Final Fantasy 8 on Steam

Pizzle

Not sure if people new this was coming, but found out that FF8 has been released on steam earlier this evening! Probably my favourite of the series.

SeantheMan

One of my faves too.
Though many people were confused by the Junctioning system, ...Triple Triads was also brilliant
Edea was one of if not the first CG character I thought was super-hot ! :P


Just seen it said Key Features...checked Steam page

Magic Booster

When Magic Booster is used, the player’s inventory of the following spells is increased by 100:

Cure, Cura, Curaga, Fire, Fira, Blizzard, Blizzara, Thunder, Thundara, Sleep, Blind, Silence, Berserk, Bio, Esuna, Aero, Confuse, Break, Zombie

This feature can be used from the launcher.

What is this ? Some nooby cheat for people who've not played an RPG before ?

ShadowHearth

I really loved the Card game in this one. Will have to get it at some stage on sale. I am still playing FF7 on vita right now.

degrassinoel

i loved triple triad, got some awesome cards for it and lost loads of awesome ones too great fun

SeantheMan

They just need to get FF9 onto Steam now !

Not The Real Scarecrow

One of the few games I could never beat the final boss and ended up quitting out of sheer frustration. At last I can get a chance to redeem my self.

Retr0gamer

Worth getting considering it's not a piss poor port like FFVII was and it's also not the crappy slowed down european version.

Junctioning system is a bit too complicated in it and the story is absolute arse but once you learn the systems the best fun is totally breaking the battle system It's a bit like FFV in that regard.

ShadowHearth

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Worth getting considering it's not a piss poor port like FFVII was and it's also not the crappy slowed down european version.

Junctioning system is a bit too complicated in it and the story is absolute arse but once you learn the systems the best fun is totally breaking the battle system It's a bit like FFV in that regard.

I do remember that this FF had some very weird system. You used GF to give stats and then used Magics to increase stats or something? If I remember correct there was ultima spell, which was the bees knees.

Pushtrak

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Worth getting considering it's not a piss poor port like FFVII was and it's also not the crappy slowed down european version.

It seems with regard to the music there have been complaints. I spotted this go up earlier and added it to my wishlist. I'll buy it when it goes on sale. I'll think about doing a no level up playthrough.

grimm2005

SeantheMan wrote: »

They just need to get FF9 onto Steam now !

Have a feeling this won't happen unfortunately since it was never released for PC in the past unlike 7 and 8.

Kiith

Delighted with this. Yeah, it has it's flaws, but i still loved it.

ShadowHearth

SeantheMan wrote: »

They just need to get FF9 onto Steam now !

I played it and I honestly though it was "meh". I just could not get in to it. The art style, character style, the world was just meh. I could not take anything serious too as there were man size rats and hyppos... WTF...

Kiith

FF9 would be amazing to get on the pc. It's a fantastic game, that i unfortunately never finished.

YouSavedMyLife

Meh. Worst Final Fantasy game i have played. FFX-2 is leagues ahead of this in every regard

Pushtrak

YouSavedMyLife wrote: »

Meh. Worst Final Fantasy game i have played. FFX-2 is leagues ahead of this in every regard

Not sure if serious...

Gbear

Hopefully they're working their way up through them.

Wasn't much of a console gamer so I missed 7 8 and 9.

Might have a look at this. How well does it run?

Overheal

SeantheMan wrote: »

What is this ? Some nooby cheat for people who've not played an RPG before ?

A time hack for people who have already played it 3-5 times and don't need to farm a bunch of islands for magic stock

Pushtrak

I think I'd end up using that especially if I go through with the no leveling run. Going in to battle, drawing for eons and fleeing from battles doesn't seem ideal. Plus, I wouldn't feel so bad about spending more time on the card game, which I'll fess I didn't go in to as much as I should have before. I didn't *avoid it* but I didn't really get stuck in either.

SeantheMan

This game was really easy to level up in compared to the other FF's.
Once you can access Cactuar Island you can get serious AP,....and then by doing something with Junctioning that I can't remember, hitting Lvl 100 for all characters isn't that long at all.

Eden was a stupid GF, the animation sequence took forever !!! Doomtrain was the way forward.

I was disgusted when Odin was given up for Gilgamesh

pablomakaveli

Never was a massive fan of FF8. Didn't like the junction system or he main characters. Squall is a moody unlikeable git and the other characters aren't great either. The only character I liked was the guy who you play in the flashbacks whose name escapes me.

That said FF8 as the weakest ps1 FF offering is still streets ahead of the FF games in the following generations. And it has my favourite opening FMV in a FF game.

I'll probably pick it up anyway when it goes on sale.

Pushtrak

pablomakaveli wrote: »

The only character I liked was the guy who you play in the flashbacks whose name escapes me.

That'd be Laguna. Took me a couple of minutes to remember, then I googled it to make sure I was right. Didn't want to cheat :pac:

pablomakaveli

Pushtrak wrote: »

That'd be Laguna. Took me a couple of minutes to remember, then I googled it to make sure I was right. Didn't want to cheat :pac:

Thats right. Had a bad dose of mental block. I enjoyed his segments of the game the most. His two buddies the black guy with the blade weapons and the fat guy with the harpoon were pretty cool as well.

chrislad

The music from the Laguna sequences was fantastic!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se21KZgT7tY

Only for I replayed it recently enough on the Vita, I'd get it. On my wishlist, and I'll pick it up as soon as it drops.

Retr0gamer

ShadowHearth wrote: »

I played it and I honestly though it was "meh". I just could not get in to it. The art style, character style, the world was just meh. I could not take anything serious too as there were man size rats and hyppos... WTF...

FF9 is the best of the Ps1 FF games imo (other than Tactics). It's got so much charm and it's just plain fun. Of course you aren't meant to take it seriously.

SeantheMan

Anyone wanna gift me FF8 and I'll sort ye with cash or a game next week when my replacement Credit Card arrives

I'm without online payment capabilities :P and this and Broken sword are crying to be bought !

SmurfX

Great game, lots of fun in card collecting and breaking battles with the junction system.

SeantheMan

Pushtrak wrote: »

That'd be Laguna. Took me a couple of minutes to remember, then I googled it to make sure I was right. Didn't want to cheat :pac:

Squalls dad !

danthefan

I'm playing through FF9 at the moment on Vita, I absolutely loved these games but it's a bit jarring going back to them now, things have moved on so much. Might give FF8 another spin, I'm fairly sure I 100%'d it back in the day, though there were no trophies or anything to measure.

chrislad

SeantheMan, no need to be spoiling that! It's not even a discussion point currently!

Also, seems like this has the same music issue that FFVII has/had.

ShadowHearth

Retr0gamer wrote: »

FF9 is the best of the Ps1 FF games imo (other than Tactics). It's got so much charm and it's just plain fun. Of course you aren't meant to take it seriously.

I honestly can see what people like in it. It's not a bad game, but it's definitely not the best FF game on ps1 for me.

Retr0gamer

ShadowHearth wrote: »

I honestly can see what people like in it. It's not a bad game, but it's definitely not the best FF game on ps1 for me.

The battle system is fast paced and quick, it looks gorgeous, has a great soundtrack, has some great chartacters and while the story is weak it's knowingly so. It doesn't get bogged down in silly philosphising like some later FF games, it just concentrates on being a fun adventure which is all an RPG really needs to be. The homages to the older FF games also help a lot.

I think you are just taking it too seriously. It's just a silly fun cartoony adventure and I find it works a lot better than the po-faced seriousness of some later FF games. It's a homage to the games before FFVI where you're out to save the world for a very flimsy reason but mostly because you're having fun going so

ShadowHearth

Retr0gamer wrote: »

The battle system is fast paced and quick, it looks gorgeous, has a great soundtrack, has some great chartacters and while the story is weak it's knowingly so. It doesn't get bogged down in silly philosphising like some later FF games, it just concentrates on being a fun adventure which is all an RPG really needs to be. The homages to the older FF games also help a lot.

I think you are just taking it too seriously. It's just a silly fun cartoony adventure and I find it works a lot better than the po-faced seriousness of some later FF games. It's a homage to the games before FFVI where you're out to save the world for a very flimsy reason but mostly because you're having fun going so

I guess this is the main thing why I disliked it so much. I always loved FF games for their story, not for their mechanics. The visuals, story, characters, character art style ( those god damn rats.... ) just disconnect me from the whole experience.

Retr0gamer

Well for me as long as the story is well paced and doesn't interrupt the flow of a RPG then it's good for me. Really though other than FF6 the stories in FF games have been pretty weak, it's more a series I play becasue it's usually well paced and fast and every so often like with FFV, FFVIII or FFX the mechanics are great and I enjoy them as well. Mechanically FFIX is a bit simplistic, only a little less so than FFVII but both of those have a nice pace to them so I end up not minding so much.

TheGunns

SeantheMan wrote: »

They just need to get FF9 onto Steam now !

Need FFX then, need some blitzball loved that game

chopperbyrne

Retr0gamer wrote: »

The battle system is fast paced and quick

FF IX has one of the slowest battle speeds of any FF game.

Great game, but fast paced it is not.

VIII is probably my most played FF game. Cool opening sequence, huge amount of customisation and lots to explore. Also has the best mini-game in the series.

Junctioning was easy to use if you just paid attention to the tutorial.

Kimbot

Last time i Played Final Fantasy 8 was 13 years ago, my ex was been brought into hospital to give birth to my son as I was right outside the door of the last boss. I never did go back and finish it

Retr0gamer

The load times were a drag like in all FF games in the PS1 era but I found the decent encounter rate and pace of the battles (once you were in them) was good enough to not drag the game down. FFVII was much faster paced in fairness.

SmurfX

chrislad wrote: »

Also, seems like this has the same music issue that FFVII has/had.

They patched the previous IIRC so very strange for them to roll out the midi's again knowing how unpopular it was the last time.

I can't believe they finally released it on steam .... FF7 & 8 has to be my all time favorite RPG.

Pushtrak

Kotaku are Kotaku, but I'll admit, I laughed.

kotaku.com/squall-reacts-to-final-fantasy-viii-on-steam-1478116837

SeantheMan

Looking back on it, Squall was my first ever encounter with an emo :P

Retr0gamer

SeantheMan wrote: »

Looking back on it, Squall was my first ever encounter with an emo :P

Whatever.

SeantheMan

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Whatever.

But Retro, I'm only trying to highlight something that may be relevant and a similar experience for others. Don't you think that's interesting ?

Pushtrak

SeantheMan wrote: »

But Retro, I'm only trying to highlight something that may be relevant and a similar experience for others. Don't you think that's interesting ?

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SeantheMan

Pushtrak wrote: »

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Squall...I mean...Retro/Push....you're an arsehole :P , I don't know why we all stick by you for so long. If we had any sense we'd leave you crying in your room, your a complete killjoy

Retr0gamer

SeantheMan

Robert ninja

Not interested in giving any of my money to Square Enix of all people when I already own the game. I can just emulate the thing and with all my old saves if I really wanted to play it.