Meccanical
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No, the reason FFXHD was shafted was because FFXIV was such a failure and they needed to rebuild it ASAP.
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Kingdom Hearts 1.5 HD ReMIX dated for 3/14/2013 in Japan
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No, the reason FFXHD was shafted was because FFXIV was such a failure and they needed to rebuild it ASAP.
SpaceBridge
Member
Seems like FFXIV has shafted almost everything at SE.
RPGCrazied
Member
No excuses, this should get a worldwide release date. We shouldn't have to wait months for localizations.
Meccanical
Member
Yeah, it's a sad state of affairs.
The Last One
Member
Tonight we should get a new trailer, right? Can't wait to see the new reaction commands.
There's one at Jump Festa, so it should pop up on the internet soon (as a low quality video, in typical Kingdom Hearts trailer fashion), but it will probably take about week or two before Square-Enix puts it up on the internet themselves.
badcrumble
Member
It doesn't have reaction commands.
What? Japanese Donald and Goofy are quite well done.
The price on it is not SO bad. If I can get the money together I might import this one.
Absolutely not. FF14 is the reason they don't made *new* HD games. THe HD remixes are another matter entirely as they require only tiny teams, and in FFX's case it's really simply that KH HD was started first, an since it's the same engine as FFX there's not point in having a second team doing the same work in parallel. Converting KH basically converts FFX.
Femmeworth
Banned
It would take more than two people, especially for the 358/2 Days cutscenes.
X hasn't been shafted. The game was announced far too early. It was announced right after it was approved and before they even started working on it. It'll take a while for them to do it. It's got a lot of CG that's going to have to be rerendered or upscaled and a lot of prerendered backgrounds that they're going to have to do something about.
MAtgS
Member
DDD+game yet to be announced I'm betting.
Canis lupus
Member
Its the same game they released a decade ago, how can this not have a worldwide releasedate.
Give up on 2.5 including BBS, people.
That's going to be part of 0.5 which they actually teased long before this.
Because it also includes 2 hours of newly voiced scenes.
That's going to be part of 0.5 which they actually teased long before this.
Because it also includes 2 hours of newly voiced scenes.
But it's not like that'd be a big deal for Square Enix. They brought the VAs back out of nowhere to voice Recom.
Viola of the Abyss
Member
First Slot: 1.5 (Kingdom Hearts 1 Final Mix, Re:Chain of Memories, 358/Days scenes)
Second Slot: 2.5 (Kingdom Hearts 2 Final Mix+, Birth by Sleep Final Mix, Re:Coded scenes)
Third Slot: Kingdom Hearts Re
ream Drop Distance (Full DDD port to Ps3, similar to what they did with CoM GBA->Ps2)
Somehow I could see this happening if they weren't so understaffed, but then again by the time KH 2.5 is out things should improve in that aspect.
It's their most recent release, I highly doubt they're going to relegate it to an addendum or cuscenes only.
Stuff of nightmares, you said that right... for Disney Characters English or bust! (Italian would be fine too, but they'd completely butcher all the non Disney cast)
Second Slot: 2.5 (Kingdom Hearts 2 Final Mix+, Birth by Sleep Final Mix, Re:Coded scenes)
Third Slot: Kingdom Hearts Re
ream Drop Distance (Full DDD port to Ps3, similar to what they did with CoM GBA->Ps2)Somehow I could see this happening if they weren't so understaffed, but then again by the time KH 2.5 is out things should improve in that aspect.
It's their most recent release, I highly doubt they're going to relegate it to an addendum or cuscenes only.
Stuff of nightmares, you said that right... for Disney Characters English or bust! (Italian would be fine too, but they'd completely butcher all the non Disney cast)
No, only a few. Usually you'd see "lines", engines or features that are reused by the same staff. But until current-gen teams would not share their tech with each other, so it's actually pretty amusing taking them apart and seeing which is descended from which, and how they sometime implement completely different solutions to recurring problems intead of using the proven ones.
Anyway, basically FFX/X-2(obviously)/KH/KH2 share the same tech that was progressively refined and use very similar data formats. While on the other hand FF12, for example, used very different tech and data to try and squeeze much more stuff in memory (like, the FFX/KH "line" stores character models whole, which is pretty standard for games, while FF12 stores half characters plus asymmetrical bits and dynamically mirrors them).
I don't see why. Apart from FFXIII & XIV 1.0, they've been one of the best JRPG developers in recent years, with both the quality of their games as well as speedy localization times.
2.5 will definitely include BBS. That's really not questionable. Whether it will have 3D in some form or the other, now THAT is still up in the air.
Viola of the Abyss
Member
I think it's highly unlikely that they will package 3 big ones into one box.
It'll either be like I've said up there or they'll split KH2 + Re:coded and BBS and 3D together.
But KH2 + BBS + 3D in the same release? No chance.
EDIT: Unless they go the scenes route only for 3D, in which case I can see it being released together in 2.5 and Re:Coded getting completely ignored.
kamikazekoala
Member
First Slot: 1.5 (Kingdom Hearts 1 Final Mix, Re:Chain of Memories, 358/Days scenes)
Second Slot: 2.5 (Kingdom Hearts 2 Final Mix+, Birth by Sleep, Re:Coded scenes)
Third Slot: Kingdom Hearts Re
Somehow I could see this happening if they weren't so understaffed, but then again by the time KH 2.5 is out things should improve in that aspect.
It's their most recent release, I highly doubt they're going to relegate it to an addendum or cuscenes only.
Stuff of nightmares, you said that right... for Disney Characters English or bust! (Italian would be fine too, but they'd completely butcher all the non Disney cast)
Birth by Sleep Final Mix would be better.
Viola of the Abyss
Member
I didn't know FFXII's engine just mirrored the half model. That's pretty clever, actually. It does make me wonder if FFX HD will also have FFX-2 HD included. It'd be a way to sidestep Sony's rule about no single HD remake game on a disk. I mean those games share a lot of the same world assets as is.
You think that they're working in parallel?
Square Enix announces things when there's just the intention to make them
It wouldn't be the first time.FFX HD would have been ready a year ago if they were working on it when they announced it
It's just that development won't really start until they're done with Kingdom Hearts HD, it was clear the moment they came out with the KHHD announcement out or no where.
I'm pretty much 100% certain that 2.5 will be Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix + Birth By Sleep and ReCoded in some form (probably just cutscenes). Not sure if they think 3D needs to be added to any collection, given that it was released so recently. While a part of the reason why these collections are being made is that KH has been spread to so many platforms, I don't think having one game not be playable on PS3 is too horrible for the franchise.
Viola of the Abyss
Member
I'm still unsure. I fully agree on the 2.5 contents, but I think that we're going to see a Re
ream Drop Distance sometime.Sales on 3DS weren't satisfying and the possibility of having them playable all in one console despite not necessary is indeed attractive.
That's why I can see Square Enix choosing to port the game to a home console.
How else are they going to package all Kingdom Hearts games in one big box to be sold at 450000000 Yen?
Too bad the chances of seeing Kingdom Hearts 3 on Ps3 are getting slimmer and slimmer every day.
It's been discovered that the two blank tabs on the website are for Movie and Download. http://kh13.com/news/34422-hd-1-5-r...-screenshots-kh-for-pc-browsers-code-included
Viola of the Abyss
Member
D'oh!! All that time lost speculating.... :/
I wouldn't worry too much, it's almost guaranteed to get a Western release.
Every game but coded, the final mixes and Re:CoM in PAL regions have came over and the latter two (well Kingdom Hearts Final Mix anyway) are included in this release, so it's all the more reason to bring it over.