A couple of years ago, Square Enix released a remastered version of Final Fantasy 8. And although that remaster featured higher polygon-count characters, its environments remained with those from the original version. And a couple of days ago, Senior CG Artist Yasin Safak shared some images, showcasing what a truly faithful remake of Final Fantasy 8 could look like.
Back in February 2021, Yasin finished the Infirmary Room. The artist then completed the area in which Squall talks with Quistis, and now he has finished The Balamb Garden, Classroom.
As Yasin noted:
“I mostly used a little bit worn walnut in wood texturing, there may be some differences in tones or quality if it’s walked on or not as you can see the border near the carpet under Quistis’ table. I tried to keep same colors in game not to lose the feeling game gave to us. Addutionally, I used a deep blue in metal coating with some fingerprints and dirt on it, also want to note that it was the first blue I have ever fell in love.”
The end result is incredible and makes us wish for a proper modern-day remake/remaster of Final Fantasy VIII. I also wonder whether it could be possible to port these backgrounds to the game itself. After all, both FF8 and FFVIII Remastered use static images for their backgrounds.
Enjoy!
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No sense in it looking great, when SquareEnix would just “SquareEnix” the s**t out of it with their political/social/ethics bulls**t.
What a dedication and you can see what a great results you can achieve with passion for game art.
It wouldn’t be a fixed camera angle game so this shows nothing of what a remake of FFVIII “could look like” lol.
FFVIII isn’t one scene in a classroom. This shows what one single room, with ALL the game engine’s potential being put into showcasing this room, could look like. Learn the difference.
Yeah, clickbaitish.
See now SE could easily do this with a decent budget for a good remaster of the PS1 era games. Then they can go on making their strange action RPG reboots of these games and we would still have an option for a good looking version of the original game.
Instead we get lazy garbage with no budget and remakes that aren’t remakes.
It can be ported into the game just with some work. The images need segmented and swizzled. Remaster requires the demaster mod to load the graphics it needs updated to the newest patch. The steam 2013 version uses a mod called tonberry to load graphics.
So much potential for a remake of this game. Exploring the garden and so many other interesting places. Just having such an awesome base to explore whenever you want would be really cool from a roleplaying perspective. Piloting the garden or spaceship would be fun. The time travel and magic aspects would be cool in 3d too. I hope they remake 8 like they did 7 but they probably won’t until they’re done with all the episodes of 7 which will probably take years and years.