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[jett]

Probably the best possible outcome. They're good but not good enough to completely clash against the backgrounds.

Between the contrast bump killing detail, and the oily filter in place, that's a hideous upscale job on the background. Nevermind cutting off part of the image to fit the picture into widescreen.

game logic is probably tied to it or something, it's an ancient game.

Well of course but surely there's a way to fix that now.

 

[Lothar]

Those were just contributing factors. I dislike the fact that the entire game was engineered to be some sort of nostalgia dive with lots of hurr-hurr references to "classic" FF. Strip all of that away, and the actual story and characters in the game are really shallow and the narrative is pretty nonsensical and lacks a strong theme. I love a ton of scenes in FFIX, but as an overall product I disliked it more and more as time went by.

This is what I think of IX's story and characters. There's not a whole lot to them. I was surprised how little there was to Zidane and Garnet's romance compared to other RPGs. After a certain point, they barely interact.

 

[Sesha]

Finally! And a high speed function is too perfect along autosave. And I wonder what those game boosting features are.

2015 is in its last day but the year of dreams is still delivering. What a year.

I really doubt it, but I hope Square uses the high-res background art.

Never mind hoping. Everyone should just spam their social media accounts and public relations managers with emails containing those pictures and links to that thread.

 

[Yarbskoo]

no wonder everything looks huge.

also, whats the betting this has the music bug like ff7 and ffx hd.

God, I hope not.

 

[matmanx1]

HIGH SPEED MODE!!! Wheeeeee! Yes, yes, yes! This changes everything!

 

[DiipuSurotu]

game logic is probably tied to it or something, it's an ancient game.

Maybe they could get Hiroyuki Ito to supervise the battle system porting.

Spoiler

HAHAHAHAHAHA just kidding

 

[Mr_L]

This is incredible news. I thought this would never happen. Seriously, I'm floored. Bring on more FFIX!

 

[PixyJunket]

Nice, I will pick it up for iPad if some of the glacial pacing issues are addressed.

Seriously, what game started the trend that nearly every PS1 RPG had to be hostile towards the player's time?

AH. High Speed Mode. BOUGHT.

 

[nortonff]

Is it really too much work to remake all the backgrounds? I mean, it's just 2D backgrounds.

 

[Tenebrous]

Ahh, it's perfect! High speed mode, original art style... I'm so happy.

 

[UncleSporky]

Never mind hoping. Everyone should just spam their social media accounts and public relations managers with emails containing those pictures and links to that thread.

Cue Square going "oh shit our internal work is leaking onto the internet" and scrubbing all the locations where the images can be found.

 

[Falk]

Is it really too much work to remake all the backgrounds? I mean, it's just 2D backgrounds.

Uh. 2D renders of 3D assets. Yes.

 

[Lactose_Intolerant]

Is it really too much work to remake all the backgrounds? I mean, it's just 2D backgrounds.

lol

Plus they don't have the assets anymore to do the renders. If they could just rerender everything at 1080p, you might have a case for it being easy.

 

[Revas]

Day0!!!

 

[GhostTrick]

Is it really too much work to remake all the backgrounds? I mean, it's just 2D backgrounds.

Yes it is. While it's 2D background as you say, these are first made from 3D models.

 

[NipplesAndToes23]

The theme is nostalgia.
Christ.

Spoiler

And i didn't play I-VI before IX, so, no, it's not just about that.

No it's life. I wrote a long ass thread about it earlier this year, so I won't post it from scratch again, but I might copy and paste it.

 

[jon bones]

Is it really too much work to remake all the backgrounds? I mean, it's just 2D backgrounds.

-_-

 

[doctorcdcs]

Yay!

 

[nortonff]

Uh. 2D renders of 3D assets. Yes.

Oh I didn't thought of it like that. Thought it was simpler.

lol

Thank you.

 

[Itchy//Tasty]

Has a game ever needed a speed mode more than this one?

Fucking Godly announcement. Year of Dreams is complete, certainly makes up for no XII.

 

[orichalcos]

Btw, what the hell?? All FF games coming to PC? (Steam?) Maybe FF 15?

 

[jon bones]

Oh I didn't thought of it like that. Thought it was simpler

nothing is simple in development

 

[Comet]

Is it really too much work to remake all the backgrounds? I mean, it's just 2D backgrounds.

I dare you to make a picture of castle on MS Paint that fits your monitor screen. Then you'll only begin to grasp how difficult art asset creation is and how everyone seems to take it for granted.

 

[texhnolyze]

Btw, what the hell?? All FF games coming to PC? (Steam?) Maybe FF 15?

Almost all.
X/X-2 is already leaked, and Steam is only missing the first two games, Tactics and XII now.

 

[antitrop]

Btw, what the hell?? All FF games coming to PC? (Steam?) Maybe FF 15?

Just need 1, 2, 10, 10-2, and 12.

 

[jb1234]

The cropping is a concern. I hope there an option to play it in its original aspect ratio (but probably won't be because there's no way they're including two versions of each FMV).

 

[Parsnip]

Looking at the released stuff so far, I'm glad that they are adding some polys to the models. But the backgrounds, yikes. I guess there isn't much they can do about those, but it's a shame all the same.

The cropping is a concern. I hope there an option to play it in its original aspect ratio (but probably won't be because there's no way they're including two versions of each FMV).

I think that's exactly what they are going to do.

 

[MrDoctor]

in if it means characters no longer take an eternity to act in battle

 

[Yarbskoo]

Oh I didn't thought of it like that. Thought it was simpler.

I think you underestimate how much time and money it takes to create high resolution animated background images. It would be much easier if they were just full 3D backgrounds.

 

[Ricker]

Finally...what an awesome game,not only one of my favorite FF but one of my fav ever...they dont make them like this anymore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnQLHIZ6ZGU

 

[Trionix11]

Could someone point me to one of those people who kept saying "It's impossible, they can't port FFIX to PC's/current gen consoles". I would like to see what they have to say about this.

(Hopefully Red Dead is the next one to come, then my inner geek will be complete).

 

[Shin-Ra]

Between the contrast bump killing detail, and the oily filter in place, that's a hideous upscale job on the background. Nevermind cutting off part of the image to fit the picture into widescreen.

"KILL ME."

 

[DiipuSurotu]

Nice, I will pick it up for iPad if some of the glacial pacing issues are addressed.

Seriously, what game started the trend that nearly every PS1 RPG had to be hostile towards the player's time?

AH. High Speed Mode. BOUGHT.

Wasn't it because of load times?

 

[nortonff]

I think you underestimate how much time and money it takes to create high resolution animated background images. It would be much easier if they were just full 3D backgrounds.

Exactly what I thought they were '-.-. My bad

 

[StereoVsn]

Man, looked at the "updated" graphics and they are cutting off top/bottom of the image, and the colors look... off.

Are the only people in SE capable of actually updating graphics properly no longer working there after X/X-2 port? That had some weird faces but at least everything else was better. Or does SE no longer have decent 2D artists?

I will still probably buy it on PC but hopefully these are not final. Otherwise it's better to just stick with the emulator. No longer excited.

 

[orichalcos]

Just need 1, 2, 10, 10-2, and 12.

X/X-2 leaked, 1-2? Maybe... XII Remaster?

 

[F0rneus]

Hopefully no achievement for getting Excalibur II lol.

Spoiler

PLZ NO

 

[nortonff]

Hopefully no achievement for getting Excalibur II lol.

Spoiler

PLZ NO

12 hours, was it? iirc

 

[Blackthorn]

Between the contrast bump killing detail, and the oily filter in place, that's a hideous upscale job on the background. Nevermind cutting off part of the image to fit the picture into widescreen.

Oh god that looks terrible. Why, Square? Why? You were so close to not fucking this up, but instead you put in extra effort just to fuck it up when you could have left it alone.

 

[NinjamicWZ]

Man, I'm gonna OD on FF during the right Steam sale someday.

high-res background art

Jesus christ.

If only these games had gotten Gamecube releases when the sources were still around.

 

[jett]

"KILL ME."

remember when ps1 cg looked awesome

nothing from that era has survived the passage of time

 

[DiipuSurotu]

Oh I didn't thought of it like that. Thought it was simpler.

More precisely, the backgrounds were 2D renders of 3D models that were then matte-painted by movie artists (they used the same people that worked on the FF movie).

 

[daveo42]

PC seems like a lock to me.

 

[Shift Breaker]

12 hours, was it? iirc

12, I believe. Damn near impossible in the PAL version.

 

[Shin-Ra]

remember when ps1 cg looked awesome

nothing from that era has survived the passage of time

It'd look a lot better if they presented it 'honestly' without filtering the SHIT out of it.

It's really depressing how poorly so many remasters are handled.

 

[nortonff]

More precisely, the backgrounds were 2D renders of 3D models that were then matte-painted by movie artists (they used the same people that worked on the FF movie).

Yep, that sounds like a lot of work.

 

[Falk]

Between the contrast bump killing detail, and the oily filter in place, that's a hideous upscale job on the background. Nevermind cutting off part of the image to fit the picture into widescreen.

Screenshots are 4:3 pillarboxed. 16:9 seems like a trailer thing.

Also VI got de-filtered in record time on Steam, so hurrah.

remember when ps1 cg looked awesome

nothing from that era has survived the passage of time

Cloud's expression transcends time and space~

 

[NipplesAndToes23]

Hopefully no achievement for getting Excalibur II lol.

Spoiler

PLZ NO

Yeah, I never bothered getting Excalibur II. Rushing to play the game isn't fun. Final Fantasy IX is a game you take your time with to properly enjoy the story and not to mention isn't needed at all for Steiner to do max damage.

 

[Spacejaws]

Am I the only one who's upset that none of these updated ports will ever be seen on the Vita

I constantly play the classics, infact I originally bought the Vita as a Final Fantasy machine and have almost every FF on it (although I'm not a big fan of 12 it's still worth a playthrough)

Real shame.

 

[PumpkinPie]

Why is she called Garnet in the English version but Dagger in the Japanese version?

She's called both names in the English version.