All-Purpose Final Fantasy Thread

[Rodgerwilco]

Random tangent, but I recently discovered this gem of an FFVII channel. Its niche iceberg-y investigative videos are really fascinating and are packed with tons of stuff I had no idea about the game, despite being pretty deeply familiar with a lot of the stuff surrounding it. Plus it does a really cool job of using the in-game models to recreate what the devs were likely intending.






Only posting these four randomly, but literally all of the channel's videos are interesting.

Great post! I've been loving this channel! So cool to see a new channel pop up that's diving into a 28 year old video game. A lot of really interesting stuff about the game that I've never seen before on other channels over the years.

 

[Metroid]

If anyone has Spotify, Square Enix released the soundtrack to all mainline games I-XVI including remake and rebirth in one play list. Over 140 hours of music.

 

[Shareefruck]

Two big Final Fantasy remakes are reportedly still in ‘active development’ | VGC

 

[Metroid]

Two big Final Fantasy remakes are reportedly still in ‘active development’ | VGC

They've been hinting/trolling us with these for couple years now. Would be awesome if it happened.

 

[Shareefruck]

They've been hinting/trolling us with these for couple years now. Would be awesome if it happened.

I just care about Tactics, personally, and thought it was pretty much dead after so much time had passed since the NVidia leak.

Especially since the news that Square's been cutting a ton of their smaller projects due to the lack of success of Rebirth. But it sounds like it isn't among them?

 

[Metroid]

I just care about Tactics, personally, and thought it was pretty much dead after so much time had passed since the NVidia leak.

Especially since the news that Square's been cutting a ton of their smaller projects due to the lack of success of Rebirth. But it sounds like it isn't among them?

Let's hope!

 

[PeteWorrell]

Hopefully those remakes are faithful to the originals like Dragon Quest III and Romancing SaGa 2. I am not interested in re-imaginings or big changes by people that think that they can "improve" things.

 

[Shareefruck]

Hopefully those remakes are faithful to the originals like Dragon Quest III and Romancing SaGa 2. I am not interested in re-imaginings or big changes by people that think that they can "improve" things.

Normally I would agree with you, but Matsuno has been heavily associated with every re-release that Final Fantasy Tactics or Tactics Ogre has ever had (and his name has popped up in rumors of this one as well), and nearly every change he's overseen has ended up dramatically improving the previous iterations, in my opinion (especially when it comes to storytelling). He's a total outlier that bucks the trend and completely oozes artistic integrity and good sense, as far as I'm concerned. One of the few people I'd trust with a re-imagining.

Doubly so if Akihido Yoshida and Hitoshi Sakimoto are still in the mix creatively. I've heard that the creative team for those games have mostly stuck together throughout the years.

Not everyone is as questionable creatively as Nomura and Nojima.

(I'd also potentially lean towards trusting a 9 re-imagining if Sakaguchi is back in charge of it, but that's more of a longshot)

 

[McGarnagle]

If anyone has Spotify, Square Enix released the soundtrack to all mainline games I-XVI including remake and rebirth in one play list. Over 140 hours of music.

That's awesome, though I avoid listening to video games music on Spotify because it screws up my Wrapped for the year. If I listen to the Mega Man 2 soundtrack once, then Spotify thinks Capcom Sound Team is my #3 artist of the year and how in the month of June my vibe was all about spacy video game retro jams or some shit like that.

 

[Metroid]

That's awesome, though I avoid listening to video games music on Spotify because it screws up my Wrapped for the year. If I listen to the Mega Man 2 soundtrack once, then Spotify thinks Capcom Sound Team is my #3 artist of the year and how in the month of June my vibe was all about spacy video game retro jams or some shit like that.

Hahaa I hear ya, but atleast for me anyways it sets up a playlist of just video game music. I also listen to alot of bands that do video game music covers so they got slotted there as well.

 

[PeteWorrell]

Normally I would agree with you, but Matsuno has been heavily associated with every re-release that Final Fantasy Tactics or Tactics Ogre has ever had (and his name has popped up in rumors of this one as well), and nearly every change he's overseen has ended up dramatically improving the previous iterations, in my opinion (especially when it comes to storytelling). He's a total outlier that bucks the trend and completely oozes artistic integrity and good sense, as far as I'm concerned. One of the few people I'd trust with a re-imagining.

Doubly so if Akihido Yoshida and Hitoshi Sakimoto are still in the mix creatively. I've heard that the creative team for those games have mostly stuck together throughout the years.

Not everyone is as questionable creatively as Nomura and Nojima.

(I'd also potentially lean towards trusting a 9 re-imagining if Sakaguchi is back in charge of it, but that's more of a longshot)

Matsuno is the original creator of those projects so i am fine if he wants to re-imagine his own work. A re-imagined FFXII with Matsuno fully on board would be fantastic. He left the project before it was complete so we never got his full vision.

 

[Rodgerwilco]

I just care about Tactics, personally, and thought it was pretty much dead after so much time had passed since the NVidia leak.

Especially since the news that Square's been cutting a ton of their smaller projects due to the lack of success of Rebirth. But it sounds like it isn't among them?

I started a play through of Tactics on original hardware recently. Amazing how this game can still pull me in like it's nothing... I'm going to try to do a lot of side missions that I never got around to doing in the past. Would love for a tactics remake, but I'm not sure it even needs it. The original is still just as good.

 

[Shareefruck]

I started a play through of Tactics on original hardware recently. Amazing how this game can still pull me in like it's nothing... I'm going to try to do a lot of side missions that I never got around to doing in the past. Would love for a tactics remake, but I'm not sure it even needs it. The original is still just as good.

PSX or PSP? (I hate the PSX translation, personally)

I think the core spirit of what it is and how it looks holds up beautifully, but to be honest, even for my favorite things, I'm very rarely a "it's perfect the way it is, doesn't need to be fixed, and wouldn't want to see it improved" kind of person.

Nothing "needs" to be fixed, but as an ultra-critical snob, I sure as hell would love to see a version of it that I like even more and have fewer gripes with. Especially when something is SO good that a couple tweaks could outright turn it into a flawless masterpiece.

It's one of my favorite games of all time, but even so, I would still say that FFT has: awfully considered balancing/difficulty curves, awful AI, broken enemy scaling (this is probably the most egregious flaw), annoyingly high commitment random battles (only tolerable via save scumming), and while it has a script that I absolutely adore (old-style english and everything), there are definitely times when the language goes a bit overboard with that stuff and gets needlessly confusing to read (sometimes it feels like they re-arrange the order of the words in a sentence completely for shits and giggles). I'd also like them to fix the point of no return soft lock (or like TO:R, at least add a warning before entering those areas).

I felt PSP Tactics Ogre was similarly excellent already, but Tactics Ogre Reborn was still a godsend to me that shot it even higher up my favorites, so more of that, please.

Plus, even if it doesn't strictly need adjusting, it's tragic for it to not be available on accessible platforms, IMO (even more tragic that everyone plays the crappier version instead of the good one because the latter is harder to access).