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fluffy on 12 May 2010
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forevercloud3000 said:
fluffy said:
AkibaFan said:
fluffy said:
I can't believe how many people like FF8. The original video's comments on 8 are about the only thing I agree with him on...which probably means I am way off.

To me FF8 was Manic Marauders from the Moon caused Mopey Members to Mug Monsters for Magic.

i see nthing but negativity for FF8 on the intrnet. 

 

Forget the whole internet (lowest common denomonator), I was referring to VGC. I tend to take the community's opinion here a lot more seriously than "the internet's" opinion. There is quite a bit of love for FF8 here, and frankly I don't get it. I would enjoy hearing a sensible argument (or just list of reasons) why folks here liked FF8 as much as they did (hell, there's a good amount of love for it in this thread...which is what prompted the alliteration in the first place).

Hey, this is coming from someone who enjoyed FF12 (not the story, and not so much the characters, but I loved the whole run around the world freely entering/exiting battles at will.

Because they are Non-Conformist Conformist. They like to like what other people like simply because it is not a popular opinion. The same people that Hate FFVII because its the most popular and LOVe to bring up Kefka as the best villain in the series when we all know in our hearts that is Sephiroth hands down.(Beware, this might be a harsh generalization) :D

Well, Kefka was a great villian, the whole genocide and all, does that make him a "better" villian, I dunno whatever.

 

But for the Non-Conformist thing, I am sure that might be the case for some (i.e. remember when it was cool to hate on <insert pop culture reference here>), but there has got to be some strong opinions based on individual taste and not conformity that love FF8. I can see liking parts of it, the graphics were superb for it's time, but the battle system, story and characters all made me violently ill. I guess trying to follow FF6 & FF7 is probably casting it in a lot more negative light than it probably deserved, but it remains the only FF that I haven't gone back to "complete" it (as in 100% or near 100% playthrough), as soon as the main story was over it got put back into it's case never to be touched again. .