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Final Fantasy VI is being "remade" for iOS and Android; Square interested in FF7 iOS
- Thread starter Kagari
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Cloud Strife
Member
You have to be joking.
SERIOUSLY.
SERIOUSLY.
In all honesty though, Final Fantasy VI is my favorite RPG of all time. I discovered it in jr. high in 2001, but I didn't fall in love with it until I played it on my Game Boy Advance my senior year of high school in 2006.
I always dreamed that it would get the 3D remake treatment a la Final Fantasy IV.
I am so disappointed by this.
I always dreamed that it would get the 3D remake treatment a la Final Fantasy IV.
I am so disappointed by this.
Meccanical
Member
SE has been knocking it out of the park lately.
MrChocolate
Member
This... this is a nightmare right...? God... please... someone... FF6 is gonna get butchered just like FF5 was ;________;
-Inconsistent visuals
-terrible character sprites (seriously, they look so bad)
-Bland ass battle UI
-terrible dialog box
and I love how the mugshots doesn't exactly match the characters :|
hitsugi
Member
Original Scaled:
HQ3x:
Yup, I'd take it.
They're taking the RPGMaker enhancements route.
Choppasmith
Member
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This is perfect. But yeah, doesn't even phase me at all. Knew it was coming and I know they just don't care anymore.
Diablohead
Member
FF7 iOS will be glorious!
captmcblack
Member
This is better than stodgy old-fashioned video game companies trying to stave off "irrelevance" with their handhelds though, right?
Go mobile devices!
...
Go mobile devices!
...
HolyBaikal
Banned
I'm one of those people that actually strongly prefers this type of filter for games in the 16-bit generation on up. And doesn't care for scanlines at all.Original Scaled:
HQ3x:
Their console/handheld fanbase I mean. The one that made them what they are today.
I was 10 when Six came out and have never looked back. Seven was amazing and great and those cutscenes back in '97 were beyond imagination, the Aeris thing.
They are both amazing games, but Six has my heart.
Original Scaled:
HQ3x:
Yup, I'd take it.
This works well for games with simpler pixel art. Not for games like Final Fantasy VI.
Pop-O-Matic
Banned
Double Fixed: I love how Square Enix doesn't give a fuck about ANYTHING.
Herb Alpert
Banned
It's as if square was shitting on my most wonderful gaming years.
Fuck.
Fuck.
hitsugi
Member
we certainly had nothing to do with the monstrosities they've been putting out...
Original Scaled:
HQ3x:
Yup, I'd take it.
I'd take the original scaled option. Filters are horrible, but they're far better than this... inconsistent crap on the iOS, I'll give it that. lol
Duane Cunningham
Member
That definitely looks worse, but I think those two look pretty lousy. Particularly (but not limited to) being representative of the ridiculous sprite work.
Higgins113
Banned
Fuck my life
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
Scanlines look good in some games, you can tell the art was made with them in mind. It's screen curvature filters that baffle me.
Tesseract
Banned
1 dollar / fish
evil solrac v3.0
Member
FFV:
OK, insult me all you want but what exactly looks so bad about this?
what am I missing?
Avallon
Member
Perhaps.
No worse than the originals, at least in those 2 shots. In other shots they look worse.
The UI in the old FF games has always been bad. IMO the new UI actually looks better than the old games.
See above.
If they gave two fucks about their mobile audience, they would have taken more of an effort with their remakes (ie, not shit RPG Maker graphics and excessive price tags). And that's not even getting into All the Bravest...
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hitsugi
Member
It would be if what they were releasing was actually the Final Fantasy VI that fans will remember. However, that isn't what we'll be getting.
I didn't play VI until the PS2 era. After I had already played VII, VIII, AND IX. I didn't actually finish it until 2006.
It's still my favorite RPG of all time.
ShockingAlberto
Member
Hey, they still have room to grow. I mean, they haven't officially announced their intent to re-release FFVII on iOS and Andriod yet.... ><;
Making the game "easier" doesn't make a lot of sense either. The only "grinding" that would be "needed" involved early game spell unlocks via the magicite system or breaking the curse on the shield late game. Both of those things are optional. Just progressing through the story and doing some of the 2nd half of the game "extras" gets you powerful enough to complete the game. Getting the mime, squatch, mog, shadow, etc are nice to do, but are in no way required to beat the game and even if you do get most of the roster filled out in the 2nd half, you don't even really use them for the vast majority of the late game anyhow.
I guess this is just an example of S-E just "doing it wrong" yet again.
its not a matter of they're making it garbage.
it is about that what they could really do to a game da really deserves a awesome remake with FF4 DS style but just way better!
do you understand now? its just like when you see that ice candy car, try to get to it but when you finally think you're getting it, its gone.
gone
forever gone, and you'll have to deal with that fact. NO ICE CREAM FOR YOU ON THAT HOT SCORCHING SUMMER DAY.
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Glass Rebel
Member
Yeah, we don't matter anymore. They've moved on and we better move on as well.
The originals weren't anything to write home about either, but the iOS sprites manages to be much worse. I hate how soft the new overworld character sprites look.
oh and I dislike how they have the characters' mugshots stick out of the dialog box... what is up with that?
hitsugi
Member
uh yeah, 3DS? You know, sort of like how they redid EVERY OTHER FINAL FANTASY (bastard child FFV RPG Maker Edition aside) on the DS / PSP before they went to iOS? Why WOULDN'T you expect that is a better question.
