Life-changing nerdiness.
I always enjoy telling myself that I'm starting a new "segment" on my blog, so let's go ahead and say this can be a new segment--knowing I will probably never make another post like this again.
Final Fantasy VIII--FFVIII, for us cool kids--came out shortly after I'd gotten my Playstation and fallen in love with Final Fantasy VII. FF7 I loved, but 8... 8 was something else for me. It remains probably my favorite game of all time (perhaps even trumping the classic NES, Sega, and SNES games I love so much!), and although my gaming days are mostly over, I still can't think of FF8 without getting all squishy inside. (For you other gamers, I know, I know--FF7 is apparently infinitely better, but I can't help it. Nothing ever moved me the way 8 did.) My most memorable moment of the game is the scene I'm about to post. Now YouTube has made it convenient for me to watch whenever I want; back in the Day, however, I reserved a precious memory card spot for this video alone so I could watch it whenever I wanted. (And I'll never forget the nice/nerdily cute guy who worked at Electronics Boutique who confessed he had done the same thing.) Aside from the fact that this was just gorgeous animation (especially at the time; I think it still is), I love love loved the music, and the music of Nobuo Uematsu continues to remain that nagging inspiration in me: "Don't score films; score games!" Mmmph.
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After FFVII, VIII is probably my favorite FF. It has a certain mood about it that I haven't found in any other game. VII will always be my baby though!
Looking forward to your posts later today! (Must go practice right now, unfortunately.)
I think perhaps FFVII might have meant more to me, except that VIII came out shortly after I started it and I quickly became engrossed in the latter. (Plus, I've only beaten VIII, so I can't help but feel a special sense of accomplishment with it, haha.) I really need to go back and explore VII again and I'd like to do the same with X--twice now I've gotten about 75% of the way through with X, and never finished. Blargh. This college shit really distracts me from my gaming!!!
I'm going to go listen to that music right now!
FFIII was my game! sadly I never beat it because I never had access to it long enough
:( <--- see, sad.
Do you have a Vox now? What is this business?!
...I never had access long enough to that game to beat it. But I remember being so surprised at how moved and enthralled i was by a game that had, what we would now call, "cheesy" graphics. They crafted the technology then so well creating a visual and audible environment to do what they do best...tell a kick ass story.
Terra is MY FF girl! Always.