Being able to play a game 'your way', without being influenced by 57 UA-camrs - those were the days! FFVIII is my favourite video game of all time, too. It was my second FF but it was the one where everything clicked. Of course it has its flaws - what game doesn't - but I will never cease to love it. Would love to see Ben do a LP :D
I still try to go in blind and not watch any videos about a game until I actually finish it. My first playthrough has to he pure. It helped me enjoy FF16 and Rebirth a lot more.
Mines is still FF6, the best ever and always will be. The amount of characters and that you care about all of them, was a phenomenal achievement. Plus Kefka is the best villain in the series, the fact that he actually WON is probably the reason why. The heroes had to all regroup in a devastated world.
I remember the opening cutscene just blowing me away as a child. I'll never forget the impact the game had on me as one of the first RPGs I ever got to experience first hand. Happy to hear that Ben is a massive fan of the game as well.
I will never tire of hearing Ben Starr talk about FF8. It's so cool that Final Fantasy has been around so long now, that true fans like Ben are getting the voice roles. I remember the early 2000's when a lot of video game voice actors simply had never played a video game.
FF8 is also my first FF and remains my favorite. I am always happy that Ben managed to give his voice to an FF protagonist, in the 8th entry after FF8.
I think it was because it was so easy the break the game with certain junction combinations that I loved playing FF8. There's a certain satisfaction with games that allow you to customize all the little details of gameplay even if it is mostly choosing what passive buffs they get. I also really identified with Squall's attitude at the beginning. Watching the change in that character as I progressed through the story was an unforgettable experience for me.
There's this balance between satisfying deep and overly convoluted that ff8 struck perfectly. Like modern games are deep but overly convoluted like how cyberpunk doles out lots of random loot with no real feeling of progression. Hiroyuki ito was brilliant and we really miss his design in modern FF.
Wow, listening to him talking about his experience with the game was so close to how I experienced it, particularly the part where a girl I had liked in school and named Rinoa after her. FFVIII really is a special game. Would really love a remake one day!
FF6 was my first FF game that I played with my older brother. FF7 was the first game I played and completed on my own. But that FF8 intro was so hype, still hits today.
FF8 still makes me cry today. I remember playing it for the first time in 10th grade. It released around my birthday and boy did it change my life and what I knew an RPG could be. The connections to those kids being around the same age as Squall and the gang and those relationships... It was just a beautiful experience I wish I could redo in my life. Ben Starr, we should sit and geek out over that game.
It's so refreshing to hear someone talk about thier love for 8. I had a similarly magical experience with it (even though 9 is my GOAT). I even played Eyes on Me at my wedding.
I wasn’t a kid when 8 came out. I was in my early 20's, so my 1st games were on the Atari. The cut scenes in 8 blew my mind. I almost forgot I was playing a video game because it felt more like I was watching a movie. This was the 2nd JRPG I played and one I play all the time.
Like most FFVII was my first FF, but 8 was so great, and I prefer it over VII by a small margin. I was 18 and I played it in Japanese, without understanding much, until the US version, I am French. The game was good, but was better when I made up my own dialogs in Japanese.
I wanna hang out with these guys and just chat about FF8 until we collapse and have fever dreams about three dudes in Deling city. Don’t think I’ve deep-dive discussed FF8 with peeps since the early 00s 😢
FFVIII is easily my favorite of the Playstation Final Fantasy games. I bought it when it came out and have bought it again a few more times. Lots of people talk of remaking FFVI or FFIX once Final Fantasy VII's Remake/Rebirth is complete, but I think FFVIII should get that treatment instead. The fact that EIDOS was able to make the game work as well as it did on PC back in the 90's without the benefit of the source code is amazing and the Remaster is a decent entry, but I think the game deserves a proper reintroduction. It would probably benefit the most from being redone with modern mechanics and techniques, so long as it didn't abandon too much of what it originally had. Personally, I think the Draw/Magic system is the one thing that needs a thorough overhaul, while everything else works just fine. Of course, Square-Enix would probably use real time combat instead, for which either using FFVII Remake's combat or borrowing from FFXII's Gambit system could be a good way to handle it.
I think an expansion on the story in regards to sorceress, an expansion on the shumi tribe an expansion on Selfie's garden. The weapons could use a bit more of an overhaul. More lore on the abandoned facility where you get buhamut and Eden could do well. Being able to leave the final dungeon and still go back to the previous towns and cities in disc 4 would be nice. More context on who Ultimecia is as a sorceress. Being able to get every junction on every character. More accessible but no less difficult ways to get ribbons for your characters. Having monsters not level up with you to punish levelling up would be nice too.
@@starrk7158 Surely they would expand upon a lot, but hopefully they wouldn't change the existing story too much or leave a bunch of stuff out. Compression Of Time makes it possible, but that should be left as an endgame story mechanic - perhaps adding a few gameplay opportunities to alter things in your favor. I'd really be looking forward to what treatment the soundtrack would get, hopefully adding some of the unused/earlier versions of songs.
The first time I saw this game was when I was around 10yo at my friends house, who had ALL the games!, and just seeing him playing made already such a big attachment to the game. I only managed to get around to play it when I was 16yo and I loved every minute of it. I also cried like crazy during the credits jejeje
I played FF8 as I was starting to enter puberty. So the guy with scars and cool black leather jacket spoke to me very deeply and for many years FF8 was my favorite. As an adult cruising 40 who replayed it recently I dont think it holds up as well as FF7, 9, or even 10. My tastes have just changed. I'll always hold those memories fondly though because it just came out at the perfect time in my life.
He expressed everything I love about JRPGs, specifically where he says it’s like a film and a book. I always told my mom, especially with older JRPGs like FF7 and Tales of Symphonia (which did have Voice acting but not always), that it was like reading a book. I was learning new words, understanding how people think and more so how they can interact and why. FF7 helped me understand how complicated identity really can be. The Tales Series (especially ToS) dealt with racism and climate change often. There were always ideas for me to digest while I enjoyed the game and I think that’s a huge part of why I am who I am today.
ff8 will always be memorable to me. i got it on xmas day back in the 90's. the opening theme was mind blowing and the graphics at that time definitely pushed the ps1 to its limits. The OST of the game were all great. I remember loading up a saved game in balamb garden listening to the music while getting ready for school.
Final fantasy 8 is not only my favorite final fantasy, but my favorite game of all time. So much of what Ben said really resonates with my own experience with it as a child. It's such an incredible game (i whole heartedly believe it's what taught me to read at a higher level than everyone else around me) and even through the complaints that everyone has with the junction system, which i never understood as a kid, it seems so incredibly simple now, and i actually love that you can very easily break the game with it because it allows me to simply go through the story with no down time. I play it annually and I love that game with all my heart. I'm glad to hear someone so prevalent in the FF community also loves the game was much as it deserves.
FF8 has such a strong place in my heart. I remember there being a lot of criticism about it, and when I started playing I kept looking for what was going to ruin the game for me, but it never came. I loved it from start to finish.
I had a unofficial guide for FFVII (had the code for the Meteor Rocket for example and a tease of VIII at the very back) that came out of a UK games magazine, eventually the pages of it literally went so completely brown, then went thin and then disintegrated like museum find paper, you couldn't even turn them without them threatening to fall apart unless you very gently touched them. 😂😂 The Turin Shroud of guides.
How much his experience reflects my experience with a childhood classic of Xenogears. So many talked about that second disc and how bad it was and I would still love it despite those flaws to this day.
I do love that the FF compilation can have different effects on people and different favorites among the fans. Being honest, VIII was a huge letdown to me after VI and especially VII, but much of that had to do with mechanics choices and what I felt was a pretty overcooked story. All that said, it has its own unique charms, as well, I just have it rather low on my FF rankings. But the fact it could still affect so many so strongly only speaks to the idea that trying out different things for different mainline entries into the FF series isn't necessarily a bad thing. It just allows the variety to reach that many more people.
"There's a time before final fantasy and a time after" So true. God I wish they had taken some different routes with 16. There is so much potential here and so much that I like. But with all the older FFs it is the story that makes me come back and 16 just... It's hard to put into words. I can see myself replay Final Fantasy 9 over and over again until I'm old but 16 after the first, especially after the second playthrough is just "spend" for me.
I think he's clearly talking about Spoony's review at the end here! FF8 is my favourite and I loved watching Spoony trash it too. I couldn't tell you why.
8 gets so much hate but I love it, the story, the music, everything, some of the systems are a bit clunky but its still my fav to this day, so I share his sentiment, my friend & I used to start new games just to act out the opening sequence lol
Games were so much more enjoyable in those times, you weren’t ever influenced by youtubers and social media reviewers. Sometimes you’d enjoy a game that mightve been a 1 star game but you wouldnt know that because you just sat and enjoyed playing. I miss it man, pure joy. People will never know that level of enjoyment anymore and its sad
In the 90s myself (and most of my friends) only had like 5-7 games, and maybe got one new one a year, so we forced ourselves to eek out any enjoyment it could provide. So youre totally spot on. A game could be 1 star but its all I would have to play until my next birthday so it was a 5 star in my brain. My 8 year old nephew has like 40 switch games and is constantly moving between them. The times have just changed so much.
This is long but I hope my brief experience can help you: I dealt with this a couple years ago when every game coming out was a Battle Royale, and for a year or two I stopped playing video games. But during the holiday season of 2019, I signed up for PlayStation Now's free trial intending to play God of War 2018 and Uncharted 4, but b/c of the crazy input lag playing them over cloud streaming I didn't play more than an hour. Bummed I was gonna waste it I just browsed what was available and landed on a game I never heard of called "Persona 5" Finding just the aesthetic nice I decided to try this game out, and a couple hours later I became hooked, it became an obsession over that holiday season, I was staying up til' 6am playing it as I've never done for another game ever. So my advice to you is just to browse a storefront or try a genre you've never played before and find a game from those lists that just looks cool, don't even concern yourself over the gameplay. As far as reviews go just check if it has decent ratings other than that don't go further, just a quick Metacritic score or Steam Review grading is all you need. I did this with Persona 5, Hades, and Baulder's Gate 3, and all 3 of those games are now my all-time favorites, step out of your comfort zone and you'll rediscover your love and passion for video games, or in my case, you'll find out the medium is far greater than you even perceived beforehand. It almost sounds like to me you're playing games simply to stay in the loop of what's fresh and hot instead of playing for your personal enjoyment, so I hope my long exposition can give you a different perspective on how to go about this.
Ben, please help us fans and the fanbase of FF8 to receive a proper remake project. Square Enix obviously has no plans on doing this, but I think the game deserves better treatment.
A wise man long ago said after playing FF 8 you'll either having hate boner about it or you're gonna defend it with all your life, and i will defend FF 8 till death.
wow! so cool to have someone talk about it and like it this much. its my favorite ff game too. i think it has the best character designs in all of ff history. as a kid we had a poor family but my friend who somewhat had wealthy family had ps1 rentals back in the day. we always go there along with our other friends to watch them or others play if we dont rent ourselves. one day, his brother just came back home after some shopping and with him is ps1 games with ff8 in it. we were so enticed to see it has multiple CDs. he put it on the ps1 and man, that intro was sooo damn epic. i think ff8 was the first time everyone saw graphics that good. we go to their house everyday to watch his brother play it. the GFs were indeed awesome. imagine only having to watch someone play it and it became your favorite ff game lol it was such a huge hit back then that there are stories about js proms doing rinoa and squalls dance step and students shouted in awe while teachers have zero clue why lol i only managed to play and beat this game when i had work and bought a psp. its the first game i installed when i heard ps1 games are playable on psp. no matter what they say, this will always be my favorite ff game and one of my most favorite game of all time lol
FF8 is garbage. I played the game for the first time this year (I am a 36 yo man) and the only good thing about it were the graphics (for the time it came out) and obviously music. The plot is stupid, the draw/junction system is broken, and the game itself promotes avoiding combat and focusing on playing Triple Triad instead. I swear, the only reason people like it is nostalgia.
Bro what are you talking about “overrated” he has done very few things in terms of media in fact it wasn’t even until XVI that he was more talked about.
Being able to play a game 'your way', without being influenced by 57 UA-camrs - those were the days! FFVIII is my favourite video game of all time, too. It was my second FF but it was the one where everything clicked. Of course it has its flaws - what game doesn't - but I will never cease to love it. Would love to see Ben do a LP :D
I still try to go in blind and not watch any videos about a game until I actually finish it. My first playthrough has to he pure. It helped me enjoy FF16 and Rebirth a lot more.
Your own opinion on anything is sacred, I don't know why people readily give up so quickly what can only ever be theirs.
Mines is still FF6, the best ever and always will be. The amount of characters and that you care about all of them, was a phenomenal achievement. Plus Kefka is the best villain in the series, the fact that he actually WON is probably the reason why. The heroes had to all regroup in a devastated world.
@@rosaheartlily and the flaws bring out the beauty
let’s bring FF VIII REMASTERED
Without being influenced by 57 youtubers? You had 57 gaming magazines and websites doing the job back then.
As a lifelong FF VIII fan from like 2003, it makes me so very happy that Ben reveres the game as much as I do
I remember the opening cutscene just blowing me away as a child. I'll never forget the impact the game had on me as one of the first RPGs I ever got to experience first hand. Happy to hear that Ben is a massive fan of the game as well.
I scratched up about 4 ff8 game demos before it came out from playing it so much.
I will never tire of hearing Ben Starr talk about FF8. It's so cool that Final Fantasy has been around so long now, that true fans like Ben are getting the voice roles. I remember the early 2000's when a lot of video game voice actors simply had never played a video game.
FF8 is also my first FF and remains my favorite. I am always happy that Ben managed to give his voice to an FF protagonist, in the 8th entry after FF8.
FFVIII was the only game that made me cry at the end. That one scene hit freaking hard
It’s simply the best.
I think it was because it was so easy the break the game with certain junction combinations that I loved playing FF8. There's a certain satisfaction with games that allow you to customize all the little details of gameplay even if it is mostly choosing what passive buffs they get. I also really identified with Squall's attitude at the beginning. Watching the change in that character as I progressed through the story was an unforgettable experience for me.
There's this balance between satisfying deep and overly convoluted that ff8 struck perfectly. Like modern games are deep but overly convoluted like how cyberpunk doles out lots of random loot with no real feeling of progression. Hiroyuki ito was brilliant and we really miss his design in modern FF.
I don't think I'll ever get tired of hearing and seeing Ben Starr talk about Final Fantasy.
I loved FF8 when it first came out, but playing it much later as an adult touched me in a very emotional way that I didn’t see coming.
The cutscenes playing while you control your char is so cool. FFVII does it the tiniest bit with some environments but 8 pushes it to another level
FF 8 is my 2nd fav I just loved the romance and quirkiness of the characters but DAMN IT THE MUSIC WAS SO RELAXING AND AMAZING
Wow, listening to him talking about his experience with the game was so close to how I experienced it, particularly the part where a girl I had liked in school and named Rinoa after her. FFVIII really is a special game. Would really love a remake one day!
The UA-camr he's talking about is spoony from the spoony experiment
I was about to say
And stay there as I whisper, how I loved your peaceful eyes on me.
FF6 was my first FF game that I played with my older brother. FF7 was the first game I played and completed on my own. But that FF8 intro was so hype, still hits today.
Ah, FF6, that intro still hits even though it’s just 2d pixels. My all time favorite FF.
I can honestly say that FF kept me out of jail and alive kept my heart good
Wow! Truly amazing
FF8 still makes me cry today. I remember playing it for the first time in 10th grade. It released around my birthday and boy did it change my life and what I knew an RPG could be. The connections to those kids being around the same age as Squall and the gang and those relationships... It was just a beautiful experience I wish I could redo in my life. Ben Starr, we should sit and geek out over that game.
FF8 is one of those games I’ve replayed about once a year or so each yeah since its release in 1999.
I am so delighted by how both know what they are talking about and using the exact words of the game's system and the names. My heart....
It's so refreshing to hear someone talk about thier love for 8. I had a similarly magical experience with it (even though 9 is my GOAT). I even played Eyes on Me at my wedding.
I wasn’t a kid when 8 came out. I was in my early 20's, so my 1st games were on the Atari. The cut scenes in 8 blew my mind. I almost forgot I was playing a video game because it felt more like I was watching a movie. This was the 2nd JRPG I played and one I play all the time.
Like most FFVII was my first FF, but 8 was so great, and I prefer it over VII by a small margin. I was 18 and I played it in Japanese, without understanding much, until the US version, I am French.
The game was good, but was better when I made up my own dialogs in Japanese.
Very cool. Always love hearing peoples experience with it and at different ages
I wanna hang out with these guys and just chat about FF8 until we collapse and have fever dreams about three dudes in Deling city. Don’t think I’ve deep-dive discussed FF8 with peeps since the early 00s 😢
I WANT BEN STARR TO PLAY SQUALL LEONHEART IN AN EVENTUAL REMAKE
His story is exactly like mine with final fantasy 7
I didn’t need another reason to love this man. But I’ll take it!
I love FFVIII, I especially like Squall funny inner voice.
My story is exactly the same, dad bought FF for me, and life was forever changed 😊 FF8 is my all time fav game.
FFVIII is easily my favorite of the Playstation Final Fantasy games. I bought it when it came out and have bought it again a few more times. Lots of people talk of remaking FFVI or FFIX once Final Fantasy VII's Remake/Rebirth is complete, but I think FFVIII should get that treatment instead. The fact that EIDOS was able to make the game work as well as it did on PC back in the 90's without the benefit of the source code is amazing and the Remaster is a decent entry, but I think the game deserves a proper reintroduction. It would probably benefit the most from being redone with modern mechanics and techniques, so long as it didn't abandon too much of what it originally had. Personally, I think the Draw/Magic system is the one thing that needs a thorough overhaul, while everything else works just fine. Of course, Square-Enix would probably use real time combat instead, for which either using FFVII Remake's combat or borrowing from FFXII's Gambit system could be a good way to handle it.
I think an expansion on the story in regards to sorceress, an expansion on the shumi tribe an expansion on Selfie's garden. The weapons could use a bit more of an overhaul. More lore on the abandoned facility where you get buhamut and Eden could do well.
Being able to leave the final dungeon and still go back to the previous towns and cities in disc 4 would be nice.
More context on who Ultimecia is as a sorceress.
Being able to get every junction on every character. More accessible but no less difficult ways to get ribbons for your characters.
Having monsters not level up with you to punish levelling up would be nice too.
@@starrk7158 Surely they would expand upon a lot, but hopefully they wouldn't change the existing story too much or leave a bunch of stuff out. Compression Of Time makes it possible, but that should be left as an endgame story mechanic - perhaps adding a few gameplay opportunities to alter things in your favor. I'd really be looking forward to what treatment the soundtrack would get, hopefully adding some of the unused/earlier versions of songs.
VIII changed my life too ^^
The first time I saw this game was when I was around 10yo at my friends house, who had ALL the games!, and just seeing him playing made already such a big attachment to the game. I only managed to get around to play it when I was 16yo and I loved every minute of it. I also cried like crazy during the credits jejeje
Him summoning GFs every fight is funny since I see 16 as very much the descendant of that 'wow factor' of the summons
Never even thought about that. Going through 16 right now.
I played FF8 as I was starting to enter puberty. So the guy with scars and cool black leather jacket spoke to me very deeply and for many years FF8 was my favorite. As an adult cruising 40 who replayed it recently I dont think it holds up as well as FF7, 9, or even 10. My tastes have just changed. I'll always hold those memories fondly though because it just came out at the perfect time in my life.
Ben starr, goat voice actor come to meeee ifrittttttttt❤
❤️❤️
That line delivery is soooo fire
He expressed everything I love about JRPGs, specifically where he says it’s like a film and a book.
I always told my mom, especially with older JRPGs like FF7 and Tales of Symphonia (which did have Voice acting but not always), that it was like reading a book. I was learning new words, understanding how people think and more so how they can interact and why.
FF7 helped me understand how complicated identity really can be.
The Tales Series (especially ToS) dealt with racism and climate change often.
There were always ideas for me to digest while I enjoyed the game and I think that’s a huge part of why I am who I am today.
ff8 will always be memorable to me. i got it on xmas day back in the 90's. the opening theme was mind blowing and the graphics at that time definitely pushed the ps1 to its limits. The OST of the game were all great.
I remember loading up a saved game in balamb garden listening to the music while getting ready for school.
Super underrated game and I def enjoyed the shit out of it when I played it back in the day.
I loved FF7 and FF8 back in the day. Ben Starr has a good taste 🫡
Characters, story, music, art etc. were all amazing.
Final fantasy 8 is not only my favorite final fantasy, but my favorite game of all time. So much of what Ben said really resonates with my own experience with it as a child. It's such an incredible game (i whole heartedly believe it's what taught me to read at a higher level than everyone else around me) and even through the complaints that everyone has with the junction system, which i never understood as a kid, it seems so incredibly simple now, and i actually love that you can very easily break the game with it because it allows me to simply go through the story with no down time. I play it annually and I love that game with all my heart. I'm glad to hear someone so prevalent in the FF community also loves the game was much as it deserves.
FF8 has such a strong place in my heart. I remember there being a lot of criticism about it, and when I started playing I kept looking for what was going to ruin the game for me, but it never came. I loved it from start to finish.
Well he beat me, my first play of FFVIII was only 108 hours...
Great interview Lauren! Ben is an absolute sweetheart!
He is an incredibly nice guy!
I had a unofficial guide for FFVII (had the code for the Meteor Rocket for example and a tease of VIII at the very back) that came out of a UK games magazine, eventually the pages of it literally went so completely brown, then went thin and then disintegrated like museum find paper, you couldn't even turn them without them threatening to fall apart unless you very gently touched them. 😂😂
The Turin Shroud of guides.
Oh what a joyful surprise, the first time hearing this familiar voice since FF Union 🎉
FF7 was my first but both are my favourite games.
Golden age
Ben should voice Squall for the FF8 Remake (if it ever happens)
Such a beautiful game ❤
How much his experience reflects my experience with a childhood classic of Xenogears. So many talked about that second disc and how bad it was and I would still love it despite those flaws to this day.
You may not like it, but this is what the average gamer looks like
Handsome asf?
FF8 was a game that made me feel not alone. Squall and I have so much in common its actually disgusting.
You're a proper OG if you named your characters after people you fancied in school. And you named Steiner and Vivi after your best buddies 😂
Funny that FF8’s battle theme is sampled in FF16’s battle theme
I do love that the FF compilation can have different effects on people and different favorites among the fans. Being honest, VIII was a huge letdown to me after VI and especially VII, but much of that had to do with mechanics choices and what I felt was a pretty overcooked story. All that said, it has its own unique charms, as well, I just have it rather low on my FF rankings. But the fact it could still affect so many so strongly only speaks to the idea that trying out different things for different mainline entries into the FF series isn't necessarily a bad thing. It just allows the variety to reach that many more people.
"There's a time before final fantasy and a time after" So true.
God I wish they had taken some different routes with 16. There is so much potential here and so much that I like. But with all the older FFs it is the story that makes me come back and 16 just... It's hard to put into words. I can see myself replay Final Fantasy 9 over and over again until I'm old but 16 after the first, especially after the second playthrough is just "spend" for me.
Need remake this game for sure.. legend.
Ben: "oh yeah, my favorite part is [insert entire story here], don't you love that part too?" probably. 🤣
final fantasy 8. TOP 3 greatest FF of all time.
I agree. It's my 2nd favorite FF (only behind 7), and 3rd best FF (behind 7 and 10).
The music is on my goat list.
That's awesome he loved ff8 -- 16 really gave me ff8 vibes
I think he's clearly talking about Spoony's review at the end here! FF8 is my favourite and I loved watching Spoony trash it too. I couldn't tell you why.
I really wish that FF8 gets a Remake and Ben deserves to be in it...
Noah Antwiller/the spoonyone shout out 😂
Lol yep. I always thought that vid was so dumb
8 gets so much hate but I love it, the story, the music, everything, some of the systems are a bit clunky but its still my fav to this day, so I share his sentiment, my friend & I used to start new games just to act out the opening sequence lol
FF8 is not only my fav FF but in my opinion THE best video game of all time. I hope they remake it someday and if they dont then I will remake it.
Game needs a remake
I know, right. I'd be happier with a FF8 remake than with a 9 remake.
Well we know now Ben Starr watched the Spoony FF8 review
He is correct. VIII is the best one.
VX recaptured some of what made it special. Go play it if you’ve yet to.
the way ben got into ff8 was the same for me with ff7 i hated it at first cause i didnt know what i was doing
Games were so much more enjoyable in those times, you weren’t ever influenced by youtubers and social media reviewers. Sometimes you’d enjoy a game that mightve been a 1 star game but you wouldnt know that because you just sat and enjoyed playing. I miss it man, pure joy. People will never know that level of enjoyment anymore and its sad
In the 90s myself (and most of my friends) only had like 5-7 games, and maybe got one new one a year, so we forced ourselves to eek out any enjoyment it could provide. So youre totally spot on. A game could be 1 star but its all I would have to play until my next birthday so it was a 5 star in my brain. My 8 year old nephew has like 40 switch games and is constantly moving between them. The times have just changed so much.
This is long but I hope my brief experience can help you:
I dealt with this a couple years ago when every game coming out was a Battle Royale, and for a year or two I stopped playing video games. But during the holiday season of 2019, I signed up for PlayStation Now's free trial intending to play God of War 2018 and Uncharted 4, but b/c of the crazy input lag playing them over cloud streaming I didn't play more than an hour. Bummed I was gonna waste it I just browsed what was available and landed on a game I never heard of called "Persona 5" Finding just the aesthetic nice I decided to try this game out, and a couple hours later I became hooked, it became an obsession over that holiday season, I was staying up til' 6am playing it as I've never done for another game ever.
So my advice to you is just to browse a storefront or try a genre you've never played before and find a game from those lists that just looks cool, don't even concern yourself over the gameplay. As far as reviews go just check if it has decent ratings other than that don't go further, just a quick Metacritic score or Steam Review grading is all you need.
I did this with Persona 5, Hades, and Baulder's Gate 3, and all 3 of those games are now my all-time favorites, step out of your comfort zone and you'll rediscover your love and passion for video games, or in my case, you'll find out the medium is far greater than you even perceived beforehand.
It almost sounds like to me you're playing games simply to stay in the loop of what's fresh and hot instead of playing for your personal enjoyment, so I hope my long exposition can give you a different perspective on how to go about this.
He should talk in the clive voice permanently.
Ben, please help us fans and the fanbase of FF8 to receive a proper remake project. Square Enix obviously has no plans on doing this, but I think the game deserves better treatment.
I need to play with him and with joystick
lol I know exactly what UA-camr he's talking about.
Ff8 ff6 and chrono trigger. Good times
FFVIII is the GOAT and idgaf what anyone says
A wise man long ago said after playing FF 8 you'll either having hate boner about it or you're gonna defend it with all your life, and i will defend FF 8 till death.
Me too, Ben. Me too.
Edit: Actually... *not that much* me too? I'm a name purist xD
I thought i was rather alone in favoriting 8
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wow! so cool to have someone talk about it and like it this much. its my favorite ff game too. i think it has the best character designs in all of ff history. as a kid we had a poor family but my friend who somewhat had wealthy family had ps1 rentals back in the day. we always go there along with our other friends to watch them or others play if we dont rent ourselves. one day, his brother just came back home after some shopping and with him is ps1 games with ff8 in it. we were so enticed to see it has multiple CDs. he put it on the ps1 and man, that intro was sooo damn epic. i think ff8 was the first time everyone saw graphics that good. we go to their house everyday to watch his brother play it. the GFs were indeed awesome. imagine only having to watch someone play it and it became your favorite ff game lol it was such a huge hit back then that there are stories about js proms doing rinoa and squalls dance step and students shouted in awe while teachers have zero clue why lol i only managed to play and beat this game when i had work and bought a psp. its the first game i installed when i heard ps1 games are playable on psp. no matter what they say, this will always be my favorite ff game and one of my most favorite game of all time lol
Very lovable family, parent bought PS one for their kid from lottery price.
Ff8 is the best final fantasy because it actually had an ending.
Tell me you are media illiterate without telling me you are media illiterate. 😂
Ff8 is the best. No level or grinding necessary. Can just play the card game and turn cards into magic and become OP without fighting anything.
25th anniversary and we don't have any special thing for FFVIII lovers. Hope that we can get new content maybe in the 30th? 🤡
Love Ben Starr
My god he’s hot
But hate FFVIII
Kweh!!!
FF8 remake when?
Who tf is Ben star?
The voice for the main character of Final fantasy 16
8 is nearly the worst in the series for me
But still has some cool things about it
FF8のリメイクが実現するかは分からないけど、もしもスクエア・エニックスがリマスター版の背景グラフィックをきちんと高画質に仕上げてくれていたなら、それだけで私は一生幸せだっただろう。
リメイクが実現しなくても不幸ではないけど、リマスターが欠陥品だったことは一生の悲しみを私にもたらした。
どうしてMOD制作者に出来ることを大会社であるスクエア・エニックスが怠るんだ。どうして自分たちの歴史を大切に扱わないんだ。元のデータが消失しているのは知っているが、AIによる高画質化と少しの手直しだけで十分に素晴らしいものになるのだから、その程度の努力はやって欲しかった。
The story is so convoluted
FF8 is garbage. I played the game for the first time this year (I am a 36 yo man) and the only good thing about it were the graphics (for the time it came out) and obviously music. The plot is stupid, the draw/junction system is broken, and the game itself promotes avoiding combat and focusing on playing Triple Triad instead. I swear, the only reason people like it is nostalgia.
Gay
Bouhooooo
Very overrated as a voice actor but he is passionate about games at least.
Bro what are you talking about “overrated” he has done very few things in terms of media in fact it wasn’t even until XVI that he was more talked about.