• rtxn@lemmy.world
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    26 days ago

    Square Enix is slowly starting to realize that locking out a significant part of its potential customers with platform exclusivity will lead to most of those potential customers not buying their shit. It’s like the first vestiges of conscious thought are starting to appear within their leadership.

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      26 days ago

      I am happy it’s on Steam, but admittedly Kingdom Hearts 3 is not the main offender here when they still have games trapped on single consoles. KH3 was already on PC, it’s just more accessible now. Can’t say the same about Final Fantasy 16 or Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth. Hopefully that is what they fix next.

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        26 days ago

        They’re both timed exclusives, and Square have said that they’d stop platform-exclusive releases after those two games failed to meet shareholders’ expectations. Whether they’ll actually go through with it, or get saturday morning cartoon villain yen sign pupils when Sony makes their next offer, I have no idea.

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      24 days ago

      If you boot it up they give you the order to play it in. There is only 1 problem and it’s at the beginning. They tell you to watch 358/2 before playing 2
      DO NOT DO THAT IT SPOILS A MAJOR PLOT IN PART 2

      Play it in this order

      1

      Chain of memories

      2

      358/2 days

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    25 days ago

    I can’t see myself paying £60 for games that came out on ps2 which were then remastered and rereleased in 2014. Too little too late in this case :’(

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        25 days ago

        I know it’s not the same, but it gives off similar energy as Sony RE releasing all the previous Spider-Man movies to theaters because Madame Web flopped so hard.

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      25 days ago

      I agree full price is steep, but to be fair 1.5/2.5 is like 4 or 5 different games (plus a few cinematic movies for lore from the obscure handheld games) in one and the remasters are actually really well done and add a bunch of content. I don’t know how they perform on PC though since it’s a Square port.

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      25 days ago

      Ditto. If these were FFVII-style remakes, sure… but for a two-decade old franchise whose last release was half a decade ago… I’d consider $20.

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        25 days ago

        The stories already fucky enough as it is in Kingdom Hearts, without doing a FF7 remake to it and releasing each game in chunks for a total cost of 200+ bucks for each game.

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      1.5 kind of makes sense. It holds Kingdom Hearts 1 and a remake of the GBA game that comes before Kingdom Hearts 2 (also comes with a the cutscenes of another game between 1 and 2). I guess they wanted to keep the naming similar because 2.5 comes with Kingdom Hearts 2 and…a prequel to every game… and a cutscene collection of some weird side game about an AI. They then released a bundle of both of these on PS4 which they named 1.5+2.5. 2.8 they were really scrambling. Because they wanted to release the rest of the games in some way before Kingdom Hearts 3 so that holds a sequel to Kingdom Hearts 2, A standalone demo for 3 and…a movie from the earliest part of the series that actually is a giant pit of questions with no answers which may or may not have been answered by the gacha. No idea.

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        25 days ago

        Man I hate it when I want to start playing a new franchise and I need a whole book to figure out what order to even play the games in

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          To learn Kingdom Hearts lore going in blind you’d need an autistic kid who’s hyper-fixated on it, a couple cases of monster energy, and a weeks worth of LSD micro doses.

          That should get you up to speed on about 50% of it.

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        25 days ago

        I like the idea of these games but the execution was way way more complicated than it needed to be.

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          As a huge fan of these games… absolutely. I keep coming back because I love the characters so much and the story arcs within each game can be fairly satisfying, but the overarching plot is a complete mess.

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      25 days ago

      Not only are the numbers weird, the games within the series (more than just the main 3) came out as exclusives to a wide variety of platforms. KH has such a bizarre history.

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      25 days ago

      I’d hope so and square enix has been… improving, but their track record of ports even working properly on an average windows PC is not super great. I’m still hoping I’m wrong, but betting against it launching in verified status and kinda 50/50 on it working at all on my steam deck.

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      26 days ago

      Probably not fully, unless they actually do work on the games. The cutscenes on some of the games play with a proprietary protocol that even Proton-GE can’t run. So, while the game works, the cutscenes don’t.

      It’s feasible that they will fix it, but I consider it highly unlikely.

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    26 days ago

    Finally!!! Thank god i don’t have to shill 60(+) dollars to Epic just to get it on PC!

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      24 days ago

      You’re still rewarding the Epic exclusivity by giving them your money now. They get the bonus cash from Epic and your purchase years later.

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      25 days ago

      Being generous with this actual estimate, there’s like 22 of them.