but FFs are like that which is why I love them. I also might be saying that since most of the characters remind me of people I knew, and the main reminded me of myself when I was younger - so FFVIII is pretty close to home for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by thr33chears4Rikku!
Hell yes! Infact I'm not even sure that this needs answering.Quote:
worth the time to play?
By the way it's my 2nd.
It's worth playing just to break it. You can have the game broken before you reach Timber.
If you're confused by junctioning, you need to get smarter xD
It's better than FFX-2.
You should at least try it to see if you like it. Alot of people hate on it, but alot of people like it alot.
I think it's a very good game and the story is also very good.
About the only thing I like in FFVIII is the gameplay. I enjoy the junction system, despite the fact that it's extremely easy to abuse. The game also sports one of the better soundtracks in the series.
On the other hand, I feel that the story is lacking. Whether or not one is a fan of the game, one must admit that a majority of the cast is left fairly underdeveloped. All of the characters have potential to be very good, but their development is limited to a single event, and then they're all but abandoned in favor of the love story (which I personally found contrived).
FFVIII is one of the those love it or hate it games. It's worth a shot. Be sure to at least give it until half way through the second disc. By then you'll have a good idea of where the plot is heading, and you'll undoubtedly have a good feel for the game play.
P.S. The triple triad card game is freaking amazing.
I am sorry, but this is hilarious. The story in VIII is ridiculous at best (generally very badly done) and the gameplay system is horrendously broken (once you understand it).Quote:
I think it's a very good game and the story is also very good.
You play it because these things are so bad they make it fun, not because they're good.
I will second the other guy that Triple Triad is awesome, though.
Triple Triad is a horrid game.
Though I will give it this, unlike FF IX's, the game is actually useful for your characters.
(Though I still think IX's is funner)
It's a great game with a fantastic storyline imo. Why fantastic? Because it is. Characters aren't the greatest but Squall and Seifer are still cool characters.
It's a fun game to explore in and it's still my favorite FF. Damn you people who hate it.
I'm more than willing to rip into FFVII's flaws any day of the week (it's not even around the top of my list of favourite FF's), but FFVIII has more than it's fair share of problems.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scarmiglione
The story starts well but gets pretty bad as it goes on. There are plenty of Deus Ex Machina plot twists, combined with character development that's either cliched, makes no sense, comes out of nowhere, or even all of the above. Combine that with boring characters (with the exception of Laguna and company), and a villian that is neither interesting, nor even developed and the story can be pretty boring.
The Junction system isn't complicated either. In fact, the only thing it is is broken. It's incredibly easy to overpower your characters extremely early on, and it's always obvious just which spells you should junction, and which stats will benefit you the most. Before long, you're crushing enemies with no effort to a degree that doesn't happen in other FF's without spending a lot of time power leveling.
And then there's the soundtrack. It's still decent overall, but it isn't Uematsu's best work. Many of the themes border on being elevator music quality. Granted, some of the songs are amazing, but those are few and far between.
All that said, I still enjoyed the game overall (hard to believe, I know, considering how I just ripped into it). It's worth at least one playthrough for any FF fan anyway. Heck, I've played through multiple times myself.
Confusing is a weird I regret using to describe the junction - Abstract is more accurate. Spoonys rant says it best. What does 100 fire look like? Why can you only have 100 fire? why not 50, why not 101? What happens when you juction fire to something, how are you junctioning it? Is there a physical process involved?
With every other FF the magic/ability system at least made a little sense, and the most abstract one, FF1, is still less abstract than the bs that Junctioning is. Materia- you equip it, Theres a physical process involved in this. Espers I always imagined you wearing on a pendant around your neck or something (or just thrown in your pocket), or you have games where characters learn spells naturally based on their class, or buy scrolls which teach it to them.
But drawing magic (whatever process that entails... reaching into the enemy pockets and grabbing a handful of fire magic...?), and "junctioning" it to statistics with no physical or mental process involved?
And the whole thing about equipping GFs and later in the game finding out that they are erasing your memories? wtf? Do GFs get lodged into your brain or something?
Noobs l2p.
Do you like any ff games ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Godhand
The only thing wrong with it was the graphics out of FMV, the cliche knight saves the day storyline and some of the characters were off. For instance, Selphie, went from loving trains to wanting to blow them up. Other then that, if you like romantic RPG's with fantastic music then you should probably play it.
You may feel the story is very bad, I know alot of people on this forum do, but alot of people also feel it was very good. If you want to list specifics, maybe we could get somewhere.Quote:
Originally Posted by Godhand
Some of you are broken records.
Just play it and find out for yourself. Don't listen to what anyone else thinks, positive or not.
ff8 is a pretty polarizing game. Most people find it hard to be neutral about, either they love or hate it.
The reasons I like it:
it has a love story <3
junctioning gives me pretty awesome control over my characters
witches :D
pretty fantastic fmvs, even if they're low quality resolution wise
it has this feel that is just nostalgic for everything I like. the little details of computers, magazines, pets, etc, it makes me think of the early 90s when I was little, I guess and they just make me happy
oh, and pretty much all of disk 3.
things that are not so great about it
it has ps1 graphics. that's hard to get used to sometimes
there are some dumb parts to the plot
some of your modes of transportation (while so cool in theory) are pretty annoyingly slow >:[ and you have to listen to the overworld theme the entire time >:[
What was broken about the gameplay?
Junctioning made Magic useless. Other than that, it was fine.Quote:
Originally Posted by rubah
I guess it's all opinion, I myself thought that VIII was a brilliant game, and I don't think there are any Dues Ex - whatever storylines at all. Everything, that's everything is foreshadowed, you just have to look for some of them, which one of the many things I love about the whole FF series. It's like in FFIX, a lot of people still think that (SPOILER)the final boss Necron was never hinted towards, but they are wrong. I didn't find the characters "boring" either, they all played they're part, and I found Squall probably the easiest of all FF characters to relate to.
Who ever made that comment about "The FFVII fan boys" it's completely right. I know because, I was one my self. I was so obsessed with VII I just refused to give VIII a chance. But when I did, I was mesmerised. Final Fantasy VII is still my favourite, but Final Fantasy VIII has enough of my respect as a game to my 2nd.
But I know people disagree, and will continue to do so - that's life I guess, we can't all like the same thing.
Oh, and Junctioning was easy.
I think its a good game and you should give it a shot.
I'll admit when i first played it i hated it...but that was when i was young and naiive. I replayed it a year ago and I have to admit i loved it, although it isn't my favorite. I enjoyed the storyline and I liked Squall's character a lot.. i nearly peed my pants the first time he rejected a hand shake haha but yeah definetly a lot of critics for this game..but then again there are a lot for each game...how many threads are there bashing VII, IX, and XII? A lot, and there all still good games. People have there biases so you just have to try it for yourself.
Hahahaha! Truer words were never spoken!Quote:
Originally Posted by Takara
All FFs are worth playing.
Excluding FFX-2 if that counts.
Guess you didn't like draw-cast then!Quote:
Originally Posted by SkybladeJunctioning made Magic useless. Other than that, it was fine.Quote:
Originally Posted by rubah
I would actually rather play X-2.Quote:
Originally Posted by ReloadPsiHahahaha! Truer words were never spoken!Quote:
Originally Posted by Takara
As if magic needed to be used in FFVIII. You leave Squall in yellow and let him limit break constantly ;)
You can also make your characters exceedingly powerful very quickly very early on, which takes the challenge out of a great deal of the game.Quote:
Originally Posted by SkybladeJunctioning made Magic useless. Other than that, it was fine.Quote:
Originally Posted by rubah
It's probably worth noting though that this generally won't effect people who are playing the game for the first time, since they probably won't have a great enough knowledge of the junctioning system to be able to abuse it, so it isn't really something the OP needs to take into consideration.
"Drawing magic is dumb and tedious," and "It's too easy to overpower your party," don't seem like valid complaints, since this game doesn't force your characters to draw magic or junction it to their stats.
Your playthroughs are as easy, as balanced, or as challenging as you make them, ya know?
Forcing players to not take advantage of the battle system if they want a decent challenge is a pretty stupid way of going about things. A game should reward players for understanding the battle system but not to the point where it's not even remotely challenging. Games are designed to be won and most players are preconditioned into doing anything they possibly can to achieve that result. If the designers really wanted to give the player the option of setting their own difficulty level, then they should have included easy, medium and hard options at the beginning.
It was more of a pain in the arse having to level Materia, to be honest.
D=Quote:
Originally Posted by Karellen
Unless I'm mistaken, it's fun.Quote:
Originally Posted by Karellen
Maybe level grinding is more to your taste!Quote:
Originally Posted by Karellen
Baloney!Quote:
Originally Posted by Karellen
I'm sure there are some people who don't mind. I don't think it makes FFVIII unplayable or anything. Doesn't make it less broken though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marshall banana
That conclusion doesn't make any sense. Just because I don't like a broken leveling system doesn't mean I would support another equality stupid leveling system.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marshall banana
I can tell you that this is the greatest FF I have ever played , and no matter what happens FFVIII is my favorite .
Some people say that the story is just a love story , but I really think they didn't play the game to the end . I agree that the love story in FFVIII is a lot stronger than most of other FFs , but FFVIII has its own world saving , evil fighting story . and I don't know what's the problem of some people with its love story .
the drawing magic may be boring sometimes but isn't leveling up in other FFs boring as well and the junction system maybe hard at first but you can always use the autojunction to easily junction your magics in the way you want .
Some people say that the characters aren't modified well but I think they are all well modified and you always can relate with them (If I'm using The right words) like (SPOILER)Squall being cold and appear selfish , Rinoa being warm and open on the other hand , Selphie's cheerful character , Zell being hot headed and short tempered , while Quistis being calm most of the time , And Irvine being the prev on the surface , and Seifer being the selfish one and teasing other (specially Zell) and all other characters that they have their right place in the story.
The only thing I can tell you (Like everyone were telling you before) is to play the game and decide for yourself that you like this game or not .
X-2 lacked the killing Rinoa fun factor. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by NeoCrackerI would actually rather play X-2.Quote:
Originally Posted by ReloadPsiHahahaha! Truer words were never spoken!Quote:
Originally Posted by Takara
No, I still have no love for Rinoa. *dodges bricks from Rinoa lovers*
However, I must say that while the game is flawed and had great potential that, in my opinion, was wasted, it can be pretty addictive. I've beat it a lot of times. Still not as often as FFIV and FFVI, but FFVIII is coming up there...
Yup I agree. The storyline absolutely blows me away. And the music is second to none, Eyes On Me is my mobile ringtone. The graphics are stunning and the cutscenes take the player through a torrent of emotions that no other game manages to create. Triple Triad, a challenging but easy to master card game offers a break from levelling up as well as being extremely beneficial as higher level cards can be refined into very rare and useful items. And to top it all off there is the beloved Selphie Tilmitt, the hottest animated character sine Betty Rubble. I honestly struggle to see a downside to VIII and strongly reccomend that you give it a thourough seeing to. :mog:Quote:
Originally Posted by Takero
FFVIII was the first FF game I ever bought (Had borrowed and finished FF7 previously though). To be honest I never finished it until a few years later. I was still too young and the junction system confused me. I didn't really realise the enemies level up with you, so I ended up with an all round level 100 party with crappy junctions so I got my ass handed to me against the final boss.
The overall story is good, and it isn't simply a love story, that part of the game is just 3/4 of the 3rd disc, after fighting Edea, until you get Rinoa back in your party. The rest of the game is about killing Edea, killing Adel and killing Ultimecia however it's spelt. PWN THE SORCERESSES.
The junction system is great. It allows you to Have incredible power right from the start (like, the VERY start, before you do anything serious at ALL) thanks to cardmod. I had 300 tornado's, 300 meltdowns, 300 quakes and stuff - this allowed me to power through the game until getting the ragnarok, where I went and got Ultima and such. I even got The Lion heart before going to Galbadia garden.
The worst thing about the game is teh beginning in my opinion. The first disc is slow and the Laguna scenes annoy me. drawing magic is a pain in the ass, just like getting magic from cardmod/refine. once you have good magic and encounter-none, you can just walk through the storyline and it's incredibly amusing.
So, it's a good game. One of the lesser Final Fantasy's though. You need to dedicate time to it to enjoy it, and there WILL be areas of boredom and annoyance. DEFINATELY worth a play through though.
One word: Yes!
I'm just replying without reading any of the posts after the original so excuse me if I repeat things that have already been said ^-^;;
It's on the PS1 and the cutscenes, characters, and whether the game is worth it or not is a matter of opinion :pQuote:
What system is it on?
good cutscenes?
likeable characters?
worth the time to play?
Some helpful information:
You acquire magic by using the Draw command on monsters or at drawpoints and stock it like an item. You can use the magic and/or junction it to a particular stat.
The Junction system takes some getting used to, but it's not so difficult after you've been messing around with it for awhile. Easy to exploit though...once you have easy access to some powerful magic your characters are practically invincible.
Here's a little tip if you play:
Have your GFs learn Junction and Refining abilities ASAP. Items can be refined in to a LOT of magic.
It is definately worth playing. My favourite Final Fantasy game.
great cutscenes...awesome characters with such diverse personalities....the main character is a badass....i mean it...just trying blowing everyone off that talks to you...its hard.....and yes, very much worth the time to play....in reference to the first response....though it may take a few minutes to find out how to junction well....junctioning will make your characters EXTREMELY powerful...dont ignore it if you play FF8
Whether you like or hate FFVIII comes down to preference. It isn't one or the other. Try it. You may find a great game, or a game that appears not so great to you. I personally liked the game, some others did not though...
This one was personally my favorite one. Not quite sure why, but I think it was the first one that I got really attached to before heading off into old school land and playing the rest of them.
You can find it for PSone pretty cheap these days. Graphically, the CG cutscenes are topnotch for those days, and still regarded as the best on the system. Also, the Guardian Force summon animations are some of the best in the series imo.
A lot of people don't like the junction system very much, but if you take the time and just do it, and do it right, your characters can become INSANELY powerful. In order to do that though, you're gonna have to rely on your GFs for quite some time in order to gain most of the helpful abilities you can use, so for some, having to rely on GFs is a burden.
Also, the Triple Triad card game is a blast! Super addictive imo.
FFVIII also has what I think is one the best, if not the best, FF soundtracks of em all. It's the only one to me where every single track is a standout track, and it was one the last memorable ones. Once X, or even IX, came around, the soundtracks just didn't have the impact they used to. (XII anyone? Name three memorable songs off of that game...didn't think so haha)
Give it a shot and see what you think. I don't think I love a game more than I do FFVIII.