underrated!

[Goldenboko]

This was posted by Goldenboco
Please say you aren't serious! This game is far overrated. Its love story is incredibly forced (along with the rest of the story), there is almost no difference between characters in battle except for their limits, and characters, and the level up system is cheap and abusable. The game gets far too much praise then it deserves.


I think you summed up what I was talking about with that comment alone it proves its underrated! by a few most notably you!
Why do you bother coming on to FF8 forums? all you do is slag the game off!

Why is actually none of your business. But to totally demolish this statement I come to this forum because I thought the game was decent, I sound like I hate it because I'm one of the few people who don't blow the game out of proportion. I thought the game was O.K. no more no less.

At every opportunity and with the characters gamplay what are you talking about? there is a difference between the characters like Tifa in FF7 Zell uses his hands, squall uses a gun blade similar to Clouds sword and Irvine uses a gun like Barretts! The limit breaks are better than in 7 too.

And is there a difference between having Irvine use his gun and Selphie use her whip? No there isn't because you can easily buff your attacks to 9,999. I feel the same way about FFVII. And about Limits, this game's limits SUCKED! Why? Because you can use them easily in any battle, do crazy amounts of damage, and take away all strategy from the game. A real difference between characters would be like Armarant and Eiko, Armarant is mainly good for attacking, because his magic fails in comparison to his physical attack damage, where Eiko is only good for healing and summoning because she can't to good physical damage.


Also...

There was no "depth" to FFVIII more than any other love story. Maybe there was more "depth" than the love stories of other FF's, since all of FFVIII was about Rinoa and Squall's love. As to the R=U theory, didn't Rinoa only get sorceress abilities because Ultimecia possessed her? That's probably why she only got "Angel Wing" after when she was possessed. As for Griever, she probably only created him out of Squall's imagination, probably to scare him. And if R=U were true, why would Ultimecia be fighting Rinoa? Without going into Time Compression jargon, Rinoa was Ultimecia before turning evil right? Well, that would mean that if Rinoa was dead, Ultimecia wouldn't exist then. Like people say, there really is not enough proof for R=U other than theories and "symbolism" in the game. And symbolism can be determined in many ways.

Ultimecia has no memory of her former life whatsoever, and therefore has no idea who Squall and Rinoa are.

Where is any of this even hinted in game?