[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]

2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/vr/ - Retro Games

File: 205 KB, 1920x1080, 1560218659901.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

Anonymous Mon Jun 10 22:43:59 2019 No.5651747 [Reply] [Original]

https://youtu.be/wpx2Z2CCjPs

Anonymous Mon Jun 10 22:59:51 2019 No.5651786

>>5651747
Did they use neural upscaling on those FMVs or did they actually find the 480p masters? Would be amazing if they did. I think Squall is too Dissidiaish for my taste, and it's obvious they only really updated the main characters, but if they keep the original music this looks like a solid remaster.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 10 23:24:25 2019 No.5651856 >>5651747 Hmm. Might actually bother to pirate this. Still haven't gotten around to finishing FF8.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 01:10:37 2019 No.5652067 Oh look, another FFVIII thread. Do you people ever play any other games?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 01:14:04 2019 No.5652075 Why would they bother remastering this turd

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 01:19:27 2019 No.5652087 >>5651747 SOULLESS!!!!!

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 01:21:05 2019 No.5652094 >>5652067 no

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 01:23:38 2019 No.5652101 >>5651747 Will the remake give me an option to waifu Quistis? Probably not. Why should I care then?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 01:29:04 2019 No.5652110 reminder that they low-key confirmed U=R https://youtu.be/4FhZgZftYrw

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 01:42:17 2019 No.5652143 >>5652110 looks like it's confirmed that Ultimecia is Seifer too

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 01:44:07 2019 No.5652148 >>5652101 >remake It's a remaster. It's just the same game but prettier.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 01:50:52 2019 No.5652164 >>5652101 It's not a remake. It doesn't look like they've improved the fuckign framerate, let alone altered gameplay in any significant manner.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 01:52:32 2019 No.5652169 >>5652164 It looks like how you remember FF8 looking.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 01:52:58 2019 No.5652170 >>5651747 Guess they wont remake it now. Was 9 remastered?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 01:54:24 2019 No.5652174 >>5651747 Looks pretty now.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 02:03:49 2019 No.5652196 >>5651747 the background textures look untouched

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 02:03:53 2019 No.5652197 >>5651747 I rememver when they said they wanted to remake 8 nd 9 but they got remasters instead now.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 02:04:56 2019 No.5652202 >>5652197 Same for 5 but that was dropped.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 02:06:24 2019 No.5652204 >>5652197 that was way back in early PS2 days

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 02:08:47 2019 No.5652209 >>5652204 I meant a interview from 3 years ago.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 04:11:09 2019 No.5652371 >>5651747 >no out of battle footage hmm

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 04:44:13 2019 No.5652406 >>5651747 Replaying this for the first time in years. I don't mind the shaky low-res textures, the remaster doesn't seem like it does much to alter the experience.

Anonymous Tue Jun 11 11:51:21 2019 No.5652931

>>5652110
Why do they vehemently deny it? It'll give meaning to so many of the looser plot details, and Ultimecia being some barely coherent being looking to relive her youth ties in so well with her monologue at the end of her battle and even her dancing her.

I can't even think of anything off the top of my head that outright makes the theory moot, too.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 12:10:45 2019 No.5652958 >best FF saved for last nice

Anonymous Tue Jun 11 12:30:58 2019 No.5652975
File: 88 KB, 640x480, 5-FFVIII_12717.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>5652931
>It'll give meaning to so many of the looser plot details
Lik making the story of Squall and Riona completely meaningless as it amounts to nothing? Also contradicting one of the main plot points of the game that sorceresses have normal lifespans and need to give their power before they die, a plot point that puts the whole story in motion and is behind the whole point of why Elena is kidnapped by Adel and how Laguna becomes president of Esther? Yeah, great "meaning" you got there.

>and Ultimecia being some barely coherent being looking to relive her youth ties in so well with her monologue at the end of her battle.
Is it that hard to imagine that the intention of that was to portray Ultimecia as an evil reflection of what the heroes could become? Just like Golbez is an evil reflection of Cecil, Kefka is to Terra, Sephiroth is to Cloud.

Ultimecia is more a reflection of Squall though, Squall character starts as completely rejecting any connections due to the pain he suffers from missing his onee-san. He learns to let others in and rely on others for support which is the whole meaning behind the ending where Squall is lost but Riona finds him because they were able to make a "meaningful" connection.

Ultimecia was what a sorceresses could become if she didn't have a knight, a personal connection she could rely on and so rejected all of reality and wanted to Kompress Time into a single moment of non-existence, hence rejecting everyone like Squall used to.

.Since Riona has Squall and this is literally what's explicitly said in the "I'll be waiting here" scene which is then thematically used in the ending to drive home this meaning like a nail through your eyeball and Riona being the same person as Ultimecia completely undermines any meaning the story tries to have since it would mean everything that happened was for no purpose.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 12:38:54 2019 No.5652995 I’ll stick with the original.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 13:05:21 2019 No.5653060 >>5651747 Is it true that FF8 is the worst? Is it worth playing after 7 and 9?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 13:11:09 2019 No.5653078 >the fmvs don't look like shit wow

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 13:12:56 2019 No.5653081 >>5653060 Is true that you're so fat and ugly nobody would wanna fuck you?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 13:53:03 2019 No.5653172 File: 220 KB, 642x475, file.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >"remastered" >it's just a hacked up version of the 2000 PC port >still 4:3 >still 20FPS >still uses 480p assets I'm getting real tired of this "remastered" shit.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 13:56:43 2019 No.5653180 >>5652975 Underlying themes are meaningless abstractions. The only valid readings of a story look at the literal events that actually happen in it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 13:59:19 2019 No.5653192 >>5653060 It's pretty decent although 7/9 are better

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 14:19:19 2019 No.5653225 >>5651786 yeah that Squall model looks really jarring and the mods for Steam version is good enough for me if I want another playthrough

Anonymous Tue Jun 11 14:21:01 2019 No.5653230

>>5653060
I liked it a lot but the Junction system is weird. Drawing magic is tedious at first but once you're able to refine magic then just absolutely breaking the game and stomping everything becomes incredibly easy. It's an interesting system but horribly balanced.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 14:35:24 2019 No.5653260 It looks like an early PS2 game

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 14:38:54 2019 No.5653267 Ultimecia being Rinoa is one of the worst headcanon I've ever read

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 15:06:10 2019 No.5653334 File: 90 KB, 1600x900, 112341245446.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5651747 Can't wait to spend 6 hours using draw.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 15:10:07 2019 No.5653338 >>5653334 >not just playing triple triad until your get a bunch of good cards to refine and absolutely break the game

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 15:15:05 2019 No.5653345 >>5653260 Fuck no

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 15:15:55 2019 No.5653347 >>5653345 True. It looks like a PSP one

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 15:38:19 2019 No.5653384 >>5652995 Old one looks like crap.

Anonymous Tue Jun 11 17:25:21 2019 No.5653596

>>5653060
Actually FF8 is better than 7, its biggest flaw is not being FF7-2.

FF7 was baby's first JRPG for most of us bonrn between 1985-1990, we had no clue how past FF titles were about, most people were like ''oh there are other 6 games before?'' so when FF8 was announced people were disapointed by not playing as Cloud and Co.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 17:34:29 2019 No.5653623 >>5652169 I like the way you think

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 17:41:14 2019 No.5653632 File: 58 KB, 369x915, pg0iw0nt5r121.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5652995 >>5653384

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 17:43:26 2019 No.5653639 >>5652975 Gaaaaaaay

>>	Batowl Tue Jun 11 17:52:34 2019 No.5653654 >>5651747 Looks like a dreamcast game.

Anonymous Tue Jun 11 22:23:15 2019 No.5654381

>>5652975
>Lik making the story of Squall and Riona completely meaningless as it amounts to nothing?
It amounts to nothing the way it is right now, just like most things in FFVIII. It says a lot that FF8 has so many theories and people grasping at straws in a game that makes so little sense. I mean, the plot is entirely dependent on Ellone's ability which is never explained and then there's all the crazy moon shit and GF amnesia that seem to exist just because someone thought it'd be cool.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 22:24:42 2019 No.5654386 >>5651747 Best post-16-bit game in the series. Hard pass on the port though.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 22:25:17 2019 No.5654389 What happened to "they lost the original data and they can never remaster it"?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 22:25:50 2019 No.5654391 >>5653384 Game looks amazing. Get a decent display and some taste.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 22:27:29 2019 No.5654393 File: 489 KB, 598x440, cerb.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] fucks your shit up

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 22:28:57 2019 No.5654402 >>5652174 >https://youtu.be/wpx2Z2CCjPs The original looks beautiful, but this thing looks like shit.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 23:16:53 2019 No.5654525 >>5654389 Assuming you have the original game on your computer, the "original data" is right there.

Anonymous Tue Jun 11 23:20:27 2019 No.5654540
File: 634 KB, 969x720, Cerberus-FFVIII-boss.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>5651786
>and it's obvious they only really updated the main characters
>>5654393
I guess the GF textures also get improved, but I think that's about it. I'll be happily proven wrong, but the models were already pretty high quality in the original.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 01:22:57 2019 No.5654901 >>5654391 Old one looks crap. >>5654402 >>5654402 Old one looks like crap.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 01:24:00 2019 No.5654907 >>5654389 Transexual lies. Same for Contra, FF3. Only NES Metal Gears are gone.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 01:41:37 2019 No.5654937 >>5652975 >golbez >evil slow it down there bud

Advanced search
Text to find
Subject [?]Search by post subject. Leave empty for any.
Username [?]Search for user name. Leave empty for any user name.
Tripcode [?]Search for tripcode. Leave empty for any.
Email [?]Search by email. Leave empty for any.
Filename [?]Search by image filename. Leave empty for any.
From Date [?]Enter what date to start searching from. Format is YYYY-MM-DD
To Date [?]Enter what date to start searching until. Format is YYYY-MM-DD
Image hash
Search in	All Posts OPs Only
Deleted posts	Show all posts Show only deleted posts Only show non-deleted posts
Internal posts	Show all posts Show only internal posts Show only archived posts
Order	New posts first Old posts first
Capcode	All Posts Only by Users Only by Mods Only by Admins Only by Developers
Results	Posts Threads
Action	[ Simple ]