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[Vincent Valentine 007]

Do you think final fantasy 8 gets enough credit? To me it seems it gets bashed the most out of all the final fantasy games most people point to the story saying its weak but I disagree for a game the story is good and I don’t understand why people don’t get the love story whats not to get? I think the graphics at the time were very good and the game play equally as good, in my opinion its up there with the best!

[Goldenboko]

I think FFVIII gets too much credit

[MJN SEIFER]

If you like it, it doesn't get enough credit.

If you don't it get's to much.

I like it.

[Namelessfengir]

i like the story fine i just didn't like rinoa

[Bahamut2000X]

Originally Posted by Goldenboko ^

I think FFVIII gets too much credit

[Ouch!]

Originally Posted by Vincent Valentine 007 ^

I don’t understand why people don’t get the love story whats not to get?

I understand the love story. It's not a matter of me not getting it; rather, it's a matter of me thinking it was poorly paced and weakly developed.

FFVIII isn't a bad game by any stretch--it tops many other games easily--but I consider it my least favorite in the series for many reasons.

Also, I think FFVIII gets its fair share of credit. I think it's just the only game in the series where the hate is more vocal than the love.

[MJN SEIFER]

Originally Posted by Vincent Valentine 007 ^

I understand the love story. It's not a matter of me not getting it; rather, it's a matter of me thinking it was poorly paced and weakly developed.

In my opinion, it was the best developed love story, but that's mainly because I can realted to it.

[Bahamut2000X]

Originally Posted by Ouch! ^

Originally Posted by Vincent Valentine 007 ^

I don’t understand why people don’t get the love story whats not to get?

I understand the love story. It's not a matter of me not getting it; rather, it's a matter of me thinking it was poorly paced and weakly developed.

To quote the great walkthrough thread of "Let's Play FFVIII"

"They're in love. Which is sort of weird because in the entire 35 hours they've known each other they've said about a hundred words to each other. *Robert's played cards with Dr. Kadowaki more than that."

*Note the person renamed Squall to Robert in their game.

I think they summed up the love story well enough. It wasn't that good. Really FF II, I thought had a better love story going.

Really the weak points VIII had was it's terrible pacing on the story, it's confusing storyline that never went anywhere, a terrible story implementation, undeveloped characters who are 'just there', and well I could go on, but in short the story was terrible. The premise was good but they failed after Disc 1 if not even earlier.

As for the GOOD points, it had some good graphics, some of the best for the era, they transitioned real time graphics and FMV's real well too. The battle and junction system were interesting but have a few flaws (as with any game though). The 2 main vehicles were interesting in the game as well. I enjoyed Garden as a vehicle, and Ragnarok was just plain cool.

But really flashy graphics and an interesting battle system can't overshadow weak characters and lack of story.