I agree. Although I enjoyed the DS version. III is a favorite of mine.
The GBA one looks really good but this looks good too imoI made a comparison of Cecil's overworld sprite between the original SNES sprite, the GBA sprite, and the new one.
It's not as featureless and low-color as the SNES one, but it's not as warm as the GBA one. It's lighter and seemingly closer to the art. He doesn't have orange skin and random yellow streaks in his hair and now has an actual eye color.
This is helpful. New sprite doesn't look bad. I feel like the GBA is the best art that is utilizing the medium of pixels the most, however.I made a comparison of Cecil's overworld sprite between the original SNES sprite, the GBA sprite, and the new one.
It's not as featureless and low-color as the SNES one, but it's not as warm as the GBA one. It's lighter and seemingly closer to the art. He doesn't have orange skin and random yellow streaks in his hair and now has an actual eye color.
I think it's not outrageous to say a lot of people would be willing to pay full price for a ROM dump.
The Golbez logo is the logo of the FFIV 3D remakeI wonder why they used the PSP version logos of 1 and 2 but not the DS logo of 4. Especially since 1 and 2 have the PS1 logos that they usually use.
I'd pay full price for a ROM dump on consoles. If I wanted to play on PC I would just play the ROMS.
Oh yeah I know. I'm just saying that the PSP versions of 1 and 2 have logos that were used even afterwards by the company. I remember cause I always asked myself why they didn't use the PSP logos for the first two.
With 1 and 2 they consider them as upgrades of the same games, but FFIV 3D has always been considered a "distinct" game than FFIV 2DOh yeah I know. I'm just saying that the PSP versions of 1 and 2 have logos that were used even afterwards by the company. I remember cause I always asked myself why they didn't use the PSP logos for the first two.
huh for some reason I never noticed they had redone some of the spritework in the GBA portI made a comparison of Cecil's overworld sprite between the original SNES sprite, the GBA sprite, and the new one.
It's not as featureless and low-color as the SNES one, but it's not as warm as the GBA one. It's lighter and seemingly closer to the art. He doesn't have orange skin and random yellow streaks in his hair and now has an actual eye color.
Thats true yeah. Makes sense thank you!
The original looked like shit so when they improved it for the GBA it just became normal looking instead of something very noticeable lol
Keeping extremely close to the same shapes and going from 8 to 16 colors is a pretty subtle change, easy to miss unless directly comparing.
The new sprites look okay, especially compared with the old mobile ones, but at the same time they look flatter and smaller than the originals.
I think the GBA port's art was largely sourced from the Wonderswan Color port.
Part of it seems to be because they don't have as many lines of black pixels to help define the characters' shapes and features, and part of it's because there isn't as much of a contrast between the colors of the pixels; just compare Terra's arm. The underside of her arm has a much darker shade in the old sprite than in the new. Locke's the same way. This, I think, gives them their "flat" look.
It's disappointing that "pixel graphics" seems to have become so stuck in the early 90s. A flaw of the PSP versions was that since sprites/tiles were so much larger than previous versions, the amount of world seen on screen was smaller even than GBA versions of the game. Since we're not still dealing with 480x272 screens, though, that's no longer an issue.
Yeah, it seems like the "retro craze" (which didn't start really blossoming until after the PSP remakes) kinda halted a lot of progress in this regards. Everything now has to be "authentically 8-Bit," or whatever. So disappointing to me. I'd rather see the 16-bit style expanded upon, not used as an excuse to deliberately keep from pushing the limits.
Yeah, the overworld sprites had the biggest changes. In-battle sprites are largely the same save for palette. The monster sprites got some reshading done as well, going from 8 to 16 colors as well.
Yes, I would. The fonts would be better. Since the vast majority of the time spent with these games involves reading, that's the most important QoL aspect of all.
That text cut off on the right side is trying to tell you that everything in the trailer is currently in-development and doesn't represent the final product. So yes, it's likely that they care about the English fonts, and the final product will look better :) I wouldn't be surprised if the games are currently all in Japanese, and they took a few screenshots and spent a few minutes subbing in English text in Photoshop or something for the trailer. Which is why it's a trailer of screenshots instead of videos.
You do know that there is tons and tons of precedent of their English fonts being completely godawful in these remakes/remasters, right?
I made a comparison of Cecil's overworld sprite between the original SNES sprite, the GBA sprite, and the new one.
It's not as featureless and low-color as the SNES one, but it's not as warm as the GBA one. It's lighter and seemingly closer to the art. He doesn't have orange skin and random yellow streaks in his hair and now has an actual eye color.
I'm sorry, but that font looks terrible.Font on the current version on Steam looks fine to me
Except literally everything in that picture is straight garbage trash. (Even the Amano portraits, because I think there's only ONE of them for EVERY dialogue box.)Font on the current version on Steam looks fine to me
I was talking about the font. You were complaining that in these text-heavy games, you want your fonts to be easy to read. Well there you go, the font is easy to read. The rest of that picture is the reason for these "pixel remasters" :)
Font on the current version on Steam looks fine to me
Well, to be fair, I think someone else was complaining about that (even though I agree with them). I don't love the font in the image there, but I agree, it's easy enough to read...
