So why the fuck aren't we getting a remake of pic rel already? They keep doing remakes to games that play perfectly (Dead Space and RE4) instead of a literally unfinished but highly acclaimed psone game
So why the fuck aren't we getting a remake of pic rel already?
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Licensing hell
Thank Nintendo for that one
i like xenogears and that was fuckin painful to watch
There isn't any licensing issue. Monolithsoft didn't exist when gears was released. It is entirely a SE property
square 100% owns gears same with namco owing 100% saga
SE would literally ONLY profit from a Xenogears remake especially after the Blade series has done the heavy lifting making Xeno into a big name jrpg. Square and Bamco are just fucking morons squandering the IPs
its probably somethin something being honorabru
same reason why nintendo has done nothing with mother even with the series getting a massive cult following over the years
That's not how it works. Xenogears as an IP is fully owned by Square, but the dev team that made it became Monolith Soft which would later be owned by Nintendo.
>So why the fuck aren't we getting a remake of pic rel already?
Because remakes exist to milk you out of your money. Stop thinking that they exist to give games a second chance or fix issues. That's naive.
The original leads are no longer at square enix and the backlash of a fucked up remake for xenogears would be much higher than anything square has done so they leave it alone. Sqaure remaking xenogears would lead to a 99% chance of a fuck up. Look at how they treated their crown gem, FF7, with all the compilation shit and the awful "remake", imagine how much worse xenogears would be. They should just port it or at best do a translation + speed up the text
no one but boomers (millennial and gen-xers) have fond memories of xenogears. square could pump out a shitty but nice looking remake and zoomers would cum and shit in their pants over it
>Wanting garbage remakes
You gays deserve to be monkey pawed
Remake or port?
The ENTIRE team no longer works at Square but they still hold the rights
So if they made a remake, it would be bad
I tried to give this game a shot but the awkward platforming and dull as fuck scenery put me to fucking sleep
>zoomer
I'm literally 35 and old as shit, I grew up with these games but I just fucking can't with this trash
lmao you sound insecure as fuck my dude. it's just a video game. you're allowed to dislike it. Xenogears ain't for everyone.
More like I can predict nuGanker responses instantly. So I had to point it out just to get it out of the way
>remakes in the current trend are missing chunks of content from the original
>???
>we can use the current remake trend to create new content that wasn't in the original
Xenoblade 3 is literally Xenogears remake.
not remotely true, xenoblade 2 has more repurposed plot elements from gears and that isn't close to being a "remake" either
Let’s be honest, so were Xenoblade 1&2.
Takahashi’s been redoing the Perfect Works for years by now.
Xenoblade 3 could be much better tho.
xenoblade 1 really didn't have much from gears, there's a general theme of gnosticism but that isn't exclusive to xeno (SMT has it as well), blade 2 especially and to a lesser extent 3 are the ones that repurpose stuff from gears (blade 3 also has some stuff from saga)
>Xenoblade 3 could be much better tho.
XC3 is missing a lot of world/universe lore concepts but I'll give it the benefit of the doubt until the expansion
The first parts of blade 1 were similar to gears
that's a bit of a stretch but I'll accept it
Xenoblade 1 is much closer to Xenogears endgame than 2 or 3.
Telethia is pretty much a copy of Xenogears angels/aeons and the whole humanity born from machine that are later copied in XC2/XC3 first happened in XC1 (and Xenogears before that)
Xenoblade 3 is actually "what if Shion joined Kevin?" in Xenosaga 3. Both are even about eternal recurrence for fuck's sake.
Moebius = Testaments
N = Kevin
M = Shion
Z = Wilhelm
all 3 xenoblade games have eternal recurrence be a part of their plot. Zanza's recycling, xenoblade 2's blade/titan/human life cycle, and obviously xenoblade 3's aionios. And yes Moebeius/Z are a testament/wilhelm repurpose
>xenoblade 2's blade/titan/human life cycle
Not eternal recurrence, just an evolutionary cycle. Complexity increases, so it isn't eternal recurrence.
I think the point was that if the titans were to die which would kill off the humans, the blades would eventually become titans again and diverge to humans
The true Xenogears remake is Xenoblade X
>but muh story!
Takahashi has said on record that his principle goal for Xenogears was to create a virtual world where humans and drivable mechs co-exist. Not just in terms of story but in terms of gameplay. In Xenogears you have access to an entire world (world map and different areas, unlike other mech games of the time that still used a "stage" formula) and you can walk around in the world as either a human or in your gear; there's no separate screen or segregation between playing as a human or in your mech, the game handles you going in and out of your mech and exploring the same screen. It's done in a rather middling way considering the technology available at the time, but it works.
There were mechs in Xenosaga but they exist entirely separately from your humanoid characters. And there are no drivable mechs in the numbered Xenoblade games.
Xenoblade X accomplish the original goal of Xenogears of creating a fully explorable virtual world where human characters and drivable mechs co-exist.
fuck off Xtard
Fair enough. I certainly liked X more than Xenosaga Ep.I/II and Xenoblade 2/3 at least.
it's never the games that actually NEED one that get a remake.
what the fuck is the point of remaking re4, dead space and tlou? they were fine as they were.
ironic that you used an image of the one series that did get a proper remake for a game that needed it (nier replicant)
drakengard needed it more than nier
I’m still mad about Xenoblade 3. What an underwhelming endgame and experience.
Can I have a remake of Xenogears or a port of Xenosaga Ep.III please?
emulate XSIII dumbo it runs perfectly
Xenogears is overrated doodoo
Because this game is a catch 22.
Either it's demade by Square Enix and loses all soul or demade by Monolith into a gimped Switch-exclusive that plays like an offline MMO and looks like modern tranime.
The point of a remake is to get easy money by exploiting nostalgia of older gamers and younger generations' refusal to figure out how to emulate. You do this with universally beloved, highly successful games, not shit games that could have been good in another timeline.
xenogears is second only to FF7 in terms of being beloved ps1 rpgs. Only game arguably more is FF9
That makes sense in theory but the Final Fantasy 1-6 games only get shitty ports with worse sprites than the original, while the less popular Trials of Mana got a full 3D remake with completely redone gameplay and Live A Live gets a 2D-HD remake.
secret of mana and trials of mana got remakes retard and those games are nowhere near gears's level
a xenogears remake would take a considerable amount of work
Early isometric jrpgs are an ancient concept. Even with the amount of batshit interesting stuff in Xenogears, it's hard to recommend to people without massive qualifiers and guides.
It's no more antiquated than FF7 is and plenty of zoomers are into that game.
FF7 is the fucking bannerman for JRPGs. Of course it's going to get special treatment.
Even though ff6/3 are arguably better experiences, people will never shut up about cloud/seph/tifa/aerith
People will never shut up about FFVI either. If you want to praise an obscure game at least praise stuff like FF Dimensions.
VI is reddit-approved non VII option. It will continue.
But Dimensions is worse than all the other job-based FF
Jobs don’t get weaker when you change them, unlike IIIremake, the game doesn’t have an awful endgame like Crystal Tower like OG/Remake.
And FFX-2 exists.
It just can’t be the worst, then.
ff3 is fucking awful. ff6 is fine.
fair
Games like suikoden are getting the HD treatment becuase people care about it, not because it's obscure.
Not going to fall down an abadonware hole looking for value.
I hope you aren't being serious. Despite its popularity, a fuck ton of people who know about FF7 haven't even played the game.
WeeabooPGs dont sell
Skyrim killed them with its bare ports
>Wanting a remake of a game who's creator is no longer at the company that owns it
Have you learned nothing from RE4?
do you really want modern SE to do that?
If they fixed the combat and platforming, and removed the jail section, in addition to actually fleshing out the second disc, this would be one of the best games ever made.
Unfortunately it has the above problems so it's shit.
I'm going to get shit for this, but is it worth watching a playthrough on Youtube or is this game a must-play?
I know disc 2 is basically a visual novel, and I've even heard if you're not playing on native PS1 hardware, the final battle can be near impossible.
The gameplay is nothing special but a lot of NPC dialogue and even some environmental story telling adds to the story. The only thing I'd recommend is a text speed up mod on emulation
>final battle can be near impossible
never heard of anything like this, beat it my first go
It's long but a well edited enough summation of the game.
They only remake games that they know is gonna produce a return investment. Not the games that actually need it.
They know dead space sold tons of copies, so just do it again for easy munny.
They know RE4 sold tons of copies, so just do it again for easy munny.
And so on in that fashion.
For fuck's sake, be glad we aren't.
Remakes are cancer. The more older games are kept hands-off the better.
You think any of the Xenoblade 2 weebs even know about Xenogears?
considering the game heavily reuses plot points of gears and has some lore elements that are word for word the same thing as gears I would think so
XB2 was a legally distinct Gears remake, and they default to that fact as one of their defenses for the game so yeah, probably.
You shouldn't be asking for a xenogears remake, instead you should be praying a remake by square enix never comes to fruition
It's a shit game and people don't like it.