A Sweet Theory.. but not mine.

[G SpOtZ]

i read this really great theory online, about how FFVIII and FFIII are almost completely related, and there are many points that prove it.
I won't take ANY credit for it at all, becuase i only read it and i feel like sharing it.
here's the site, it's worth reading: http://www.rpgamer.com/editor/2005/q2/050205gm.html
if anybody else agree's with the theory and has any other points besides the ones in the site, please share those points.
and, if you wanna discruss or argue with it, you're all welcome too. personally i think it works well.

[Christmas]

I remember someone once post something like this but I cannot find that old thread. Glad to be able to see it again.

[Banishing Blade]

I very rarely believe in any Theories, but this was believable at least because of that Hyne thing and the clock tower where i was like OMG.

[Sir Bahamut]

A nice theory, but not very plausible. The Hyne in FF3 and the Hyne in FF8 are completely different, and their stories are wildly differing. Hyne in FF3 had no original power of his own. Instead, he received powers of Darkness after the Crystals were diminished, and used those to try and overthrow the Floating Continent. Hyne in FF8 was like a demi-God who created the human race! Don't sound very similar, do they? The point about the head dissapearing first is a bit odd, and I cannot remember that detail, but isn't really relevant all things considered.

The comparison of the Floating Continent to the Deep Sea Research Centre is also bad, since the Research Center ruins were very small, and like a temple, nothing resembling any structure found on the Floating Continent. Furthermore, the ruins in the research centre were WAY too small. The Floating Continent is a CONTINENT, you know. It's full with kingdoms and forests and mountains, hardly the kind of thing we see in the ruins at the research centre.

Interesting, but not plausible.

[Future Esthar]

How do you know we had seen the entire site on the DSRC?
After all the site is kinda enclosed by some glass(as seen on the upper part of the site)
and there could been more ruins deep on the water.

[Reine]

Well, how big was the Floating Continent on the World Map? It was TINY, wasnt it?

[Sir Bahamut]

Have you guys even played FF3? If not, you aren't really qualified to say much (no offense meant).

It may look tiny on that world map, but that's only because the rest of the world of so friggin huge. When you enter the Floating Continent, it has a world map of it's own, you know. This isn't a small island we're talking about. On the FF8 scale, it's approximately the size of the entire Galbadian continent(actually, a bit larger really, but even rounding down leaves the point the same). Do you really think that something that huge is lying under the research center, and those ruins are just a tiny part of some castle, which had to have been made after FF3 ended, because there is nothing of the sort in the game as it is.

EDIT: Really, there's no basis for saying the games are "totally related" or anything. The points he has are these:

1) Similar world maps. No startling similarities if you ask me, save the very general structure of the continents.

2) Hyne is in both games. As I explained, they are completely different people. There are many recurring names for enemies in FF, this is just another example.

3) The Floating Continent. As explained, this is not a good point either. Square regularly put stuff in the bottom corner of the map, like the Round Island of FF7. Are we supposed to say FF7 and FF8 are connected now?

4) The clock pointing to 8 and 3. Nice detail, but hardly enough to quailify as a leading hint, as he admits himself.

4 points, none of which are very good at all. So the theory is simply not plausible. Go play FF3 before saying otherwise.

[Future Esthar]

The DSRC is not probably over the entire continent but just a place on the continent.
The continent is flooded.

[Sir Bahamut]

Uhuh? Let's sum up that point then:

The research center is in the corner of the FF8 world map.
The Floating Continent is in the corner of the FF3 world map.
We can thus assume that the ruins in the research center are ruins from the Floating Continent, even though there are no such ruins, or structures that could produce such ruins, in FF3.

Doesn't sound that good, does it?

[Future Esthar]

Castles?

[Sir Bahamut]

Plenty of castles, but none of which have that spiral staircase thing we see in the beginning of the ruins.

[Future Esthar]

At least FF8 Ulti´s castle had.

[Sir Bahamut]

What does that have to do with anything?

[Christmas]

In FF III, is the floating continent described as a paradise or something like this to the people?

[Sir Bahamut]

Not at all. The Floating Continent is merely a large land mass, complete with rivers, lakes and all, which was made to float by a machine constructed by the Ancients(akin to the Centra of FF8). Besides that, it's nothing special.