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[Hudo]

I think the HD2D games of late look great. Gives the proper visual polishing without messing with the original pixel art style.
I think we can all agree that we do NOT need a full-fledged remake of Xenogears, a la FF7Remake, or the modernized FFTactics redrawn sprites. It's the only safe and acceptable way to bring it back other than dumping the ROM via emulation.
Monolithsoft needs to stay as far away as possible from touching that gem.

I think Xenogears would look really good if they just made it higher resolution. I don't think "HD2Difying" it would make it look better. But I guess we have a different opinion about this. While I've enjoyed my time with DQ3 HD2D, I always found myself wishing they did a full-on remake, tbh. I never had that feeling when I played the Super Famicom version of the game.

 

[Thabass]

Also probably after FF Tactics is out.

I keep forgetting this is a thing, but you're 100% correct.

 

[PaddyOCanager]

Well since no announcement, I bit the bullet and bought it for $7 on the Steam sale. With mods, it's probably better than the remake will ever be anyway:

 

[Guerilla Munch]

I will never understand why they don't just do 1:1 remakes by redoing all the backgrounds in 4K with high res character models and new cinematic. That's all I wanted for FF7

 

[Thabass]

Well since no announcement, I bit the bullet and bought it for $7 on the Steam sale. With mods, it's probably better than the remake will ever be anyway:

Hope you're trying out the Alternate Fantasy mod.

 

[Astray]

Well since no announcement, I bit the bullet and bought it for $7 on the Steam sale. With mods, it's probably better than the remake will ever be anyway:

Thanks for reminding me of this mod.

Looks seriously gorgeous.

 

[Team Skoda]

I think Xenogears would look really good if they just made it higher resolution. I don't think "HD2Difying" it would make it look better. But I guess we have a different opinion about this. While I've enjoyed my time with DQ3 HD2D, I always found myself wishing they did a full-on remake, tbh. I never had that feeling when I played the Super Famicom version of the game.

My guess as to why they haven't touched it, is due to fans wanting it, but also wanting/expecting a completed and playable end game. Personally, I'd rather take the old text base ending with Fei in the rocking chair; "warts and all" OG ending then current day SE messing with that gem.

 

[Plies]

Well since no announcement, I bit the bullet and bought it for $7 on the Steam sale. With mods, it's probably better than the remake will ever be anyway:

 

[Hudo]

My guess as to why they haven't touched it, is due to fans wanting it, but also wanting/expecting a completed and playable end game. Personally, I'd rather take the old text base ending with Fei in the rocking chair; "warts and all" OG ending then current day SE messing with that gem.

I think they haven't touched it because they'd want Takahashi to work on it and that means dealing with Nintendo. But as the Super Mario RPG Remake has shown, Square aren't opposed to deals like that. But I guess Nintendo would demand exclusivity and Square might not want that.

 

[SunnySideGuy]

Well since no announcement, I bit the bullet and bought it for $7 on the Steam sale. With mods, it's probably better than the remake will ever be anyway:

What mods did you use for this? Looks great

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

Lots of new FF9 Artwork from Square

Well since no announcement, I bit the bullet and bought it for $7 on the Steam sale. With mods, it's probably better than the remake will ever be anyway:

That's very impressive

 

[Brock2621]

Hope you're trying out the Alternate Fantasy mod.

What's "Alternate Fantasy" mod? I've only played the Moguri one

 

[Team Skoda]

I think they haven't touched it because they'd want Takahashi to work on it and that means dealing with Nintendo. But as the Super Mario RPG Remake has shown, Square aren't supposed to deals like that. But I guess Nintendo would demand exclusivity and Square might not want that.

I most certainly don't want that either.

 

[Zacfoldor]

I think they haven't touched it because they'd want Takahashi to work on it and that means dealing with Nintendo. But as the Super Mario RPG Remake has shown, Square aren't supposed to deals like that. But I guess Nintendo would demand exclusivity and Square might not want that.

 

[diffusionx]

I think the HD2D games of late look great. Gives the proper visual polishing without messing with the original pixel art style.
I think we can all agree that we do NOT need a full-fledged remake of Xenogears, a la FF7Remake, or the modernized FFTactics redrawn sprites. It's the only safe and acceptable way to bring it back other than dumping the ROM via emulation.
Monolithsoft needs to stay as far away as possible from touching that gem.

Xenogears is a fully 3D game, at least with the world. I don't think HD2D is appropriate for it.

I will never understand why they don't just do 1:1 remakes by redoing all the backgrounds in 4K with high res character models and new cinematic. That's all I wanted for FF7

because it's a LOT of fucking work to make all those backgrounds again and the pipeline and talent isn't there for it anymore.

 

[SkylineRKR]

It's still so funny to me that they have those cool HD-2D remakes of other games, but FF Tactics remake just looks like a PS1 game. Tells me they wanted to allocate next to no budget to it.

Star Ocean 2 HD is arguably the best Square port I have ever played. But its... Star Ocean. It isn't FF, not even Dragon Quest.

 

[Hudo]

Star Ocean 2 HD is arguably the best Square port I have ever played. But its... Star Ocean. It isn't FF, not even Dragon Quest.

The quality of Star Ocean 2 Second Story R really surprised me.

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

The quality of Star Ocean 2 Second Story R really surprised me.

It's excellent. More need to check it out.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

Star Ocean 2 HD is arguably the best Square port I have ever played. But its... Star Ocean. It isn't FF, not even Dragon Quest.

I think Second Story R is like THE template of how they should remake JRPGs that used pre-rendered backgrounds. I loved how they were all rendered in real time but still had fixed/on rails camera. And they got all the camera angles/FOV/etc perfectly from the original (for the towns anyway, the dungeons not so much).

 

[bitbydeath]

because it's a LOT of fucking work to make all those backgrounds again and the pipeline and talent isn't there for it anymore.

It's basically nothing compared to what they did with FF7R. (Full recreation, 3 games, padded stories)

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

FF9's character design was really all over the place. It's like the opposite of what Square went with in the years that followed: plain garments, but every character is so wildly different from each other in features. At original resolution it was almost impossible to understand what Amarant is supposed to look like. This mod here really does justice to the characters.
Just a quick question about this. Does this mode fix the terrible framerate of the world map? That's really the only problem I had with the latest port of FF9.

 

[Astray]

FF9's character design was really all over the place. It's like the opposite of what Square went with in the years that followed: plain garments, but every character is so wildly different from each other in features. At original resolution it was almost impossible to understand what Amarant is supposed to look like. This mod here really does justice to the characters.
Just a quick question about this. Does this mode fix the terrible framerate of the world map? That's really the only problem I had with the latest port of FF9.

I remember seeing an option for it, but I don't remember if it was to turn it to 60fps though. Will check and get back to you.

 

[PaddyOCanager]

Just a quick question about this. Does this mode fix the terrible framerate of the world map? That's really the only problem I had with the latest port of FF9.

Yeah, you can choose up to 120 fps. You can also decide different fps for Battle, Field, World Map and Menus.

 

[Werewolf Jones]

I mean if the remake is canceled I'm good. I'm actually a fan of the original game and not a tourist who wants AAA 60fps open world FF IX.

 

[proandrad]

They will hire platinum games to remake it as a real time action game with a style meter.

 

[adamsapple]

What mods did you use for this? Looks great

The enhanced backgrounds are Moguri mod, FFIX also has a mod manager that you can use for other mods like the shaders on the characters in those pics.

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[Elios83]

If it exists it's impossible its canceled given the importance of the title.
Square Enix is almost always synonymous with development issues...Dragon Quest XII and KH4 will be their next troubled big releases and they're certainly not canceling them.
Just like happened with FF7 Remake they probably outsourced some stuff to external studios, they're not happy, they move everything in house, they lose years.
This is probably the reason behind the rumors.

 

[IAmRei]

FF9's character design was really all over the place. It's like the opposite of what Square went with in the years that followed: plain garments, but every character is so wildly different from each other in features. At original resolution it was almost impossible to understand what Amarant is supposed to look like. This mod here really does justice to the characters.
Just a quick question about this. Does this mode fix the terrible framerate of the world map? That's really the only problem I had with the latest port of FF9.

yes, tries few days ago, but not far

 

[IAmRei]

If it exists it's impossible its canceled given the importance of the title.
Square Enix is almost always synonymous with development issues...Dragon Quest XII and KH4 say hi.
Just like happened with FF7 Remake they probably outsourced some stuff to external studios, they're not happy, they move everything in house, they lose years.
This is probably the reason behind the rumors.

could be in the contrary, they could use their in house and got some trouble