Yeah mostly I'm just looking at a Chrono Trigger or FF6 VISUAL remake with the fancy looking style they have for these, but nothing else pretty much. There was a quote from a Square guy saying they might consider remaking FF6 but it sounded like they wanted to do something like 7 and I really don't care for that. Doesn't help that 6 char design look fucking clownish if it's not funny lil pixel sprites so you can't really tell.
Ultimately though I don't even care that much. If I really wanted to play the games I'd have replayed them on emulators, and the fact I haven't even bothered yet means I don't really care that much, even though I loved them while I was a kid. I'd rather just go through some of my backlog on Steam and experience new stuff for the most part.
Anyone ever play "I Am Setsuna"? I never did because it was always $40 on the PS Store which is too much to throw out on a relative unknown, think it's 20 now though. Digital-only back then, maybe it's physical now. In any case, I heard from a couple people that it was a great modern Chrono Trigger like game that had a lot of soul. Something like Sea of Stars does a good job emulating CT but I didn't really find it to have much soul in comparison. Well, I Am Setsuna supposedly has that CT energy in spades and was a great spiritual successor to it. It's very much a cult game, few people seem to know it exists, wasn't any kind of a big hit. Wondering if anyone played it or finished it.
I hope I’m wrong, but I think they are unlikely to do HD-2D FF remakes for a while because they just did pixel remasters.
Yeah, it's kind of unfortunate. Aside from FF1 and FF3 Pixel Remaster I could pretty much take or leave the PR series. (1 and 3 are easily the best ways to play those two, though). I wish they'd invested that energy into something else. I'd take FF6 HD-2D over all six PRs.
See also Dragon Quest 7. Instead of the massive undertaking that is DQ7 Reimagined, I wish they would have had that dev team spend that time/energy/money remaking DQ4 and DQ5 HD-2D. They could have easily done both and had quite a bit of time left over (maybe even 6 as well...I think 4/5/6 could all fit in the runtime of 7).
Or even better, remake DQ8 and 9.
Or even better than that, actually release DQ10 Single-Player outside of Japan.
Although XC3 sucked, I still love this series
Did Xenoblade 3 really suck? It's been near the top of my list for a couple years now. I wasn't that crazy about the other three Xenoblades, quite frankly, but I enjoyed my time with them enough to keep going with the series. XBX had the cool mechs but I had a lot of problems with it. XB2 was similar enough to Xenogears that I probably enjoyed it the most of the trio. However it got really annoying towards the end with all the character social link requirements to do things like open sealed doors and progress. The Torna DLC was ruined by making you do like 50 sidequests before you could get into the final area. Also didn't like how the battle music got completely obscured by 5-8 characters all constantly yelling over each other; nobody in that game could shut the fuck up, even for a second.
I tried XB3 for maybe an hour, found it a little bland. Everyone wears the same uniforms and the women are all dressed like men. Felt like an overcorrection after people complained about how ridiculous-looking some of XB2's female character outfits were, with their big floppy tetas.
Breath of Fire 4 was released on steam yesterday and is currently on sale for 5 bucks.
It apparently has DRM and no cloud saving unlike the GOG version. For 5 bucks I feel its worth it even if it is one of the weaker entries in the series imo.
$5 is a good price because it's a minimal loss. BOF4 is one of the biggest "waste of time" RPGs I've played in the past 20 years. I love the BOF series but that game is like a slow, tedious version of BOF3 that just goes on and on and on. Was 60 hours that felt like 120. If someone really loves BOF3 and has finished that game already, 4 might be worth a go. Though at this point, I value my time more than money in a lot of ways; losing $10 on a not-great game affects me less than losing the time I spent on it. I think I paid about $20 to get BOF4 digital on the PS3 a decade or so ago, but I resent the 60+ hours I put into it a lot more.
Didn't even give Dragon Quarter ("BOF5") the time of day after BOF4. A bunch of unappealing characters that live in a brown underworld full of caves and mines and do quests/missions in said brown caves and mines...yeah no I'm good.
BOF3 is really awesome though. Never played BOF2, but I hear it's great. BOF1 is pretty dated at this point and a fairly generic SNES RPG. You can speedrun the entire game once you get your first dragon morph. Use Mrbl3's to repel all enemy encounters, morph into the strongest current dragon for the boss fights (they have fixed levels/stats), beat the boss, repel your way to the next boss, repeat. Boss EXP is enough to keep your party afloat, not that it matters much because the dragon morphs do all the heavy lifting.
I should really try to get to BOF2 at some point in the near future, especially since it's on Switch Online. Might be the only major US SNES RPG I never played.
