I can understand someone disliking FFVIII for the game mechanics. We discussed it earlier in this thread and I think you definately proved your point.Originally Posted by Vivi22
I actually like FFVIII, but even I'm not ignorant to it's problems. I'm not going to rehash the discussion on how broken the junction system is since we covered that earlier in the thread. But I will say that it does not have the best love story ever. The most non-sensical one perhaps. Squall spent most of the game not caring about anyone including Rinoa. Then out of nowhere he apparently loves her. His character and attitude changed drastically for no real reason whatsoever. You want a good FF love story then play FFX. At least Tidus and Yuna's relationship developed naturally into love over the course of the game. It never felt forced to me like in FFVIII. Or even look at FFVI and the relationship between Locke and Celes for another good example. Toss in the plot twists that make no logical sense as ReloadPsi mentioned and you've got a story that's better suited to an RPG made ten years prior FFVIII's release when these absurdities would have been more acceptable. It certainly wasn't a huge step forward for the series. It may have started strong, but the writers dropped the ball by the end.
But I have to honestly say, that when peopel criticize the storylines in newer FF games it relies purely on nitpicking which then gets exaggerated.
I don't want to sound undermining, but I think some of you need to grow up and experience the real world before you call the love story "non-sensical". In real life there's plenty of examples everywhere you turn with people giving their emotions to someone who doesn't care about them. I've seen plenty of times when girls or even guys fall for the person who treats them badly, in the worst cases with significant others who are flat out cruel to them. This happens all the time. I felt VIII's love story was a little more complicated than your traditional, stereotypical, cliches video game love story and it added a level of reality to it.
You could look at the first 6 installments and say that they barely have character development at all, villains who are almost completely irrelevant to the plot, and hardly any plot to begin with.
OR you could play these games for what they are and enjoy them, like my man WK said earlier in this thread. I swear internet forums are dominated, or at least infested, by a group of gamers who went through the newer FFs restlessly searching for reasons to hate them. All of the games in the series are great, especially for their respective times, so please, as gamers, as a community, we need to stop the hate.
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