Final Fantasy X HD

carbonkid wrote: »

Really dont see the point in these HD remakes...id just play FFX on my PS2. Guess maybe not everyone has or kept their PS2 >_>

Considering how much of a botch job the PAL version of FFX was I'll be looking forward to this release. I'm not even talking about the Dark Aeons but the slow down and border issues. Poor yuna looks like a chubber in the european version.

I wonder how well this game will live up. It kind of has that linear dungeon annoyance of FFXIII and I remember the battle system becoming tiring during random encounters. Also spoony's review pointed out a lot of issues although I did think he was way too harsh.

carbonkid wrote: »

Was it really a botch job...i remember the voice acting for Tidus not been the best but otherwise a solid game. I dont remember running into any bugs or noticeable long load times.

The PAL version was an absolutely shocking conversion. Squaresoft never bothered optimising any of their PAL games even in the PS2 era when they were possibly the only big developer not doing it. It wasn't until Kingdom Hearts 2 that square bothered doing proper PAL conversions and even with that one it ran full screen but at a slower speed, Square made a big song and dance about that at the time. Even up until the PAL version of Persona 4 their games suffered from slowdown which was idiotic considering Sony allowed developers to run their games in NTSC after the Devil May Cray PAL version outcry.

There were no bugs in the game, it was more that that game ran very slowly compared to the NTSC version with borders that really affected the visuals by squashing characters and making them look fatter than they were.

carbonkid wrote: »

FFXIII wasnt the best of the FF games, but dont think it was because it was linear. Like you said FFX was just as linear but loved by most jrpg fans. Personally with XIII, i hadnt a clue what i was doing or where i was going...sure did look pretty though ^_^

Well XIII has an awful lot more problems of course I just remember getting a bit sick of the combat in random encounters in a few areas and felt some linear sections outstayed their welcome. I would have been far more tolerant of stuff like that back then. It will be interesting to see anyway and nice to get a version that isn't butchered although the Dark Aeons will be back to piss me off.

I'm going to go back through FFX-2 with an open mind the next time I play it. I won't think of it as a sequel to FFX but more as a bizarre fan fiction because even though it was silly it was a lot of fun. Also I won't being going in trying to get 100% completion. I can live without it now. Back when I played it I stopped playing when I found I missed loads and couldn't go back to find them again. I'm not as OCD anymore (thank you P&P roleplaying for teaching me the way to properly play WRPGs).

Pen and Paper, the ultimate in nerdy past times. My friend got me into a P&P group a while back and it was a lot of fun. A surprising mix of guys and girls playing. It thought me where RPGs come from and not to play them trying to get the best ending or being super nice. Play a character in character and make the story your own is the way to play WRPGs I found. I thought me to let go as well when it comes to 100% games which was a bad OCD habit I picked up.

I'd imagine it's more to do with the money Square are investing in it. It's a cheap port that Square can farm out to a third party on the cheap, making a 360 version will add to the expense. The main market for this would be Japan where polls show FFX now to be everyone's favourite FF game. The market for RPG re-issues isn't so big in the West and their biggest JRPG audience would be on PS3 more so than 360. Any license agreements would be well up by this stage.

In other words, Square's bean counters decided more money would be made this way.

I was having a lot of fun with it until I realised I couldn't go back and complete quests I left behind which during my OCD 100% completion phase made me rage quit. I'd be much more forgiving of the game now. Just treat it as fan fiction instead of canon because some of it is really stupid. If you can laugh at the stupid you'll have fun.

I just saw that they are remastering the soundtrack which I'm not happy with. They seem to be taking quite a lot of liberties with it as well. I hope you can choose your soundtrack because these remasters aren't the composers original intention and are really just bad cover versions as a result.