Quote Originally Posted by Zerokku View Post
First of all, if that's honestly the case you need to play more RPGs.
True, I do. I can count how many I've played with my two hands.
Second of all, really now? Cause I never understood why Squall went from being cold to and annoyed by rinoa to loving her undyingly almost instantaneously. Its like they thought, Oh this is supposed to be a love story hurry and make him change before the game is over!
You need to understand that Squall developed feelings for Rinoa when she was taken away from him (I'm almost sure of this, I haven't played the game in years). Something like this can easily trigger emotions in a very swift fashion. I can personally atest to this. Hell, I'm betting so can most people.
Thirdly, note my point when talking about the characters on the previous page. With such a small cast of characters they could had some great development outside of squall and rinoa, but instead we end up with characters that are almost as bad as the legions in chrono cross. And even with just the main characters, IX still managed more impressive character development, and thats with a larger "ensemble" cast.
Although I agree that more could have been done with the secondary characters in VIII, saying IX had better character development doesn't make it fact. VIII dealt with more characters than IX to my understanding, with Laguna and the world generations previously. In conclusion, there is characters I know alot better in VIII, and vice versa with IX, & I think I'll just leave it at that. I will say however, that the antagonists were a poor match-up, with Kuja being obviously the more in-depth villian.
Quote Originally Posted by Omecle View Post
Even when talking about Squall and Rinoa, the character development was still incredibly bad; and this isn't just me being biased, I enjoyed playing the game, but from a text book standpoint it was just very bad. One of the most important things about character acting and narrative is that they should have the principle of empathy - something that is incredibly foggy throughout the whole game with all characters including Squall and Rinoa.
I personally like how it played out. I thought the way their feelings were potrayed and acted out seemed genuine, and the course of the story played out fluidly.
In other words, you clearly have no concept of character development.
Your ignorance shines through like your native sun. I think you need to chill out. Just because I like the characters & how the story went, it doesn't make me wrong. Same would be said if I said you were incorrect about liking ice cream, it's not my opinion, it's yours.
In my opinion; maybe the weak personality filled with angst that Squall had appealed to me when I was 12 years old, but after growing up a bit I honestly feel he's a very childish character.
Does that make me, and many other FF fans immature (or childish) for liking his character then?