We have Witcher3, Fallout4 and the easiest comparison in Xenoblade.
but episodic is totally necessary
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Final Fantasy VII Remake is a multi-part series
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but episodic is totally necessary
Lionel Richie
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They make great games tho
Oh shit marry me Summer Glau, I'll play and enjoy every single Level 5 game. Even the ungodly White Knight Chronicles duo.
*sees less than 30 seconds of mediocre action RPG gameplay*
OMG IM SO HYPED RIGHT NOW GUYS
Hope's just a shitty pipe dream, Andy.
Yeah being a Junior doesn't make you sub-human or anything.
That new xenoblade game has a world like 8 times the size of Witcher 3, and I'm pretty sure monolithsoft is a smaller entity than square. As previously mentioned, level 5's NNK was also a beautiful, fully realized world. Neither episodic
It is correct to complain. If a product doesn't sell well, a company can reach the wrong conclusion of why it doesn't sell well if fans don't complain why they didn't buy it.
"the original gameplay sucked shit. this looks much better"
Weird considering FF7 remake is like one of the safest and guaranteed easy money games they could possibly do.
Haven't Square said for the longest time that the remake would just be too expensive? All that shit that used to be 2D backgrounds, they now have to render as unique art assets in HD for the length of sixty hours of gameplay. Then they have to rewrite an enormous script, localize it, and record every line of dialogue in multiple languages. And somewhere along they way they have to figure out how to turn a turn-based RPG into a modern action game and somehow differentiate it from their other action RPGs, including one Final Fantasy XV - which, by the way, they have also sunk hundreds of millions of dollars into over the course of a decade, and it has yet to bear any fruit, nor will it for some time. On top of all that, now imagine, hypothetically, the cost of blowing up that rinky-dink world map into a fully-fledged open world.
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Games cost money. They cost a shit ton of money. As long as this isn't 20 parts and each episode or whatever is long enough to justify its length, I'm okay with this. I really don't think there was any other way.
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Games cost money. They cost a shit ton of money. As long as this isn't 20 parts and each episode or whatever is long enough to justify its length, I'm okay with this. I really don't think there was any other way.
RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
Just when I thought Square-Enix was starting to get what fans wanted. >>;
I hope the project still turns out good but... I'm not as hyped anymore.
I hope the project still turns out good but... I'm not as hyped anymore.
Rabid Dwarf 76
Member
Some people are concerned that SE is going to use this as an attempt to get more money from consumers and would rather wait for the entire game. We still need more details though.
LordOcidax
Member
Agree,to squeeze every penny of the FF7 fans, what a shame.
May not be for you. But many were hype for it.
keltickennedy
Member
Man....they are going to be wasting so much time on trying to get it to look like all the current FF games. Look what has happened with FF15. They waste time sending people out to take pictures of rocks and food on a plate instead of worrying more about the actual game.
To me, seeing as how FF7 was done way back on PS1, they pretty much had a blank slate on how this game could of looked.
Hell, why not take these characters everyone fell in love with and finally realize that style in 3D.
Of course now the game has to be episodic now. We wouldn't of got it till 2020 probably.
Advent Children ruined this franchise in my opinion with what some people expect with the visuals.
To me, seeing as how FF7 was done way back on PS1, they pretty much had a blank slate on how this game could of looked.
Hell, why not take these characters everyone fell in love with and finally realize that style in 3D.
Of course now the game has to be episodic now. We wouldn't of got it till 2020 probably.
Advent Children ruined this franchise in my opinion with what some people expect with the visuals.
Camp1nCarl
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Calavera520
Member
I mean, we know what happens. We won't be held on the edge of our seats. This is a remake after all. I think it's alright.
Fate/Cipher
Member
Spyder_Monkey
Banned
Details are so vague right now, I wouldn't bother sorting this out until we get more information.
Killing_Joke
Member
Eh, I'm for it. Yeah I'll probably pay $20-30 more but fuck it. Or maybe they'll surprise us with a decent season pass like most episodic games.
Vire
Member
Hell yeah, I'm super excited for the sequel. Just hope they nail the combat this time around.Not to turn this into a Level 5 vs. Square thread, but if you are looking for a game that is going to have a ton of environmental diversity, towns, characters, amazing production values and length... watch this trailer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AkY9a7DQUE
No tears JRPG fans, only joy.
The most amusing thing is the plethora of doomsday scenarios being invented on the spot, quoted and taken as fact. Or people going "THAT'S IT, MY GAMING LIFE IS OVER" like they're about to dramatically die in a shakespearian play or some shit like that. The whole "My childhood is ruined" shtick over and over and over. More than the news for the game, we're gonna have this song and dance at every piece of information for it.
Really good post.
Some bullshit. This seriously has me heated. Be careful what you wish for brehs.
Edit: I have played far too many large scale games with tons of voicework cutscenes FMV and landmass to be fed some line about how it's impossible to redo FF7 this gen without splitting it up into little fucking pieces. So miss me with that bullshit, and shame on the gamers pretending that it's true. You guys will swallow some of the WILDEST shit ever man.
Edit: I have played far too many large scale games with tons of voicework cutscenes FMV and landmass to be fed some line about how it's impossible to redo FF7 this gen without splitting it up into little fucking pieces. So miss me with that bullshit, and shame on the gamers pretending that it's true. You guys will swallow some of the WILDEST shit ever man.
TheJollyCorner
Member
Just now seeing this..........
................ Wut? :{
................ Wut? :{
I so need to play that game, even tho the whimsical thing is not really my cup of tea. I do fell in love with the world map the moment I first saw it, tho. That alone is a reason to get it. Still have my PS3 in the closet, so I'm set. Maybe it's a good christmas break game? I planned on playing Suikoden I, but with NNK 2 being announced maybe I should swap.
lifeexpectancy
Member
And you're looking down YOUR nose at people for hyperbole?
This is biggest hyperbole of the entire thread. Can you even read the posts from atop your throne your highness?
Very far from it but we're unfortunately living in a capitalist world. They do whatever they think will make them the most money. The only power you have is to not purchase their product.
They don't owe you anything. If they shit on fans, they lose sales. Probably not enough for them to care though.
Yeah, I don't know why people are so willing to believe it would be impossible to recreate FF VII's world, just as they were willing to believe "towns are too hard to make in HD" in FF XIII.
It's clearly possible, just not by Square-Enix, apparently.
cosmicblizzard
Banned
Do those have the same variety in terms of towns, explorable buildings, and a world map, all while being made with a modestly-sized development team?
Man....they are going to be wasting so much time on trying to get it to look like all the current FF games. Look what has happened with FF15. They waste time sending people out to take pictures of rocks and food on a plate instead of worrying more about the actual game.
To me, seeing as how FF7 was done way back on PS1, they pretty much had a blank slate on how this game could of looked.
Hell, why not take these characters everyone fell in love with and finally realize that style in 3D.
Of course now the game has to be episodic now. We wouldn't of got it till 2020 probably.
Advent Children ruined this franchise in my opinion with what some people expect with the visuals.
+1
The anime styling would have allowed for such an easy and forgiving update of 7's colourful cartoon crazy world, too.
Jessie.Bristol
Member
What am I reading?!?
Yes, I know, opinions and all that. I just don't like when someone doesn't like what I like .
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Ploid 3.0
Member
Are you sure you haven't been made a permanent junior? That seems like a long time.
Man....they are going to be wasting so much time on trying to get it to look like all the current FF games. Look what has happened with FF15. They waste time sending people out to take pictures of rocks and food on a plate instead of worrying more about the actual game.
To me, seeing as how FF7 was done way back on PS1, they pretty much had a blank slate on how this game could of looked.
Hell, why not take these characters everyone fell in love with and finally realize that style in 3D.
This was my preferred direction years ago. Don't pour your resources into making it look like Advent Children with every pore and scratch meticulously rendered. Instead make it a stylistic triumph. Try to hit the concept art. It would also lend more naturally to the playful charm of the original game.
But nope. Full AAA Advent Children. Nobody does it better.
Celcius
°Temp. member
"Just when they thought I was done"
This actually had me laughing out loud haha
LordOcidax
Member
Dude, olds games in mobile cost $15, dont expect surprises from Square...
Will DQXI PS4 deliver???
Just yesterday I was daydreaming about the day in roughly 5 years when I would be holding a shrink wrapped copy of my remade childhood in my hands, just imagining the epic, beautiful, re-imagined world and characters that are all stored on the very disc inside the case. A disc that would reignite emotional memories that have have long laid dormant in the recesses of my mind, in wait of being revisited for over half my life.
And today I realize that day will never come.
And today I realize that day will never come.
Nocturno999
Member
I wouldn't be so sure about that man. Hopefully you are right.
There may be advantages like a continuation of Final Fantasy's VII ending but overall sounds bad.
Unless they are episodic like Starcraft but I doubt it.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
A funny thought? Since we'll have to wait months for each episode to be released - imagine how much grinding people will do in the meantime. Level 99 and maxed out limit breaks (if that shit even exists) before leaving Midgar!
Unless, of course, they've capped the levels like they did with FFXIII.
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Unless, of course, they've capped the levels like they did with FFXIII.
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ArkhamFantasy
Member
Size means absolutely nothing.
The amount of variety in the enviornments and mini games is absolutely staggering. There's a reason why they didnt make this game 10 years ago when people were begging them for it and there's a reason why they arent just going to charge you 60 dollars for it.
MGSV shouldn't be on that list, and the other games reuse a lot of assets. FF7 has many different environments and interiors