I want to go back!
>>719908003Looks neatWhat game is it?
>>719908072ffx
>>719908072Blitzball
>>719908003so go play it again
>>719908072This is balamb garden from final fantasy 8
>>719908003i don't remember it looking this clean
>>719908665it's the demaster
>>719908003>AI upscalingNot my Balamb Garden
>>719908596You don't have to lie to him.
>>719908596>>719908764Whoa black betty
>>719908003>i want to draw 100 times/card mod again
>>719908865you're a fucking idiot, anon
>>719908929i never did this and beat the game easily
>>719909052it's not hard, just tedious
>>719909052>i never did this and beat the game easilyyea you just renzokukened everything
I want to ask Selphie on a date.
>>719908865
>>719908003>real proper 1:1 next-gen remake never everFuck Squarejewnix
>>719909542Agreed it would need to be 1:1 after FFVII shit show. I want the artists to actually remake all the pre-rendered backgrounds and cutscenes, update the character models, but keep it all the same. And put some effort into the menus and presentation of the game.
>>719909942You're better off using Open FF8 or whateverSquare barely acknowledges FF8 exists.
>>719910250good
>>719908003Whenever I see that sentence ELO's Here's the News gets stuck in my head. I blame my father.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzehb_yeZtU
>>719908003I like how this giant mercenary warship houses an idyllic, dreamlike fantasy highschool. VIII’s story is really odd, but it’s great at establishing a tone and getting you wrapped into its weirdness. You can pick apart the plot all day, but the experience is something unique.
>>719908003>ParkingThank goodness.
>>719908003>>719911148I bet 99% of the people who've ever played FF8 never ever visited the Parking Garage and got a car.They've never seen this image before.
>>719908072XD or Colosseum
>>719908003Don't we all...
>>719909367I don't blame him.
>>719908072This is the right answer...>>719908596
>>719908003>that little shit running around with the fat bird card I swear to god
>>719909942>>719910250Incidentally, they lost all of their "original" files for the artwork and whatnot in a fire some numerous decades ago. It's gone-gone.The only "originals" that survived were from two of their outsourced artists who kept their own copies (and shared them), though they barely did any FF8 and just a bit of FF9. (Kusanagi Studios and... this guy. I forgot his name. Rowell or something.)
>>719908072Thread theme, overworld soul overload editionhttps://archive.rpgamer.com/games/ff/ff8/sounds/mp3/FieldsofBeryl(PatrickWaters).mp3From a better time
They had a space station people could travel to, bacn-and-forth.
>>719914251why wouldn't this work
>>719909542You don't remake good games.
>>719911840Yeah Jacob/Jake Rowell, there’s 1 or 2 more of them have shared some work but it’s limited, and mostly ff9.
>>719908003>Indoor plants (they're totally real)>Fountains, Pools of water>Clean, reflective marble floors>Love for artSpeaking of wanting to go back, what happened to this irl? Are shopping malls still a thing? Guessing nobody got money for that.
Balamb Garden felt like home to me. I've never really had that feeling before in a game so intense.
>>719915994malls died with the rise of amazon. they were on decline before, but amazon put the lid on the coffin
>>719911283You literally have to go there
>>719908003Game was just filler til the far superior 9 came out a year later.
>>719911554Renzokuken? More like Renzocumming.
>>719908003final fantasy was always a garbage seriesworse than hollow knight
>>719908003I don't.It came into my life at a very bad time.Decades have passed, but I've never replayed FFVIII. Part of it is the game itself, but that's a time I would rather not revisit.
>>719916019I wonder how the Japanese feel about Balamb Garden. It's not like "boarding schools" are unheard of there, but for European nations (and envious Americans), a beautiful boarding school like this is 10/10 masterpiece amazement. Hell, just look at Harry Potter!If you're a white guy, chances are, you absolutely adore the chance of getting to go to Balamb Garden. It looks PERFECT!Sounds perfect, too.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2RW8HWNY8MAnd if you need to got to a nearby town to get away from school, Balamb seaside port is gorgeous and equally calming. And it's all just tucked under a gorgeous mountain range, there are forests surrounding it, a volcanic cave system for regular school trips... PERFECT!!
I'll head there overnight~
>>719908003what's stopping you cracker?
is there something like the moguri mod for this game
>>719909542Is Squeenix even capable of a 1:1 remake? Have they EVER done even ONE?
Same bro...FFVIII doesn't get talked enough around here.Fuckin' game had 4 discs.
>>719914527Death by g-force.
>He wants to go back to Balamb Garden!
>>719922021I wish, but no. Well, not that quality, at least.
>>719923162is the steam version worth it or should i just emulate it on duckstation?
>>719908003You see it, you hear it:https://youtu.be/RrruWRl-TGM?si=PqlZtT59TkChnLdJ
>>719908003I have distinct fond memories of skipping school while my parents were in Italy on vacation to play FFVIII all day when I was a freshman I think in HS. I had some printed out pictures of porn at the time that I dumped so many loads to it was likely the most I've ever came in a 24 hour period. I'd get up, play, wack it, play, wack it play, eat lunch, repeat until 3AM.Love FFVIII.
>>719926294>I had some printed out pictures of porn at the time that I dumped so many loads to it was likely the most I've ever came in a 24 hour period. I'd get up, play, wack it, play, wack it play, eat lunch, repeat until 3AM.thanks for sharing.
I'm a hardcore fan with FF8, so many times I would even try to escape reality with lucid dreaming, I would be in Balamb Garden where I would often train with Zell in the training center and help Selphie with the Garden Festival, but one day as I was talking to Selphie, we went to my dormitory for a private talk. She immediately said, "You know you could live with us forever.." I gave her a confused look and she continued, "We understand that you live on earth and you REALLY wish to live here". I then said "How..How did you know?" She then giggled and said "Because we've been watching you, silly!"This was a dream come true and I almost cried right there. She then said, "I talked with Headmaster Cid and he agreed that you would be PERFECT for SeeD, you just have to do...one thing". She then held my hand and looked deep into my eyes and said "...You have to kill yourself for the transfer to work correctly." I then gave her some questions, "How long do I have before the deal expires?" She then said "Cid said 3 months.." I added by saying "What's the most painless way?..." She giggled again, "Suicide will require pain buuut...if you want it quick...Get a gun and a nice shot to the head works.I then agreed and she gave me a kiss on the forehead, "I know this will be tough but once it's over and done, you'll get to live here!" I then woke up and this was last week and i purchased a gun. I might actually kill myself because that dream just felt too real to be fake and my life isn't doing so grand.
Beautiful, just beautiful.
>>719917393I don't see the schools, but a bunch of pleated skirt prep school girls come by my work now that school's back in.
>>719908003If i could stream with muh ps3, i'd play this again. Could do the megaman legends trilogy too. Got that shit as soon as i could afford it when they finally fucking released it on thereThanks to all the legwork that it took to put it on there. Probably wasn't easy
>>719928767What the hell, is he a sprite?
https://youtu.be/UmYfkfm7GpAIt's so relaxing
>>719908072Yu Gi OhI wish I was joking.
>>719924895If you're willing to mod it, the old Steam version is really nice. Otherwise, stick to emulation.
>>719908003This walkway reminds me of the Zohar.
>>719908003The school parts are the only cool parts.Just the idea of a school that trains students to become mercenaries is cool and anime as fuck.
>>719929276Baked into that background. It blends in a lot better on CRTs
>>719908003Is there a good mod setup to play FF8 on PC yet? For either version?
>>719908003boot up retroarch thenFFVIII still has the best OST
>>719916019I kinda feel the same way. There are a few other places I can think of that feel like home to me, but Balamb Garden really was something special.>>719912139SOUL
>>719929276Performance choice that was way less noticeable on the original ps1 at 240p and crt but the effect falls apart at high res.
>>719908072Digimon World 3
>>719930198https://www.tsunamods.com/junction-viii/
>>719930592thanks
>>719908072Battletoads
>>719915994Mine are still active, though all the stores I might want to visit are long gone.
>>719928384That memory would have stayed memory holed forever otherwise. Some things must be shared.
>>719917393God I miss living by the sea.I had to drive somewhere that took me close to it in my new town and the sadness I felt was overwhelming.
>>719908865Fucking kek
>>719908929You don't need to draw. You only draw the GFs from bosses. You use GFs' spell refinement skills instead. Go to GF menu, choose abilities and you can set which skills they learn. Left on auto they first learn all the useless GF HP and damage ups, and only at the end there's the refinement and other actually good skills
>>719909052This
>>719908003>Most useful limit break to grind and decimate strong enemies>Causes me an epilepsy every time I use itRemaster my ass
>>719933495Why didnt you give Ward any junctions? Why are you grinding?
>>719908003>It pretended to be Westernised..>Huh, it was disguised as White?>No, it transformed from an assimilated westerner into an anti White tribalist..>If you say so Aya--.. !?!?>SAAAR YOU WHITE MLECCHAS DESERVE TO GETTING REPLACED FOR COLONIALISM THIS IS OUR COUNTR-*BANG*>Too many Indians, let's call for backup and get out of here!>*Chittering shrieks in the distance* *SAAR* *SAAR* *SAAR*https://youtu.be/ydJ_NiXy7zs
Should I play the remastered version or wait for the inevitable remake?
>>719933598I forgot to junction, I hate in FF8 that it keeps swapping my party members to those that have no GF attached. If they every make a remake, they need to rectify it.And the grinding is for items. You can get Squall's final weapon early right after this section ends.
>>719933742I'd say the original PC version with mods. The most notable change they did with the remaster is moving the Chocobo World treasures to Angelo Search, so be prepared to leave your playstation on for days if you want that Ribbon.
>>719908665>>719908747>it's the demasterNo, it's not. It's an AI upscale.The remaster doesn't touch the prerendered backgrounds at all, they just made improvements to the models.https://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?board=80.0THIS is the demaster: https://youtu.be/b1fNmzdLdX4?list=PLGKJJhcJXlNys0HzATaRuKSHCcr-ub2CT&t=961
>>719908003Blitzball is the worst minigame ever conceived in a jrpg tho. I full cleared the game and maxed 5 sphere grids but I never played fucking blitzball.
>bunch of hippies from an isolationist commune put in a joystick the size of a human being into your building sized airship with no instrumentation whatsoever>absolutely nobody stops themWho the fuck thought this was anything close to a good idea
>>719933982I don't get why they couldn't AI upscale the backgrounds and their artists touch them up? Square Enix has money to do that. The backgrounds in the FF PC versions all look atrocious because of that oversight.
>>719908003You can go to Balamb Garden right now
>>719934458Having a heavy control stick is probably more intuitive when it's meant to steer a giant floating construct that responds like molasses.
>>719911840The fuck is it with jap studios and their insane incompetence when it comes to preserving their source files?
>>719934976Yeah well I appreciate things like compasses and speedometers in my giant flying teapots, not pilots working a side hustle in pole dancing
>>719908003Is this you?
>>719911283You go once when you visit cell's gouse.
>>719908003Xcom
>>719915994Third places all together are gone. They have a time limit. Friends' central perk would have asked the gang to.leave after 15 minutes. Buffy had the bronze, that always made me envious.
>>719916019They should make a vr model, how hard could it be? Maybe in can be a group project. That is how the oculus started.
>>719916770The game is timeless, you could overcome your trauma with exposure therapy. Play for a day and see what vibes you get.
>tfw no GF so I have my memories
>>719928612How horrifying!
>>719929247I mean, you can play on the>>719936604 emulator. Any laptop can run epsxe.
>>719928612I knew I read this somewhere before
>>719934258I loved blitzball once I worked out how to play it. Different strokes
>>719909052>i played a turn based RPG without minmaxing
>>719934258It's not even the worst mini game in a Final Fantasy game
>>719937447>how to playScoring and then hiding the ball behind your net doesn't count
>>719937243>16 years
>>719937559I didn't even think of doing that. From what I remember I just maximised getting some guys who were top tier at passing so they could chuck the ball to my striker with almost guaranteed success from the other side of the field.>>719937481I was too young and dumb to even think of minmaxing when I played jrpgs and I didn't play any more after FFX.
The Laguna storyline with the dragon film inspiring seifer as a kid reminds me of cloud atlas and the film that inspires the robot revolt.
The song when the radio station goes active is so unique and it kicks so much ass It is the only time it plays, I think.
>>719937481Draw spamming is not min/maxing
What the fuck was zorgs problem?
>>719911283The one that i saw once is if you dont lower the controls on the military base that missiles hit the garden and it is game over.
What happened to kyros and ward? I know kyros helps along Laguna to fight monsters but after?
>>719908003you want to go back to games that have a home-base that takes 30 minutes to get around?
>>719939387>comfy>nice to look at>full of secrets>pleasant musicThere are worse things.
When I worked out you keep your level as low as possible and draw as much high level magic that you can, the game became stupidly EzPz
this game is about child soldiers, pedophilia and satanism.Oh the 90s.
>>719939352They picked up Ward from the prison, travelled the world looking for Ellone, ended up working for a film about Sorceress, her knight and dragon, ended up to Eshtar, first taken slaves and eventually getting the rebellion started against the ruler Adel, sent Adel to space to contain her, Laguna become Eshtar's president and Kyros and Ward his aides
>>719939485don't draw. Instead refine. You can turn your enemeis into Cards or petrify them to get AP but not EXP. You can set which abilities the GF learn
>>719940016I didn't think about of thatI'll do not for my next run in a few years
>>719935141The director for FFTactics who is also overseeing the remaster said that back in the day they would make the JP version first and then simply overwrite the JP master version when making the English version and wouldn't do anything for preservation, and then overwrite the English version for the other languages and then overwrite and overwrite until the original files were long, long gone. He said the only way they managed to make the Remaster was thanks to archival websites they stitched the code together.https://www.pcgamer.com/games/final-fantasy/final-fantasy-tactics-remaster-devs-built-a-replacement-for-its-lost-source-code-from-fansite-downloads-director-says-i-do-want-to-thank-all-of-the-fans-for-all-of-their-help-in-keeping-that-information-archived/
>>719909542>you will never have the opportunity to see the deleted content which delves deeper into the world of Laguna & Raine>you feel the despair when the team who worked tirelessly on it got told to scrap it and delete it by the publisher
>>719940586It doesn't exist anymore if it did at all. They lost the entire source code and original files for a lot of their Square Soft era games, like FFTs and FF9 for example.
>>719908764More like emulator upscale filter, which is not AI upscaling.
>>719931025Old but gold
>>719940207Sub 90 IQ behavior.Tho they might have had limited HDD space on their computers, disc space was expensive as fuck at some point.
>want to replay FF8 again>I already fucking did several timesThere's just something about this game.
>>719908003>>719917393The high school aesthetic is kino and romantic, but actual IRL high school sucks shit.I WISH high school was like Balamb Garden, and I was disappointed when it wasn’t.
>>719940992>want to replay FF8 again>remember your taste have changed over the decades and FF8 doesn't have any adult content>remember all kinds of shit from childhoodI rather not. Let past stay in past.
>>719922916Technically, FFVIII and KH1 had to be rebuilt from scratch for their remasters, and they’re faithful.
>>719936604>tfw no GF
>>719941147There's just something about the setting and artstyle of FF8. They never did a game with this style again, it was always just Ivaliceshit and openworld slop(FFXV). I think The Bouncer was the only one that really came close. There was Parasite Eve, but that was just New York/Resident Evil 2.
>>719941297I’m not even sure how you’d describe VIII’s artstyle. It’s like Venician sci-fi mixed with 90s teen fashion I guess?
>>719931981IKTFB
>>71994147380s london is all I can come up with
>>719939352They stayed best friends and never left his side. The short time they separated (after Centra and he got his throat ripped out, literally) they found each other, invaded Esthar to retrieve the kidnapped Ellone and they stayed there since they ended up leading the rebellion to kill the dictating tyrant witch Adel, and the rebellion begged Laguna to be their President to which he couldn't say "no."Kiros and Ward are the two huge dudes in religious habits, all gowned up like green and brown nuns, if you didn't know.More fun facts: before Laguna shipped as the Galbadian foot soldier he was, he and Julia Heartilly fell in love at the bar (where she was singing). He banged her that night at the hotel, then left and never saw her again. She wrote a love song for him that became world-famous "Eyes On Me".https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VpZhsZL9DQIn her depression, another Galbadian officer convinced her to marry him, so she did. They had a daughter together Rinoa Heartilly, Julia eventually died of loneliness and he became the Galbadian General.Laguna, in his adventures, wound up in Winhill where he met another woman, Raine who was currently raising a girl named Ellone, who's parents were killed in an earlier raid by Esthar soldiers. Laguna and Rain marry and officially adopt Ellone. Esthar raids again, kidnap Ellone (found out to be a non-witch with ESP powers), and Laguna, Kiros & Ward leave to get her back. They succeed, but while Ellone gets sent back to Raine, the three buddies never return to Winhill. Raine turned out to be pregnant with Laguna's son before he left it's Squall, but she died shortly after his birth. The two get sent an orphanage run by Cid Kramer and his wife Edea you know her as "the Witch" possessed by Ultimecia.So, yeah. There's A LOT of lore surrounding Loire. The solider buddies stay together forever.
>>719940992Music.It's the music. You hear the music and you're going to be happy you're playing the game. No joke, it's how music works for humans. We love music.
>>719942904also the visuals. something about the character designs, low poly, the colors, etc. it all comes together really beautifully. too bad about the gameplay though.
>>719943216>too bad about the gameplay though.best gameplay along with 5, 7, 10 and Tactics
>>719942553People try to write-off Laguna as "stupid" and "pointless," but his role in the story is wildly important. He was almost a sort of "Forrest Gump" in how much placement he's found in FF8's social history and the parallels he and Squall end of up having is fascinating to discover.I feel bad for people who try to claim he's "boring."
>>719939958>>719942553Thanks, I had forgotten. Great ending for those guys.
>>719908865I dont get it
>>719942904Kowaru states that music is his favorite invention of humans.
Did seifer and his lackeys just hang out fishing?
>>719943484It was hilarious playing the first time and finding "he's been here too!?" everywhere you go. What a great guy
