In 2019, Square Enix released a remastered version of Final Fantasy 8. Now unfortunately this remaster did not pack any major graphical improvements over its original PC release. Hell, it did not even have AI-enhanced HD textures for its backgrounds. This obviously disappointed a lot of FF8. So, what would a modern faithful remake of Final Fantasy 8 look like? Well, time to find out.
Qhimm’s member CG_YasinSafak has faithfully recreated Dr. Kadowaki’s Infirmary, showcasing what a proper Final Fantasy 8 Remake could look like. As you will see, the CG artist was able to come as close to the original scenes as possible.
The end result is truly amazing, and it’s what most FF8 fans were hoping to see in the FF8 Remaster.
Do note that these are just renders of the background scenes and nothing more. This isn’t a mod for FF8. Still, it can give you an idea of what a modern-day version of Final Fantasy 8 (using the same fixed cameras) could look like.
Enjoy!
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Somebody should give him the job to make this for the whole game. And show it to Square and slap their face with it.
If they do a remake, more than likely the general design asthenic would be altered to service a full 3D world, not the 2.5D the original was.
director of f15 “needs more black”
The worst FF game EVER, complete and utter trash
Second best in the series IMO. For me FFVII>>FFVIII>FFIV>FFVI>The Rest. I stopped playing them after X though (which put me off them for life) so I cant comment on the rest.
Same.
Its boring, the story is dumb and the worst part is the gameplay and the draw system, its HORRIBLE.
For me FF10 > FF7 > FF9 > FF6> FF12 > FF4
I skiped all the FF games with the dumb dress/job system, i prefer my characters to have a single defined class or like in 10 where you slowly create your own class.
They certainly gave up on entries in the series whose story made sense. Was so open to interpretation there’s theory that the main character died at the beginning and the rest was his dying fantasy.
Playing any kind of Japanese game ever. Yikes.
This remakes is indeed a f*cking lazy one… like so often with SquareEnix….
SquareEnix is such a turd studio these days (they even affiliate with Tencent)… I miss SquareSoft…
The release of FF8 a couple years ago was a **remaster**, not a remake.
A remake means the whole game was recreated from scratch. This was just an enhanced port of the original, which most remasters are.
I was so hyped for the remaster and so very disappointed when it came out, I couldn’t actually part with money for it. But I would have definitely dropped shekels if it had looked like the above pics.
nice