Square Enix Dusts Off Final Fantasy X for PS3 Remake

[Dracowrath]

The ultimate question is: Will it be the same price as the ps2 version when it came out? Or will it be a full 60 bucks like all other ps3 games?

Also, I actually would prefer they not do a remake of this and instead make FFX-3, a game following the story of Braska's pilgrimmage. Where you play as Jecht, go out swimming, get sent to Spira, blah blah blah. I would pay the full 60 for a ps3 game if it was that. This, this I would happily pay around 30 bucks for. But I would definitely buy it.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

I don't understand the hatred over this, but whatever.

I know I will be getting it, I've never played FFX so playing this on my PS3 is an added bonus to me.

 

[Hipsy_Gypsy]

Does X really need a remake? I suppose if it was considered one of the best games, to re-release it for the current-gen consoles, so fair enough then.

Personally, though, FF isn't my cup of tea. I'm not a particularly big fan of CTB.


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[Puddleknock]

Well I'm guessing the chances of a FFIX remake are slim. But then I did like FFX and this remake is better than no remake, unless the remake is detracting from making newer FF titles then the remake would not be great.


Regardless Rikku in PS3 graphics, I can see no downside to that.

 

[xplosive59]

Final Fantasy X was - and still is - a good game

No, no it really wasn't. That said, I did like the idea of an rpg in a sort of tropical setting, so maybe they'll use this remake as a chance to polish out a lot of the piss taking stuff like tedious collection quest, shitty minigames, awful character designs (sans Jet), and the almost unrelenting linearity that only lets up near the end for a bunch of sidequests that have almost no in-game hint as to their existence or how exactly to complete them. And maybe I'll become a sorceress queen that conquers the stars.

Im with this guy, FFX was terrible end of, the story was awful, the characters were annoying and the costumes looked like they were parodying anime (WHAT WAS WITH SEYMORE'S HAIR), the last great Final Fantasy was 9 (however twelve was ok).

 

[Battenbergcake]

one of the best scripts

I'm sorry but you're deathly wrong in that reguard, the script in 10 is atrocious to the point of parody and i'm pretty sure we all saw Noah Antwiler rail against it for a good hour and a half at least.
Flmsy characters, unthreatening villains, hilarious poor dubbing.
I'm not often one to jump to this kinda incendary comment but c'mon... the story is kinda mush with water polo holding it together.

 

[Thaius]

...and a hero that was the dream of a dead civilization - and no, I'm not making that up.

You're seriously spoiling the game's plot twist in the announcement of a remake? I'm sorry, but that's not okay. Not at all.

OT: I'm excited. I still want my VII remake, and honestly the fact that they're moving on to more recent remakes shows just how full of it they are regarding it, but I loved X, and I will certainly be picking this up.

 

[Uber Waddles]

Sony, Im suprised.

When the DS came out besides your PSP, your launch lineup, and subsiquent lineup, got utterly demolished by the backup the DS had. The PSP lineup had a few movies and Spider Man. The DS opened the gates with Super Mario 64. Then procceded to back up its library with superby RPG's and strategies, as well as capture that casual audience. The PSP - we got Birth by Sleep. Last year. And a few other gems that were overlooked because LOL PSP.

It seems like you learned from this lesson well. Not only are you throwing this on the PS3, but your also throwing this out as part of your already extremely strong PS Vita lineup? Hell, the 3DS is remaking N64 classics - your remaking (in my opinion) one of the top 5 greatest games of all times. OOT was good, but not nearly the 300+ hours + multiple walkthroughs FFX has put me through.

Probably the best news I've ever heard. Only could get better if they re-made FF9. Everyone knows that one is the best (only beating 10 out marginally). Screw 7, we want 9

 

[Zibong]

But I have to ask, why remake X and not VII?

Because Square Enix is LAZY. They'd rather expend a minimum of effort re-touching the graphics of a game already fully rendered (a la Ocarina of Time 3DS), instead of making the effort to build a new graphical engine that a re-make for VI or VII deserve (a la Final Fantasy IV DS).

Since they would be charging the same price for the game regardless whether the re-make is of VI, VII, or X, it makes business sense to minimize the effort spent. And cold, un-feeling, dis-passionate "business" is all Square Enix is now capable of. The fire from the Sakaguchi era is long gone, re-making a game that doesn't need a re-make is not going to re-kindle it.

 

[CManator]

Really? ..... REALLY? 0_o

Don't get me wrong, I loved FFX, but REALLY?

How is it the one FF game getting remade in HD is the one game with the least need for it? smh. Even by today's standards the graphics are still passable. The story and mechanics should be left alone, there was nothing wrong with them. The sidequests and blitzball coud use some tweaks, but that alone is hardly worth an entire remake.

I can see only bad things coming from this. A classic ruining endeavor of Wild Arms: Alter Code F proportions.

 

[naam]

I've already played this game (Ps2 version)?
Anyone who got a Ps3 before they decided to drop half features can still play it any time.

Why do people keep rebuying the same games?

 

[McNinja]

Well, at least it was 8 or X-2 that they remade. But then again, we will have an HD version of a game with a whiny punk-ass ***** of a forced protagonist.

 

[Jaranja]

One of the best in the series gets a remake, best turn based combat, one of the best scripts, best soundtracks, and a fun sphere grid.

I can get behind that. Way more than I would for VII remade.

Agreed. I'll be buying it.

 

[LemonFury]

I'm still waiting for a GOOD game's remake. Like DQ 8 for example!

 

[jboking]

If they just fix some of the voice acting, I'd be happy.

 

[ReyBlade]

Y'know, I tend to give FFX a lot of crap, but it really was an amusing game. But I'm kind of disappointed that they have yet to give Final Fantasy IV or even VI full-on current-gen console remakes (as opposed to the handheld remakes of the earlier games that seem to crop up every few years).

As for VII, I'm glad it's not getting a remake. I absolutely hated it. Now, before I'm burned in effigy, I by no means believe it was a BAD game--I believe that, for the most part, if a game is enjoyed by even a small amount of the gaming audience, then what makes it good is relative to the player. And I appreciate what VII did for RPG's in general; it made them more mainstream and accessible to a wider audience, and its success ensured that RPGs got a fairer shake in the future. It simply wasn't my cup of tea.

A remake of VI on the XBox 360 or the Playstation 3, though...THAT would be fantastic.

 

[LostTimeLady]

*holds up a sign reading "In MY opinion and that's all"*

Ummm, why are they doing this? Ok, PS2 graphics can be improved and the lip syncing wasn't great for the PAL version but, umm, why?! It's only PS2 for goodness sake, hardly the graphics of a NES.
FFX was one of the first games I completed all the way through, I still play it (as it happens I'm part way through a replay of it using the advanced sphere grid although I've not been in the same county as my PS2 for a while so that's been on pause), but I wouldn't personally buy it again for the sake of better graphics, I like the graphics in FFX, hyper-realism is over rated (in my opinion).
The best thing about the game was the story and the gameplay and my worry is they're going to remake those bits, and well, potentually mess them up... Also... Please dear goodness, may they treat the music like Mozart and not change a line...

Why can't they remake FFVI or something... I hear that's a good one that's never made it past pixel sprites yet.

Yeah, FFX is one of my favourite games ever...

 

[VincentMm]

Is this a Real Remake or is this a HD up-grade is the question. This might a incentive to go back since i got near the end and stopped playing it.

<Looks at User-Name> Some day Some day.

It'll be a HD-Upgrade, we can be almost certain of that me thinks.
We can dream