Final Fantasy 8

[Sitnam]

sorry
at least its not part of the story so it doesnt ruin that.

[ghen]

lol its not a biggy
anyway, after reading the forums today i'm going to start back up... now where was I? hmm

[ghen]

status report: I just beat norg. squall's level 22.
the card game is getting good!
I'm glad its there cause it keeps my mind off the fact that the game is too linear. At least with ff7 you could roam the world map a little as you went from city to city.
This following Gardens' orders thing sucks!

[J.DeMobray]

THE GOOD:

-The Movies!! Especially the final movie! Wow , just incredible graphics! I only wish my N64 could produce that kind of imagery.
-Monsters that increase in level with your characters. I never liked how much of a walk the previous FF games became towards the endgame.
-Aura. Best spell in any FF game, Ever.
-Mmmmm, Quistis Trepe.
-Distinctive monsters, instead of the usual R.Dragon, B.Dragon, Griffin, SeaMonster, Goblin RPG crap.

THE BAD:

-No equipment? I want my Genji Armor! I want my Relics!
-The Story. I don't want to give away any spoilers, but those of you who are on disc 3 or later know what I'm talking about. Also: Really, really, really, really hate Laguna's side-plot.
-I don't like having my "fantasy" character flying what looks like the Dragon Zord from season 3 of Power Rangers.
-Monsters that increase in level with you characters. Why does it have to take 5 minutes to beat the same monster I was killing in two rounds at the beginning of the game?
-There aren't enough Summons/GF. Even with all of the side quests and grabbing Tonberry, Bahamut, and Eden there are a total of 16. (And none of them are as cool as NeoBahamut or Knights of the Round.)
-The music. Most of it seems recycled from the previous game. I expect at least one piece of really memorable music from each FF, along the lines of Celes' Theme or Aeris' Theme.

THE UGLY:

-My roomate insisted on singing part of Kid Rock's "Cowboy" every single time Irvine was on the screen. WHY!!!!
-Least impressive final boss EVER! And that includes the Orc General in Star Trail: Realms of Arkania.

OVERALL: * * (of 5)

I hold Squaresoft to a higher standard with console RPG's. I'm still looking forward to Chronotrigger II, and Final Fantasy Anthology.

[Sitnam]

Ok aura is not the best spell ever.
big guard is from ff7 is. haste wall on the whole magic party for the cost of a single wall.

i beat norg on level 17 or 18 cant recall exactly.

i like the no equipment. it makes the player have to have some brains to do well.
i like junctioning but its too strong. Just like in final fantasy tactics once you got to job level ninja your unbeatable. and in ff8 once you get one hundred second level spells per person winning is a forgone conclusion.

i beat the missle base boss and picked the 10min timer ! on level 14!
had 20 secs to spare.

[J.DeMobray]

Sheesh, it was just an opinion. . . .

Anyway, WHY I LIKE AURA:

1) It turns your characters into the Limit-Breaking-A$$-Kicking-Killing-Machines-From-Hell.

2) Wall and Haste are nice, but you know what? What's your defense when you use Wall? IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOUR DEFENSE IS!!!!! A perfect Renzokuken, finished with the Lionheart does more damage than anything else in the game.

3) Invincible Moon works against the final boss, who otherwise has a vicious attack on par with Emerald Weapon's Beam Attack. With Invincible Moon (or Holy War) going, any of the enemies gets to curl up and die. Best way to access Rinoa's Limit Breaks? You guessed it; Aura.

4) You like Haste? Buy some Amnesia Greens and teach your GF's the Auto-Haste ability.

[ghen]

you ******* i'm never posting here again. this was suposed to be a keep as many names/ plot stories out of it as you could kind of thread.
I just finished off norg and I already know the plot sucks, but I don't need you to tell me details! The graphics are too good not to play the game through a few times, don't ruin it for me before I even get through the first game!

p.s. I didn't read much of your post so I don't know if you already said this.. but they did make the game much harder from FF7.. the only time I remember dying then was against carry-armor the first time
i've died on stupid stuff about 5 times already. (mostly 'cause I didn't have GF equipped.. had another ability instead)


damnit! it censored @sshole!
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[This message has been edited by ghen (edited October 01, 1999).]

[Sitnam]

Why do you care about the names?
We havent given away the story.

i was just saying big guard is superior on effect + efficiency.

surely mime and KoR + w-summon was far superior damage wise to anything in ff8. but i never use either on the final boss. spells that produce ridiculous amounts of damage such as KoR are just for fun.

im not slamming your opinion just expressing mine about dumb spells like KoR. Aura is the same. it sould be for fun in my opinion. but it isnt fun when the opponent uses it though : (

[ghen]

ok i couldn't stay away it wasn't you sitnam btw.

I could care less what you say about ff7 everyone and their grandmother has played that game through

Personally I could watch KotR for hours on end at the end-game its wonderful to see all those 9999's come up! I also got kicks out of using it on annoying animals like the elephant by the chocobo farm.

I did just notice another plus for ff8 though.. the monster hp and your hp are closer than they usually are, I never really did like the fact that tonberry from ff7 needed quite a few 9999's to kill him when he only dished out 2000-3000. (or whatever he did) It just adds to the realism they were going for with the new character designs.

[ghen]

I was thinking about what I said, and I take it back. If the game doesn't get any better than go ahead and spoil it I don't care anymore. I'm now officially in waiting for the anthology.

[Sitnam]

I like the story so far. but it is as linear as xenogears was. ne1 play xenogears?

i cant wait for anthologies either.

[ghen]

I would have gotten that but Resident Evil 2 came out. I'm also officially waiting for RE3.

[J.DeMobray]

I have Xenogears, but it's sitting in a box next to my Playstation with a couple other games that I've picked up but haven't had the time or inclination to play yet. (Hybrid Heaven, anybody?) My roommate played Xenogears for a while, and wasn't too impressed. He said that in particular the Gears all seemed dull, and that the story line was extremely linear.

[Sitnam]

The only thing xenogears has for it is its story. The battle system is extremly simple but the story is better than ff7 or ff8.

[ghen]

I happened to like the story in FF7.
FF8 in comparison looks like it was written by a bunch of monkeys I'm still playing though until one of these games come out:

FF anthology
Saga Frotier 2 (great battle system in the first even if it did get tedious)
Resident Evil 3 Nemisis
Water-Starcraft
or
Warcraft 3
nothing else seems appealing at the moment