Legend of Dragoon's PS4, PS5 Reception Prove Sony is Leaving Money on the Table Without a Remake

Game Rant Writes "The Legend of Dragoon is available on modern consoles for the first time since 2014, though fans are still clamoring for a full-blown remake."

[shinoff2183]

Leaving money on the table is debatable imo. Will the casuals invest their time. I dont think it will show much of anything. People like us on the internet showing are excitement arent in huge numbers all like that hardcore gamers arent the majority. I feel if it has enough downloads and sales from those not on plus that that will determine if a remake is feasible and possibly worth the cost to develop it. Personally id love to see this remade. Get rid of the button timing battle mechanic and the limit on inventory it would be even better.

[Crows90]

Hardcore gamers comprise about 10-15% of an entire base.

That's why in A consistent basis exclusives for playstation sell about 4-6million easily early on, later on about 6-8 million, and about 1million on Xbox, often less with Xbox though; later on 2-4million.

I remember running these numbers with exclusives last gen and it would normally add up exactly between 10-15% of the install base.

That's not to say those games won't continue to sell more though. There's also super popular titles that get the attention of the casuals.

[shinoff2183]

Exactly. If we truly are the 10 to 15 percent. It's extremely small. Large number of us but a smal percentage in the grand scheme of it all.

[Gardenia]

True, Legend of Dragoon is a classic but I doubt that it will appeal to the gamers that never played it. it's not on the same level as a Final Fantasy VII for example.
But what they can do is make a sort of remaster like Suikoden I and II has.

[drunkenspy007]

I was never a fan of this game personally. It didn't seem like a traditional RPG, rather a timing game to make sure you hit the buttons at the right time. I prefer strategy over rhythm style games, but to each their own.

[ManMarmalade]

It's definitely not a rhythm game

[aarallen1]

How so? You have to specifically time your button presses. Some people don't like doing that. That's all he said.

[Ronmaest]

The writing can get pretty unbearable. They really should’ve put effort into that, it takes away a lot from the game by making characters look dumb or pathetic. That and maybe as I’ve gotten older I expect a little more…

[myfathersbastard]

Standards have gone up. This was 90s era anime essentially with, let’s say, less than great translations. I love it. But even replaying it now, I see how far the medium has come. It was fairly high caliber for the time though.

[MWH]

FFVII Remake, with all of its name recognition and the other resources and muscles behind it, it could not muster the same impact of the original and had to come in pieces to manage the cost vs revenue. What's LoD compared to it? I'm not dismissing the game, but from a modern business point of view, a remake will never be green lit for a niche title with such a scope and scale.

We are in an age where corporates are so extensively and exhaustingly busy controlling and calculating, it's smothering freedom and creativity.

[Snookies12]

"a remake will never be green lit for a niche title"

Hmm, I do kind of agree with you. But at the same time, I never thought Shadow of the Colossus would get a remake either. Wasn't that a pretty niche title as well, back in the day? Granted, I haven't played Legend of Dragoon. So I don't exactly know how big of a game it is. Still, there's always a slim chance it may happen one day.

[Name Last Name]

Shadow of the Colossus remake was like The Last of Us remake. Arguably unnecessary and certainly a lot less work than remaking FF7 or LoD.

[Snookies12]

@Name Last Name - Fair enough, that's why I mentioned I never played LoD. So I didn't know the scope of the game.

[SeTTriP]

Don't know who the three people (at the time of this comment) are who disagreed but I couldn't find a single thing to disagree with, that's for sure.

Kinda spot on to me from a observable and business reality.

[porkChop]

FF7R is a complete reimagining of the original. It's not really a remake in the way that word is normally used. Bluepoint's Demon's Souls is a more traditional remake. No one is expecting a FF7R-style remake of TLoD. Even just something like the HD-2D remake of Live A Live. That would be great, and they could just clean up the translation.

Sony already has a dev that really wants to remake the game, Cory Barlog. Just let him do it. Sony used to publish a lot of RPGs back in the day. It would be great to see them put some out now.

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

I'm just happy with the Playstation Classics port of TLoD, it's pretty fantastic for a port of an old PS game. After FF7R, I'm afraid of seeing more remakes like that one, especially from Square-Enix, sometimes, it's best to leave them alone and just port them to modern systems.

[porkChop]

"After FF7R, I'm afraid of seeing more remakes like that one, especially from Square-Enix"

Agreed. I get the intent and I can appreciate what they're trying to do but it's taking way too long between releases. At least with something like the Live A Live HD-2D remake it's much faster to make and keeps the spirit of the original intact.

[CrimsonWing69]

Damn skippy! But I’m just glad we got trophy support at least. Loving this game so much!

[DickyD1226]

And I missed the first star dust not thinking about it.

[Majin-vegeta]

An excuse just to run through it again ;)

[CrimsonWing69]

They only require 30 of the 50 stars so you should be all good.

[MADGameR]

They need to remake this game.......... it MUST happen!

[Knightofelemia]

I would take a remake, and a sequel to Legend of Dragoon. I would also like some new enteries to the Wild Arms franchise and even a remake, remaster and a sequel to Legend of Legaia.

[shinoff2183]

I started it but can't remember it but wasn't there a legaia 2

https://legaia.fandom.com/w...

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

Legaia had a sequel (I own it on PS2), now I just want it ported as a PS Classic like TLoD and Wild Arms 1/2.

As for Wild Arms, we're not getting a new entry, Sony turned it down already, so the creators started a Kick Starter for it's spiritual successor Armed Fantasia. It's more or less by the same developers so it should have alot of similarities to Wild Arms, might as well say it is Wild Arms in all but name at this point.

They also turned down a new Shadow Hearts (as well as a remaster/port), but that's also getting a spiritual successor in the name of Penny Blood. I really hope those Shadow Hearts games get the Playstation Classics treatment too, I was just really impressed with how they ported TLoD.

[TheColbertinator]

Sony executives couldn't find land if they were skydiving. Plenty of great PS1 franchises they could reboot but are too foolish to see it.

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

I really do feel like they abandoned alot of classic games that would be well loved and received today if they had sequels/remakes or even remasters, I really want ports/remasters the most.

[jznrpg]

Making any game has risks .

It’s not a slam dunk however several million seller because the younger generations don’t know about it at all .

The hardcore PS fans will buy it but will it sell enough to warrant a bigger budget ? If they don’t think it would sell enough for a bigger budget and it has a smaller budget do they think it will do more harm than good ?

You can’t just remake every classic game without the risk of ruining its good name and not getting enough sales to match the budget . I can see why he they would leave some classics alone as a lot goes into a remake especially with remaking a turn based rpg .

Personally I want a remake but it’s clear there are risks involved and not just easy as just making it .

I would buy it day one . I know many of us would but would that be enough ?

[myfathersbastard]

Replaying this now, I see the flaws obviously. But it aimed high. And I see so much potential in a remake. I’m playing and thinking about things that could be added and expanded upon. There’s a lot of stuff they could do with this to really make it huge RPG.

[Lore]

Give it to the Final Fantasy VII Remake team at Square, Business Unit 1

[Berenger]

Considering the timing of this release, it would be amazing if Bluepoint's original content was actually a prequel about the Dragon Campaign. They could modernize it without upsetting the turn based of the original. Dream scenario for me would be FF7 Remake's battle system with a sort of "Devil Trigger" mode for the Dragoon form. Special moves could still get their cinematic shots.

I grew up on turn based rpgs but I can also appreciate the blended approach battle system of FF7 Remake.
It would work wonders for this IP