RPS writes: "I understand now why Square Enix largely focused on the game’s battle scenes and FMV sequences in that initial Remastered trailer, because holy moly it’s a bit of a shock when you actually clap eyes on the rest of it. Don’t get me wrong. The character models are gorgeous. You only need to look at the transformation between Squall’s original, puffy-cheeked appearance and his new, pretty anime body above to see how much they’ve improved. Those pre-rendered backgrounds behind him, though? Those are a different story."
Final Fantasy has a long running history with numerous numbered titles and spin-offs, but which games stand to benefit from a remake?
Agreed. Ff2 though can be made better, so it's not entirely a lost cause. Ff8 will gets its time. I do wish they'd do the old ones. From ff10 and up those ones still hold up pretty well.
Honestly, I've always felt that VII and up 'hold up well' in that regard. The early 3D games just needed a cosmetic update. But the FFVII Remake is so different to the original in execution that a lot of games could be done in a similar fashion and feel far more modern.
I'm not saying that's a good or bad thing (that depends on your personal preference!), just that they could feel very different.
Kevco I liked remake but I think your right. Idda been happy with a 1 to 1 remake that looked like ever crisis to. Or both
I'd just love I square would one day give us a turned based one with today's graphics. I can't really think of a jrpg that does that.
I'd rather the 13 trilogy just be ported tbh. No matter what you think if it, it shouldn't be the only numbered offline games not playable on new consoles. But naturally I'd play the **** out of 8-12 remakes.
I do agree. I'd give it another shot even though I didn't like it at first. My taste change over time. Gta 4 for instance I was so disappointed it lacked so much of what san andreas had I didn't play it for like 5 years. One day went to a semi pro football game(American football) came home drunk and decided to try 4 again. I actually liked it after giving it a fair shot.
It's a rare privilege to be able to delve back through gaming history to review one of the greatest games of all time.
It’s a great game, but uh, this is like a really old release. Not sure why you felt the need to put a review up for it now. Are you going to do a review on Parasite Eve?
Oh I’m with you. I was thinking the other day I wish we had an FF Tactics Remake or HD Remaster. What I’m hoping is Square ports over their PS1 library to PS5. Like Remasters or Remakes with trophy support. God, I’d love to play Einhander at some point.
Final fantasy tactics and ff9 are the only games that haven't released of that leaked Nvidia list from a few years ago. Far as I know everything else has been released.
Far as the review maybe it was their first time playing it. I'd give it a 8.5 or so personally.
Yea, it’s a 9 for me, personally. 5-10 are the best, in my opinion.
As for the leaks, I remember seeing something for FF Tactics but it’s starting to bum me out nothing official has dropped.
I was playing Tactics Ogre and it just made me wish for The War of the Lions.
Lol! A bit late to the party on that one? Honestly, it still holds up extremely well. It's a fantastic game to this day. As long as you can get over the giant cube hands character models. If you've got a PC, you can even mod it quite extensively if you want to. I've seen some mods that make it look like a completely remade game.
Few people really know how important Final Fantasy VIII is to the series as a whole and why it is so different from the games that the series itself presents to us. That's what Final Fantasy Crystal is going to bring here in this special. A real research into the development of Final Fantasy VIII.
My second favorite Final Fantasy entry next to Final Fantasy X always had fun playing the card game, loved going into space and rescue Rinoa. The way they added game sprites to the FMV was awesome always loved the intro the Guardian Forces had. I think Parasite Eve uses the same engine as Final Fantasy 8 which is another favorite of mine. I love Eyes On Me song. I just imported the PS4 port of Final Fantasy 8 and I also have Final Fantasy 7 and Final Fantasy 8 cartridge for my Switch. I even bought the Final Fantasy 8 Sound track off a buddy near mint condition only used three times.
It's everyone who really play through the story of Final Fantasy VIII and they don't know how incredible this story is. Final Fantasy Crystal will launch soon an special talking every single detail in story of Final Fantasy VIII to create a nostalgia place. Final Fantasy VIII story is beautiful. Some people think that's is about love, but it's not. It is about what happen after you fall in love. Is just fantastic.
Can you explain further what you mean about the story not being about love?
My interpretation was it was absolutely a romance story. You have someone who was an introverted loner who discovers that people in his life matter and learning the value of someone you love and then not wanting to lose that person and be alone again.
It's about love. But not just romance. It's about learning to love yourself, and learning to accept the love of others. It's the kind of story that wouldn't have worked as well if the main cast wasn't mostly teenagers. It's my favorite in the series. The game has all kinds of warts to he sure but I love it. The junction system was broken but still very compelling. I've never played a game that you can break so thoroughly. By the time I reach disc 2 it's already a massive power fantasy. Not the first time I played it, but I got more and more familiar with the possibilities with each playthrough.
FF8 is my favorite, but i really wasnt a big fan of the space rescue mission, or how they handled the latter part of the story at all. basically once you are 80% through the game, they introduce the real plot, it felt a bit cheap and rushed. The rest of the game made up for that tenfold over though, it has my favorite OST, triple triad, the junction system (yeah when you cheese it, its not great) and amazing visuals.
Would love to see a remake of it at some point, but i guess thats wishful thinking.
FFVII and FVIII are my legendary Final Fantasy games of all time, played 9 and 10 , great FF games but not Legendary status as 7 and 8 imo, FFVIII card game so addictive got collect them all for super powerful spells, epic soundtrack , still remember Laguna's epic battle theme, or how about last boss theme with Ultimecia?, I really thought Sephiroth's battle themes couldn't be surpass, but oh man!, still not sure it surpass it but the music in FF VIII is up there with same high quality as VII. If there is a old past FF games I would love to play or have it remade is FF VI just because this amazing intro, something tells me this is an epic adventure as well like 7 and 8.
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FF6 through 9 are the best FF games for me, we’ll go ahead and lump FF7 Remake into the mix. Like each one was incredible in their own way. After that it just hasn’t been the same to me.
Final fantasy on the PsOne was always very good. The draw system was interesting, broken but interesting. Final fantasy 9 was also really good. Wish we could return to that Era, just briefly.
So disappointed that there's no physical copy, not sure if I'll get this or not.
Cant be worse than the FF9 remaster. Prerendered backgrounds in that game now looks like bad digitized water coloring.
I’ll say this, there’s always going to be people that will never be happy with anything. For me, I’ve been wanting to play FF8 for a long time and this gives us trophies and updated character models. It’s the same game other than that and some really stupid censorship.
I fired it up following a guide to 100% it and to make an overpowered character and I am absolutely loving everything about the game. Say, what you will about the junctioning system but I find it really fun trying to apply spells to make my character a beast. I spent a good 2 hours building up my card deck and then playing people for rare cards.
This reminded me of how fun Final Fantasy games used to be. Yea it’s easy to say “they could’ve” and “they didn’t”, but I’m grateful Square even did anything at all and the game isn’t expensive. If you’re interested I strongly encourage you to give this version a try.
It's always a shame when a remaster of a genuine classic falls short. Some of the mods I've seen for improving the graphics of FF9 put this effort to shame and those were probably just done by one or two people.
Still a great game but next time I play it I'll probably just stick with the original, it might be lacking a few upgraded character models but it's got more charm.
FF8 was my favourite FF back in the day and I’d been hoping for a full remaster but I’m sorry, leaving the pre-rendered backgrounds as they were is such a lazy and disrespectful move that it borders on false-advertising to call this release a remaster. They’ve only done half the work and it’s a HUGE disappointment. As some have already mentioned, it doesn’t take too much manpower or time to get an AI upscaling algorithm to create beautiful crisp 4K upscales of PS1 pre-rendered backgrounds. It’s POSSIBLE and you would think a company with the funds and resources of S-E would put the care and attention needed into doing this at the very least. I feel I’m not in a minority of FF8 fans who are probably going to pass on this release because of this egregious oversight. I look forward to fans in the modding community eventually creating and adding their own new 3D models to fix the ugliness of the world map and the backgrounds.