Happy early bday Darryl!!! What a bday gift from Square! Im definitely picking it up on Tuesday!

I just preordered it on steam. It comes with 2 wallpapers.

I'm all over it

I will be happily getting in on switch that gap between 7 and 9 was triggering me

At least someone's else's happiness is good news happy b day for you 🙄💛

My first too, hits hard this game does

It was my first Final Fantasy too, my 11 year old mind wasn't ready for such a great game.

Same so excited I’ve never even able to play the full game my stepdad had a ps1 demo disk with a small demo of FF8 on it and as a kid I would play it over and over, now I will finally be able to experience the full game

I remember playing this whilst grounded and without a memory card for a bit. I left my PS2 on hidden under some clothes for like a week. Suprised it didn't overheat. Waking up at 4 am to play it in my room before school and after my parents fell asleep. It was my first Final Fantasy and still my favorite FF story.

@@MagiaErebea028 was it the Pizza hut demo? I had that one and played it constantly when I was at my grandma's. Got it like 3 years later when the Ps2 came out and loved it! still haven't beaten it but I plan to come September 3rd.

Awesome

That's awesome man

Sort of a same but opposite situation, I never had an ounce of trouble with homework and getting good grades in my early years, and I feel confident in crediting FF8 for that. The reading comprehension required to progress the story, especially at that age, helped immensely in making the rest of the elementary years somewhat effortless. It's one thing to read a book, where page 2 will always lead to page 3, but it's another thing entirely to piece together context clues and dialogue exposition to figure out the next step, especially when the game opens up the world to you.

Ff7 played so much I was reading by the end of the summer

Thats great man. Final fantasy helped me alot as a kid without many mates, and a home life that could be bad at times. I have a lot of love for these games.

Whenever sang my songs on the stage, on my own-

That game was so dope.

alex Barbosa STAR CHILDREN!!!

Indeed. I was always jilted that Shana got that short end of the stick and thought long ago that if they ever would remaster it, they would make her a 'proper' character.

I'd pay full price for that

@@immortalweapon Dude I'd pay Premium for that. Heck I'd fund it.

game ruined.

My disappointment is immeasurable... And my day has been ruined

At least he still drink with his eyes.

That meme will never die

They should have kept the graphics for that one scene just to keep the meme alive

Alexander Barutti Azevedo Siqueira or Chrono trigger.

@@adrianjuarez8079 Or both =)

Don't do this, don't give me hope

Fuck yes!

Yes this would be great.

yeah it's my favourite too. I love ff7 but if you played all final fantasies without music, this one is easily the best (u'd be surprised how much music has an effect on loving something, my favourite film was outsiders till it got re-released with different music ,now it doesn't even make my top ten)

I agree. This game desperately needed a remake, not a remaster. It feels lazy. I would have happily waited another year or 2 for a full remake. I feel they created the remaster to shut everyone up. Its a great game, but it is a shame they have neglected it so much.

@@Thesakuraharona I'm still holding out hope that a remake will come. It's weird that 7 came before 8 and got spin offs a movie and more but they never explored 8 or 9. 10 got 10-2 and 13 got what 3 games? 8 and 9 definitely need more love and attention

@@zleo7054 Come on, FFVII is by far the most popular in the series obviously.

@@CJTranceAddiction I'm not saying it's not but people really love the other games as well. How many people bought the FF9 remaster and will most likely buy the FF8 remaster? We are literally buying the same ps2 games with updates just to get our fill of our favorite games

@@zleo7054 I hear ya, but I'm just sayin the FFVII fanbase is so huge that Square HAD to go with that one for the remake. The materia system is arguably the best and most fun magic system in the entire series. I really do hope that FFVIII gets the FFVIIR treatment.

i know right? bilinear and linear filtering? its like their using computers from the early 90's to make video games still.

IMO better than nothing, the community GUM AI mod looks promising and maybe it might get other modders off their ass (including myself) in creating awesome backgrounds from the originals. IMO with these new sprites it gives us PC modders the best base for a new HD mod, I personally couldn't stand any of the sprite mods currently available. Unless you plan to play on console OFC.

hopefully they do it with an update

@@dmaskell92 Look up OpenVIII as well. ;O

@@dmaskell92 except that it IS basically nothing. bi linear and linear filtering are literally just a blur filter, they do nothing else but blur a texture. they are NOT for upscaling. hell, even anisotropic filtering could be used INSTEAD of bilinear/linear, and it would looks massively better. HD backgrounds for this game, as well as every single asset period, exist. they are what anyone with any sense uses when they play it on steam. they were made by running the existing textures through ACTUAL filters meant to upscale things and look good.

I feel the same way about FFX remaster, Titus's eye color changed and Wakka got super fat. They definitely look less Asian and more western in this. I hate how Square Enix is obsessed with the euro look and white washes everything.v

I agree, most definitely for Squall at least. I'm okay with everyone else.

@@ViciousKurai Tidus' eye color has always been blue in both the old models, the FMVs and the artwork. Wakka has always had a chubby face and thick body as well. As for euro look and supposed "white-washing", you are clearly someone who is just looking to complain for no real reason. Squall was always designed to look like a white guy, as River Phoenix was Nomura's stated inspiration for the characters design, so he is not white washed in any way because he's already meant to be white. I could go on, but I think it makes sense to leave it at this.

Vicious Kurai the characters that were designed to look white are white washed? How does that make any sense? Is nomura not allowed to create anything but asian characters cause he's asian? Now that's even worse than race washing 😂

@@ViciousKurai and the censorship of siren. But the accusations of whitewashing is a bit much.

Absolutely! Final Fantasy 8 has its detractors, but we are both big fans of it. If you enjoyed 7 or 10, then you should hopefully like 8 as well

Yes

The gunman great character design and good story. Still a good game but not best in series.

played 7,8,9,10,10 2 , and 12 8 is by far my favorite story and gfs are just better plus squalls badass forget cloud keke

Bro just watching little animation videos are worth it It gives nostalgia even if you’ve never played before

Fragments of Memories

@@danielboyce7135 yes :)

Love this coummunity

You never tried playing it on an emulator? That was the only way I could play it after my PlayStations broke. =)

@@scribble71891 sadly no. But I'm still so grateful. I'm actually still crying no joke 😭. I know it's just a silly old game. But my God it pulls my heart stings

@@scribble71891 I fill bad for my family cause I'm just randomly crying throughout the day.🤣

No joke. FF8 feels like my first crush for me. Listening to the soundtrack hits me in the feel like a doomtrain. Fuck, that windhill soundtrack and Laguna's back story makes me miss my first love. And the moment where Squall carries Rinoa on an abandoned railway all the way to another country just wrings your heart, it's one of those pure innocent years in your late teens where you would do anything for your first love, like they meant the whole world to you.

@@KyranSparda I was 14 when I first played ...we all kno what boys go through in those years, ff8 broke me down , first and only game to hit me like that and still make me tear up , I think now if I tear prolly the feels of nostalgia ....iam so excited only a few more hours ...ish..

Haha. That is how I first played FF. That pizza hut demo disc? So I bought this and FF7 back in the day. Now I'm super excited for the FF7 remake and this remaster as well, cause its not just a port.

Brock McKelvey you’ll love it!

I have the demo from PlayStation Magazine.

Lol that's how I first played this game also

First time I ever saw final fantasy 8 was in Charlie's angels........my life is wierd

They’ve changed the soundtrack slightly and it’s terrible!! I’m at the part where I’m doing the SeeD exam in Dollet and I’ve had to mute it because it’s so bad!!

She was one of my favourites!

hahaha.

You know that all that motion maked real human dubbers? The dance scene was maked how was maked Avatar. the real actor with electronical dots on body and there its get to the animation....

@@Bynk333 what the hell are you trying to say

@@feerocomics5082 The characters in battles have realistical motion cause it was captured from real actors. so they mus have a great characters. :-) In FF it was used in first time.

CDInvictus I still have my old strategy guide as well and it’s still a big help on some tough situations.

Nice one man. That must have been so memorable. FFVIII means a lot to us fans. A friend of mine even named his daughter Rinoa.

@@ifritrivera315 Dang, that's legit!

I love selphie, she is savage

My favorite even still to this day

Sorry to hear u never finished it , you are in for a treat , at the very least , fight all the hidden bosses/gf

@@shadow4040 same here, only one i finished lol was 7 and recently (finally) X, for same reason,id play get so many hours in then get sidetracked for months come back and be lost so id start again .. then same thing get towards the end .. get bored or be under-levelled ... stop again .. 8 i think i did 3 diff play throughs at 50+ hours each ? if i remember right.. and never finished it ... x it took me about 5 plays to actually finish the story .. altho i skipped a lot of the other content which I really wish I had taken the time to do as well .. ff9 got sidetracked by the ps3, never finished altho think i started on 4-5 different occasions,ps2,vita and even pc .. now own on switch too lol, if i just find time to play it ... I do like with the newer games how they have the recap in them so if u havent played for a while and sit down to play its like a mini refresher of what you were up to . I remember on 9 the one time i got a fair way into it, i was open world somewhere and wandering around lost, months later tried to remember what i was doing / couldnt trigger anything to remind me where i was , where i had to go etc .. so again .. gave up ..

I have a bad habit of taking long breaks right before the final boss if there are other side-quests and stuff for me to do, I did that for like 6 months on FF8 and my hard-drive got fried, have only seen parts of the end cinematic and final boss fight through theory videos.

😅😅😅

Omg excited to see how ellone will look now, she's always been so cute even with the old graphics!

Indeed. I cant remember if I ever finished it either. So it's nice to have a better version to do so.

Just remember to actually watch the tutorials on junctioning and how to refine or draw spells. Many ppl think the game is repetitive/boring because they mass spam the free summons and never make their characters any good.

@@timlamiam my first playthrough I didnt do much wit junction bc I didnt really understand it at that time, my 2nd+ was a god lol was at point juz about any kind of magic attack healed me

@@timlamiam Absolutely this... I had so many friends that complained how boring combat was, because all they did was spam those summons. I suppose FF7 would have been boring too if all I did was summon Knights of the Round over and over. (not to mention twice as long and not in a good way). Haha!

Fearless Composer well we are two different people with different life experiences but I’m glad you were able to fit it in and play it. Not the case on my end.

it was my first one too

well DUHHHHH it was your first. 9 was my 6th FF and is by far my favorite.

Ditto

7 8 9 10 10-2 12 5 6 15 13 was my order :) and my top 5 are 7 9 10 12 8

Are you not including their Kingdom Hearts versions then?

Never bothered to play that. Oh, the blasphemy!

Pink Pepper Seifer sounds like Lucius Malfoy to me lol

You probably don't play Opera Omnia, but everyone have voice there.

@@Esandeech2 lol well Squall does have a scar... although is isnt lightning shaped. Guess that would make quistess hermione and zell ron

Glad your enjoying it. I had a hard time getting into it at first because I didn’t really understand how to level your gf’s abilities and the junction system because I’m stupid, but as soon as I got it it was awesome and I replayed it immediately after finishing it to try to optimize the gf’s and characters stats as early as possible

@@ayylmao578 yep yep I had to restart it due to realising that the PC port that I had been playing and loving had wrong audio. I didn't like it by it was fun in the end.

@@patman_for_sure I had to mod the same port with the original ost so it wouldn’t sound like midi shit lmao

@@ayylmao578 yep yep 😂😂 Although, I actually did grow attached to the bad sound, especially the map and intro themes. Very weird. 😂

Same here Bro

Gray Fullbuster I loved it as well but couldn’t beat it and lost interest

@@timm285 rip

Same

Mine too! It’s such a beautiful game

Release is the 3rd Semptember for PS4 ?

@@anthrazzit9219 yes

2 MORE DAYS!!!

Is this only available for R1?

@@r2rg R1?

I just think the PS1 Era Final Fantasy games could’ve been even better with the voice acting.

@@egateqa1351 i would never want voice acting in the PS1 games lol

Hahaha. Gameshark. Genie. Lol

Remember back in the day how we frowned upon cheating on videogames?

Yeah. Now we pay to cheat. Lol

I remember i have to swap between gameshark disc and game disc on ps1 if i want to use the codes lol

I usually only used cheat codes after I beat a game. Those were the dayzzzz

What background? Like the plot? Better late than never , still my fav game to date

Jaipack the game is very enjoyable

I know i was expecting abit more, i didnt notice the difference at first lol

Even the visual aren't really that great. There's a demo on youtube, and the characters are basically shining and floating on the backgrounds. Also, I can't understand why they changed Squall's hair..

They ruined Squall so its a no buy for me.

@@somebodies yes squall look like a tall babyface

I have my original copy and , yeah idk I thought they should remade it instead. The story, junction system, and the lore. A rare underdog of a masterpiece that’s only setback was graphical, IF that.

Leg....CRAMP!! (Why now?)

Stephen O'Brien Just played yesterday and ended off on Deling City Laguna. About to get home and play some more

Haha. Right. Our generation is awesome. We get to share it with our kids now.

This is a beautiful comment. I like the newer final fantasy games but Christ the old ones always get me excited and for me it's not the nostalgia. The soundtracks and the stories always feel close to home. I could lose my memories and play the old final fantasy games again and still fall in love with everything presented.

Same ff7 and ffx.

Amen.

Couldnt agree more !!! Ffviii was also my first ff and I thought it was impossible for a game to hook me more than metal gear , i put in so many hours in ff8, the past year and half i been wanting to play it again , but didnt have a ps1 or ps3 , and didnt have the extra funds , but recently i got a ps1 , so now I can do a direct comparison hehe, last time I was this hyped for any kind of release was for division 1 , but this hype surpasses that by far, always telling my wife ff8 is still the best game to date ! Then witcher 3 follows haha

@@shadow4040 9 & 10 are great, should definitely give them a shot if you ever get the chance..

@@shadow4040 if it's a puzzle then you can probably find a vid on youtube to help you out.. if it's a battle then using Rikku is the best way due to her mix ability..

That might be worth the buy now that you mentioned it. I hated getting far just to get ambushed by a Ruby Dragon that hits 9999 on my entire party.

@@nathanlamont9920 new players won't understand this pain, so nostalgic it was terrible but, it was part of the game, and now probably it's gone

@@ravenly8104 new players and casuals because that area was optional. FF8 is one of my favorites but that part is near game breaking. Once you get pass the scripted monsters, enc none works but you will lose out on AP trying to avoid being OHKOed by random monsters.

@@nathanlamont9920 you shouldnt need AP at that point anyway. Get all your AP on cactaur island where they give you more than any other enemy in the game. Also hell island to quickly hit max lvl due to leveling up at least once every battle.

@Blackwolf MGTOW Stop flirting with me.

Not trying to bootie bother you , but I saw vid goin over trophies and it wasnt that many and it didnt look like there is a platinum

Or better yet, a Final Fantasy "Classic" collection? FF 1-6 spruced up and bundled together for modern systems?

No.. ff6 sucks

@@CaelanGames I mean, they did remaster FFIV into a 3d game.

@@AzureIV I'm mainly just pushing to have the originals playable on PS4/Switch. A consistent art/graphical style across them all would be nice but that feels like a pipe dream. Just playing them officially on modern systems is my wish.

There is already, for PC and MOBILE.😂

What was your first?

@@davidgallagher28 I think my profile picture gives it away. ;)

Did you ever get around to playing the remaster? How was it?

Lol since when 8 has been up there with 7? Those are 6, 9, 4 and X. why do you think FF 8 wasnt available anywhere while all other FF games including 12 have receive a lot of attention? Because FF 8 SUCKS, thats why. I still gtting because it was my 1st FF and the OST kick ass and is pretty fun game to break, but stop with the nonsense of "The game is the greatest or is high there" because if that was the case then why took square so long?

agreed. squall doesnt have the same perma angry scowl anymore.

How cool would it be if they put actual effort in and made him look like squall at least the original pixelated version had the same face. Square enix will do anything to cut a few corners.

@@raulrojas9253 VIII is vastly superior to X in every substantive way save battle system. Story, characters, and world blow it away. Easily a top five FF.

@Albert Twangle Thanks for the idiotic response.... 3 weeks later.

Same for me

I’d agree with that.

big same

I always say to newcomers to start with FF10. The combat is turn-based and you don't have to rush your inputs. It still plays pretty much the same as the other titles and graphically it's aged the best. My personal favorite is FF8 since it was my first and that they are my favorite set of characters. I always liked how you never really knew where the story was going. I liked how unpredictable the plot was. I haven't played them all but I haven't played a final fantasy title that I haven't enjoyed.

7-10 is the golden era....can't go wrong with any of those 4 games.

absolutely. when I first heard about the remaster I was so excited then found out it wasn't a physical release was so disappointed. personally I feel like they dropped the ball on this one.

squeaked maybe they will someday

Yeah, that literally killed me!

Digital only is a plague on gaming.

squeaked EXACTLY

Same 5 hours left im pulling an all nighter

Two changes that do not affect the game experience in any way, it's only logical he would ignore them.

@@lucaspressacco1107 I disagree. Firstly, most of the details mentioned in the video have no impact on the game experience save for the cheats. Secondly, a 15 FPS lock on the menus does indeed effect the game experience. Thirdly, he made a point of attempting to mention all the tiny details, so the 2 that I brought up were worth mentioning. I don't think he ignored them, rather, was probably just unaware of them.

@laharl sama I'm not sure I understand the question. I enjoy Final Fantasy VIII, I thought we were talking about "tiny details" here. Don't let your fanboyism blind you.

@laharl sama Well, someone's jimmies hath been rustled. I apologize for not ignorantly consuming every iota of media and liking them to your high standards...

@laharl sama Heh, hello pot - meet kettle. Yeah, you're most certainly rustled. Disgaea is dumb, butthurt fanboy.

I have played all of them apart from the online ones, I still dont see the appeal about 7, ff6 and ff8 are easily the best

Play 10 broski. Its amazing

Agreed. Here in Georgia. Hoping for the best. Stay safe.

Thanks you too hope for the best 👍🏼

I'm in Florida too bro was thinking the same of not being able to play cause of Dorian