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

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Post by vsnf » Sat, Mar 02, 2024, 11:23 AM UTC

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 have many pages of good things to say about X-2. I love it very much. It's not as good as the masterpiece that was X, but it didn't need to be either. Defending X-2 as a great game is a hill I die on from time to time. Dress spheres were cool, revisiting the world and what fresh problems it has in the wake of newly found freedom, how they wrestle with the the realization that their religion was both corrupt and a sham, getting more insight into the Zanarkand-Bevelle war, and seeing the characters, especially Yuna, grow into her own person while dealing with the double whammy of her saviorhood and being given a lease on life she didn't expect to have.

btw Dark Souls 2 is the best in the trilogy, don't @ me

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

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Post by mock-possum » Sat, Mar 02, 2024, 12:48 PM UTC

int_19h wrote: post #56

neogodless wrote: post #26

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?

Subreddits can have their own individual ‘skins’ - i haven’t seen behind the scenes so I don’t know what that’s like to edit and what’s allowed, but - it’s definitely enough to achieve an effect like this.

Users can also opt out of subreddit specific styles.

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

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Post by lambdas » Sat, Mar 02, 2024, 1:01 PM UTC

AtlasBarfed wrote: post #64

ilamont wrote: post #5

Viz in the UK had a long-running single frame comic called “rude kid” depicting a mother asking her son to do something and his response was some variation of “bollocks” or “fuck off.” https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=6e8c819a630d1523&hl=en... Went on for years and for all I know still continues today.

FF8 is a WEIRD game. It also was my introduction to the depth of power publishers have over the game review "independent" press. FF8 was universally lauded by the major sites as the best JRPG since sliced bread. In reality it had an unlikeable lead character, an absolutely bizarre plot with time flashbacks that were totally nonsensical, the main party was composed of thoroughly unlikable teenagers, the plot twists ab…

Huh? Nobody shared a mother, you set a limited amount of abilities in battle, one of which could be use item, but there was no restriction to your backpack out of battle.

I’ve played it basically every year since release, it scratches an itch that no other Final Fantasy does. It’s very marmite but it’s far, far from bad at all.

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

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Post by birracerveza » Sat, Mar 02, 2024, 3:09 PM UTC

AtlasBarfed wrote: post #64

ilamont wrote: post #5

Viz in the UK had a long-running single frame comic called “rude kid” depicting a mother asking her son to do something and his response was some variation of “bollocks” or “fuck off.” https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=6e8c819a630d1523&hl=en... Went on for years and for all I know still continues today.

FF8 is a WEIRD game. It also was my introduction to the depth of power publishers have over the game review "independent" press. FF8 was universally lauded by the major sites as the best JRPG since sliced bread. In reality it had an unlikeable lead character, an absolutely bizarre plot with time flashbacks that were totally nonsensical, the main party was composed of thoroughly unlikable teenagers, the plot twists ab…

> In reality it had an unlikeable lead character

…whatever

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

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Post by AtlasBarfed » Sun, Mar 03, 2024, 4:00 AM UTC

lambdas wrote: post #73

AtlasBarfed wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FF8 is a WEIRD game. It also was my introduction to the depth of power publishers have over the game review "independent" press. FF8 was universally lauded by the major sites as the best JRPG since sliced bread. In reality it had an unlikeable lead character, an absolutely bizarre plot with time flashbacks that were totally nonsensical, the main party was composed of thoroughly unlikable teenagers, the plot twists ab…

Huh? Nobody shared a mother, you set a limited amount of abilities in battle, one of which could be use item, but there was no restriction to your backpack out of battle. I’ve played it basically every year since release, it scratches an itch that no other Final Fantasy does. It’s very marmite but it’s far, far from bad at all.

SPOILER

They were all in the same orphanage run by Edea, but only the gun guy remembered, the rest forgot due to (HANDWAVE) GF junction amnesia.

... it's kind of spectacularly good and bad at the same time. But it is bad. The spoony video shows how bad it is, and yet like you it is clear he's played the game MANY times.