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Still waiting for a proper HD rerelease - fans have already hacked the game to load high-res character models / sprites / menus / etc; but it looks silly with 1
by Shish2k 13y ago
Still waiting for a proper HD rerelease - fans have already hacked the game to load high-res character models / sprites / menus / etc; but it looks silly with 1080p characters wandering round a 320p world :(
How hard can it be to re-render an already-created CG scene with a few more pixels?
- archangel_one 13y agoQuite hard, because all the backgrounds are bitmaps. It's an unfortunate era for that - Final Fantasy X looks fantastic on a modern system, because it can be rerendered at higher resolution.
- dclowd9901 13y agoI don't think he means from the consumer end, I think he means that Square certainly has the CG models sitting around somewhere and can re-render those backgrounds for an HD version. But why sell your best horse when people will gladly buy the hobbled one?
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- Shish2k 13y agoPersonally I've always thought that it was number of details rather than pixels which counts - in that sense a 320p game where every pixel is hand-drawn with deliberate care would beat a modern game where all 1080 pixels are full of the same "generic explosive barrel" model copy/pasted 50 times :P In my retroactively ideal world, Square would have had had the foresight to render FFVII at 1080p and downscale at runtime for the playstation - then even today, 15 years later, we could load the game up in an emulator and unlock enough detail to max out a modern HD display.
- mariusmg 13y agoIf the FFX/FFX-2 remake will sell, i'm sure they also do VII. The problem with these remakes is that the original assets are in crappy resolutions so they'll basically have to remake everything. And that takes time. And Square is not exactly known as being a efficient company.....
- wjoe 13y agoThey've said they won't do an FF7 remake until they release a better new Final Fantasy game. ...So I wouldn't count on it.
- Cthulhu_ 13y ago> How hard can it be to re-render an already-created CG scene with a few more pixels? Quite tricky, seeing that Square-Enix no longer has the original source files to re-render these. A proper re-release would require artists to remake the environments from scratch (based on concept art or the original game).
- hdra 13y agoI would love to see this.
- thezoid 13y agoEven if they did have it, there's a good chance their systems aren't compatible with whatever they used to render them. The game is nearly 20 years old, a millennia in video game time. Oh my goodness... 20 years!
- jscheel 13y agoThey don't have the original sources anymore? Do you have a reference for this? What a terrible loss that would be.
- hkmurakami 13y agoconsidering that they've laid off a huge fraction of their veteran programmers and have been outsourcing development overseas, this doesn't surprise me in the least.
- Shish2k 13y ago
- duiker101 13y ago> Still waiting for a proper HD I am sure it will come out in the same period of the pokemon MMORPG
- Cthulhu_ 13y agoThere is one of those, or in fact, multiple. Fan-made, yes, but MMO's nevertheless. One could arguably state that all of the pokemon games are MMORPG's already, seeing that you can connect to other players and exchange creatures, combat, etc.
- Skoofoo 13y agoYou should stick with the original. Remakes have higher resolution graphics, but at the cost of the creative passion that went into the original games.
- uween 13y agoThis is the hi-res model re-release. It looks like it's identical to the one square released last year, but available via Steam instead of Square. It has all the updated models of the hacked versions and (slightly) improved sound quality, plus a few new `features' like cloud-saving (anti-feature?) and character boosting (who knows). I bought the square version and the cloud-saving was pretty awful, you sometimes had to wait up to 10 mins to contact their server and save the game. I can only imagine they've fixed that for this release.