Poll: Do you think square enix should stop porting?

Yes
14 38.9%
No
10 27.8%
Sort of a Mixed Bag
12 33.3%

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Poll Square Enix addicted to ports? (Read 2495 times)

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Square Enix made such good RPGs back in the day, that the idea of porting them seems like a good idea to you know, introduce a new generation of gamers to their work. However, when you see them port the 73rd version of FFIV you might start to question: Why? Why port these old games in this day in age? Some ports like Crono Trigger are good ideas, but some ports like the first final fantasy(Mind you, this game got remade about 5 times and correct me if I am wrong) get repetitive. Porting seems to be good ol' Squeenix's heroine and they just can't stop doing it. Which leaves one question: Should Squeenix keep re-porting their games or should they stop? My opinion is both yes and no, yes to the games they hardly port(crono trigger) and no to the ones they port every god damn year! What are you're thoughts?
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No shit where da money at

where da g-money
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No, never.
I cane play the finalz fintasy on the gowe.(I just dun know why they haven't ported ff7 tho <3 klowd)

Seriously though, I don't think they should stop because there are a couple of games I missed because I'm not exactly an rpg finatic. Though, I enjoy a good classic styled rpg every now and then. Anything past FF6 is no man's land though.
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i like the remakes.  dragon quest 4-6 and final fantasy 3/4ds are fine because they're new.

what i don't like is paying full price for a poorly emulated rom.  squenix has the audacity to charge not 30$ but 40 DUCATS for their new ds games as if the quality is waaaaay above everyone else.  blizzard does the same fucking thing with their games; the average new game price for a pc game is 40$ but even back in 1997 blizzard was charging 60$ new for their pc games.  these guys are ripping us off but people buy it anyway because hey it's final fantasy and ff is popular
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The pricing is pretty ridiculous.
As long as they port games that were not been released in certain countries(some DQ games, Star Ocean 1, etc), it's okay. I might have been fine with CT getting a port if they actually added things, but nope. Most of their old ports sucked, but the new ones they're cranking out(other than CT) are good.
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Square Enix needs to lock themselves in a room with nothing but copies of Parasite Eve, Brave Fence Musashi, and Einhander and not be allowed to leave until they figure out the right answer.
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i kind of wish more jrpgs like parasite eve would be made.  i mean it wasnt even an amazing game and the storyline wasnt anything special (though it wasnt as awful as the shit you see in games these days), but it broke the mold in a lot of ways, especially combat/setting.  COP IN NEW YORK is a cue developers need to take.  it is sad to think that kingdom hearts and ffx, especially the former, are probably the single biggest reason all rpgs blow at this point.  i think i had this IDEA for why/how xenogears i think it was killed rpgs with its release but in retrospect i can't remember the reasoning and ffx/kh seem much more appropriate candidates.
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I haven't played the ported DS version of FF3 yet, but I loved the original (translated ROM).  The fact that they introduced that to America is pretty awesome. Pretty much one of the best FFs to date.  Fuck FFX/XII/XI.

On another note, despite a lot of hatred Unlimited Saga got, I think they were going in a good direction with that.  I've always enjoyed the unique SaGa gameplay and environments, and I hope they do something else with it in the future.  Unlimited used a lot of roleplaying elements that you just don't see in JRPGs (like any form of strategy OUTSIDE of repetitive combat).  The battle system is a real turn-off, though.  In some respects, the game can be overly complex, but if they used some of those elements more effectively, they'd have something very great on their hands.
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I only started play the first FF for the first time on PSP about 2 weeks ago and I got about 12 hours into it. other then it, the only FF I've ever played has been 7 and I didn't beat it. I'm one of those people that HAS to play games in order, even if they are not connected story wise.
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No. the number of good games they make is outweighed by the bad ones. and the only thing that evens out the scale is the enix games before the merger.

oh and also Capcom

EDIT: by which i mean if you wanna bitch about ports talk about capcom. every resident evil comes out for every system.
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Personally I can accept Dragon Quest remakes, I just like those more than FF and 90% of the jrpgs in america(exept CT and some others) but if square is going to port games, why not port FF 7-9? All three of those weren't ported(exept for FFVII's PC port) and they should be revisited!
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how can you tell the difference between their ports and their new games anyway????
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Ports don't bother me at all.

If I don't have a previous version and it looks interesting, I'll get it.

On the other hand, I'm probably done buying FFIV (SNES, PSX, GBA, DS).  I figure over 100 bucks for a game is enough, even though I love it to death.
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They're definitely going overboard with the ports/remakes, especially where FFIV is concerned. It wasn't a bad game, but it definitely doesn't deserve the massive number of ports it has.
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the average new game price for a pc game is 40$

Where did you get that from? If you discount indie games that is completely wrong
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For me to want them to produce new games, I'd have to have confidence in their ability to identify and understand exactly what it is that made their older games great in the first place.

On that merit, I'm pretty sure it's better for everyone that they just keep making ports.

In that case, at least there's the hope that some new generation of gamer will have access to one of those classic games and maybe be able to identify what makes it so great. It's at least better than him drawing "inspiration" from the latest peice of shit title from a comany that doesn't know what the fuck it's doing.

Hell, all that "new" title did anyways was look at one of those older games and copied everything that that game did wrong.
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Where did you get that from? If you discount indie games that is completely wrong

It has been for as far as I can remember.  I just bought King's Bounty yesterday which is published by Atari and it was only 40usd.  The Witcher Enhanced contains two professionally made stand alone quests with about 15 hours of gameplay each (that's a whole game right there) plus a whole shitload of extras for 40usd.  Collected editions of games like Gold/Platinum/whatever go for 30-40usd depending on how old the original title is (When Civilization 4 warlords came out they instantly released a collected edition for 40$ even though civ4 was 40$ and warlords was 30$).  Most of the pc games I have I bought new 40usd and only the BIG NAME TITLES (as in stuff that's a multiconsole release like Oblivion, Fallout 3, and Spore) are 50usd.  Even Crysis and Clear Sky, which are stand alone games, are 30-40 bucks.  Why the fuck are console games an extra 10$?  It's not like they have better packaging or they're harder to distribute.

Last Edit: September 28, 2008, 07:05:45 pm by Marcus
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Some ports are fine, IMO. Specially when they really improve the game, like FF3/FF4 for the DS. Or ports of games that weren't released outside japan. That's nice.

But some ports are so... meh, like CT.

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Straight ports kind of bother me for the obvious reasons already listed, but mainly for the fact that S-E ports tend to sell at a premium, the cost of one of their newer titles which is ridiculous.  They do a lot of porting although I've played and enjoyed a lot of their new stuff too (TWEWY ^_^), I just wish we would see more of it, or at least have them port games at a decent price and do something about localizing SD3 for goodness sake.
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All of you shouldn't be complaining at all. The constant ports Square-Enix is releasing is obviously being used to fuel the heated development costs of Final Fantasy XIII and it's spin offs.