Other Games Thread

[Cecily]

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I played it on the PSP years ago, it returns with voice actors and graphical upgrades. Soundtrack is as good as ever...and its in the Steam sale at 20% off [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'm watching that video and I feel extremely angry at the voice acting. It's obviously well done, but why? I don't need a snarky Brit spouting 1-liners when I melee attack with my generic soldier.

[Swish]

You can set it to Japanese if you prefer, or turn it down to zero.

[Cecily]

I really don't like how Square keeps shaking player pockets out with the same games over and over. $40.. sorry $50 for a 1998 game is so god damned insulting.

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[Cecily]

I don't believe that has anything to do with what I said, so I guess you're retarically talking to yourself. Back to my point which is a hell of a lot more interesting, there's a plague of remakes/remasters where they spit polish the old games and charge new release prices for them which is just one more shitty thing the industry is doing to consumers.

[BradZax]

(I deleted my post because everyone has a right to be upset)

Should they have ported it to switch for free?

It very much has to do with what you said, you seem upset that final fantasy tactics was updated and re-released on switch.

Should they have used AI to update the art instead of real people?

You can play the old one for free, if you never once purchased the game in your life, you can even do it for like 20$ plus shipping:

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Im confused why you are upset.

Do you think we should just AI to just update the game and then it could be cheaper?

Or do you think that people should work on it for free, or that square should pay them, and just give away games for free?

[Cecily]

30 year old games are not worth $50. It's actually going up in price from the original. I don't know or give a shit about what they're doing on the Switch. This is a PC port with no physical media. Square Enix is a scummy company these days.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1...ce_Chronicles/

[BradZax]

It costs money to port extremely niche games onto new platforms.

And artists, and actors to update the sprites and voice over. QA testers to ensure it functions, new marketing materials, payments to content creators etc.

It easily costs 50$ per game to do all that.

This is a PC port with no physical media.

Just so you know, they ported it to PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, and PC (Steam).

All of which -1 require physical media production.

And all of those need QA teams and programmers. And artists, since it's got a graphical update. Should they all just work for free? Use AI instead?

[Cecily]

You bring up a great point about working for free and AI, repeatedly... 3 times now. That's an idiotic way to twist a legitimate grievance about the price gouging for an old product with minimal value added. Square isn't the only company doing this. Diablo 2, Oblivion, BG 1/2, Torment, Icewind Dale. Etc. Every company doing this is making a quick buck off an old IP with minimal investment and they're scumbags for doing so.

[BradZax]

Originally Posted by Cecily [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You bring up a great point about working for free and AI, repeatedly... 3 times now. That's an idiotic way to twist a legitimate grievance about the price gouging for an old product with minimal value added.

I'm trying to inform you that you are not being price gouged.

And what you are asking for would require people work for free, or to replace humans with AI.

Just try to see the other side of the coin.

[Cecily]

Voice acting and copy pasting to a new engine is not $50 of value or anywhere close to developing a new game, most of which do not cost that much. It's a ripoff and an insulting price point.