(rocks out to the tunes of "Man With The Machine Gun)
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Vorago stumbled drunkenly to the keyboard and typed:
FF8 was a great cardgame with a mini-game thrown in where you walk around and watch some cinemas
Heh! 
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De lid g am ond had this to say about Cuba:
I am playing FF8 again!
Is this another example of "creative sentencing" that's all the rage nowadays?
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First Dragon had this to say about Pirotess:
Wrost. Game. Ever.
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First Dragon had this to say about Matthew Broderick:
Wrost. Game. Ever.
I aggree with the pancake
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First Dragon had this to say about Pirotess:
Wrost. Game. Ever.
If you could spell and not be a moron, I might take you seriously...but since that won't happen...
Fuckhead!
Yes, that's right, hot live sex![ 01-12-2002: Message edited by: First Dragon ]
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First Dragon wrote this then went back to looking for porn:
Oh no, there was a typo in worst! Lets all shoot me now! Quit crying.
i think people were more lashing out at your constant acting like a moron, never saying why you feel something, just saying things without any perceived reason behind them.
I also never understood the card game. I always got whipped on plus combos, even though the guide CLEARLY DOES NOT ILLUSTRATE A CORRECT EXAMPLE OF ONE. Unless I totally missed it.
Heh, FD, if you call a game bad better be prepared to fight it's diehard fans. :P (Nothing against fans, of course.)
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Lenlalron had this to say about Captain Planet:
Eh, I didn't like FF8 either. Something about Squall didn't rub off right on me. He just seemed a little too...mean and jerky.
I thought he was a screaming asshole.
If they could have left him out, I might have played past the start of disk2. I quit playing because all I really wanted to do was to kill that worthless bastard and put someone with a soul into the main spot.
Would you have hated FF8 if other FF games like 7 or tactics had never come out? Sure the plot is confusing, Squall is a whiner, and the games ending was VERY strange. But it also had a good music score, NICE cinemas, an innovative weapons system, and a great card game!
...Oh wait I was thinking about FF9 when I was thinking of good things about it. 
Card game = Better than FF9's by far. At least with FF8 a 9 always beats an 8. In FF9, a 5 would regularly lose to a 2.
Cinemas = I liked some of 'em. The whole scene with the landing was cool, the antenna tower RULED, the scene with the Lunar Cry was AWESOME, and the scene with the Ragnarok breaking through to the Lunatic Pandora kicked serious fucking ASS!!! 
Music = Best of any FF game. 'Nuff said.
The phantasmal story lacked a crystallizing element, giving the entire game a half-hearted feel. There was little real emotional conflict, no clear goals. The one-dimensional, one-trick ponies that were hacked out to fill character slots were, well, the only way I can say this is that they sucked. I, for one, was more interested in Laguna's heart-tugging experiences in Galbadia than Squall and company's dramatically bankrupt misadventures.
Furthermore, the plot turns grow increasingly ludicrous as the game wears on. "Hey, we all grew up together, but forgot about it." Whatever. "There's a Sorceress and a bunch of monsters falling to earth... from the moon!" Whatever. "Actually, this is all the work of Ultimecia, a Sorceress from the future." You get the idea.
Ultimately the story was flighty and disjointed; the writers obviously didn't know what to do with the nebulous charge of making the game "a love story." Squall and Rinoa's relationship was glossed over, and its final insult was Squall's inexplicable emotional reversal. When did he "fall for her"? This twist might have been acceptable in a game where the player is not continually subjected to the lead character's inner thoughts. But unfortunately...
Let's just move along.
While I think the mechanics of the Draw/Stock system are pretty cool, it really doesn't belong in an FF game. It's far too easy to farm spells from random enemies on the World Map (hell, with Ifrit and 100 Fires, I had Zell doing over 200 damage per attack before the second boss fight!), and the Summons are just plain cheesy. As is Aura. Oh yes... useful though it may be, I always feel a little dirty after using that spell.
The Junction system's complete character customization, combined with the personality void of the cast, create characters which are simply empty, soulless vessels for GFs.
I hated Triple Triad 
In fact, I think the first time I played, I refined my Quistis card into something else. Heh!
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Falaanla Marr thought this was the Ricky Martin Fan Club Forum and wrote:
i think people were more lashing out at your constant acting like a moron, never saying why you feel something, just saying things without any perceived reason behind them.
forgetting his entire childhood (or something like that, long time since I played). The leveling system sucked, thats what I hated most. As you level, everything levels with you. Great. Except everything levels better than you. I played my first game and got level 20 or 30-something, and noticed how difficult it was against some of the stronger beasties. Great, difficulty is fine, but not like this. I replayed without leveling (I was about level 11 on disc 2), and noticed how weak everything was. I also hear you can kill the ultimate weapons if you were level 5, much easier than say level 99.
Leveling is one of the funnest things in an RPG for me, and this game lacks a system that works well for my tastes.
So you see, theres a reason behind all my comments, I prefer not to state them because no one would really give a damn. So nya.
Also, please state when I was being a moron. Please do. [ 01-12-2002: Message edited by: First Dragon ]
Tegadil leaps into a pile of fire-resist gear.
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Tegadil had this to say about Duck Tales:
FFII > all other FFsTegadil leaps into a pile of fire-resist gear.
the SNES one or the NES one?
I played the SNES version.
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The phantasmal story lacked a crystallizing element...
But if we bypass the wave induction isotropes, we can recalibrate the deflector array!
I could've sworn I deleted that sentence 
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Sentow wrote this stupid crap:
But if we bypass the wave induction isotropes, we can recalibrate the deflector array!I could've sworn I deleted that sentence
Nothing quite like those deflector arrays capable of doing everything from cooking a TV dinner to opening a rift in time to collapsing the entire universe into a cube the size of a potato
