[4K] Final Fantasy VIII - Original vs. Remastered Graphics Comparison

[@Candyland]

This video compares the graphics of Final Fantasy 8 Original (played on a PS3) to Remastered (played on a PS4). *Do you like it?* Maybe you want to take a look at the Final Fantasy 7 Remako Mod, which also remasters the backgrounds: kzbin.info/www/bejne/p6nNfapuid2se9U *What's your favorite Final Fantasy?*

[@Killer_Kris7]

FF7.

[@Candyland]

@@Killer_Kris7 Yeah mine too. Played it through serveral times, still not tired of it.

[@Killer_Kris7]

@@Candyland I never get tired of It. Best game ever imo. Grew up with it. And I can't wait for the remake. Also new tailers are out. You didn't compare them yet

[@Killer_Kris7]

@@Candyland you should try comparing the new ff7 remake footage to the old. And the new footage to the original

[@mglsj]

FF 15. Because I like open world.

[@MrTigershark11]

Should be called FF VIII: Remastered characters. Bc the background only has a pixel filter... And a bad one. How poor...

[@HoobriBoobri]

eaah shame on them

[@DeinTroll]

no more than a costly dlc

[@aaronbell7945]

It's the same steam "remaster" from like 8 years ago

[@JunKurosu]

Its not the same

[@Shiro92224]

I'm not going to be a dick and complain, it's my favourite ff.

[@BleedForTheWorld]

1:02, the remaster doesn't even have that white texture on the road and the mountains in the distance look like garbage. This is not how it was supposed to look. Why even call this trash a remaster?

[@Shiro92224]

Ff8 is my favourite so I'm not going to be a dick and complain about it, but I dont have any complaints.

[@bitfx]

@@Shiro92224 No you'd rather be a dick and post this stupid comment everywhere

[@thekrustaceox5181]

@@Shiro92224 buyer's remorse at its finnest.

[@Shiro92224]

@@thekrustaceox5181 finnest? Lmfao, why would I feel remorse when its my favourite in the series? I'm enjoying it and that's what matters.

[@Shiro92224]

@@bitfx everywhere? Just on this video doesn't mean everywhere and going by that you can say the same for a few other people on the comment section that write more than I do, you cant say much. At least I appreciate the remaster.

[@caesarbarwary8620]

Lmao did they just run it on an emulator and call it a day?

[@kuhmilch]

Shhhh.. don't ask questions.

[@neotenyhd]

@Gameslayer 9000 ff8, , 10 should remake

[@hamyweer2845]

Again, another cheap ass skeptic. Appreciate it you broke ass. Need 20 bones? I'll paypal it to u. Jesus!

[@kejiri3593]

@@hamyweer2845 its not about affording it. Its about buying something that is objectively not put effort into.

[@thatswedishguy638]

I'd rather have this than a remake any day. Atleast it's the same, great gameplay and not a linear, broken buttonmasher split up into an unkown number of $60+ purchases.

[@Finnishmanni]

The older background looks more rounded. 1:02 compare those two for example. The game is made to be seen with pixelated graphics. They should have remodeled those too.

[@lilted2112]

I could of sworn the original looked like the remastered back in 98 strange how the brain works.

[@xXValentineXx]

On a good CRT it looks like this.

[@Anele8888]

I absolutely agree! When I saw the first footage of the Remaster, I didn’t see a difference at all. I think back then those graphics were just how all games looked and my brain got used to „polishing“ everything we saw.

[@mytube9182]

Only the 3D models are fully remastered. The movies are fairly upscaled. But all the scene backgrounds are just merely upsampled and got blurred which are worse than untouched, very disappointing for this part.

[@ThePgs5]

Some programs like Topaz's Gigapixel AI would have really helped remastered textures and cutscenes shame they didn't use it.

[@JasonCapistranoBarrera]

Hi Topaz can support in latest iPad apple model?

[@chaver28]

i don't know if anyone else agrees but i love the way ps1 games look and would rather play the original :)

[@hippocrates72]

yes, and on a CRT or with CRT emulation at least...

[@scottishmisfit]

I am glad the characters and the cut scenes got remastered. I get why people are pissed about the background not being remastered too. it would of been nice if they did the same to the background as they did to the characters

[@tysonasaurus6392]

I think overall I like it more just because of the clarity with higher resolutions but the less crisp backgrounds, the ugly UI, the characters looking out of place with the environment because of the lighting, and certain changes that feel like a deviation from the artistic intent, it certainly could have been much much better

[@kodemasterx]

This remaster is trash, but hopefully MODs can fix what Square didn't as usual

[@mekannatarry1929]

You don't have a pc? If so it's already been done.

[@kodemasterx]

@@mekannatarry1929 I do have a PC and I do want to see those newer models ported to the old version other than this remaster can go to hell

[@mekannatarry1929]

@@kodemasterx Ahh you actually dig those models? I get ya; I prefer they maintain the original design, especially for game preservation, it's why I enjoy the mods on pc.

[@BigBoss-cg6tq]

@Nyx Delacroix Who are you and why does he need to talk to you? And why do you have such high and stupid prerequisites to have a conversation with?

[@MrOmega97]

Big Boss he has point it’s just 20$ at least it’s a full game with no add on dlc to finish it . Better to have it then not have it at all

[@robertspikes6784]

First time I ever played final fantasy it was ff7. Before playing, I was like what is this nerdy crap. I played it and got hooked on ff ever since.

[@wolker213]

Its identical to modded version on pc.... And still less than 30 fps, what a joke.

[@BleedForTheWorld]

The FPS in this one is actually worse overall. The original had the battle menus at 60 fps and this one does not. Trash.

[@BleedForTheWorld]

@@Coldsilfur4 it wouldn't mess up the battle speed. Both the battle speed and the battle menu speed would be a fluid 60 fps minimum.

[@Atomixi]

The models look decent but the WORLD looks less detailed. 1:02 for example looks BAD on the right compared to the original. Wow.

[@Atomixi]

@RAYHAN REHEMA PUTRA Bro, you can see the individual texture tiles in the new version lmao. Also, look at the road 😬

[@SebasTian58323]

My only real complaint is that they didn't really remaster the backgrounds/world map I think everything else looks pretty good compared to the original, and there are mods to make it look even better if I want it to

[@yasarumit]

This clearly shows that this game did not need a remaster but it needs a remake !!

[@Shiro92224]

There is nothing wrong wrong it, cant people be bloody happy anymore.

[@GaigeTheMechromance1]

I played the remastered version on PS Emulator, was fun : 3

[@Bryan102ification]

They only changed the models and forgot about changing the background. Its all pixelated o_o

[@ricardo6820]

This is what everyone was excited about...?

[@Shiro92224]

I love it

[@conyo985]

It's FF7 remaster is what everyone is excited about.

[@Justuas]

consume the product

[@YoutubeIsAwesome]

If you play the original one on PC (Steam Version) with the 4k texture resolution pack and 30 FPS battles mod, the original Flac quality music mod and Ragnarock Gameplay mod (balances the game a lot while making enemies more comptetent but still fair), you get the perfect remaster already... for FREE, you just need some sleight-of-hand to set it up. You get the PS1 version ISO? No prob, retroarch will FIX the graphic PS1 bugs (polygon dithering and shaking), you can play it up to 8k if you want and and there are lot of good gameplay mods to make the game more balanced or balanced AND hardtype. Also FUCK SONY for forcing Square to censor Siren and Rinoa,WTF, Siren is like my favourite summon ever she looked beautiful in the original she looks like a SKANK in the remaster too.

[@Eugene_Brick]

Models look good. But backgrounds.. I hope modders will fix it

[@danlyday7248]

Idk why everyone is complaining tetra master cards were all redone and look super cool 10/10

[@Cooperal]

The only positive to draw from this is that Square have not fully forgotten FF8. But it's far too little and far too late. The fact that I can already up the resolution or mod in different models (or emulate the PS1 version) is one thing. The fact that Squall's entire face and hair have been reimagined makes me want it even less. The game is old enough that viewing it in a larger resolution won't make it any easier on the eyes. I really didn't think it was beyond them to give the battlefields and overworld a polygonal facelift.

[@GuilhermeMaia100]

Man original looks so much better, even in the original resolution. Use an emulator to play it in 1080p, sure it's much better. Look at 1:00 and you see how crappy is the new version.

[@fskymod7120]

They put a sort of blur on the texture for the environment that give the feeling it's less detailed than the pixelized one of the original version. The charcters and the monsters are better, even the cinematics, but for the rest it feel a bit like lazy remaster.

[@jrolon5293]

I wonder if they're ever going to make a remaster of Final Fantasy 8

[@SupremeStylez]

The Shiva change is awesome!

[@Eri6c]

Whats os song in 3:07 please???

[@HelloItsMikkan]

Lunatic Pandora mod is still superior

[@arcanjopixel]

Good Job on remasterization and good video. Candyland, the best Channel in comparasion . DF my azz

[@vichris6014]

3:14 someone mod squall's new hair!

[@kiryukazuma6304]

original vs emulator?

[@caesarbarwary8620]

Exactly

[@angelgarcia-gascomartinez-6398]

El mejor Remastered que se puede hacer de Final Fantasy VIII y IX es jugarlo Original en Play3 con el suavizado de texturas que en el menú te ofrece la Consola 👌🏽 NADA MÁS

[@eadghe]

I'm just here, because someone said that they got rid of Squalls puffy pants in the remake. Okay, that's true. On another side note, back then, I played the official PC version, which seem to have better graphics. I always thought the PSX version had advantages graphicwise, but I guess I thought wrong (in my imagination).

[@bes5164]

They put a 1% effort to improve the backgrounds. They changed Squall? Could Square explain it? Why? Really bad this is....

[@wimpieyuwono2550]

Even the damage of diamond dust is different too 🤭

[@shadowmomochiuchiha6839]

What I don't like the remaster is that it has built in cheats you can't get rid of.

[@sissterdarkness]

Meh. Just happy to be able to play it again. I lost my original ps1 copy and my pc copy(that still had original box 😭) to a house fire.

[@shinra358]

the only decent comparison is between emulation and new. comparing to unmodified original is pointless. emulated original is better because it's not missing features. period.

[@Fullmoncho]

I played this game in duckstation emulator in 4k HD with a light filter ... look Amazing !! Better than the remake.

[@nracicot]

Awesome!! Could you do a similar video for Chrono Cross when it gets released tomorrow?

[@DigitalDreamsyt]

Give it higher Resolution = remaster. Sad

[@RainLight1991]

The PC modded version looks so much better >.> abit sad when the modding community did a much better job "remastering" your game then you did

[@RyadMax]

Remaster or edit in Nvidia Control Pannel?

[@araxnoyfantos]

It seems to me almost or same as when i put the ps1 game in pc emulator with max resolution

[@kejiri3593]

I prefer Squalls baggy pants in PS1. The one in remaster looks just kind of meh to me.

[@gilbertgotfried]

Looked great until Cid stopped looking like Robin Williams and the German signs got replaced with English for no reason.

[@theowlsofouterheaven]

But does it have the original OST?

[@rezievil4ever]

Looks good!! I love FF8!

[@thejackniles9006]

Looks like the just smoothed a few edges and called it a day.

[@cabskchiho3918]

hmmm. why not the 2013 version ? there it is possible to play at 4k ! and than we can see the difference !

[@HelloItsMikkan]

Still not bad seeing they *do not have the source code in their archives*

[@ivancerecer5758]

Tried the Remaster after beating FF7, but the combat frame rates are ruining it for me (especially since i have to time the RB/R1 for damage boost)

[@thedarkreaper2]

i only see upscaled resolution (the epsxe already can do that for free) an some texture filter for the backgrounds (i insist, the epsxe can do that already)

[@Darkell64]

What kind of remastered is this?

[@NickWride]

If it had an unlocked frame rate I would have bought it in a heartbeat.

[@KainArkanos]

Good for you, I'll bet you think that increasing the framerate doesn't just speed up the game.

[@_.Alucard._]

Original graphic is better than it looks here because the game was originally intended for being played on CRT.

[@squiddokez]

Original looks better imho the new models look out of place, imagine if mgs twin snakes was like this lol.

[@flying372]

I hope there will be a graphic mod like ff9 mogury hd soon

[@brandonwhittaker85]

Markus Walberg That mod is incredible

[@RJJuniior]

FFVIII is my favorite Final Fantasy, but man, this is NOT a good remaster for its PRICE...

[@williamwen3477]

$25 for lazy remaster? nah i prefer fitgirl or codex version

[@Shiro92224]

It's also my favourite ff, I have no complaints. That's all people do is complain.

[@RJJuniior]

I can see you are used to really low standards...

[@Shiro92224]

@@RJJuniior or maybe I'm a person that can be happy that their favourite game is finally getting attention after so many years of waiting. I wont let all you whiny "it's not good enough" opinions dampen my enjoy of this masterpiece.

[@RJJuniior]

Exactly because we waited so long that we deserved something better. Go on, its a free country

[@gerardojuarez6758]

Si lo ven a 144p se ve exactamente igual.

[@Lionheart1188]

Finally Squall can be the best looking guy here.

[@MarceloTezza]

Looks gay, quite different than the original.

[@eraserta]

@@MarceloTezza i agree, they changed squall to much. he looks more like tidus from ff10

[@lewys9204]

just spent £8.99 buying the FINAL FANTASY VIII 2013 steam release to then find out there's a FINAL FANTASY VIII Remastered version for £15.99 - FML!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@sanicdahedgehag9618]

kinda weird how they released two versions of final fantasy 8 instead of patching the first one to make it the remastered version. how somebody's gonna have to play both versions.

[@violaheart462]

Ummm....i do expected more than this tho.but hey ff8 still my fav. I do hope they remaster as well like the ff7 too.

[@Sonngohanda]

This version is not worth it, you will have better character models but the backgrounds will still be blurry The best way to play it would be on a small screen like the switch or S deck, so the bg doesn't end looking as blurry as on a big tv or monitor

[@bes5164]

Candyland, this video has no sense as FF8 Remaster is a remaster of the 2013 Steam version, not the original PS1 version. Please compare the remaster with the PC version.

[@MinhLe19303]

I do have to question why they didn't remaster VII the similar way they did with VIII.

[@GamerFiT007]

Antialiasing technology improve a lot. Better character models.

[@FelixS.]

Worse character models, especially Squall has been heavily alternated and doesn´t look like his artworks anymore.

[@theluc1f3r93]

Remastered how we remember, original how it looked like.

[@K1ll3r8331]

Using a filter is now considered as a remaster...

[@K1ll3r8331]

@@Coldsilfur4 very funny!

[@sankhasubhrahaldar380]

we can get much nicer results if play on emulator using 4x ,6x internal graphics,video filter and shader.... atleast some textures will not get deleted from the game😑😑

[@DynamicHaze]

Not gonna lie Cid in the original version always looked like Robin Williams lol.

[@buffgarfield3231]

Best version is the switch version because of the small screen and lower resolution, it's not so jarring seeing the new character models against the poor backgrounds in handheld mode.

[@bes5164]

i agree, also FF7 and 9 are just better the Switch..but so much for this remaster...

[@nefasto7846]

FF8 remastered vs texture mod

[@andrevanrooyen6232]

I can deal with the graphics, bit no vibration feedback on ps4???? Really???? FF8 summons are not the same without vibration feedback. And now R1 trigger feels unsatisfying. 😭

[@t_garcia_]

Why does Squall look younger in the remaster? :(

[@Hashhakaj.Kamaluddin]

Man.. horrible change for 20$. I'm sure the remaster at least to be played in smartphone in 640P.

[@marvdarf6616]

War geil das spiel ich wart aber auf ein remake das aufgewärmtes zeug hat ich schon auf ps3.... achso 28fps log is auch ein witz

[@carlosmelendez8317]

This was kinda lackluster to me. I was hoping for a more polished remaster.

[@denisbelv8644]

Control?

[@Doogerauoy]

That remastered shit is still in 4:3 screen?!

[@prodiG98]

They should have 'Remake' it. But then again, it's 2019, so many lazy devs so out of touch, out of ideas, they went with 'remastering' the classics. I'm beginning to think that we'll be seeing a lot of classics from PS1 to be remastered in the coming year.

[@williamwen3477]

i see very red steam review and lots of angry gamers refund this shitty remaster xD

[@HelloItsMikkan]

The FMVs has barely any changes...

[@TienTran-uq6to]

At this time all i can say is FF VIII deserve a remake than remastered

[@Killer_Kris7]

Ff7 is getting one first

[@Shiro92224]

@@Killer_Kris7 *sarcasm* because ff7 needs more milking.

[@DaKussh]

2019 and still you can't skip that damn summon animation... I mean, it gets annoying after 350+ hours of playing the game. On a side note, this is the exact same build from the Steam version released in 2013 but with a shitty graphical upgrade, so shitty that people have already started porting mods to this version XD

[@gabu840]

I have liked the video but it would have been better if they actually compared it to ff8 pc modded.

[@Gaming_auf_Ex]

PC FF vs Playstation 1 FF?

[@betonman9]

worst remaster ever.....4:3?!?!!? pc mods fixed that 10 years ago!!!

[@BleedForTheWorld]

Because it's not a true remaster. It's more like a port than anything. It's really lazy and cheap.

[@dantwosecstudio]

@@BleedForTheWorld least we got something they didn't have to do shit. I see the glass half full while you see it half empty.

[@BleedForTheWorld]

@Dan W excuse me lol? It's not like they're giving it to us for free. Sounds like a bootlicker to me lol.

[@OyunHosaf]

Can you make modded ff8 vs remastered comparison?

[@Bitoz1]

No big improvment just cashgrab

[@Killer_Kris7]

Everything's a god damn cash grab to you

[@Bitoz1]

@@Killer_Kris7 nah just see difference between cod mw and cod mw remastered and see differnece between final fantasy VII and the remastered,plus I said cashgrab because they only increase the resoultion only nothing else just like skyrim in old genration and current genration of console

[@Killer_Kris7]

@@Bitoz1 ff7 is getting a remake not a remaster. So it's not a cash grab

[@Bitoz1]

@@Killer_Kris7 and I love too much final fantasy series and I started from this game in video

[@Bitoz1]

@@Killer_Kris7 if you want a remake I reccomond you to watch resident evil 2 vs resident evil 2 remake just see difference and what see what remake mean

[@anonymousololoev]

Total: Censored GF models, poor background, +1 fps in battle mode, huge black bars at the top and bottom of the screen, the picture cannot be stretched to 16:9 full screen, the terrible Squall 3D model is like he is a Korean emo kid, a disgusting model of the rector Balamb, (maybe there is and further). It seems that Remaster was created by FF8 haters

[@dantwosecstudio]

The gf are not censored you still see everyone's pussys and tits is just better models, you guys know the original game is super pixelated. And with new the assists made it look more boxy as fuck. I agree the backgrounds look off setting, but it's still a masterpiece and amazing to play on the switch. All the other ff ports are 16:9 it's a ps1 game relax nerds.

[@DarkRodFR]

Remastered will be reremastered ?

[@HoobriBoobri]

pathetic remaster of great game even on emulator grafix are muuuuuch better coz if xbrz filters of background. even child can resize textures with neuronetworks with much more good textures. this is realy so stupid situation...

[@Killer_Kris7]

The game sucks

[@Shiro92224]

@@Killer_Kris7 you suck

[@KanzakiZD]

so this is why i recommend my friends to not remaster any old games.

[@jcdenton6577]

Everything looks better on the Original

[@iansantos123]

When I first played it. It really looks like hd hahaha

[@iownyounow6776]

This game was remastered to look prettier for the modern era becuz as we know this modern era is only about pretty and not gameplay pfft

[@ihavetubes]

hate what they did to the faces, Final Fantasy 10 made the same mistake which is why I don't play it even tho I have it on steam.