Balamb Garden.

>>379250456
Reminds me of Altamira's inn.

...Home.

At least it was before Seifer fucked everything up.

>>379250456
Can you fucking believe these are the only assets that exist now? Squeenix lost the original.

i was looking for that little twat that has the mog card but barely uses it

>>379251123
I can believe it. Most game assets, back-ups, prototypes, etc. from before 2005 are probably lost forever now.

>>379251123
A .png file of one screen?
WOW, how did they manage to fuck it up this bad.

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>>379251235
>2005 was 22 years ago

>>379251321
you're retarded

>>379251386
Off by a decade, bud.

>>379251123
probably for the best.
they would not be of much use for a remastering, their resolution is still too small.

The PC version has the best quality assets, but it's better to just have artists remake new HD quality ones.

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>>379251123
What blows my mind is how many studios lose vital game materials and files.

How does that even happen? I'd get it if a company went under or natural disaster.

>>379252094
Didn't No Man's Sky devs lose their entire game due to either a fire or flooding and had to start over?

>>379252197
yes, Sean Murray said it, so it must be true

>>379251123
No I don't believe it because companies lie about this all the time. Square is just going to use it as an excuse to half ass a remake or do the episodic shit we're seeing with FF7. Stop believing corporate lies.

>>379250456
>tfw dad bought you World of Final Fantasy instead of FF15


I don't know if I should be mad or not

>>379252094
They used to just dump the master files. Wipe the drives to make room for new ones or just trash em.

>>379254129
Did you forget the Starcraft original source CD that some faggot found and gave back to Blizzard
and Blizzard is a big company now

>>379254375
That wasnt the original source CD. It was a copy of starcraft code. That one disc isn't the lost legendary disc for the game. It was most likely a "gold" copy disc used for making distribution copies with. It wasn't the only one.

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>>379250456
>That overkill on the fish statue and the terminal fence.

some people can't into textures.

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>>379251610
>1994 was 31 years ago

>>379254129
>No I don't believe it because companies lie about this all the time.

>>>/x/

>>379254559
Stop sucking a company's dick, shill.

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>>379254606
Trying too hard.

>>379254701
>he does it for free

remember, companys only see you as a number

I'm a hardcore FF8 fan, so many times I would even try to escape reality with lucid dreaming, I would be in Balamb Garden where I would often train with Zell in the training center and help Selphie with the Garden Festival, but one day as I was talking to Selphie, we went to my dormitory for a private talk. She immediately said, "You know you could live with us forever.." I gave her a confused look and she continued, "We understand that you live on earth and you REALLY wish to live here". I then said "How..How did you know?" She then giggled and said "Because we've been watching you, silly!"

This was a dream come true and I almost cried right there. She then said, "I talked with Headmaster Cid and he agreed that you would be PERFECT for SeeD, you just have to do...one thing". She then held my hand and looked deep into my eyes and said "...You have to kill yourself for the transfer to work correctly." I then gave her some questions, "How long do I have before the deal expires?" She then said "Cid said 3 months.." I added by saying "What's the most painless way?..." She giggled again, "Suicide will require pain buuut...if you want it quick...Get a gun and a nice shot to the head works.

I then agreed and she gave me a kiss on the forehead, "I know this will be tough but once it's over and done, you'll get to live here!" I then woke up and this was last week and i purchased a gun.

This was last week.

>>379254716
Who hurt you?

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Why aren't there stairs here? Think of how congested that one staircase to those three elevators must get.

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>>379254751

>>379252197
Planet Zomboid team had their studio "robbed" early into development. no backups and no remorse for the lack of responsibility. This was at a time when they were under heavy speculation for being vaporware. Good to see that they stuck it out.. even if they still have just an unfinished game.

>>379254843
Even better is that if the ONE lift fails, or they have a power cut, they're fucked.

I cant wait for the inevitable "our department got blown up so no star citizen"

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>>379254868
>yfw Selphie invented the Selfie

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2 hour Garden thread and nobody even posted the theme?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSt-fNv5d68

Anons, what if you really could go to balamb garden, or any world, just by killing yourself in this world?

Why the fuck did Balamb Garden have dinosaurs?

>>379255482
why not

>>379254940
There are clearly other elevators in the picture.

The staircase thing is a legit problem though.

>>379254506
Holy shit I'm 33 now. Where does the time go?

Can someone decipher the ending for me? Nigga what the fuck just happened

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>you will never live in Balamb Garden

>>379256094
He was in a time warp then Rinoa found him and pulled them out of it.

>>379254279
You should enjoy a CUUUUTE game and be thankful to skip 15.

>>379254339
Didn't some companies back in the day just print out their source code on paper or some shit and then delete the files?

Why was Squall so cold to Rinoa for a good portion of the game? Did he know she was used goods?

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>>379251123
>Some random dude's fan recreation of Balamb Garden is Squeenix's assets

>>379255482
for training purposes... or to kill teenagers. Either should be acceptable answer.

>>379256380
He did know, but it was what all sorts of angsty teens do where they don't let anyone in because they are afraid of being hurt.

One would think this would become clear when he sperged out at Galbadia Garden, when everyone thought Seifer was dead.

>>379252197
No. The fire started after they released the game.

>>379254751
why would you want to live in ff8 world? get some taste you fucking nigger

>>379256430
That's WOFF

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>>379256538
>why would you want to live in ff8 world?
How is this even a question?

>>379256586
No, it's Scott Michael's fan recreation. Which should be rather obvious.

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>>379256678
quistis only wants that emo dick, not your small dick

>>379256538
So I can junction Ultima to my dick and fap away.

>>379256538
I wouldn't mind FF8's world. I'd take it over any other 3D FF's world.

>>379256538
Why would you not?

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>>379256738
>Talk to a wall...

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Hey guys what's going on in this thread?

>>379256738
Man, there were all sorts of incestuous undertones going on in that game, thanks to everyone being pseudo-siblings. Zell and Rinoa were the only ones that never had that kind of shit cast on them in one way or another.

>>379256769
>30 hour game
>Whatever said 16 times
That's pretty restrained, really.

>>379255482
"Guys listen. What if we get these teens right? We get these teens and we pimp em out for military shit." NORG said.

"Shouldn't we try to get older people you know, people who have had years of training?" Cid said.

"TRAINING? We can have these teens fight motherfucking dinosaurs and shit. If they can kill a dinosaur they can certainly kill a man. Go fetch me some teenagers, ill get the dinosaurs ready."

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>>379256761
Why would you take VIII over IX's world? Gaia is comfy as fuck.

>>379257090
>Everyone is either a midget or a furry
Hell no.

>>379256738
Doesn't matter still got the hotdog.

>>379257062
>t. Zordon

>CID! Fetch me evil teenagers with attitudes

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>>379257179
*blocks your path*

>>379257090
The world felt dead, even after the fog lifted and you started exploring the other world.

I literally got right outside the final boss fight with trance kuja, saved the game, put it down, and never played it again. I didn't care for the world or the characters.

>>379257179
Comfty

>>379257307
i beat kuja and when the final boss was being introduced there was a power outage and my save got corrupted.

and i didnt even care that much, I think I was sick of FF by then. /v/ always praised IX the most of the PS1 titles but for me it really wasn't that great.

>>379257683
I played FF in this order:
8>10>7>9>12>6>15

My preference is:
6>8>10>7>15>9

Forcing that card game into the main story forever doomed that game into outright "bad" territory to me.

>>379257808
>8 and 10 that high
what the fuck

>>379257863
X is the third best but VIII is the third worst.

>>379250456
Bom Bom Bom

Bom Bom Bom

Bom Bom Bada Da Dum.

>>379258021
You fucked it up anon
>Bom Bom Bom

>Bom Bom Bom

>Bom Bom Bom Bada Da Dum.
Dolt

A few years back I tried replaying FFs VII through X and I ended up enjoying VIII the most, when as a kid I never even finished it. I really think it was the perfect storm of world building in an interesting fantasy setting, with a memorable soundtrack and interesting characters that, while still pretty generic, felt more "real" than the characters from most of the other games, with the exception of Zell who was pretty much your typical over-exaggerated comic relief character. But he still didn't feel out of place. Besides the second half of the story, which we all know at this point could have been executed much better, and the fact that the game is extremely easy when you have a grasp of the mechanics and know how to utilize card mod, you can tell that this game was crafted by a team at the peak of their creative talent. Especially post VII, it seemed they were given free reign to make whatever game they wanted and in my opinion this is Square's second best work and their finest main line FF title.

I thoroughly enjoyed replaying X as well, although Yuna is a completely useless character with the personality of a robot. The rest of the cast is amazing though, although the voice acting could have used some work and being forced to sit through those scenes can be fucking painful if you have to do it more than once.

I found VII to feel a bit dated and grindy (if you wanted to complete all the content, although to be fair most playstation RPGs were) and IX just felt so, so slow paced that I couldn't finish it. In making it their love letter to the 2D FFs, they shackled themselves with outdated/boring mechanics that just slogged down an already slightly slower battle system than the previous few games. (I had the same problem with Chrono Cross and Xenogears when replying them, although I enjoyed them a bit more.)

If you read all that congrats, no idea why I decided to make this blog post

>>379257808
>VIII anywhere near the top
N O P E

>>379250527
underrated

>>379259229
I've replayed all of them within the past 2 years, and that's where my ranking lies. I also like Chrono Cross more than Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana better than any of the games previously listed, and NieR (the original) better than all of the other games I've listed thus far.

I don't care if you disagree.

>>379254751
This pasta takes me back.

>>379254279
Be grateful he didn't buy you Final Train-wreck XV.

>>379254279
I wouldn't be. FFXV really sucked. I would literally rather play Drakengard than FFXV. That isn't hyperbole.

>>379256175
anyone can recap what was Balamb garden and that other "evil" equivalent where Seifer went to? it has been so damn long, i can't quite recall
i always thought they were regular school/uni but with weapons and magics for self defense, were they just military school or some sort of army bases?

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So this was the power......of Squaresoft......damn

>>379252094
>silent hill 2 and 3 hd remasters

>>379261551
I'm not sure, is that Parasite Eve?
if not, what game?

>>379258708

>tfw I hummed it to myself.

Good times.

>>379250456
>>379250527
>>379251035

Holly fuck I came here to do that how fucking unoriginal can I get

>>379254505
It doesn't matter if you render it only once anyway.

>>379252094
No different than the film industry up until, really, the 80s. The films that have survived prior to that was less because of active preservation than it was just people having never gotten around to destroying them.

All things that humans interact with go through that: buiildings, books, paintings, toys, technology, animals, etc. It's disposable until people realize it has some value in its preservation.

Let's play a game, /v/:

Fix the junction/magic drawing system
Fix the card game system

GO

>>379262414
>Fix the junction/magic drawing system
Instead of stocking a number of spells, you have to cast it by drawing it a certain number of times (depending on level, spell, magic stat, etc) to "learn" the spell. Once you've learned it, you can junction it to a stat. If you then use the spell in combat, whatever stat it is junctioned to will take a big penalty.
Admittedly the problem with this is that non-magic users won't really suffer from this, so maybe it could do something like "everyone in the party loses stats" or something? Either way it'd still be better than the original system
>Fix the card game system
Random is removed
Direct is removed

Alright so who's got the screencap about how badass Squall actually is?

>>379258787
That's a decent post, but this is /v/ and what you should have done was split it into two posts, used all caps and greentext to explain all the reasons FF8 is the best game in the history and then replied to that post with another angry greentext eplaining why you're wrong.

>stay low level
>rush to cactaur island
>be level ~15 there
>get all the AP
>junction all the stat-ups
>junction Death to status-attack for everyone
>go to Island Closest to Hell
>one-hit T-Rexes and start levelling super fast
>can now max out all stats with shit-tier spells
>junction elemental defence for everyone with Ultima + Shell
>now basically any magic attack will actually heal my team
this game was pretty easy to exploit

>>379257090
does it have computers?
ff8 has computers

Junction poopbucket to my asshole and browse 4garden all day every day

>>379263080
You didn't need to do any of that, just kill those 4 winged birds outside Timber for windmills to refine into 20x Tornado each, then T-rexaurs for dino bones for Quake. Put them on HP/STR and done.

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>>379255212
Some of the most greatest and most memorable videogame music of all time right here, IX had a great ost too. Based Nobuo Uematsu.

>>379256769
>tell me about raine
Ahead of it's time

>>379258708
Phone posting ruined it sorry

>>379261443
Military school that also work as mercenaries I think, that's why Rinoa's gang hires you and later on the assassination of Edea, etc

>>379261551
I really want to see what this would look like on an emulator with the resolution blown up and with that addon that eliminates the warping.

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What exactly WAS the list? His bang list?

>>379257863
VIII is the best FF.

>>379268268
I ssume it means a "shit list", so I guess he says it out loud as a threat with the meaning "if you fuck with us anymore we'll beat your arse." Of course she just ignores it because they are idiots and wouldn't actually do that.

>>379254940
Why would they ever have a power outage? They only get attacked by missiles, have flying garden wars and get infiltrated by the army.

>>379269192
Actually fuck that - why the fuck does a military organization allow its forces to behave that way? It makes no sense. He should be beaten and thrown in the brig for insubordination.

>>379269230
All that and the power stays on. Nothing to worry about.

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>>379261551
We were AMAZED by this shit back in the day. You don't even know. We couldn't believe how "real" it looked. Now it just looks like shit

>>379269368
>looks like shit

I disagree. I think old graphics like that are beautiful. There's just so much care put into all of it. Nowadays we have GTAV and all that but even still I admire old attempts at creating realistic cityscapes in 3D.

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>>379255212
Thank you I love this. I makes me want to die though. Makes me feel really really sad but in a good way. I love this song

>>379269303
Because it's actually a school first, and an army second.

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>>379269543
I hope I can change my perspective over time and learn to appreciate old graphics too. I am glad you posted this.

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FFVIII is my nostalgia game. It was the first videogame that really caught my attention as a young kid. More JRPGs should have mercenary/combat school settings.

>>379261551
>>Glowing city lights contrasted with pitch blackness.

Holy fuck, I love that aesthetic. The first FEAR and the expansion packs had levels like that.

>>379269779
>Because it's actually a school first, and an army second.

That's a load of crap. If you threatened violence on a teacher in a normal school you'd get sent home with an immediate suspension. This is a school that trains the students to kill people, and even has a menagerie of monsters that include a fucking T-Rex that likely kills a student or two every year because that thing is nasty as fuck early game, and I'd imagine that Squall and Quistis, one of their fucking instructors, are some of the strongest in their age group and they have trouble with the thing. until they learn how to sleep the hell out of it and whittle it down enough to turn it into a sick card and get a ton of AP.

Also the students have to go out and fight big scary fucking monsters as part of a test before they can be shipped out to do murder on their employers enemies.

The tone of the game is just all sorts of fucked and I think it's one of the games in the series that would benefit the most from a great re-imagining. Think Metal Gear Solid's Mother base meets sword and sorcery, because that's essentially what the setting is.

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>>379261551
Older graphics have a particular charm to me.

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>>379262414
>Fix the junction/magic drawing system
1. Your magic pool adds stats when junction-ed up to 100 but it can be raised up to a certain value for uses without losing anything on junction. Fire goes to 120, Fira goes up to 115, Firaga goes up to 110. This would allow you to use Firaga 10 times before losing anything to your junctioned stat. Higher level magics have a lower threshold (Ultima 101, only allowing one use before reducing stats bonuses, Flare 105, etc). This amount is Spr-based, meaning Zell might get Firaga to 105 and Ultima to 100 while Quistis could get Firaga to 110 and Ultima to 101.

Alternatively,
2. Create a magic pool and allows characters to draw magic from there.
Squall has 100 blizzard and Quistis have 100 also. You can draw/card mod up to 100 to a blizzard pool and have a character consume from the combined pool at Spr-based amount. This can be limited to only magics you have junctioned, preferably in a new stat (you wouldn't be able to have Firaga junctioned in Str and still use this system. You could only use it if you junction it at a separate "magic junction" category). This would need a better designed UI though. You only have a limited slots of this "magic junction" per character, meaning that you cannot have someone both using Curaga, Haste and Thundaga. Two per character is already good enough. This "pool" can be drawn to refill used magics to a character.
>Have 100 blizzard on pool
>Squall use blizzard and waste 4, meaning the pool is now 96
>Quistis use blizzard and waste 2, meaning the pool is now 94
>Squall use fira and wastes 1 from his own pool because he do not have it junctioned to magic junction
>After battle, the 10 fira in magic pool automatically (or not, according to menu option) fills the 1 fira squall used. Squall has 100 junctioned at his Str again and the fira pool is 9 and blizzard pool is 94

>>379269983
FF7 and 8 universes were far superior to the rest of the series. They're definitely my favourite 2 in the series. FF9 went backwards with it, and the character designs were just so childish.

10 and 12 were a guilty pleasure, but you could tell graphics took a toll on the size of the game in terms of no overworld etc, voice acting reducing content.

Burned into my very existence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9ei21X_0OA

>>379270614
>childish
go through puberty then go back and play the game

>>379270216
Nah, the time loop means that whatever they do will result in success in the end. Edea and Cid therefore don't have to care about shit like being super military.

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>>379271201
So the character designs aren't childish?

>>379254751

Quality pasta. See you in Balamb Garden bros.

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>>379270614
>FF9 went backwards with it
IX went backwards with seriousness and writing style, not with the universe IMO.

>FFVII starts with you doing ecoterrorism and blowing an energy reactor
>FFVIII has your second objective in the game putting you into a fight mission to liberate a town from an enemy army
>FFIX has your fist big plot event when you already passed through the town, forest, ice cave and village parts, and is just a short conversation and FMV and a single boss fight
Not trying to say that being gung-ho about a fast advancing plot something absolutely necessary, just that the plot in IX is very slowly progressing and you only get something actually happening again when you are already in the end of the first disc. VII has your main motive in the game down from the start and VIII progresses fast enough that you already know you are dealing with before reaching the last town in first disc (although I dislike VIII's pacing sometimes). This speed gave the plot and characters more time to develop between the dungeon crawling.
There is so much you can fit inside 4 discs and going that slow makes it seems that the plot could be reduced to just some pages of reading if you remove filler.