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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

#51
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The gag with the spine art reminds me of this (video boxed sets of the series Monk): https://trout.me.uk/monk.jpg

The slanted text comments on this reddit page is extra infuriating! https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/ro5e6r/t...

The fake hair on the screen totally got me!!!

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

#53
post #11

Laughed out loud. And FWIW loved Final Fantasy VIII. More then VII. The soundtrack was fantastic, I used to have an imported full orchestral arrangement that was in heavy rotation in my tweens.

Final Fantasy titles have a deep gameplay aspect and a deep story aspect. FFVIII wasn't the best story, but it had great gameplay.

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

#54

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.

Their about page suggests why the strong language. It appears to be a stylistic choice. https://ff8isthe.best/about/

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

#56
post #8

The gag with the spine art reminds me of this (video boxed sets of the series Monk): https://trout.me.uk/monk.jpg

The slanted text comments on this reddit page is extra infuriating! https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/ro5e6r/t...

Huh! How do they achieve this effect? Does Reddit give you that much control over CSS?

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

#58

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…

What puts 3 ahead of 4 and 6 for you?

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

#60
post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The slanted text comments on this reddit page is extra infuriating! https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/ro5e6r/t...

Huh! How do they achieve this effect? Does Reddit give you that much control over CSS?

The old interface does. Only one of the countless reasons the new one is worse.
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