Am I completely alone??

[aeris2001x2]

yeah thats right, stop picking on ffVIII

[Codak]

Stop picking on everything.

[aeris2001x2]

yeah, worship ffVII instead! *transmits brainwashing waves to ensnare victims*

[Ancient Goddess]

You either like it or ya don't.

Why continue to keep thinking about things you feel to be negative? No wonder some of you hate this game, you're full of thinking about the bad things in it and not the good things.

And if you can't think of anything good to say, don't say anything at all. All you're doing is annoying people that disagree with you.

Well, I can't speak for everyone here, but I was responding to the original question, which iluvpenelo asked if he was alone in thinking that FFVIII was inferior to the other Final Fantasies....generally in a thread like this one, you'll hear a lot of people discuss the bad points in the game, in order to prove their point that it is indeed inferior, as well as agreeing with the person who start this thread.

And as for annoying people who disagree with me, everyone's entitled to an opinion, and being on a forum tends to allow people to express them. Everyone doesn't agree with everyone...it's a fact of life.

[aeris2001x2]

imagine how boring life would be if we all agreed

[Codak]

I'm not saying agree.

It's just antagonizing for someone to begin a discussion that contradicts the purpose of the place their discussing in.

Someone wouldn't walk into the NRA Headquarters and yell at the NRA leaders simply because that person opposes personally owned firearms.

[Ancient Goddess]

It's just antagonizing for someone to begin a discussion that contradicts the purpose of the place their discussing in.

The topic was discussing how FFVIII was a bad game, or one of the least bests. If you read some of the posts, you'll notice that many people agree with the one who began the thread, and expressed their opinions about how they disliked FFVIII. We weren't exactly negative about it....just adding our input.

I'm not intending to come off as a b****. I know that a lot of people tend to draw that conclusion about me, and I just wanted to clear that up, before you start taking my statements more seriously. I just like stating my opinion.

imagine how boring life would be if we all agreed

Indeed.

[Del Murder]

Yes, it was inferior to VII and IX. It was still good though.

[Iceglow]

yeah, worship ffVII instead! *transmits brainwashing waves to ensnare victims*

Hah but my mind is just too powerful for one person to ensnare instead I will ensnare you to worship of all games Barbies driving game mwahhhaahaahahahahaha *evil laugh*

[Codak]

NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

[Sir Laguna...]

And I'm just saying that FFVIII is far superior to previous FF, not only in a Technical way... its... its just much better.

[GhandiOwnsYou]

Really.... Do we HAVE to do this every two freaking days? is there someone, ANYONE who can put a sticky topic at the top of the page? Maybe an Official Banning of VIII bashing posts? even a CONSTANT VIII bashing post just to centralize it. I mean, jebus. I HAVE to have posted in eight hundred of these things. We get it. FFVIII is a black and white topic. You hate and want to demolish each copy across the globe, or you love them and want to cuddle up next to your Squally Plush. Maybe even a LIST.

For:
Societyz Antidote

Against:
ILuvPenelo (No offense to you, just needed a random against name)

That would clear it up right fast. Nice Succinct tally of the Pos/Neg votes. But JESUS STOP MAKING THESE TOPICS!!!!! *rolls eyes*

My Rant is over. And in hopes this will be the LAST of these topics (which FLOOD the FFVIII forum) I hereby cast my Positive Vote for FVIII.

EDIT: Don't double post next time. -SD

[Ouch!]

Major spoilers below, be warned.

I have to agree with Ancient Goddess. The first disc and a half of FFVIII was awesome. I especially loved the beginning. I loved trying to beat the Fire Cavern as fast as I could and then trying to take out X-ATM092, that thing was awesome. Then shipping off to do the train mission and capture the fake President. Then through Galbadia, to the King's Tomb where you could go off to fight the Brothers, then back to Galbadia to assassinate the sorceress Edea.

The whole first disc, every step of the way, had something interesting for you to do. The plot wasn't anything special, but that's because it was still developing. What it developed into was a monster.

The second disc lost everything the first disc had. It slowly turned into list. Do this, then this, then this. With a couple things on the side that were available but nothing special. At the end of the second disc, it just turned for the worst. It was horrible. Ultimecia was so irritating. She has to go down as one of the worst villains ever.

I like a villain to be present at some point, egging you on as you go. Sephiroth (or JENOVA if you go by that theory) kept you chasing him the whole game. You knew who he was. You could identify him as a bad guy. Kuja was introduced at the end of the first disc and slowly became more prominent, but you had other people to hate as well. Even in X you had Sin to identify as an enemy. VI had Kefka. IV had Golbez, you always had someone to push you along. FFVIII had Edea, until they wrote her off as possessed and then she lost all her powers and wasn't even a threat anymore.

Not to mention the love story. For the first two discs, Squall writes Rinoa off as an irritation. He doesn't have any feelings for her, except during the dance, but that was when he didn't know her and it was just curiousity. Then after she goes comatose, he starts flipping out about how much he loves her and that he might never hear her voice again or anything like that- he sounded like Cloud after Aeris died, but he had actually showed affection before that.

Not to mention Square's use of time travel. It just confusing everything. You have to be very careful when you use something like time travel, especially when you're going to make it very important in the story. They never made it clear exactly what time compression was going to be like. Past, present, and future together... then why, when time compression began, did we only see Ultimecia's castle in the future? I know it wasn't complete but even still, there wasn't any hint of the past- which would have been slightly more interesting.

Sure, I have beefs with the other games, but I can't write as much as I have about why they suck.

[Codak]

In a war-torn world, you think your enemy leaders are gonna just stand in front of you? =p

Pretty nice review though.

[mtyclb]

FFVII was better than FFVIII & FFIX combined.
But I think FFVIII was better than FFIX.