Kevin of ParaNerds.com takes a look back at Final Fantasy VIII for the Sony Playstation to see if it still stands up today.
Square Enix has announced multiple classic Final Fantasy titles will receive physical releases this December;including Final Fantasy VII, VIII and IX.
7,8,9 only Switch
7 remake & rebirth only PS5?
Is this accurate? Wish it was all for both.
Why can’t they just do a cool classic collection with VII, VIII and IX in with some goodies similar to what they did with the Pixel Remaster.
I would honestly go for a Remaster Collection, just AI upscale some textures (there are really good fan mods for that), widescreen everything where possible, higher native resolution, etc...
It seems like a no-brainer to make such a large portion of what was FF's golden age into a collection of it's own.
Weird that 7 and 8 are together for 40 and 9 is 40 on it's own.
8 should be the one on it's own as it actually has redone models.
I have ff8 ps4 remastered physical euro version. They should have put these on PS5 physically so lame.
I'm actually so tired of hearing about FFIX. Just replayed it with Moguri Mod earlier this month. That might as well be the definitive version.
While a lot (like way too many) games launch in sorry states these days, a lot of them do eventually get polished up over time fixes. The same can’t be said for these properly broken games.
Worst for me is wipeout 2048.
I got gold in every single player race, made it extremely far into the great online shop platinum was a finger away.. then lost all my online progression. Many players experienced the same and hadn’t been fixed since
Cyberpunk and No Mans Sky are obviously the 2
best comeback stories. Cyberpunk is literally one of the best RPGs ever made now.
junctioning is only broken now because it's been datamined which monster which gives which card and which card gives which items and every single spell to junction with the highest points for each stat. For it's time when that info wasn't readily available it was good, not without it's flaws, but not broken,
Exactly. I never got this because what made it broken was the knowledge of what to exploit.
Playing the game for the first time back then you never had any knowledge to make it so easy.
One minute the Junction system is complicated, the next it's super easy / broken. What is it?
i mean, ff8 is not "broken" per se, its just that the junction system is too good and easily exploited even an hour into the game. haha
Star Wars Jedi Survivor is one of them. I can’t get in the Cantina bar later on in the game. The door and other doors throughout the environment is locked off. It is a shame, because I wanted to complete the game, but I can’t until they fix it.
Gary Green said: Tempting as it is to dedicate our first installment of PlayStation Icons to a franchise-leader like Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, or even Sackboy, instead I’m choosing a character that I, like so many others, connected with on a personal level. He’s a moody, world-weary teen, a proud loner with no time for the drama of others, and yet he’s also a hero just waiting for the motivation to unleash his full potential. He’s a warrior. He’s a leader. He’s the king of internal monologues. It’s time to meet Squall Leonhart.
"The one character that had always made me nauseous with anger is the main character, Squall. He’s the most whiny, insecure, self-loathing, depressed, emotional, stupid, most obnoxious character ever created. Yes even compared to Hope fromFinal Fantasy XIII. Squall has not one, but two girls after him (excluding Zell) and just bitches and complains about everything. OK, I get he’s supposed to be “mysterious” but come on man! Cheer up! Life’s not that bad! He gets a kick-ass scar on his face and all he does is moan about it, when Rinoa asks him to dance he whines about it (until about 2-seconds in he’s pretty much break dancing as if to say “Thanks for teaching me how to dance within 2-seconds”)."
Sorry really...REALLY got to disagree with you, don't ever compare Squall to Hope.
Squalls character development was the best in the entire franchise, and like many others who follow the leader on this, always say that Squall is a "whiny, insecure, self-loathing, depressed, emotional, stupid, most obnoxious character".....yes he is AT THE START OF THE GAME. No one ever comments on his prgress through the game and what he turns out to be at the end of his journey...a brave heroic leader who has managed to open up towards his new found friends and love.
It even explains WHY he's like that though, his mother died at childbirth, he never knew her, he was then put in a orphanage, never knew his dad, became attached to someone by putting all his trust in Ellone (sis) only for her to be taken away from him like everything else in his life so he became the character we see at the START on the game. Yet people always miss the great character development that turns him into the person he is at the end of the game. No offense mate but you just sound like your following the leader since people always bring this up yet ignore the Squalls changed personality when the game comes to a close.
If you thinik Squall is like that then please...what does that make the "great almighty" Cloud because he's worse then Squall and is the same guy at the end of the game.
I hate how people always miss out Squalls character development, it's like some people choose to ignore it because they don't want a game like FF8 to have one over FF7. Sorry but FF7 was an amazing game but FF8 improved on it and became a better game overall.
You still get people making excuses like "Oh I hated the draw system I cba to draw in battle"...yet you never had to draw in battle...I never and I had tons of magic by the end of the game (Thanks Island of Heaven and Hell), then you get the whole "I hated the junction system it was complicated"...yet in the next sentence people say "It was easy to get max 9999 health you just needed to junction magic it was easy......sooooo was it complicated or easy, make up your mind and finally you get the whole "Squalls an emo" crap...yet as I've said above what people seem to do is ignore the Squall we see at the end of the game
Rant over...<phew>
To be fair the article does say that Final Fantasy VIII is the better game when compared to Final Fantasy VII.
Squall and Cloud were both annoying characters, and were both on par on the "emo" scale.
I actually like Squall he was just very annoying at the beginning especially at the concert scene when Rinoa is pretty much throwing herself at him.
The music is great and to this day i get choked up while listening to "eyes on me"
I just started playing ff9 the other day. Wow im amazed. I like it better than ff8.
My answer to most of the replies I've seen on this thread is "what spoony said".
Although I like the game, I find the flaws of it to be quite unforgivable and quite a few of it's characters passable or anoying.
I used to hate it. I tried starting it probably 10 times, but never got more than a few hours in... but when I finally committed to it, I LOOOOOOOOVED it. So good.