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. In recent interviews, he highlighted the challenges posed by the game's extensive content and the potential need to split it into multiple parts, similar to the approach taken with the Final Fantasy 7 Remake series.Key Points from Yoshi-P's RemarksVolume and Complexity: Yoshi-P noted that Final Fantasy 9 is a game with significant volume, encompassing various kingdoms, environments, and story elements. This complexity makes it challenging to fit into a single remake without substantial

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.

  • Asafum@feddit.nlEnglish
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    3 months ago

    “Volume and Complexity: Yoshi-P noted that Final Fantasy 9 is a game with significant volume, encompassing various kingdoms, environments, and story elements. This complexity makes it challenging to fit into a single remake without substantial expansion and enhancement of its world.”

    Because Lord knows there was never a time when we had multiple disks for a large game.

    Go fuck yourself greedy fucking assholes… I’m sure they’ll pull some PS5 exclusive first bullshit too so they can milk every last cent possible…

    • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      3 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 If it was one whole game they’d not only bloat the budget to dangerous levels, it’d likely be outdated by the time it’s finished and will either need to redo large parts of the game so it looks modern or release a game that looks like it should’ve released 5+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.

    • Thassodar@lemm.eeEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Eh the “PS5 first” angle for FF16 and the continuation of Remake underperformed, and they admitted it themselves. I think PS5/PC releases are the future for them, so they can make more money at launch with minimal porting issues.

      • Asafum@feddit.nlEnglish
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        3 months ago

        I really hope so. I’ve been playing ff16 finally since it’s on PC and it’s really good. I absolutely love how dark the story is lol it deserved better treatment/exposure on PC

    • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I don’t think so on the PS5 exclusivity. SE said that it did not pay off in sales for XVI and I believe they said they weren’t doing that again