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[Norondor]

Since i've been watching FF8 while Tyler plays it i am struck by the fact that the music is the worst, not only in the FF series but maybe in any game ever released. The only halfway-decent track is the battle music for Laguna and none of the music you hear in any location ever fits the ambiance. Why does the lunar science lab have german oompah-pah music? I swear.

[Rosencrantz]

Despite my love for FF8, I agree that it does have a mostly-bad soundtrack with a few exceptions. The weirdest part is that, usually when I read an anti-FF8 review, they usually say something like "despite its great soundtrack, the game sucks etc. etc."

I love this track, but the creators must have also because they overuse it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kia3MaNO60

[yyler]

That's a derivative of the ten songs used for ruins in FF7

[yyler]

Well, okay, I guess it's alright. But it can't really make up for the rest of the soundtrack, and also it's in like two areas

[François]

Under her control may be the best bad song in the series. I love singing or humming it when I drive or go for a walk, for some reason.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu5pSfBLrMs

pom, pa pom, pa po po pom, pa pom, pa pa po pom
po pa pom, pa po po pom po pa pom, pa pa po pom
 

[Alex]

He said "without," not "with."

My girlfriend watches the talky parts of Persona 4, but not so much the dungeon crawl or, much worse, my fusion debacles.

Oops, misread.

I can't really do RPGs with other people around.  I always feel awkward running around talking to people and shopping with someone over my shoulder.

Quick edit: The only songs in FFVIII I like are Balamb Garden, Breezy, KCompression of Time, Force Your Way, Martial Law, Maybe I'm A Lion, The Land, The Man With the Machine Gun, The Salt Flats, The Spy and The Winner.  Everything else was pretty much meh to me.  But then again, I've yet to like an entire soundtrack to date.

[Norondor]

But then again, I've yet to like an entire soundtrack to date.

Wings of the Goddess

no, really

[Romosome]

Since i've been watching FF8 while Tyler plays it i am struck by the fact that the music is the worst, not only in the FF series but maybe in any game ever released. The only halfway-decent track is the battle music for Laguna and none of the music you hear in any location ever fits the ambiance. Why does the lunar science lab have german oompah-pah music? I swear.

I liked the normal battle theme as well because of its weird rhythm thing it has going on, but it is kinda generic Uematsu.

[Norondor]

Somehow all the music in the game basically sounds like a pc shareware game circa 1993.

[Alex]

But then again, I've yet to like an entire soundtrack to date.

Wings of the Goddess

no, really

If it's anything like the rest of the FFXI soundtrack, there'll only be like 6 or so songs that are any good.  I plucked some of the fight music from XI, but none of it really grew on me.

[McDohl]

Some of the Arrange Albums for FF8 are pretty nice.  I enjoy the orchestrated version of Love Grows.

[Doom]

I like the boss music despite it being terrible because everytime it builds tempo I remember the really good second Seifer fight.

KNEEL BEFORE ME *WHIRLWIND HELL*

[yyler]

I uh, never got to see Whirlwind Hell because I one-shotted him. And Edea.

[Norondor]

WHOOPS i guess Squall has STR+20% and STR+40% and full-life junctioned to STR and is at critical health

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPS seventeen thousand damage

[Shinra]

a lot of people say that the problem with ff8 was bad hackneyed writing and the fact that you had to draw magic from bosses to be useful

While junctioning/drawing was precisely what made the game awful, Norondor has illustrated why.

[Lady Duke]

I liked junctioning and drawing.

[Brentai]

[Bongo Bill]

You don't have to draw in battle at all, except getting summons from bosses. Card, Card Mod, and magic refinement gives you everything you need. Plus the occasional draw point for the unnecessary rare spells.

Also, physical attacks are more efficient sources of damage, both in real-time and game-time, than summons. Also, the game is easier if you never level up.

I like the junction system. The draw system is just misleading, though.

[Lady Duke]

While I mostly agree with you BB, nothing is more fun than casting meltdown and then smacking the crap out of monsters.  Nothing.

[Brentai]

FF8 and FF12 suffer from similar problems in that the proper way to progress through the game is completely different from the way in which you are explicitly told to.  Had the tutorials either been clearer or even less clear on exactly the wrong points then neither would have ended up as quite the torturous grindfests that most people ended up naively playing.

FF8 at least would still be pretty bad, but at least it would be easier to appreciate the fact that, really honestly, it's the prettiest of all the Final Fantasies, getting in right before the implosion of Square's CG workshops that it never quite recovered from.