DXLelouch153
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Final Fantasy VII Remake is a multi-part series
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Sounds like a realistic approach to me.
As long as they can maintain a solid release schedule this could be a good thing. Those who can't wait for the game to be fully developed can jump in early and play it on an episode-by-episode basis. Those who can wait will get to play a fully-realized, content-rich remake in the end.
PensivePen
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Keeping in mind this is translated, I would think 'things that have to be cut' have to do with a change in art/tone/direction in certain scenes. I don't really expect to get exact, 1:1 remakes of every single room and area. Not necessarily because they need to trim down content or make the game smaller, but because some scenes and segments that might work in the context of blocky PS1 graphics on pre-rendered backgrounds would look awkward with photorealistic models and a 3rd person 3D camera. Cloud walking across steel girders in the early Mako Reactor segment comes to mind as something that will probably be considerably different in the remake.
That all said, everyone should keep their expectations in check and wait for more detailed information and more footage.
Fuck no. I'd rather have them scrap the remake than XV. And this is coming from a hardcore FFVII fanboy.
Yes, on two separate occasions during the first disc pivotal events occur here.
MGS1 is my favorite game of the MGS series (and one of my most favorite games of all time) and I loved its gameplay, and pretty much replay it every year. I consider MGSV to be one of the worst in the series for a variety of reasons but consider it to have really good gameplay.
If MGS1 was getting a full blown remake, I would definitely want it to control like MGSV rather than MGS1 and the environments enemy patterns etc reworked to fit with that style. While at the same time there'd be other fans for whom MGS1 is also their favorite game, who'd basically just want a graphical/performance upgrade to modern standards without any other changes made to the game.
The same holds true for FF7.
You're not the voice for everyone who considers this their favorite game. Express your frustrations sure, but don't try to act like you know or speak for all the "true" fans.
Why can't they just wait until then to release the full game? None of this episodic BS.
Pro from Dover
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What did the trailer show?
CG (that is very nice but we've honestly seen better)
A hallway (where Cloud can shimmy and duck)
A city street (with maybe something to the right)
A plaza for battle (LOOK! Gameplay!)
I predict that Final Fantasy 7 Remake will be Life is Strange meets:
Still could be cool.
CG (that is very nice but we've honestly seen better)
A hallway (where Cloud can shimmy and duck)
A city street (with maybe something to the right)
A plaza for battle (LOOK! Gameplay!)
I predict that Final Fantasy 7 Remake will be Life is Strange meets:
Still could be cool.
Obliterator
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World Map
Airship
Golden Saucer
Are all dealbreakers imo. All 3 are vitally important to the game and its tone and are things I could see them thinking are "removable"
Those 3 have to stay
Airship
Golden Saucer
Are all dealbreakers imo. All 3 are vitally important to the game and its tone and are things I could see them thinking are "removable"
Those 3 have to stay
I'm pretty sure it's just Japanese grammar and semantics not translating well to English. The point is that they don't want to cut out content so they are expanding the series into multiple titles, then adding more. Some minor things may get lost, but they are trying to minimize this to the best of their abilities.
Why some people are so afraid about the Gold Saucer? It's just a normal location with many mini games.
Only things at risk because of the multi release nature are the world map and backtracking.
They might compensate with bigger towns with more stuff to do in it.
Afterall many of FFVII locations were pretty small, often made of a couple of main pre-rendered backgrounds.
I didn't have to wait who knows how many months/years between playing the different discs on the PSone version though.
Trying to not be all knee jerk with my reaction and being like "OMG the plane has crashed into the goddamned mountain!"
Then I read Nomura and Kitase's clarifying remarks and I have to say, I feel a lot better about this decision.
Even though it is not preferable - I'd rather get FFVII in instalments, with nothing cut and some stuff added - rather than a rushed remake with nothing new and a bunch of cut content.
Then I read Nomura and Kitase's clarifying remarks and I have to say, I feel a lot better about this decision.
Even though it is not preferable - I'd rather get FFVII in instalments, with nothing cut and some stuff added - rather than a rushed remake with nothing new and a bunch of cut content.
Trying to compare an early 3D game with movement and stealth to turn based gameplay that is essentially timeless
lol
NinjaCoachZ
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Yeah, I remembered right. Gold Saucer is not getting cut. It's too iconic to the game.
Backtracking and overworld are the main things to be concerned about IMO. Maybe a couple optional dungeons in a worst case scenario. Wasn't there a crashed plane underwater that had something to do with the turks? While not ideeeaal, I'd imagine optional things that don't impact the game too much would be first on the chopping block, if at all, and potentially brought back as DLC. That's just spitballing though! I remain optimistic about the project.
I think some of the minigames are probably on the chopping block, they'll take up way more resources nowadays.
There is giving a shit, but then there is a diarrhoea of diatribe.
Lord Phol
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I personally really really dislike episodic content. I much rather wait a longer time for a complete product than having slices of it once every month/year. Especially so with story heavy games were it's easy to get detached if too much time passes by.
Best scenario in this case I will have to wait 1-3 years more than everyone else to get the complete package. Worst scenario this ends up hurting the overall remake becoming an uneven mismatch of games trying to fit together as a whole.
Best scenario in this case I will have to wait 1-3 years more than everyone else to get the complete package. Worst scenario this ends up hurting the overall remake becoming an uneven mismatch of games trying to fit together as a whole.
meanspartan
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Why?
Square hasnt given me any reason to believe 15 will be good. I guess the MMO is going well so that's cool. But the 13 series was a joke.
DangerMouse
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It didn't really, to me it was just the usual that some bits are obviously not going to be exactly the same judging from the rest of the sentence. Those things being the types of things that were always going to be cut, adjusted, or redone like they said at the beginning.
I agree, they should have addressed this in an English interview too and not just let a Japanese interview get out untranslated. They should know how this information spreads ridiculously fast by now. They need to be more proactive.
Well, FFXIII had an amusement park with no amusements.
I liked what I have seen of XV, from the characters, the story, the music, the world, and the gameplay. Played the demo and loved it.
As much as I love VII, XV has the advantage of being a new game I've yet to experience fully.
Final Fantasy VII Remake Complete Remaster Edition Only on the PlayStation 5
They likely just can't afford to be working on another FF game for a decade with 0 sales. Can't blame them for doing it this way with XV over their heads.
They wanna get paid asap to see if it's worth the investment at all time. I mean that's the company who sold put Tomb Raider as an exclusive on Xbox One so they could cash in some money while still developing the title.
While I agree that this project is in no way comparable to the Witcher 3. What you're putting down here isn't true either.
Yes it does, can somebody with more time on their hands put together something nice.
Missing the point completely.
lol, I shouldn't have expected a decent response based off your previous posts.
Anyways, carry on. I don't need to waste any more time on you.
Gunslinger
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Not happening I am sure. Episodic nature of the game will eliminate that possibility. Highwind will be there as fast travel like ffx-2 airship.
Not sure what you guys are seeing in those interviews that's reassuring.
This is honestly sounding worse and worse every new detail that comes out, and it sounds like each "episode" will be a full priced game so the whole FF7 experience will cost atleast 3 or 4 games. At this rate I'll be cancelling my preorder for what I presume is "FF7 Episode 1" probably this week. This weekend has been such a punch in the gut regarding this game, first it was the game changing genres from turn based to an action RPG, which isn't a big deal in the grand scheme of things compared to the disaster of a news that was announced today.
This is honestly sounding worse and worse every new detail that comes out, and it sounds like each "episode" will be a full priced game so the whole FF7 experience will cost atleast 3 or 4 games. At this rate I'll be cancelling my preorder for what I presume is "FF7 Episode 1" probably this week. This weekend has been such a punch in the gut regarding this game, first it was the game changing genres from turn based to an action RPG, which isn't a big deal in the grand scheme of things compared to the disaster of a news that was announced today.
I would say, out of the 3, gold saucer is guaranteed especially if they're going with the mentality of keeping everything. I mean if they keep the crossdressing, they're gonna keep THAT.
World Map is up in the air, but I think in some sense we will have the location. Either a big zone like in FF XV which will be like...an actual explorable area rather than a big plain. Or they'll just do the retro style. But i think in any case we will have something.
Airship is probably the one i'm the most unsure. Either it will be a hub with a "TEleport to this location's docks" but I doubt we will see a controllable airship over the whole world. There's probably gonna be a compromise there
You have no point, I have never seen a worse analogy in my life.
Because they decided to make it that way, like the rest of the game btw
But here the concern is how the episodic nature could badly impact the game.
It has no impact on the Gold Saucer at all.
Gambling. Thanks Europe!
The only "CG" in that trailer were the cuts from the announcement trailer, the new cutscenes were real-time.
Dude, the gameplay may be timeless in your eyes but that just means you're certainly stuck in time.
I see two ways.
1. They won't let you progress to part 2 without completing part 1. Your save carries over.
2. They allow you to use a preset character for part 2 if you don't have part 1.
This is basically how I look at it.
Before this news we had no idea when FF VII Remake was going to release. No earlier than 2017 would've been assumed. Maybe as late at as 2018? 2019? We don't know.
For people who were planning on waiting that long anyway, they can still pick up the full game down the line with everything that they want to do for the remake, intact, including the new content. No major cuts would be necessary and we would have a more complete game, instead of complaints after release where people say it was rushed and it needed more time in the oven.
For everyone else, we will experience FF VII Remake sooner, even if it's not the whole thing at first. But hopefully each part is long enough, has a good amount of content, and is ultimately satisfying.
TatteredHat
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Figures things were going to be too good to be true.
My interest is deflating at an alarming rate.
My interest is deflating at an alarming rate.
LookAtMeGo
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You could always grab that remaster if you want to play FF7 again with nicer graphics.
Nocturno999
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It's taking them forever to release a decent game.
The PC port of FF VII for the PS4 took them 1 year, maybe more.
Timeless in my eyes? It's a turn based RPG which are timeless by nature and this guy's trying to compare it to an early 3d game focused on stealth.
Basically. This is the episode where Squeenix kisses my ass.
DangerMouse
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Yup, pretty much the entire thing was all real-time.
The Silver
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Solid release schedule? good joke bruh