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    • peppersky [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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      14 days ago

      This whole thing is genuinely such an obvious sign of game dev and game tech having gone completely awry somewhere in the last twenty years.

      Final Fantasy VII came out less than three years after Final Fantasy VI and that’s with them going from 2D to 3D and from Super Nintendo to Playstation. There is no reason whatsoever for these remakes to take like a decade to develop.

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        14 days ago

        Also look at the incoming Suikoden 1 and 2 remaster. I’m oscillating between excitement because Suikoden is hands down my favourite jrpg series ever and bleeding eyes because the FUCKING PIXELS DEY HUEG

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          They’re remaking Suikoden 2?! I’ve never played the first one but I’ve been wanting to finish the second one forever. I played it as a kid up to the last boss. I couldn’t find it again and when trying to locate it in college, it was basically impossible or expensive. I loved that game. This is great news for me.

          Or I guess I could probably find an emulator lol.

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            14 days ago

            First one was great too. Imo from best to worst 2 -> 1 -> 5 -> 4 -> 3. I really hated third one because despite having great potential they made 4 main characters and game had painfully unfocused story.

            About the remaster look it up on steam, it’s painful, the sharp remade backgrounds but the characters had the same pixels from PS1, overall the game looked great back then but the remake graphic is grotesque. And other remasters of old jrpg do the same thing, i wonder it is so fucking hard to give some more pixels to characters?

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      14 days ago

      The games seem to be well-received, but I don’t get the appeal. 4 years between games in a fully-planned trilogy feels indulgent. I assume Square-Enix is using these games as tentpoles to stretch out the franchise as much as they can so they can sell mobile games and merch and other nonsense.

      • Gorb [they/them]@hexbear.net
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        14 days ago

        Well they sold off all their IP so FF and Gex is all they got left. Looking forward to my 3 part remake of gex enter the gecko

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        14 days ago

        Nah, waiting forever for game is bad but waiting forever for each slice of the game and paying 3 times is worse.