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

System used in this video:
ONE Gaming PC
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AMD Ryzen 2700X 8x3.70 GHz
32 GB DDR4 3200 RAM
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Palit GamingPro OC
ASUS TUF X470-PLUS Gaming Mainboard
1 TB Samsung 970 Evo M.2 PCI SSD
Windows 10 Pro 64bit

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#FinalFantasy8
#FFVIII
#Remastered

[MrTigershark]

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

[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.

[lilted]

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

[ThePgs]

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

[caesarbarwary]

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

[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?

[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

[mytube]

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.

[chaver]

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

[tysonasaurus]

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

[robertspikes]

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.

[thesneakyraccoon]

You should have done the PC version vs the original pc version...

[GaigeTheMechromance]

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

[SebasTian]

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

[Bryanification]

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

[wolker]

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

[ricardo]

This is what everyone was excited about...?

[Eugene_Brick]

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

[yasarumit]

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

[kodemasterx]

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