What is it about FF8 that people really don't like?
Personally, I really dislike FF9, but everyone loves that one! Don't really get that one either, other than different opinions.
Edit: yeah, see that poster above me?
Adding to what's been said: Allot of plot beats I don't like. The drill prison the cast finds themselves in after disc 1 is... stupid, as are finding keycards and whatnot to a missile silo in random vehicles by the prison immediately afterwards. A super-advanced culture somehow hidden right next to all of the other countries on a different continent in another otherwise globalized society didn't gel with me either.
Designing the world to so closely resemble the modern world is a mistake: It draws attention too much to questions as to how a society with hyper-powerful magic would develop in that way. I stopped for a second to think, "Well maybe it's the more realistic character models," because I don't feel FF7 suffers from the same problem, but then I also realized that the Yakuza series also has a ton of crazy shit that should otherwise clash with the serious tone and realized that the actual problem is that FF8's story is just shit so it can't hold these disparate elements together in suspension so the mind is just left to wander about.
I'm also not sure I like a single character in the lot (and this all ties together with the story being shit - what am I supposed to pay attention to? The nice art and music assets, I guess). Maybe Quistis. The rest of the gaggle are hyperactive or stupid, to varying degrees.
