RetroGaming

19774 readers

195 users here now

Vintage gaming community.

Rules:

Be kind.
No spam or soliciting for money.
No racism or other bigotry allowed.
Obviously nothing illegal.

If you see these please report them.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

Xylinna

Tenthrow

gts

Final Fantasy 9 Remake May Not Happen as a Single Title (www.retronews.com)

submitted 2 months ago by Kain1 to c/retrogaming

64 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Naoki Yoshida, known as Yoshi-P and the director of Final Fantasy 14, has expressed skepticism about the feasibility of remaking Final Fantasy 9 as a single title.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's not about amount of discs. It's about dev time. If it was one whole game they'd not only bloat the budget to dangerous levels, it'd likely be outdated by the time it's finished and will either need to redo large parts of the game so it looks modern or release a game that looks like it should've released 5+ years ago.

Imagine if FFVII didn't split up it's remake, not only would we not have any of it right now. When the third part comes out it'll all just look like a PS4 game on a PS6.

If you want to argue whether or not they should go balls to wall that requires them to make a series of games so large is infeasible as a single entry, and do something a bit more budget friendly like the original, then fair enough. But then it'd just be a remaster or something not that far removed.