Kingdom Hearts series comes to PC March 30th... exclusively on the Epic Store

https://www.gematsu.com/2021/02/kingdom-hearts-series-coming-to-pc-on-march-30

Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 + 2.5 Remix, Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8: Final Chapter Prologue, Kingdom Hearts III + Re Mind, and Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory are coming to PC via the Epic Games Store on March 30, Square Enix announced during the Epic Games Store Spring Showcase.

Each title is currently available for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory is also available on Switch.

Interesting.. kinda forgot this franchise was on console only. Well now you can play it on PC! .. via Epic Store

Thoughts, PC Gamers? Will you be getting the games on PC?

I'll pass. Lest the games' story and titles turns my brain to mush.

Also, Square Enix are taking an ocean's worth of piss with those prices. Still appreciate the salt it's causing, though. My popcorn is nicely seasoned after watching that stream.

Meh. Never played them. Don’t plan to.

Who even plays these games? Are we in the 6th gen still or what.

and Halo and Call of Duty are for grown ups? lol

Mods will be glorious

Gotta love how its a store exclusive LOL.

PC and its stores what a fustercluck, but they brought it upon themselves so i'll sit back & laugh at them :)

CoD is for dudebros. Halo is just there to make fun of. Lets all thank 343i for that.

Someone said the other day PC is one platform..

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Store clients are free to download and install, and all run on the same hardware and operating system. Therefore, one platform.

Geez, not at those prices. I'll wait for a deep discount.

Not all PC gamers are accepting of different store clients.

Well that's just their choice - one they are free to change at any time with no extra entry cost. Nothing to do with whether PC is a single platform or not. PC is an open platform and a free market. Pros and cons.

The client is available and it's free. It's one thing to not want to use it and another where you can't. I can't play Switch games cause I don't own a Switch. I could purchase and download games from EGS but I don't....cause epic.

Meh. kiddy games.

beside kingdom hearts is closest thing to tangled and frozen games.

tbh its much better than Hitman 3, and has a better story too.

If you and your friend both have the same game, but bought it from different stores, then what? With console, everyone games on the same platform.

Hitman 3 is masterpiece and raise the bar for stealth games to come in future. also third person games.

Erm, cross-client online play has been a thing for ages.

Just recently, for example, I created an EGS account just to grab those exclusive Unreal Tournament skins for Warframe, and logged in with my account. I then returned to the Steam version and slapped those skins on my weapons no problem. They inter-operate.

Wha?

like you said about rdr2, what's the point of playing hitman 3 when the story is so bad?

Gameplay. Hitman gameplay is 10/10. RDR2 gameplay is 1/10. see this.

Lol.

I can't stand Kingdom Hearts nonsense. I avoid it like the Epic store.

Cool, but I'm not paying that much. Will wait for Epic to give away free.

Still doesn't change the fact its a one platform. The only thing anyone should be using EGS if its a game you really want to play now vs later coming to other client stores.

As for KH coming to PC, I already play those games many years and will pass on the PC version.

@madrocketeer: One platform you say, well how come if you buy Borderlands 3 on Steam and the dlc on Epic you can't use it unless you have a copy from Epics store, even though its PC and its supposed to be one platform.

@SolidGame_basic: PC is like a mall, its one building with multiple shops (storefronts) trying to beat out its competitors.

We should start calling hermits mall rats 🤣🤣🤣

Irrelevant. The content run on the same operating system and the same hardware, with zero cost to switch between clients. Therefore, same platform. If anyone is dumb enough to buy the base game from one store and the DLCs from another, I'd suggest to them to use the refund policies to buy from the correct store.

It is actually possible to force them work together, but that kind of voids the point of the clients, i.e. easy, user-friendly content management and authentication.

I tried far too late with those games, and just couldn't get through them. Still, nice for fans of the series.

Can someone please just buy SE and shuts them down? I didn't think I would have a publisher more than Activision but here we are with SE. I don't remember I enjoyed of the their in-house games ever.

Wouldn't be much of a stretch. They already added Marvel, Star Wars and Fox characters.

@madrocketeer: No its not irrelevant, the dlc is for PC, the game is for PC and yet you can't play it because both were bought from different stores.

So its not one platform.

I mean if one store has the game cheap and the other has the dlc cheap why shouldn't it work because its meant to be one platform.

Its like i said PC is like a mall, one big building with lots of little storefronts competing with one another, and where deals get done.

You guys asked for this shit for going all digital, i as a console owner can walk into any game store and buy my copy of an Xbox game, and then can buy the dlc and not worry that its not going to work. Not only that but physical media doesn't get exclusive games so you can buy from any shop.

I have no sympathy as you sold out to the fatman and now people want a piece of his pie.

Exclusive to the blah blah store = it is now on PC. Nothing more nothing less.

Good to see epic is going out to developers to get games on PC. Gaben never bothered, he does absolute nothing for PC gamers.

Never had interest in these games, dont have one now either

As I said, there is a way to force it to work, which I won't discuss, but that voids the point of having content management clients. The data of the content is identical; the only barrier of separation is the content management and authentication system. Still the same platform. The same hardware, the same operating system, and almost the identical software. You want to buy a Switch Game, you fork out the cash to buy a Switch first. You want to buy an EGS game, you install a client and click on it.

Not quite the same, since while physical copies of consoles are distributed through many different stores, DLCs are distributed through a single monolithic system that manages and authenticates the content. There is some competition between the physical stores, with conditions set by platform owners (see Switch game prices, for example), and there is no competition in the DLC space. The PC market is full competition from top to bottom. The price of that is the incompatible content management and authentication systems.

Again, the PC is an open platform and a free market, so the shape of the PC market has many features of other capitalist markets with multiple competing players, such as streaming. The digital dominance in the PC market is simply the free market rendering its verdict. Consoles are slowly heading that way too. As with everything, this comes with its pros and cons. As I once joked; "inequality is the price of liberty, now don't tread on my framerates."

So keep your sympathy, thanks. I know exactly what I got myself into, and I embrace it.

170 bucks for everything? No, thanks. Gonna wait for the steam release instead.

Also a diehard lem and a diehard cow joining forces again. Classic. Can't beat PC alone.

@madrocketeer: Buy a game from one store and the dlc from another and it doesn't work. Just wait it will get worse, enjoy your "workarounds" 🤣🤣🤣

Again, it works on consoles because of its top-down, monolithic market. It doesn't work on PC because PC is a free and competitive market. Pros and cons.

If things "get worse" on one storefront on PC, then someone else will step in and offer an alternative. That is the point of a free market. This is the reason, for example, why there has never been a successful attempt to charge for online play on PC. When GFWL once tried it, they just looked stupid and were forced to backtrack.

This is why, despite my annoyances with their tactics, I'm hoping EGS succeeds, I really do.

Buy the dlc for your xbox see if it works on your switch.

@Gatygun: That's a dumb argument, EGS & Steam sell PC games and yet buying a game from one and dlc from another won't allow both to be compatible, so if you buy the game on one store you need to buy the dlc there also.

@madrocketeer: Enjoy your store exclusives.

@i_p_daily:

Eh. Small price to pay for the benefits of a free and competitive market.

Can't say have a big interest in these, but certainly willing to check them out.

When on Steam.

Yea, I'm really not buying the one platform argument. You can't even play Kingdom Hearts on Steam, have to get it on EGS, which has different features and other things you might not like about it.

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