[TrashMan]

http://www.spoonyexperiment.com/category/final-fantasy-viii/

[Rick James]

Jesus Bloody Christ, I hate every Final Fantasy after VII. X and X-2 take the cake, but VIII also deserves the full force of my wrath because it is everything I ****ing hate about jRPGs mixed in with ****tily-written characters, dialogue and plot. Naaargh.

[TrashMan]

I love it how this guy goes into such details. His review is split into 10 friggin episodes. He goes into details, ripping apart the story, characters, everything.

You never can truly appreciate how STUPID the FFVIII story is until you look at the review.

[Mongoose]

Strangely enough, most of the into-RPG types I know rather like VIII, and seem to think that VII is fail incarnate.  I'm not quite sure why after watching the first two of those videos.

[The E]

Let's see.....This review seems to be:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheyChangedItNowItSucks
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ContestedSequel

Also, from watching Part 2, it seems he never has played any MMORPG, or anything which involves grinding....

[Colonol Dekker]

Jesus Bloody Christ, I hate every Final Fantasy after VII. X and X-2 take the cake,

GTFO MY INTERNET!! Lulu is my wife >8(

[NGTM-1R]

Basically VIII was horrible for reasons that can be summed up in one word: Squall.

[Colonol Dekker]

But knights of the round and Sephiroth cancel him out. + Jenova is awsome and tastes like sunshine.

[BloodEagle]

There went ca. three hours of my life. 

[TrashMan]

Also, from watching Part 2, it seems he never has played any MMORPG, or anything which involves grinding....

Watch the whole review. It only gets better as he goes trough the game and points out the stupidity of the plot.

[BloodEagle]

I personally found the side-stuff to be the best part of the whole review.

I really can't believe that he ignored the horrendous level-scaling, though.

[The E]

Well, I'll agree that, in terms of gameplay, VIII leaves something to be desired. And that the story is paper thin at times. But still, I had fun playing it, and ultimately, that's what counts for me.

[deathfun]

You know, I'm glad I've never played this game or any Final Fantasy games in my life

[Rick James]

You know, I'm glad I've never played this game or any Final Fantasy games in my life

Oh, everything up to and including the seventh game was frickin' awesome. And Final Fantasy VI was a visual and audio masterpiece with the universe's greatest evil laugh.

But, after VIII...well, I don't like talking about what came after VIII because then I could go on for freaking hours.

[Akalabeth Angel]

I prefer Yahtzee but this guy has some funny moments. Problem is the videos are too long . . .

#4 is probably the funniest of the lot. Especially when the music kicks in.



I haven't played any FF games and seems like I'm not missing much. Haven't played many RPGs in my time, my favourite one of the console generation probably being Phantasy Star.

[BloodEagle]

Haven't played many RPGs in my time, my favourite one of the console generation probably being Phantasy Star.

You poor bastard. That's almost as bad as the first Final Fantasy. Nowhere near Dragon Warrior, though.

[deathfun]

Come to think of it, the only RPG game I played was Fallout 3

And, I only watched the last episode. In fact, I thought that was the only episode until reading more down the thread
Thought the others were about other Final Fantasy games


Love his comment about the random floating spacecraft

[phatosealpha]

FF8 sucked.  Not as bad as FF7 with it's recycled main plot and awful characters, but still pretty bad.
Of course, really, 1-6 kind of sucked too.

[Akalabeth Angel]

Haven't played many RPGs in my time, my favourite one of the console generation probably being Phantasy Star.

You poor bastard. That's almost as bad as the first Final Fantasy. Nowhere near Dragon Warrior, though.

eh, Phantasy star was pretty awesome.
Though I played Fallout 1, so that's a little more recent.

Meanwhile I'm still trying to get through the Ultima collection. Lost interest somewhere near the end of Ultima V

[BloodEagle]

Come to think of it, the only RPG game I played was Fallout 3

Fallout 3 isn't an RPG.

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eh, Phantasy star was pretty awesome.

To be fair, I never finished that one. I just couldn't get around the game.

Hell, the only reason I played through Final Fantasy was because I had a Game Genie. I tried doing it the normal way, but after power-leveling (>10 levels) on that peninsula (and still failing in that cave) I came to the conclusion that the developers were freaking insane.

Meanwhile I'm still trying to get through the Ultima collection. Lost interest somewhere near the end of Ultima V

Well that brings back some memories. Not very good ones. The early games in that series are difficult.