Agreed. That's the only main problem with FF8. If it were the classic set spells, then it would be much better. Still, can't blam them for trying something new. And I don't see why so many people hate Squall; I think he's pretty cool.

FF1 - Tried the beginning, lost interest fast
FF2 - Never played
FF3 - Never played
FF4 - Beat it repeatedly, loved it a lot
FF5 - Beat it. Hated it.
FF6 - Got to Kefka's Tower, then lost the ROM and Save to a virus
FF7 - Beat it, on PC no less, the buggy piece of crap that it was, but loved the game itself.
FF8 - Beat it, my favorite to date.
FF9 - Got about mid disc 2 and lost interest after pounding Lifa Tree into the dust
FF10 - Got past Yunalesca, never found time to play again
FF11 - Never played it
FF12 - Never played it
FFMQ - Got me into the FF series. Excellent game, even if only for little ones
FFT - Sweet game, but it irked me that the best characters in the game would eventually replace those that you worked hard to raise
FFTA - Playing it, Good game, but very pissed right now. Lost the battle to Adremmalech (3rd totem) when he was at 18Hp, because MARCHE GOT IMPRISONED ON A COPYCAT TECHNICALITY!!!! ARRRGGGGHHHH!!!

Yah...I hate those stupid laws...

And everybody hates FF8 becuz it basically killed everything good about the FF series, then raped the corpse...and Squall seemed to be in a constant battle to whine and be a girly man throughout the entire game...I liked the opening sequence, him and Seifer battling, bitchin...

If you hate Squall, how can you not hate Tidus?

Who says I didn't, Squall is just worst...

Squall was just too realistic for most people to take in. All of FF8 was based on a more real story, on the human level. More emotion... *shrugs*

Not that I enjoyed it that much.

I have a question. It's about summons (and you nuts who think all the worlds are connected can have a field day with this).

The ice summon is always Shiva, the fire summon is always Ifrit, the water summon Leviathan, the kill-all death summon from hell is usually Bahamut...so why is it that the lightning summon changes all the time? Sometimes it's Ramuh, other times it's Ixion or Quezacotl.

What's up with that?

Oh, and here's my favourite/least favourite character listing for each game I've played to the end (I've played them all, but I haven't spent as much time on 2-6 as I would have liked.

I - Black Mage (8-bit Theatre's fault)/Black Belt (sucks)

VII - Barret (Mr. T!)/Sephiroth (extremely overrated despite having the coolest boss music ever)

VIII - Quistis (awesome, but bad taste in men)/Squall (embodiment of every "roleplaying asshole who thinks he's a loner" I've ever known)

IX - Steiner (I love a good clankin' German)/Necron (next time, make an appearance in the plot before the end of the game)

X - Rikku (I must love her, because I maxed out her Sphere Grid, gave her Break Damage Limit, Break HP Limit, Break MP Limit, Piercing, and Master Thief...mmmm...mug)/Jecht (I'm glad he wasn't my father)

X-2 - Rikku (she's so cute when she's chain hitting for 9999 damage)/Trema (I hate you, I hate you, I hate you, I hate you!)

I think I'm gonna do like Bezo, cause I like his idea here... and list off all my favorite/least favorite characters in the games I played. Which are all the ones released in the US, other than the re-releases (I have yet to pick up anthologies or anything like that), and the newest two (I also haven't gotten FFXI or FFX-2 yet).

FF1--Bahamut (just cause I like dragons)/All the heros (heros with no personality=bad)
FF4--Rydia (Gotta love the hair... and the little girl that changes the main map.)/Tellah (Leave Edgar alone ya bastard!)
FF6--Kefka (Run Run Run or you'll be well done!)/Gestahl (Stupid old man.)
FF7--Vincent (He was just cool.)/Aeris (Did she HAVE to go off on her own? She got her own dumb ass killed. Don't blame sephiroth for taking advantage of her stupidity.)
FF8--Seifer (Gotta love a guy who cuts down odin.)/Squall (Either be a loner or be a whiny bitch. You can't be both.)
FF9--Kuja (I love redeemable villians. And he had such great fashion sense too!)/Steiner (He was an idiot. Granted he slowly became less stupid... but in the beginning he was an idiot. He also had a shitty trance.)
FF10--Rikku (I just liked her. Plus, the Al Bhed have cool eyes.)/Wakka (He's stupid, he's ignorant, and he fights with a sports ball. What's not to hate?)

I like that after some tweaking in ff6 you can have terra cast any first level spell for 9,999 damage, usually without morphing, that is cool, I also like how some of the weapons in that game randomly unleash a spell after it attacks, that was neato

What i hate about the newer games ((the reason i like ff9)) is that doing 9,999 damage is no big deal even as early as level 40...wtf is up with that, in ff9, it took a long time to get a character able to do that much damage, which meant almost all of your attacks mattered, since not only did all of your attacks not do 9,999, you had very few attacks that did, spells were strong, you could holy some monster for a hell of a lot more damage than Zidane or Steiner could just whack them with a sword unless they used up almost all their abilitie slots on "monster type" killer abilities. I like the fact that i can finally blow people apart from the inside for more damage that i can hit their sheild for and maybe nick them on the face, i mean come on, im pretty sure your sword would break on a monster made of steel where a spell would at least do some damage

Just wait until I Oversoul every fiend in FFX-2 and get the ultimate garment grid, which inflicts 99,999 damage every turn! Your pathetic 9,999 damage will bow before me! Mwahahahahahaha :bmage:

Or something.