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After years of being available only on consoles, the PC platform will be seeing a port of a massive RPG franchise: Square Enix’s Kingdom Hearts. Epic Games will have Kingdom Hearts 1.5 Remix, 2.5 Remix, 2.8, 3, and Melody of Memory all available on its storefront. All of them will be launching exclusively on the Epic Games Store on March 30th, with 1.5+2.5 Remix to retail for $49.99, while the rest are priced at $59.99.

 

[Chrisssj2]

NO. damn you. stop stealing my exclusive ps games. ANother reason towards buying a ps4 for nothing.

 

[Izual Urashima]

The games were released on so many platforms that it'd be a joke to buy them at this price. I mean, for 230 bucks, you could easily buy an used PS4 + the whole collection.

Add to that the usual complaints about EGS, and you get a recipe for disaster. A disaster that gets thrown in no matter the platform talking about it.

Oh well, I can still replay through either the originals or the PS3 remakes while waiting for a Steam (or better, GOG) release.

 

[RobXcore]

I'm a big fan of the saga, but those prices make me question whether it's necessary to play those games again. Maybe, as one of the people above said, it'd be better to wait until they come out 'for free'.

 

[D34DL1N3R]

Pass. Bought the entire collection except Melody of Memory on PSN for $30.

 

[leon315]

$60 for 8 year old remakes of 18 year old games, who do they think they are, Nintendo?

how about bunch of sheeps who spent 1k dollars to purchase apple phone made of 2-3 yo HW??

 

[Deleted User]

NO. damn you. stop stealing my exclusive ps games. ANother reason towards buying a ps4 for nothing.

The majority of the games were made around 15 years ago or even longer on the PS2. No one forced you to buy a PS4 and no one ever told you the games that are on it are guaranteed to be exclusive forever. In fact I'm pretty sure all these games were already on Xbox One.

 

[SuperDan]

Never played any of them ever... Are they turn based like FF or real time? I am tempted I just don't do turn Based Rpg games... Not my thing

 

[Deleted User]

Never played any of them ever... Are they turn based like FF or real time? I am tempted I just don't do turn Based Rpg games... Not my thing

Real time, it's more like an action rpg I guess than a traditional rpg.

 

[eriol33]

I already played all of them, so I don't mind waiting for the steam release.

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$60 for 8 year old remakes of 18 year old games, who do they think they are, Nintendo?

To be fair, kingdom Hearts is owned by Disney

 

[Asia81]

$60 for 8 year old remakes of 18 year old games, who do they think they are, Nintendo?

Why did I laugh to that

 

[eriol33]

love the series, but there's a good chance my laptop won't be able to run the games. I was getting 15fps or less in dragon quest xi. opening was fine, but once I got to the overworld, it was unplayable. that's before I knew about steam's return policy, so I still own it. maybe my next pc can run it. anyway, I pirated kingdom hearts 3 on the ps4. I tested it, but haven't really played it.

Eh, I am betting low end gpus can run KH games just fine

 

[SecureBoot]

FINALLY!! I've played up until 3. Beat Dream Drop Distance a couple of weeks ago using mostly emulation since I've never had a playstation or xbox. That timed out perfectly

 

[BiggieCheese]

oh...uhh...ya, queue switch port when question. nearly forgot...though given what I heard about them saying they had a hard time trying to bring 1.5+2.5 to the switch being the reason it's not there I have to wonder how unusually demanding these games are if they can't even manage running fucking ps2 and psp games on the switch...

1.5+2.5 should run fine on the Switch with at worst minimal issues on paper, the problem is Final Chapter Prologue and KHIII I imagine. Both of them being ported to Switch is probably easier said than done especially in the formers case since it probably runs on a very old, pre-Switch build of Unreal 4

 

[BitMasterPlus]

As a lifelong fan of the series and trying to buy every physical release as they came out, even I have to say this is ridiculous.

 

[Imparasite]

Epic store exclusive?? mehh. no thank you but thank you we can pirate it

 

[Edgarska]

1.5+2.5 should run fine on the Switch with at worst minimal issues on paper, the problem is Final Chapter Prologue and KHIII I imagine. Both of them being ported to Switch is probably easier said than done especially in the formers case since it probably runs on a very old, pre-Switch build of Unreal 4

That's not a real problem, specially for a big company.
Upgrading an UE4 project to a new engine version is not difficult, it just requires time to test for problems. They already did that for DQXI when they made the Switch port.

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Eh, I am betting low end gpus can run KH games just fine

Risky bet without knowing the hardware in question.

 

[SuperDan]

Real time, it's more like an action rpg I guess than a traditional rpg.

Exactly what I wanted to hear! I'm on it when it's out... I played a game called ni no kuni at some point last year & even tho it was semi turn based... I really got into it & completed 1 & 2... & I was thinking this was going that way... But full ARPG.... It's a done deal....

 

[Deleted User]

Epic store exclusive?? mehh. no thank you but thank you we can pirate it

I doubt they would since these aren't new games but technically they could use Denuvo.

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Exactly what I wanted to hear! I'm on it when it's out... I played a game called ni no kuni at some point last year & even tho it was semi turn based... I really got into it & completed 1 & 2... & I was thinking this was going that way... But full ARPG.... It's a done deal....

I would watch some Youtube videos. I don't think most people play these games because of the combat it's not very good or deep or anything.

 

[SecureBoot]

1.5+2.5 should run fine on the Switch with at worst minimal issues on paper, the problem is Final Chapter Prologue and KHIII I imagine. Both of them being ported to Switch is probably easier said than done especially in the formers case since it probably runs on a very old, pre-Switch build of Unreal 4

Yeah it never say right with me that Nomura said that 1.5+2.5 was "technically difficult" those were PS3 games. I'm willing to bet that with some effort (aka Panic Button), they could bring a playable version of 3 and 2.8

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I doubt they would since these aren't new games but technically they could use Denuvo.

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I would watch some Youtube videos. I don't think most people play these games because of the combat it's not very good or deep or anything.

I'm glad someone else agrees that the combat isn't very good. I got flamed for saying that once. I still like the games tho

 

[Deleted User]

Yeah it never say right with me that Nomura said that 1.5+2.5 was "technically difficult" those were PS3 games. I'm willing to bet that with some effort (aka Panic Button), they could bring a playable version of 3 and 2.8

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I'm glad someone else agrees that the combat isn't very good. I got flamed for saying that once. I still like the games tho

There's no way someone who is used to playing full rpgs could argue "Kingdom Hearts is great because of the combat" the story is good characters obviously, even some light puzzles are fine but gameplay is just very basic. I always thought it was more geared towards kids which makes sense since it's mostly Disney characters.