The Gaffer Posted February 26, 2020 Share Posted February 26, 2020 Final Fantasy VIII remastered. I'm having a blast playing it again, but good lord it's such an odd game. The junction system doesn't really bother me. I'm not rinsing the card game or anything like that. I find it sufficient to just triple the game speed and go on a spree of stockpiling loads of draw magic between towns, auto junctioning them to various stats. What's odd this time around is just the general setting, the dialogue, the way the story plays out. I'm having a really good time playing through it again because other than something something moon and something something orphanage I don't really remember how it plays out. It's just insane. It's got that Japanese hallmark of being really ambitious and hastily thrown together all at the same time. Just finished the Deling assassination sequence and it's only here the game really gets going. That's 5-6 hours in. Pretty standard for a Final Fantasy. But even as far as Final Fantasy games go how it plays out is just weird. The dialogue looks like it was generated by a robot whose only prior exposure was soap operas and...other Final Fantasy games. All of the main characters seem like the least fleshed out main character. You kind of just trundle from sequence to sequence without an end goal in sight. Just, y'know, beat the steroid demon in the cave to pass your school exam, go to war, help a resistance, Galbadia are bad, look there's a sorceress now. Zell and Selphie are genuinely appalling supporting characters. None of this is news if you're not into Final Fantasy. All the games seem like that. But look where they'd be one game later. Tight narrative, world that made sense with itself, every character has a reason for being on the journey. This stuff's bananas, on the other hand. Good fun. One of the better black sheep games ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BomberPat Posted February 26, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted February 26, 2020 (edited) The story from the end of disc one is completely bonkers. So much seems like it's being made up as they go along, or massive concepts are introduced and never mentioned again, or major plot points only really explained if you dig into obscure bits of text with no indication that you're meant to do that. I enjoyed it a lot more than I had done first time around, and the story isn't quite as arbitrary as I remembered, but it's still preposterous, even by Final Fantasy standards. Even the Sorceress thing - I have no idea why the plot requires three evil Sorceresses. Edited February 26, 2020 by BomberPat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 26, 2020 Share Posted February 26, 2020 23 minutes ago, BomberPat said: The story from the end of disco one is completely bonkers. Does Barry Gibb turn up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Danger Posted February 26, 2020 Share Posted February 26, 2020 XBox have released some techie shit about teraflops and whatsits this week with the most interesting being that they're going to upscale games you already own. Im guessing it will be the cross gen stuff and there's no third party guarentee yet but CD Projekt Red have said they'll honour it for Cyberpunk. Can see them giving Play Station a run for their money next gen. I'll be fairly pissed if Play Station doesn't do the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The King Of Swing Posted February 26, 2020 Share Posted February 26, 2020 Yakuza 0 is on Game Pass for those interested in giving it s try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Jazzy G Posted February 27, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted February 27, 2020 Shadow Of The Colossus and Sonic Forces on PSN next month. Shadow Of The Colossus is great. Sonic Forces is alright. The character creator thing is probably more entertaining than the game. If you liked Sonic Generations you'll like Sonic Forces. Interestingly Sonic Generations is on Games With Gold next month. It's like there's a Sonic Movie out or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members PunkStep Posted February 27, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted February 27, 2020 Games with good looks shite this month, yet again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted February 27, 2020 Moderators Share Posted February 27, 2020 Just picked up Civ VI on Switch on sale. I look forward to staying on my train well past my stop for just one more quick turn... Off to a good start - Sean Bean doing the voiceover! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Jazzy G Posted February 27, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted February 27, 2020 44 minutes ago, PunkStep said: Games with good looks shite this month, yet again. I like the look of the Shantae game, but there's not really much else I'm arsed about or don't already own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grecian Posted February 27, 2020 Share Posted February 27, 2020 4 minutes ago, Chest Rockwell said: Just picked up Civ VI on Switch on sale. I look forward to staying on my train well past my stop for just one more quick turn... Off to a good start - Sean Bean doing the voiceover! I got the PS4 version for Christmas, it's been transferred to consoles really well. Still addictive and unleashing thermonuclear bombs is surprisingly relaxing. Particularly when another nation has snuck ahead of you in the space race and you can nuke their program into oblivion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Jazzy G Posted February 27, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted February 27, 2020 Is Gandhi still really keen to use nukes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TildeGuy~! Posted March 2, 2020 Author Share Posted March 2, 2020 Played the Final Fantasy 7 Remake demo which released on the PSN store this morning and really enjoyed it. Wasn’t going to buy the full release as it’s essentially just disc 1 and was going to wait(probably 10 years for the full story to come out) but might reconsider after that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Jazzy G Posted March 2, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted March 2, 2020 I hear it's not even all of disc 1, just up to Midgar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Weezenal Posted March 2, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted March 2, 2020 Bought Gran Turismo Sport. I've never played a GT game before, it looks great but I think I need to stick to Mario Kart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Jazzy G Posted March 2, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted March 2, 2020 25 minutes ago, Weezenal said: Bought Gran Turismo Sport. I've never played a GT game before, it looks great but I think I need to stick to Mario Kart. I loved GT4 on the PS2. That's the last one I played. I keep looking at GT Sport, but don't really see the point when I've got Forza 6 and Horizon 4 on my XBone. Plus I get the feeling I'd be dreadful at it. I'm struggling with the career mode on Forza, I tend to play it to just do laps of the tracks in time trial mode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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