Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
Yeah, plays as you're running through
the ruins
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Final Fantasy X|X-2 HD Remaster - 12/26 Japanese release (for real this time)
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Yeah, plays as you're running through
Yeah, totally. It's really really intense.
I think they're talking about the third piece, which is not "Someday The Dream Will End" (that's the second piece).
I listened after it finished to see if there were multiple tracks and it just started over. Weird.
1) They announced this so long ago simply because they wanted to acknowledge FFX's 10th anniversary, they didn't start working on it until much later on
2) They are remaking not one, but TWO games (+ Last Mission)
3) both of those two games are much bigger games than Wind Waker
4) Both games are getting quite a lot more done to them than Wind Waker, as far as the audiovisuals go (work done on textures, character models, pre-rendered cutscenes as well as re-arranged music), which takes time, especially since the team working on these HD Remasters is probably not too big.
Cool! Thanks for identifying it.
Edit:
There are some (small) links on the bottom left of the page to change the song. I got #3 by default when I went the first time.
Persona 4: Golden
It's only been the western arms of SE that have been antsy about pricing the Vita versions. The Japanese side never talked prices until now.
stargateheaven
Member
are any of the songs on the site part of the remastered tracks or they are just the originals?
btw, love the new japanese site.
btw, love the new japanese site.
AuthenticM
Member
Thanks. I'm really curious as to when it is played. Maybe it is a The Last Mission exclusive track, if it only is in the International edition of X-2.
They are all original tracks. The only remastered piece we've heard is the battle theme. Apparently, more than half of both game's OSTs are remastered. Someone had said months ago that around 60 of the original game's 98-some tracks were remastered, which is kind of crazy when you think about it. I hope they haven't messed with nostalgia too much.
Yoshinori Kitase again promoting the possibility of FFXII on Vita if these HD remakes do well. He also brings up some interesting points.
http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=695290
http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=695290
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
Where'd you preorder it man?
Incredibly easy. One of the more glaring faults of the game really.
stargateheaven
Member
although international does have one of the hardest bosses in all of FF, but then again you have the insta-kill summon yojimbo
bigbaldwolf86
Banned
He was talking about FF X-2 which does have some challenging side bosses itself
stargateheaven
Member
oops you're right. sorry XD
I am so mad that the release dates for NA havent been released! ugh! why must this take so long. As Auron said "how long must we wait" I mean there have been remaster that have been months! like 6 months. Persona Golden was only a year or so, and it has more work done to it than FFX HD has been. The content of X has been on par with japanese content. this would lead us to believe its being worked on the same time 
FFX for ps2 hasnt taken this long to be made. It was announced in 2000 released in 2001... The HD remaster announed 2011 released 2013 & 2014... what logic is this?!? a game that has already been created and finished is taking longer to convert and remaster... SE needs to get their priority straightened.. and the new CEO needs to do something about this ASAP.
FFX for ps2 hasnt taken this long to be made. It was announced in 2000 released in 2001... The HD remaster announed 2011 released 2013 & 2014... what logic is this?!? a game that has already been created and finished is taking longer to convert and remaster... SE needs to get their priority straightened.. and the new CEO needs to do something about this ASAP.
stargateheaven
Member
I am so mad that the release dates for NA havent been released! ugh! why must this take so long. As Auron said "how long must we wait" I mean there have been remaster that have been months! like 6 months. Persona Golden was only a year or so, and it has more work done to it than FFX HD has been. The content of X has been on par with japanese content. this would lead us to believe its being worked on the same time
FFX for ps2 hasnt taken this long to be made. It was announced in 2000 released in 2001... The HD remaster announed 2011 released 2013 & 2014... what logic is this?!? a game that has already been created and finished is taking longer to convert and remaster... SE needs to get their priority straightened.. and the new CEO needs to do something about this ASAP.
this is square enix.
english release will be 1 or 2 months later, like they normally do (for some reason) although since this is a remaster with all the translations already done, its possible it may come sooner.
but yeah, i dont know how this can take so long.
we know it'll be in 2014.... but when I'm calling the week of january 14th
You can see about 5 seconds of the Vita version's cutscenes in this commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wCkcRPcIKM
Andy the cook
Neo Member
I really hope that we get physical vita copies in na. if not then I'll just import the double pack, That box art is just too good to pass up.
Bleh, there are simple reasons why this is taking long. Reasons I've described just a few posts above yours but I'll restate here.I am so mad that the release dates for NA havent been released! ugh! why must this take so long. As Auron said "how long must we wait" I mean there have been remaster that have been months! like 6 months. Persona Golden was only a year or so, and it has more work done to it than FFX HD has been. The content of X has been on par with japanese content. this would lead us to believe its being worked on the same time
FFX for ps2 hasnt taken this long to be made. It was announced in 2000 released in 2001... The HD remaster announed 2011 released 2013 & 2014... what logic is this?!? a game that has already been created and finished is taking longer to convert and remaster... SE needs to get their priority straightened.. and the new CEO needs to do something about this ASAP.
1) They announced this collection in late 2011, but they didn't start working on it right away, it was just more of an acknowledgement that yeah, we haven't forgotten FFX happened ten years ago and we'll be doing this HD collection to celebrate that. They were busy with FFXIV failing and finishing FFXIII-2 at the time so they didn't & couldn't start to work on this until after they were finished with XIII-2, well into 2012.
2) with your comparison to Persona 4 Golden, you're forgetting that they are remastering not one, but TWO games (+ Last Mission, which is like a (simple) separate game in itself). Two games that are vastly superior to Persona 4 as far as the technical side & complexity goes. Both FFX & X-2 pushed the PS2 hardware. Persona 4... looks like a souped up PS1 game. And they are upgrading quite a lot of stuff (they are touching up most textures, character models, re-arranging the OST etc.).
3) You do understand that when they developed FFX for PS2 originally, they had a huge team working on it? These HD Remasters aren't being worked on such huge teams. Taking ~1,5 years isn't that long for HD remasters (of more than a single game). Zone of the Enders HD Collection was announced at E3 2011 and released almost 1,5 years later. And that was a horrible rush job and they took another year to fix Zone of the Enders 2 (and even that on just one platform). And those are both games are just a couple/few hours long, whereas both X & X-2 are huge JRPGs, so there's a lot more work to be done. It just seems you are vastly underestimating how long some PS2 games' remastering into HD can take, especially ones like Zone of the Enders 2 & Final Fantasies that really push the hardware to its limits and especially if you want to do a good job. We do have examples of remasters done more quickly, but those are the likes of Prince of Persia HD Trilogy, which are crap.
4) FFX & X-2 are being ported to two platforms. Given the fact that FFX & X-2 both use the trickery of the PS2 hardware to the max, getting them to run on a platform like Vita is probably not that easy.
As to why it isn't releasing in the west this year, I dunno. Could be that they can barely get it out by the end of December in Japan and while they feel comfortable to release it in Japan so late in December, they think it's better to just delay it by a few weeks instead of release it at a time when a lot of people are not buying games in the west.
Famassu said:
Japan isn't getting new consoles this year, for one. Even without those, December is a dead zone in the west. They're bringing this out the day after in JP. In NA, that's like a literal death sentence.
It's the same reason LR was delayed; it would probably bomb if they didn't.
Very detailed responce, Thank you!
I just hoped for world wide release,
or at least the same month... would be something if the NA version came out before the Japanese. but thats the impossible.
About the same as FFXIII-2 ironically.
Not really. They're both Toriyama games.
Anyone remember this:
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/sq...nd-x-2-hd-for-worldwide-release/1100-6405776/
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/sq...nd-x-2-hd-for-worldwide-release/1100-6405776/
You really need to get over the fact that we aren't getting it this year. The game was NEVER announced for a simultaneous world wide release.
Polyphonic
Neo Member
I haven't really kept up with the news for the remaster... Does anyone know if they got around to fixing some of the facial models and animations as compared to the original game?
ZombiePlatypus
Member
Is it just me or is the official North American website for the game, really rough?
yeah it isn't as great as the Jap site. I just want the release date for the US. its so unfair.
dark_chris
Gold Member
And seems like Last Mission is officially official too.
Sweet lord almighty. I hope the NA version has this. >.<
for some reason I didn't know this game was 1080P. Was KH HD 1.5 1080P?
What does the Japanese writing under each screen say?
Zoe
Member
for some reason I didn't know this game was 1080P. Was KH HD 1.5 1080P?
It's probably native 720p that upscales like XIII.
Here's a couple of translations courtesy of the Vita thread:
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Take it easy. I'm sure we'll get our release info sooner than later.
Think about it Aurizen: In February of this year we knew absolutely nothing of these games. Now 7 months later we are closer to release. The worst part is already behind man, just be patient and you'll be playing FFX in 2 or 3 months.
And also, don't bump unnecessarily
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Take it easy. I'm sure we'll get our release info sooner than later.
Think about it Aurizen: In February of this year we knew absolutely nothing of these games. Now 7 months later we are closer to release. The worst part is already behind man, just be patient and you'll be playing FFX in 2 or 3 months.
And also, don't bump unnecessarily
Here's a couple of translations courtesy of the Vita thread:
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Take it easy. I'm sure we'll get our release info sooner than later.
Think about it Aurizen: In February of this year we knew absolutely nothing of these games. Now 7 months later we are closer to release. The worst part is already behind man, just be patient and you'll be playing FFX in 2 or 3 months.
And also, don't bump unnecessarily
2-3 months is fine but after December im screwed because im not on break