Bought FFVII recently on the PC? Make it look sort of like a HD Remaster

[Aulayna]

Thanks to the world of fan modding you can prettify FFVII if you want! It looks pretty slick all the things considered.

How To Make Final Fantasy VII Look Like An HD Remaster

[Mirage]

but the backgrounds still look like tit

[Chris]

It looks pretty great to me.

[Raistlin]

That's pretty cool, but it would be a bit weird for me, at least at first. There's something nostalgic about the original graphics.

[Carl the Llama]

I have known about this for a while and have modded the game significantly, I wonder if we could do an Eyes on Plays Modded VII?

[comma]

I thought about modding but decided not to. I figured I'd go with the original character designs, the way the game was meant to be played. Playing the "remastered" version and not seeing the models turned into jagged blurs is good enough for me.

[Carl the Llama]

Dude you really are missing out big time, I have started playing the Lost Wing mod version of the game and its a lot more challenging. Enemies are tougher, the whole feel of it is awesome and the music... I just cant get over how epic the music sounds, its just amazing.

The Lost Wing mod has the following additions:

-Hundreds of enemy modifications.
-Extensive Weapons Modifications. Use of previously unused damage formulas. Weapons for Young Cloud and Sephiroth
-Armor and Accessories Modifications.
-Magic/Summons have been extensively modified. Fat-Chocobo replaces Titan and Each of Odin's attacks are on their own materia. No more KOR, but try out Zantetsuken
-A few new items for inducing Limit Breaks and Transformed status and power-ups
-New materia! Not only new materia for new spells, but many independant and support materia have been modified.
-Toggle 2x and 4x cut between multiple (random) enemies, and single enemy.
-New character portraits
-If you have a gameshark hacking program you can use control Sephiroth and Young Cloud with Limit Breaks and they level up! (I can provide the codes at a later time)
-A buncha other stuff that is more subtle and difficult to list

On the whole it is just about everything you I could hope for in a remastered edition of FFVII oh and in case I haven't nerdgasemed about the music enough, ITS smurfING AMAZING!

[comma]

Well, that sounds interesting. I could give it a shot. Are all the NPCs and polygonal objects upgraded with new models, too?

[Jinx]

Wait, does the new PC version actually look upgraded?

[Mirage]

No, you need to mod it yourself.

[comma]

Wait, does the new PC version actually look upgraded?

Yes, it does. They made some additions to the character texture maps (mainly mouths) and greatly increased the rendering resolution of the polygon models, so they all look crisp when the game runs at 1080p. It's a huge improvement over the PSX version, even though nothing was technically remodeled.

They recently announced that they're doing the same thing for FFVIII, which I will probably also buy. There are screenshot previews available in every article about it. Compare it to the original; there's a big difference in the characters.

New PC remaster:


Original:

[Mirage]

First screen looks just like FF8 looked in the first PC version. Just sayin.

[Carl the Llama]

So I am going to do a complete run through with pictures and everything, I will list the options I am using and what you can do to recreate these effects in a separate thread (which I will make tomorrow).

Side note: I was intending to use the Lost Wing mod but its incredibly buggy apparently and nigh unplayable, such game breaking side effects include:

Not being able to heal Aerith or restore her MP through any means during battle.*
Cloud deals 0 damage to certain enemies.*
Barrett deals 0 damage to certain enemies.*
Jenova allegedly has 80k HP at the end of disk 1 (apparently this is doable but it takes a loooong time)
The fight against Rude Reno and Elena in Sector 8, Rude can wipe out your entire party 1 hit style
Apparently the enemies on disk 3 all do 5k hits each turn when average levels have your HP at 6k by that time.

There are no doubt others, and these side effects (aside from the sector 8 fight and the mega hard enemies) might not be in all installs of Lost Wing, but do you really want to get to <Boss name> and find out a member of your party does 0 damage to them? props to you if you do. I was told that the mod was originally intended to be used on the ePSXe version of the game and thats why it has so many bugs when translated to the PC version.

I might also after I tried this I decided to try the Hardcore mod and half way through the first bombing mission I encountered an enemy that 1 hit my party so I decided there and then to give that one a miss. So, the version I will be playing will have the graphical mods but I am fed up with encountering bugs and 1 hit enemies so I will be playing the game on the original battle mechanics setting.

*I have personally encountered these glitches.

EDIT: here is a few screenies of the game from various my playthroughs (Lost Wing/Hardcore/Normal)

[comma]

First screen looks just like FF8 looked in the first PC version. Just sayin.

Okay, guy, everybody knows FFVIII PC was notorious for having worse graphics than the PSX version. Final Fantasy VIII - IGN

Jeesh, just because you were wrong about the graphical improvements of the new FFVII...

[Mirage]

I was wrong about the graphical improvements of FFVII? When?

I said the backgrounds still looked bad, and as apparent from one of those screenshots, I am right .