Steam announces that the classic JRPG Final Fantasy VIII is now available for purchase.
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Final Fantasy VIII - Now Available on Steam
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Another one of those games that most people either loved or hated. Personally, I didn't really care much for it.
I thought the world and characters were really strange. I didn't mind the pseudo-tech elements that were in some parts of FF VII, but the way they mixed swords and magic with cars and jets in VIII just seemed weird to me.
It was also the first Final Fantasy to feature enemies that scaled to your level, and the combat felt grindier to me than earlier games in the series.
I thought the world and characters were really strange. I didn't mind the pseudo-tech elements that were in some parts of FF VII, but the way they mixed swords and magic with cars and jets in VIII just seemed weird to me.
It was also the first Final Fantasy to feature enemies that scaled to your level, and the combat felt grindier to me than earlier games in the series.
Yme
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Bought it on Psn and replayed it a year ago or so. Still holds up as one of my favorite games.
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Now just release Final Fantasy X in an upgraded HD PC version!
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I played this for awhile back in the day. Didn't like it as much as FF7, but I got fairly far in it and spent some hours. I got to a dead end and couldn't figure out where to go, though. I was in some city with a large circular pathway that, as far as I know, just looped around in a big circle. Couldn't figure out where to go and the endless hours spent looking for a path while fighting random battles eventually got to me and I quit.
From what I remember, the story was pretty cool.
From what I remember, the story was pretty cool.
Zloth
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I absolutely hated it. I played it for a pretty long time hoping for it to at least try and match FF7's story but it wasn't happening. This game has the worst story I've ever seen in a Final Fantasy game. Actually, in any JPRG. Actually, in any form of entertainment coming out of Japan at all! I would rather watch a cheap Godzilla movie than this horribly padded love story.
Battles were terribly dull as you spend eons pulling magic out of hapless critters.
The opening song, though, was good stuff.
One really odd thing - they released this with the original PC music. They just got done updating FF7 to better music files, why wouldn't they just release the good stuff with this game?
Battles were terribly dull as you spend eons pulling magic out of hapless critters.
The opening song, though, was good stuff.
One really odd thing - they released this with the original PC music. They just got done updating FF7 to better music files, why wouldn't they just release the good stuff with this game?
