"Before the Nintendo DS remake, Final Fantasy III was the least accessible game in the series since it was only available for Famicom in Japan. Now Luneth, the silvered haired Final Fantasy III protagonist is everywhere. Square Enix brought Final Fantasy III to DS, iOS ), Android, PSP, and Ouya.

Next, Final Fantasy III is coming to PC. A rating by Germany’s USK board leaked the news.
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While Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy VIII already had PC ports, Final Fantasy III for PC is a new version of the game. That’s interesting to see and perhaps Square Enix is considering to bring even more Final Fantasy games to PC."

Source via Siliconera

Good news for jRPG and turn-based fans alike.
Odds it'll release on Steam is very likely, but probably not for some time.

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Great news if this is legit.

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Pretty weird considering it was never initially released for PC, looking forward to it.

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Maybe we'll see a pc version of FF9 now. One can only hope.

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This is the stuff dreams are made of!

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Hmm... well... good news but I still prefer playing it on PSP... but I'm wondering will we get this renewed version or original?

Oh... "Final Fantasy III for PC is a new version of the game." ok I found my answer by myself… a lil’bit disappointing.

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I'd like to see the original on PC, if just for novelty and angry comments about the graphics.

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I just hope it's not a phone port. Either a new release or a port of the DS version would be best.
Anyway it's a great game. Probably the hardest in the series too.

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They're all mostly ports of the DS version, and I'm expecting this one will be as well.

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Awesome. Now I hope we can see FFIV on PC as well.

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While we're at it, I wouldn't mind seeing The After Years on PC too.

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Both seem quite possible now :) FFX-HD would be on top of my wishlist, but SE seems to go the "least effort"-road so far, so IV + After Years will probaply be next.

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I hear it emulates rather well if you get the Wii version and run it on Dolphin. Just hearsay, of course.

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i jizz my pants of happiness

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Edit: Nevermind, I was making a post about Sony, not Square Enix.

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Seriously though why FFIII exactly? I'd like FFX HD or FFXII HD, ehh, I can only dream about it :(.

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FFX and X-2 HD on PC would be awesome. I really hope they release them eventually. But I imagine that the game was probably just easy to port? That's why I'm worried that it may be a port of the phone version...

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The phone version is a slightly improved port of the DS version. Why are you worried about that? I'd be more worried that it's a bad game, because it is.

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It's a great game...what game were you playing? Because it obviously wasn't FF3.

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DS version. The only good thing I can say about it is that it's clearly a prototype of FFV's job system, and not much tops that.

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Because cell phones are not legitimate gaming devices and ruin everything that gets ported to/developed on.

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King of Dragon Pass improved, and it was already excellent. Hoplite, 868-HACK and Zaga 33 are excellent roguelikes. Super Hexagon started out as a phone game. F-Sim Shuttle is a fun little flight sim where you land the Space Shuttle. Spaceteam is an amazingly chaotic multiplayer game where you yell "SET FLIBULATOR TO THREE." Calculords is an excellent CCG with some basic maths.

I would go on, but my phone's only 16 gigs and I don't have that much installed right now. Please grow up.

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Not on PC, but if FFX does/did well we might see FFXII HD which I really really want. It's one of the god-tier Final Fantasy games.

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Of all the FF games to want an HD re-release of... Need some FF9 first, at the very least.

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I have no idea why publishers aren't using some kind of open-source/free for commercial use PS1 emulator to package and sell their older titles.

Publishers do it all the time with DOSBOX.

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Sony would kill them.

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Yes, there could be issues with Sony.

SEGA is doing it (on Steam and other sites) though with their own games. So, let's change that to:
"I wonder why Sony doesn't use a free/commercially usable emulator to publish their old PS1 games?"

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They do. On PSN.

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FFXII IZJS HD, please. Also a gloriously beautiful remake of FFV with built-in Four Job Fiesta options.

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I already play it on my PC, =D, but yeah this is terrific news, I hope more people can try it and appreciate just how great it was. This one is my favorite FF game, and when I played it, it just came out, and at the time it was light years ahead of everything else. I still find myself humming some of the music from it.

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Insta-buy!

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+1

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I want 9 and 10 next. No point in going down all of a sudden.

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Except some of the older ones are better than some of the newer ones

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III for DS was pretty good. Story was bland though.

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True.

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Well it was made in 1990. What do you expect?

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Are you implying that humans didn't know how to write in 1990? Bad writing is bad writing, no matter the era.

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"Are you implying that humans didn't know how to write in 1990?"
No Takatsuki is implying that games in general had bland storylines back then even RPGs, which is true.

Look at the other Final Fantasy games, Phantasy Star, Glory of Heracles the Dragon Quest games (well series in general), and many more. None of these games have the type of fleshed out stories that are common in video games today.

"Bad writing is bad writing, no matter the era."
Bland is bad now?

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I've always felt Final Fantasy 2 had excellent storytelling. If I actually cared to, I could easily make a list of games with better writing that predated FFIII. And yes, bland is bad when story and characters are the centerpiece of your game. By contrast, FFIV had an amazing story and wonderful memorable characters.

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^this

The first final fantasy was quite a simple story, but it's ok, the second one was amazing and loved it, but the third one was so lame and annoying, plus characters weren't so great.

I played the first 2 on the psp, great remakes, the third one on ds and I have yet to play the fourth on psp, I found it new for 10€ :3

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Sounds like we have similar taste. You'll likely enjoy IV, hate V, and LOVE VI.

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ahah yes, I'm going to start the fouth one soon, I want to play all the final fantasies I missed.

So far I have to play: 4,5,6,8 (played half of it, not a fan of its magic system), and 12.

I'll skip spinoffs and online only titles :D

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Way to go! ^^ I only have 3+5 left to play.. gotta say I didn´t enjoy FF2 that much, even though it layed most of the fundation of the later FFs.. but I guess you are gonna love FF4 even more ^^ ..and I kind of admire you for having "that first time you Play FF6" still ahead of you.. its really special! :D

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ahah, I'll try to get to vI as soon as possible, I hope I don't get hyped too much about it as I did for the VII :p

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If you like story then VI is the way to go. VI has the best writing in the series. VII is a big flaming turd when it comes to telling a good story.

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I'll let you know about 6, the best version so far is the gba one or the playstation one?

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Just checked replies. I'm pretty sure the GBA is the best version but I think they are close to identical.

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Woolsey is a horrible translator.

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FF VI, best in the series.

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arguably

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FF6 IS the best, has awesome graphics, best soundtrack, and a villain who destroyed the planet. (and not a mothercon like sephiroth in overrated fantasy 7)

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FF6 is on my to play list.
My favorites so far from what I've played are FF5, FF9, FF12. ;_; I need to finish all of them though.

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One might assume, based on its title, that FF12 would be twice the game that FF6 is. But one would be wrong.

Seriously, get to playing it. Now. Best FF game by a wide margin, and I love most of them.

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Certainly one of my favorites.

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I agree, Final Fantasy 6 is easily my favorite :D (and I've played all of them except the MMOs and 13)

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There's some confusion about that sometimes, In North America, "VI", was released as "III". Which is definitely my favorite! Kefka and Sabin... etc. and "I am a treasure hunter!" and "he'd kill his own mother for a nickel". That the one you mean?

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Actually you may be right...this one could actually be FF VI, given that it was named FF3 in the West during the SNES era.

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It isn't. They fixed that naming confusion in the PSX era, and this game's been released as FF3 on... what, four platforms now? DS, iOS, Android, and for some reason OUYA.

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They didn't for the Wii Virtual Console though; they used the SNES names.

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I did not know that! Presumably it's part of Nintendo being Nintendo and doing it as a pure rerelease?

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I´m madly in love with 6-10 + Lost Odyssey... but yeah, FF6 is best!

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There seems to be an extra I in your post? Not sure why, might want to fix that.

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Aw man, I just bought the DS version about a month ago.

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Inb4 lazy squaresoft releases a DS port with max. 256x192 resolution (native ds resolution) (or it will look bad as with non-modded desmume emulator, blurry and bigger pixels than in minecraft)

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I doubt it, the other ports that were based on the DS one weren't locked at that resolution.

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I wanna see a proper 3D revamp / remake of FF6 / FF3(US) (that maintains the story, theme, atmosphere and old music).

That was the best FF, hands down. I wanna play with Shadow, Locke, Gau, Mog and Relm again. And see Mog's kickass dances.

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+9000

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the made a remake and it looks horrible. I think they just switched in some ugly ass sprites.

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Umm, what? Link?

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search ff6 android. for some reason the link isn't working

it isn't a 3d remake. I'm not sure if I would want a 3d remake or not. But I don't like the style they went for in that one, that's for sure. It looks ok in some of the screenshots, but when I saw the second screenshot I was like fuck no.

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What do you mean the link ain't working? Do you know how to make clickable links on SG already?

Is this the page with the screenshots you're talking about?

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It's been on PC already, with M.A.M.E., as are most old arcade and console games. If you own an original copy of the game then you can legally use the ROM file in an emulator.

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Technically, you shouldn't ever use ROMs, according to arbitrary copyright laws. They just don't bother enforcing. Mario games used to always get Nintendo lawyers stopping them.

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Technically most cereals and pop tarts should be considered desserts but people start the day with them and consider it a healthy breakfast.

I forgot my point...

O_O

O_0

YES!

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Someone should bring Arc The Lad 2 to Steam...

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... for some reson my just recently awoken brain thought you are talking about 2nd "Arc" game released on ps2, and i was like "why the hell would you want that" :P

"Twilight of The Spirits" was decent though :P

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Nah the Ps1 game, was so good.

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Lol the game is way too old for me :P

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You won't play a game because it's old? Sounds like a filthy casual CoD kid.

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I don't even play CoD. You can't judge me just because I don't like games from the 90's or 80s because I said their textures are too low. Fool.

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You do realize that games from the 80s and 90s don't look a thing like the screemcaps shown so far, right? That's the 3D remake, not the original NES version.

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Milk the cow for all it's worth

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There can´t be enough Final Fantasy anywhere ever!
..but they could put a bit more effort into it than they usually do..

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not sure how i feel about this.. I mean it wouldnt be a bad news, buuut, this games belong more to handheld consoles and eventually phones than pc gaming. Unless they make some exceptional steamwork integration, Im not sure it will be succesful at any rate

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Eh, i want Crisis Core more. Its the best Final Fantasy there is. For me.

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it wasnt bad, even though the combat system felt really weird to me in the psp version.

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I guess so, it was too difficult to combat when you got to one hit kill enemies and it was always hard to switch your abilities on the fly, youre right. The ability spin bar was the best thing about the combat tough :)

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Still waiting for them to make it available for PSVita.. I skipped the whole PSP and the few games I really missed out on are all available for Vita via PSN, except Crisis Core :/

PC would be best of course, but I don´t think theres realistic hope for that ^^

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PSVita.... their making a mistake by not making it avaivable on it. Oh.. you skipped the great classic console :( ? Ohhh.... few games.... sorry to hear. It would be best, esspecialy other PSP games, which wont happen. No hope for that :( ?? But.. the badly resoluted Final Fantasy from the 90s got on steam :( ...

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You could always use an emulator, PPSSPP runs just fine on most toasters.

But the game itself is far from being great...

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Well my brother tried to install an emulator for me to play my favourite Pursuit Force games, and.... it failed... partialy... so i cant, pluss my toaster died because of three polish bastards. What?! It is great! Theres so many aspects to love about it, amazing music, characthers, locations and enviroments, amazingly High HD cutscenes, game is pasauble at any time, lovely power move spin bar which brings awesome attacks as you progress further and so on. I agree there were non enjoyable moments such story elements when Zack dies or when you do side missions and you get to monsters who are unstoppable, insanely fast and one hit kill attacks and abilities...

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It was quite forgettable imo, far from Final Fantasy VII on every aspect. But hey, to each his own :)

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Forgetable? Well... less forgetable surely than FFVII... right? Pluss FFVII didnt have a combat move spin weel :)

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I fail to see how. Also, that "combat move spin weel" was useless. Oh and did I mention the poor english?

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Please release Final Fantasy XIII trilogy for PC

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Even though they're supposed to suck, I still want to play them. The only ones that I haven't had the chance to play besides the MMOs. I wouldn't mind them coming to Steam.

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They don't suck. FF fans just hate change.

They cry for "bringing back the old systems" but when that happens they then cry "for something new". When something new comes, everyone hates it.

I have been playing Final Fantasy since FF1 for the NES. They each offer something different and unique, and of course they each have their own shortcomings. My personal favorite is Final Fantasy IV.

FFXIII/XIII-2/Lightning Returns are good games on their own, but for most it's either a "You love it or hate it" kinda thing. I personally loved them, the Paradigm Shift system was innovative and challenging at times. It improved with FFXIII-2 adding the monsters.

In my opinion, you aren't a real FF fan unless you like them all. They all have strengths and weaknesses, but they all excel at what they are designed for: storytelling. That's what RPGs are all about.

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FFXIII: The game where you run in a straight line for about 25 hours, amazing if you don't have a hallway in your house. Also my thumb really hurts from mashing the A button in every battle, non stop.

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If you think it's a hallway, you probably skipped everything. Opinions though. -shrug-

You say that like Auto-Battle is the only option, and it certainly isn't. Most people are lazy and just chose to go with it, even though it isn't optimized at all.

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Why exactly would I not choose auto-battle when it picks the best abilities for the situation? I also didn't skip everything, it's a straight line all the way till about 25-30 hours, but hey our opinions differ and that's fine.

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"In my opinion, you aren't a real FF fan unless you like them all. They all have strengths and weaknesses, but they all excel at what they are designed for: storytelling. That's what RPGs are all about."

In my opinion, that is exactly what a fan isn't. Fans should be critical of what is done badly in a series they care about. FFXIII was a step backwards in almost every regard. The characters were bland, the story was an uninspired and uninteresting convoluted mess of apostrophes, the combat system was poorly balanced, and the levelling system had the same amount of choice as exploring the environment.

If you enjoy it then that is fair enough, but you can't go around saying everyone else is not a fan because they did not enjoy what you do. A fan is someone that follows a series/team/company through the good times AND the bad times, and many of us certainly regard FFXIII as the bad times.

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they need to remake 7 and 8 with brand new graphical qualities, same main story, only new content should be via monsters, areas and side stories. basically add content but don't change the story we loved.

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7 is overrated, also sephiroth is a mothercon.

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