As You can see here.

At the show will be the following titles:



Hopefully this means we'll be seeing some NEW footage of Final Fantasy XIII, at least, once it leaks to the net, that is. Either way, I'm hoping for some kind of status update on the projects!

New screens. The PSP tech has moved on from its days of mediocrity to amazingness.

I've heard that the Parasite Eve 3 is going to the PSP too. Is that true?

Don't forget this.

From 1up. You could well be right, Athun, but maybe not.



There is some more small info about this private party:

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3169128

The 3rd Birthday? Yeah, I made a thread: here. Though it's not quite "Parasite Eve 3." More info on that in the thread, though.

And the one I'd prefer:


Also, wow was this party ever a huge letdown.
Square Enix is all "Let's gather you into a room to announce...THAT TWO CELLPHONE GAMES ARE COMING TO PSP!" That's a great announcement and I'll probably buy both of those games, but...did they think this would send waves through the gaming world or something? If so...Square's ego is officially off the charts. We should call that company Square Ego from now on. I know I will.

Was it really just the two PSP games the big announcement that S-E have been going on about? Or will there be more news to come? If not then I think I'll have to agree with you on that.

if that was the big news that was supposed to calm down the sony fans, well that sucks

. . . my d r e a m! *drool*

Are you guys really that desperate for a PS3 release?

I understand FF7, but FF8? Not gonna happen, imo. I wouldn't mind though, maybe they'll remake every PS1 FF, which I really doubt, but it's SE, I expect almost everything from them by now.

Like I said, there should still should be some big news concerning FFVII and FFXIII to come. Unless it is finished now, but I have heard no news about anything to do with FFVII as of yet.

A remake a FFVIII would be awesome too, though.

The event was held last Sat. and it was great to see more games for the PSP. =D 3rd birthday alone was good enough for me.

Uh, the big news there was the FFXIII demo would be coming with FFVII:AC blu-ray. They announced that during the thing. Yup. That was the news.

The original original original announcement was that every PS1 Final Fantasy would be remade for the PS2. This was back before the PS2 was out. Good times, good times.

It appears you don't know SE yet.
Lemmie refresh your memory. Now, how many of the Final Fantasy games, prior to Final Fantasy VII have been ported, or re-released with updated gameplay/graphics?

You're right, all of them. Several even several times.

How many games, carrying a Final Fantasy name, but not part of the main series have been re-released?

Nearly all, if not all of them.

How many games currently owned by Square Enix have been re-released/ported in any form?

You're right, way too many.


So, with that behind us. I am confident that one day Square will release remakes of the PSX Final Fantasies. Heck, it already started with Final Fantasy Tactics.

There's a Tactics remake?

I'm not surprised by this announcement. I like more PSP titles and I think the Parasite Eve game could be very promising. Sucks they didn't have something more to show, but whatever.

You say all that like its a negative thing.

There are too many versions of the first few Final Fantasies, especially I and II.

Not saying a remake is bad, but there is of course a limit =p.

The Final Fantasy 7 remake is Square Enix's ace. Once they put that out, the fans would want nothing else from SE other than Kingdom Hearts. That's my thought, at least.

Wait what? Port = Remake? I'm confuzzled.

XD point taken, but on the other hand, i would never have played 1-6 if not for the PS1 prots, and maybe thats true for younger kids who have GBA's, or DS, or PSPs. *shrug* I don't need to buy them again so the whole rerelease tning ahs never bothered me. If it emans more people are getting to play that missed out on the last release, say the PS1 versions then fair play imo.

Ok, since we're on the topic of remakes/ports... is the FFT port to PSP any good??? I LOVED the game for PS1, and am most likley NOT planning on buying a PSP, but was it as good, or better than the PS1 FFT?? MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYBE in the future I might buy it, but who knows.

Also, for those who know, did they fix the white mage bug where their spells sometimes "miss". Nothing more embarassing than chanting, "work, work, oh please work" when your white mage is casting a life spell...


One more question... what game screens are those that appear at the beginning of the thread??? That's Tidus and Ject, but what game is it from??? Kinda seems like it's a Final Fantasy version of Street Fighter to me...

They are shots of Dissidia, the FF fighting game SE have been developing for the last year or so for PSP ^^

On the note of FFT, it loaded a little slower when I played it, but i know they updated it with patches, but my flat-mate who owns the PSP is too stupid to d/l them XD all in all, i don't think there was really any difference, it got great reviews.

Yeah, whoops. Although, I do consider it to be more than just a port though.

It falls under "enhanced port." It's a port at the core, but it added features like hand-drawn cinemas, voice acting (English versions), and sweet lag.

Also,

Wait...does that "nearly all" include the Crystal Chronicles subseries, Mystic Quest, Final Fantasy Legend (it does carry the name, after all...), and Final Fantasy Adventure (again, it does carry the name)?

Contrasting your point here, I'm actually having a hard time thinking of a single non-main-series FF that has been ported or remade, outside of the original Tactics with its recent PSP update. >_>

Oh dammit, I meant amount of spin-offs carrying the Final Fantasy name that have been released, ported, or remade.
Not just ported. I can understand the confusion there.
Anyway, there are too many games carrying the Final Fantasy name.

*Devil's advocate mode ON*

Are there? What about the nerds that play them all and want more? And want more, ASAP?

Is anyone MAKING you buy and play any or any of these Final Fantasy games? Why is this a complaint?

I want moar.

PSX re-releases on PSP confirmed? They might just go the cheap route and post ports of them on the PSX section on PSN.

Yeah man, cause Mystic Quest, Legend, Dirge of Cerberus, Chocobo Racing and Chocobo Dungeon were so amazing. Please bring us more of these quality games.

That didn't answer any of my questions....

You said:

And then I said:

It wasn't the point I was trying to make. I said that too many games carry the Final Fantasy name.

What makes you say that?

Honestly, I don't know what's so shocking about that. We got a FF8 demo along with Musashi ten years ago.
Maybe I would have chosen different words to describe the announcement. Anyway, good news about new PSP games and a FF 13 demo. And I don't know why, but for some reason I prefer having demos on physical media instead of downloads. Nostalgia perhaps.

I agree. Its a great announcement and all that a demo is coming, and I'm guessing S-E were tryin gto make it up to sony fans a little, putting it out with a blu-ray release, but its hardly shockin or i think what he said was it would "blow us away". Good announcement, but hardly.

Pes, I enjoyed DoC XD so if the only purpose of the game being released was to satisfy me, it still had its purpose

Yeah, it's purpose was to expand the story of certain character, and whatever the actual game may be, weather it sucks at gameplay or graphics, I enjoy it because it's milked from one of my favorite games featuring one of my favorite characters. And it's not just to satisfy you, us mate ;]

So any new trailers from FFVII:AC Complete yet?

Ftw, we should petition a sequel

How about the fact that piratically everything that Square* does now is more Final Fantasy related than anything else in their franchise. Sure we have some Kingdom Heart games coming our way, and a few other things for our handheld systems, but the only other thing new and refreshing coming from the company seems to be The Last Remnant. Perhaps I am too reminiscent of the PS1 era, when they were publishing a number of different titles that did not bear the Final Fantasy name that were all good in their own right. It is as if their creativity is becoming stale, and I can tell you that they are no longer the company that keeps me anticipated for many of their games. (If any at all.)

*No, I am not referring to Enix in this regard.

So from what your saying you'd rather have every Final Fantasy game that isn't related to each other just have a different name, which is basically every Final Fantasy game?

Except the fact that almost anything that holds a Final Fantasy name are usually related to one another, just not directly.

I am talking about creating more games like The Last Remnant for our home consoles, more franchise that are not part of the Final Fantasy universe. I honestly think they have the skills and creativity to pull it off.

They are related, but not directly aren't you contradicting yourself there? When you say there is some type of relation I think you mean things like Moogles, Chocobos, Cid, names of magic, Jobs, Limit Breaks etc. Yes, it is true that all Final Fantasy games have these recurring elements, but these things are pretty superficial when the entire story, world, and characters are different in each one. A sequel in the Final Fantasy series isn't like a sequel in Madden where it is the same game with incremental improvement or none at all. I can see anyone of the Final Fantasy games not titled Final Fantasy because of how different they are from each other.

Doesn't Namco Bandai almost do exactly the same thing as SE with the Tales series except each sequel gets a new name at the name after "Tales of", but with some recurring elements yet an entirely different game.

I agree with this kind of, the only other square games I have played for the ps1 that were not final fantasy were Chrono Cross and Threads of Fate, but heard of others that looked really good. All they seem to push out now is Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts (That has Final Fantasy in it) I'm not bitching much because I love Final Fantasy, but I also miss the style of how Threads of Fate was.

Everyday I pray that some small chance they will re-make it or spin-off or do something similar with the two story cross-over stuff that was New to me, at least.

And yeah yeah Each Final Fantasy game is Different in its own right but its still basically the same in the end, In my opinion. I think the Final Fantasy has been going downhill anyway. I miss ransacking homes of people and getting their treasure chests D: That was not present much in the last couple of Final Fantasy games, at least not in 12. You could only go into shops pretty much. Yeah ff12 was fun but by the time I got that game and actually played it, it didn't have the 'magic' of the old ones.

Maybe im just getting too old.


Anyways this is more or less off topic.


ANYONE HAVE SCREENS/VIDS OF THE NEW FF7 AC SHIZ?

Because there are. I am not talking about the quality of the games, just the fact that there are too many games carrying the Final Fantasy names.
With the teams in Square's studios, you'd expect to have some new games to be announced, no?
Like, something totally different from Final Fantasy? Let Square step aside from the old trusted Final Fantasy and have them create something new. Instead, they keep whoring spin offs and other Final Fantasy games.

Other companies have proven that it can be done, such as Capcom with Devil May Cry, where DMC1 was a mere test that proved to be a hit.

Dissidia seems a good choice, but it is FF related. I hope that Square will use their creativity and design a new game, unrelated to Final Fantasy, not carrying the name and be a complete new concept.

...so you're complaining there are too many regardless of the quality? Oh. I thought the point of bringing up DoC was its supposed lack of quality. I really can't get on board with what your saying now dude XD if the game is good, what does it matter if it has the final fantasy brand or not? Its madness to argue that there are too many just because, and not to do with the quality of the games. If you can't enjoy a good game because of the title (which is technically an argument your making here, by saying thatquality isn't what you're discussing) then I think you need to learn how to enjoy games again for what they are, instead of sitting criticising a game simply for its brand name :\

I'm not saying that's what Pes is saying in this little debate here so Pes don't take this as a chop at you mate it's more at gamers who have developed a weird kind of snobbery towards mainstream videogames. Mush, that was very well said there. Too many times I have seen gamers all over the internet, simply not like a game because it has Final Fantasy in it's title or Square on the logo for that matter. I've even seen gamers slate a game (FF and GTA mostly) or not bother with it simply because it's popular or mainstream. That really isn't something I can understand at all, a good game is a good game whether it's hyped, or under appreciated.

That I didn't mentioned the quality of games, didn't mean I liked the games. On the contrary, I thought DoC was a pretty crappy game.
However, that is not what I was pointing out.
Shroom, you quote the first sentence in my post, which makes me believe you didn't read the rest of it and just assumed I said what you said in your post.
You're putting words into my mouth and it is quite rude. I never said anything about disliking a game, because of the title and you seem to completely misinterpret my post.

To explain again, I feel that there are too many games carrying the Final Fantasy name. What I mean with this is what I have written there. There is no deeper meaning in that single line, no hatred to the name Final Fantasy, just what is written there.
Square is too involved in whoring Final Fantasy, instead of trying out newer things. I did say this in my previous post, but you ignored that and only replied to my first sentence.

Square has enough resources to make and design whole new concepts. They have done this before, so I fail to see why they keep releasing Final Fantasy games. Whether it is a good game, or not, whether I like the game, or not is not my issue here.
I believe that Square should move on from Final Fantasy and make a new game, or at least show the effort of releasing new games, not carrying the Final Fantasy name. We know they can do it, so what is preventing them from doing it?

But he never said that you did either. I can't see in what way he's putting words in your mouth here. I'm trying to figure that out.



These two comments mean exactly the same thing. And if not this, then what part were you refering to?
The rest of his comments were either asking you a question, or complied with what you said about it not being about quality, but amount.


I think what Bomb and Mushroom were saying was that there is a difference between many and too many. When does it go from many, and become too many? Is it a number? 5? 7? They feel that as long as the games provide quality or what the fans want, then there are simply "many" but not "too many" games. "Too many" is something that needs to be defined.
"You've poured in too much into the glass" The reason it is too much and not just much has a reason. Either because pouring in that much will make the liquid spill over the sides, or because the person can't drink that much, etc.

From what I gather, they were saying that "too many" is when the games don't serve their purpose, and people don't want them any more. As long as people want FF7 games, and the games deliver what people want, then there are many FF games, but not too many.

Dear lord, talk about being pedantic. You know what, whatever Hiku. I feel that there are too many games carrying the name Final Fantasy. Instead of causing a whole big arguement, why not just accept it?
I'd rather see Square make something refreshing, something inspiring, something unexpected.
Why is that so much to ask? Maybe all you care about is more Final Fantasy and FF spin offs? I am surprised some people make a big deal out of this, because it really isn't. Oh noes, I want to something other than Final Fantasy, from Square. Talk about blasphemy here! One cannot possibly want something else from Square, other than a game with the title "Final Fantasy" somewhere written on the cover.

Yes, I feel that there are too many games with the name Final Fantasy, same as I feel the same about Mario and Megaman. Get over it. There is no need to stretch it out of proportion.
Furthermore, I shared my 2 cents and that is where I'll leave it. I really don't want to go in a 10 page discussion, as to why I have this opinion.

Yes, SE is whoring the Final Fantasy brand, but each game is different so I'm not sure how SE isn't "trying out newer things" when they have been doing so for quite sometime with each release.

Isn't every Final Fantasy game different besides the recurring elements like Moogles, Chocobos, etc.? You make it sound like every Final Fantasy game is the same that they are actual sequels like a Madden which is released every year with incremental or no improvements. Every Final Fantasy game released is different enough that it could have a different title, but SE isn't going to do that since the Final Fantasy brand is such a household name and so easily recognizable.

My one question is how does SE whoring the Final Fantasy brand negatively affect you when the quality of most Final Fantasy games aren't suffering and when each game is different? So far what I have heard is that you think there is too many games with "Final Fantasy" in the title with no explanation on how you came to that concern.

I can see why some have misinterpreted your post I wasn't sure that's why I didn't direct what I said at you. You're saying you'd like to see Square focus on something new outside of the FF franchise. Yeah, I agree with what you're saying here it would be nice to see Square-enix put it's talent into some new IPs. In fact that's what my biggest complaint this gen has been so far, too many sequels (which for most part have been nothing more than graphical upgrades) and not enough new IP's. I'd rather something new any day.

Although to give Final Fantasy its credit it does seem to try something new on every episode in regard to story, battle systems, etc plus they seem to always bring out the best in the consoles they are developed on and I am rather excited for FFXIII series that's on it's way, I couldn't give up my FF

I don't know if you have access to a DS Pes but The World Ends With You was a very refreshing and new RPG from Square, it didn't sell very well though.