Final Fantasy VIII is on Steam.
FINAL FANTASY VIII on Steam
It costs £9.99/€12.99 /$11.99, and includes a couple of bonuses and new features such as the Chocobo World minigame which hasn't yet been seen outside of Japan.
[Source: Final Fantasy 8 is now on Steam • News • PC • Eurogamer.net ]
I might buy this on a sale unless I find out that this release is terrible for some reason. Right now I don't have much reason to buy it when my discs work just fine, but it'd still be nice to have the option to play it on Steam.
Only thing that might make it worth to buy is the Chocobo World minigame.
I'll wait for a Steam sale just like with FFVII.
"... and so I close, realizing that perhaps the ending has not yet been written."
Just purchased it!
edit:
Okay, word of warning. This uses crappy MIDI quality tracks again like the Steam release of FFVII did. It's possible to mod it, like with FFVII, to use the original tracks.
Last edited by Aulayna; 12-06-2013 at 12:43 AM.
It's sad that they'd release it with the sucky MIDI. I can see maybe a reason for it back in the day when disk space was premium. There's no excuse nowadays.
Link to the mod?
It boggles my mind that they wouldn't take the time to fix the soundtrack. It doesn't even really make a ton of sense to me that they ever used it back in the day anyway. It's not like CD's were lacking in storage space, or expensive. Even if they'd just included an install disc back in the day that loaded the soundtrack and some other assets to the hard drive, rather than relying on midi when they didn't have the PSX soundchip, it would have made things a lot better.
Not understanding the soundtrack stuff, cool that it's on Steam though. I still have the hard copy for the PlayStation so I'm just going to stick with that for now. Hardly have any money to spend anyway.
For the soundtrack talk, the original PC versions simply had midi files for the music which were played through a pretty troutty synthesizer. The quality of the electronic instruments, and the audio quality in general really, were far below that of the PlayStation versions. When they re-released the PC version of VII, and now VIII, instead of using the higher quality PlayStation audio, they used the original stuff. But now it isn't even midi so you can't run it through a better synth. They literally converted the original stuff to music files, despite certainly having access to the better quality music files quite readily.Originally Posted by ToriJ
Basically they didn't even bother to fix the easiest to fix problem ever before re-releasing the games.
I meant not understanding why they can't fix it. Sorry for not bearing clear before.
Actually Chocobo World has been seen on a US release. It was available on the original PC release of FFVIII as well.
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I'm almost surprised that they went with the crappier music; especially since everyone complained about that with VII and they ended up updating the music. I hope they come to their senses again and add the PS1 music.
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Steam release
So Final Fantasy VIII has been given a steam clean (pun totally intended) and I was wondering if we could get an in game comparison thread going?
So far I am ambivalent about one of the features; Magic Booster:
Sure it's nice not to have to draw all those magics, but doesn't it kinda kill the game, especially Curaga right from the start?
Anyways, the main thing I am curious about is the graphical update, really eager to see some side by side pictures of the graphics.
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