What will square enix do once they run out of games to poorly """"remaster""""?
Loop around to the top of the list and start remastering the remasters
There's no limit to how much you can downgrade a game
Remaster them again. They're already doing it.
Stop buying their remasters and send them a message you want full remakes or new games.
>>340432405
ever tried recreating an entire game again from scratch? Because that's pretty much what they had to do with FFX and X-2.
Besides the shitty, tacked on casual cheat modes of FF7-9 HD, they were welcome additions. Especially 9, which was a PS1 exclusive for fucking 15 years.
The iOS ports suck major ass, I give you that.
>>340433030
You are so incredibly naive.
>>340432405
>Color corrected
>Call it remaster
>People fall for it
Fucking genius
>>340432405
Gee can't wait for 12 to get such class A treatment!
No extra content included of course ;)
>>340433030
their lazy ass remasters fucking suck, here let me also cherrypick a counter image
>>340433132
How's so exactly?
Should people be forever stuck with ancient original versions of all games? On systems that are not anymore being produced?
>>340433132
It's true though. Japanese devs are notorious for having thrown out all their old assets.
>>340433030
those both come from the PS2 version being emulated
the game features high poly and low poly models, with most cutscenes featuring the high poly modelsI know I'm replying to bait but someone will look at this and think it's real
>>340433320
>here let me also cherrypick a counter image
people really don't seem to understand what "remaster" means anymore.
If you want a REMAKE, expect to wait a full decade + pay some big bucks.
>>340432405
Tidus looks like Peter Pan's lesbian sister in the remake.
>>340433456
>those both come from the PS2 version being emulated
Nope. The baby-face Tidus is a big giveaway, and they didn't have even half as much actual 3D details on the models on PS2, even on the HQ models.
>couldn't romance lulu or rikku
>still can't romance them in the remaster
Why tho
just emulate
every time.
>>340433664
compare the picture you just posted to the one with auron
tidus is *obviously* the ps2 tidus, and so its auron for that matter
>>340433030
>FFX
>remade from scratch
Are you being stupid on purpose? I certainly hope so. Changing some character models is not redoing the entire game engine, story, combat, etc. FFX actually needs massive improvements to the story and sidequests. Which the remaster didn't fix. That's why its called a 'remaster' and not a 'remake'.
Sadly, it doesn't really matter when it comes to remakes. Final Fantasy I-IV all got remakes, but didn't fix what actually needed to be fixed, In fact, FFIII and IV on DS made things worse. And FFVII remake is going to do the same on steroids. Padding out the story over 6 individual games. Yet not fixing any of the problems the story had.
>>340433664
>>340433030
They're both from the PS2 version.
The remaster is the bottom one here, you can tell because it looks like fucking dogshit.
>>340433030
Both of these are from the PS2. The left side looks identical on the HD release because they're using not-cutscene models.
>>340434324
misleading content shill BLOWN THE FUCK OUT
>>340433952
Nope, you're the one being stupid here.
Look up development interviews and diaries concerning FFX's and KH's remasters; Square had to do TONS of assets from scratch, because Japs don't store their original data anywhere.
So yes, in this sense, the games were pretty much re-built from nothing, but they were NOT full-blown "Remakes" as we know them, like Resi's REmake. Thus, they are still mere remasters, with just more work being needed than one would usually consider necessary.
Silent Hill's "HD" "Collection" is perhaps the saddest example of a Jap classic having been butchered because the lack of original data.
>>340434340
>>340434324
>>340434340
>"It looks kinda bad, like, worse than the original even. Can't you do anything to make it better?"
>"Well sure, we can blow the saturation, crush the blacks and blur the texture details"
>"Perfect!"
Come on now, I've been playing the X HD remaster for PC and it's nowhere near as bad as these pictures.
Yeah there's the occasional creepy eye shadows but it's all good.
>>340434515
Go ahead and post sources yourself. The burden of proof is on you dude.
And once again, redoing some character models and textures isn't 'redoing the entire game from scratch'.
>>340434515
TONS of assets from scratch is not the same as the entire game from scratch, genius
They'll never run out.
Sony will keep releasing systems that won't play previously released games so they can stay on that money train forever.
>>340433952
They did re-do the engine, combat, and every single texture and many models of the game though. It's not just the characters.
They remade the game: remaster edition.
>>340434805
It is that bad though, they fucked up the lighting in every single cutscene.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxeZC_Q4hmU
>>340434824
>graphics matter in my jrpg
>>340434805
The fact remains that someone was paid to literally make the game look worse, where they could have just kept the original models when the original models looked better.
There's zero excuse for this.
>>340434824
It's well know fact, dipshit. they basically had to rip open retail copies of the games and reverse engineer them.
They made Yuna a lifeless doll.
>>340433320
>Gee can't wait for 12 to get such class A treatment!
Technically, FF12 will be internal remaster and not outsourced to Chinese like FF10 was. It helps that 12 looks better than 10 by default.
>>340435496
This is one of the best scenes in FFX and they ruined it. She's literally lifesless now, her eyes barely move.
https://youtu.be/6gFmMj0Bi70?list=PL51AEMznk63EfReqVTAQQmKrAnY9CPWkk&t=1910
>>340435519
10 looked better than 12 though.
>>340432405
>I can see into forever
>>340433776
Only thing that really mars emulations is the interface. Fortunately, even that can be fixed with Dolphin, for example.
>>340435810
>doesn't look like a naive, demure girl anymore
SOILED IT
>>340435251
>its a well known fact!
Sure fire way to know someone is talking out of their ass. Right up there with "Everybody's doing it!" and "They all say its good!"
>>340435810
Now you're just being silly, anon. If nothing else FF12 benefited from getting released later in PS2's lifespan.
>>340436385
She's objectively worse in motion, in every single cutscene.
Stills don't come close to capturing how much they butchered her.
>>340436523
He's right though. The fact that the source files were lost has been parroted on /v/ for almost a decade.
>>340436523
http://www.siliconera.com/2013/06/25/kingdom-hearts-1-data-is-lost-square-had-to-recreate-everything-for-hd/
>>340436546
It did, actually, FF12 is one of the very few games that completely utilize the processing power that the PS2 has.
It takes studios and developers to harness the power of a console, just compare Uncharted 1 to Uncharted 3 visuals.
>>340437325
I don't know how characters almost completely lost their ability to emote in HD. Did they think original was too goofy or something?
>>340437339
FF12 didn't do anything impressive though and the models were worse than FFX.
> Uncharted 1 to Uncharted 3 visuals.
Nearly the same and worse than Ubisoft and Rockstar games.
>>340437479
No name modders remade them from scratch, of course they couldn't compare to Square in their prime.
>their flagship series is outsourced
>side game not even a part of FF is done properly inhouse
>>340437874
I want the KH collection on steam dammit.
My ps3 is kaput.
>>340437874
>done properly
>all they did was slightly change a couple of textures and models on the main characters
squareenix is fucking awful at remastering, they've literally never done a good one.
>>340437307
>we don't have all the data
In other words, they do have some of the data. Which your claim that the 'entire game was remade' is proven false by your own source.
Its pretty evident since the main combat engine and graphics engines were retained. As they are exactly the same in the remake. What they most likely lost were the textures and character models. Which they redid, and then claimed it was a remaster. If they had to 'remake the entire game from scratch', then they would have fixed shit like the Chocobo mini game or some really stupid looking animations in cutscenes. Those things were exactly the same as the PS2 game however.
>>340438221
I love that look on Yuna's face in the original.
FFXHD is fucking trash. I will never play it.
>>340438284
>Its pretty evident since the main combat engine and graphics engines were retained.
They weren't. The lighting engine is completely different and they remade the combat as seen in the post you're replying to.
>>340438334
And like I said earlie,r in motion it's so much worse. The subtleties of all the character's emotions were so good and it aged really well. Then the HD release gutted all of it.
>>340438334
She looks ugly in both versions.
>(゚ 3゚) Onsokumaru !!f6Tejk6TlLT
No wonder you have such shit taste.
>>340438221
square didn't do the remaster, they handed it off to a garbage ass chinese company that is responsible for shitting out many of the fuck awful remasters that we've been seeing over the years.
>>340439765
>She looks ugly in both versions.
>>340439927
>fedora.jpg
This is the most autistic thread of the day.
>>340439853
This.
The music is awful, too.
>Trusting other composers to put their spin on Uematsu's compositions/arrangements.
Completely butchered. If you want an inferior experience, play the "remaster."
The FF12 remaster trailer sounded pretty good, though. Since the original compositions are pretty much all orchestral, it should transition fine into live-sounding instrumentation. Hopefully they won't actively butcher this one like they did with 7 and 10.
>the same chink company that did X|X-2 HD did the Batman remasters
>FFXII HD is not done by them
Thank god.
>>340434340
>auron is 35 years old
>looks 50
seriously square
SERIOUSLY?
>>340441990
The original FFX had four different composers. Most songs were not done by Uematsu. The best songs were done by the guy who wrote the music for FFXIII. Uematsu actually wrote the Zanarkand theme, which was repeated so many times it became annoying.