7 Final Fantasy VIII Facts You Probably Didn't Know 

botanbutton its a great game! Defo needs to be remade!

VII, VIII and IX, are the best out of all of them, but Final Fantasy VIII is my all time favorite

Big facts

I like it too.

It's the "i level, everything else levels" scaling that killed it. I like the game, but it was SO much better if you blitzed through it, sadly.

RABtoons did a FF8 in a nut shell video. They made Cid look and act like Robin Williams throughout the whole video

I hear Cid was physically modeled after him so it's no coincidence

So does everyone else.

OMG HE DOES O___O

I always wondered what voice they would use for him because I always thought the same!

Gale Anderson I’m right there with you. I’d go so far as to say I modeled myself after him a bit. I was going through a really hard time with my parents splitting up and I didn’t know how to express myself. I acted out, got into a fight, I felt like I could only truly rely on myself. Oddly enough, as the game progressed, so did I. Squall started to open up more and rely on his friends, and I started doing the same because I saw how he benefited. I’m forever grateful for this game. Absolute favorite, and it hurts when people bash it 😥

True here that's why I spent 10000s of hours of FF 6,7,8,9

I just thought he was very cool....don’t need nobody and I can take care of myself (squall leonhart)

Ff9 is my fav, as i got it on release and loved it, ff8 was first one i completed and the one i played the most out of all ff games, i love it.

I was surprised by how much I related with him too. I was abandoned by my parents as a baby and raised by my sister. I never really had a childhood, so I missed out on a lot. I was always treated differently so I never really formed relationships with people. In my mind I felt like I could only really rely on myself. I eventually through sheer hate and anger worked out until I was extremely physically fit and joined the Navy. I never played Final Fantasy VIII until my fifth year in. His character felt so familiar. Sorry for the long post. I think a lot of us went through some crap. It’s good to know you’re not alone out there.

Thats why i quit playing the new FF series...now and days its so "linear" and does not feel soooo..."FANTASY" anymore. I remember growing up, wanting to live in the Final Fantasy world.

When I first saw Ragnarok I said to my flatmates at the time, if I was abducted by aliens that's the ship I hope to get abducted in... 😍

Even the music was awesome!

I loved the ship, especially after watching the anime outlaw star 😁

I remember wen I first discovered d factory in d midst of d sea with Ragnarok where u get to fight Bahamut and ultima weapon.. 😍😍😍😍 d atmosphere was just argghhhhh

you can partly thank Gunbreakers being announced for FF14.

Sofa King you got your wish

If I was Bill gates or Phil Spencer or Don Mattrick .. I'd sponsor a remake..and have it exclusive to xbox for a year like d ff7 remake...and let's watch how sales fly!!

@@OGAADE13 I think You'll need infinite money, to convince the japanese creators to make an xbox exclusive.....xddd Anyway, the FF series was always for playstation and then a couple of them arrived on PC

Brother.

@Tanya Johnson Yooo!! Me too!! I remember when my mom came home with Pizza Hut and said "here, this disc says Playstation on it..." she didn't know how much that demo would mean to me. I still play it to this day. These were definitely the best days.

Exact same story here. The pizza that changed my life.

Lol hell yeah man, that and metal gear solid, I loved them demos, makes me wonder if they are worth a lot of money or not

@@RolandDeschain1 IKR!!! The Faye Wong plus seeing the love across generations...

Dude, when i saw the FFVIII opening for the first time back in 99, my jaw hit the ground.I actually restarted my Playstation i dont know how many times just to see that Opening yet again, thats how amazed i was at that one.................and still am. FFVIII has many elements that still are my all-time favorite ones ever in gaming and that Opening surely is one of them.

I tried to film it cuz youtube wasn't a thing back then lol

He was dead the whole time!

Exactly!

It's definitely a black sheep if you just came out of FF6 and FF7.

Kieran Sampson I had the same kind of experience with 7. After 10 I went back and retried the PS 1 games but 7 was the one I tried and didn't like.

I have the same story for Dragon Quest 8. What the hell was my young self thinking. Lol

I must have started a game on it like 18-20 years ago, and I was not able to get into it at the time. I'm definitely going to give it a shot now that they have the remaster on PS4. I've been replaying 7, and am close to the end now. Just doing my Emerald/Ruby Weapon pre-grind.

@@Arbron That was my issue. I was born at the tail end of the 80's and had heard all the rumors on FF7 growing up around the adults but I thought you had you play all the other games before you could understand the next number, lol. I later learned that wasn't true and so when I got a PSP 3000 ages later, I finally played it and understood all the fuss. Now, not only that, but I had made myself patiently wait on playing Crisis Core until after beating 7. So, not only did I come off of playing what many consider the best maim title FF game, I had also finished one of the best side games to an FF title. Going from Core to FF8, I just was not feeling it. I compared it too heavily to FF7 and didn't get very far before ditching it. It was just too hard for me to look at it as its own thing. But, I'd like to try again sometime. At the time of writing this, FF7 Remake is poised to release next month so it'll yet again have to be after I finish 7 ;)

Gameplay is paramount but story is definitely more important than most other aspects. Especially in the case of turn based RPGs.

I agree, but therapy is very good, too, when implemented properly. I had some good experiences with child psychiatric stuff and I had some nightmarish experiences when I was in a new city. If we hadn't moved, I might have been supported properly and been able to graduate with my friends. Who knows? I was institutionalized as a teen, with guards and prison rules, so that wasn't great. I have more issues from things introduced to me in the current city I'm in than I had from being bullied and acting like a crazy kid in the previous city. It started out good, not having anyone know me or my past, but then certain medication made me really fat, really fast, wrecking my body and spine (risperidone and I went from 35kg to 80 as a 12 year old in the space of 2 months, can't blame puberty for that because that didn't happen until I was 15) or made me act horrible to my parents which made them press charges and put me in a mental asylum for teens, but I would have been alright if I stayed with my previous city's psychiatrist who knew which medication worked. I relate more to Cloud's backstory, especially when he was a kid. Cloud has so many traumas that cause him to freak out or disassociate.

​@@SlayerRunefrost ill play the devil's advocate and say the gameplay was actually pretty fun It felt like I was getting more and more powerful with each magic Draw and by the end I had full stacks of the most powerful magics on Squall Rinoa and Irvine

In greek it is Δευτεραγωνιστης. And then Τριταγωνιστης like Thirdagonist

Same! I'll be 29 this year too. My dad worked at Pizza Hut and he got me all the pizza hut demo discs. I fell in love with FF8 immediately. It's still my favorite game of all time.

Tetra Master was stupid.

Tetra Master, Blitzball... There's no minigame like Triple Triad. Fact.

... Did u hear about G-Bike?

Saying this as someone who has 9 as their favorite Final Fantasy game: Tetra Master is dumb and the game does a terrible job of explaining the mechanics to you.

@@Changetheling Do you play Gwent?

I looked for a post where he did that after wondering how a part of the game that doesn't 100% have him in it can be happening in his fevered dying imagination, I seriously wonder at the logic some people have

@@aaron75fy obviously Rinoa is ultimicia (Not serious)

@@lordcommissar7813 *summons brothers* enjoy the view

I think only gullible kids bought that, although i would say that it's a pretty interesting theory.

Thank you for saying/sharing it. :)

Thank you Isaac! Do you 100% it every time, or is it all about the story? ~Darryl

Final Fantasy Union Mostly the story however with this new information i'm going to play it by finding all these new secrets i didn't know about ;)

Lol I do the same thing! LOVE this game. I do it all btw, 100%!😋

Zell was once in a Mentos commercial.

It's the worst in the series by far. Magic is painful and tied to your stats which is retarded. Leveling outscales bosses in contrast to you. The story is also really weak.

The entire plot to 2 as well..

XII, yes. 😂 It's basically fantasy Star Wars!

So Vaan is Luke Skywalker?

@@shauqiharris2772 Vaan is Luke Skywalker, Basch is Obi Wan, Ashe is Leia, Balthier is Han Solo, Even Fran is a "Furry" sidekick like Chewbacca I mean come ON. oh and Penelo is there too I guess..

I didn't like 8 because of the battle system sucking, and playing card games while some serious shit is going down. Also Squalls Gunblade looks stupid and he's emo. The only cool characters is Seifer and Zell AKA White Tyson. Everyone else is forgettable. Oh and even though they are a ragtag team they all happen to be orphans at the same orphanage.

@@cipherstrife1991 Go save Aerith.

Low key one of my favourites of the series!

My issue with 8 is the magic system. You were better off hoarding spells and playing the game pure physical.

You do not stand alone there.

That questline is one of the more obscure ones in the franchise. Even the GameFAQs board didn't really document it fully until the past couple of years. (The GF boards for these games are usually the equivalent of think-tanks.) Same goes for the Protect Ring quest in FF9, which I assume will get a mention in the FF9 video.

Yeah I never knew about the Zell one either.

@Spit Dragon i think it is underrated. Yes, the system definately has its flaws but the diversity of the characters, the story telling, the realistic flaws within each individual, etc is quite nice and, aside from the magic being tied to stats deal, it was a grear system overall.

Woah! Final Fantasy Tactics. Miss those times when FF games were actually good. The storyline, the gameplay, the fantasy in those games... Maybe it's just my nostalgia? :D

I didn't care for FF8. People accuse Cloud of being emo, but he isn't. Squall is but not Cloud. And Zidane is a pervert giggity

Cipher Strife a man who's attracted to women in a normal way is considered perverted now?? U buggin. Come off it.

Cipher Strife Cloud was definitely emo he hated his life so much he tried to steal Zack’s life lol

N3DD N3DD yess Finally Selphie bias :3 !!!

omg me too! I was like 11 and I made it my mission to beat that damn demo. Then when I went to the store to get it with my mom, it was too expensive, so I picked up FF7 instead since my ignorant self said "IS THAT ZELL WITH A SWORD! XD 7 ended up being my first full game, but 8 has always been my favorite once I finally got to play it.

Mine as well, I played it over and over again. Also the Tony Hawk Pro Skater demo.

Best field music and also my alarm clock :D

SQUAAAAD

VIII and VI are the absolute best for me.

Me Too.

Also my first FF game and I probably played it for at least close to 50 times now. lol

Same here. Also the best Shiva design, in my opinion.

@@12ealDealOfficial had my favorite Ifiit design. Bahamut was cool and Diablos was amazing.

Best limit breaks? I say worse. Rinoa and Selphie are too random, Squall has 1/4 of a chance hitting Lion Heart, Zell's take way too long and aside from Degenerator, Mighty Guard and Shockwave Pulsar, Quistis is useless

No need really. Aside from the overworld graphics, I think the game still holds up quite well today. It has aged quite beautifully IMO.

Preach Brother Preach!

Edwin Wong REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE NO

Yes - it needs voice acting - there are plenty of games later that have voiced ff8 characters

@@RydiasRevenge If you grew up with the game, you do your own voice acting. As for the other games, I know not what you speak of.

It's not as good as the Sharkzooka though.

Also gotta say I didn't know the Final Fantasy Tactics reference with Orran being the creator of Triple Triad.

Wish granted.

The Trifecta is complete now. Ff7, ff8 & ff9 all on the Switch 😭

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give her 255 magic then auto-haste, clear all of her magic bar 1 meteor spell and watch angelwing kick ass for 75,000 each time and she cuts it instantly to do it again!!!!!

Except she wasn't always a sorceress. She gained that after being possessed

I did some looking and it seems that the issues is one of two things. Either they lost the code to the sands of time(which does actually happen from games of this era) or a rights dispute with the music. Either one is stupid.

guess you were wrong about that :P

It's not stupid, it's old video games we're talking about, do you still have your homework from school at home ? Or any project you were trying to do as a kid, no. So they did indeed lost the source code, the remaster is being what we call "reverse engineered" where they're actually taking the whole crating process reverse mode in order to complete and refine it. I hope it will look great and have no bugs or problems at launch it's hard to tell how much time they've been working on. I also hope the rumors about a demo from the horrible Final fantasy 10%7 remake will be in the package and the remaster game being voice in japanese. Cause seeing the prices leaked makes me mad.

Apparently they lost all the code.

Yeah they did.

Rushed? Lost code? are you joking. You do know that they already released the games on PS3, PSP, PS Vita and Steam. So how could they do that if they lost the code. And the game was far from rushed. A FF game around that time usual had a developement time of around 2 years, which FF8 also had. So the game was far from rushed or you could say all FF games was rushed. The problem here is that it came after FF7 which was one of the best selling FF games ever and people had so high expectations for the next one that they consumers ruined it for themselves and thus they gave FF8 a bad name (even though the game is great, but is confusing at certain points). Just like how people thought a movie they saw was awesome and couldn't wait for a sequal just to be disappointed when it comes out as it didn't live up to their expectations.

@@kkbbss To be fair, the PS3, PSP and PS Vita versions are just the PS1 ISO's, they could get them from anywhere. And the Steam release is just a wrapper around the original terrible PC release which again, they could get those files from anywhere. PS4 doesn't have a PS1 emulator in it which is why FF7 is the Steam version ported over. However if they ported over the Steam version of 8 it would be given a -100 out of 100 as it is an absolutely terrible port. They fixed 7, but they never fixed 8, I assume because they don't have the source to be able to fix it. Oh also Eidos did the PC ports so you can't exactly blame Square for not having the source for the PC versions

@@billytaj7708 is joking, you guys...(at least I hope). FF8 has, unfortunately, become the "bastard child" of the Golden Age of Final Fantasies, and so they try to downplay its existence whenever possible. It's kinda like...the director Robert Rodriguez, all of his films have a specific format/set of extras when released on DVD: he has a bit called "10-minute film school", obviously a commentary track, footage from the set, deleted scenes. The ONLY film he didn't do this for was "The Faculty", which was received lukewarmly, and so he did everything he could to let it get buried as the past. That's what Square does with VIII, which is sandwiched between landmark VII and the "Pleasing Old School Fans" IX,,,

I was the 8th like on your comment.. it must be a sign. Seriously, FF8 is the best in my opinion. So glad the remaster is happening, and hoping so much for the remake!

I didn't know they were doing a remaster. I happen to spot it at the PlayStation store. $31NZD as opposed to $125NZD when it first came out on PS1... Bargain... 😆

@Spit Dragon I did not mention Final Fantasy 6 or graphics at all in my comment. Where is this rant coming from? All I said was FFVIII was my favorite. And FYI I DID play FF6 and Chrono Trigger. I love both of them.

Game Time with NateWolf yup lol

Accurate. Not complaining though XD

duuuuuuuuuude me too. I always used Kareem Campbell

Oerbayunrae don't worry! I was too!!! On the floor 😂

THE FLOOR? Damn 😂

I fell asleep just before it went live too! XD and ironically those were the only 2 ones I knew!

Sunflake685 yay!

Fuck YES.

💞💞💞

Same here! I will still go back and randomly play both even now

The problem with that is Ultimecia did nothing to show any interest in Squall at all. If she was obsessed with him or shown anything, in action or in words, to show she was in love with him then maybe I would agree with you. Honestly they should have done that in the story bc at least it gives more purpose to Ultimecia other than just wants to compress time just for the hell of it lol.

Movie Man Reviews the only connection that I would believe they had is griever.

@@smeefporkgood7790 True but that's not enough bc he is the strongest GF so it'd make sense Ultimecia would want him. It's not like only Squall knew about him either.

HOW?

Hmm it prob looks cool on phone

@@joshuaadams6426 psx simulator on android phone and image file of ff8 disks

you can buy it on steam

Or use emulator hahaahha

Ps vita has it too. Also don't get steam version it sucks the side bosses like omega weapon and ultimas weapon scale with your level on steam even tho it doesn't on the original version

Same here

It's a fact, not an opinion. And don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

​@Decadent Descent Ha, that's rich considering how FF7 fanboys will praise the game based on nostalgia alone. But no, FF4 was my first in the series.

@@Demokaze Low key I like FF4 way more than FF7. I love FF7 but FF4 imo is the true FF of the early games.

I would put 1-6 as early games, and would then agree that 4 is the best of that group. 7+ though, I'd put 8 as best.

@@Morbid_Max Sorry that is what I meant when I said early games. I got the same exact opinion as you man, ff4 and ff8 all the way. Of course almost all FF games are good games for their time. The only ones I kinda think are meh are ff5, 11 and everything after. Ff1 was revolutionary so it at least gets default greatness because of that. 2 and 3 improved on ff1 so I kinda give them a pass too. FF5 though, idk man. It was fun but that's all it was. I remember thinking "what the fuck it feels like everyone pitched ideas for scenarios and they just said ok to all of them." Kinda felt like it sacrificed plot, which ff4 did fantastically, to be crazy. I don't at all hate it but imo it was disappointing playing it after the masterpiece that was ff4. Ff11 and onwards to me kinda have the same feeling of them as I do about ff2 and 3 in the sense that they improved the gameplay but 11 and onwards don't have the excuse that 2 and 3 had which is that square wasn't super focused on story in those games. The stories in those games were bland compared to 7-10 imo. They're still fun to play don't get me wrong but I think there are clearly and empirically "better" FFs especially when you take the times they were released into consideration. I'll shut up now.

True and I secretly wanted more of Seifer lool

Piet as well.

...whatever (I can't believe this teacher)

Such a classic.

Mastor Deznuts yes!! I couldn’t remember how I acquired this demo.