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Post by Xeogred on Sept 20, 2018 22:06:54 GMT -5
I guess The Last Remnant is the product of an Akitoshi Kawazu related project getting a AAA budget. Makes me wish that happened more often, even if it was a bit of a technical mess. Seriously I know I keep saying it around here lately, but it has one of the coolest combat systems ever in a JRPG to me. Too bad that team didn't get to do more games of that scale!
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Post by Sarge on Sept 20, 2018 22:11:23 GMT -5
So I found out that Kawazu didn't have much to do with it, but I'll throw out that recommendation of Treasure of the Rudras again. I had a blast with it. It gives you the multiple viewpoints of a SaGa, but a battle system that hews much closer to traditional. It also ends up pretty linear, which helps as well.
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Post by Xeogred on Sept 20, 2018 22:15:15 GMT -5
Thanks for the reminder, I definitely have a good feeling about that one. When the SNES RPG mood strikes again I should go for that one.
Whomever was the brains behind The Last Remnant... get that guy to save Final Fantasy or something.
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Post by Ex on Sept 20, 2018 23:04:59 GMT -5
Whomever was the brains behind The Last Remnant... get that guy to save Final Fantasy or something. The closest that Hiroshi Takai has come so far was being an assistant director for Final Fantasy XIV Online: A Realm Reborn.
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Post by toei on Sept 20, 2018 23:07:30 GMT -5
Treasure of the Rudras is great, but definitely doesn't feel anything like the SaGa games. The different scenarios are intertwined and all tied together at the end, similar to the manner pioneered in Dragon Quest 4, except you can switch scenarios any time and choose to advance one while one sits. That said, they are otherwise linear, and the story actually matters. This isn't really the case with, say, Saga Frontier, which never got its final scenario, or Romancing SaGa 3, which barely has a story.
I doubt budget has anything to do with Kawazu's frequent failures. That he was allowed to design and produce so many games is a miracle, and most of them seemed to have similar budgets to Squaresoft's other games at the time (I mean, he made FF2, didn't he?). Meanwhile, Xenogears didn't have the budget to fully realize its ambitions, and it's still a masterpiece. I don't know who designed the Last Remnant battle system, but Kawazu is just the executive producer on that game. Who knows how deep his involvement is? Tetsuo Mizuno was credit as Executive Producer on basically every Squaresoft game from '92 to '98, and no one ever attributes any creative credit to him.
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Post by Ex on Sept 20, 2018 23:12:49 GMT -5
I doubt budget has anything to do with Kawazu's frequent failures. I haven't played a whole lot of Kawazu's games, but I loved the piss outta this one: All his games may not be jams, but I appreciate his experimental spirit.
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Post by Sarge on Sept 21, 2018 9:45:15 GMT -5
Yeah, that's why I mentioned the linearity and battle system. The only real tie is the multiple protagonists, and even that is kind to the player, letting you jump from scenario to scenario. I think I'd advise not doing that, so you remember what you were doing in each one, though.
I still gotta get around to Crystal Bearers.
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Post by anayo on Oct 7, 2018 17:03:09 GMT -5
What about remasters versus remakes?
A "remaster" of a ten year or older game that doesn't change the source material (aside from perhaps increasing the resolution, or upgrading the audio fidelity), is still considered the same game as its original self insofar as HRG cares. So if Game X released in 1999, but Game X HD released in 2018, but nothing about the HD version changed aside from say higher resolution or increased audio fidelity, then Game X HD is still considered on equal HRG-kosher footing as Game X.
OK so if I were to hypothetically play my XBOX 360 backlog on an XBOX One X which bump up those old games to 4K then it sounds like I can discuss it here.
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Post by Xeogred on Oct 7, 2018 18:01:33 GMT -5
Yes.
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Post by Ex on Oct 7, 2018 21:29:24 GMT -5
OK so if I were to hypothetically play my XBOX 360 backlog on an XBOX One X which bump up those old games to 4K then it sounds like I can discuss it here. If the 360 game is ten years old or older, sure. An HD remaster of a game is only legit if the game it's a remaster of is ten or more years old. Pretty sure the FAQ explains all that clearly actually.
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