Likes and dislike about VIII

[Austin Al]

likes= i liked the story. the people in it. and the way they act in the game.
dislikes= none really but it made me mad how Squall try out in the end of the game....

 

[Zeromus_X]

Likes= Incredibly surreal story and atmosphere near end of the game
Dislike= Way too flexible customization system.

 

[Squall Lionheart]

I think that evreyone is exaggerating about the capabilties of the junction system...
The monsters level up as well as you do so you can never be too strong in that way no matter how good you are...as for using the monsters' weakness it's called strategy....

 

[Arkacia]

Likes, that a new member started an interesting thread.

Dislikes, that new member posted it in the wrong place .

Moved to the FF8 forum .

 

[Zeromus_X]

I think that evreyone is exaggerating about the capabilties of the junction system...
The monsters level up as well as you do so you can never be too strong in that way no matter how good you are...as for using the monsters' weakness it's called strategy....

You can get third-tier magic spells before even going on the first Ifrit mission, so it's a very flexible system. It requires little work to become almighty, and keeping your characters at a low level while using the Junction System to raise stats makes it one of the easiest FFs. True, not everyone will know how to use the system to their advantage the first time around, but with a little patience, it isn't that hard at all.

 

[Squall Lionheart]

To obtain high level magics you must train considerably very hard to obtain a very high level which will consume much time so it's useless...some monsters don't level up as you do but usually in any random battles monsters are always ahead of you...
As for raising your stats, that can't happen unless you get high level magics which can't be drawn from monsters until you both are of a high level, depending on draw points would be useless as well...
Eventually the junction system won't be as much help as before...

 

[Avathar]

xD I just posted this in another thread. Ahwell:

Hm...things i dislike about Final Fantasy VIII:

- The Junction System was complicated for in the beginning of the game.
- In general, one of the more difficult FF-games.
- A slow advancing story-line.
- To science-fiction-like.

Things i like about it:

- Deep characters.
- Nice graphics and movie-sequences.
- A great story.
- Laguna. ^^

 

[Austin Al]

oppps.. is this in the wroung place.... oh well. u guys found it lol.... i don't know how this works... so . yeah..... sorry Ark. but it did not matter to me at the time.... because nobody was talking about the game, just the people in it lol.... and cheats and stuff and that was just no fun....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................





Do any of u guys Play Diablo 2?

 

[Squall Lionheart]

.......

Try to stay on topic or just go to another thread...

 

[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.

 

[ShadowHeart]

Squall, you can also get magic from item refining and fixed draw points (ICTH ). You can easily have full rounds of all the best magics at levels <10. Of course some, like Ultima, are not really attainable until disc 3 or something anyway.

And about the supposed difficulty.. it all depends. If you stay at low levels throughout the game until you have all GFs, and then power-level using stat-boosting abilities and then junction correctly you'll be as close to invincible as you can possibly be, only gravity-type damage and other defense-ignoring attacks can hurt you then. Griever's Shockwave Pulsar did <200 damage if I remember correctly. Staying on low levels in general will make the game a lot easier than it should be.

FF8 is one of the easiest FFs if you know what you're doing. If you're just playing like you would in any other FF, it will be one of the more difficult FFs. If you reach level 100 without properly understanding the junction system some level 100 monsters will literally slaughter you. The difference is insane. The possible one-hit killer Breath of a Ruby Dragon (I learnt that the hard way on my first time through, Ruby Dragons were a real challenge then) can be reduced to a laughable scratch. And if you're on low levels Ruby Dragons won't even use Breath at all.

 

[Vincent]

*cough* like: great story n that
dislike.... stuk in the beggining of the 4th disc, no where to go, cant beat the boss...

 

[Squall Lionheart]

I'm not saying it's impossible but it requires too much time that it's useless....

.... and many attacks aren't level related that would instantly kill you.

 

[Hydra]

True. It's just too time consuming that by the time you get it, you're already at a high enough level anyway. Either that, or just use a Gameshark. Or just stock. I just dislike the characters. Well, some of them.

 

[richboywonder]

i never even played that.the only reason i came here because i thought it said FF7.

 

[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]

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]

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]

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.