If they make the DS game Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light represent 8 Bit Theatre

[invghost]

I would buy 5 copies of this game alone if they did something that awesome.

Discuss.

[Melfice]

Well, unless Brian gives his permission, that shit ain't flyin'.
See, while Brian used sprites from Squeenix in a legal (Fair Use) way, this would mean Squeenix stole the story Brian wrote (unless Brian did give his permission).

Copyright, and all that jazz.

[Loyal]

The first FF game has an incredibly simple plot. The deepest character in the game is Garland. They did Dawn of Souls already, and there really isn't much of a profit margin in remaking this particular game again, even lifting 8BT's "enhanced" plot wholesale for the purpose. They might, might, might get away with remaking FF2 on its own if they zazzed it up right, but not for another few years at least. Also:

I would buy 5 copies of this game alone if they did something that awesome.

Horseshit.

[mudah.swf]

According to importers the game itself is made nigh-unplayable by mechanics intended to ease new players in, so no amount of 8BT would fix those issues.

[Flarecobra]

Originally Posted by Loyal

The first FF game has an incredibly simple plot. The deepest character in the game is Garland. They did Dawn of Souls already, and there really isn't much of a profit margin in remaking this particular game again, even lifting 8BT's "enhanced" plot wholesale for the purpose. They might, might, might get away with remaking FF2 on its own if they zazzed it up right, but not for another few years at least. Also:
Horseshit.

Not to mention FF has been ported to 8 different platforms, so you could find it for nearly anything you can imagine.

[Roland]

Originally Posted by mudah.swf

According to importers the game itself is made nigh-unplayable by mechanics intended to ease new players in, so no amount of 8BT would fix those issues.

Wait, what?

I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around this. Features designed to ease newbies in make the game unplayable... is this just a colossal screw up on the developers' part or is this one of those things where the game is holding your hand to an absurd degree or something?

[Kim]

8-Bit Theater would make an absolutely atrocious video game, especially if Squeenix were the ones making said game. It just doesn't work.

[Meister]

Might make a neat Monkey Island-style adventure game just to keep the focus on humorous dialogue but even then the plot and dialogue is all you could work with and you'd have to drop an entire separately designed game in there. Why bother.

[Kim]

Originally Posted by Meister

Might make a neat Monkey Island-style adventure game just to keep the focus on humorous dialogue but even then the plot and dialogue is all you could work with and you'd have to drop an entire separately designed game in there. Why bother.

Even as a Monkey Island style game it would have to ditch the main plot that the comics follow and just feature the characters on a wholly separate adventure.

[Green Spanner]

I would think it would be hard to play a game where failure is the only option.