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Words Of Wisdom on 16 February 2008
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Final-Fan said:
Words Of Wisdom said:
Soriku said:
konnichiwa said:
Soriku said:
My first FF was FF8 :D

I think that's a good game, but a lot of you say it sucks =/

It is a good game but then again it is not the typical FF theme of before FFVII.

You can find a lot of fans through the Internet.

The thing that most people hate about FFVIII is the Romantic theme and the draw magic thing.

Well the last one sucked while I loved the romantic thing..


I actually liked Draw Magic =/


FFVIII's problem wasn't Draw Magic. It was the fact that using Magic was the weakest option you had in battle making its use outside of stat-junctioning mostly pointless. Getting the Revive/Recover GF abilities only cemented that.

With the exception of having to draw magic from enemies, Final Fantasy VIII's Guardian Force system was, in many ways, just an upgraded Final Fantasy VI system.


Why do you call it "just an upgraded FFVI system"? It's been too long since I touched the game for me to remember well enough to really argue, but I recall there being too many differences for that to be accurate. And assuming you're right, why is that a bad thing?

I call it that because it was.  Equipping a Guardian Force to a character was very similar to equipping an Esper.  You gained AP in FFVI to teach characters spells; you gained AP in FFVIII to teach GFs abilities.  You could summon Espers in FFVI to do powerful things; you could summon GFs in FFVIII to do powerful things.  When you gain a level with certain Espers (with Strength/Stamina/Magic/Speed +1/+2), an ability may increase; when you gain a level with a GF with a certain ability (Str bonus, Vit bonus...etc), that ability increases.  Also note that characters in both FFVI and FFVIII didn't actually grow their abilities much without Esper/GF assistance.

FFVIII improved a lot of things such as having the GFs have more abilities and letting characters equip more than one.

As for why it's a bad thing... explain where I said that's a bad thing.  I like FFVI's system quite a bit.  Minus the useless magic part, I like FF8's system a lot too.