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A game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater

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Re: A game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater

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Post by iforgotpassword »

jimmydroptables wrote: post #3

Lovely story. Wouldn't call this taunting a hater at all, if I had to guess I would say that the person was happy that the magazine acknowledged him and created an inside joke together with him. This is how you make super fans for your brand. I wish more brands interacted with their audience in this human-like, friendly banter, playful sort of way, instead of the sterile corporate happy-speak as if the reply is a way…

Agree, with "hater" in the title, I expected a 20 page manifesto discussing every little detail that's supposedly wrong with the game. That was pretty moderate and the inside joke this created is like funny little easteregg.

Re: A game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater

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Post by static_void_ »

vehemenz wrote: post #28

Fans of the FF games are very passionate about their favorite game(s). In the earlier days of the Internet, there were endless debates about VI vs VII. Those truly had an inspirational effect on people—but rarely in a good way. Or maybe it's just the perfect cross section of Internet-arguers and JRPG-obsessives that makes for insufferable, endless debates and ranking lists. Anyway, enough beating around the bush. Her…

Yay, love the Chrono Trigger in the top 3. People always bring it up, either to say they love it or that it's overrated. It is not overrated! its correctly rated, it really is that good.

FFVII was great but it is an interesting contrast to games like FFVI / Chrono Trigger. The SNES games came out at the end of their console's lives and made the absolute most of what the hardware had to offer. FFVII was early-ish in the PSX life cycle and pushed JRPGs forward. There were some earlier 3d-ish JRPGs, sure, (wild arms was 1996) but FFVII would go on to define how those games would work for years. It became the prototype, but it also feels like a prototype in a lot of ways. It has a lot of jank. Some of those mini games just aren't fun anymore. The good news is all the stuff they learned about narrative in the previous generations was intact and carried the game where it might have other wise faltered.

Anyways, I still loooove FFVII a ton too. But it's good for different reasons than the later SNES games. Also FFVIII was a lot of fun too, and a much more solid 'game' than FFVII even if some systems were pretty breakable / exploitable.

Re: A game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater

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Post by klyrs »

vehemenz wrote: post #28

Fans of the FF games are very passionate about their favorite game(s). In the earlier days of the Internet, there were endless debates about VI vs VII. Those truly had an inspirational effect on people—but rarely in a good way. Or maybe it's just the perfect cross section of Internet-arguers and JRPG-obsessives that makes for insufferable, endless debates and ranking lists. Anyway, enough beating around the bush. Her…

No love for FFI or FFII? Guess it's time I dig out the ol' emulator again and re-read 8-bit theater...

https://www.nuklearpower.com/2001/03/02/episode-001-were-goi...

Re: A game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater

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Post by SllX »

pfdietz wrote: post #30
vehemenz wrote: post #28

Fans of the FF games are very passionate about their favorite game(s). In the earlier days of the Internet, there were endless debates about VI vs VII. Those truly had an inspirational effect on people—but rarely in a good way. Or maybe it's just the perfect cross section of Internet-arguers and JRPG-obsessives that makes for insufferable, endless debates and ranking lists. Anyway, enough beating around the bush. Her…

No one has anything good to say about FFX2.

It was a fun game with a neat class mechanic and interesting character designs.

Re: A game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater

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Post by SllX »

klyrs wrote: post #34
vehemenz wrote: post #28

Fans of the FF games are very passionate about their favorite game(s). In the earlier days of the Internet, there were endless debates about VI vs VII. Those truly had an inspirational effect on people—but rarely in a good way. Or maybe it's just the perfect cross section of Internet-arguers and JRPG-obsessives that makes for insufferable, endless debates and ranking lists. Anyway, enough beating around the bush. Her…

No love for FFI or FFII? Guess it's time I dig out the ol' emulator again and re-read 8-bit theater... https://www.nuklearpower.com/2001/03/02/episode-001-were-goi...

Hadoken!

Re: A game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater

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Post by dash2 »

Since 1995, Private Eye magazine has regularly run a picture of Andrew Neil wearing a baseball cap and vest, in the company of a younger woman, which he was supposed to find embarrassing. A long-running letters page joke is finding spurious reasons to reprint it. https://www.private-eye.co.uk/blog/?m=201101

Re: A game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater

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Post by johnny22 »

pfdietz wrote: post #30
vehemenz wrote: post #28

Fans of the FF games are very passionate about their favorite game(s). In the earlier days of the Internet, there were endless debates about VI vs VII. Those truly had an inspirational effect on people—but rarely in a good way. Or maybe it's just the perfect cross section of Internet-arguers and JRPG-obsessives that makes for insufferable, endless debates and ranking lists. Anyway, enough beating around the bush. Her…

No one has anything good to say about FFX2.

I liked it a lot other than the dress spheres weren't properly balanced against each other.
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