What Squaresoft should do.

[The Czech Republic 0]

Remake Final Fantasies 6, 7, and possibly 4, with modern graphics and sound. Those would be the best games ever made, y'all. Certainly better than any tripe the RPG world trots out these days. I would pay lots for those games. And it really can't be that hard to make. The game itself is written out already, it's just a matter of the computer wizards rendering the game in PS2-or-3ish graphics. So yeah. Someone tell Square to get on that, remarketing those games for a new generation.

[Star Ocean 3 0]

Those games aren't going to be any better. I'd rather waste time playing something new. Wow, better graphics.

[LaParkaMarka 0]

What SO3 said. People have already played FFVII etc to death, new graphics and maybe a new boss or dungeon isn't going to add very much.

 

A bonus unintended effect of an FFVII re-release is that Andrew's head would explode.

[Special K 0]

They should start making good games again. Which they may be doing, sine they have a few neat looking games on the horizon. Kingdom Hearts was there last pretty good game (Ok, I didn't play Front Mission 4)

 

Enix seems to be putting out some good games though, so I hardly think they're in dire straits.

[AndrewTS 0]

A bonus unintended effect of an FFVII re-release is that Andrew's head would explode.

For that to happen I would have to give a damn one way or the other about what that creatively bankrupt company was releasing other than KH2.

 

Chances are the gameplay wouldn't be enhanced one damn bit (just like how FFVII was vs. the SNES games), it would hurt the nostalgia factor to redo them that much.

 

Plus, they could make a quicker, easier buck by throwing Chronicles, Origins and Anthology on a single PS2 disc and/or putting out some GBA shovelware of the original SNES games. That's what I'd do. The Squareheads would buy it anyway, especially if it cut out the awful loading times of the PS1 versions.

 

Let Enix do another Actraiser style game--with today's technology it would be quite bitchin'.

[EricMM 0]

Did you play dark cloud 2? I enjoyed the world building experiance of that, even tho it wasn't nearly on the same scale.

[AndrewTS 0]

Did you play dark cloud 2? I enjoyed the world building experiance of that, even tho it wasn't nearly on the same scale.

Yeah, I played it. Rather fun, but the dungeons got rather tedious quickly.

[razazteca 0]

Remake the same ol crap but this time on the new portable systems.

[Matt Young 0]

They'd basically have to start from scratch if they did that. It wouldn't be as simple as you make it sound. I'd like to see those games remade, especially since I've barely played any of the 3 (I've only been into RPGs for maybe 2 eyars) but I don't see it happening.

 

At any rate, Square is supposedly releasing an enhanced version of FF3/6 for the DS.

[Guest Smues]

They'd basically have to start from scratch if they did that. It wouldn't be as simple as you make it sound. I'd like to see those games remade, especially since I've barely played any of the 3 (I've only been into RPGs for maybe 2 eyars) but I don't see it happening.

 

At any rate, Square is supposedly releasing an enhanced version of FF3/6 for the DS.

I know they're doing an enhanced version of the japanese 3 that never got an American port, but I hadn't heard anything about FFVI on DS.

[The Czech Republic 0]

Maybe the reason the Japanese games didn't make it over was because they sucked. Onion Kids?

[razazteca 0]

But how hard is it to put old games on new systems, its nothing but a medium change from cart to disc or the other way around.

[LaParkaMarka 0]

But how hard is it to put old games on new systems, its nothing but a medium change from cart to disc or the other way around.

Not quite. It's different hardware underneath, like trying to put a PS2 disk into an Xbox. There's a fair amount of system specific code hooked in to every game due to the hardware, all of that has to be redone and then each component retested to make sure new bugs haven't arises from the new code. Which is a lot more difficult than it sounds.

[AndrewTS 0]

But how hard is it to put old games on new systems, its nothing but a medium change from cart to disc or the other way around.

Not quite. It's different hardware underneath, like trying to put a PS2 disk into an Xbox. There's a fair amount of system specific code hooked in to every game due to the hardware, all of that has to be redone and then each component retested to make sure new bugs haven't arises from the new code. Which is a lot more difficult than it sounds.

Does that count for the large number of games that are basically little more than emulators and ROMs bundled together? I assume, of course, that they'd have to develop an emulation program for a console, get all the bugs worked out, and if they accomplish that then they don't have to worry, though.

 

Sega's inability to port Sega CD to any of the compilations comes to mind. They thought that they had a good Genesis/SCD emulator for the GC, but when they actually nearly had everything finished, they found out SCD wasn't going to work out with it. (Google "Sonic Cult"--they have plenty of info on it if you're interested.)

 

I'd say that probably SNES to GBA probably isn't difficult, though, considering how everybody and their mother released ports like that. Then again, you still had Majesco ("we made Bloodrayne!...and...um...), who released crappy EWJ ports.

 

I'd say the sheer number of awful emulation attempts on consoles kind of fits in with that.

 

Right off hand, I think of the Sega Smash Pack for DC, the mode 7 effects in the PS1 Final Fantasy ports, the problems with the MM7 ending on the MMAC, and so on.

[Renegade 0]

Release more Kingdom hearts and fast, also make some more vagrant story games.

[Guest The Ohtani of Time]

Release more Kingdom hearts and fast, also make some more vagrant story games.

Vagrany Story was one of Square's best games, not too many people played it though, too bad for them.

[Jer 0]

Vagrant Story definitely needs a sequel.

 

I'd buy an FF6 remake. FF6 is my favorite videogame ever, and a remake that modernized the graphics and music without sacrificing the feel of it would be pretty hot. They'd have to keep the combat fast, though. Minute long spell animations would ruin it.

[AndrewTS 0]

Release more Kingdom hearts and fast, also make some more vagrant story games.

Vagrany Story was one of Square's best games, not too many people played it though, too bad for them.

Thankfully, it's available rather cheaply these days used.

 

That's in stark contrast to Valkyrie Profile, which everybody says is a fantastic HQ game, perhaps Square's best ever, but unless you get *very* lucky and find it at an EB/Gamestop used, or brave the Ebay game-misers and fetch yourself a copy, you can't be sure about it.

[The Man in Blak 0]

Let Enix do another Actraiser style game--with today's technology it would be quite bitchin'.

 

Too bad they've already been trumped on the "next generation" front by the Dark Cloud series.

 

Frankly, Square needs to hire better writers. The first couple of PS1 Final Fantasies were front-loaded with graphics and "gameplay innovations" like Materia and the Draw System, but they both contained stories that, in my opinion, were pretty terrible. I don't find myself replaying them because it would be like re-reading a book just to enjoy the grammar.

 

But both of those installments were outrageously successful and - save for a handful of exceptions - that pattern hasn't really let up since then.

 

Square can design the games without a problem but, nowadays, they just seem to be missing the mark on the very component that made their earlier games, such as Chrono Trigger and FFVI, legendary.

[Star Ocean 3 0]

Valkyrie Profile isn't a Square game.

[Human Fly 0]

Whatever happened to the FFVII sequel movie that Square was making? Last I heard it was supposed to come out last year, but have not heard anything for awhile.

[razazteca 0]

I heard rumors that it will come out for the portable playstation.

[Highland 0]

Maybe the reason the Japanese games didn't make it over was because they sucked. Onion Kids?

Indeed. I had FF 2-5 on my computer (bless emulators) and I quickly saw why they never made it over to this side of the ocean. Not all games that aren't sold here are good.

 

Final Fantasy 3 was horrid, Seiken Densetsu 3 is awesome and should have been ported over here.