The pixel remasters are for people that wanted something that looked closer to the originals.
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Excluding FF3, why would you want a series of games that have 16-bit graphics versions to have new 16-bit graphics that are a little different?
I remember being a big fan of the FF1 remake back in the day, but the PSP games just look like generic RPG Maker stuff to me now.
I see that RPG Maker aesthetic, yeah, though they stuck to a single style, and didn't apply ugly filters like in 5 and 6's mobile ports.
The pixel remasters aren't an exact 1 to 1 conversion but I think they do a great job at getting the look and feel right, especially with FF1 and FF3 which look exactly like I imagine they would if they were SNES games. Plus the soundtracks are infinitely better than any other time they've remade them. The music in the 3D version of FF4 was dogshit.
I can understand upgrading the graphics for FF3, as it never got a 16-bit-style remaster, but the other five already had those. I just don't get why these exist. One guy earlier in this thread mentioned the idea was to get them all to look like they go together, but, uh,
why? It'd be cool if they could be linked together and share characters between the games, but that doesn't seem to be a thing. It just seems like a lot of effort was put into rebuillding these games when they didn't have to, while also omitting the fun extra dungeons from the rereleases. There aren't even any new dungeons or modes or anything to take their place. Like, come on, you've got insane total conversion fan mods like Free Enterprise that turns FF4 SNES into a giant treasure hunt, and S-E couldn't even implement their own version?
Final Fantasy IV is 30 years old, dude. Pixel Remaster just being an uglier version of the SNES games, without the GBA extras, and nothing else new is just perplexing. Its been playable in emulation
since 1994, yet a quarter century later, you can just buy a slightly worse version of that same game, when a decade earlier, you could get it with its sequel and some extras for around the same price. Like, lol, what?