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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.

Worst Final Fantasy Ever

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 13
Date: January 29, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is THE worst final fantasy game ever. Besides the graphics this game has a terrible storyline none of that famous final fantasy music and im just not interested. I definitely recommend final fantasy 7 over this (which would probably be the BEST game I've ever played).

Extremely Bad Plot+Too much dialogue=1 Bad Game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 19
Date: February 18, 2000
Author: Amazon User

When I originally saw the demo for this game I figured it would be the best in the series. Boy was I wrong. I have been playing Final Fantasy for a while and always thought that they kept getting better and better with time. That is until I played this latest version. This game had an extremely dull plot (unless you are 10 years old) that was translated horribly into english. The characters are just too dramatic for my taste. The women in this particular game are also just too "feminine" all the time. They are supposed to be soldiers not whimsy schoolgirls. Another Bad point is that the dialogue scenes are just absolutely too long and too common. My first six hours of gameplay was about 1 hour of battles and 5 hours of nonplayable character interaction that was tottaly unneccesary and meaningless. That is unless squaresoft wants the player to become frustrated and just throw the discs out of the window. All in all the graphics were good and the FMV's were well done but in no way make up for the lack of plot and the overdone dialogue and dramatics. If you can help it skip this installment of FF. Hopefully the next will be better.

All hype, no play value

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 11
Date: April 14, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The Final Fantasy series has been steadily declining in worth since FF6. Squaresoft now seems to rely on 'pretty boy' villian such as Sephiroth and What's-his-name from this game. The plot of the last two games was just plain bad. The GF system in this game was extreemly annoying. Why play this when GOOD games like Baldur's Gate are out there? My advice is to avoid this game like the plague and save your money for something else.

A movie, not a game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 8
Date: March 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I know that a lot of people really want to believe that this is a good game. I was once one of the faithful too.

Final Fantasy 8 is just plain ridiculous. Here is a simple explanation for this uncharacteristic phenomena. It is a movie that has a little bit of gameplay inserted. You seem to have almost no control over the game for the first disk. You are constantly having to wait for slow moving, automated character animations and boring dialogue. Your character is only sporadicly under your command. You move a few feet, throw a switch, and presto! Another pointless animation sequence which robs you of any feeling of real accomplishment. If you keep yourself healed, and utilize the guardian forces (cool for the first time, infuriating after that), the game will play itself with little or no help from you.

The graphics are pathetic. They remind me of Kings Quest (you know what I am talking about!) The sound (midi?), I mean come on. My old school NES had better music than this game offers.

Here is the one cool part. The cinematic scenes. That's it. You waste hours of your time in some pathetic addictive persuit for more of these audio visual masterpieces. Right from the start of the game, you are hooked. I think that a lot of people really liked the cinematic sequences. So much, in fact, that they had to justify wasting there time with this game by giving it a positive review. Here is the real deal. The cinema scenes and story are good. The game itself is absolutley pathetic.

I just really wanted to see those movies too...

ea is heII

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 7
Date: September 03, 2000
Author: Amazon User

1.) WHY THIS GAME IS INFERIOR TO PSX VER.

ok, not that i liked the psx version, but i played it, and this verison is far worse. The backgrounds, characters, items, menus, all look like a poverished 3rd world country version of the original. Id bet my life that ea did this to save money : they take the playstation's game, copy it verbatim, and created an illworking limited use playstation emulator. Thats why the graphics are soo bad. id bet my life

2.) why it is a stupid game to begin with a.) control, its obvious squaresoft tryed to create something more like a playable movie than the last ff. the controls and playability are even worse on the computer, and even worse still since ea took about 5 minutes to think the buttons through, and one more thing: CAN I PLEASE GET A MANUAL??!?!?! how the heII am i sposed to know what to do?

3.) ma beef wit EA

there is no email adress to be found on their webpage. i found it unbelievable too but you can go therir know and check. but dont just type ea.com that would be too easy! and dont call them its like 7 dollers a second go look in a rare manual you might have gotten in one game, and see how much it costs. when i finnally got a hold of them online (info@ea.com or something), they washed their hands of responsability and informed me the problem was with drivers. boycot all ea games.

A Good Series goes Swirling Down the Can

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 9
Date: October 14, 2000
Author: Amazon User

After the genius of FF6 (FF3 in America) and the brilliance and intrigue of FF7, this is EASILY the series' biggest letdown. Final Fantasy6 and 7 were succesful for many reasons, one of which was intriguing storyline and likeable characters, both of which the game fails at. After playing it for only a few minutes, you'll probably think or wish (as I did) the following: "The characters will all HAVE to become more likeable by the end". HA! They don't, and eventually I started hoping they'd all get in a fiery plane crash (or airship crash, whatever). Plus, there is virtually no need for money seeing as you armor etc. never goes beyond the clothes on your back. These factors and an ending that was apparantly slapped together by some programmers who were and just wanted to end this crap make this game the worst FF to date, though FF9 seems quite competitive in that category.

Bummer

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 8
Date: May 23, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Pros- Good graphics, 1st disk

Cons- Poor sappy story line, poor music, watching the GF summon sequence for the 1,000,000,000 TIME, Poor charicter development, too easy 2nd 3rd and 4th disk.

I've played squaresoft games for a good 8 years enjoying their wonderful games such as FF 1, 2(4), 5, 3(6), 7, tactics(the irony of tactis is that it isn't very tactical, but thats another story), Chrono Trigger, ect. So i was expecting great things out of FF8. After watching the opening scene i was hooked, at least i thought, When i started summoning the GF's i was delighed at the graphics. But about half way through the 1st disk i relised that I HAD TO FIND MY OWN WEAPONS! At this i was very suprised, this puts the emphsis on useing magic and GFs to beat your enemy. Well this seemed all good untill about 1/2 way through the second disk when i had to watch ifrit and shiva for the umteenthmillion time. On top of the repition of battle scens, story line tends to center around one very simple concept. Get Riona, loose Riona, Find Riona, Save Riona, Loose Riona et cetra, et cetra. Poor charaicter developmentn other than Riona(who is more ditzy than anything) leaves you with a feeling of, emptyness. And finally the game is soooooooooo, easy. I beat the game in 3 weeks only playing on friday nights and saturdays. Leveling up is almost pointless since the enemies are always somewhere around your level, any vet. of RPGs shouldn't have a problem with maybe 85% of the enemies faced. The hardest part of the game is finding the white ship! Overall the game lacks in many departments and it seems square just gave up on many aspects of the story to give the game good graphics. The game would be decent if square never put out the 2nd 3rd and 4th disks

Good for the Playstation, bad for the PC

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 53
Date: January 02, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The Playstation has a 33mhz proccersor, 2 megs of ram, no hard drive space, and runs a game that requires a pentiumII 266mhz. I just can't update my pc, the game itself is good, but when it plays like it was in slow motion on my machine, then you shouldn't buy it for the pc.

not worth it

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 14
Date: March 09, 2000
Author: Amazon User

this game spans 4 cd's. it stats off good but is vary deceaving. it has a poor system for battle. the system entails a GF-Gardian force system. much like that of a elemental calling. although it takes nothing from you hp or mp. infact you dont have magic points. any magic you heve is baught or drawm in battle from enemies.

i made it about the third cd and found myself draging through it. it lost all its intrest at this point. i took out the cd and put the game away.

the only good thing this game does now is collect dust so my baulders gate cd case stays nice.

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