You know that scene in Final Fantasy VIII where Rinoa is at the Balamb Garden graduation ball thing, and she chats Squall up by telling him that he's "the best looking guy here"? Except due to the game's now primitive character models, Squall barely had a face? Well, in the upcoming remaster, our uncaring hero actually looks human -- he's got big blue eyes and everything. You can check out the remastered scene below.
The original PSone exchange ended up becoming a bit of a meme due to how pixelated Squall's mug was, but when Final Fantasy VIII Remastered launches later this year, the gunblade-wielding teen will finally have the face that Rinoa always wanted.
On a serious note, we hope to see more of Final Fantasy VIII Remastered soon. The game was announced back at E3, but we've heard very little about it since. Are you looking forward to replaying Final Fantasy VIII? Maybe this'll be your first time? Pick out the best looking guy in the comments section below.
[source twitter.com]
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i am SO looking forward to this game, i LOVE FFVIII
Wow, that’s looking a whole lot better than the current Steam version, which I haven’t finished. I really hope I get it for free since I already own it on Steam, like Skyrim Special Edition but I highly doubt it.
"You know that scene in Final Fantasy VIII where Rinoa is at the Balamb Garden graduation ball thing, and she chats Squall up by telling him that he's "the best looking guy here"?"
That was before the scene where you learn an enormous mutant called Norg (of course) lives under Hogwar...err, Garden and has been bribing Headmaster Cid with naked photographs of him and Quistis, right?
Weird game.
@kyleforrester87 It's only as I've gotten older that I've realised just how insane FFVIII is.
@Rick_Deckard Added a screenshot for you!
I'm more impressed that the cast of FF7 is getting human bodies
One of my most anticipated games of the year. The Grandia Collection and Links Awakening should hold me over till wherever this comes out.
That is a huge leap higher than the original. His face looks like it came from Dissidia on PSP.
@DerMeister yea, it looks as though the character models are redone for the remaster. that said, the background assets are upscaled in a primitve way so the two styles of assets do not blend well. that is my gripe with the ff remasters. being able to fast forward the speed is a god send, though, and makes these older 50+ hour games much more easy to digest. you could probably reduce the total playtime by 50% as a result.
8 was the filler between 7 and 9 for me. I did enjoy playing the game a good bit when it dropped but i gueas it didnt have the staying power of 7 or 9. Or Crono Cross or Trigger lol
@Porco Yeah, that's ultimately the downside to the pre rendered backgrounds the PS1 Final Fantasy titles used. They look amazing for the time, but as tech advances they'll look more and more dated. If you're a graphics fiend, playing these games (well, the original PS1 versions, at least) on modern TVs makes a bit of a mess out of it.
Why am I feeling incredibly nostalgic for a very pixelated face that looks like he's just been attacked by Kazama Kiryu?
@DerMeister absolutely true. i still use a sony crt for my ps1/ps2 games and they look great on there. regarding the background assets — some fans have been using AI upscaling techniques to remaster the backgrounds and they look fantastic (on hd tv's). would have been nice if s-e took the same amount of care with their own product:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=49&v=OaEgc46FNWE
FF8 rebake. The night Squall stuck one in the oven.
@Porco They really missed a trick by not using AI upscaling for this, while not perfect it automates a lot of the work so it wouldn't take much effort.
Hopefully we get an upscale Rinoa and Quistis too. Phwoar!!!
The original looks like the toxic baddie from Robocop. "I'm melting!"
@TalentedAtGames Saw it at Playasia. 😃👍
@ShogunRok I'm one of those rare Final Fantasy fans that has never really played FF8 before, despite owning it on both PS1 Disc and PS3.
Looking forward to it though, always thought he was cool in KH1 and KH2.
That old screen cap always makes me laugh, FF8 is not exactly my favorite game in the series but I've been looking forward to revisiting it nonetheless, for all its faults it has quite possibly the best soundtrack in the entire series, which IS saying a lot.
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