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

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

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >I don't have original hardware nor do I intend to get it.
    Absolutely no way for you to play the original then

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    DON'T GET THE REMASTER
    IT'S ASS AND IF YOU ALREADY HATE FF8 IT'S AN EVEN WORSE EXPERIENCE.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Why?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        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.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >both Shiva and Siren had their models tweaked to remove previously-visible pubes.
          Only Siren

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Get the Remaster because if you hate the game, you can abuse the x3 speed and No Encounters cheats

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        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.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          100% Story only gays deserve all the porn VNs they get. If you don't enjoy the combat system or turned based, just go watch a movie ya fricking lame

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            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 b***hes for like 80hp of damage.
            Ends up with Lion Heart.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            porn vns are actually pretty ok sometimes

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >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

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          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.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            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 frick 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

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        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.

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Neither? It's a very mediocre game, even for FF standards

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Never fall for the "remaster" meme.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Unless you're going to have original hardware, get remaster and stick to it.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    original

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    neither

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    emulate it so that you can cheat at triple triad

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    it emulates fine but i'd go with remaster since you can put your switch or ps4 to sleep and thus save anywhere.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >to sleep and thus save anywhere
      This is why I like playing console JRPGs on my Vita.

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    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.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The guy that did all the upscales for FF8PC is doing a version for the Remaster, but it's patreon paywalled.

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Remaster have ruined models and in some cases, censored. Not to mention the vaseline smeared backgrounds.

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    not remaster
    models look worse and the backgrounds are extremely blurry

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Just play something good instead.

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Original with Ragnarok mod
    Thank me later

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    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.

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    non remaster version on steam

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    doesn't the remaster have only 15 fps, and sinks to 10 when in combat?

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I honestly don't see why you would do anything but emulate besides some combination of moralhomosexualry and poorhomosexualry. 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)

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      That's a travesty.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      holy soulless

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    isn't the remaster just a port of the game?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      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.

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Original.
    Remember to use the Card shit so you don't have to draw all the time

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Original PC release with XG sound

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Unironically have a nice day

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Do the backgrounds look less blurry on switch undocked?

  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    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?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Keeping your levels low will frick 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.

  25. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >I don't have original hardware nor do I intend to get it.
    based

  26. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Emulate the original using ePSXe or Retroarch or Duckstation

  27. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Just a heads up
    The english translation sucks
    All FF7, FF8 and FF9 have garbage translations

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >a couple catchphrases are different and some sentences need to be switched around to make sense in English because japanese is a really clunky fricking language

      >IT WAS A LITERARY MASTERPIECE IF ONLY THEY WOULD HAVE TRANSLATED IT PROPERLY

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