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Final Fantasy IX Coming Soon to PlayStation Store

Ami Blaire // Vice President of Marketing, Square Enix writes: "Following up to the fan favorite release of FFVII and FFVIII, PS3 and PSP owners will have a new and exciting opportunity to immerse themselves, once again, into the world of Final Fantasy."
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zoks3105128d ago

Well this will be the last FF port from the PSX generation next up is FFX and we all know what that means.. right?

Godmars2905128d ago

So they're putting out the US version around the same time as the JP one? About time.

borisfett5128d ago

Definitely great news. This is the one Final Fantasy over any other that I have been waiting to see released! Can't wait!

Kira835128d ago

bet thier waiting for E3 like they did with FF7. Looking forward to playing it again.

TheTwelve5128d ago

This is my girl's favorite FF of all time. It's certainly more "disciplined" in terms of combat, story tightness, summon use and item strength than FF 7 + 8 but I must say I enjoyed 7+8 more than this one.

That being said, it's more replay-able than 8 in my opinion, but nothing tops 7.

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LinuxGuru5128d ago (Edited 5128d ago )

I would rather have VIII, tyvm

-MD-5128d ago (Edited 5128d ago )

Isn't 8 already available? IX is one of if not the best Final Fantasy games.

Marceles5128d ago

I wouldn't put IX in the top 3 best FFs, but that's only because I think it came out at a time when Square ran out of new ideas and just went back to basics. But still just because it does remind me of the older FFs I liked it a lot.

LinuxGuru5128d ago

If VIII is available already, I sure didn't know lol.

-MD-5128d ago (Edited 5128d ago )

Taken from the wiki

"The game became available on PlayStation Network as a PSone Classics title in Japan on September 24, 2009, in the US on December 17, 2009, and in Europe on February 4, 2010."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Denethor_II5128d ago

Yeah 8 is already available WTF?

Relientk775128d ago

FFVIII is available on the PSN

LinuxGuru5128d ago

Oh snap, well Imma buy it then! lol

webeblazing5128d ago

thats is one of the reasons i say psn is better then live the games they put on it

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Relientk775128d ago

This is good news considering I believe this to be one of the best Final Fantasy games of all time and one of the most underrated

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Why Is No One Making AAA Horror Games Anymore?

Saif from eXputer inquires, "Despite the everlasting popularity of the genre, why hasn't there been a good AAA horror game in a while now?"

Jin_Sakai2d ago

Because the gaming industry is obsessed with live service games.

Cacabunga1d 13h ago

Even FPS are rare nowadays

Rynxie1d 12h ago

Because he touches himself at night to characters like lady Dimitrescu.

Crows901d 8h ago

You're the one still thinking about her

Rynxie1d 8h ago

@crow

Did I give away your secret? It's okay, if you sit on your hand and numb it, you can pretend it's her playing with your little stick.

MaximusPrime_2d ago

Good for me, I have no interests in horror games

-Foxtrot1d 16h ago

Even when they do it's first person trying to copy Outlast, Five Nights, P.T etc

I think the Dead Space / RE2 / RE4 Remake and the Evil Within 2 showed you can have a good story based, third person survival horror game.

jeromeface1d 13h ago

remakes is another good reason

thesoftware7301d 12h ago

Calisto Protocol was also fun with fantastic presentation.

FinalFantasyFanatic1d 5h ago

I feel like we haven't had much in the way of horror games for years, I think it became rare after the PS2/PS3 gen. Maybe i'll pick up that Crow Country that recently came out, that looks good.

Venoxn4g1d 3h ago

Crow Country needs some more love.. and more exposure

Redemption-641d 14h ago

Because outside of a fee games, most don't sell that well

Crows901d 8h ago

So in other words...AAA publishers don't have creativity or passion for games.

CrimsonWing691d 14h ago

Didn’t we have Dead Space Remake and Resident Evil 4 Remake last year?

thorstein1d 14h ago (Edited 1d 13h ago )

Among others

And isn't Dying Light 2 a horror game?

Scissorman1d 13h ago

And Alan Wake 2 and Alone in the Dark.

on_line_forever21h ago

I like Alone in the dark but it's not AAA game

richardmmorales1d 5h ago

We also had The Quarry and The Dark Pictures The Devil In Me.

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N64: Recompiled — Creating Native PC Ports Is A Godsend For Game Preservation

"In a time when companies don't care about preserving games, I have high respect for the creators of projects like N64: Recompiled." - Hanzala from eXputer.

gold_drake3d ago

it is, i might be finally able to play Snowboard kids 1 full screen ha.

purple1012d ago

il beat you to the ski-lift,

framerate on snowboard kids was shocking, do you remember./?

talking of shocking framerate and kart racers style games,
Sony had a gem on ps3, with 'Modnation Racers' but again, framerate was so terrible, still fun though, indeed, when is drifting sideways not fun, the answer is never. we have not seen enough of that game, technically some people made race tracks/games in dreams and little big planet etc, but its just not the same,!!! grrrrr

morning rant over.

here, relive some ,memories. https://www.youtube.com/wat...

itBourne2d ago

The load time on ModNation where also excruciatingly long... But man oh man I wish that game took off more, so much fun! Could turn off garbage rubber banding, I had karts with 100's of stickers to design some crazy cool stuff, custom tracks. Fantastic undeappreciated game

gold_drake2d ago

SK1 had a fairly good framerate. sk2 maybe not so much ha

Redgrave2d ago

Some food for thought:

Would you donate your physical copy of a really rare/expensive cartridge (Conkers's BFD, Bomberman 64 Second Attack, Ogre Battle 64, the two Castlevania titles, etc) to those managing this project for the greater good of getting them preserved online for all to experience at some point?

UltimateOwnage2d ago

As long as it meant they never took money from Patreon and invited a DMCA takedown / lawsuit by Nintendo to take it all away. After seeing the whole debacle with Yuzu I now question how long any of these teams can maintain game preservation efforts through emulator development, or otherwise.

franwex2d ago

I mean. They may borrow them…

Profchaos2d ago

Is it realistically needed though I would not personally give anyone my old carts for games that are already persevered and easily available online

Inverno2d ago

The snippet of ray tracing at the end of the og trailer was low-key amazing. I found out thanks to Nerrel who also made a texture pack for MM, and i can't wait to see how much more great this game will be in the near future. With model swaps, ray tracing, retextures, and a more quicker process than decompilation, it's gonna bring new life to N64 games.

Profchaos2d ago

There might need to be a bit of clarification recompilation is not the same as decompilation.

This is basically a container to excite the rom within but allows for all sorts of beat additions and tricks like new lighting effects such as ray tracing to be added.

But decompilation would ultimately be king as it allows for a widespread porting capabilities and uses the assets from games to build a native install for PC or whatever the target system is e.g Mario 64 for PC or sonic mania for psvita / wii

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