Final Fantasy VIII tops PSN sales for December

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I've never had the chance to play Xenogears, but it is a lot of my friends favorite game of all time. I'd love to see that one show up on PSN too.

I have the game and it is my favorite game of all time. But I'd love to travel with it via PSP.

Xenogears is good but heavily, HEAVILY flawed. The first half is fantastic, and sets up a wonderful world and great SF story. The second disc completely falls apart because Square ran out of money developing it. Which sucks because they could have easily crammed another 30-40 hours into the game that WASN'T non-interactive cutscenes.

I am aware they ran out of money and disc 2 was bamboozled. I was ok with that though as 90% of the game was cutscenes anyway and this felt like a nice artistic way of conveying the remainder of the story. It was quite unique. But I agree the interpretation was messed up due to lack of funds. Doesn't change the fact that Xenogears still has the most compelling story I've ever seen in a video game.

@JohnZ: Which furthers the analogy that it is basically the Neon Genesis Evangelion of video games. Whether that's good or bad news depends on your tastes.

It's last PSX title,they'll take their time.

Dude, no joke. I bought VIII when it first showed up because I'm all about supporting games that I love, but I have no idea when I'll find time for it. I'm currently trying to take a leisurely rush through Darksiders so that I can finish Assassin's Creed 2 before ME2 drops. Unfortunately, MW2 and L4D2 keep interrupting. On top of those I also picked up WarioLand Shake It! and the Saboteur on the cheap after Christmas. I need my family to go out of town...

Yeah, and the used prices need to take a major hit. Someone tried to charge me 25 bucks for just the case and a scratched disc (no manual).

I laughed so hard I think the salesperson was insulted.

When Tombi releases, count me in for a first day buy :D

Umm...spoilers. Thanks a lot.

Dude, listen: I just saved you 80 hours. I mean it.

My favorite part is where you have to spend hours stealing your magic during battles! Stealing is the best kind of grinding!

Lol, at first I felt compelled to slam you for that comment (not verbally attack you, just question your statement), because funny enough, out of all the FF games, it was my favourite, with 7 and 6 sharing second place and 9 and 12 in 3rd. (10 was garbage). But then I thought about it.......I'm not entirely sure why I loved the game so much, I just did, more then 7, more then any of the others, the plot was rather terrible to be honest, when put down on paper, it really makes little or no sense and while there is some good plot ideas, they are lost in between a sea of other nonsense, future scorceresses, owls, ragnarok coming out of nowhere, etc etc

And yeah, battles were kind of tedious at times, but then, I found 7 to be like that too, messy plot and annoying battles.

I suppose why I love them both is because they both just simply entertained me, and while the plots overall weren't great, the moments in the games made them enjoyable. The war in 8 for example, that was intense, Aerith's death in 7, which was emotional (don't know why, I thought she was a crappy character to use in battles). There is a lot of good in between the minor bad that makes the game memorable and easily my favourite, I wouldn't write it off, let people make thier own decisions, some will hate it, but others like me will love it.

Meant to reply to jerk face above me. I just love the reply system.

Or.....we could buy old games to relive the good days when everything was just made to be pure fun, original and longer then some of the games today. Those who missed opportunities to play PS1 games back then, or taking the opportunity now, and good for them, let them see where most game series today came from.

Lol, just keep replaying the CG clips, they will bring you back to reality for a bit :D

Surely you or someone you know has a small old crt tv sitting around unused in the attic somewhere? Get one of those, and play games on them that were designed around their resolution and dimensions. Playing PSX games on a giant LCD is just silly, as you have no doubt noticed.