First of all, I'd like to state the following fact.
I AM NOT UNDERMIMING ANYONE'S OPINION

Not once did I state "so-and-so's opinion is wrong" All I did was say that I didn't agree with it.

Locke Lionheart, I have never stated I don't care about other people's opinions. The thing about brick walls in my sig? that's just a funny quote someone I know said, it doesn't apply to me.

Bashing, huh? Same old, same old. Now you see, here's an interesting thing. You are making me out to be the villain, claiming I go against other's opinions. Yet here you are, implying that I cannot state my own opinion because it isn't yours. Yes, you didn't say that, but you as good as said it when you called me a basher.

100 Reasons? By all means, please do state them. "I would just be talking against myself" No you wouldn't, I would take the time to read every last one of them if you did such a thing.


Phoenix17, yes, FF8 doesn't MAKE you draw. But to be honest, you'd end up getting hammered some time later on. The thing is, the junction system is easily abusable. You yourself say "FFVIII lets you get strong faster than any other FF I've played" EXACTLY! I would also like to point out you say "If you were weak untill you got ultima that was your fault" Both these quotes tie in with what I am about to state. When I replayed Final Fantasy VIII in February 2003-March 2003, I did not get faced with the game over screen once. FACT. All I'm saying is, where's the challenge in constantly summoning monsters to do your bidding, and winning by miles every time.

"Oh no, if I use magic my stats will go down" Well, to that I say "Oh no! If I use GFs they'll get hurt! ooh no!"

When one dies, there's always another one to take it's place and get it's head kicked in - not before it inflicts major damage, unless it's something like Cerebus of course. "Oh no, the games making me making choices and think for a change, make it stop my brain hurts!!! "

Well, in my opinion the game does not let me make a lot of choices. Let me just take the example of Final Fantasy V - You had to choose a team that would fit the situation best and work together well. That is what I call strategy. In 8, all your characters are the same, you junction stuff to each of them - all of them become clones.

borrie - FF7 had cliched characters huh? Well, other than Barret, I personally cannot think of a single cliche. But, until people like Zell came along, he was not a cliche in the Final Fantasy series. I could also compare Squall to Cloud if I so felt like it, and Rinoa to Aeris, and so on, and basically call FF8's characters cliched too, although if I did that, I'd have to call them more cliched, because FF7 was there first.

As for your idea about the story, I think that is a good idea, but if I was being 100% honest, if Square were really aiming to do that, I think they would just make a movie or something - after all, there'd be no need for random encounters.




As a kind of "Final Thought" don't label me as some kind of villain because I don't like a video game, or in particular, your favourite videogame.