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Just Amazing

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: January 05, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Some people said that Final Fantasy VII is the ultimate RPG game ever, but we are learning, that when time flows and technology improves, so are the games. The game combine hi-res graphics with low-res in an amazing way, and a story that is very compelling! This is a game for everyone.

finally final fantasy has grown up

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: March 30, 2000
Author: Amazon User

this is hands down the best Final Fantasy yet. The plot is more complex and more mature than any of the other Fianl Fantasys. And the chacters are more realastic. The graplics will blow you away. This game is worth money.

Lots of text but still great

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: February 27, 2000
Author: Amazon User

When i first alid eyes on ff8 i fell into a dream of great graphics good control interesting system and a wonderful plot. For those of you thinking of buying it DO IT NOW! i cannot stress how good it is wonderful animations over an hour of movies all beautiful and best of all 7 new characters. The game takes you from a civilized palace to an enslaved city to an underground desert dungeon into space and back. 10 times better than ff7 which was also my 2nd favorite game

(p.s. the game is so good I own it for computer and playstation and i'm only 14 with an unsteady source of income). in turn do yourself a favor and buy FF8 you won't regret I promise

I cant believe what's happening to Final Fantasy... DISGRACE

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: March 21, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I am a lover of rpgs, but when I bought this game, I couldnt help but to think that something went horribly wrong with square. The graphics were astounding, the beginning part of the game was totally fun. By the time I got to the end of the second disk I was bored, but I pushed on, hoping to see the ending. I have been on the 4th disk for 5 months now because of how extremely boring the game is. When I bought the Final Fantasy Anthology for my Playstation, and re-played FF6, I wondered how square was so good on the earlier FF's, but stunk on 8. This games music gets a C, but that's only because lagunas battle theme was cool. It makes you wonder what happened to nobuo uematsu when he wrote the music on this game. Just where is the "Fantasy" now? There is no fantasy. I may be mistaken, but Final Fantasy's prelude, the crystal theme, was never played once during this game, not even the begginning. This game is nothing but eye candy! Thank *god* FF9 will be returning to its roots!

ummm....consistency would be nice

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: February 01, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I have just one thing to say. The demo is no indicator of the finished product. It ran fine on my system so I figured that the finished game would as well. This is NOT the case. I counted down the days until this game was released only to find out that my 4 mb 3d accelerator was "inadequate" to run ff8. What the hell is this? If the demo is a small part of the whole game wouldn't it have the same hardware requirements? As it is I can't risk buying this game. I definitely will buy it...when I get a new system because it is a great game. Anyone who has info on the hardware REALLY needed to run this game, please send it my way.

THe Best RPG in gaming history!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: April 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This has the best graphics! The game is superior! The people look human, and they all have a life. In Final Fantasy VII, they look too cartoon. In IX, Zidane might as well be a monkey. In VIII, they look human.

A Title Hyped To Success On Playstation: PC Pathetic

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: June 12, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Without the technical problems present in the PC version this game is probably an average 3 star game at best. Before I anger the loyal fan base I'll explain the problems with the PC version. The most glaring problem with the PC version is the midi music. There is nothing like listening to the shrieking, butchered, Balamb Garden theme, at 425 rms watts + 120 rms powered sub in pro logic on a home stereo system.(Yamaha RXV-795a) The music on the PC version is almost unbearable. I have a Soundblaster Live Sound Card and I'm sure that wasn't the problem. Using Microsoft Synthesizer is a terrible mistake in this day of wavetable synthesis, soundfount midi and xg midi.(Using midi at all is baffling. CDs have been around since 1985 and DVDs with space for the extra audio and data have been around since 1997) That is unexcusable and that was only the start of my trouble with the PC version. The graphics might have been acceptable, especially those sweet cut scenes but the FF8 graphics engine would not cooperate with my 3d Prophet SDR GeForce 256 based graphics card. The horizontal lines across the screen made playing with any kind of hardware acceleration impossible. Software mode is a slide show on my 650 mhz Athlon. I must say that the sound effects were fantastic though. So technically you have a game with great looking movies, great sound effects, horrible midi music, and a GeForce specific horizontal line defect. Even without the horizontal lines the backgrounds are 320*240 stretched to 640*480 resulting in a less than pleasing grains. As in Final Fantasy 7 the graphics were not re-rendered and the result is resolution locked in at 640*480. This game technically is worse than the playstation version in both graphics and sound. It boils down to whole bunch of money for a boatload of trouble.(Incuding the cost of a PC plus the cost of the game) The game itself is mired with tons of gameplay flaws. Like FF7 this sequel has emotion but what you have to do to get to the point when you get to actually experience that can be at times tedious. The weapons are too weak and the Guardian Forces are too powerful. I found myself entirely giving up on weapons and using Guardian Forces constantly. In a game in which you try to evoke human emotions through human interaction why are you making the players resort to using non-human entities over and over and over and over again. Square Soft wrote a story and left out the game. I am a big proponent of have a great and entertaining story in a video game but the gameplay has to be at least bearable. It's not interesting to watch the same animation for literally hours. I only made it to disk two and stopped playing the playstation version.(In hopes the PC version would be improved in some way) I returned the PC version to whence it came from after an attempt to solve the GeForce defect. This game is Playstation Passable with some patience but is PC Pathetic. Don't even bother buying it. Wait for Final Fantasy 9 or the feature film due out in 2001. Square seems to be good at the video. Their games show that.(Perhaps, to a fault)

Final Fantasy 8 for PC

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: January 06, 2000
Author: Amazon User

FInal Fantasy 8 was a wonder on the Playstation and has now crossed over to the PC. This game has a wonderful story and the cutsceens look like animated movies. The demo for this game left me wanting more. On the issue of game speed, while the game may run slow with the settings set on full screen, there is an option for quarter screen in which the game run fine. I can't wait to recieve this game and I will recommend it to many.

Definately not a good choice for an RPG on the PC

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 14
Date: February 02, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I guess if you like to have variety in your RPGs, you can play this game to help you figure out the good RPGs from the bad ones on the PC. I'll admit, this is a nice game...on the PSX. But on the PC, it doesn't compare to Fallout, Baldur's Gate, Planescape, Septerra Core, or numerous other RPGs on the PC. The dialogue sucks, the plot is more or less a re-hash of FF7, the battles take WAY too long, and the music is horrible when compared to earlier Final Fantasies. If you want a better console RPG on PC, go get FF7.

Final Fantasy VIII is a great game.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: February 08, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Final Fantasy VIII.... I like the character designs, the story, and the fact that you have a salary. The draw system is somewhat a pain but I can live with it. I'm only on disc two as I write this and I can't wait to finish the game. I think the story build-up is a little better in Final Fantasy VII. But I can't decide which is my favorite game of all time.

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