FFVIII Remastered

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New info from Famitsu here, and english here.

Also new hi-res in-game screenshot where you can have a closer look (particularly the job done on backgrounds).

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[Edit] Just for comparison PC/PC with mods:
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The character model is shockingly bad. Doesn't even look like Squall. The first PC mod version is very good. The bottom one is atrocious.

The backgrounds... again it's a simple upscale.  There's nothing really different here.  More of the same. Blurriness instead of detail (with pixellation) - which I find a crap tradeoff.
 
Also new hi-res in-game screenshot where you can have a closer look (particularly the job done on backgrounds).
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Or lack thereof.... What a joke im highly disappointed but i expected to be as soon as I heard "remaster" so it pans out. Simply too lazy of a cashgrab. I can apreciate a good cashgrab (with smallest possible investment, but still enough to positivley notice, for comparatively big cash gain)  but this is a lame one.

And the squall is shockingly bad indeed; Friendly Anime-boy kingdomheartsy type squall. I expect the transition form the opening fmv with the mature looking squall to the medbay bedroom with this model to be particularly silly.
 
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I totally agree, making the backgrounds blurry (like FFVII on PS4/Switch) is a very lazy and lame attempt in trying to hide a poor upscale method.

Saying that original team is involved with this remaster is just absurd by looking these screenshots. All I see is a generic eye popping childish anime look, way too vibrant colors and contrasty character models. I'm afraid that this "remaster" goes into the smartphone category wee see nowadays. I still beleive that fixing all the issues on the current Steam version (and porting it to different platforms) was a better choice, but hey, let's put the word "remastered" on it: gotta make that money.
 
This DLPB guy yeah. :evil:

As a bonus, here you can see the astonishing job done on battle backgrounds: :roll:

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Crap, I was hoping they wouldn't touch the backgrounds at all (especially after they did such a terrible job with the FF9 bgs). I think these look worse than FF9's, just a crappy blur filter from the looks of it.

As for Squall, he does look a bit strange yeah. His hair isn't even close to matching the original design.
 
In the orignal design he looks like in the twentieth, now he looks much more like an older teen-ager. Also the face in the CGI is proportional really bad. Just look how small his ear is. Usually an ear's hight goes from the mouth to the eyebrows, the CGI model has it from the nose to the eyebrows. This results in a lot more problems and is making the whole face to little for his head.
I just saying this because complaints are not justified even though the new model design doesn't portray the concept art very well (which has also a too small ear). The redesign is better as before. The only bad thing I see is that it clashes with the CGI scenes and that the team is (probably) too lazy to upgrade the unimportant NPCs as well.
 
Voice acting? Now that does sound very interesting. Would make a new playthrough feel quite fresh.
 
This is very nice news; I think its awesome even if the voices end up being subpar. I would use them even if they were bad just because its an intertesting feature.
 
I doubt the voice over thing is real, the website also says "With fully overhauled visuals", "with a complete visual refresh" but we've already seen that the battlegrounds are still the same.
 
I doubt the voice over thing is real, the website also says "With fully overhauled visuals", "with a complete visual refresh" but we've already seen that the battlegrounds are still the same.
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We have no info if the footage is final. Let's hope we can mod the game to what we like much easier.
 
I can 100% agree that there is a 0 percent chance that they will redo the backgrounds other than a bicubic filter or something similar like we have already seen in the preview shot with squall and quistis in the garden hallway.
Redrawing them completely would actually cost a very significant amount of money and require massive amount of work, and the chances of a company using AI tools like ESRGAN to upscale are also 0 for various reasons (especially in a commercially released product), massive inconsistency among others. This only leaves filters slapped over the existing ones.

Its a real shame but I would almost say understandable / no surprise.
 
I can 100% agree that there is a 0 percent chance that they will redo the backgrounds other than a bicubic filter or something similar like we have already seen in the preview shot with squall and quistis in the garden hallway.
Redrawing them completely would actually cost a very significant amount of money and require massive amount of work, and the chances of a company using AI tools like ESRGAN to upscale are also 0 for various reasons (especially in a commercially released product), massive inconsistency among others. This only leaves filters slapped over the existing ones.

Its a real shame but I would almost say understandable / no surprise.
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We talked about the battle backgrounds. And regarding AI upscales: https://techgage.com/news/deep-lear...twilight-princess-for-nvidia-shield-in-china/
 
Oh ok I misread when glancing over, I read "backgrounds" not "battlegrounds"; As for that ai upscale; Thats very interesting would not have expected that being used even for 3d asset textures in the gurrent gen of ai scaling in any commecrcial release, although the case is very specific and fringe in terms of application (china only shield only). But Sadly it has to be said though that upgrading 3d textures with Ai cant even remotely be compared to prerendered backgrounds/multi asset encompassing 2d textures sot its a while out until those will be done reliably and therefore in a commercially viable manner; didnt really think too broadly in terms of usage possibilities.
 
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Gotta say the chances of this having proper analogue support and that new font are the biggest reasons I might buy this remaster. The reason I definitely won't buy it is because Squenix puts Denuvo on everything they touch now. Maybe if I get a console soon.
 
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