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Final Fantasy X/X-2 Remaster Now Available On Steam


Posted on May 13, 2016 by Rae Michelle Richards

Square Enix has released their 2014 re-masters of two classic RPGs – Final Fantasy X & Final Fantasy X-2 on Steam for Windows PC. These updated versions boast improved visuals for their transition to high definition, a completely re-mastered background music soundtrack, a new auto-save function, debug like “no encounters” & game-play speed increases and unique to the Steam release – trading cards.

Final Fantasy X / X-2 HD was originally released on the PlayStation 3 and PS Vita in March of 2014 with a PlayStation 4 version released last Spring. Both games were originally released on the PlayStation 2 back in 2001 and 2003 respectively.

The HD collection is currently available on Steam for $26.39 – with a 20% launch bonus. Here are the recommended specs:

RECOMMENDED:

OS: Windows Vista or later
Processor: 2.4GHz quad-core CPU
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA Geforce GTX 450 / AMD Radeon HD 5750 with 512MB
Storage: 40 GB available space
Sound Card: DirectX Compatible Sound Card

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$30 For A Re-master of a 8 Year Old Game? COD4 On PS4 Might As Well Be The ‘Fuck You Edition’


Posted on April 30, 2016 by Rae Michelle Richards

With the reveal of the first teaser trailer for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, rumors abound for months about the game’s premise and a leak of the game’s marketing materials last night we know a lot about the game. Yet, perhaps the one thing that everyone is overlooking is how an overpriced re-master of an 8 year old game really is.

Don’t get me wrong, I played a whole ton of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare in my college days back in ’07. I spent late nights with friends, huddled around the television cheering as we passed the controller between rounds but can a re-master of an aging game that is available on every major 7th generation platform recapture that magic? Or is Activision and Infinity Ward mining the nostalgia for the past to get players to fork over some additional cash?

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Supposedly the re-master of COD 4 will include the full campaign and 10 multiplayer maps. Why has Infinity Ward taken the time to re-master one of their most successful and refreshing titles in modern memory but not taken the effort to include all 20 original maps from the last gen version of the game, let alone the four maps that shipped as part of the Variety Map Pack back in ’08?

A re-mastered COD4 would have been a great pack-in with all editions of the game but by supposedly only including it in the $109 USD ‘Legacy Edition’, it puts the value of the COD 4 re-master at half the price of a full retail release. Activision might as well have called the Legacy Edition the Fuck You Edition, because even if COD4 re-mastered is a fantastic game it will never recap the magic of the original and will only contain a sliver of the original content.

Don’t be fooled – remember that some of the key folks from the original Modern Warfare team left Activision years ago and now have their own series!


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