A Final Fantasy VIII remake would be beautiful, if these screenshots are anything to go by

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Now don’t get too excited, these aren’t official Square Enix screenshots. They are fan art of Balamb Garden created by Scott Honeycutt, a talented 3D environmental artist. They may not be official, but they are pretty impressive and give a good idea of what a HD remake of Final Fantasy VIII might just look like. Honeycutt describes exactly how the images were made, stating

Models, UVs and baking in 3ds Max, textures made with Photoshop and Quixel suite, render and materials in Unreal 4. This is a game environment art portfolio piece made of low poly models with normal maps applied, and it uses a physically based rendering setup with metallic and roughness values.Scott Honeycutt

Final Fantasy VIII is my favourite title of the Final Fantasy franchise, my heart skipped a beat when I initially saw these images as for a split second I thought a remake could actually be on the way. Unfortunately, that isn’t the case, but who knows, this stunning portfolio might just impress Square Enix enough to consider remaking it. One can only hope.

I’ve always considered that remaking a highly popular game would be a sure bet for companies, so part of me wonders why they don’t do it more often. Just look at Nintendo and Majora’s Mask 3D, the internet was ecstatic to hear that news. However, I also realise that as a game creator you probably don’t want to keep rehashing the same old thing, instead you want to create exciting new stories and I guess we can’t really fault them for that.

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Meg appreciates gaming on all formats, but primarily spends her time achievement hunting to the extreme. Her passion for gaming began as a child, when first introduced to the Amstrad. A collector of gaming consoles past and present, Meg spends as much of her time rediscovering old classics as she does playing the latest releases.
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  • Till

    Make it happen, Square-Enix-sama.

  • andy

    These screens show me nothing. NOW if it looked anything like the CGI cutscenes in the original game (the CGI cutscenes from 1999) we are already onto something.

  • WEL

    when will you people finally understand what the word “remake” means? Always using it wrong!

    • disqus_Xt4XAIYbSg

      Tell that to Eiji Anonuma from Nintendo too then:
      “we didn’t want to say it was being developed until we were at a point where we could proudly say that this is not going to be just another remake”
      https://miiverse.nintendo.net/posts/AYMHAAACAADMUKmIuDSagA

    • http://www.geeksdontlie.co.uk/ Meg Pelliccio

      Wikipedia also uses this term in the same way:
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_game_remakes

      If you have a suggestion as to what I should be putting, please let me know.

    • Till

      These are new assets though, ie. not a remaster. Also the terms are going to get muddled anyway. Changing how they are used is going to have to come down from the top.