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Don't Listen to Anyone Else but Me!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 17 / 19
Date: March 14, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I have read alot of these reviews, and most of the bad ones do not even have proper spelling, so listen to me. If you are familiar with role playing games, or are interested it becoming familiar, this is a good game for you. Final Fantasy is one of the longest running and best RPG series. The story in VIII is wonderful, with a huge scope involving love, hate, revenge, salvation, friendship and destiny. Some of the more popular RPGs, such as Baldur's Gate, do not have a tenth, or even a hundredth of the story in this game. Sure, there is not voice, so you will be reading alot, but is that so bad? If everything was a recording the length of the game would have to be cut back enourmously to make it all fit. The game does get a little confusing towards the finale, (time compression...if you gotta ask, you'll never know.) The backgrounds are low-res, but are still beautiful in their own right. I love this game, for it's enormous scope, it's length of play, (at least fourty hours to do enough to beat it), it's replay value, and it's interesting storyline. Anyone who doesn't like this game isn't human.

Sets the standard

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 20 / 20
Date: August 17, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Folks either love or hate this game, me.. I love it. I don't own a playstation so this was my only chance at playing this game which I'd been champing at the bit for since its release onto the PSX. Then it finally came out.

Every Final Fantasy game is different. They all take place in practically different worlds with different characters (except for a few recurring minor ones) but thet all have the same themes -- love, hope, destiny, and destruction. FFVIII follows the path of Squall, a young trainee trying to join SeeD, an elite mercenary fighting force.

The magic system is a bit difficult to master at first, but they help you as much as possible along the way and if it ever gets confusing you can always let the computer manage it for you. Spells no longer cost 'mana', and instead you simply draw a limited supply of them from points on the map or from monsters. New weapons are no longer purchased, but instead existing ones are upgrated with items you earn after battles or by stealing them from monsters.

My first impressions were that the polygon models looked a bit odd, and the characters were all very stereotyped. Squall was the grumpy quiet type, Zell was a hothead, Rinoa was the vunerable chick, Quistis was the bookworm, Irvine was the sentementalist, and Selphie was the ditz. But as I played through I found that the game only made me think that on the outside. These characters had desires, they had dreams, loves, and hidden secrets that made them what they were.

The game drew me in like a moth to a bulb. I wanted to find out what was going to happen next! I wanted my heros to win! I scrabbled along the numerous sub-quests and attacked every new plot thread that showed up.

Fourty hours or so later I finally emerged viceorious... and I wanted to play it again!

Worth the money - a very good game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 14 / 15
Date: February 08, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Before writing, I wanted to see how other reviewers liked this game. Most of the complaints are on hardware issues, the others are comparisons between the PC version and PSX (uh, why?) Anyways, I run this on a P266 with a Voodoo II just fine.

Basically, I spent most of this past weekend stuck in front of the computer thanks to this extremely addictive and involving game. I finally finished the first CD and am already giving this game a big thumbs up. Best part is I have three more CD's to go.

The game is *very* beautiful. The cutscenes are incredible and you jump in and out of movie scenes so much it's almost like it's part of the game. In fact, the last time I died was because I thought I was watching a cutscene when in fact it was part of the game.

The cons - music (ughhh...) a very important requirement for me personally. Lame midi music, just like the PC version of FF7. Almost bad enough for me to drop it to 4 stars. Also, the guardian force spells are beautiful to watch, but become tiring after the thousandth time. The problem is you have to summon these creatures over and over to defeat particularly difficult monsters. Gets tedious. Lastly, the help files and instruction manuals give you the basics, but don't get into the more advanced functions of the game. I'm still unsure what many of the spells and commands do.

However, these negatives don't take away from the fact that this game is as fun to watch as it is to play. Squaresoft really has developed a flagship title that is unique in many ways and has yet to be duplicated by any other maker. The game is actually very linear (think of Rebel Assault), yet for some reason it leaves the player feeling much more involved and satisfied at the results. Think of being part of an epic movie.

One CD down - 3 to go... can't wait!

Derek

Squaresoft rpgs are the best, can't wait for this one on pc!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: January 05, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The PC version of 8 is ff done right! From the demo i can tell that it runs better than the psx and will way better graphics (thanks to 3d acceleration). I haven't played it yet (don't have a psx) but i've already ordered my copy!

Also, for those complaining about the sys requirements...the demo ran great on my 200 Mhz Pentium MMX with 64 megs of ram (and a RivaTNT card)

I love this game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: May 25, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Before I bought this game, I read the mixed reviews. With some hesitation, I placed the order and got it.I am not a hard core RPG player, just an occasional user.I got hooked on it and the story. I learned to use the junction system and, perhaps because I had not played any of the previous FFs, liked it. People complained of the random battles. I did not mind them, since the story moved pretty well. But having a slow computer, or a low memory 3d accelerator card may turn out the GFs animation pretty slow.With a 16MB memory graphics card, the animations ran pretty well. After the dollet mission (5 hours into the game) I found myself not needing to call out the GFs as much (only to fight bosses) since the characters had gained strength, experience, and magic to fight the random battles. So you dont have to sit and look at the GF animations for the millionth time as other reviewers claim. I loved the story, it wasnt simple nor complicated. The dialog is believably coming out of 17 years old characters(teenagers can take this however they want to). Ah, yes, get a decent game pad. Being a nintendo player, I did not mind that the keyboard was not fully supported. If you are a gamer, you should have a decent 3d card, a flight joystick, and a game pad to suit the different games you buy.

this game rules!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 13
Date: January 14, 2000
Author: Amazon User

this has the most amasing graphics of all the computer games on earth! If you are familiar with rpg's, its the best game on earth but if you aren't familiar, its still the best! There's not much else to say though

The Best game I've ever played!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: February 27, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This Is the the best game I've ever played. The plot on FF8 is beautifully made. The price is exellent for the games quality. Though some problems are that if you dont have at least a pentium 2 processor 266MHZ and 64MB of ram and 4MB of video ram the game is going to go very slow. The graphics on this game are way better than FF7. And the sound is the typical MIDI.

Gee WHIZ!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: February 17, 2000
Author: Amazon User

These graphics are so hot! I'm telling you I have to pause the game cause I get so excited I gotta take a whiz. Sorry if I sound nasty, but it does. Get it. Thats not the only thing, the story line is great too. The bad stuff, weapons are confusing, GF takes too long, and the magic is stupid. You gotta "draw" it what the hell is that all about? All in all, FF7 is the best, but ff8 shines as well.

It Rocks!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: January 05, 2000
Author: Amazon User

this game is great! you have to have all of the goodies on your computer, though, or you won't get the same effect (like poor Bob from accounting). the story line is deeper than the last one, and so is the animation. plus, the main characters look better!

Most spectacular RPG game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: January 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I played Final Fantasy7 and i thought it had an extremely good story-line but final fantasy 8 does too.

When i first started finalfantasy8 and looked at the intro movie i was amazed. The ff8 graphics are the best i have seen in any game ever. The people are sure realistically animated. Even hair moves. Now alot of people complain about ff8 not being like the traditional cartoon people of the other ff series. But I think the game schouldnt stay with the cartoon people. As the technology improves so should the final fantsy series. I was rather shocked when i heard that final fantasy 9 is going back to the traditional graphics. The Junction system is also much better than the Materia system, just because its harder doesnt mean itas bad. Youll only completely master and see how usefull and great the junction system is once you beat ff8 and thats part of the fun. The battles are much more exciting than ff7s do to the new system and GF and the tons of spells. The stroy of final fantsy 8 is also great. I wont say its better than ff7s but at least the same good. Throughout the whole game your hoocked and must play on because its so exciting. Like in ff7 you always think you know the end or how the story continues and usually it turns out to be something else.

All in all i love this game really much because it combines story and awesome graphics in one.

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