Punkrawk Bbob

Playing through Shadow Complex for the first time. Surprised how much I'm liking this.

And a side helping of Super Mario 3Dland.

@MystcLazrDragon

I didn't mean RPG is ONLY those, but if you aren't willing to accept the only reason a genre exists... You have problems.

Both of those fall into the realm of fantasy still, as in it's a fictional world. They just aren't high-fantasy. Considering Star Wars is commonly referred to as Sci-Fantasy, and all the special abilities in ME are basically a different way of saying "the force"... Fantasy is appropriate.

@ItsameMatt03

RPG stands for role-playing game. As in fantasy, orcs, trolls, pantheon's of gods, twenty-sided dice, magic, and heroism. How can there be a level of non-nerdiness to any RPG?

@The Joy of Painting w Bob Ross

Sorry, can't read your message. It's too whited out. I think you were crying about how not every game is catered to you specifically.

@Alexisonfire

Port is moving it from one system to the next. They are rendering the game over again, redoing the sound system for uncompressed 7.1 surround sound. That is officially what it means to "remaster" something. Why would you not call it a remaster?

@Nestaja

It doesn't just change the internal viewport, they rebuild the game. So while Tidus' character model may have 30,000 polys before, since the resolution is tripling they increase the model's polys to 90,000. So no, they're not just changing the viewport or upscaling. They are rendering the entire game in an HD resolution. If it worked the way you said, my SotC PS2 disc would just look the same as my HD Collection PS3 version. It doesn't, not by a long shot. On top of that you have massively improved frame rates.

And that's just the visuals. The soundtrack will have to be remastered for uncompressed 7.1 surround sound as well.

@batphantom

I think you're strongly mistaken. Many, many people would enjoy FFX redone. It's a great game, the sphere grid was fun, and the characters were really well done. What's not to love about it?

Although if I were to have any FF remade with an HD treatment, I'd have to say FFXII. And include some DLC worlds to explore, new dungeons, etc. Loved 12.

@GiantGamer

7-9 have pre-painted backgrounds instead of 3D environments, so you'd have to redo the image entirely. You can't just upscale a pre-rendered image or drawing without distorting it. Plus with the geometry of the models, there is really only so much you can do. In short, a lot more work would have to go into them than say redoing FFX or Kingdom Hearts.

PS2 emulators aren't that much of a hassle. Download, install, setup your keyboard/game pad, drop the disc in the drive and you're good to go. Not to mention if you have a decent gaming system, you can upscale and run AA filters that make PS2 games look absolutely amazing. Not as good as like Ico/SotC did on PS3, but really damn good.

Aside from that - Just wish they'd date this so I'd know when to save money for a PSV. Having a portable FFX would be amazing, got so much play out of FF7-9 on my PSPGo already. Would love to continue that.

@TheAngryIntern

Usually its less about watching the game and more about hanging with people, grubbing on snacks and making inappropriate jokes all day. Maybe that's just my circle though...