Generally considered one of the lesser of the final fantasy series's by most fans. Complaints usually come in terms of attacking the characters for all being about as interesting and motivated as cardboard, including the main character who mostly talks in the form of ellipsis, and a villain with unknown motives that just hovers like a scary ghost in the background but never really matters for the whole game. Really, the game might have been better off if all of the main characters were replaced with Tonberry's. Magic spells, which are normally a staple of final fantasy games, are only acquirable in FF8 by extracting them through either monsters, or from playing the card game. The story also suffers from a lack of creativity, and borrows many of the general plot lines from Final Fantasy 7.
By IGN:
~Final Fantasy 8 is generally considered a game with a couple of problems. It's the tortured adolescent of the series, starring a cast so drowned in angst that they probably should have taken some time off from saving the world to go in for a round of group therapy.
By ED
~(Cloud) Squall joins (Avalanche) Garden in order to go on a mission to stop (Shinra) The Government. Later, he becomes a body guard of (Aeris) Rinoa who falls in love with him. Soon, they discover a force much eviler than (Shinra) The Government, (Sephiroth) Edea! (Sephiroth kills Aeris) Ultimecia possesses Rinoa, so (Cloud) Squall goes after (him) her, he goes around the world trying to stop (him) her from bringing (the Meteor) time kompression. Then he finds the airship (Highwind) Ragnarok and goes to the (center of the world) end of time for the final battle. Afterward, he (mourns Aeris) saves Rinoa and everything is A-ok.
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An amazing MMO and my favorite Final Fantasy game.
Wow bro you play Final Fantasy XIV? Wanna play later? I can tank for ya!
hands down, the best game made. ever. anyone who disagrees or thinks the game sucked is probably some guy who only likes the game for the sake of masturbating to its female characters and does not possess the mental capabilities to understand the emotional import of the game.
final fantasy 10 definetly kicked ass, and x - 2 was good despite what the retards who arent comfortable with their sexuality said.
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The greatest installment of the Final Fantasy Series. Anything above 6 is just weak and played mostly by otakus.
Ff3 is the goodness
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the best FF game in the whole series, kicks FF7's ass, better battle system and better everything else.
whoever thinks ff7 is better than they are a complete retard, ff7 sucks
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Great game, probaly one of the most addicting MMORPGS
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Sorry, but no, Final Fantasy 6 is not a better game than Final Fantasy 7. The only reason people call FF7 "shit" compared to FF6 is because these people played FF6 when it was STATE OF THE ART and now that ANY game released these days has better graphics than FF6, they can't come to terms with it so they have to bash the next game in the series, which happens to be FF7. To all you "old school" Final Fantasy fanboys/fangirls: get the fuck over yourselves. No one fucking cares if you think FF7 is shit, because the people who know the truth are the ones who still play the game and don't give a shit about what you people think. Just because you like anime and other Japanese culture doesn't mean you have to hate everyone else because they like it too. Get the fuck over yourselves.
Anyone who says FF6 is better than FF7 obviously can't accept the fact that YES, we have moved on from 48*48 sprites!
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