It's happened. A remaster of a remaster. Square confirmed the leak not too long ago. I really have no idea what to make of this, and whether it's a good or bad thing overall.
The worst thing is, it will sell well, it was the first Final Fantasy for a lot of people so they will buy it again when it hits PS4. I'd much rather see them release a disc with Final Fantasy remakes of 1-6 on PS4, dont even need to be remastered, just the 3ds, psp and ds versions that launched a while back.
As someone who never played it, I'm kind of hoping they do they same for Kingdom Hearts, releasing right at the end of the ps3's life cycle probably made sense as far as the amount of fans owning the console but I can't be bothered always plugging it back in to play remasters at times.
Eh, why not? Most of the work was already done, and there are enough PS4 owners that either never had a PS3 or boxed up/got rid of their PS3 that this will probably sell pretty well. And the more copies this sells, the greater the chance of us getting a XII remaster.
Eh, why not? Most of the work was already done, and there are enough PS4 owners that either never had a PS3 or boxed up/got rid of their PS3 that this will probably sell pretty well. And the more copies this sells, the greater the chance of us getting a XII remaster.
enabling delusional thought is not healthy
"If we buy enough lazy ports they'll give us the other lazy port we want", like this is what its come to? Have a little respect for yourself, SE treats its fans like bitches because they let them.
@friendlyphoenix: That's where your comment is wishwul thinking. Square-Enix enjoys massive succes on the mobile (iOS and Android) department yet they do not reinvest a single penny into new projects on PS4. They resorted to a money deal for the next Tomb Raider. If this marks anything, it's SE only increasing profit margins and pleasing stockholders by re-releasing titles. This PS4 rerelease means nothing for FFXII. Very low development costs, the assets and the game are already there. Port away!
The FFVII port is the steam port, very very low quality with a MIDI soundtrack.
Never forget they tried to outsource FF14 to chinese MMO-makers. Square Enix is as cheap as they come.
Eh, why not? Most of the work was already done, and there are enough PS4 owners that either never had a PS3 or boxed up/got rid of their PS3 that this will probably sell pretty well. And the more copies this sells, the greater the chance of us getting a XII remaster.
enabling delusional thought is not healthy
"If we buy enough lazy ports they'll give us the other lazy port we want", like this is what its come to? Have a little respect for yourself, SE treats its fans like bitches because they let them.
That isn't coming from nowhere. Kitase has straight up said that them getting to make a XII HD is directly tied to how well X/X-2 does.
Eh, why not? Most of the work was already done, and there are enough PS4 owners that either never had a PS3 or boxed up/got rid of their PS3 that this will probably sell pretty well. And the more copies this sells, the greater the chance of us getting a XII remaster.
enabling delusional thought is not healthy
"If we buy enough lazy ports they'll give us the other lazy port we want", like this is what its come to? Have a little respect for yourself, SE treats its fans like bitches because they let them.
Except it wasn't just a lazy port. Square Enix remastered all of the music, re-drew a lot of the textures, and made the UI far more pleasing to look at. All you have to do is watch the Quick Look to see that. I'm not saying that Square Enix hasn't been guilty of lazy cash grabs before, but one of those FFX HD was not.
Finally, someone is asking the important questions.
Ah! So there are others with sensible tastes! If there's any PS2 game left that I'd like to see get an HD remaster, it's Final Fantasy XII. That game just looks so goddamn fantastic, even today.
Eh, why not? Most of the work was already done, and there are enough PS4 owners that either never had a PS3 or boxed up/got rid of their PS3 that this will probably sell pretty well. And the more copies this sells, the greater the chance of us getting a XII remaster.
enabling delusional thought is not healthy
"If we buy enough lazy ports they'll give us the other lazy port we want", like this is what its come to? Have a little respect for yourself, SE treats its fans like bitches because they let them.
Not saying you're completely wrong, but I'm fairly certain that a lot of the Kingdom Hearts 1 HD rerelease for 1.5 had to rebuilt from the ground up by the team, due to plenty of missing assets. And the Type 0 HD rerelease seems to have had a lot of effort put into as well.
Rereleasing FFX on the PS4 is a bit of a cheap move though.
What I found most interesting about that entire article, is that FF VII is going to cost £12.99 ($19.99). Are you fucking kidding me. It was $4.99 on PS3. You want us to pay you $20 for the same game with no work done to it what so ever? Are they fucking mad?
Why? why, would people buy this if they just bought this less than a year or so ago? I know I'll sound like the odd one out but if I Ever wanted to play this game or FFX-2 again it takes less then a minute or so to hook up the original PS2 with a game I bought years ago? And, yes @sterling you are completely right about the fact that they constantly jack the price up for every release. Why not just spend the minute or so and hook up the original which'll probably work just as well?
Why would anyone purchase this considering the backlash this company just had less than a week ago when they constantly dangle FF7 like they did and just release the Steam version?
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