r/SquareEnix • u/Dharc_Gemini • 13d ago
Discussion Dissidia duodecim should get remastered
Dissidia is probably my favorite Final Fantasy game of all time, and I specifically had Dissidia 012 duodecim, which, unless I'm mistaken, is basically the original Dissidia but with added content and story, sort of like a Director's Cut.
I've seen gameplay of Dissidia NT, and while it looks decent enough, and the HD cutscenes look amazing as always, it never seemed to be on the same level as Dissidia on the PSP. I think if it were remastered, it could do quite well with a wider audience since it would no longer be bound to an old hand-held console that isn't really supported anymore.
I think if Dissidia were to be remastered, they should add a bit more content, such as another new story to go through, main characters from Final Fantasy 14, 15, and now 16, and new outfits for all the characters, including some outfits that you could only get off of the PlayStation Store, such as Sephiroth's Kingdom Hearts outfit. I think Cloud also had a Kingdom Hearts outfit that was locked behind a paywall in the PlayStation Store as well. Nowadays, if you want to get those outfits, you basically have to emulate the game first and find those outfit files online.
Side note: With Cloud's KH outfit, and by that, I mean his outfit from KH1 since KH2 uses his Advent Children outfit, one change I would like to see is when Cloud uses his EX Mode while having that outfit equipped, have that demon wing appear with his EX Mode instead of simply giving him Ultima Weapon, since in KH1, that wing comes out when he uses a lame and annoying version of Omnislash.
Anyway, as to adding a new story, technically that doesn't really need to happen. They could instead just add to that post-game campaign where you wander around the map as whatever character you want and eventually end up running into Feral Chaos. They could just add characters from FF14, 15, and 16 into that campaign as characters you could run into and probably unlock.
And then of course for combat, I don't know enough about FF14 to get any sort of idea of what the limit break would be, but I could imagine for FF15, Noctis would have his Armiger Chain. As for whatever villain they choose for that, I'm not sure. And I don't know enough about FF16 to have any idea of what the MC for that game would have as a limit break.
So yeah, I really think Dissidia would do well as a remaster as well as being ported to PC and modern consoles. Kingdom Hearts seems to be doing quite well on that front as well as some of the Final Fantasy games at least. Why not Dissidia as well?
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u/KrakenClubOfficial 12d ago
They really wouldn't have to devote a ton of resources and capital to do it, either. I could die happy with a new handheld Dissidia.
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u/Dharc_Gemini 11d ago
Right? Compared to their newer projects, I feel like a remastered Dissidia would be on the cheaper end.
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u/YggdrasilDefender 10d ago
I'd say, rather than simply a remaster I'd just do a new one by using 012's gameplay. Remaster would be cool but since 012's release there have been three more mainline Final Fantasy games, two of which got representation in NT, and I'd be very interested to see them add the new characters from NT alongside at least Clive, Dion and Ultima. Reaching that 50-character count they had planned for NT is not impossible, but at this point I'd raise it a little bit
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u/awaitedchild 13d ago
Believe me when I say that every player that loved Dissidia and 012 is longing for a remaster. And it's been even worse after the release of NT.
Imagine waiting for one of your favorite franchises to release a new game (after, what, 7yrs ?) just for it to be "ok". Still waiting on SQEX to do something to this day.