Cheats are optional and you can choose not to use them, and may even alleviate alot of the time you'd spend just stocking magic. Anytime I play FF8, I spend 2-3 hours in one area not leveling up, but just stocking and refining magic. I personally love that about FF8, but am a little bit touchy when people look down optional cheating just because thats not the way they like to play.
I mean just who the fuck are you to look down on cheats just because they make the game easier for someone whose not playing for the challege? Get off your high horse and mind your damn buisness...
I'm more pissed off at the facts that A) Square added the cheats in the first place, and B) made them incredibly easily accessible. When you start the game, there's a start-up box that basically asks you up front if you want to turn the cheats on. It's just so easy that it's insulting to any serious gamer's integrity. It's like "Oh, we know the game is too boring and difficult, so here you go! Max gil, max spells, max everything!" If it had been a hidden cheat that you had to enter like the Konami code or something, then I may think differently about it. However, they explicitly advertised this game as having cheats on their own store site, as though they were proud of it. Look, if people want to cheat like using a Game Genie or whatever, I don't really give a shit. Hell, I might even make my own save file where I fuck around with the inventories just to see how easy it is to min-max the characters even sooner. I do, however, feel that people who do use the cheats are bypassing the game itself, and honestly this game doesn't warrant cheats (you probably already know how easily exploitable the junction system is). Moreover, my biggest concern is that this is the path the video gaming industry is taking to cater to the masses. It's like the white tanooki suit in Super Mario 3D World, which grants invincibility if you die a certain number of times in a row (I think it's like 5). It seems that developers are dumbing down their games to make it easier for everyone to be a winner and explicitly marketing the games as easy and hand-holding because people don't like losing. Watch this (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKiBTMbJU2k) if you still disagree with me.
That said... Yes, if you like FF8, its worth the $12. Believe it or not, there was a time we bought the game for $20, $30, and $50 and didn't complain. $12 is a bargain and steam sales make it better.
Don't make the assumption that I don't know that there was a time we bought games for that amount of money; it makes you look like a dick. I know there was, hell I remember looking forward to certain games' release days when I would buy them for $60. I bought FFVIII in 1999 for whatever price it was at, and I still own my copy for the PS1 and have beaten it several times. The reason for this thread is to ask people's opinions on whether the Steam version was worth owning.
Thoughts about the MIDI music are objective
I think you mean "subjective."
and are a relic from the old PC version. I'm sure theres a mod somewhere that imports it's original or even remastered music.
If you look at the post right above yours, I actually say, "while the default music is shitty, you can find an easy replacement for it online."
And not trying to insult or come off as mad by swearing above, I'm just using swears as emphasis, I'm not really mad or anything.
Because I totally couldn't understand your position unless you swore right at me. Right.