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Anonymous Wed Jan 11 15:43:59 2023 No.9561301 [Reply] [Original]

Remaster or original? I don't have original hardware nor do I intend to get it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 11 16:06:06 2023 No.9561336 >>9561301 >I don't have original hardware nor do I intend to get it. Absolutely no way for you to play the original then

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 11 16:22:02 2023 No.9561372 >>9561301 DON'T GET THE REMASTER IT'S ASS AND IF YOU ALREADY HATE FF8 IT'S AN EVEN WORSE EXPERIENCE.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 11 16:56:30 2023 No.9561440 >>9561301 Neither? It's a very mediocre game, even for FF standards

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 11 16:58:22 2023 No.9561448 Never fall for the "remaster" meme.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 11 16:59:09 2023 No.9561450 >>9561301 Unless you're going to have original hardware, get remaster and stick to it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 11 17:11:16 2023 No.9561481 >>9561301 original

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 11 17:39:53 2023 No.9561535 neither

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 11 17:40:00 2023 No.9561536 emulate it so that you can cheat at triple triad

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 11 17:44:56 2023 No.9561551 it emulates fine but i'd go with remaster since you can put your switch or ps4 to sleep and thus save anywhere.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 11 18:48:55 2023 No.9561685 >>9561301 Do not get the remaster. The backgrounds got blown up without upscaling so they're distractingly blurry. Unfortunately there's no mod to fix it that I'm aware of.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 11 20:24:37 2023 No.9561934 Remaster have ruined models and in some cases, censored. Not to mention the vaseline smeared backgrounds.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 12 09:41:00 2023 No.9563657 >>9561685 The guy that did all the upscales for FF8PC is doing a version for the Remaster, but it's patreon paywalled.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 12 19:53:33 2023 No.9564797 >>9561372 Why?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 12 20:22:58 2023 No.9564895 >>9561301 not remaster models look worse and the backgrounds are extremely blurry

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 12 20:26:45 2023 No.9564901 >>9561301 Just play something good instead.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 12 20:47:54 2023 No.9564974 Original with Ragnarok mod Thank me later

Anonymous Thu Jan 12 20:57:07 2023 No.9565009

>>9561301
Emulate it on Duckstation. Looks and plays great on PC, especially on a monitor that makes colors really pop out(battle effects and summons look great on rich color displays).
You can keep your DStation window small if the upscaled textures/BGs bother you.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 12 21:13:17 2023 No.9565068 non remaster version on steam

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 12 22:13:10 2023 No.9565304 >>9561301 >>9561372 Get the Remaster because if you hate the game, you can abuse the x3 speed and No Encounters cheats

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 12 22:21:36 2023 No.9565336 doesn't the remaster have only 15 fps, and sinks to 10 when in combat?

Anonymous Thu Jan 12 22:26:28 2023 No.9565352

>>9565304
I have never understood why impatient people play JRPGs. Every one of these people whine about muh random encounters. I mean why are you playing a 40-hour(or more) game?
To me the whole fun of a JRPG is fighting enemies and managing items, MP, HP, etc, finding a great balance and getting to the end of an area barely holding on before kicking the boss's ass with a few healing items left and mage characters almost out of MP. It's tense and a struggle for survival. Then you get little nasty surprises that force you to suddenly adapt, like if you had overleveled your party in FF8 and you fight the Ruby Dragon with Laguna and co. without knowing about the dragon's SURPRISE!!! high-level party piece troll of a dick move.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 13 01:10:40 2023 No.9565752 >>9565352 100% Story only fags deserve all the porn VNs they get. If you don't enjoy the combat system or turned based, just go watch a movie ya fucking lame

Anonymous Fri Jan 13 02:05:39 2023 No.9565906

>>9565752
That my feeling as well. It's why I don't shit on DQ1, despite it's very basic gameplay. The essence of a JRPG to me is roaming around the game world and having surprise battles engage, fighting them and leveling up and learning new abilities, sometimes summoning creatures to BTFO enemies, and at the core, going from a literal nobody weakling as the game begins to doing fantastic shonen anime style super attacks at the end of the game. Growing into a superhuman badass.
Squall starts off cutting bitches for like 80hp of damage.
Ends up with Lion Heart.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 13 02:07:16 2023 No.9565909 File: 350 KB, 783x783, 1652238224079.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9561551 >to sleep and thus save anywhere This is why I like playing console JRPGs on my Vita.

Anonymous Fri Jan 13 03:58:56 2023 No.9566172
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I honestly don't see why you would do anything but emulate besides some combination of moralfaggotry and poorfaggotry. Unless you're going to do additional modding, it takes more effort to mod the PC versions to parity. (and the PC>console ports are just stuck being dick)

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 13 04:03:34 2023 No.9566185 >>9566172 That's a travesty.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 13 05:14:09 2023 No.9566356 >>9566172 holy soulless

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 13 05:20:44 2023 No.9566380 >>9561301 isn't the remaster just a port of the game?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 13 05:24:37 2023 No.9566397 File: 201 KB, 1920x1080, 1567548512881.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9566380 It's the PC port with somewhat iffy new models for the main characters. Squall in particular looks like one of his spinoff versions and not his FFVIII design.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 13 05:59:15 2023 No.9566514 File: 45 KB, 976x488, 1656901269801.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9565304 >No Encounters cheats why would you need a no-encounters cheat? You can get the no encounter ability legitimately before the end of disk 1 if you really want

Anonymous Fri Jan 13 06:08:08 2023 No.9566535

>>9566514
Better question: why are you playing JRPGs if you don't like doing battles and having encounters?
The No Enc ability is useful for those who want to keep their levels low as enemies scale with level in 8, but otherwise you go straight for Mug with Diablos.

Anonymous Fri Jan 13 07:17:55 2023 No.9566651

>>9564797
Not him but it's lacking both the analog controls and rumble feedback the original release had, because it's actually a port of the PC release from 2000, which lacked those. Also the graphics were updated poorly as others have said and on the censorship front both Shiva and Siren had their models tweaked to remove previously-visible pubes.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 13 15:19:10 2023 No.9567396 >>9561301 Original. Remember to use the Card shit so you don't have to draw all the time

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 13 15:29:02 2023 No.9567421 Original PC release with XG sound

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 13 15:30:41 2023 No.9567427 >>9567421 Unironically neck yourself

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 13 16:17:50 2023 No.9567537 File: 1.37 MB, 1280x3597, ff8.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9561301

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 13 17:06:00 2023 No.9567671 >>9566651 >both Shiva and Siren had their models tweaked to remove previously-visible pubes. Only Siren

Anonymous Sat Jan 14 03:00:35 2023 No.9569127
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>>9566535
Just because the battles are the meat in the RPG sandwich doesn't mean they can't get monotonous or redundant at times. I don't want to eliminate them entirely but it sure as fuck was nice to be able to toggle them on and off at times to explore freely.

They let you turn off random encounters in VI and X, too. If they're giving you the option it's because they acknowledge it might be useful

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 14 05:51:38 2023 No.9569485 Do the backgrounds look less blurry on switch undocked?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 14 07:11:24 2023 No.9569636 >>9565752 porn vns are actually pretty ok sometimes

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 14 17:56:49 2023 No.9570732 I've kept my levels low for the most part but now I'm level 30 on disc 3 and everything is kicking my ass. Do I need to just Degenerator my way to level 100 or do I need to just find a way to farm high level junction magic?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 14 18:22:39 2023 No.9570785 >>9566651 >rumble people like this garbage?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 14 18:26:40 2023 No.9570795 >>9561301 >I don't have original hardware nor do I intend to get it. based

Anonymous Sat Jan 14 19:26:25 2023 No.9570974

>>9570732
Keeping your levels low will fuck you over unless you grind out cards autistically for top level junctions. That's what nobody mentions when they tell you that.

You need to start mugging monsters for level appropriate drops to refine into junction spells to get to par.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 14 21:39:33 2023 No.9571302 >>9565304 Free no encounters is whatever, but x3 speed is a goddam godsend. The lengthy walking segments, the long unskippable animations, drawing magic all become infinitely more bearable with the fast forward.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 14 21:58:39 2023 No.9571338 >>9561301 Emulate the original using ePSXe or Retroarch or Duckstation

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 14 21:59:40 2023 No.9571341 >>9561301 Just a heads up The english translation sucks All FF7, FF8 and FF9 have garbage translations

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 14 22:20:15 2023 No.9571398 >>9571341 >a couple catchphrases are different and some sentences need to be switched around to make sense in English because japanese is a really clunky fucking language >IT WAS A LITERARY MASTERPIECE IF ONLY THEY WOULD HAVE TRANSLATED IT PROPERLY

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