Poll: Final Fantasy X remake - do YOU hate it?

[Crusnik]

Get rid of the laugh scene in Luca and I'm sold.

 

[robert022614]

I would play it I played it quite a bit when I had it for the ps2 and I dont really think Final Fantasy has a whole lot of life left anyway.

 

[mirasiel]

I think I'd rather they did an HD remake of Mystic Quest than X.

I really do not understand this reluctance square/enix have about remaking what is probably one of their most widely & fondly remembered titles.


Maybe they are just tired of making money.

/edit if they must do this, for the love FSM redo the voice acting...and possibly the whole script...and make Auron more...I dunno...something...and Tidus less......with the talking...and the breathing.

Oh and at least make the Al Bhed lines less predictable so that there is at least a fucking reason to find the primers.

My dislike for X is only slightly behind my burning hate for VIII

 

[Amber Travers]

While I enjoyed 10, the reason they are remaking FF10 is they are lazy. Too lazy to remake any of the really good Final Fantasy's as it would involve literally redoing everything from scratch. It's the same reason you cant fly around in your airship the way you used to. They basically said it's too much work to have that vast of an environment. They would rather spend time on the piles of garbage called Final Fantasy 13 and Final Fantasy 14. Cant imagine why their stock isn't exactly booming. If they really wanted to make a killing, they would have a team working on remakes 1-9 full time. How many copies of FF7 were sold? 10 million I think....10 million x $60 a copy....$600,000,000. Isn't that what all companies are in it for? To make money. I'm pretty sure this would not only get nostalgic gamers like me to pick up a copy but get a whole new generation enjoying what Final Fantasy used to be. Not to mention if they could put the re-releases on PS3, PC, and 360....

 

[Vault Citizen]

FFX is the only FF I've really gotten into and I had lots of fun with it so I'm really looking forward to the remake.

 

[sindremaster]

They're remaking FFX? That's great I've wanted that for a long time, it runs like shit on an emulator.
So I read the thread title and came in ready to scream YES, then I saw this:

Or do you wish that they'd stop remaking old games and come out with KH3 already?

And now I'm not so sure anymore

 

[ultimasupersaiyan]

I look forward to the remake of Final Fantasy X because it was the second last good Final Fantasy(last being X-2) and in my honest opinion Final Fantasy needs to return to it's creator or just end. Personally I'd prefer FFIX to be remade since it is Hironobu Sakaguchi's favourite of the series and has my favourite Final Fantasy character in it Vivi because he reminds me of Robo with how his character progresses.

Final Fantasy X being remade is proof that Square-Enix can't make a good new Final Fantasy and need to mine what was good. Also to everyone who wants Final Fantasy VII remade, GET OVER IT! The game isn't as good as you thought and Square-Enix wants to butcher it if they remade it since they have to rebuild it from the ground up to look like FFXIII and that's what you guys want. Personally I'd want a PS2 graphics upgrade for FFVII that looks like Dirge Of Cerberus but that's me. As for PS3 upgrades FFVIII and FFIX have a better chance since it has better character models and pre-rendered backgrounds to work with.

Since they are remaking FFX I only want 1 change... allow use to get enough unlocking spheres for every lock! That has always pissed me off in the game. Oh and fix the lip sync too! I loved Final Fantasy X and it was the reason I bought a PS2(ironically FFXIII was the reason I bought a PS3). I sure hope it comes out this year but I think 2013 would be more likely when it gets released.

 

[dunedog]

FFX being remade is stupid. Whether you like it or not, it already had incredibly high production values. Hell, it looks better than some PS3 games.

If there are any Final Fantasy games that need to be remade, they are VI and IX. Both are better than X (and VII, for that matter. Suck it, fanboys). VI had the best final boss in any FF game, though IX continued the "oh you thought they were the villain? Too bad, here's someone worse who was controlling them lawl" thing that VIII started...

 

[Grey_Focks]

Can't say I really care about it. Now a remake of 12 would garner some interest. Yea, yea, I know a lot of people hated it, but the open-nature of the maps and KotOR-esque gameplay were more up my alley than the more traditional JRPG combat of standing across from each other taking turns whacking each other.

 

[Khanht Cope]

I'm sceptical of remakes since Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes. A case where a remake seems like a mind-blowing idea, but where the developement hammers the dignity of the original into the ground with every single liberty they take.

FFX was the last great Final Fantasy IMO, but if it's just a job to revamp the visuals, then the gameplay probably won't hold up well enough to be worth it.

There are innumerable places where FFX would benefit from gameplay adjustments; but given that Square Enix doesn't really understand how to make great Final Fantasy games anymore; it's likely that you'll see effort directed toward making 'improvements' that the game doesn't need. Like a new soundtrack that doesn't hold up to an original one that was already ideal as it was; or extended FMV scenes with Advent Children style choreography that basically waste your time in having you watch Tidus defy the laws of physics.

There's definately some potential here; but the chances are comparatively high that it'll be squandered to some extent.

 

[major_chaos]

Considering I hated FFX with a burning passion it should be easy to guess what I think of the remake. that being said they could fix some of the problems with it if this is a remake not just a new coat of paint (I highly doubt they will though). but unless they fix the awful story, obnoxious cast, and hilariously stupid character design I have no desire to see Titus's infinitely punchable face in HD.

 

[Pseudonyme]

But let me just say this, above all else, HERE is why FFX was an absolutely shitty game: it is literally impossible to lose against the main boss (Yevon) unless you kill yourself...TWICE!

Yevon is not the main boss. Penance is the main boss. If you can't see the merits behind a story driven battle then I think final fantasy of all things may be a bit much for you.

As to the name thing, you say that as though it changes the fact that it's still impossible to lose to the final boss of the game. As to "story driven battles", ALL boss fights in FF games are story-driven battles...but I still expect to be able to lose to the final boss of a game. Sephiroth could kill you. Kefka could kill you. Zeromus could kill you. Ultimecia could kill you...granted, as I've said before, I haven't played any FF game past 10, but I would sincerely have to hope that in every installment after that, you could lose the final battle. You like the game, that's fine by me, but don't use that as an excuse to discount my perfectly valid points.

Name thing? No, I'm referring to http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Penance_%28Final_Fantasy_X%29 , whom to defeat, your party must be nearing the actual mechanical limit of character strength within the game and a single slip can kill your entire party in a turn. My point is that you can't claim that the story was "too easy" just because the challenge deliberately lies in optional bosses. All the fights after Braska's final Aeon are just parts of the ending cinematic, just like Cloud's final solo assault on Sephiroth, an analogy already drawn.

 

[Saltyk]

Are they actually remaking it? I thought they were just giving it an HD treatment. I MIGHT buy a remake. Assuming they don't screw up combat or Bliztball (which I actually liked).

I HATE this game. Seriously, Tidus is an intolerable asshole >.> If the story had been from Yuna's perspective, I could probably fall in love with this game.

I mean, she is really the interesting character for me. A girl, who spent her entire life locked up in a temple and the only time she gets to see the world or live her life is during the journey to willingly sacrifice herself.

Instead I get a whinny Daddy's boy, that spends the entire game TELLING me it's his story and that you know he is an amazing underwater soccer player that gets sent to the future (I know the specifics of that but...I don't want to spoil). I HATE Tidus.

I always saw FFX as being Yuna's story anyway. We were just playing as Tidus. Wasn't that big a deal for me. Though, I'm pretty forgiving on most characters. Takes a lot to annoy me. Generally characters like Cait Sith or Quina that annoy me. They have no reason to exist and kinda destroyed the group image to me. Plus uninteresting abilities.

 

[illas]

I really liked FFX, and it was the first truly "cinematic" Final Fantasy title. Therefore "yes", I would enjoy an HD remake.

 

[Innegativeion]

I learned everything I know about this game from Noah Antiwiler (Thespooneyone)

Even still... I've never played a squeenix game that I've hated (have not played many FF games), and X seems to be one of the more popular ones, according to some minimal google research.

I may give it a look.

Now, can anyone confirm whether this is an actual REMAKE, or an HD RE-RELEASE. I'm expecting the former as it is the more cost effecti*cough lazier cough*ive way to go, but hoping it is the latter.

 

[pirateninj4]

snippers

Dude, I totally agree. I couldn't believe how easy Jecht was at the end, it was a flaming penis joke. I enjoyed the Blitzball tournaments more than I did the combat system also.

 

[RJ 17]

But let me just say this, above all else, HERE is why FFX was an absolutely shitty game: it is literally impossible to lose against the main boss (Yevon) unless you kill yourself...TWICE!

Yevon is not the main boss. Penance is the main boss. If you can't see the merits behind a story driven battle then I think final fantasy of all things may be a bit much for you.

As to the name thing, you say that as though it changes the fact that it's still impossible to lose to the final boss of the game. As to "story driven battles", ALL boss fights in FF games are story-driven battles...but I still expect to be able to lose to the final boss of a game. Sephiroth could kill you. Kefka could kill you. Zeromus could kill you. Ultimecia could kill you...granted, as I've said before, I haven't played any FF game past 10, but I would sincerely have to hope that in every installment after that, you could lose the final battle. You like the game, that's fine by me, but don't use that as an excuse to discount my perfectly valid points.

Name thing? No, I'm referring to http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Penance_%28Final_Fantasy_X%29 , whom to defeat, your party must be nearing the actual mechanical limit of character strength within the game and a single slip can kill your entire party in a turn. My point is that you can't claim that the story was "too easy" just because the challenge deliberately lies in optional bosses. All the fights after Braska's final Aeon are just parts of the ending cinematic, just like Cloud's final solo assault on Sephiroth, an analogy already drawn.

I apologize, seeing as how I didn't even know that Penance existed since I played the original US version on the PS2, I thought you were saying that Penance was the name of the little floating tick guy that is indeed the final encounter of the game.

Now if Penance is the main boss of the game, then the main boss of the game is an optional fight? Yeah, that makes it even lamer. "WE'VE GOT THIS REALLY POWERFUL GUY WHO COULD BE CONSIDERED THE MAIN BOSS OF THE GAME! Oh, but don't worry, you don't have to fight him if you really don't want to." That STILL doesn't solve my issue. If you're saying that the main boss of the main story is an optional battle, that means that the entire main story is, itself, just a sidequest.

Clearly we have different definitions of "final boss". To you, "final boss" is the hardest enemy in the game. Does that mean that Omega Weapon was the final boss of FF8? I honestly have no problem at all with optional bosses being stronger than the final boss of a game, my problem lies in the fact that the final boss of this game not only being weaker than Penance, but essentially weaker than every other monster (boss or basic) in the entire game.

I'm sorry, but when your party goes up against the very core of Sin's being, which turns out to be the GOD that the entire world worships, I expect said god to put up a fight. As I said before, the dark aeons are a creation of the main boss, not the main boss itself. The "final boss", to me, is quite literally the last fight of the game. If it's all just part of the ending cinematic then why the hell wasn't it just made into a cinematic battle? Why make you waste the 10 minutes or whatever that it takes to kill Yevon?

As for Cloud's final showdown with Sephiroth, as I responded to the first person who pointed that out: if you just stand there or use any attack other than Omnislash, Sephiroth will attack you and you will die. I know, because I've specifically seen it when I got to that part and wondered "Hmmm, I wonder if Sephiroth can kill me here" and sure enough he did. So even in that case, you can still lose the final fight without actually killing yourself.

 

[BlazeRaider]

They should have remade the FF series from the beginning, and chronologically worked their way to the current, then they would have an excuse to not have to come up with a new story, could have made their old fans happy, and infected a new generation with depression upon seeing a certain flower girl get impaled. In fact I think that would be an interesting business model, they have enough games that they could just keep cycling remakes for current technology, from FF1-13, then by the time they finish, a new generation of gamers will have passed and they can do it again. Constantly remaking the same games over and over until the end of time. You know, like a lot of movies

 

[Mettking]

I liked it, BUT, it had a few issues in my eyes. Blitzball could have been much better, the international version had a lot more features (I'd only buy the remake if it was the international version...and had a PS3 to begin with), and I can just say "Laughing scene" and you know exactly why it gets so much hate. I understand some of the hate, but it isn't as bad as most people say.

 

[ChildofGallifrey]

To quote Christian Bale in the criminally underrated Equilibrium: "I had no feelings about it."

That about sums it up. The original's graphics are dated at this point, sure, but they're hardly unbearable. The voice acting is atrocious, but that leaves it with a sort of goofy charm. The gameplay was, and still is, perfectly fine. I replayed it 3 months ago and enjoyed it just the same.

There really is no logical reason to remake X over any of the PS1 titles except as a cheap attempt to have a quick payday, and any of the 3 PS1 titles remade would probably generate a ton more revenue (though, admittedly, they would take longer to make). There is no reason not to simply put the original build up on the PSN for $20. Less hassle, more profit.