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[deathsaber]

Nah, its fine. yeah, its an old random encounter turn based battle game. But just give us an HD/4k touch up with a speed boost button (like the ps1 Final Fantasy reissues got), and it would be perfect for people to check out again in 2022.

And if interest in this, lead to a new project, that would be amazing.

 

[Alexios]

Game certainly isn't perfect but it was released in 2001 and set the bar for a lot of things in ambitious 3D JRPGs. It had a huge world that you could really explore 360° with tons of things to find. The amount of full 3D content, backgrounds, enemies, cut-scenes, animations etc... it had was insane. Every single NPC has its little animation when you talk to him.

Ship battles are slow and could be improved but they were still a nice addition, although not as good as the battle system in Panzer Dragoon Saga (one of the very best).

Normal battles also tend to have you use the same strategy over and over again, which is to launch your best special attack that does area damage to take out or weaken enemies, or use Cutlass attack to finish a single enemy. And bosses are "everyone defends, buff Vyse, use his special attacks".

There is room to make things a bit more engaging, less battles and more interesting strategies. However the world, the exploration etc... is timeless. This is a game that has SEGA written all over it.

Gamecube game makes loadings and transitions much faster.

But emulating the Dreamcast version you can press space bar (or whatever you map it to on gamepad) to fast forward through any sequence you like so it's like a modern JRPG remaster with turbo functions. Although the actual fast loading option in Flycast might cause issues, I noticed that at least in the intro it makes the visuals stop where Fina's little pet thing appears, whatever its name is, when it shows off the various characters so I disabled that just for this game (and also Rez which displays another issue) just in case. Fast forwarding the emulation also speeds up loading with no issues.

Granted you lose the Pinta's quest stuff (unless you also get some VMU emu and save sharing can occur, lol, Idk, may be possible) and the extras in Legends like that mini game to feed Fina's pet thing but retain the audio quality and lack of other minor issues I read about (but forget what) in that.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Need a Cell phone remake of Pinta's quest in place of the VMU game.

 

[Zuo]

This is one game that people have hardcore nostalgia for. The game has not aged well.

I always disliked random encounters and turn-based combat and there were always games that tried to avoid this, so not even sure if I would necessarily chalk it up to aging. It's just deliberately meh game design

 

[Team Andromeda]

It would be amazing if SEGA remade the game with the Canvas engine and put in full voice acting too

 

[Brigandier]

Played it all the way through on my dcdigital DC just over a year ago and it looked really nice, absolutely fucking loved it, game has charm and great music but mannnnn those random battles did get on my nerves it basically ruins the game for many players.

The ship battles can drag on aswell so it would definitely need more than just increasing the resolution like some have mentioned.

 

[daxgame]

So I was about to make a thread about this... but found out that, unsurprisingly, someone had already made it.
Seeing all these new JPRG remakes (DQs, Suikoden, etc) coming out recently made my heart cry.

Wtf are you waiting for, SEGA? Just give me a remaster like Final Fantasy 8, I don't even need a full remake. Put a toggle for random encounters and here we go.
I want to play this again on my Switch

Truly feels like one of the latest JRPG gems that hasn't been given the care it deserved...

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

So I was about to make a thread about this... but found out that, unsurprisingly, someone had already made it.
Seeing all these new JPRG remakes (DQs, Suikoden, etc) coming out recently made my heart cry.

Wtf are you waiting for, SEGA? Just give me a remaster like Final Fantasy 8, I don't even need a full remake. Put a toggle for random encounters and here we go.
I want to play this again on my Switch

Truly feels like one of the latest JRPG gems that hasn't been given the care it deserved...

It’s on my list of ones I’d like to play on modern systems. But I’d rather have a 4K remaster of Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon, first and foremost.

 

[JimboJones]

So I was about to make a thread about this... but found out that, unsurprisingly, someone had already made it.
Seeing all these new JPRG remakes (DQs, Suikoden, etc) coming out recently made my heart cry.

Wtf are you waiting for, SEGA? Just give me a remaster like Final Fantasy 8, I don't even need a full remake. Put a toggle for random encounters and here we go.
I want to play this again on my Switch

Truly feels like one of the latest JRPG gems that hasn't been given the care it deserved...

Yeah it's a bit of a shame, seems like a no brainer!

Just have to settle for rolling my own "remaster"

 

[Lambogenie]

What's the best way to play it today? Emulation of Legends I guess?

 

[Vyse]

Now I want to play again. Maybe I’ll pull out my Dreamcast and give it a spin. Could also do the GameCube version. First world problems.

 

[Icymanipulator]

So I was about to make a thread about this... but found out that, unsurprisingly, someone had already made it.
Seeing all these new JPRG remakes (DQs, Suikoden, etc) coming out recently made my heart cry.

Wtf are you waiting for, SEGA? Just give me a remaster like Final Fantasy 8, I don't even need a full remake. Put a toggle for random encounters and here we go.
I want to play this again on my Switch

Truly feels like one of the latest JRPG gems that hasn't been given the care it deserved...

Funny you mentioned FF8, I just replayed that for the nth time lol, and ya a no encounter toggle as well as a 3x speed toggle would be much appreciated!