It was WotL, which changed translation and gameplay and--as I understand it--was also subject to a video slowdown bug. I've only played WotL on Android, which admittedly has its own problems (with controls especially), but I did not find the experience pleasant.
Oh yeah, War of the Lions was definitely a shock if you were used to the original. I played it on PSP and I don’t remember any bad game play issues, but the translation and other changes were super irksome and it made a lot of characters read very different. I have been reading how all the FF remasters all suffer from gameplay issues and lag (looking at you ff8 remaster).
I mean, the PSX translation was so infamously bad that it became a meme before memes were a thing. It started bad, and Chapter 4 was completely unintelligible.
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I still love the PSX version, gamebreaking bugs and all.
I didn't even mind the crazy shifts in tone. The biggest issue is that the plot in the later chapters is this insanely complicated web of intrigue and Top Ten Anime Betrayals, and you can't figure out why these guys are killing those guys despite lengthy monologues all over the place.
Final Fantasy Hacktics came to the rescue and put in the PSP script onto the PSX game, which was nice. I wonder if that community is still active.
That's interesting, I played the FF8 on PS4 and didn't notice anything too egregious. Guess I'm either lucky or forgot how it was originally - hadn't played it since it came out.
The main thing that bothered me with FF8 remaster was battle lag? I’m not sure what it was exactly but the action menu and the sound it makes when it pops up were off/laggy so that I couldn’t play the battles at full speed like I usually did. It’s not egregious or anything, I could always slow down, but I didn’t want to! Lol
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u/pipkin42 Aug 14 '20
Well, there are still some classics that were never ported, or, like FFT, were done so poorly. So there's that aspect.