I honestly don't see many advantages over the PC 2013/2014 HD variant? Especially once loaded with mods... Would have been amazing if it was a remake.
Still my favorite game in the franchise though! Day 1 purchase.

The best ff is getting a remaster. Lets hope it has the same route as ff 7. First a remaster then a remake.

If they ever remaster FFVIII they need to do some big tweaks in the gameplay, anything else would be pointless.

Getting for sure

One of the best games in the world, I encourage everyone to give it a try. And even if you already have, then like me you will probably beat it again.

Yes. We rarely got to use magic in FF8 because you couldn't use them. Magic was reserved for stats and keeping them was precious. The battle system was pretty much spamming summons until the end. There were some very nice Guardian Force animations though.

My memories of FF8 magic are only thanks to the final bosses because she would murder your GFs and force you to say: "Fuck it, I need to spend these spells because I got nothing else, it's the end of the game anyways so screw it."

I only ever used summons at the very start of the game because the strong magic draws weren't available yet. After that it's just about clever binding. No point in using GFs if your stats are maxed out by magics.

So you used attacks, limit breaks and Draw/cast against the enemies?

Well, this time it's on consoles and hopefully doesn't require modding to get the original OST. They haven't really gone into detail yet.

The source code thing was just an explanation we invented because it seemed plausible, but we never knew the truth. We probably never will because if Square didn't speak about it before then they probably won't now.

I guess you mean remake, not remaster. I think they'd take in a similar direction to the FFVII remake and I wouldn't mind seeing that.

Never used any magic. It's literally only attacks and healing items and limit breaks of course. As soon as I can access new magic to draw I'll max it out and bind it. Limit breaks with maxed stats are already way too powerful. All that GFs would do is drag out the fight.