WhoFeelsLove wrote:the music is amazing, the cut scenes were incredible as well for the time. they still hold up today, if you ask me.
i'll admit the graphics on 8 were ahead of its time, but for me, graphics are not really that important in FF. When i rate a FF game i look at gameplay and storyline; graphics are really just a bonus. I think I'm what u would call an "alternative gamer" i have very different tastes than most people - i've got a Japanese PS2, a Gamecube with a button on the back so when u press it it can play Japanese games, and when u unpress it, american games. Games like Halo or Grand Theft Auto are fun, but i'd rather play a classic FF. Plus, i've got some crazy japanese games that would only be popular in Japan...
I HIGHLY recommend FF6; you want to talk about games ahead of its time...this game was for SNES, and it is so big that
*****SPOILER****
the entire world gets destroyed and rebuilt again (i.e. there are basically TWO world maps, which is incredible) In each world there are different villians and the towns look different; there's even another whole soundtrack (i.e. most of the music from the first world plays is not in the second world; even the world map music is different). now THIS game was epic...and remember back then in the mid 90s during the Cartridge Age, something this big was just unimaginable. *******END*****
plus, the music from this game, was in my opinion, the best.
I've also played FFI and II, which are good, but not as good as III (remember, III in Japan equals FFVI in the U.S...i dunno why exactly) but what is cool about the first ones is that there is this whole "job" system - like each character has different characteristics - one can only cast white magic, another black, another may be a bruiser, etc...this is still in place in the newer FFs, for example Rinoa is stronger at casting spells than Squall, for example, but this is where it originiated)
But back to FF8 for a second...for those that like it, have u played the older, "Traditional" FFs? Ppl that i know who don't like FF8 usually are the ones who like the traditional FFs (they HATE the whole system of drawing magic from enemies, myself included). And if u haven't played them, i'm interested to know if u'd actually like the old system of magic.
But please play FFVI for SNES (or download the emulator and play), u don't know what ur missing if u haven't