Final Fantasy VIII General Discussion

[Obsidian Fire]

I am in the camp of games being fun because their progression can be broken in some way. Out of all the FF games, FF8 is the funniest game to do that in. If you know what you are doing you can make yourself a god super early and then just face roll through everything.

 

[Sprites]

That's pretty much what I've done at this point usually I do some level grinding and that's it I never usually put this amount of time in but 8 is absolutely the most fun to do this with.

 

[Clement Rage]

What's your playtime at?

 

[Ite]

99:99 or bust!

 

[Sprites]

It's up to 42 hours now, I've just defeated Norg.

 

[Gary Caelum]

Gnasty Gnorg.

The only thing I really remember about him is that hidden village you can find of his fellow tribe. Although I seem to remember it being pretty pointless, except for an Ultima Draw.

 

[Ite]

Pointless? You can help a down n out sculptor find the will to carry on doin his thing.

 

[Sprites]

Here's something I always wish they had a little more info on: That blue shimmery patch on the centra continent that you can draw demi from I mean I assume it's something left over from the previous lunar cry but it always was something I was curious about like it would have been cool if there'd been just a small bit of dialogue when you find it or something because it's so unusual looking in the continent.

 

[JBedford]

I think it's just meant to represent the Centra Excavation Site that you only can visit in the Laguna dream.

 

[Sprites]

OK how did I not ever put together that, that's what it's from in the whole time I've owned the game!

 

[Obsidian Fire]

@The Twilight Mexican
and everyone else who likes FF8

Do yourselves a favor and go watch the introduction and the first fight of the Eden Raids in FFXIV...

 

[Obsidian Fire]

@The Twilight Mexican @Mr. Ite

Soundtracks!

Blue Fields

and I had to go listen to the actual FF8 version of this to make sure that, yes, this is an orchestrated version and not just copy/pasted from FF8.

Force Your Way (And bonus Eden fight!)

Yes, the fight vs Eden takes place during his crazy long animation from FF8. And it is gorgeous!

 

[Ite]

Ho dang S-E makin it real hard to stop myself from upgrading my FFXIV trial. That sounds amazing.

 

[Cthulhu]

Hrm I didn't know yet the raids were going to be FFVIII related, I are intrigued

@ Ite, it's likely going to take you a long time to get to that point in the story I'm afraid. Unless you pay an X amount of extra monies that allows you to skip a chunk of the game.

 

[Obsidian Fire]

Oh yey! Someone finally did a comparison video!

 

[SailorStarDust]

There's an Unlisted Youtube video (Japanese text) of VIII original and Remastered comparisons floating around, such as on the FF Reddit, last I looked. I'm definitely sad how smudged the backgrounds for Remastered look, but I couldn't help myself preorder the damn thing (I never preorder games) the other day to support one of my favorite FFs. Plus, the PS4 theme is really nice IMO, so win-win

I hope the rumors of potential Japanese/English audio is still true, because that'd be a fun as heck addition (love everybody's voices in NT and Opera Omnia), but even if not, no big deal. It'll just be nice to really take my time in a new playthrough and enjoy the Garden's atmosphere instead of focusing just on the great story.

 

[Kuja9001]

This is the first game that I ever preordered off the PS Store.

 

[Claymore]

https://www.jp.square-enix.com/company/ja/news/2019/html/e299a2cb98037818e29211870039c964.html

9.6 million copies sold places VIII at #3, behind X (#2) and VII (#1).

 

[SailorStarDust]

Though the audio rumors weren't true (booo), I'm honestly having a blast slowly replaying the game. I'm not one for cheat-y aspects, but the 3X Speed in battle or walking around the World Map is incredibly helpful!

Lovin' that Squinoa PS4 Theme

 

[Kuja9001]

I wanna point out a major bug. During the Balamb vs Galbadia fight, if you saved at any point before that there's a high chance that your music will change to the midi version of "The Landing" I had to play most of that section on mute since one of my fav songs wasn't to my liking.

 

[Ite]

It’s the same during the Dollet sequence too apparently!

 

[Kuja9001]

Alright, having gotten the plat, I can definitely say that the PS1 version is the superior version of the game.

Pros

Updated models for characters and enemies.

Cons

Delayed/Lingering sound effects, sudden battle transitions, and menu lag. I was fighting the final boss and after a certain phase, the music is supposed to fade out and go into the last phase and here it just snapped to the final bit by suddenly cutting the music. Another one is, the death sound effects for certain monsters(Ultima Weapon) linger and play during the victory animation.

Botched music at times, already discussed the midi nonsense.

Movement isn't as good as the PS1 version, I sometimes have to struggle to get Squall moving in a certain direction.

 

[Tetsujin]

Yeah I held out on getting this because I figured it's gonna have a bunch of small annoyances that are not game-breaking in any way but are still gonna bother me to no end.
Watched Ami's stream a few days ago and literally the pre-title screen credits already fucks up the sync between the credits and the music.
Things like that bother me more than game-breaking bugs in a way because at least game-breaking bugs are most likely gonna be fixed because they don't have a choice if it's significant enough whereas it's these little things that kinda mess up the presentation of the original here and there but that are too insignificant to actually be corrected so you'll just have to live with it.

FFVII PS4 port still has that music bug. Ugh.

 

[Kuja9001]

For a better understanding of what I mean, here's some vids I made.

Spoiler

At 3:09, check out the "absorbed into time" seizure inducing light

At 8:50, the transformation sound plays twice.

At 12:42, they screwed up the best bits of "The Extreme" and at 18:30, it just cuts to her dying.

I've also noticed the changed sound effects for certain abilities(Doomtrain, Odin, Ifrit).

Skip to Ultima dying(5:50) and listen

 

[Claymore]

Just beginning disc 2 with the prison escape. Loving this Remaster and the updated character models.