Lack of real "bad guy" presence

[Ravenmorghane]

The only things that really scared me in this game were a few of the demons (marlboro, forbidden etc) and the secret GFs Bahamut, Odin and bloody Cactuar king and they join your side if you defeat them anyway! I found seifer too sexy to be scared by and he was too shallow to admire as a 'baddie'. Edea and Seifer just irritated me like hell, compared to FF7 where Sephiroth had motivation and a huge tragic story behind him where everything was connected and made sense. With FF8 it just seemed like they had made it up as they went along.

No offence to anyone, its still a good game to play. Its just a little opinion.

[Luthien]

I found the only bad guy in this game with any depth was Seifer, and they ruined that one by having him live and be happy and dandy at the end of it. Which was okay, but it meant that the only enemy with any depth was actually a good guy in the end anyway - where's the fun in that?....

This is why I loved Sephiroth. Now that was depth and presence more than anything else. But yeah, Ulti really needed a lot of reworking, in my opinion.

See? THAT´S my point here. Well said, LoonyBob