WTF how is that even possible

Is the modern video game industry full of incompetence?

+The remaster is ugly

>>11829935 (OP)
So this thread is about a game released in 2025 and also about how game development in 2025 is incompetent and this thread is allowed?

Probably because only 3 or 4 interns are in charge of the remaster instead of whatever bigger number the original had

>>11829935 (OP)
Size of the team and their overall focus on the project.

>>11829935 (OP)
Lower dev team(?) and lower work hours.

screenshot looks ai generated

>>11829935 (OP)
Ten "anti" racism nigs and troons are not equal to even one passionate developer.
This industry is in the gutter because of politics and because it's illegal to point it out.

>>11829935 (OP)
Blame yourself or god.

>>11831446
It’s a Japanese company.

>>11831672
>Blame yourself or god.
Animals have no god!

>>11829935 (OP)
Little money, please understand!

>>11831672
nu-Squeenix is mentally as westoid as it's physicly possible in the east without actually being a S.Korea based company.

>>11829935 (OP)
There was no source code so they had to reverse engineer it.

>What was the biggest challenge you faced when creating FINAL FANTASY TACTICS - The Ivalice Chronicles?

>There were a number of major challenges, but all of them stemmed from the fact that the master data and source code from the original game no longer existed.

>This isn't to say that they were mishandled or poorly managed or anything like that - keeping that kind of data wasn’t a normal thing to do at the time.

>In those days, we didn't have the sort of robust resource-management tools that exist today, and on top of that, the production workflow for the game was such that the Japanese version was produced first, and then we would create localized versions by overwriting the data with that of other languages, including English.

>There was also no such thing as online patches or updates, so unless there was any major reason to do something different, once you'd made the game, that was it.

>So, I think it's fair to say that developing this game without any master data or source code was the biggest challenge.

That looks so much worse than the original, as per the course for "remasters".
Also in b4 press a button to win "QoL" features.

>>11829935 (OP)
Square Enix has been doing this shit a lot lately. The pixel remasters are an example of a complete joke to anyone who’s ever played the classic final fantasy games. It’s part of a larger trend of SE chasing funding gimmicks as opposing to exploring new ideas. When FF games were remastered, they tended to have more content or cleaned up graphics so that everything meshed well. SE is so desperate for cash that they are shitting out mobile games but they don’t have any confidence in these porting teams, they are slapped together from different departments and their conflicting backgrounds and ambivalence for their product is the reason why so many bugs are noticed. They might have literally no experience or interest in making a story-based tactical RPG, their background is in gacha money gaming and that’s why there’s less emphasis on recreating that experience of sitting on the carpet at your uncle’s house playing some Spyro and Final Fantasy with one working controller and a shared memory card and more emphasis on making sure that the in-game shop is always up and running.

>>11833707
This doesn't really make sense unless War of the Lions was also made from scratch? And they somehow lost the data for that one as well?

It's probably just a miscommunication and what he meant is that they lost the source code for the PSX original, but WotL was fine and they're working with that codebase (and deliberately removing WotL features out of spite lmao).

>>11833832
Isn't War of the Lions straight-up included as a 'bonus'? That's gotta be it, likely it's all PR fluff they had pre-prepared anyway because they always use that excuse when they fuck something up, like Final Fantasy X HD having no facial expressions.

>>11829935 (OP)
/g/ here
>knowing the nips’ dogshit software engineering practices, they don’t have the source code
>even if they did, they certainly are missing the tooling, runtime libraries, build systems, etc. and it’s late 90s spaghetti code, in the long term it’s likely faster to rip assets then rewrite the code
>even the ripped assets need to be upscaled for modern devices and not look like dogshit
>all the former teammates are either gone or management at this point
>likely the bulk of the work is being done by a subcontractor, especially in nipland
>need to target 8 platforms with different microarchitectures and OSs

>>11829935 (OP)
Apparently they lost the source code and obviously old talents are gone, probably replaced with saars or whatever

>>11833884
>/g/ here
Yeah we can see. Come back in 10 years when you have hair on your balls faggot

>>11833884
>/g/ here
>most basic bitch explanations any techlet would know about

It's gonna have voice acting, right? That alone makes it a win. I can't fucking play these games anymore without voice acting. I get bored to tears. The political shit is boring as fuck.

why would I play a downgrade when I can just play the original?

>>11834389
Voice acting should make it MORE boring for you then. Just quickly skim text windows if you don't care about them. But voices have to be heard in real time...

>>11834503
I'm not gonna play an turn-based RPG for the gameplay. Who does that?

>>11834610
>ms paint pencil image of overweight ESL Norwegian playing Wizardry or some other old 2 color dungeon crawler shit on dated, but obnoxiously expensive hardware for its time saying “I’m not gonna play an turn-based RPG for the gameplay. Who does that?”

>>11834610
People who actually like the games they are playing?

>>11834389
How do you feel no shame when you admit you get bored by reading? How fucking embarrassing.

>>11833884
/vr/ here.
Jesus christ, I can't imagine the state of the posting on the other boards if you genuinely think your post was insightful.

>>11835629
I don't get bored by reading. I'm here on 4chan everyday reading so yeah get pwned
I do get bored by FFT thoughever
>>11835609
Stop lying. Games are audiovisual entertainment ontop of being interactive

>>11833712
>press a button to win "QoL" features

I was legitimately appalled by the fact this wasn't even an exaggeration in the FFVIII-IX remakes. Like, you can make yourself invincible with infinite limit breaks on a whim. It's not even a game at that point. No strategy, no thought required, no possibility of failure. Games require at least some rules. If you just win by default what's the point to even playing? And before
>just don't use it
I fucking didn't. But no one should be able to use it. I don't like the idea that there are "people" out there who unironically will have played through the entire game having their hands held in such unconscionable fashion, who will get to see the same content and access everything that legitimate players did. It's like seeing some illiterate spaz who can't even write their own name get a diploma because their tard wrangler did their work for them while they drooled on themselves. if you beat the toddler version all you should get is a game that ends before the final stage and the "congratulations, now try again on normal mode" message they used to give to bitches who played on easy mode

>>11836386
IMO the problem isn't the cheats per se, but the fact that they don't call them cheats anymore but "QoL". That says a lot about the players and the companies that try to appeal to them.

>>11833707
> keeping that kind of data wasn’t a normal thing to do at the time
Because they were soulless bug people who saw zero value in what they had created beyond immediate monetary value.

>>11836386
I did enjoy these 'features' to do some tourism around FF9 a while ago. I beat the game legitimately when it came out and wanted to see it again but without plaything through the whole thing so turned all that shit on and just walked through it in an afternoon or so. Guess I may as well have just watched a longplay or something but it was nice to fuck around a bit.

>>11834358
>>11834379
>>11836221
If the thread could be answered with such a basic bitch answer, maybe it was a shitty thread

>>11829935 (OP)
Almost a guarentee that whatever they do with the original translation will be soulless. Also that segmented movement grid is fucking triggering me

>>11829935 (OP)
game dev was always incompetent caffeine and nicotine addicts hacking together one-off software releases. if you could see the absolute garbage code you have to work with to do a remake you would understand why it took so long. just refactoring that shit to build and run on a newer system takes months of work. those old games are the epitome of spaghetti code. new games are overengineered dog shit but that's kind of the polar opposite problem.

tl;dr - making old garbage run on new garbage when the original garbage programmers are long gone is a garbage job that moves about as fast as melting garbage down a garbage shute