Square Enix Considering Bringing Final Fantasy V, VI to 3DS

[RobinStarwing]

Originally Posted by NonCon

Final Fantasy VI is much, much more popular than Earthbound.

I don't see why they wouldn't. They've remade every other FF fifty billion times over. Not really any reason they wouldn't do it with VI.



Then why buy it at all? Maybe I'm underestimating the value of a side dungeon, but I wouldn't consider one worth the Squeenix Tax, let alone the total cost of a game.

I loved Earthbound for all it's quirks and simpleness, it was still a fun game to play for it's time.

[Roland]

Well, on the one hand, the FF4 characters were redesigned to more closely resemble their actual artwork. We could probably expect to see a Faris that actually looks masculine by FF standards, or a Celes that doesn't parade around in a swimsuit.

On the other hand, Nomura exists.

On the third hand, there are soooo many ways they could completely screw this up, the least of which is deciding to fire their current awesome translation team(s?) and do things the old school way: Handling the translation themselves.

Just imagine it: FF5, but with a translation so dry and boring that the game's nature as a by-the-numbers SNES era JRPG is completely obvious to even the least attentive gamer.

But I shall remain cautiously optimistic.

[Flarecobra]

...*Cries*

5, I can understand. Give it FF6-style sprites...and that's all I can think of right now.

6... Do not touch. Why mess with perfection?

Most likely answer: It prints MONEY!

[Kim]

Originally Posted by RobinStarwing

I loved Earthbound for all it's quirks and simpleness, it was still a fun game to play for it's time.

That's irrelevant. People don't remake fun games. They remake popular ones. Sometimes a game is both, like FFVI, but complaining about no Earthbound remake is ridiculous. It's not popular enough to warrant a remake, at least not to the extent FFVI is, it's caught up in legal snarls like Donomni said, and Squeenix didn't even make Earthbound so I hardly see how Earthbound is relevant the thread.

[Fenris]

Originally Posted by NonCon

Then why buy it at all? Maybe I'm underestimating the value of a side dungeon, but I wouldn't consider one worth the Squeenix Tax, let alone the total cost of a game.

Portability? I guess I dunno. If they could make it look good- and make it look good I'd like that, but from my experience "updated graphics" usually means "we just took a shit on your memories."

[Kim]

Originally Posted by Fenristein Wolfowitz

Portability? I guess I dunno. If they could make it look good- and make it look good I'd like that, but from my experience "updated graphics" usually means "we just took a shit on your memories."

I believe the Chrono Trigger remake showed us that they don't need to update the graphics to do that. That said, I'm not exactly on the go enough for portability to be a big selling point to me. The 3DS has the potential for some damn fine sprite art, and even though I know we won't get that art, that's one of the things it'd take to get me interested in this remake.

[RobinStarwing]

Originally Posted by Flarecobra

...*Cries*

5, I can understand. Give it FF6-style sprites...and that's all I can think of right now.

6... Do not touch. Why mess with perfection?

Most likely answer: It prints MONEY!

I agree with the last part dear...>_> 6 is perfect, don't mess with it. If you are going to do anything...make Ultima easier to get as a spell for Terra.

The logic behind that is Terra is one of the two most powerful magic casters. She's also half-esper and she gets stronger physically and magically in Morphed form. *let's everyone picture Terra Morphed using Ultima*

[Kim]

Things the remake could bring to the table

1. Higher quality sprites.

2. More fluid and visually interesting attack animations.

3. Voice acting, which could theoretically give the opera scene more impact.

4. Gameplay tweaks and maybe some nifty additions to the combat.

5. The music could have much, much better audio quality. It could sound like it was actually being played with instruments.

[Azisien]

This would be an opportunity for me to give VI another shot.

[Solid Snake]

I wouldn't mind an FFVI port, but yeah, I don't feel like seeing a newly redone 3D version of FFVI. FFVI and Chrono Trigger were both masterpieces of the SNES era 2D style: to see either of them re-imagined into something entirely different and slightly more 3D in the vein of FFIV on the DS would probably result in a graphical downgrade.

An FFVI port done in the style of Chrono Trigger DS wouldn't be so bad, though, so long as they didn't muck up the original translation like they did with CT.

I'd have a much easier time getting behind a FFV remake done in the style of FFIV: FFV wasn't quite as gorgeous aesthetically as FFVI or CT and it isn't quite as well known either, so perhaps a fresh paint job wouldn't be such a travesty.

Now what they should be remaking for the 3DS is FFVII, because unlike FFVI, FFVII's early-era 3D graphics are ugly as sin today (I find them quite endearing on the basis of sheer nostalgia value, but a new, younger gamer would surely disagree.) Cloud, Tifa, Red XIII and the gang would benefit tremendously from a 3DS remake, and that remake would sell a hell of a lot more copies anyway. But something tells me Square-Enix is going to wait until the recession gets a bit worse (and possibly until the next X720 and/or PS4 hits the market) to introduce an HD FF7.