I Hate Final Fantasy VIII, but love it so!
halkun
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I do.
I really hate this game, but out of my entire Squeenix collection, I've beaten this three times now, and currently working on my fourth.
Why?
Why must I hate this game so, but yet play it? Am I looking for something? Is there some kind of light buried under the shitty magic system and piss-poor character development? Could it be I'm searching for a ray of hope in probably the worst plot I've ever come across.
I have to play. I somehow feel compelled to play.
It's just... It's just that it could of been so good! If it just would of used normal magic points... Maybe if Squall was a little bit more charismatic. Maybe if Renoa would of been a little more goofy. If they would of just made it so I gave a damn
I do though.... but I don't.
I don't know. It's just so odd that I want to like this game so much, but I feel so empty when I play it. Does anyone have games like this? Games you play in spite of themselves?
I really hate this game, but out of my entire Squeenix collection, I've beaten this three times now, and currently working on my fourth.
Why?
Why must I hate this game so, but yet play it? Am I looking for something? Is there some kind of light buried under the shitty magic system and piss-poor character development? Could it be I'm searching for a ray of hope in probably the worst plot I've ever come across.
I have to play. I somehow feel compelled to play.
It's just... It's just that it could of been so good! If it just would of used normal magic points... Maybe if Squall was a little bit more charismatic. Maybe if Renoa would of been a little more goofy. If they would of just made it so I gave a damn
I do though.... but I don't.
I don't know. It's just so odd that I want to like this game so much, but I feel so empty when I play it. Does anyone have games like this? Games you play in spite of themselves?
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FUCK YOU RANDOM RULE
...okay, maybe you're necessary, because I just play the same high-power cards and win.
That minigame will forever make me love FFVIII.
When I played Maplestory obsessively for a month and a half, I wasn't really enjoying it. I became pretty braindead, and I just let my fingers take over...I'm glad I gave everything away and uninstalled that shit
As long as random didn't spread, that was awesome!
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Before that i would wonder why they never used the gun on it.
I would play this again, but i only have the PC version, and i'm sure there will be a shitload of incompatibilities.
The twists were all lazy fucking bullshit. All the characters' motivations were unbelievable and made no sense. And you don't know a thing about the true villain until the very end. And you never even know her motivation unless you go out of your way to use the Scan spell and read her bio.
It's poor story-telling, from beginning to end.
And the mechanics blew. Monsters and bosses increasing in levels with your characters made for maddeningly difficult boss fights. The game actually punished you for leveling instead of using the tedious draw system.
There was only one bright point to the whole game:
So pretty recently I started a new game, and I've been playing through it again. I'm on disc 3 now and I'm actually enjoying it a lot.
The story and writing are pretty awful.
"What's time compression?"
"Time compression."
"Oh, it makes perfect sense!"
But I actually like the characters this time around. Around disc 2, when you start getting Squall's internal dialogue, he stopped seeming like the obligatory annoying emo lead, and I guess I understood him this time around.
The writing is still awful and the draw system is broken, but I guess something about the characters is keeping me playing.
I love the LP of it though.
Those were just plain painful.
And then I auto junction to attack and continue becoming ridiculously powerful.
I hate wasting so much time drawing, but I'm obsessive about doing it, so I have a love-hate relationship with the draw system.
Those were probably the best part. Laguna's limit break was just sooooo great.
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@hoodiethirteen
nine was the best.
Insert "FUCK YOU" panel here.
Drop two more points in the charisma bucket for Squall. It's not that much of a leap from "whatever" to "ya know... fuck it!" (With a smile).
That would of made the whole relationship thing kind of fun, in a dysfunctional sort of way.
If by Limit Break you mean his most excellent Battle Theme, then we agree.
I know nobody likes it because there's no angst or motorcycles
but that's precisely why I did
The characters were obnoxious, the monsters Laguna and his dudes fought were obnoxious, the sequence in the Esther prison was agonizing, and the obvious ties between Winhill and Squall's past hit you over the head with so little subtlety that I had a headache afterwards.
Yea, fixed that... Spell check got me.
Could have turned to shit when Zidane's origin was revealed, but somehow they pulled it off.
There's a whole dungeon of angst near the end of FFIX.
He gets better though.
Anyways, this thread is about "hating" FF VIII. Go spread your FF IX "Love" somewhere else.
I love it so.
So.
FF8 was a good game, but not because of the story.
"Everyone who is capable of logical thought should be able to see why you shouldn't sell lifetime subscriptions to an MMO. Cell phone companies and drug dealers don't offer lifetime subscriptions either, guess why?" - Mugaaz
I hate FFVII with a passion, and I never played VIII. IX is pretty much the only Final Fantasy that's still worth playing. And there's angst, Vivi just pulls it off really well.
Anyway, there are two games I was so desperate to love but didn't enjoy at all. Thief: The Dark Project (Yes, heresy, I know, shut up) and Pirates of the Burning Sea.
EDIT: FF IX was painfully bad. :P I've always hated the 'job' system because I feel limited. I like to set up characters as I want, not how the game says I should. Probably why I liked FFXII as much as I did.
Also, is it just me, or have all the female leads in FF games post FF7 been based on Tifa. I mean, Rinoa was more detailed, but the resemblance was there, but Princess Garnet looks like an out of roportion Rinoa and Yuna definitely looks like Rinoa.
Probably because other than explaining his connection to Kuja and adding his "sister" to the cast towards the end it didn't really affect much.
The Suikoden series says fuck you.
Suikoden 3 was good, but only because it was on the PS2.
"Everyone who is capable of logical thought should be able to see why you shouldn't sell lifetime subscriptions to an MMO. Cell phone companies and drug dealers don't offer lifetime subscriptions either, guess why?" - Mugaaz
FFXII has spoiled me with its lack of random battle clap-trap
You clearly have horrible taste in RPGs if you though FF8 was a good game and Suikoden 1&2 were not.
Whoops, there I go.