FF12 REMAKE. IT'S A... THING?

Hey hey awesome! I hope it's the zodiac job system version I'd they're just doing a remaster. I liked 12 a lot, van and Penelo aside.

Honestly, it really doesn't need a remake. Just release it in HD with the ZJS and achieves, and I'd gladly pay full price again for it (We already own the original and the ZJS version {with a burnt copy to play it in english}). If you look for it online, there are emulated versions running in HD, and it still looks as beautiful. The nice thing about later PS2 games was that the models themselves were clean and beautiful, the system just couldn't do them justice.

author=spejoku
Hey hey awesome! I hope it's the zodiac job system version I'd they're just doing a remaster. I liked 12 a lot, van and Penelo aside.

I really wish they'd change things to make a liiiiiittle more sense (like having Ashe not stick out like a sore thumb based on her clothing choices when she's supposed to be trying to hide... and the majority of the story.)

But the rest of the game was pretty good.

The PAL version removed the damage cap - it made a certain boss far more bearable as he was made weak to gravity on top of that.

author=LockeZ
Also the zodiac job system was terrible. It was just, like, here are twelve license boards, you get to blindly pick one of them for each of your characters at level 1 without knowing what it does, and then you're stuck with it for the rest of the game. There were other aspects of that version of the game that were actual improvements over vanilla FF12, but the job system was not one of them. I would like it if the remastered FF12 let you pick which version of the game to play.

It was a lot better than the standard License Board.

'lol everyone can do everything'

I very highly doubt SE has the original VA masters (or any for any ff12 asset) and any remaster will pull the assets from the finished game or recreate them from scratch. Kinda like Kingdoms Hearts HD. Hope you like the tin can!

author=LouisCyphre

author=Luchino
I won't mind fighting Yiazmat and Hell Wyrm in HD. I just wish they would cut out Vaan and Penelo completely. ><

Then the Dawn Shard never gets out of the Rabanastre Galtean Palace, Ashe is executed after getting captured trying to crash Vayne's party, and the game never happens.

I don't get how people can claim that Vaan and Penelo don't do anything. I guess people just all collectively skipped all of the cutscenes?

Then cut Vaan out. He's not a necessity and Penelo was a lot more fun (and developed) as a character. She made the initial contact with Balthier, she had the reason to be in the Palace, she's the one who really kick-started the whole thing. People seem to ignore that point - Vaan is completely redundant.

Penelo is a more interesting character because she actually had ties to people inside the city and out on the Plains, and a reason to care. Vaan is just slap-dash-added in. He doesn't care about anything or anyone. He doesn't seem to have made any connections aside from Penelo during his whole life in the city. It's almost as though they got halfway through creating her character, then said "No, we can't have a female as the avatar. Let's add Tidus 2.0 and... make him Penelo's childhood friend who wants to be a pirate. There we go, no one will notice!"

I fucking noticed. Hell, if one of them did an interview and said that Vaan was originally meant to be an NPC who you'd touch base with now and again, and Penelo the original avatar for the player, I'd believe it whole-heartedly.