Final Fantasy X Remake Could Spawn Others

[Yvlla]

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news...d-Spawn-Others

If you ever hope to see that Final Fantasy VII remake we've been waiting a decade-plus for, you should probably set some money aside for the upcoming Final Fantasy X redux.

In what may be the most obvious yet somehow still compelling news to emerge from E3, Square Enix producer Yoshinori Kitase has coyly suggested that the company could be convinced to remake an as-yet-unknown number of its other Final Fantasy titles if the imminent Final Fantasy X remake is a financial success.

Kitase, who served as producer on Final Fantasy X and the more recent Final Fantasy XIII, was recently interviewed by (the refreshingly aptly named) RPG Site, who asked if we might see other titles remade in high-definition beyond Final Fantasy X. "We'll have to wait and see if these remasters are going to be successful, first," Kitase claimed.

"If they do well, I think this will pave the way for more of the previous games to remade in an HD sort of quality."

RPG Site then asked what game might be next on the list of potential remakes, and Kitase had an answer almost immediately. "I mean, if we HAD to single out one of the vast number of Final Fantasy titles which we could make in HD, it would have to be Final Fantasy XII," he replied.

"I was not involved in the project, though, so we can't really comment on that. What I can say though is that I hope the remastering of X and X-2 will trigger similar projects for more of the past games."

As much as the majority of gamers were probably hoping Kitase might say Final Fantasy VII, if one had choose another entry in the series to receive the HD treatment, it would be Final Fantasy XII. Objectively speaking, it's simply one of the best Final Fantasy titles. Of course, we do get the feeling that Kitase's comments are more "gladhanding the public" than anything else, but it's sunny outside, so in the spirit of unrealistic optimism let's all go buy that Final Fantasy X HD remake.

Well, whenever it actually arrives, that is. It still lacks a release date (or even a window of any kind), but we'll let you know just as soon as Square Enix firms up its plans for this ethereal title.

[Zelphiel]

I think the timing would be right for more remakes since that seems to be the popular thing to do with old games these days. its too bad that they're all just going to be reformatted for display on an HD monitor though. I would like to see some remakes from scratch, even if it means that the games themselves will be different in the end.

[Yvlla]

Yeah, same. At least take time to fix some of the coding/balance issues from the first time around - they're not too expensive to fix.

Also, I just want to say that I was just playing FF12 and was thinking that I could make a great and lengthy satirical joke about FF12 needing an HD remake, then this fucktard author asks for it for real.

[Zelphiel]

if they remade FFXII I would only buy it if they made the main story about 10 or 20 hours longer. I hate it when the majority of the time you spend playing a game is doing sidequests that have little to do with anything else in the game.

[Yvlla]

Yeah, I've been cataloging the issues that I had and still have with the game, and the poor pacing is most of them. Ashe being a bitch is most of the rest of them. And then there's Quickenings.

Really, though, that game doesn't need an HD remake. It needs the opposite, a 16-bit demake, so that we don't have to see Vaan's atrociously drawn face anymore.

[Zelphiel]

I dunno about completely 16 bit. Maybe everything is made of pixels except for Gilgamesh. lol

[Don Chipotle]

Man, if they made a FF12 HD, I would finally play more than eight hours of it.

[Altima]

I think he is trying to lure people into buying this remake by tempting us with other remakes we want. It is a good strategy, but if he then didn't make the remakes we would want it would be his doom.

[Peahohze]

Originally Posted by Snapplecrack

Man, if they made a FF12 HD, I would finally play more than eight hours of it.

I lol'd.

Mainly cos that's about as long as I lasted...

[Chicken Little]

I got up to end gaming and CBF as there was no motivation at all to do so. Then I decided to play it again from scratch and ran into the same problem at the same place so now I have 2 saves of "meh CBF" As opposed to 13 which I don't even think I'm halfway in and just hated every moment of, so I gigged through Star Ocean instead because I can deal with over the top absurd shit, just not shizen diverging shit.