"If you come here… You'll find me. I promise." Final Fantasy VIII first launched 25 years ago today. What are your favourite moments from this stunning story?
@@jesseberg3271 I understand that but you're forgetting they had "Advent Children" which is available today on 4K. They was given the opportunity to see what the characters would look like given modern technology. We have had to depend on "Kingdom Hearts" and other titles. That's all I'm saying.
IX will get a remake before VIII. if either ever do. I would expect 10-3 before VIII remake as well, maybe even before IX. And I would expect all of this doesn't happen until they've completed VII.
Honestly, I don’t want a remake if it’s in the quality of their current games and I say that as a die hard Final Fantasy VIII fan. It’s all just pushed to the limits to earn as much money as possible and fit the „Netflix and chill“ braindead generation. Smashing on the same buttons over and over, no challenge, DLC over DLC or splitting the game in parts.
No disrespect to "Final Fantasy VII" but if that was to happen, Square negotiating a deal with Sony to have the remake + PS5 in a bundle, sales will break multiple records.
I remember having the demo that came with Brave Fencer Musashi and playing it pretty much once a day until the game actually came out. I remember getting to the part of the game that the demo covered and feeling like such a bad ass pro. So many more great moments in this game, and this is the game that turned me into a completionist in all my future games as I did everything in this game.
*Final Fantasy 8/VIII* has always been a part of my Childhood. The characters, the Music, the Brilliant Cutscenes, the designs, the drama, you name it. This definitely takes me back. This deserves to have a Remake!
When I saw this opening for the first time, I fell in love with the game right away. Liberi Fatali playing and the way it ends with you needing more. Amazing opening!
Yesterday, February 11th in 1999, this beautiful game was released. Still one of my all time favorite Final Fantasies and I'm replaying it again to celebrate 🥳 🎉 🎊 it's 25th Anniversary. Happy 25th Anniversary and 🎂 🥳 🎉 Final Fantasy VIII! 🥳 🎉 ❤
Square, VIII needs a remake! Thank you for the VII Remake project! VII Rebirth looks like one of your greatest accomplishments! I will buy VII Rebirth and I would buy VIII Remake!
My favorite Final Fantasy!!!!! I still get chills just thinking about my first experience playing this amazing game!! They just don't make them like this anymore!
So many great moments, as you first RPG, Ifirt's cave and his battle was a pretty big deal. But then the invasion, the garden wars, Fishermen's Horizon, Esther, and uhh SPACE! This game gave us a lot, and the charcaters gave us more. Squall stan for life.
This was my first introduction to FF series back in the days. And the days definitely were rough for me, but as kid with PS1 and FFVIII nothing was impossible. Loved the intro, loved the music, the atmosphere and the story, even though for a kid it was pretty convoluted plus I played it translated to my region language so definitely had a different experience than everyone else I would dare to say. At the times I thought the game was pretty hard as well, considering you had to be already familiar with FF universe by now, but boi oh boi did I had a blast to play it on my own terms. Happy 25th Anniversary FFVIII. Squall you da lad that me wanted to be someday in some timeline. Thanks Square for not forgetting this game.
All I want is a proper remake of this game. It’s so beautiful and could benefit so much from some slight adding to the story and fleshing out the details. I want to see Squall and Rinoa’s iconic cutscenes in modern day graphics!
I don’t care if they split it into five parts and take 20 years to release them all! I’ll always be waiting for a remake of this game on modern gen. I think it’s the most suitable FF for a remake, right after VII.
I still firmly believe that this is the best opening in the franchise. *Spoiler alert* Now that I'm watching it again, i realized that ff8 opening is different from other openings because it was a montage of the events, rather than an actual opening scene. And the actual opening were just squall and seifer fighting, which was stitched with other scenes. Which made me realized that the most logical way to understand it is that the opening is happening during the time compression 😱
I'd like to see a remake of FF8 with the segments of story that was cut, plus you can make an even more convoluted story than 7 Remake - put the whispers in 8 remake since they'd probably make more sense storywise in FF8 than they ever would in FF7 lol, or make it cool with alternate timeline shenanigans, would be perfect for FF8 Remake IMO, more sorceresses, time travel back to battle the Great Hyne, etc... a FF8 Remake could be amazing!
You don't need to do the decade long development reimagining treatment like what's being done with ff7. You can just update textures and models, add a few quality of life features to make it feel less "90s" and release it otherwise untouched. I would definitely buy it.
Too bad the game itself didn't live up to the epicness/quality of that Opening. And I say that as someone who likes to replay FF8 every now and then, but it's one of the weakest of the series, plotwise and character-wise, imo.
@@dagga19k Hey, I still keep it close to my heart because it's the one who got me into the series, and I still love the game outside its characters and plot. It just compares poorly to other entries like... well... 7 and 9 :')
@@Lorfo11 9 is the best, so I can't blame you on preferring it! But 8 was really good, I personally loved the story, though a few things could have been done better.
You have no idea how mindblowing this opening scene was when I saw it all the way back in the year 2000... I skipped VII (I did not know any better!) and, at the time, my gaming diet consisted of mascot plataformers, racing games, the occasional fighting and sports games... I had no idea just how grand, immersive and profound games could be. I already had an inkling because I had played Resident Evil 2 and my cousin showed me Metal Gear, but this... Was something else. It was Star Wars, Titanic, Saving Private Ryan... Even Harry Potter before I knew what that was. It was all I didn't know a videogame could be. And I never looked back.
Still one of the best openings in any video game and one of the best Final Fantasy games ever! I love the look of the original characters over the remaster. The remaster messed up the eyes in my opinion. Original characters eyes looked more mysterious and gave them a bit exoticness to them whereas on the remaster made them look like a boy band or something. PLEASE GIVE US A FINAL FANTASY VIII REMAKE!!!!!!!! 🙏 PLEASE bring back that original look of the characters! 🙏
I kind of hate what the remake did to Squall and Rinoa's hair and faces. Like I sincerely hope they follow the original concept art more closely if they do a remake. ._.
Is this a message? Because if it is, hell yeah! Remaking this part in particular could be so incredibaly awesome. So many iconic scenes that would benefit so much. None had that feeling ever again, no other part felt like 8.
My favorite moment from this game has to be the Ragnarok Cockpit scene. Rinoa and Squall being able to relax after the Propagators and 'Eyes On Me' kicking in as they realize they're getting home. Absolutely beautiful.
I’ll be honest I never played FF7 but I have the same kind of nostalgic respect for FF8. Rinoa was my Aerith, squall was my cloud, and even knowing what I know now I still consider the two as having the superior love story. And I vocally hate love stories. But ultimately keep your buster sword I’m a connoisseur. Hand me a gunblade!
I'm almost to the Ragnarok ship a little past Esthar too! Playing with on the Steam deck with 3x speed is so amazing and makes Carding monsters way more fun. It only took about 50ish hours to get to disk 3. This game is basically my teenage yrs.
Final Fantasy 8 is my favorite game in this storied franchise and I'm here to pay my respects. Not because it's a perfect game... but to me what makes the Final Fantasy series great, is creating worlds that can't exist anywhere else, in any other medium. Final Fantasy 8 has a world like no other and it's characters are so special to me. Even when they or their actions don't feel necessary to the overarching plot-line, the characters have a mundane beauty about them that makes them feel real. But for me, the absolute moment when I knew this was my favorite game, is a certain line that Kiros says in Ragnarok (no spoilers). It's such a subtle powerful moment that glues the whole game together. I LOVE FF8 SO MUCH 💙
Square-Enix, do not disband the team from FFVII Remake when the third game is done. Give them two weeks on the beach in Okinawa then put them straight to work on FFVIII Remake. Please!
Happy 25 FFVIII! You are, and forever will be, one of my favourite games ever. One of my absolute favourite moments in this game is when Squall says "I dreamed I was a moron".
Happy 25th Anniversary Final Fantasy 8.My first FF. A great story and a fantastic soundtrack. I think it deserves more of a celebration than just releasing the opening on RUclips.
Square, me and millions around the world need a remake of this title. I never clicked on something so fast. This was my first RPG game.
VII fans had to wait and push for years. We're going to have to do the same.
@@jesseberg3271 I understand that but you're forgetting they had "Advent Children" which is available today on 4K. They was given the opportunity to see what the characters would look like given modern technology. We have had to depend on "Kingdom Hearts" and other titles. That's all I'm saying.
IX will get a remake before VIII. if either ever do. I would expect 10-3 before VIII remake as well, maybe even before IX. And I would expect all of this doesn't happen until they've completed VII.
Your words are mine
Honestly, I don’t want a remake if it’s in the quality of their current games and I say that as a die hard Final Fantasy VIII fan. It’s all just pushed to the limits to earn as much money as possible and fit the „Netflix and chill“ braindead generation. Smashing on the same buttons over and over, no challenge, DLC over DLC or splitting the game in parts.
"Final Fantasy VIII Remake"
Yeah... I'll def buying it...
Also, gunblades!
No disrespect to "Final Fantasy VII" but if that was to happen, Square negotiating a deal with Sony to have the remake + PS5 in a bundle, sales will break multiple records.
@@CrystalDominiqueMy guess is 100 million sales day 1
@@JacobOlli You are so on it. 🥰🥰
@@CrystalDominiqueI love all final fantasy’s and the series as a whole but that just wouldn’t happen lol
@@JacobOllithis a troll yeah? Lol
Happy 25 Anniversary Final Fantasy VIII
I feel old reading this
As a kid, FF8 introduced me to the gun sword for the first time. The design is iconic and timeless.
👨🏽🍳💋🤌🏽
It's why my main in FF14 is a Gunbreaker. Gunblade is so iconic they made a class around it.
GunBlade*
The Gunblade😳
@@josecruz8803 Same here. I literally only wanted to play GNB because gunblades are just the coolest weapons ever.
Gunblade
So many good memories...
Gives me the "chills". In a good way. 🙂
Number 15: Burger King Foot Lettuce
I remember having the demo that came with Brave Fencer Musashi and playing it pretty much once a day until the game actually came out. I remember getting to the part of the game that the demo covered and feeling like such a bad ass pro. So many more great moments in this game, and this is the game that turned me into a completionist in all my future games as I did everything in this game.
My first final fantasy i have played in the series, it will stay with me forever! ❤ Happy birthday! 🎈🎉🥳
me too
*Final Fantasy 8/VIII* has always been a part of my Childhood. The characters, the Music, the Brilliant Cutscenes, the designs, the drama, you name it. This definitely takes me back. This deserves to have a Remake!
One of the best jrpg's of all time ❤
One of my fave games ever created - happy birthday ❤
Absolute Uematsu-san brilliance! I listen to those soundtracks on repeat to this day, such a monumental work.
When I saw this opening for the first time, I fell in love with the game right away. Liberi Fatali playing and the way it ends with you needing more. Amazing opening!
What a great game! Happy anniversary Squall!
My favorite Final Fantasy of all time. It deserves a remake.
this was my first final fantasy game. soo soo good
Happy 25th Anniversary Final Fantasy VIII, you changed my life.
The hopelesness of space
Yesterday, February 11th in 1999, this beautiful game was released. Still one of my all time favorite Final Fantasies and I'm replaying it again to celebrate 🥳 🎉 🎊 it's 25th Anniversary.
Happy 25th Anniversary and 🎂 🥳 🎉 Final Fantasy VIII! 🥳 🎉 ❤
So beautiful. Thanks for the memory ❤
My first and still my favorite FF game. I'll finished it multiple times but I know I'll be replaying it sometime again in the future.
The best Final Fantasy opening movie in my humble opinion
Square, VIII needs a remake! Thank you for the VII Remake project! VII Rebirth looks like one of your greatest accomplishments! I will buy VII Rebirth and I would buy VIII Remake!
right smack in the middle of the legendary stretch from FF6 to FF10
My favorite Final Fantasy!!!!! I still get chills just thinking about my first experience playing this amazing game!! They just don't make them like this anymore!
Had the best fight against Bahamut in the franchise.
Happy 25th anniversary to my very first Final Fantasy experience - a very special one! Lots of love
Happy Birthday, Squall Leonhart.
So many great moments, as you first RPG, Ifirt's cave and his battle was a pretty big deal. But then the invasion, the garden wars, Fishermen's Horizon, Esther, and uhh SPACE! This game gave us a lot, and the charcaters gave us more. Squall stan for life.
This was my first introduction to FF series back in the days. And the days definitely were rough for me, but as kid with PS1 and FFVIII nothing was impossible. Loved the intro, loved the music, the atmosphere and the story, even though for a kid it was pretty convoluted plus I played it translated to my region language so definitely had a different experience than everyone else I would dare to say.
At the times I thought the game was pretty hard as well, considering you had to be already familiar with FF universe by now, but boi oh boi did I had a blast to play it on my own terms.
Happy 25th Anniversary FFVIII. Squall you da lad that me wanted to be someday in some timeline.
Thanks Square for not forgetting this game.
That was my favorite game on Ps1 with Tekken an Resident Evil ❤
Yep, they're definitely hinting at something in the future. I'd bet my life savings on it
The best videogame opening of all-time.
I almost had a heart attack lol
Out Of All Of The Final Fantasy Protagonists, Squall Leonhart Is Exactly Like Me.
I thank this game. Introduced me to the RPG genre in general and played all FF games regardless
I’m hoping one of these days Square posts the Xenogeara intro. Would love to have that easily accessible/available on modern systems.
Thank you. Moving beyond what this comment can say. Thank you.
This was the first song they played at Distant Worlds when I was there and it's just foking epic.
Don't tease me with this, Square, please. I love this game so much and if you announce a remake I will drop everything to buy it.
All I want is a proper remake of this game. It’s so beautiful and could benefit so much from some slight adding to the story and fleshing out the details. I want to see Squall and Rinoa’s iconic cutscenes in modern day graphics!
The first FF game I ever played.
I would have finished it if a high school friend didn’t steal it.
The bastard
This was so sudden, I panicked for no reason but of course I'm watching it because this is love and life!!
Imagine this opening movie in a remake. Please Square, think about it !!!
This is Overlord, I gotcha on all platforms even in reality. Have fun! See you all in Kingdom Hearts 4 and FF17
Favorite FF of all time.
Triple Triad was so addicting
This is gaming at its finest
Square don't play with my emotions...
OoK it's happening , stay calm.. I say stay calm. STAY F*****G CALM !
I don’t care if they split it into five parts and take 20 years to release them all! I’ll always be waiting for a remake of this game on modern gen. I think it’s the most suitable FF for a remake, right after VII.
Cinemática agradable
Please remake 9 and 6 before this. Thanks Square!
this game was so weird and insane that it wrapped back around to being awesome a remake of this would sell 255 squallillion copies
I still firmly believe that this is the best opening in the franchise.
*Spoiler alert*
Now that I'm watching it again, i realized that ff8 opening is different from other openings because it was a montage of the events, rather than an actual opening scene. And the actual opening were just squall and seifer fighting, which was stitched with other scenes. Which made me realized that the most logical way to understand it is that the opening is happening during the time compression 😱
My first FF game and the best of all-time for me.
I'd like to see a remake of FF8 with the segments of story that was cut, plus you can make an even more convoluted story than 7 Remake - put the whispers in 8 remake since they'd probably make more sense storywise in FF8 than they ever would in FF7 lol, or make it cool with alternate timeline shenanigans, would be perfect for FF8 Remake IMO, more sorceresses, time travel back to battle the Great Hyne, etc... a FF8 Remake could be amazing!
I dream to see it remake
You don't need to do the decade long development reimagining treatment like what's being done with ff7. You can just update textures and models, add a few quality of life features to make it feel less "90s" and release it otherwise untouched. I would definitely buy it.
🙏🙏🙏
Final Fantasy 8 Remake Please
Final Fantasy XII
REMAKE SOON 🙏
9-9-1999!
9-9-2024!
Final Fantasy 8 Remake, 2026. Calling it now
FFVIII was My first ever psx game
Gimme remake please 🫡
Yes the answer is YES 🎉
To this day, I still sing this song in my head. Respect and love FF8!!!!!!
To this day , this is still the most beautiful opening cinematic ever ! Liberi Fatali is so grandiose!
Too bad the game itself didn't live up to the epicness/quality of that Opening. And I say that as someone who likes to replay FF8 every now and then, but it's one of the weakest of the series, plotwise and character-wise, imo.
@@Lorfo11 Aaaaaah noooooo, you're saying that to someone who has Squall as her favourite hero!!! 😱 FF8 is amazing , it's in my TOP 3 with FF9 and FF7!
@@dagga19k Hey, I still keep it close to my heart because it's the one who got me into the series, and I still love the game outside its characters and plot. It just compares poorly to other entries like... well... 7 and 9 :')
@@Lorfo119 felt like nothing but exposition to me, so I don’t like it as much as some people.
@@Lorfo11 9 is the best, so I can't blame you on preferring it! But 8 was really good, I personally loved the story, though a few things could have been done better.
You have no idea how mindblowing this opening scene was when I saw it all the way back in the year 2000... I skipped VII (I did not know any better!) and, at the time, my gaming diet consisted of mascot plataformers, racing games, the occasional fighting and sports games... I had no idea just how grand, immersive and profound games could be. I already had an inkling because I had played Resident Evil 2 and my cousin showed me Metal Gear, but this... Was something else.
It was Star Wars, Titanic, Saving Private Ryan... Even Harry Potter before I knew what that was. It was all I didn't know a videogame could be. And I never looked back.
This opening is legendary. We need a remake of this game. FF8 have a cool story, characters, great soundtrack and fighting style.
Leave these old classic games alone.
Squall (PS1 graphics) will forever be the 'best looking' guy in video game history!!
Still one of the best openings in any video game and one of the best Final Fantasy games ever! I love the look of the original characters over the remaster. The remaster messed up the eyes in my opinion. Original characters eyes looked more mysterious and gave them a bit exoticness to them whereas on the remaster made them look like a boy band or something. PLEASE GIVE US A FINAL FANTASY VIII REMAKE!!!!!!!! 🙏 PLEASE bring back that original look of the characters! 🙏
I kind of hate what the remake did to Squall and Rinoa's hair and faces. Like I sincerely hope they follow the original concept art more closely if they do a remake. ._.
@@KirbyGotenksabsorbed same!
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN
FF8 25th anniversary
It's 25th anniversary today.
Not at all what you think.
Director already said they won't do an VIII remake.
@@kenhunt Not what it should be.
Is this a message? Because if it is, hell yeah! Remaking this part in particular could be so incredibaly awesome. So many iconic scenes that would benefit so much. None had that feeling ever again, no other part felt like 8.
My favorite moment from this game has to be the Ragnarok Cockpit scene. Rinoa and Squall being able to relax after the Propagators and 'Eyes On Me' kicking in as they realize they're getting home. Absolutely beautiful.
I’ll be honest I never played FF7 but I have the same kind of nostalgic respect for FF8.
Rinoa was my Aerith, squall was my cloud, and even knowing what I know now I still consider the two as having the superior love story. And I vocally hate love stories.
But ultimately keep your buster sword I’m a connoisseur. Hand me a gunblade!
Ahh yes, just listen to the soundtrack not too long ago. One of my favorite FF games of all time FFVIII.
I love this FF, that first time I watched this scene, literally chills, I told myself, OMFG, what an adventure awaits.
I literally share a bday with the japanese release of this game. This must be a sign
Same! Turning 42 today!
According to the booklet you get with the game, I share a birthday with Seifer.
Happy birthday to FF8! 🎉
It's so hard to name one, but flying around in Ragnarok
They'd ruin it like they did FF7..
I'm replaying the game now just this past week. I'm just out of Esthar and heading east! I love this game and its music and Triple Triad.
I'm almost to the Ragnarok ship a little past Esthar too! Playing with on the Steam deck with 3x speed is so amazing and makes Carding monsters way more fun. It only took about 50ish hours to get to disk 3. This game is basically my teenage yrs.
Happy anniversary
25 years... My goodness... I still have my greatest hits version in my bedside drawer :D
Final Fantasy 8 is my favorite game in this storied franchise and I'm here to pay my respects. Not because it's a perfect game... but to me what makes the Final Fantasy series great, is creating worlds that can't exist anywhere else, in any other medium. Final Fantasy 8 has a world like no other and it's characters are so special to me. Even when they or their actions don't feel necessary to the overarching plot-line, the characters have a mundane beauty about them that makes them feel real. But for me, the absolute moment when I knew this was my favorite game, is a certain line that Kiros says in Ragnarok (no spoilers). It's such a subtle powerful moment that glues the whole game together. I LOVE FF8 SO MUCH 💙
Happy 25th Anniversary one of the best FF
REMAKE, PLEASE?
Remake this one please!
OH MAN
Hell yeah!
Best FF ever! Can't wait for a remake :o
Square-Enix, do not disband the team from FFVII Remake when the third game is done. Give them two weeks on the beach in Okinawa then put them straight to work on FFVIII Remake. Please!
Now this would benefit from a remake, happy anniversary to this gem of a game ^_^
FF8 has such a great soundtrack mannn I hope we get a remake!
Chill guys its just 25th anniversary they just showing a little love thats all lol
I remember watching the trailer waiting for ff8 after having my mind blown by ff7… great memories!
Happy 25 FFVIII!
You are, and forever will be, one of my favourite games ever.
One of my absolute favourite moments in this game is when Squall says "I dreamed I was a moron".
cmon Square we dare you to remake this one.
FF VIII REMAKE, A CRAZY DREAM 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍 Square make us happy please 😍😍
Need a remake
vem remake por aí???
Happy 25th Anniversary Final Fantasy 8.My first FF. A great story and a fantastic soundtrack. I think it deserves more of a celebration than just releasing the opening on RUclips.
Best Final Fantasy,my very first and favorite part.