underrated!

[chrisfffan]

Best Final Fantasy game ever, and deffinitely underrated. I've noticed that really smart people who are deep thinkers tend to enjoy FF8. I guess we see something much deeper in it than is apparent on the surface.

no. what everyone sees in FFVIII is a strong love story . you dont have to be smart to see that. infact i think the really smart people will see past the love story and see how ultimecia had no reason for trying to control the world in the past and future or whatever she was trying to do. bottom line is it didnt make much sense. the ending didnt even make any sense. theres so much in the game that doesnt make sense. i mean serioursly i gotta tell you when i get pierced with sharp ice i dont wake up without a scratch. also if i remember correctly the last battle was fought with everyone and yet only squall went through the wierd hallucinations at the end. oh and lets not forget other parts of the game that didnt make sense. ellone and her magical powers that she has for no reason at all. and how useing her powers they can make a time machine umm no. also makeing monster levels increase as yours does defeats the purpose of leveling up.

and as for the R=U theory if anything i would think it should be ellone= rinoa. when sorcerors die they gove there powers to someone else who knows in the future someone might have given it to ellone i mean after all she had time powers and ultimecia could control people in the past makes the most sense to me.

the characters are some of the most boreing characters ive seen too. squall = emo, zell acts like hes 7 years old. rinoa is just a plain old girl minus a personality. selphie hyper idiot, quistis again someone without a personality. irvine probably the onyl half cool character too bad hes a pervy kinda guy or else hed be much better.

now despite all this i didnt hate this game. i enjoyed it but its more towards the bottom of my list but in no way is it the bottom game. infact i think the gunblade is one of the coolest weapons in final fantasy. and the ragnarok airship is pretty cool. if any game is the most underrated final fantasy is final fantasy IX most people dont like it cause zidane is kinda wierd looking, short big hair kinda characatured (if thats how you spell it) has a tail. but the story is awesome and makes a lot more sense then FFVIII. sorry FFVIII is overrated.


on point of the topic i dont think this game is underrated its probably the 2nd most popular final fantasy.

I like IX but I found the story and the characters very old school with queens, knights and a princess in 7 and 8 I know its a fantasy but I found them more believable.

[f f freak]

I like IX but I found the story and the characters very old school with queens, knights and a princess

It was meant to be like that. FFIX was like that back to basics FF.

[chrisfffan]

I didn’t like it at first but i really got into it when i got on the second disc i think its a good game dont get me wrong! but i dont think its as good as 7 or 8.

[Lynx]

i thought IX was much better then VIII and a little bit better then VII. IX was back to the originals and it worked really well. the story and the characters were awesome. also zidane wasnt the silent strong type. he was a quick thinker and acted like a 16 year old with a tail should haha.

VII had a great story and probably the best villan in all of final fantasy.

as for VIII i thought the story was all in all good up until you find out about ultimecia. also i dindt like how they all knew eachother back when they were kids but not when they were older cause of gf's. the whole gf's slowly wear away at a persons memory (or whatever) seemed kinda i dont know stupid. a story should be planned and written. FFVIII seemed like they were jsut throwing things together. starting off normal 6 people meet and befriend eachother, then hey what if they met when they were idk 6 or 7 too, but wait why dont they know eachother, i got it we'll blame it on the gf's. but ill say for the most part the story was good.

[chrisfffan]

I think 7 had the best story 8 story was good but it didn’t have the same umph if u know what i mean? i think they should of had Edea as the bad guy all the way through it would of made the story stronger i think the first disc is defiantly the best first disc i have ever played though.

[Darth Anarcus]

and as for the R=U theory if anything i would think it should be ellone= rinoa.

Er, I think you mean Ultimecia, not Rinoa.

[Lynx]

ellone=ultimecia my bad haha

[chrisfffan]

ellone was a good character

lots of people have been saying about a remake of ff7 i was wondering who thinks their should be a remake of 8

Edit by Psychotic: chrisfffan, please do not double post. Use the edit/delete button if you want to add something else. Thanks.

[Darth Anarcus]

Me! That game could definitely use a tune-up.

[Ashley Schovitz]

I'm tired of these threrads all the ff games are underrated except for VII and XII which seem to be the most popular nowadays and VII probably will always be. I like VIII everythign with the story was good, it had many unexpected turn of events like the orphanage for example Irvine was the only who remembered fyi Linx and it was probably thought of since the begginning to add more drama.

[Goldenboko]

lots of people have been saying about a remake of ff7 i was wondering who thinks their should be a remake of 8

No, first off this game is still too easy to find. If you look places that have a decent amount of used games you can easily find a copy of FFVIII, and if you type Final Fantasy VIII on ebay, you get a ridiculous amount of matches. Games should be remade when they become hard to find, and overly expensive with the people who own them and have them for sale. For example try and buy FFIII for the NES(Or whatever system it originally came out on).

Second, unlike other games in the series the game is not riddled with errors, and has some of the best graphics in the series. Therefore the only real thing they could do to "tune up" the game would be to change the Level up system so its harder to be uber, change the battle system, and fix up the storyline.

[NeoCracker]

Second, unlike other games in the series the game is not riddled with errors

Except, you know, the game itself.

[Moon Rabbits]

I've noticed that really smart people who are deep thinkers tend to enjoy FF8. I guess we see something much deeper in it than is apparent on the surface.

Whew...

Sorry, but it's true. I've noticed it.

Wait...then why is it that I love FFVIII?

[Clord]

My IQ is more than 135 and I think that Rinoa got more things to do with Ultimecia than those who just play story but not think about it so much to realise because they just hop to bashing bandwagon against theorys.

Also FF VIII is not underrated.
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[Ryushikaze]

My IQ is more than 135 and I think that Rinoa got more things to do with Ultimecia than those who just play story but not think about it so much to realise because they just hop to bashing bandwagon against theorys.

Now isn't that an appeal to motive. If you think Rinoa and Ulti have some deep connection, prove it.