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The Final Fantasy III remake port (as in III by the japanese numbering, not american III which was VI) has been out for awhile already on Android. It really wor

by cdr 14y ago

The Final Fantasy III remake port (as in III by the japanese numbering, not american III which was VI) has been out for awhile already on Android. It really works pretty decently for being on a phone/tablet, I recommend checking it out if you can stomach $15.99: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.square_enix.android_googleplay.FFIII_GP https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.square_eni... The game is a port of the DS remake to begin with, I doubt "coming to Ouya" is much more work than maybe adding controller support to the Android build. It looks like SquareEnix just released FFI also.

cdr 14y ago
Now that I'm more awake and reread the Ouya post, it goes to great effort to mislead which is pretty par for them. It really tries to imply that it's being released specifically for Ouya with "partnering with Square Enix to bring you", " first time gamers outside of Japan can play FFIII", "Previously unreleased in the U.S.", etc.
- jeremyarussell 14y ago
  To be fair they had qualifiers like "on the TV"
  - cdr 14y ago
    Yep - stretching as far as they can to mislead without outright lying. I'm pretty certain if you didn't know that the game was already out on iOS/Android you would come away with the impression that this was some sort of exclusive deal with Ouya.
    - misnome 14y ago
      And... I suspect that this is the reason why so many people are very suspicious of the project; they seem desperate to mislead as much as possible, at every opportunity. I understand that they want to drum up support and give a positive impression so that more people will join in, but a little more honesty I suspect would go a long way.
  - danso 14y ago
    Yeah...but you could also do through any number of various mobile-device-hookups to the TV already. And the distinction between phone and console device is pretty arbitrary...
- mtgx 14y ago
  They were talking about the DS version, not the OUYA version.

by cdr 14y ago

cdr 14y ago

Now that I'm more awake and reread the Ouya post, it goes to great effort to mislead which is pretty par for them. It really tries to imply that it's being released specifically for Ouya with "partnering with Square Enix to bring you", " first time gamers outside of Japan can play FFIII", "Previously unreleased in the U.S.", etc.

jeremyarussell 14y ago
To be fair they had qualifiers like "on the TV"
- cdr 14y ago
  Yep - stretching as far as they can to mislead without outright lying. I'm pretty certain if you didn't know that the game was already out on iOS/Android you would come away with the impression that this was some sort of exclusive deal with Ouya.
  - misnome 14y ago
    And... I suspect that this is the reason why so many people are very suspicious of the project; they seem desperate to mislead as much as possible, at every opportunity. I understand that they want to drum up support and give a positive impression so that more people will join in, but a little more honesty I suspect would go a long way.
- danso 14y ago
  Yeah...but you could also do through any number of various mobile-device-hookups to the TV already. And the distinction between phone and console device is pretty arbitrary...
mtgx 14y ago
They were talking about the DS version, not the OUYA version.