Final Fantasy VIII Remaster Announced - E3 2019 (PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One) - Release Sept 3
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What's the high amount of grinding, exactly?
I've beaten the game many times. Literally all you need to do is get is a few stat junction (most of which come pre-learned), some Refine skills and Enc-None. You can easily get that amount of AP from encounters or do it in an hour against Fastitocalon-F from the start of the game (or Cactuar later). You don't actually have to play cards to easily sweep the game, that just makes it even easier. Junctioning Curaga to HP and an offensive magic to STR and avoiding battles is literally all you need for the main story. The game has less combat/grinding than 7 and 9 by far.
play your old discs if you want to play now. you never know if they messed anything up. check back later.
That guy is crazy.
Theres literally no point to grinding in FF8. Enemies level up along with you.
Enc-None allows avoiding everything but boss battles completely and you get that pretty early. Theres never been a LESS grindy FF.
As someone who firmly believes the best games from SE were from '91 - 2000, I'm totally fine with this. I also actually enjoyed FFVIII more than VII too. I haven't played this since release anyway, and although I could easily replay it through an emulator, this looks quite a bit better to me, and they likely fixed some of the issues with the PC version. Time to be excited again as an RPG fan. This fall through Q2 2020 seems like it's going to be amazing.
All that's left is bringing back Final Fantasy Tactics, although it looks like from the event, they are more focused on FFBE. :(
Didn't they just do that in 2016/2017? Or do you mean putting more effort into the backgrounds?
All that's left is bringing back Final Fantasy Tactics, although it looks like from the event, they are more focused on FFBE. :(
Didn't they just do that in 2016/2017? Or do you mean putting more effort into the backgrounds?
Only time i ever drew in this game is either when facing a boss for a GF or when at the Island Closest to Heaven or Island Closest to Hell. Barely any grinding.
Looking forward to all the salt when people visit the Deep Sea Research Centre and have Zell smack the machine instead of doing the steam puzzle.
Looking forward to all the salt when people visit the Deep Sea Research Centre and have Zell smack the machine instead of doing the steam puzzle.
Portable, unless there's another version I missed. The PSP version is the one I've been going back to already.
Gonna need that shit on PC and/or Switch, though
I tried the iOS version and thought it was awful
Playable via PSTV like all vita/psp titles. But no one bought that thing
No, you level up by beating enemies. But all that does really is increase enemy difficulty.
You increase your stats by junctioning spells. So junctioning curaga to your HP= crazy high hit points.
You could draw spells endlessly from draw points, but this is boring and takes forever. Refining spells from items or cards is way, way easier but no one did this back in the day because reading tutorials was too hard.
You also couldn't simply "buy" better weapons to make yourself OP, they had to be upgraded. Gil was harder to come by since monsters didn't just wander around with it.
FF8 seemed to be designed explicitly to mess with people who had "figured out" JRPGs by grinding endlessly....and would screw you over if you tried playing it like it was FF7.
Well the thing with FF8 is it punishes you for your RPG experience. Battling? Leveling? Not good in FF8.
Beyond that though, draw and junction are easy to understand as an adult. The tutorials are good. You don't even really need draw outside of obtaining a few GFs. Focus on learning GF abilities, using them to refine magic which you junction to stats which makes you stronger. Avoid combat against non bosses. Play cards to supplement resources instead.
They did a lot more work to this than I was expecting.
I've never actually finished FF8 despite spending countless hours playing FF7/FF9 and I think this is my excuse to finally pick it up and finish it.
I've never actually finished FF8 despite spending countless hours playing FF7/FF9 and I think this is my excuse to finally pick it up and finish it.
The amount of people in this thread admitting they never beat VIII- therefore presumably never experiencing one of the greatest endings in games- makes me sad.
Please. All of you. Remedy this. ;)
Please. All of you. Remedy this. ;)
I didn't notice much difference in the trailer last night but looking at the screens it's obvious the upgrade on the models. Something I was wondering about though - I thought I'd read a long while back that the original FFVIII port had uncompressed backgrounds. Was that not true? If it is, there wouldn't really be anything they could upgrade on the background end of things, right?
And as a quick aside, FUCK the random rule.
And as a quick aside, FUCK the random rule.
I'm super glad we're finally getting this. It's gonna be tough to get used to those new faces though, I kinda liked not being able to see their dead stares. Zell's super soft face looks a bit weird too.
Also, despite the battle menu size being true to the original game, I hope they make it just a bit smaller...
Also, despite the battle menu size being true to the original game, I hope they make it just a bit smaller...
Ha I am one of those people even with that I still say it is my favorite FF game. I have tried on 2 different occasions to beat the game with my last atempt being about a decade ago and I got to discs 3 but just ended up dropping to being busy at the time and never got back to it.
When a game character tells you to get out of their house/store
Leveling does increase your stats, just not as much as junctioning spells can do. If you never played the game before, do not fear. Unless you level into the high 70s, enemies will still be just as manageable to defeat with good functioning. Even then, if you hit really high levels, you always have a GF ability to lower enemy levels.
This looks really fantastic. You could already get a lot of similar improvements for the current PC version via mods, but this remaster just looks much more consistent visually than throwing together a bunch of mods.
I wonder if Chocobo World is gonna make the jump from the current PC version, it was a nice way to get some extra rare items.
I wonder if Chocobo World is gonna make the jump from the current PC version, it was a nice way to get some extra rare items.
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Not yet. I think they'll be spreading out information over the next couple months until the release date drops. My guess would be September for NA anniversary which was 9/9/1999.
It was announced that there would be an Eden raid in XIV and the preview imaged was reminiscent of VIII. This happened months ago so we have been waiting for more confirmation that it's the same Eden from Final Fantasy VIII. In the recent trailer they showed that image which is from Eden summon.
The hype for VIII content continues!
That is Final Fantasy IX.
So for anyone that already has the Steam version will they offer the enhancements for free or do you have to buy the remastered version?
So glad this happened! I think it's the most fun FF to replay with such a big advantage from knowledge of the junction system, secrets and where to find rare cards.
You have to grind over and over. This issue is pointed everywhere. It's boring and you can't deny it, it's simply not fun to keep drawing over and over again throughout multiple battles, it's so bad you can even fail at drawing if your stats are low. There's no way around this.
I hope they put their little cheats in the game where I can simply draw 99 magic, so those of us that don't like the system can cheese them and just worry about the story and those that like it can use it normally. I finished this game a lot of times and I don't want to spend much time grinding for magic again.
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Why would you expect the remaster updates on a PC port from 2000 that was put on Steam in 2013?
Grind what?
You can break the game multiple ways. Summoning GF, limit break spam, triple triad and avoid 90% of random encounters with No-ENC to keep characters low level.
You get AP from bosses so you can grab all abilities without any grinding.
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Don't worry about Squall I'm sure someone will mod the "prince hair" over "anime hair" within the first week.
Updated geometry means we can actually mod the characters now and that's cool !
The others look exactly like they should. I don't mind anime Squall tbh but I understand some people prefer the old style.
Updated geometry means we can actually mod the characters now and that's cool !
The others look exactly like they should. I don't mind anime Squall tbh but I understand some people prefer the old style.
Remastered Squall looks too different from the FMV model IMO. Younger, different hair and too "doll-like". Apart from that, it looks great.
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I hope some good mods come but I find too many people just make it worse and go FULL dissidia.
I think his face is okay but could be better. His hair is the biggest problem because they for some reason refuse to model it correctly even since the first Dissidia where the artwork USED his normal hair but the playable model didn't. I'm not mad at the remaster model because it still looks better than the original and it's not like they suddenly removed his OG appearance in the FMV's. I just wish they had attempted to redo it so it looks closer to the FMV's.
You didn't have to play the game this way. You're like my brother so sat outside the garden in the beginning of the game drawing literally everything available to 99. By the time he started actually playing the game squall and quistis were lv.26.
