NZGamer:
Love them or hate them, remasters look like they’re here to stay. But are they really such a blight on the games industry?
It seems like almost every week, there’s a new remastered, remade, or simply re-released game being announced. This year alone, we’ve seen Resident Evil, Saints Row IV, DmC: Devil May Cry, Grim Fandango, Might & Magic III, Final Fantasy Type-0, and plenty of other games re-releases with various degrees of touching up. God of War III, Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy X, and Final Fantasy X-2 are all on the cards for PS4 releases in the coming months. There are rumours of an Uncharted Remastered trilogy, the evidence for which is admittedly sketchy, but the idea itself seems more than a little plausible. There will no doubt be more remastering announcements throughout the rest of this year.
Gary Green said: After finally getting the long-overdue platinum trophies for Final Fantasy VII, VIII, and XV, I wondered if I could manage another. Despite a few blunders, it’s a franchise worth showing off in your collection. I had to find another game with a realistically achievable platinum, which sadly rules out quite a few. Fortunately, I didn’t have far to look as I dusted off Final Fantasy Type-0 HD, which was, in fact, my very first PS4 game, and one that’s aging surprisingly well.
DS: “I hate that Type-0 is forgotten among the Final Fantasy games. While not the strongest entry, its mature story makes it stand out from the others. And even though Final Fantasy now has three rated M games — including Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin and Final Fantasy XVI, — Type-0 will always have the crown of being the first, and arguably the darkest.”
i agree that it is indeed dark, but it has its issues.
and i feel like the ending is what makes it really a dark final fantasy game.
the rest is more or less war where teenagers fight.
This game was the epitome of the FF dark age pretty much, was hella boring and the gameplay was tedious. I'm glad SE got the series back on track
well, it was more of a spin off rly.
especially after they dropped the fabula nova crystalis stuff
I actually really love this game, the main problem however was that the entire story and personality of the characters, was in the lore that you need to dig very deep to find and external materials outside of the game, honestly it has my favorite lore in the franchise, I wish they had made the game more story focused, god it would have been a masterpiece
The PC port of Final Fantasy Type-0 HD had many problems, and now a new mod fixes them and lets you play at 120 FPS.
120fps is overrated and totally unnecessary for these types of games . 60fps is more than plenty
That's subjective, I'll take 120fps if the hardware can handle it over 60fps if given the option. Nothing wrong with liking smoother visuals.
120fps will make most games suffer someway . If it doesn’t sure great 120fps but if it takes anything away from it I’d rather have 60fps . For online shooters I get it but for RPGs I’d rather have more detail and such and 60fps instead of losing some of that and 120fps .
I played DMC at 120fps and I couldn’t tell the difference myself besides that the graphics were worse .
You're missing the point - to some people 120fps is more pleasing to the eye than sharper visuals, higher texture quality and/or AO. No harm in giving people the option for it, mod or not.
Also, you couldn't tell the difference between 60fps and 120fps? Are you sure you have a monitor that supports 120fps? It's a night and day difference to me.
I quite enjoyed the game to be honest! Sure, the story wasn't amazing. But it was good to see FF try a new direction. Was nice having so many playable characters, but it's a shame that there is little to no charcater development for any of them.
Ye, you're not alone. I really tired, but I couldn't. The only reason I even pushed myself to play it for a while was because I'm an FF fan, but it just didn't click. The intro FMV was epic though.
The way it loads so much I didn’t care for but it’s not a bad game . Story is weak and if they had a good story I would love it . But with a meh story it’s decent . I like most things Final Fantasy though so I could see how some wouldn’t care for it .
Yea, I’m in the same boat where I can like most things Final Fantasy related. I’d like to fire it up again just to get the platinum at least.
One of the worst overhyped FF games with garbage story , people made a mistake hyping this up
I'm still glad that I actually got to play it. When it released exclusively in Japan on PSP I didn't think I'd ever get the chance.
This was originally a mobile game in development so the lack of vision became apparent as the game released on the PSP first.
Agito XIII, back when the Fabula Nova Crystallis games was supposedly going to be a thing.
yea only if they don't screw it up
the only defense anything gaming related is that the consumers keep buying or putting up with it... that is all the defense a game dev needs... the bottomline is sales and if it keeps selling then guess what even if its bad they will keep making it :/
I just hope this recent string of remasters leads publishers back to their roots and encourages them to return to what made them great in the first place.
Bro, there is no excuse for these remasters. We are getting shamed. This industry is built on its audience getting shammed left, then right.
We hardly ever get value for dollar. We put up with things that no other industry ever would and we take it as "Oh its cool, its the way it is."
These remasters is just another scheme in a long line of schemes.
We all know that every single game was made and designed to be bullet proof. So we are NOT getting remasters. This is the way the game was originally made. What happens is they have to make concessions when they port the game over to their respective consoles or platform.
When we started buying these games at top dollar INSTEAD of insisting for backwards compatibility the antennas went f**king crazy over at the publishers house.
Now all they have to do is go to their servers hard drives and reprint the masters they already have. Today s hardware can now play those masters as it was intended.
This is so much easy cash, especially with digital distribution, that its basically printing money.
There is no excuse to justify their actions or ours.
There is a drought so we would be s**t on a stick right now.
Its sad the hobby and industry I love hates us so much.