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This page has been selected for Version 0.5 and the release version of Wikipedia. It has been rated FA-Class on the assessment scale. It is in the category Everydaylife. The following users are actively contributing to this topic and may be able to help with questions about verification and sources: Deckiller (talk) Archives Archive 1 (July 2005 — July 2006) Archive 2 (July 2006 — July 2007) Contents 1 chiefly traditional fantasy setting? 2 Star Wars pic? 3 Comment 4 Vandalisation 5 Character Question 6 Battlesystem?

[edit] chiefly traditional fantasy setting?

I would have thought Final Fantasy VI equally lacked such a setting, meaning this was at least the third; not the second, as this article's third paragraph claims. elvenscout742 00:26, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

I recall this being brought up before but I wasn't involved and I can't seem to find the previous discussion either. Apparently, FFVI is fantasy "enough" to count. Axem Titanium 03:33, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

wouldn't you call the whole of time trying to be compressed fantasy! Jammi568 10:28, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure they mean fantasy as in a medieval-like setting with elves, unicorns, wizards and trolls. While elves, unicorns, wizards and trolls are all present in FF8 to some degree, its setting is more sci-fi than fantasy. Bhamv 14:48, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

It doesn't even have a whole lot of elves, unicorns, and trolls, either. What it does have plenty of is guns, aircraft, warships, modern militaries (including tanks, artillery, mecha, snipers, etc) computers and, in general, a very modern/sci-fi environment. There are fantasy elements, but it has fantasy elements the same way that Warhammer 40,000 has fantasy elements. I don't think that anyone is going to argue whether Warhammer 40k is primarily fantasy or sci-fi. Peptuck 19:08, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Whether it is a Sci-Fi with Fantasy Elements, or a mixture of Sci-Fi and Fantasy, it still isn't a "chiefly traditional fantasy setting." In order to carry such a label, it would have very few, if any, Sci-Fi Elements. This isn't the case. The current wording also says "one of the first", so it doesn't matter if FFVI was or wasn't "chiefly traditional fantasy" because the wording is intentionally vague. I think I recall that latter point being the solution to the past issue that Axem is referring to. --—ΔαίδαλοςΣ 21:06, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Star Wars pic?

There was a pic showing a scene from a star wars game in there for quite some time, so I took it out. If that was a mistake, please let me know here. - Kevin ^(TALK) 00:40, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

That picture isnt from star wars, it is a cut-scene from FFVIII when Galbadia Garden invades Balamb. I will put it back. Plebmonk 00:58, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, those are gunblades and swords, not lightsabers. --PresN 05:41, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Comment

I have a few comments. According to various reliable sources, including MobyGames and the Japanese interwiki website for FFVIII, some of the credits in the infobox were off (before I corrected that problem and so I corrected it). Hironobu Sakaguchi was actually the executive producer and Hashimoto was the producer. So, Sakaguchi was actually not the producer. FFVIII is the first game to feature Latin lyrics for FFVIII's opening theme, Liberi Fatali. Any information is welcome. Thanks. Sjones23 13:46, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalisation

Gah! Someone horribly changed the stuff neer the begining of the article. I think thats all.. I would fix it, but I don't really have that much time... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 75.10.118.105 (talk • contribs).

[edit] Character Question

How many playable characters in FFVIII are there? --Sjones23 17:34, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Off the top of my head... main party of six, Squall, Rinoa, Selphie, Quistis, Irvine, Zell; past party of three, Laguna, Kiros, Ward; additional two player characters at certain points in the game, Seifer, Edea. That's a total of eleven. Bhamv 04:58, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Battlesystem?

It hasn't mentioned anything about Final Fantasy VIII's battle system, besides in the Reception and Criticism paragraph. This was ATB, wasn't it? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.106.164.86 (talk) 23:12, 30 March 2007 (UTC).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_VIII#Gameplay Peptuck 06:55, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Minor suggestion: Spoilers notice. I Have just started playing the game, so decided to look at this article for some background on it, and voila, part of the story i know already know, i would rather find these things out as i play the game, so it's more wise to include a notice of spoilers. Thanks - Tresmius