Remake Rumor: Final Fantasy IV DS

I'm so getting a DS if this is true...
 
Skaw said:
Why are there people still lacking a DS?

Freaking Heathens.
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Cuz I sold mine when it sucked, and I've been very reluctant about buying something I sold off >.>
 
because, I rarely actually play hand held games XD so I got a PSP for few games I wanna play, music (I love music <3) and watching movies during long trips. But I can get a DS too just fine. Just wanted to wait more.
 
I'm kinda screwed, myself. I might have to actually get a Lite finally. Ol' Electric Blues hinge broke on one side the other day. So now the top screen and speakers wobbles. Nothing major. I just have to be really careful opening it. If it takes a fall for some reason, it might be all over.
 
I haven't exactly checked, what's the difference between DS and DS Lite? Isn't it just size? O.o
 
Elemmire said:
I haven't exactly checked, what's the difference between DS and DS Lite? Isn't it just size? O.o
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Size, weight, and varying levels of back light. DS has 2. Off and On. DS Lite has 4, Off and 3 different levels. So in effect, it can have a longer battery life. The screens are also a little more crisp. The microphone is also in a much better position on the DS Lite.
 
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Only thing I hate about the Lite is the GBA slot, games stickin out halfway.. but it's not really much of a bother, I was used to it from the original GBA with regular GB/GBC games.
 
A dying thread, perhaps, but I've got some newer (read, exactly the same) images that might breathe new life into it. Some fanboy went ahead and took the Joystiq scans of each scene, and set them side-by-side with the original, 2d renderings for comparison. These images are a bit higher quality, too:

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http://www.dsfanboy.com/2007/05/10/ffiv-3d-remake-compared-with-original-2d-games/

I love what they'd done with Octomamm ... was that the English name?
 
Just skip 5 and move onto 6.
 
romperstomper said:
Wasn't that just re-released two years ago for GBA?
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Personally, I don't care how many times they re-release FFIV.

I love that game!! It's my first RPG ever and it got me hooked on RPGs. Nothing beats it ever. Though graphics have moved on and FFIV now looks kiddy.. I still love it ^^

Incidentally, just wanted to share something .... i heard from someone. This person has a friend who is supposedly a FF fanatic. Now, this fanatic claimed that all FF prior to FFVII was a failure.

I was like.. which dumb company would make 6 failures in a row..........
 
Altheya said:
. This person has a friend who is supposedly a FF fanatic. Now, this fanatic claimed that all FF prior to FFVII was a failure.
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As most true Final Fantasy "afficianados" would say that the Playstation era was the beginning of the end, this alleged "FF fanatic" is nothing of the sort.

Final Fantasy was silver. Final Fantasies III, IV, and V were gold. Final Fantasy VI was friggin' PLATINUM. In this person, you'll definitely find someone no older than 17 whose first experience with the series was with Cloud Strife.
 
I wonder, though, why are they remaking so many of the old cool FF for the DS only? hmm seems it could be used on the GBA or PSP fine too :P (well GBA wouldn't be that pretty but still). I was thinking maybe a copyright issue.. maybe that Nintendo still owned rights to FFIV or something but I remember FFIV, FFV, and FFVI being ported to PSone long ago.. soo *shrugs* I wonder.. or is it SE branch company involved with Nintendo only? hmm (at least I'm told they have a branch :P)
 
Nintendo doesn't own the rights to the series. Square-Enix is porting Final Fantasy and Final Fantasy II over to the PSP, and it probably wouldn't take that much work to move Final Fantasy III over since the dual-screens and touch implementation feels like an afterthought. Note to SE: If you have two screens, make sure they're both in use all the time.

Final Fantasy IV remains my favorite of the series, and the recent GBA port is the definitive edition as far as I'm concerned. It has the 16-bit graphics and tunes along with the best translation I've seen. I look forward to the remake, but I can't imagine it'll replace the original in my heart.
 
I'm still not sure on anything with the copyrights. I can't find anything about it XD cause I don't think SE entirely owns the series themselves. I know before the Enix merger, Sony had a lot of stock into Squaresoft, as well. And I think there was some sorta contract agreement where Sony shared the rights to the FF games that appeared on their system (up until the contract ended/reformed or whatever lately). At least that's what I've read.. *shrugs* if anyone has better source of information for this I'd really like to learn XD (mostly I'm trying to grasp at why certain FF aren't being remade that are popular.. like.. oh.. FF6 and FF7 which are easily the two more popular). Not port.. remake.
 
The term you're looking for is "licensing," I think. The copyrights for the series and individual games belong to Square Enix. They have to negotiate deals to get the games on Nintendo and Sony systems, but they still own the games.

As for why the games haven't been remade in the past, I imagine it hasn't been worth the effort until now. Making those old games with Gamecube/Xbox/PS2 graphics would be like throwing money straight down the toilet because I doubt the market is there to justify the development costs and the requisite $60 they'd have to charge, and few people would spend that much for a remake unless it was a package deal.

Doing a $30 port of a GBA title or a $35 remake on the DS probably makes a lot more sense. The graphics requirements aren't as intense, which is forgivable on a handheld system. Obviously, I could be completely wrong. If they have enough success with Final Fantasy IV -- a real test case, since Final Fantasy III was a remake of a game very few people got to play -- I think you'll probably see more remakes.

And if Capcom can port Resident Evil to the DS as well as they did, I see no reason why Final Fantasy VII wouldn't be possible for the system.
 
I still would love to see a FFVII remake but, well.. more like Gothic when it comes to travelling. Full blown cities, full land, no loading kinda thing. If you play Gothic 3 you'd get what I mean but I really doubt much can do that XD my dreams of games are insane for how things are in modern time.

And I could be thinking of licensing.. not sure though, but there seems to be something that's keeping them from announcing more remakes (not ports) and why they don't make them on more than one system :P *Shrugs*
 
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