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[Avarice-ness]

Story - I felt like I was trudging through mud to the end. I was never shocked nor excited during the plot. This game was the only Final Fantasy in which I didn't want to play the second I got home because I wanted to know what happened next.

GamePlay - Drawing -IS- tedious. There had been plenty of battles where I found myself realizing that I had no potions, then come to find out no cures either. So I try to draw a cure to save my party and it fails and the monster does an all character attack and I'm dead. I also feel that draws are a waste of a turn, it doesn't mean they -are- but I found myself using -alot- less magic in this game just because of the draw system.
Junctioning was okay I guess, I never really used it enough to get anything good out of it.


Personally, I feel that FFVIII had so many added things that it was too much, now if FFVIII were like an MMO setting and you weren't bound to a story line -that much- I feel that all the extra's would have been easier to deal with.

FFVIII to me just seems like your following the character instead of actually gaining the feel of the character. The character's themselves where pretty bland, so nearly anything they could do or say could easily be predicted by someone playing the game for the first time.

The graphics were nice though, although I believe when it comes to rating games graphics come last over story and gameplay and all others.

Either way, I play FFVIII when I get bored and -really- have nothing better to do. Usually if I do do a replay I'm not motivated enough to start playing again, which.. yeah leads to no more playing.
I think the only credit it should be given is it's graphics for it's time, but that's about it.

Also, since there's hostility I'd like to state.
I've played the game enough, I've tried to like it, I've formed my opinion since the game came out, if no one likes my opinion good for you, that's why it's an opinion, nothing anyone can say can change my veiws that have been formed over many years so trying to make me "see the light" will be in vain.

[Jessweeee♪]

I think there's a fair fans-to-haters ratio

[Avarice-ness]

Originally Posted by Jessweeee♪ ^

I think there's a fair fans-to-haters ratio

The problem is is that some of the "haters" are merely people who arn't fans but they also don't hate the game.

[blackmage_nuke]

I rather enjoyed the game but note that when i first played, it was one of the first rpg games i played (the first being pokemon) and so my expectations for it was "this should be just like pokemon! yay!" So in this way my underdeveloped gaming mind thouroughly enjoyed it, and i guess that sort of just grew with me.

I think the game doesnt recieve too little credit or too much. It's a good game that alot of people like. It deserves that credit.

[Marshall banana]

FFVIII has unique and pretty locations; I think they're overlooked.

[Bolivar]

Mullet, I understand where you're coming from, and it's good to know that there's still people on this site who can accept the fact that other people might have a different opinion than they do. In every thread you're always a voice of reason and common sense.

And Gobo, I didn't think you were mad, but that sarcasm... was that really necessary? If you misinterpreted me, my bad man. And nothing I've ever said suggests that people who have played earlier games have a predetermined opinion. Everyone I know in real life who started with earlier FF's has a Playstation FF as their favorite, it's just a few angry cynics on the internet that you I across, and that's why I used the term "prissy little SNES warriors." BUT! That's not to say that everyone who prefers older games are delusional idiots. I love all the older FF's, I started RPGs in the "old school" and I know plenty of others who played through those games after starting with VII. I just happen to like some of the "newer" games better than some of the "older" games, if it's even appropriate to break them apart like that.

But! On other fronts, I must say again, that drawing is only as tedious as you make it. Here's one problem with that - YOU DONT HAVE TO DRAW AT ALL IN THE GAME!!! You can secure the refining abilities fairly quickly, and M-Stone pieces/Magic stones/Wizard Stones are all common drops.

[BG-57]

My issue with drawing isn't so much the process, but the fact that stats junctioned to magic go down if you use that magic. It creates a strange incentive to hoard magic and not actually use it. Since the most powerful spells raise stats the most, you'll want to use them the least.

But overall its a minor drawback.

[Marshall banana]

Originally Posted by Bolivar ^

But! On other fronts, I must say again, that drawing is only as tedious as you make it. Here's one problem with that - YOU DONT HAVE TO DRAW AT ALL IN THE GAME!!! You can secure the refining abilities fairly quickly, and M-Stone pieces/Magic stones/Wizard Stones are all common drops.

Even Stones aren't necessary. XP

• 10 Tents refine into 100 Curaga spells
• Angelo's card refines into 100 Elixirs
• Various boss cards refine into useful items