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Final Fantasy X HD remaster

For the love of all that is holy, I just hope they get rid of THIS SCENE. ...oh, and pretty much any scene where Tidus bitches and moans at everyone about his troubles, which would be just about every in-game cut scene involving him.
 
I love older games. Especially RPGs. Probably the one genre that is almost completely unaffected by age.

That said, while I didn't hate it, FFX was largely mediocre outside of its (at the time) fully voiced characters (a first for the series) and visuals. The characters were annoying for the most part, and there were some gargantuan plot holes.

A sudden HD update isn't going to fix that.
 
Meh to FF VII, I want FFIX remade in HD!! I'll get FFX though, it still has one of the best skill advancement systems to date.
 
4 and 6.

Amano characters over Studio Ghibli environments.

The one game most deserving of remastering however, and which stands to benefit the most, is Xenogears. The scope of the game was just too big for CD. 17,000 years of story crammed onto two CDs and rushed on the second. Sigh.
 
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I loved X; probably one of the best in the series. Yes, that laughing scene is horrendous, but it's SUPPOSED to be a forced laughter scene.

I easily put in over 400 hours of that game through multiple playthroughs of the normal and the international editions.
 
The sad thing is about the only time people get excited about a JRPG now seems to be when a remake, rerelease, or touch up version is announced. Ni No Kuni seems to be the rare exception I can think of in recent years.
 
X was a low point in the series for me. First time they removed the wide world of exploration in favor of a linear path and blitzball wasn't all that fun, but was such a huge part of the game.

The "minigames" were the first ones in the FF series I never finished. Dodge 100? 200? lightning bolts? come the fuck on.
 
PowerYoga said:
X was a low point in the series for me. First time they removed the wide world of exploration in favor of a linear path and blitzball wasn't all that fun, but was such a huge part of the game.

The "minigames" were the first ones in the FF series I never finished. Dodge 100? 200? lightning bolts? come the fuck on.
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The required blitzball part is when I stopped playing it.
 
I'm pretty sure the only reason we are seeing a HD version of FFX is because the source resolution of the textures is probably high enough to scale without hurting quality too much. PS1 Final Fantasy textures are probably so low res it would be far more expensive to update. It's likely they will eventually update FF7-9 to work with the PS4, but I highly doubt HD versions will ever show up unless they plan to recreate the games from the ground up and that would probably cost as much as developing a new game.
 
I'm in the "meh" category.

I still would like to see some of the Persona games that didn't make it outside of japan. I know that's not square related, but I've been finishing up some stuff in Persona 4 golden and the game is really solid all around IMO.
 
IIRC there is only 1 required Blitzball game and the prize is a strength sphere so no big deal if you lose. You would have to do it to get Wakka's other limits and ultimate weapon but winning a few games of Blitzball with a good team is easier than dodging 200 lightning bolts or beating the chocobo race with 0 time.
 
ImpulsE69 said:
The required blitzball part is when I stopped playing it.
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When I got to that part, I nearly did the same. Then I read in a FAQ about how losing has no bearing on the story whatsoever.
So I just parked Tidus in the corner, got on the computer and did some work, and came back in 10 minutes or however long it takes to end a match, and went on with it.

I hate crap like that too, but at least they didn't make you WIN to advance the story.
 
Sulaco said:
When I got to that part, I nearly did the same. Then I read in a FAQ about how losing has no bearing on the story whatsoever.
So I just parked Tidus in the corner, got on the computer and did some work, and came back in 10 minutes or however long it takes to end a match, and went on with it.

I hate crap like that too, but at least they didn't make you WIN to advance the story.
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heh, iirc, about the only way to actually win that game is to make sure and do a side quest during a flashback, to get the "jecht shot", I think it was called.

Well, it was the only way I could win.

Use the jecth shot to score a goal, and then just pass the ball around, to keep it out of the opponents hands for the whole game.

The time I tried to play that match normally, I got my tail handed to me pretty badly, heh.

but, as stated, winning or losing only changed 1 cut scene, that happened right after the match. Not much else changed.
 
pathos said:
heh, iirc, about the only way to actually win that game is to make sure and do a side quest during a flashback, to get the "jecht shot", I think it was called.

Well, it was the only way I could win.

Use the jecth shot to score a goal, and then just pass the ball around, to keep it out of the opponents hands for the whole game.

The time I tried to play that match normally, I got my tail handed to me pretty badly, heh.

but, as stated, winning or losing only changed 1 cut scene, that happened right after the match. Not much else changed.
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Yep it was a button timing event somewhat like a qte that you had to do during a scene and there was no warning, no prompt, and no dialog telling you how to really do it if I recall. It just came up and if you sat there watching the scene unfold you missed it and could not do the jecht shot at all which included an overdrive attack if I remember correctly.
 
I'm a die hard fan of the 16-bit era FF. After FF6, FFX was the only one of the newer gen that captured my interest enough to play entirely through (twice). Could never finish 7, 8, or 9 and never bothered with the rest after X. The Charlie's Angel-esque X-2 was an absolute abomination.

Blitzball, you can cheap out the computer and win every match easily. I do agree the other minigames were ridiculous (ie. the lightning one & chocobo race) as well as the overly gaudy costumes and emo, post-adolescent male lead. Overall, I still think it's a great game and would definitely pick the HD version for a reasonable price.
 
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