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[Red UFO]

I am the ultimate FINAL FANTASY fan!

 

[Olli]

From the media section on the website:


More at Eurogamer

Day 1 if this would have been he in-game graphics^^

 

[GregLombardi]

Seems like an obscure way to do this...

 

[tsumineko]

From the media section on the website:

More at Eurogamer

Hey I remember those from 1997.

 

[Sephiroth503]

Those specs seem....excessive....

 

[Little Old Man]

I still can't believe the difference between the CGI cut scenes in VII and VIII!

They've shot themselves in the foot by not doing a Steam release.

 

[Plaguefox]

.

 

[StalkerUKCG]

Useless if it look worse than This

I suppose a rerelease also puts the nails in the coffin that is the hope for a true HD remake

 

[hamchan]

Useless if it look worse than This

I suppose a rerelease also puts the nails in the coffin that is the hope for a true HD remake

I don't see how?

 

[FlutterPuffs]

I'd buy it if it's widescreen.

Is it widescreen square? IS IT!?

 

[Basileus777]

From the media section on the website:

Finally we

Spoiler

don't

get ff7 in glorious 800x600.

 

[Risk Breaker]

LOLOLOL, SquEnix trolling epicly once again.

Dem epic Tifa boobs flashing on screen for half a second btw.

 

[Gravijah]

Useless if it look worse than This

I suppose a rerelease also puts the nails in the coffin that is the hope for a true HD remake

not one bit. FF4 was re-released multiple times before being remade.

edit: also ewww "normal" models on the fields. SD or bust.

 

[Roxas]

Pretty sneaky if they're trying to get as many people to buy it from their own store first so they make 100% of that money and then release it on steam later.

How is that sneaky?

 

[Kenka]

From the media section on the website:

This is the art coming with the original's OST.

 

[Shadow780]

Day one.

 

[show me your skeleton]

So? Up-rezzed art and graphics? HD pre-rendered backgrounds???

I'm curious, Square! If this is true, I will buy this bitch all over again.

pretty sure they no longer have the original assets. a lot of companies just weren't that forward thinking back in 1997.

also, the trailer is hilarious.

 

[Gui_PT]

Not worth it if it doesn't look like this

 

[The Elite]

I'd buy it if it's widescreen.

Is it widescreen square? IS IT!?

Can you just make the game widescreen without redoing all the in game assets? You would probably have to crop it.

 

[Pooya]

this is their store page
https://store.eu.square-enix.com/emea_en/pc-windows-download/FINAL-FANTASY-VII.php


didn't see this on the site, or I missed it.

Optimized for PC – FINAL FANTASY VII has been updated to support the latest hardware and Windows Operating Systems.

 

[Basileus777]

I'd buy it if it's widescreen.

Is it widescreen square? IS IT!?

How badly do you want to see stretched 2d art?

 

[PetriP-TNT]

Its just final fantasy 7 pc with Achievements, Online profile sharing and "character boosters" which are basically cheats.

You mean it's the best game ever but even better? THANKS SQUARE!


I came tears

 

[MedIC86]

if its just the pc port then i will not buy it.

 

[APZonerunner]

I'm not seeing what JENOVA has to do with cloud saves?

Wrong feature, sorry - I meant Character Booster. JENOVA is literally exactly what the character booster describes.

 

[Azure Dream]

So the Cloud Saves are likely based on the fan-based mod JENOVA from the original PC release. The JENOVA source files are available here:
http://qhimm.com/#ff7

The reason I say this is because we reported on the fact SE was trying to get the PC versions of FF7 and FF8 up and running decently on modern hardware - via Steam - this time last year.
http://rpgsite.net/articles/294-fin...e-on-steam--but-will-likely-never-see-release

We were given access to the Steam files. We found several mods from the Qhimm Community included in the version of FF8 we were able to download directly from Steam, including a couple of patches for stability on XP/Vista/7 that are on the Qhimm message boards. They'd actually changed the version number and written "Compiled by Square Enix" on the program. At the time 7 was untouched.

The Character Booster feature smells so much like JENOVA that with this other evidence I'd suggest it probably IS Jenova, edited by SE.

7 and 8 are both still in the Steam Registry.

Sounds like what happened with Cave Story on Wii.

 

[FlutterPuffs]

How badly do you want to see stretched 2d art?

Well, playing as fat cloud seems like an interesting concept.

 

[Aeana]

Wrong feature, sorry - I meant Character Booster.

Well, regardless, I would not be at all surprised if this is just FF7 PC and community mods, but it would be pretty tacky if they don't give anybody any credit for their work.

 

[Kokonoe]

this is their store page
https://store.eu.square-enix.com/emea_en/pc-windows-download/FINAL-FANTASY-VII.php

Optimized for PC – FINAL FANTASY VII has been updated to support the latest hardware and Windows Operating Systems.

didn't see this on the site, or I missed it.

Now do this for FFXI, Square-Enix.

 

[Kyari]

So is it GFWL or some such? I see no point in the achievements if they're not GFW or Steam

 

[Gravijah]

if its just the pc port then i will not buy it.

since they're so reluctant to show this version off, i think it's going to be a port of the non-existent Saturn version.

 

[APZonerunner]

So is it GFWL or some such? I see no point in the achievements if they're not GFW or Steam

SE has a new social site thing they're doing for this, it seems. The text in the description makes it sound that way, anyway -- "Share your profile with friends online to find out who is the ultimate FINAL FANTASY fan."

 

[Kenka]

So the Character Booster is likely based on the fan-based mod JENOVA from the original PC release. The JENOVA source files are available here:
http://qhimm.com/#ff7

The reason I say this is because we reported on the fact SE was trying to get the PC versions of FF7 and FF8 up and running decently on modern hardware - via Steam - this time last year.
http://rpgsite.net/articles/294-fin...e-on-steam--but-will-likely-never-see-release

We were given access to the Steam files. We found several mods from the Qhimm Community included in the version of FF8 we were able to download directly from Steam, including a couple of patches for stability on XP/Vista/7 that are on the Qhimm message boards. They'd actually changed the version number and wrote "Compiled by Square Enix" on the program. At the time 7 was untouched.

The Character Booster feature smells so much like JENOVA that with this other evidence I'd suggest it probably IS Jenova, edited by SE.

7 and 8 are both still in the Steam Registry.

If true, can S-E make money out of the work of others ?

 

[Sir_Crocodile]

So the only thing here you can't get from the original + mods + cheatengine is achievements?

Think I'll give this a miss

 

[Roxas]

Well..i hope they add controller support to this thing

 

[Unknown One]

1gb ram for (another) playstation 1 port?

Same company that couldn't properly port Final Fantasy Tactics to PSP without massive lag. I was shocked the game isn't 60 fps for PSP.

 

[glaurung]

Stumbled across the original PC version's requirements: http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/final-fantasy-vii/techinfo

Aren't the new ones kinda... stupid?

 

[AwakenedCloud]

This just seems like such an odd decision. Why wouldn't you at the very least release your product on Steam and iOS? VII would sell like hotcakes on Steam just for the sake of people wanting it in their library and it'd do great on iOS for the same reasons Sonic CD did.

Baffling.

 

[Yoshichan]

The trailer made my cry.

It's 1997 all over again, baby!

 

[M3d10n]

I hope it is actually the PC version with a few fixes (pre-recorded music instead of midi, not crashing) and with the backgrounds/ui scaled up with some nice filter (either bicubic or lanczos).

The PC version did look better than the PSOne version (when it worked). There was bilinear filtering, no texture warping, no polygon jittering and the field characters were actually dynamically lit.

 

[Aeana]

Same company that couldn't properly port Final Fantasy Tactics to PSP without massive lag. I was shocked the game isn't 60 fps for PSP.

FFT PSP was ported by TOSE.

 

[Gravijah]

This just seems like such an odd decision. Why wouldn't you at the very least release your product on Steam and iOS? VII would sell like hotcakes on Steam just for the sake of people wanting it in their library and it'd do great on iOS for the same reasons Sonic CD did.

Baffling.

it's not on iOS because that would require they put in some effort.

 

[DaBuddaDa]

Things don't commonly pop up on the Steam registry for shits and giggles. There has to be some sort of extended plan to bring this to the platform in the future.

 

[McNum]

Wow, Square-Enix's websites are being hammered now. This does not bode well for the release day...

It amuses me that the last bullet point can be summed up as "Will actually run on your PC".

 

[The Elite]

This just seems like such an odd decision. Why wouldn't you at the very least release your product on Steam and iOS? VII would sell like hotcakes on Steam just for the sake of people wanting it in their library and it'd do great on iOS for the same reasons Sonic CD did.

Baffling.

I have to assume it's coming but they are starting with their own store. FFVII on iOS would be... interesting.

 

[Kokonoe]

Stumbled across the original PC version's requirements: http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/final-fantasy-vii/techinfo

Aren't the new ones kinda... stupid?

This version requires 32x the amount of ram compared to that one.

 

[Joe Shlabotnik]

Character Booster? What the fuck?

Blade-resistant body armor!

 

[sikkinixx]

Or I could... Ya know... Play the PSN version

 

[mclem]

Well, playing as fat cloud seems like an interesting concept.

The first thing I thought when I read this - before my brain caught up - was "Mallow cameo?"

 

[SparkTR]

If true, can S-E make money out of the work of others ?

Yes. The re-releases of Thief 1 and II on Steam/Gog feature code from community fixes, and Square-Enix is behind that.

 

[The Elite]

Or I could... Ya know... Play the PSN version

You won't be rewarded for your achievements though.