Why does everyone hate FF VIII?

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Kasz216 said:

Riachu said:

Kasz216 said:

Ajax said:

I disagree, and i don't think it's a matter of opinion so much as it is something that can be empircally judged... much how people can tell that Shakespeare plays have good storys, and Biodome has a bad story.

For one Chrono Cross had basically no character development for like 40 of the 45 characters due to the nature of the way you were set up.

Then you have the settings and locations and everything else that makes no sense when you consider that it's supposed to be set shortly after Chrono Trigger. (Since Lucca was still alive.)

Including but not limited too the race of Dragonians... which you think would of been something you'd heard about/come across in Chrono Trigger... unless all the time travel stuff happened "after" the previous time travel. Which doesn't even make any sense.

Which is another problem. The time traveling functions make no sense.

Lavos appearing in "The Darkness Beyond Time" also doesn't make any sense... i could literally go down an entire list of things that didn't make sense consdiering it was based off Chrono Trigger... before even going in to the regular story.

 

 Chrono Cross had one of the most retarded stories ever. Just take into account that you would only learn several points crucial to understand the plot 10 minutes before the last boss (told by 3 ghosts and one of them should not even talk). But that does not mean that it works. Another funny thing is that every character would say the same thing (with different accents and capitalization) at important points in the game. It is really funny that Poshu, the scarecrow and the troll thing who spent most of her life in an parallel dimension knew as much as Kid knew about Lucca and Lavos. That game plot is a mess and everyone who played CT should know it. Someone care to explain how the Reptites survived after you killed Azala? Where were the Dragon Gods in CT? Where was El Nido? Why every relevant item or person to save the universe is located in a small archipelago? How could the humans be Lavos creation, if we saw it land on the planet with Ayla in 65.000.000 BC? Why did Lavos plans change from "evolve into the ultimate being by sucking random planets energy" to "destroy all existence".

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Soriku you are young and impressionable. In that age we usually can not tell good an bad apart very well. I used to think that FF VII story was genial until I played it again last year. I did not even understood most of the story the first time I played. Today I can see that it is full of plot holes, pacing problems and confusing and meaninless plot twists. FF VIII has a crappy story and gameplay. Try it again when you are 18 and you will understand.