Final Fantasy 8 now available on PC (again)
Final Fantasy VIII is now available on PC for $11.99. It features a "Magic Booster" to give you an immediate stock of spells, and the Chocobo World mini-game missing from the initial western release.
Final Fantasy VIII has been re-released on PC today, Square Enix has announced. This version packs a handful of tweaks, along with one feature that was unavailable in the initial western release in 1999.
It's now available on Steam for $11.99. The re-release features a Magic Booster to quickly give you a stock of spells instead of needing to grind them from monsters, similar to how the Final Fantasy VII PC release included a character booster. It also includes the Chocobo World application, originally a Pocket Station game in Japan. Finally, the Steam version features Steam achievements and cloud support, naturally.
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Steve Watts posted a new article, Final Fantasy 8 now available on PC (again).
Final Fantasy VIII is now available on PC for $11.99. It features a "Magic Booster" to give you an immediate stock of spells, and the Chocobo World mini-game missing from the initial western release.-
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My only gripe with the game was that they closed off all the cities and old locations once you got to the final disk. This was likely due to disk space problems, but it would be nice for them to overhaul this stuff now that disks aren't a bottleneck rather than just release them as-is for the cash in.
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I bought this game when it originally came out. Probably the #1 worst console port I had ever played. It was ridiculously bad. Overworld map ran like a slideshow (running around in towns/dungeons was fine, battles were fine), the pre-rendered static backgrounds didn't line up correctly causing a weird grid effect to happen. I had a Geforce 256 at the time which was a very powerful video card. Ended up re-buying it on PS1 just so I could enjoy the game.
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the two things i hated about the PC port:
- the controls were completely different than the FF7 PC port. FF7 used the numeric keypad (and could be played one-handed!), whereas FF8 used the arrow keys and a bunch of other random keys (requires two hands).
- they attempted to do a high-quality scale of the backgrounds but actually it's more like a horrific blur that made everything look awful. and any time an actual 3D model was there, it wasn't blurry like that, so it stood out like a sore thumb
other than that i had no problem with the port itself
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