FF VIII....not the Best FF

[Shoden]

no thats not it as the present and future have been intertwined nothing makes sense in the compression. you see ultimecia was on the other side of the compression

[Drinkinlinkin]

The only thing I really disliked from Final Fantasy VIII was the end because it went small screened I know most of it was being shown through a video camera that Irvine was holding but still just made me a bit mad. Everything else about the game is great but I'm not going to start arguing why.

[finalheaven]

erm..whater..honestly i should think you shoud think about the way you write ur threads before you actaully start them. i dont think its the worst game ever..its not my favourite ff8 is one of hte ffs whicch has very mixed iopinions about.ff7 has always been my fav and as 8 is more of a love stroy ,it may or may not appeal to people. i donmt hink its the WORST if u thank thats bad what about another particular*coughnine*.8 is good but not the best..^_^

[Shoden]

(yeah ff9 was an embaressment to all Final Fantasy, 8 was a longer game and had a simpler story which is why i liked it better than 7)

[ShivaBlizzard8]

I like FF9. Vivi's one of the best FF characters ever.

Now Mystic Quest - that wins worst FF award.

[DJZen]

I'm the most incongruous fan of FFVIII you'll ever find. Why?

Plot: The plot, when translated well enough to make sense, is perfectly fine, right up until Rinoa gets all vegitative. Then it just stops making any sense whatsoever. When Squall first meets Rinoa, he's all "Whatever, I don't care about you, just shutup and leave me alone you stupid b" but when she goes comatose he's all "OMG I NEED YOU!!!! DON'T LEAVE ME!!!!!!" It's not just juvenile, it just doesn't make sense. I mean, sure, you could argue that Squall was hiding his true feelings all along, but there's no indication of this. He just ignores her then suddenly when her life's in danger he becomes inexplicably attached. Also, that whole compressed time thing..... WHAT?

Graphics: Sure, they're nice, whatever...

Music: Eyes On Me is a piece of fluff, and I can't remember any other songs from the game off hand. I guess the soundtrack was just that impressive.

Gameplay: Junction system pwnz j00. Using it you can make yourself nigh invincible against most bosses and exploit weaknesses liek WHOT!!!!!!1111 My only complaint is that summoning GFs is a necessary evil and you'll totally destroy your thumb from Boosting (which I'm convinced is a form of steroids for GFs). The refining system is also really interesting, but many of the uses of it involve ultra rare items. I'm not huge on that sorta 10 hour long mini quest type of deal, but other aspects of the game really make up for it.

[rubah]

I wouldn't say ff9 was an embarassment. Not anymore than I'd say X-2 was. And I wouldn't say it was. It may have been really boring at times, but not embarassing.
Anyways.

I liked ff8 a lot.

I guess part of it is the 'Hmm, I bet these are the two in the picture, omp! I can't wait for them to get together!DDD' girly part of me.

A second part of it is disc three. I love disc three.

Heh, it's sort of embarassing, but the entire space scene, I had my fingers crossed seven times just saying 'c'mon hot hot astronaut lovin', c'mon!' I was a bit disappointed, but not much.

Then squall gets to be a big idiot, and be the one going 'omg, why didn't I think of that!11one'

and then dangit, you get the ragnarok. Flying that thing for the first time was better than any astronaut loving. (and this was at a time when I just got back from space camp, so I had a bit of a mind set readjustment. (incidentally that was something we had pondered there-- "doing it" in space, so it was one of those cool coincidences that seem to happen too often)</geekery>)

and man, when I found out that the right analog stick moves the stupid thing forwards and backwards, it just go backwards. I swear, the first time I got ragna, I just spent about five minutes flying it back and forth, just FLYING.

and I guess a third part would be the characters [especially] Squall and Rinoa themselves. I mean, you're practically inside squall's mind the entire time, which seems a lot more rpgy than the others have been (except imagine that, ffx. although the effect is ruined a bit by the masculine voice acting^^) although I suppose some people prefer to imagine what people are thinking, and would rather think something else than what their rpcharacter is.

And as for Rinoa, I think the best word to describe this would be "Foil"

The predominant example would be sixth grade basketball. I have no idea why I signed up for it that year, but I was told constantly I needed to be more aggressive. I tend to have an issue with that, preferring to use subtleties or not doing anything at all rather than being upfront, brusque, and well, aggressive about stuff. And Rinoa is hardly meek. Speaks her mind, takes initiative, and is very obvious about being scared. A foil indeed.

And she's got a really really cool character design

and instead of making this post longer, let it suffice to say that this game really seemed like it was made for me. So many of the things that I've liked, was interested in, or was connected to somehow since like, forever: military school, tall dark and handsome guys, flying, magic[inaffgamewhereitmakessenseforacoupleofpeopletohaveit], space, mythologies, a main character with highlights like my sister used to have, a really retro 90's feeling throughout (like, early ninties. almost 80s), a selfcontained card game, ability to control statistics, not a ton of weapons, just enough to be useful to get a new one. (the sheer number of weapons in ffx is scary. and so many of them are useless), two people falling in love, and most importantly, it arriving before ff7, along with ff9, and my choosing to open it first, because logic told me it would be in the middle between 7, which was supposed to be the greatest thing since sliced bread, and 9 which should have the best graphics since before they had a ps2. And people seemed to be very divided on it, whether it was awesome or whether it sucked, so why not take it and find out once and for all which it really was?

Obviously it is about halfway between 7 and 9 graphics wise. I'm not really sure if it's in between 7 and 9 in terms of likeability, but dangit. . .
Obviously my opinion is that it was awesome.

(oh, and angelo search is like the funnest thing ever If you get tired, you can just quit and let the thing do it itself^_^ and you can always catch up again in count^_^)
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[Cloud57]

Hey i NEVER said that FFVIII was the worst game ever. I just said it wasn't the best. OKay??? And i think that my thread was pretty good this time. Alot of ppl wrote replies

[Goblin]

Ok First of all, I'm just gonna state that my favorite is FFVIII. And if you're interested, you can read my reasons. ^_^

Music
I like ALL Final Fantasy music.

Characters
I realise that there wasn't much character growth aside from Squall. But he grew a LOT. He went from cold and unemotional to crying and smiling. And just because they didn't grow doesn't mean they weren't cool.
And, I suppose, we can get into character design. Selphie, though a little annoying at times, was adorable! And Squalls outfit is just too cool. Quistis, I thought, had the most class. Rinoa's outfit......I liked the jacket, but she could use a different skirt or whatever it is. The boots were good, but other than that she could have used a different out fit. Seifers outfit was cool, I don't like corderoy though....and I really really liked Fujins. lol

The fighting system!
uh....the fighting system was...OK. I liked the materia system in FFVII better. Reasoning. I liked the total and complete control you had with materia. The different combinations you could make, and the awsome effects they produced. That is, if you can get the right materia.

Story

The aspects I liked

I really liked the whole military academy thing. Uniforms galore! XD lol And the fact that it centered around the love aspect. Love stories are one of my favorites. I also liked how soceress passed there powers from one to another. And how sorceress came to be in the first place. I also liked how they were all orphans. That definitely set up Squall's and Seifer's personalities.

The aspects I didn't like

The fact that the GFs fed off memories. I don't like that excuse for why they forgot each other. I think that it would have been better if they just forgot and slowly remembered. I mean, they were five when they all got seperated. I know that when my family moved, when I was six going seven, I don't remember much since then. So, why should they?

The aspects I'm not sure of

The whole thing with time. I thought Ellone's powers were cool. But I don't know about compressing time. I understand what Destai is saying that time wouldn't exist if you compressed it and that since time wouldn't exist then everythign else would dissapeer as well. But if Ellone dissapeers, which she's making time do what it normally wouldn't, then wouldn't time compression stop? and every thing go back to normal? ....-_-" Sorry for how long the post is.

[black shadow]

ive played 2 final fantasies (7&8), and i say 8 was a good game. The graphics during the fmv's were one of the best on the ps1 ever! on a t.v. show i saw they said ff8 somehow got more attention than usual from non-rpg players than regular hard-core role players.
My only problem with it was that it would have been cool to play through a few more missions (the landing at dollet in the com. tower mission was awsome!) before you have a military force on your but for trying to take out a president. Oh yeah, spending an hour summoning magic to junction and build stats when you cant even use the magic without the junctioned stats going down was pretty stupid. Like someone else said, it was a very emotionally involving game.

[finalheaven]

lol..it seems that some people liek ff8 coz they can relate to it which is good..but is that ALL it is??yeah it was slightly...slightly emotional..and i like the ellone part ..the story was good but just spun odff randomly at some point which IMO made it slightly weak..when i replayed it again..i relaised that ellone visited squall in the beginning when hes in hte room with Dr Kadowskiikik thingy and i totally forgot about that,,..o_O and it was just sooooooo randmy how they were all linked to eachother when they were younger and they didnt remember( yeah i know it was coz of the GFs)tyeah i agrree that it would have ben better if there were more mini games/missions ..i couldnt be bothered to do the chocobo thing it wa annoying ..but the music for that was cooll. i just felt that i had to keep on finding rinoa every half an hour.
the character of squall was depicted good in the game as you got to know him more in an emotional element kinda thing..his feelings and stuff..and the love story coo ^_^

[Destai]

Let me see.

Graphics- On the PS they were award winning but when played on the PC they look pretty desperate. FMV's are ofcourse Squares speciality and VIII was ground breaking.

Music- All the tracks were brilliant but I thought they were all pretty similar in many ways. How should I put this... If you were listening to the randomly, you'd now they were from the same game. IX was the same with medieval theme. You couldnt say that about VII

Story- Repeating myeself. The whole Mercanary accademy was a fantastic idea. Really original. And the whole of disc 1&2 went into that. I loved it. Then disc 3 totally dumped that with a stupid plot about time travel which didnt make sense.

VII was the first FF I played and it was brilliant and I played them all as they became available on the PS1&2. My favorite is VII but VIII is a close runner up. IX wasnt that bad but The medieval theme was boring and the characters werent that interesting. It was still great though.

[FFVIII Fan]

ffviii is by far the best final fantasy and game for that matter. So much emotion, a dark touch touch to the game. they will never make a game like this again to have captavated my mind in the way it did, or a ff game on that note.

[Destai]

hardly.

[Shoden]

i like 8 better because it isnt as complexed and it maybe a longer game but its story is easy to understand as it evolves and can be understood 1st timethrough unlike 7. 9 was just too easy no challenge what so ever and Kuja seemed gay and a transvestite