Final Fantasy 9 Remake May Not Happen as a Single Title
Yoshi-P discusses challenges facing a Final Fantasy 9 remake, leaving gamers questioning its future potential as a standalone project.
Naoki Yoshida, known as Yoshi-P and the director of Final Fantasy 14, has expressed skepticism about the feasibility of remaking Final Fantasy 9 as a single title.
Because it's just not possible to make fully featured games anymore? Everything's gotta be bite sized chunks for full price.
The FF7 Remake games have a lot more content than the respective parts of the original
Every one is mad because they’re greedily milking reruns and I’m just laughing because they clean skipped over FF8.
They know you can't improve on a master piece.
Which is my favorite one. I never liked 7, it never grabbed me. But I loved 8.
Funny enough, it could benefit from a rewrite the most
Which is why they won't do it. This is about easy money, not revisiting games that aged poorly and / or failed to live up to their potential when they originally came out to make a better and more modern experience while retaining the spirit of originals.
"Volume and Complexity: Yoshi-P noted that Final Fantasy 9 is a game with significant volume, encompassing various kingdoms, environments, and story elements. This complexity makes it challenging to fit into a single remake without substantial expansion and enhancement of its world."
Because Lord knows there was never a time when we had multiple disks for a large game.
Go fuck yourself greedy fucking assholes... I'm sure they'll pull some PS5 exclusive first bullshit too so they can milk every last cent possible...
I don't think so on the PS5 exclusivity. SE said that it did not pay off in sales for XVI and I believe they said they weren't doing that again
It's not about amount of discs. It's about dev time. If it was one whole game they'd not only bloat the budget to dangerous levels, it'd likely be outdated by the time it's finished and will either need to redo large parts of the game so it looks modern or release a game that looks like it should've released 5+ years ago.
Imagine if FFVII didn't split up it's remake, not only would we not have any of it right now. When the third part comes out it'll all just look like a PS4 game on a PS6.
If you want to argue whether or not they should go balls to wall that requires them to make a series of games so large is infeasible as a single entry, and do something a bit more budget friendly like the original, then fair enough. But then it'd just be a remaster or something not that far removed.
It's funny they say that, as if we haven't played games like red dead that are much larger and more complex
Eh the "PS5 first" angle for FF16 and the continuation of Remake underperformed, and they admitted it themselves. I think PS5/PC releases are the future for them, so they can make more money at launch with minimal porting issues.
I really hope so. I've been playing ff16 finally since it's on PC and it's really good. I absolutely love how dark the story is lol it deserved better treatment/exposure on PC
Because people liked the idea so much with FF7? /s
They're gonna ruin it like the did 7...aren't they?
Speak for yourself, I've been absolutely loving the 7 remakes.
Remake and Rebirth are so fucking good. They're more than what I wanted because instead of just getting a basic bitch remake in more than just name, I get a fucking sequel that expands upon so many aspects of the original. As a fan. Why wouldn't you want more of what you love?
Not only that they've shown time and time again throughout the games so far that they hold so much reverence to the original and show it so much more respect than a beat for beat remake ever could.
I think it made sense for 7. Midgar was the most interesting set piece and a ton of stuff happens there. But it's only like 10% of the game.
Then you collect side characters like infinity stones and to through a bunch of their individual stories.
Then the actual story happens.
Also, 7 is popular enough to support the split up.
This doesn't make sense for 9. Also, isn't it supposed to be a 1 for 1 remake?
Oh not this shit again
Shit just make a live service with mtx if you want to fuck over wallets so badly.
Isn't that how we ended up with Ever Crisis?
I would've liked a normal remaster of FF7 with that graphical style. Guessing we won't ever get it.
Did they even finish the FF7 remake?
There are two 7 Remake games out, with one more on the way afaik.
Ah, so the answer is no, no it's not done yet. Cool. /s
Remake 8 you cowards
Given that SE doesn't seem to want to be at all faithful with their remakes, 8 actually makes the most sense as a game they can and should make big changes to.
How dare you. FFVIII is a flawless game with a perfectly straightforward story and plot and limited grind.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have a sorceress to defeat, right after I optimally junction all of my GFs.
Chicken wuss.
Jumping rope about to be a whole chapter LET'S GOOOOOO /s
To be fair, there's never been a time when Final Fantasy 9 could've been a single game. It's simply never been possible.
But it is.
If it had been, don't you think Square could simply remake it in one game rather than splitting it into the multi-game saga that it always has been? It would never work!
i'm fine with that, honestly. i love the breakup of ff7 into three different pieces because it gives it more time to bake and tell a story instead of trying to fit it all in one game.
So far it's a worse story than the original, and taking a decade to tell it doesn't improve its enjoyment
They had so much filler too. The giant mechanical hand sitting on a junk pile in Shinra is cool as a bit of a background piece, but not as an entire puzzle corridor. The remakes are littered with little things like this that deliberately slow down the pacing in a not very meaningful way.