Final Fantasy 8 is the best, area man claims
The best new website of 2024 might be, against all odds, a Final Fantasy 8 fan site.
Yeah, that’s right: Screw your fancy new PS5 Final Fantasies — devout Final Fantasy 8 fan Phil Salvador decided to launch a website dedicated to what he views is the best Final Fantasy, one full of very funny articles and impassioned arguments.
In his day job, Salvador works as library director of the Video Game History Foundation, which means he is continually finding and cataloging old games publications and unusually aware of how games like Final Fantasy 8were received, discussed, and promoted. That, coupled with his deep and abiding love for the game and a penchant for weird URLs (like https://ff8isthe.best), meant that Salvador had more than enough gas in the tank to fuel a whole website in his free time.
Recently, I met with Salvador over video chat to talk about his new site, which he still cannot believe has taken off to the point that he’s being interviewed about it.
This interview has been edited for clarity and length.
Polygon: It’s wild this took off, right? You just showed up with a site and a post that says “ Final Fantasy 8 fucking rules, eat my ass .”
Phil Salvador: Yeah, that post seemed to resonate with people. The reason I started it was just that I’ve been amused by all the various novelty domain names that have been sprouting up in the last couple of years now that there’s more endings you can use for URLs. I had developed sort of a reputation among friends and colleagues for being an aggressive defender of Final Fantasy 8 and thought it would be fun to make a place where I can dump my thoughts on it without it seeping into my other work.
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I think what has really clicked with me about it and maybe the reason it’s clicking with other people is that there’s not really any point to it. I like the idea of having a website that’s not monetized and not feeding into some larger brand or social media accounts. It’s just a place where I write some stupid
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