Well since you necro'd it, I'll post this thing I wrote up a day or two ago somewhere else about what I think of Final Fantasy VIII.
"Fuck you. Fuck you you stupid piece of shit game, I wish you had a soul so you could burn in fucking hell for all eternity. This is by far the worst RPG I've ever played in my entire life. I would rather play X-2 then this abhorrent pile of repugnance. I was going to write up a long list of everything I hated about this game, but that would take far too long for me to type and far too long for you to read, so instead I'll just tell you what I liked about it - I liked the fact that you can junction things directly into your stats, raising anything from your STR to your elemental resistance. That's it. That's the only good thing about this game, everything else imaginable about it is pure bile, everything from the horrid draw system to the retarded 4th disc "you can't do jack shit anymore!" entrapment. How could Square create such a masterpiece like VII and follow it up with such a disaster like VIII? Actually, Square has been on a downward spiral ever since VII, since they've yet to make a game as good.
Anyone who thinks VIII is better than VII is a fucking braindead faggot who should go bury themselves in the pits of their own asshole(ok I don't really mean that, you know, beauty is in the eye of the beholder sort of thing, I just really fuckin hate this game). The only thing better about VIII is the graphics, and as any good gamer knows, graphics mean jack shit if the game sucks."