I hate Square-Enix

[MrCalavera]

They probably looked on eBay and saw how much people were paying for discontinued games or something. Only problem is now they’re continued again, as if they mostly weren’t anyways.

Meh. They’ll drop the price or Steam will even more by the holidays.

Gary Cole voice: "SE, I know you were thinking of charging $18 per classic FF game, but I'm thinking I could just wait for a steam sale and buy them for like $10 or less, ok......"
*Takes long drink from coffee mug*

Or they likely won't be put on sale.

Now that SE released PP edition(snrk) they will promote it. And that means not doing sales on older versions. They weren't on sale this summer.

Wiuldn't be the first: Capcom does similarly with DMC.

 

[bluegate]

That's a lot of money for a couple of NES and SNES roms, the balls on Square for daring to price like that are humongous.

 

[laggyteabag]

Halo The Master Chief Collection equally offers 6 games, but sells for £30, or £7 per game.

Asking almost double for a bunch of 30+ year old 2D sprite games is hard to justify, in comparison.

Pricing for remastered old games is always difficult. For example, I was excited for the Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance remaster, but I was really surprised by the £30 price tag on that. Yet, I happily spent almost £60 on the Mass Effect Remaster.

I don't really know what the "right" price is for a remaster, but I can tell you right now that this is way too expensive.

 

[Samtemdo8]

Is this even AAA though? Like it's remasters of 30 year old games. What the fuck? This is just scalping. Fans have been dying for a faithful way to play FF6 especially, and Square knows this so they are obviously scalping people for that privilege.

Then again, that's like $10 per game if you think about it and they are fairly long games for what they are. Which on paper sounds fine. But because of their age I can't help but think the entire bundle should have been $50 TOPS. Or $40 even better.

How do you Scalp digital games?

 

[CriticalGaming]

How do you Scalp digital games?

Live in Australia. They pay way more for digital games despite no shipping cost.

 

[Samtemdo8]

Best buy it one by one then after a period of time. I mean each game is worth enough to dedicate time too

And some of them are more popular then others so I doubt there are folks here rushing to buy FF 2

 

[FakeSympathy]

God, it's almost like they forgot about the FF4: Complete collection on psp.

Not sure why this version is getting so ignored; IMO, it's the best-looking one, even better than the ds 3d version

 

[09philj]

Not sure why this version is getting so ignored

on psp

There's your problem.

 

[wings012]

I'm kinda not very surprised at this. I guess people here mostly don't care but they've been selling overpriced mobile ports of their SNES catalogue for ages. I remember paying attention to their existence when I first got a smartphone but I've kinda stopped looking at the PlayStore. I did buy the FFIV 3D remake mobile port a while back when it actually went on sale, which almost never happens on the PlayStore when I still checked it.

 

[Gordon_4]

Live in Australia. They pay way more for digital games despite no shipping cost.

Some of that is currency conversion. Our dollar has less buying power than the American dollar after all. But yeah the cost on digital games can be a bit galling considering how many middle men it cuts out.

 

[immortalfrieza]

The fuck. Price-gouging wankers. That collection should be... £25?

Can you buy them individually? I only want 1 & 2 because they're the only single-player numbered entries I've never played.

And FF1 is the only one of those two that's actually worth playing. FF2 has an absolutely horrendous combat and advancement system, even worse than FF8's.

I'm not playing these games until Square Enix finally grows a brain and makes 3D versions of them like they did with FF4 anyway, so I don't really care, but yes they are WAY too expensive.

 

[Silvanus]

And FF1 is the only one of those two that's actually worth playing. FF2 has an absolutely horrendous combat and advancement system, even worse than FF8's.

Eh... I had my problems with FF8 (progression felt undermined by enemies levelling alongside you/ using spells in combat would weaken the stat it was junctioned to) but I didn't really mind all that too much.

What's so bad about FF2's?

 

[BrawlMan]

What's so bad about FF2's?

The leveling and combat system. From the scrappy mechanic page:

• The "Leveling" system in general. You do not gain traditional EXP from killing monsters. Instead, characters level skills based upon use. Therefore, you must use each individual magic in order to increase its level. HP works in a similar fashion— you gain more by being hit. This was even worse in the earlier versions, as your stats could go down if you don't use a skill tied to it enough. Haven't cast magic in a while? Your Intelligence will drop.
• The NES version files your key items in your hugely limited inventory, where they consume a valuable slot for the whole game. Most expert players will skip picking up the airship pass from the office in the mines in favour of using exploits to cheese their way past the Beef Gate instead, because the inventory slot is more valuable.
• Trap rooms. Instead of simply having in dungeon traps, the game has it where the doorway to the next level of a dungeon is found from usually several doors, all but one being "fake" rooms that lead to small rooms where the enemy rate jumps significantly, turning the each step into a battle. This is already frustrating, but the game forces you almost to the center of the room, meaning it can take four to five fights to even escape. Combined with how difficult FF2 is, and it means a player can lose progress not because they made a mistake, but because the game punished the player for something out of their control.
  • In addition to this, many dungeons feature a bunch of doors at the end, one of which leads to progress, and the rest of which lead to trap rooms. There is no way of telling the correct door apart from the others.
• The constant switching of the fourth party member turns the game into a far more frustrating experience due to how each character has different stats and specializations when you get them. It makes each time you gain a new one, or regain a previously playable one, time consuming because you need to make sure they have stats comparable to the three heroes.

Final Fantasy / Scrappy Mechanic - TV Tropes

Scrappy Mechanic Main Page Scrappy Mechanic - MMORPGs Scrappy Mechanic - Role Playing Games In the NES version of FFI and FFII, your party members do not switch targets if the enemy they'd targeted dies before they attackif your entire …

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[Samtemdo8]

Pixel version 1, 2, 3 is coming out tomorrow



4, 5, and 6 are coming out next year

 

[BrawlMan]

Pixel version 1, 2, 3 is coming out tomorrow



4, 5, and 6 are coming out next year

Sucks to be them. Still not buying.

 

[Samtemdo8]

Sucks to be them. Still not buying.

Because its not on Consoles?

 

[CriticalGaming]

Because its not on Consoles?

That and the cost is why im not buying it personally.

 

[Samtemdo8]

That and the cost is why im not buying it personally.

10 dollars is too much? Or is it because mobile games that are like these FF games can cost 99 cents?

 

[CriticalGaming]

10 dollars is too much? Or is it because mobile games that are like these FF games can cost 99 cents?

$10 each is too much imo. I think this whole 6 game collection should have been $40 bucks tops in a single package. Especially considering the first couple of games already had pixel remasters on the psp for the aniversary editions.

It's like Nintendo selling you Super Mario World for the 1000th time and still wanting $15 dollars for what is little more than an official ROM.

 

[Samtemdo8]

$10 each is too much imo. I think this whole 6 game collection should have been $40 bucks tops in a single package. Especially considering the first couple of games already had pixel remasters on the psp for the aniversary editions.

It's like Nintendo selling you Super Mario World for the 1000th time and still wanting $15 dollars for what is little more than an official ROM.

Probably 10 dollars to cover the expenses of re-doing all the sprites again. I mean someone or people had to re-draw whole sprites.


I mean in the case of Final Fantasy 1, they are trying to restore how the sprites originally looked like in the NES game instead of using the modern re-releases.

Like The Thief Class now looks like his "Blue Haired Elf" self from the NES instead of looking like a Human "Link" in outfit and color pallete.

The big bosses like The Lich now looks like his NES Sprite then the GBA/PSP one.