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[Kyoufu]

FFVIIR-1, FFVIIR-2, and FFVIIR-3 incoming.

$180 total to have the entire FFVII story.

It's this generation's FFXIII.

Except it most likely won't be shit.

 

[GeordieMark]

How big is a full size game anyway? That's kinda vague.

 

[bryt]

Just take my money already Square. So excited for this

 

[The Last One]

The world-map is quite big... Towns are not. Even Midgar, which is ideally quite big, is not that huge in the game.

They'll expand Midgar, already confirmed. Guess this will be true for the whole game.

 

[BY2K]

Imagine if each parts has its own trophy pack with a Platinum for each.

 

[JeffZero]

You guys know that disc 3 pretty much just had the final dungeon on it, right?

I've been posting that like 15-20 times over the past 12 hours, lol.

Seems a lot of people forgot.

 

[Canis lupus]

Heh I just said this

Disappointing, damped my hype quite a bit. Just hope they don't spread it too thin, I don't wanna buy a disc with 4-5 hour worth of content.

3 discs, 10-12 hour content, 3-6 month cycle would be bearable.

 

[TheJollyCorner]

That's what I figured.

Final Fantasy VII is now a franchise of its own.

Again.

Yup.
Verendus said as much a year ago after the PSX '14 troll.

 

[omonimo]

The GAF drama queens will still make a 20 page thread about how this sucks

Well it could be a good excuse to full charge every episode so I'm officially a a GAF drama queen now.

 

[studyguy]

FFVII fully voiced and realized into current gen is going to be one long as fuck game....
If this blows up I fully expect them to do the same for VIII and IX, I for one am ok with that.

People will bitch, but they'll still fall over themselves to buy it.

 

[Jarmel]

$60 episodes incoming

 

[evilr]

3 games at 60 each is probably as far as they could go until people got a bit annoyed with it.
They could maybe push a 4th game that reuses assets from all 3 for a new Zach game if they wanted.

For some reason I believe there will be. After the main story, it cuts to Cloud on his bike in the snow, riding to see Rufus. Ala Advent Children.

They'll revamp it and have Advent Children as playable as an epilogue.

I beat you!

 

[TatteredHat]

Of a full game, but not of the full game.

It's still shit.

 

[shadow2810]

So basically nothing news. A full game can be between few hours to hundred hours. They just tried to dodge how many episodes question.

 

[AntMurda]

I really don't understand how people assumed otherwise. We've seen Square do the X same series sequels for a decade now.

 

[jackdoe]

I wonder how much redundant world map data is going to be carried over from part to part. I could see each part containing "ten hours of new story content", but shares the same assets as each previous part. Which sounds a hell of a lot like DLC. Only it will probably $60 DLC, $80 in Japan.

 

[Arnie7]

What a shit storm.

 

[Guymelef]

I'm curious how are they going to divide the overworld.
Please, wait one year to access Fort Condor.

 

[Ghost Slayer]

Remember to equip Water Ring for the last boss.

I can see them adding normal Sephiroth as episode 1 final boss. When you about to land your final hit, he will be an asshole and try to escape

 

[damn that's nice]

That's what I figured.

Final Fantasy VII is now a franchise of its own.

Again.

Yeah, that's how I saw this too.

 

[Jarmel]

You guys know that disc 3 pretty much just had the final dungeon on it, right?

They'll revamp it and have Advent Children as playable as an epilogue.

 

[WickedLaharl]

So each part will be the size of The Witcher 3? Awesome

 

[Japanmanx3]

.Hack strategy. I'll play this game. For sure.

 

[mocolostrocolos]

Of course, Full sized game, no Full sized RPG.

FF VII is like 10 Halo 5 full-sized campaigns.

So, 30 The Orders full gameplay.

 

[JeffZero]

They'll revamp it and have Advent Children as playable as an epilogue.

Lawdy, I hope not.

Spoiler

I have a really huge pet peeve toward Rufus surviving that blast.

 

[NinjaCoachZ]

The world-map is quite big... Towns are not. Even Midgar, which is ideally quite big, is not that huge in the game.

You're right that Midgar was definitely the one truly large-scale one but I remember Wutai, Junon, and Nibelheim being pretty big, among others. And even then they said Midgar's being expanded, so some others definitely could be.

The other thing is that there's a loooooooot of them.

Plus there's also things like the underwater sections to take into account, if they're still in.

You guys know that disc 3 pretty much just had the final dungeon on it, right?

That's why I don't think it's going to be split exactly where each disc ends, definitely. The first two discs are long enough (esp Disc 1) that they could slot some reasonable end points in there somewhere. Like, everything that goes on at the Whirlwind Maze is pretty climactic, so's the return to the Nibelheim flashback...

 

[chefbags]

For some reason I believe there will be. After the main story, it cuts to Cloud on his bike in the snow, riding to see Rufus. Ala Advent Children.

Would be dope. I'd be down for that.

 

[Kouichi]

I expected as much. It's FFVII.

 

[Triggerhappytel]

Kinda what should have been expected, considering they did the same thing with FFX and FFXIII.

What do you mean they did the same thing with FFX?!

 

[Somnid]

You guys need to stop worrying about size and start worrying more about SE's ability to deliver anything in a timely manner.

 

[daveo42]

You guys know that disc 3 pretty much just had the final dungeon on it, right?

Disc 2 is relatively short as well in comparison to Disc 1. I could easily see Disc 1 being split out into three or four separate games easy.

 

[Seven Force]

I've been posting that like 15-20 times over the past 12 hours, lol.

Seems a lot of people forgot.

If the last few threads are any indication, a lot of people don't remember FFVII as well as they think they do.

 

[TimmiT]

So basically nothing news. A full game can be between few hours to hundred hours. They just tried to dodge how many episodes question.

How many full RPGs have you played that were only a few hours long? Cause I kinda doubt that they mean that the games will be that short.

 

[kayos90]

So.... Like Golden Sun?

 

[E92 M3]

Won't be able to use Knights of the Round until 2025......

 

[Canis lupus]

So, 30 The Orders full gameplay.

I've heard Halo 5 is as short as The Order 1886, so 30 Halo 5 campaigns.

 

[Crazyorloco]

Of course, Full sized game, no Full sized RPG.

FF VII is like 10 Halo 5 full-sized campaigns.

This is what I'm thinking. This damn generation.

 

[Juraash]

I was holding off on posting about this until we got some more info. That said, I'm not hating this plan. If it sort of becomes 1 episode = 1 disc plus more a fleshed out story and world for that segment...I'm down.

Blizzard did the same thing technically with StarCraft II and that wound up being a thoroughly enjoyable experience, for me at least.

For VII I may try and wait it out until all the parts are out there before playing. We'll see what the release schedule winds up being and how many installments we're looking at.

 

[entremet]

Why do people keep bring up the disc model of the original game?

This is gonna is gonna be a complete revamp, new scenarios, sections, etc.

Stop bringing up that paradigm. It won't be accurate for FFVIIr at all.

It's essentially separate games so that's a huge wildcard. All we know is that they will be adding expanded content.

We have no idea how the parts or games will be divided yet. Using the original as a barometer is foolish.

 

[Regulus Tera]

Spin baby spin

 

[chozen]

It will be fully complete by 2019 people. Development started late 2014, its a 5 year project.

 

[Richie]

A single part dedicated entirely to the crossdressing affair, calling it, what a cover that'll be

 

[JeffZero]

Disc 1 is ~60% of the game.
Disc 2 is ~36% of the game.
Disc 3 is ~4% of the game.

That's always been my experience, FYI; and I have spent days on end envisioning my favorite games as TV shows/movies, so please be excited and take my word as Great Gospel.

 

[Shadow Broker]

So they're dividing up the original game and selling them in parts?

What's their idea of a full size game? 20 hours? 15 hours?

So three 20 hours games for 60$ each? I'm skeptical of this. I love Final Fantasy 7 but this is a wait and see for me.

 

[Pancake Mix]

So The Hobbit in video game form. If it has the content of 3 full games say, then okay...

Nomura and Square Enix can be pretty ambitious with FF. I look forward to an intensely detailed looking project.

I don't want to see this happen with FFXVI but I think they'd just do the normal sequel instead.

 

[SpacePirate Ridley]

How many Xenoblades, Xenoblades X and Witchers 3 is that?

Its funny people are eating SE excuse to sell them a game for 180 dollars divided in parts of 20 hours (at most) intead of 60 dollars full RPG experience, saying the original was massive.

Massive, really? There has been so many RPGs, even from them, with the size of what could be a fully 3D FFVII, the excuse is stupid as hell.
It sounds just like, "but its to hard to make 3D towns guys!"

 

[hosannainexcelsis]

So basically nothing news. A full game can be between few hours to hundred hours. They just tried to dodge how many episodes question.

Square-Enix probably don't know themselves yet how many games they will end up making here. And while it's true that game length times vary, I don't think there's any reason right now to believe that by "full-sized game" they mean "a Call of Duty single-player campaign."

 

[Ploid 3.0]

The GAF drama queens will still make a 20 page thread about how this sucks

I really dislike comments like these. It only incite arguments. It's more constructive to instead explain to people that can only see the bad, why they shouldn't worry and be hopeful. Show them what you see, difuse the "drama queens" with facts.

This thread OP kinda tilts me into a positive, but now I need to know what a Full Game is to the person that made the comment, or PR person. I still need to know if overworld will be sacrificed, and if at all 3 games will we be able to go to all locations or will certain locations be locked to their specific episode* (game, or whatever).

I highly can't see them making not 1 but 3 Final Fantasy 7 games. I still think it's split. FF13, 13-2, and 13-3 were 3 games for sure.

 

[°°ToMmY°°]

expected really, if you think of all the locations in ff7, recreating them in 3d and with todays standard would result in a game with the budget of a huge mmo.

 

[Guymelef]

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