Comment on The original FINAL FANTASY VII is getting a new refreshed edition
HeartyOfGlass@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
I’m confused why they’re releasing what’s effectively a patch for the 2013 release as a standalone thing. Why not update what we already have?
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The update breaks save compatibility.
HeartyOfGlass@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
That’s the source of my confusion. They’ve re-released FFVII on nearly everything, remastered it, etc; I guess I’m more confused by their decision to break save compatibility.
I have gobs of games that have saves in different game versions. Some games handle large updates as “mods” that can simply be toggled. Some auto-update the old save. It’s doable. For the company that’s rewritten this game a half dozen times I can’t imagine it was because they “couldn’t”. Maybe if they ran out of time?
shinratdr@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
The secret is that they actually never have rewritten it. Dig into the code and every single version, even the iOS/Android port, is just the 1998 PC version with hacks on top. The 1998 Windows EXE is even included in the iOS version.
Fingers crossed that this is a real rewrite to allow a modern mobile port.