Why does everyone hate FF VIII?

[Gnizmo]

Words Of Wisdom said:

ChichiriMuyo said:
First of all, the junction system is utter crap. You can break it so hard, so fast it's not even funny. My characters all had well over 3000 hp and OHKO'd most enemies before I even fought Edea. I like uber cahracters, but not that soon.  And this is different from abusing the Gem Box and Catscratch in FF6 or Final Attack in FF7?  Final Fantasy games are all stupidly easy except maybe the NES ones (although I'd argue it was only hard if you didn't spend a lifetime and a half grinding). 

Some of your criticism is valid, but some is just nonsense.

The difference is you get those items at the end of the game where as the junction system is present through-out. You can break the system way earlier in FF* than any other FF game. You could get junction - status attack and 100 death before you got off disc 1 if I recall correctly. That knocks out 90% of all random battles right there. At least in FF6 and 7 you were near the end of the game by the time they made you a god.