Hi,
I just had to read my way through this thread, as PSIII was my first venture into the PS Universe after buying my MD as none of the shops in my area had ever stocked RPGs. I was stunned to see a sequel to my beloved MS game on the shelf of the local game rental shop and I was the only person to have ever rented the game from there, I had the game rented so many times the shop keeper let me keep it
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So down to the remake looking back on all the hours I played the game (yes I played through all the possible story lines while spending all my pocket money on rental fees).
I totally agree that this game could be the epic it was meant to be, I agree with many of the changes suggested so far however I believe the dungeon design should be upgraded but kept in line with what is there as the suspended walkway effects are what always stand out in my mind. I think the history and back story of the world, wars and characters should definitely be fleshed out. Also more could be done with the fact there are other world ships near by maybe a new story could be done with one of them.
As to PSO tie in it is an intriguing idea but doesn't feel right, when I finally got to PSIV and the crashed world ship in my mind I always had an image that DF had placed the ship on a great circular course and the final revenge caused the crash back into Motavia.
All in all I would like to see a remake / reboot of PSIII and would be more than willing to help put some work into the great project that it would become now there would be no restriction based on the memory capacity of the cartridge.