Actually, that's how I felt about 7, rather than the others. Doesn't get more Uppity than a Mr. T wannabe.
8, I liked a lot because of the characters. They were the most human they've probably ever been. Very down to earth in their personalities and actions.
Allow me to quote from FFOnline.com. They had a 25 best Square games of all time, and this is something from their piece on FF8. I feel it fits very well regarding all the installments people are up in arms about
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"Pause for a moment, if you will and try to think of all the greatest triumphs of humankind: The invention of the automobile, penicillin, landing on the moon, cracking the genetic code of our DNA, the introduction of cloning. All of these accomplishments had at least one thing in common. Before and after its inception, all of these accomplishments were met with furious and scathing debate from people. Requisite of our human nature is to dispute and toil over everything that might advance our civilization. Cavemen discovered fire and probably complained about it."
Now, I'm not necessarily saying FF8 is on-par with the discovery of cloning, but you get the idea.
Here's the source for the whole piece. Worth reading the whole thing, because all the points are more than valid (and a teriffic choice for #1).
http://www.ffonline.com/news/news.ph...cle=2002-06-23
http://www.ffonline.com/news/news.ph...cle=2002-07-27
http://www.ffonline.com/news/news.ph...cle=2002-09-08
http://www.ffonline.com/news/news.ph...cle=2002-12-03
http://www.ffonline.com/news/news.ph...cle=2003-05-09
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