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• gamedeal user

  Dec 13, 2014

  Hello, my old friend. Years ago, I remember walking into a local Wal-Mart to browse through the bargain bin of Psx games. There I found a green label greatest hits game called Final Fantasy VII. The blonde man on the cover holding a giant sword tore away at my curiosity. So my allowance was spent on this mysterious game I had yet to hear about. Not very long after beating it, I realized I was in love. "Where has this game been all my life?" I asked myself. A few weeks later, after saving up my allowances for a NEW psx title, I returned to the same local Wal-Mart and began browsing the sliding door glass case. "Hmm...Gran Turismo sure looks fun...Tomb Raider....maybe...", but there at the bottom in the left hand corner it sat. Final Fantasy VIII. I must've screeched from excitement. Though none of these characters on the case looked familiar..."So the games don't connect then?" I pondered...In a rush to get the game, I flagged the worker down to open the case. Game in hand, I opened the lid of my Psx, removed Dark Stone, and placed in Disc 1...Never has a game brought as much excitement as seeing this sequel that day. It was the best, is the best, and will forever be the best. Now I am no longer a child, at 25 I have 2 children of my own and hope one day they too find their "FFVIII"...
• gamedeal user

  Mar 18, 2021

  30 Hours in and all i've done is play triple triad...
• gamedeal user

  Oct 27, 2014

  Final Fantasy 8 was my first game of the final fantasy series.I absolutely loved this game and it made wanna play all the other games of the series (from 1 to 10 at least since i really liked the old style turn based system).This game is still one of my favorites . Altough i was so excited that it was released onto Steam i was a bit disappointed that they quality of the sound was still no match for the ps1 one (although there are some fixes out there that deal with this problem, I still think that SQUARE ENIX should have taken care of these issues before releasing the game). Overall Final Fantasy 8 is still a very good classic game.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 4, 2019

  I do not care what anyone says. This is my all-time favorite Final Fantasy game. I've logged well more than 111 hours on this game, countless hours on the PS1 when I first got this game Christmas of 99, my freshman year of highschool. If you play games for the story, this is a great game for you. Grinding is easier because the mobs level with you, but that can also cause issues if you grind to soon in the game. Download, Play, Enjoy, Fall in Love with this game if you haven't already.
• gamedeal user

  Jan 25, 2015

  lots of memories with this game 1999~2000 watching my older bro play it all the time then in 2007 he wrote the ff8 pc to 5 discs and installed it on my pc it was one of the few games I played all the time if you're a child, please play this, get the memories burned into your skull. Don't miss out on it.
• gamedeal user

  Sep 4, 2019

  Don't even bother with the "remaster". Get this. Way better.
• gamedeal user

  Dec 28, 2018

  ---{Graphics}--- ☐ Masterpiece ☐ Beautiful ☑ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Paint.exe ---{Gameplay}--- ☐ Try not to get addicted ☑ Good ☐ Nothing special ☐ Bad ☐ Just dont ---{Audio}--- ☑ Eargasm ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ Nails on chalkboard ---{Audience}--- ☐ Kids ☐ Teens ☐ Adults ☑ Everyone ---{PC Requirements}--- ☑ Potato (Onboard/Anything) ☐ Low (Any dedicated GPU) ☐ Decent (GTX 1050+) ☐ Fast (GTX 1060 6gb+) ☐ Skynet (GTX 1080 8gb+) ---{Difficulity}--- ☐ Roll face on keyboard ☑ Easy ☐ Average ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{Grind}--- ☐ Nothing ☐ Isnt necessary to progress ☑ Average grind level ☐ Too grindy ☐ Insanity ---{Story}--- ☐ None/Nonexistant ☐ Not great ☐ Average ☐ Good ☑ I'm not crying, you are crying ---{Game Time}--- ☐ A short distraction ☐ Short (<30 Minutes per session) ☐ Average (31-90 Minutes per session) ☑ Long (90+ Minutes per session) ☐ Endless ---{Price}--- ☐ Buy it now! ☐ Worth the price ☑ Wait for sale ☐ Not recommended ---{Bugs}--- ☑ None found/Nonexistant ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ Gamebreaking ---{Salt Level}--- ☑ Replaced with sugar ☐ Barely anything ☐ Balanced ☐ Salty ☐ Salt overload ~~~~Multiplayer~~~~ NO
• gamedeal user

  Nov 24, 2016

  I nominated this for the "Game Within A Game" award. One of the few games where I may have played the minigames more than the actual game. Triple Triad is so good. Don't pass this one up!
• gamedeal user

  Dec 25, 2022

  Still the greatest FF i've ever played.
• gamedeal user

  Dec 6, 2013

  Edit: Update to the title on 20th June 2014 added more cheats - no fixes to any of the technical issues. Before I get started, Yes I know about the mods to fix it. We shouldn't have to mod the game to get content Square Enix claimed was in the game. FINAL FANTASY VII (Yes, 7) was released on Steam a little while ago. And while many were happy, many were disappointed. Square Enix released the game with awful audio. Entire vocals were missing from some, for example, the infamous "One Winged Angel" BGM, and the audio in general sounded very subdued. A modder, Assimi, went out of his way to patch the BGM to the quality it should be. Many months came and went, and eventually, one day, Square Enix released a patch, which upgraded the audio to a better quality. We then hear FINAL FANTASY VIII will be coming to Steam, with what Square Enix claimed - PlayStation Quality Audio! Superb! They won't make the same mistake twice! Surely? Especially not after such a statement... We were wrong. FINAL FANTASY VIII Steam Edition is an almost identical copy of the original FINAL FANTASY VIII PC Port, except this time with added layers of DRM, cheats, and ruined FMVs, along side all the issues of the original port. So all the issues: 1) Background music uses low quality midi. 2) Sound effects uses low quality audio (Quetzalcoatls roar sticks out the most). 3) Limited to 8-way movement, rather than the 360 movement on PS1 4) Still uses B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 B6 button prompts if using a Gamepad. 5) FMVs have been giving a horrible filter to "upscale" them. This blur removes a tonne of detail from the FMVs. 6) Linear Filtering simply blurs all the textures, and makes the world map look disgusting. So let's go through these 1 by 1. Links to any mods mentioned will be put at the bottom of the review. Issue 1) Background Music. This is horrible. My main problem here is Square Enix LIED to us. When they announced FF8 Steam Edition they shouted "PLAYSTATION QUALITY AUDIO!" from the rooftops. They did not deliver. Here's a comparison: Steam Edition: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93tFd5jeFbU PlayStation Version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eU0tRBHnE0 If you're using any decent speakers, you can hear the massive difference. My speakers cost me about £10, and I'm not even an audiophile (hence the £10 speakers) and I can tell the massive difference in quality. Thankfully - Thanks to DLPB of the QHIMM forums this can be fixed and modded out (and the BGM can be changed to whatever songs you want, just make sure they're .OGG and looped correctly). But. It shouldn't need to be in the first place. Square Enix claimed the game has PS Audio. It doesn't. Issue 2) Similar to issue 1. Unfortunately here I don't have a comparison. But again - SE Claimed PS Quality Audio. They did not deliver. Issue 3) 8 way movement. If you're on KB+M This is absolutely fine since you're inherently limited to 8 way. However many people, with this being a PlayStation game, would play with a gamepad, and if you do, think again about using that wonderful analog stick for 360 movement. Issue 4) So you'd expect, with this being a PlayStation game to use X Square Triangle Circle right, or maybe they updated it to ABXY? Unfortunately not. The game uses the possibly ancient Dinput, because forget updating the game to a more modern form of input, right? Way too much effort. Issue 5) So instead of doing a proper job of editing the FMVs too look decent at high-res, like the 1080p standard, or like me, 1440p, Square Enix applied a filter to the entirety of every cutscene. It's a blur filter. It blurs the FMVs to remove the "blockiness" that would occur from upscaling and especially when in motion. Instead of putting in effort to do this, carefully applying filters when and where necersarry, they made it global. Destroying massive amounts of detail in the progress. Fortunately, someone on the Steam Discussion forums applied a better filter, though still not perfect. Issue 6) Linear Filtering is 50/50. It looks okay. In combat, it looks good. Applied to character models, it looks good. Applied to the world map? Oh my. Just look at this mess: http://i.imgur.com/p7QGH2w.png Compared with it turned off: http://i.imgur.com/pA9jlED.png -------- So. What's better about the Steam release? Well the improved hardware compatability is nice. Chocobo World is included as it was with the original release too, so if you never got a chance to play and have the benefits of that, that's a bonus. You also get achievements if you're into those. Cheats. More controversial. The cheats this time aren't as bad as FINAL FANTASY VII. Why? It's just magic. And that's a non-issue if you read up on how to use the card game mechanics and refining to get spells very quickly, and very early. Indeed, you can get many powerful spells for junction via card refining very early on that aren't even included in the cheat. All it really does is remove some of the grind... Which I guess is okay. And well slightly improved graphics due to the higher character model polygons. But that's about it. I would not recommend this in it's current state. This is simply a re-release of the old PC port, with very minimal effort put in to actually updating it. My recommendation would go out to purchasing a PlayStation copy of the game and playing it that way. You can get it for cheaper than Steam on the PlayStation store. -------- Roses and Wine BGM Mod: http://steamcommunity.com/app/39150/discussions/0/666828126495993258/ FMV Replacement Mod: http://steamcommunity.com/app/39150/discussions/0/666828126807201587/?tscn=1386758049#p1 Shoutout to Assimi, the FF7 BGM Modder: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198004345221/