Thread: ffxi with unreal engine 5.2 link shadow project

Originally Posted by radar

The game was made in a different era, a remake would be made in the current one by totally different developers. They would ruin the game with modern video game norms.

A remaster would be similar, it would ruin the art style to appeal to a wider audience.

Companies very rarely are faithful and remakes and remasters are more likely to be worse than better.

Originally Posted by Rinuko

There is a certain soul of the current game. Making it more HD is just FF14 IMO.

Modernizing the backend and getting rid of some of the cumbersome parts like POL integration, by all means.

For example, FF7R is hardly same game as the PS1 version. It's great and all they're remaking it, there is a fanbase for it but its not a 1:1 remake, they taking leaps in changing story elements and other parts that made FF7, FF7.

As someone who loved the original, the remake is a joke IMO. To each their own.

So, to summarize: "Making it different would make it different, and different is bad."

That's not a problem with porting it to a different engine, that's a problem with people deciding to make changes while they're in there. It shouldn't be impossible - or even difficult, necessarily - to rebuild FFXI on a new engine in a way that make it still look and feel largely like the current game, only better (shaking off the last baked-in PS2 limitations like macro length, data transfer rates, and the like.)

I wouldn't particularly enjoy "FFXI-2: Now It's Just Like FFXIV" either, but a team that cares about what they're doing can remaster a game without ruining it.

It has nothing to do with the team, it has everything to do with who is funding it.

If you have a game you like, why would you gamble completely ruining it to the point you don't even like it anymore for some pretty graphics?

"making it HD is XIV IMO"

Uh, no?
The two games play completely differently. Giving FFXI modern graphics doesn't magically make it FFXIV. There are also many other things they could improve while keeping the overall style of gameplay exactly the same. Perhaps most notably, netcode for modern internet connections. A lot of FFXI's current issues stem from the fact that the game was designed to work on dial-up internet, which a majority of people were still using when FFXI launched. This is why it takes so long for your inventory to load in and why each bag is the size it is, it's why things get really janky in activities that involve a large number of players i.e. Mieru, Besieged, etc)

A remaster would present the perfect oppertunity to fix these glaring issues that limit the enjoyability of large group content. You don't have to change the combat system, the story and lore, the art style, etc. which make FFXI what it is.