Why is Final Fantasy 8 hated again

Just finished it and thought it was great

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Tiny brained FF7 fans who can't handle 8's storytelling - and I generally don't like saying that, but FF7 fans are fucking dumb.

a lot of projecting in this thread

Everything about it is shit outside of music and Triple Triad.
That's the long and short of it.

Completely untrue

> Just finished it
You're probably missing the context of the time it was created in then. Final Fantasy 7 had just made JRPGs mainstream, so you had a lot of people that were new to the series and genre expecting something more like a direct sequel to FF7 with a similar atmosphere. Then, instead, of a vaguely steampunk / fantasy game, they get a teenage soap opera with some trendy witches mixed in. Plus it had a battle system that made spells a disposable item that you could run out of, instead of something you equipped and then expended energy to use. Functionally, it was just a different kind of way of managing the resource, but a lot of people griped about it, since FFVII was their only frame of reference for JRPGs and thus everything should play the same. Overall, it's not a bad game, but it wasn't the FFVII sequel that a lot of new fans of the series were expecting.

Of course, there were also people that didn't play FFVII, but were familiar with the hype over it. So they started with FFVIII, because that's what was current when they got around to trying the series, and that's probably where a lot of VIII's fans come from.

>he doesn't know how to refine

refine doesn't change nor help drawing magic and the games stupid as shit story.

In some ways it's better than 7

It's easily broken and feels overly focused on the mediocre romance
The pacing is also very off given shit like disc 2 having literally 3 things happening in it if you don't go out of your way to unlock everything and visit every area you can