[TAS] PSX Final Fantasy VIII by DarkKobold in

[@XenoGuru]

Easily my favorite soundtrack in the FF series. Just hearing "Balamb Garden" makes me tear up with nostalgia

[@farel3080]

same, honestly. All the tracks in VIII feel so special to me

[@XenoGuru]

@@farel3080 Very much so. Now; being 40 years old, I could almost dare say this was my favorite FF of all time. But at times it's still a tough decision

[@cjhedrick6418]

Indeed. Clearing the Eden raids in FF14, and hearing this as a reward...well, obviously they knew how to tug at the heartstrings.

[@whYLiE09]

Every single theme song that plays I can hum along to! Even after not hearing them for so long! The nostalgia is real

[@crankypipo]

Cid: I'm looking through squalls report and his test at fire cavern reads highly unusual.. "..instructor trepe consented to being assaulted with fire by Student no.41269 squall leonhart, proceeds to shoot "anime eye laser beams" at the GF ifrit forcing it into submission," Quistis: uhhhhhhhh..

[@Dragonfly_Doom]

I suppose I'll rewatch this, it's been about 10 years after all.

[@Mega_Mikey]

……

[@user-hf2zi8bk6r]

SAME

[@mappedgraphics]

... whatever

[@setch05]

So happy this came came out!! I love long TAS RPG's and I could seriously listen to "Balamb Gardens" music for hours. Thank you so much and here is to hoping for more just like this in the future (aka Legends of Dragoon PLZ!)

[@adventureoflinkmk2]

Lucky for you there might be a ten hour extended video of the balamb garden theme on youtube

[@Omnimon152]

Wow that notification is a big surprise. I'll try to watch it a bit everyday when I got time.

[@michaelgr.6008]

2:49:25, "i have to redeem myself" Irvine, you did.

[@wat5713]

I imagine this took the creator several years to accomplish. All those quick saves and loads for perfect RNG plus RNG manipulation. You have to know a ton about the game to even attempt something like this. Well done.

[@whYLiE09]

My favorite final fantasy game beaten so quickly! This is a masterpiece

[@PXMacaiah]

15:00 Worth rewatching this just to hear Z cycle through 255 rng seeds

[@szymon6207]

8.5 HOURS. oh please

[@shinigamimiroku3723]

... I was definitely not expecting a TAS run of FFVIII, of all games... ^_^

[@luisandresriveratoscano79]

Thanks for updating this game, it's my favorite time ever ff, I see all video and hope to more than game tas

[@IAmTheEg7]

This game turned 25 today, so I'm watching this now!

[@ericdanielski4802]

Nice TAS.

[@SLZeroArrow]

This has to be the LONGEST TAS, ever.

[@Spikechive]

At its time? Yes. 6 years later TOCA took its crown clocking in at 10 hours.

[@pagannova3621]

so many of these sound effects, I don't think I ever heard playing the game. did my memory block them out or are the effects different in some copies? yeah, ps1 copy, but..ehh? like the footsteps of the women being so loud, the monsters coming out of the sewage under the Garden, I almost beat this game but cannot recall EVER hearing those sounds.. but I remember almost all the other ones. did different copies have different sounds?

[@hallvarx]

I am guessing it is down to emulator shenanigans, a lot of weird sound effects going on in this.

[@diw123]

this tas is to stronk, even put the eyes on me soundtrack full, the copyright law its usseles for so much power

[@onurkarakas3471]

Is this 100% or just the story walkthrough? Nevertheless, amazing. Thank you :)

[@JeremyMYG]

This is just the story.

[@onurkarakas3471]

@@JeremyMYG Thank you for the response :)

[@OuroborosChoked]

Am I crazy or did the remaster take out a bunch of sound effects?

[@fringeelements]

I began my final fantasy journey with FF7. It ended with FF8 which I was perplexed by. I called it "Final Fantasy for Teens", or in more modern parlance, Twilight Fantasy.

[@CidZero]

The fact tas took 8 hours. It's a long game.

[@thediamonddust]

I swear I never noticed this many pixels when I was a kid.

[@thediamonddust]

@Gaea11 Old tech actually doing us a favour then, lol. Do you know why the runner keeps using the run away command in battle? Is it altering the ATB somehow?

[@kevinlopezobrien5366]

@@thediamonddust could be either screwing around since there's nothing else to do while waiting, or it could be RNG manipulation. With these runs, it feels like a coin flip as to which it is sometimes.

[@jasonmnosaj]

CRT television smoothed out a lot of the pixels. Video games were actually designed to look this pixelated just so the CRT television could capture the image in a way that looked relevant to what the artest perceived. In truth most remasters and remakes should have a crt option. It's a shame they don't think to include that. A lot of companies think people are ok with it looking like this. Tbh some people are, but new kids see this and think it's just becuase it's old technology, that's not the case with most games made for CRT's. This game being one of them.

[@WannabeMarysue]

I think the big ol' pixels look great. They make the game look like intricately animated pixel art. CRT filters are whatever, but tbh I appriciate the way these games look on modern screens just as much. Just these spectacular, crisp low-poly dioramas.

[@MalleusSemperVictor]

I remember a time when we thought graphics like this were good looking.

[@CJHElectro]

Irvine: block my shot will you *BANG* 5000 damage Edea: throws ice at squall Rinoa: nostrils open massively

[@SeFu2006]

One of these days when I have a giant mansion I’m gonna buy a ps1 again and play it the original way

[@CJHElectro]

I can't imagine how long it took to make this

[@michaelgr.6008]

1:11:50 the most broken move ever

[@Mae-Muki]

Well my day is set.

[@TwinGrimm]

lol quistis asked him if he knew how to use his gunblade

[@1lomi901]

Ironic that ff8's tas is 8 hours and 8 minutes long

[@BaccarWozat]

It's ironic that someone posts about irony and then shows how it is apt instead.

[@kwepc90thespeedrunner33]

That's one hell of a coincidence

[@AntiGrieferGames]

32:10 what?

[@show_movie39]

海外版のFF8って、キスティス先生から最初のG.F.2体を貰えるんだ😳 キスティス＝アルティミシア説が有力に……🤣

[@Martyste]

Battle screens had anti-alias? I thought only N64 games were able to afford that back then! EDIT: that doesn't seem to apply to all battle scenes, but it sure does in the Fire Cavern.

[@pretends2know]

Is this one of the longest TAS’s ever made?

[@GreenZinfidel]

I believe that dubious honor goes to the TOCA TAS, which is ~10 hours long.

[@musashigundoh]

Unskippable Cutscenes: The Game

[@robsvanced9098]

@@musashigundoh back in the day, I had a scratched disk which played normal but lagged a bit on the cutscenes. Except the 24:42 cutscene, this one lagged pretty bad, I let the game run and went to do something else, this cutscenes literally took 6 hours to finish between small playbacks and long freezes lol

[@meeleboi7365]

21:47 now that’s off-roading

[@SaintGoosey]

Irvine cant shoot the empress, can fucking mow down everyone else though.

[@jessies21]

Really wish this one was updated. Not saying there's anything wrong with the run itself ,but the authors notes are just so painful to read, and for such a weird and interesting addition to the series it's a shame.

[@TheGrayton2000]

Hi

[@tiyenin]

808 sonnnn

[@wiifitspeedrunner]

Very long tas

[@YM-bk5uu]

なんと 海外版はキスティスがケツァコアトルとシヴァを持ってきてくれるのか！

[@TTRPG_Witch_Leon]

And I thought my 10-ish hours of no-Levelling was quick. 😶

[@TTRPG_Witch_Leon]

@MERDEKAI I still haven't found optimal routings yet. 😅 Especially since I'm more of a casual-player with most games. I'm proud of my 10-ish hours tho. ^^

[@dielaberbrudergaming6288]

10 hours without lvling is extremly fast, thats around the time im done with lvling seifer in dollet

[@TTRPG_Witch_Leon]

@@dielaberbrudergaming6288 My first mission is to get the "Card" command. Then race through the game until I get Diablos for Enc-Half and Enc-None. It is a chore but knowing where I need to go due to overplaying the game in my youth really helps out here. 😅

[@hypnos9336]

worst final fantasy out of all of them.

[@denzo1636]

The poo pooest of final fantasy games

[@thunderaxe31]

no.