Am I the only one who thinks those prices are still too high for 25+ year old titles? Don’t get me wrong, absolutely love the games, but this “discount” feels closer to what it should be.
this post was submitted on 09 Aug 2024
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Charging 2-3x too much for games you already bought.
Original price of $10 each feels about right. They put work into the graphics, music, and bug fixes. But stripped out all the additional content of later releases.
$18 for one of these games is ludicrous. I would have preferred to just pay for the older version that they removed from the app stores.
Absolutely not alone on that. Square Enix's prices on all their old titles are about 50% more than I'm willing to drop on them at any given time.
All 6 games bundled for 30 dollar/euro would be fine.
Am I hallucinating, because there was definitely a bundle that had all 6 remasters that I got... for $50 in 2022 I wanna say? All 6 are in my library and there is no way I spent $25x6 (or whatever the price is, I know FF I and II are lower in price).
You're not. There's a bundle but for a collection of 16 bit games from the 1990s, 50 dollars is too much, IMHO.
They aren't though? They're not ports, they're partial rebuilds of the games in Unity with native resolution support, new pixel art, full arrangement of most of the music, and huge QoL and gameplay improvements/modernization.
I'm not a huge fan of SqEnix's money grabbing (see: literally any of their FF gatcha content), but the Pixel remasters are one of the few that are actually worth it...at $50 for the whole bundle. Not $25/ remastered game.
They aren’t though? They’re not ports, they’re partial rebuilds of the games in Unity with native resolution support, new pixel art, full arrangement of most of the music, and huge QoL and gameplay improvements/modernization.
Call them what you want, I recently paid 15 Euro for 62 1990s Capcom games. 30 for 6 Square games would be fine, given the bigger scope.
Ok but again, are they ports or did new content go into it? Did a whole new soundtrack and full orchestral recording go into your 60 Capcom games? There IS a labour difference between adding new/upscaling the content vs porting it to new hardware and calling it a day.
Saying "call it what you want" is pretty disrespectful to the people actually working on modernizing these games (I'm one of those people).
Ok but again, are they ports or did new content go into it? Did a whole new soundtrack and full orchestral recording go into your 60 Capcom games? There IS a labour difference between adding new/upscaling the content vs porting it to new hardware and calling it a day.
Then give me a bundle without all that crap. Now I'm emulating the games and you get no money on top of what I paid for the SNES originals back in the day. I'd happily pay again for some convenience but not 70 Euro for six 30 years old games.
Saying “call it what you want” is pretty disrespectful to the people actually working on modernizing these games (I’m one of those people).
The cost is very disrespectful to us customers.
I totally agree. I recently bought on sale Final Fantasy 1 for mobile, mostly because I didn't feel like digging out my PlayStation and putting in one of the original remastered disks. To be honest, the load times were pretty long on a kind of it being PS1. But the prices they're asking for for all of these remasters are excessive. Also some of them have 3D instead of pixel sprites; FF4:TAY in particular was ruined that way. You know what I'd like to see; all of the newer Final Fantasy is done in pixel art style. Like from 7 onward. That would be fun.
Sale goes for iOS and Android too
The PS1 games on Android are also 50% off. Although on my device, I can't buy them directly because it's "not compatible". But I can buy it on an older device, and it will be available for download.
I'd argue there are better ways to play all of these except maybe FFIII (Japanese FFIII, not VI)
Do note that I'm a weird person though, if you just want to play the games, those versions are fine and effortless
As I said in another topic, this is the only way to play FF3 in its original form (or at least close to it) and in a language other than Japanese, outside of emulation. The DS remake is fine, but it is definitely a different experience.
I don't like that they stripped out all of the extra content that the other releases added.
I can't speak for the other, but in my opinion the Woolsey Uncensored version is the best way to play FFVI.
I use the Woolsey translation as part of Dancing Mad, which compiles a lot of stuff and gives you the option to use MSU1 for CD quality tracks.
I use the Synthetic Origins tracks by Matthew Valente which tries to be as close to the original as possible while using uncompressed samples.
Great tip, I'll look into it for my next playthrough!