Final Fantasy 8 Remastered Pre-Orders Available Following Release Date Announcement

FF8 was one of my least favorite in the series. Sure, the story was good, but several aspects of the gameplay made it tedious to play.

I hated the fact that:

1) The monsters would level up at the same rate as the characters, so grinding to beat a tough enemy was virtually useless.

2) The character to make the killing blow got more experience. This made it very difficult to keep your characters evenly leveled because the stronger characters usually got more experience, thus making them even stronger still. In order for the weaker characters to keep pace, you had to hold your stronger characters back.

3) The only way to obtain spells was to "draw" them from monsters. This was very tedious, as you had to travel around to different locations just to "stock up" on the spells you need.

I suffered through the game once already, and that was quite enough, thank you very much.

Why anyone would want to play this is beyond me.

You might have noticed in the trailer they released, they only showed CG and combat. Combat is 100% polygonal graphics. They did not show the backgrounds on the field screen, which are 2D. They almost certainly look bad because of the low resolution, which no remaster is going to fix because they don't have the source assets anymore.

The original game's art is at 240p which will look awful on a 4K or even FHD display.

I’m wondering how they will handle the pocket station games Or if they will dummy it out and add the items as separate in game rewards. The original kept the entire feature which made it impossible for western fans to get the items. However the PC version had it as it’s own little application.

I am honestly curious how they will handle it for the console releases. They could take the mini application approach but unlike the PC version that would require a player to completely exit Final Fantasy 8

20 years... good flippin' grief. This game deserves a full remake, but this will do... for now.

Is this really remastered?!?! Just looks like the higher res PC version using the PS1 soundtrack.

FF8 is awesome

Can’t wait. I’ve played just about every Final Fantasy and 8 has always been my favorite. I’ve been dying for them to bring it back around.

Awesome. I loved that game back on the PlayStation and am really looking forward to playing it again, this time on the Xbox One. However September was already crowded enough before. Ugh.

Man, I feel old. It was my first FF, and I do not regret it at all.

My favorite FF. I'm giddy AF!

Why does everything have to release at the same time...

Almost 20 years to the date. 9-7-99

My Dreamcast will not distract me this time.