Well Dan(.),
Hopefully you made the right choice to continue the FF experience by picking up and playing FFVIII. This is the only way that you are going to be able to CLEARLY DEFINE YOUR experience of the great game that is FFVII. What I mean to say is that if you ARE going to pick up one of the many (and mostly) pitiful spinoffs of FFVII, you are not only participating in Square-Enix's attempt to milk the juggernaught game that happens to be FFVII, but you are also blurring the lines between the plot of VII and mixing it together with the far-fetched plots of the spinoffs. THEY WILL ONLY CONFUSE YOUR UNDERSTANDING AND YOOOOOUUUURRR EXPERIENCE OF FFVII.
that is all
-matt
Hopefully you made the right choice to continue the FF experience by picking up and playing FFVIII. This is the only way that you are going to be able to CLEARLY DEFINE YOUR experience of the great game that is FFVII. What I mean to say is that if you ARE going to pick up one of the many (and mostly) pitiful spinoffs of FFVII, you are not only participating in Square-Enix's attempt to milk the juggernaught game that happens to be FFVII, but you are also blurring the lines between the plot of VII and mixing it together with the far-fetched plots of the spinoffs. THEY WILL ONLY CONFUSE YOUR UNDERSTANDING AND YOOOOOUUUURRR EXPERIENCE OF FFVII.
that is all
-matt