Likes and dislike about VIII

[ThroneofDravaris]

Likes:

Junctioning System (i r power gamer)

Enviroments

Graphics

Some of the aspects of the story (Time manipulatuion FTW)

The Weapononary System

The Cash System

Dislikes:

The details of the story (how they managed to make EVERYTHING so contrived is beyond me)

Vast majority of the character

The 4th Disk Clearly being Rushed (so wait, how did Seifer go from ‘I’m going to kill you all’ to ‘lol fishing’ again?)

[Avathar]

Originally Posted by ThroneofDravaris

The 4th Disk Clearly being Rushed (so wait, how did Seifer go from ‘I’m going to kill you all’ to ‘lol fishing’ again?)

XD Exactly. That made Seifer even more my least favourite FFVIII character!

[Griever]

Originally Posted by ThroneofDravaris

The 4th Disk Clearly being Rushed (so wait, how did Seifer go from ‘I’m going to kill you all’ to ‘lol fishing’ again?)

Well, he was brainwashed and under ultimecia's control..when he was in timber and made contact with edea for the first time form then on he was under her control. even after she was gone from seifer's world, he continued to do as she wanted. After ellone sent ultimecia further into the past in order to acheive time compression, it's not so hard to figure out that she no longer needed seifer to aid her. It's not really hard to figure out what happend, although most of us hate to assume (myself included) it would have most likely went offtrack trying to show you why that happend. On top of that, the 4th disc was mainly dedicated to the cinematic ending.

Oh, i nearly forgot...

Likes:
Graphics
Music
Story line
Junction system
Draw system
Weapons upgrading

Dislikes:
I really didn't dislike anything about this game, except one thing. I wish they would have went into something between laguna and squall, where squall finds out that his parents are laguna and raine. Other than this everything was nice about it in my opinion.

[ThroneofDravaris]

Originally Posted by Griever

Well, he was brainwashed and under ultimecia's control..when he was in timber and made contact with edea for the first time form then on he was under her control. even after she was gone from seifer's world, he continued to do as she wanted. After ellone sent ultimecia further into the past in order to acheive time compression, it's not so hard to figure out that she no longer needed seifer to aid her. It's not really hard to figure out what happend, although most of us hate to assume (myself included) it would have most likely went offtrack trying to show you why that happend. On top of that, the 4th disc was mainly dedicated to the cinematic ending.

Obviously, Seifer returning to his previous lifestyle after the sorceress relinquished whatever influence she had over him is a fairly logical move. However, when the previous scene with see of a character is him menacing over the female lead while he feeds her to a power hungry sorceress and the next is him screwing around with his friends, it doesn’t exactly scream ‘continuity’. Even if it had been a few lines, the game really needed something to 'bridge the gap'.

[Griever]

And i agree with you, but as i said, the story creators probably thought it would be better to assume, than to get offtrack with the story just to cover that gap.

[Da Chink]

Originally Posted by Zeromus_X

To get high level magics, all you need to do is get the refining abilities and keep stocking enough magics to make them, before monsters carry them, at least. Like I said, not many people have the patience, but it's just not right that all the highest level spells are actually within reach right at the beginning of the game. (And let's not talk about Lionheart ><; )

The fact that leveling is only useful for obtaining items dropped by monsters at high enough levels is also disappointing, and that there are 'power-leveling' monsters really kicks it while its down. (Especially the latter, this seems to be common in alot of RPGs.)

But really, that's the only blaringly obvious fault I can see. I really don't understand why people complain about the story, as slow as it is at the beginning.

Zomg! did know one use the card game to refine magic?! i was doing 5k dmg in 2 hours.
Likes
Music
Story
Junctioning system
Card Game
Zell XD

Dislikes
Only one Char that I Dislike and thats Laguna
story line (once they started talking about time compresion)
The Chocobos were whack in this one
Doom Train?! LAWL

[SephirogaUltimecia]

liked- Just about everything... especially the music
disliked- Marlboro, and excessively long cinematics... only 1 or two got me peturbed

[blukazoo159]

i like the versitility of the game!!!

[ChibiSelphie]

Even though FFVIII is my favorite. I don't like Rinoa
I love the music, characters except for the one above and the storyline

[Spirit]

i like everything about ffviii

[dappa]

I love everything about this game. My only gripe with this game is that you dont get money after every enemy you defeat.

[ultimecia]

i like the game but it lacks a bit in story line it would have been a better game if the producers of the game would include more action and i dont like the idea of having a number of times you can use your spells its a bit stupid more when you draw crap spells i think it should either had the ffVII materia or the FX sphere grid would help the game a lot but every game cant be perfect exept for ffvii its ashame they didnt have the best graphics then but i heard they are making a new ffVII remake with more storyline and better graphics its going to be the ultimate game ever made but ffVIII isnt a bad game at all they should make a remake of that too!

[Slider]

I can't really find ANYTHING to dislike.................

[ThroneofDravaris]

Not even the things that everyone else has listed and are more or less unanimously consider by even die-hard FFVIII fans to be legitimate flaws?

[Gumdrop]

Like - decent level of playablity, cactuar and tonberry summons and also the huge cactuar boss, Omega Weapon (took me a while to beat him first time), some of the music + takes a while to get everything done (as with all FFs).

Dislike - the story, the characters and the whole "draw" to get magic buisness becuase it was boring as hell, most the summons - especially Eden becuase it went on way too long + the annoying card game rules.