These two games are famous for being two of the, if not the most emotionally involving games...ever.  and most Fans of Final Fantasy will argue about which story drew you in the most or made the player feel connected to the cooinciding world...which was it/is it for you?  Or in other words...

Which game got you more emotionally involved per-say?

Considerring how annoying some of the characters in VIII were and how everytime Squall and Rinoa were together I'd either be shouting at the screen at Squall's emo idiocy or retching I'm going to go with VII. In particular the bit where Red XIII finds out about his father. Also the whole setting just resonated with me more than the setting in VIII.

Really?

Anyway.. my dislike for FF8 is greater then for FF7... so FF8 it is....

ff8 for sure. i cud sympathize with squall, i cn see why he is like tht, i was going through a similar bit in my life. it was gud to see rinoa and squally love story, gud to see the friendship built between charcters. ff7 was also involving emotionally, aerith death, red xiii finding out about his fathr :(

its hard to chose as ff7, ff8 are my favorites along with ff13.
but i connected with ff8 the most out of those 3 as i cud identify with the character squall and his problems.

I chose VII. No other game made me connect to the characters that much

Tsch, I was beaten. 

Wait, you disliked 8 more but still voted for it?

Must be a deep seeded love kind of dislike!

Final Fantasy VI

this is a clever way to find out whose emo.

I felt both games were excellent; that (with Xenogears and Ocarina) they represented the height of video games. Final Fantasy 8 draws me more than 7 mostly because there is more substance to it. The towns were all places I either wanted to live or pay a long visit to. There was also a lot more to do in 8, and the system of powering up characters offered multiple options to proceed (and you could use all if you wanted). 8 also offered the ability to transfer power and skills among characters, and even turn random battles off; you could power up by other means than collecting items from monsters - like the card game. It is a joy to play both games.

To this date though, I think the love story between Laguna and Raine touches me the most of any love story in any game - and there was something about the Laguna/Julia story that I found appealing as well. How it all translated down to the younger generation. Ellone was also a great character. Where FF8 succeded for me with characters was how side characters that had lower amounts of stage time managed to have such a large presence through the game - a lot of aspects which were related to those characters were seen by the younger generation or the player (Julia's piano theme for instance; or Laguna's memory to some villagers in a hidden away place, etc...). Probably the best multithreaded plot ever done in a videogame.

For the guy that called Squall emo; let me guess, you were big into Linkin Park, Radiohead, and punk music; and spent a great deal of time sulking about how hard your suburban life was with your jaded and disapointed parents? Thought so. The people I see complaining the most about things being emo with the slightest sign of an abnormal hair style are the people who were sulking emo kids - or similar people, themselves. These people lash out so harshly now because they are embarassed about anything that reminds them of how pathetic they think they just use to be. Totally unable to appreciate some of the best art the videogame world has to offer.