Can't Wait for the Pixel Remaster of FF IV

FFVIII was the biggest single letdown I have ever had in a video game, just surpassing Chrono Cross. Wooden characters (including the single worst individual in a FF game: Rinoa), a difficult-to-follow, disjointed plot rife with long flashbacks and sudden, inexplicable tonal shifts, the outright, unambiguously bad junction system that ruined magic, and an antagonist that - while she possesses people - doesn't actually show herself until the very end of the game, together make for what is easily the worst main-series Final Fantasy game (and this is including complete garbage like XII and X [and X-2, if it counts]). This anthology has given me some of my highest highs as a gamer... but it has also offered distinct, brutal lows, and FFVIII will always hold that nadir in my heart.

To be honest, I'm not convinced that they can ever create a satisfactory stand-alone Final Fantasy again. XIII wasn't a good game, and neither was XV. The FFVII remake has been really engaging (although it has me worried - I don't ship Aerith/Zack, and am enormously concerned that the reintroduction of Zack will make for a third wheel) so far, but it's built on a pretty solid nostalgic foundation, and would have been difficult to miss with. I dunno... I don't have high expectations for the eventual FFXVI, although at least it appears to be set in a semi-traditional fantasy world, so that's a minor plus.

I just hope that they're released on consoles in due time. I'd like to play the older Final Fantasy games again but not on my PC. I'd like to do it on my Switch or PS5 instead.

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Originally Posted by ShizukuOikawa

All I ask for square-enix is a remake of Final Fantasy VIII... don't see it ever happening though, oh how great it'd be to see those characters, atmosphere and story in HD like the 7 remake.

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yup

i would love to see X remake too , full 3d

I'm confused to why this is posted in a FF14 forum though.

The removal of the added content, stripping it down to what I could play on my snes if I wanted, makes me sad.

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Originally Posted by Sotaris

I'm confused to why this is posted in a FF14 forum though.

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do you mean the original post? because endwalker is ff4 themed and i'm replaying ff4 in preparation for endwalker. if you mean the follow up replies about other ff's, that's just a tangent off of ff4