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[yodine53]

There are a lot of perfect and high scores. GoTY candidate confirmed.

 

[Hideous Snake]

Just like what I expected. How long is the first part?

 

[DonJorginho]

Just like what I expected. How long is the first part?

25 hours if you just do main story and power through.

30 hours if you do some side content.

40-45 hours if you do everything.

 

[-Arcadia-]

Just played the demo.

Very, very late to the party, but my review is that this is pretty much going to be the most awesome thing ever.

 

[Hideous Snake]

25 hours if you just do main story and power through.

30 hours if you do some side content.

40-45 hours if you do everything.

Oh thats great for just a part! Thank you mate

 

[Bryank75]

 

[Birdo]

Anyone who gives ANY game a 10/10 loses all credibility to me.

I wouldn't even give my favorite game of all time a 10/10.

 

[Hideous Snake]

Anyone who gives ANY game a 10/10 loses all credibility to me.

I wouldn't even give my favorite game of all time a 10/10.

And why is that?

 

[Birdo]

And why is that?

There are NO games without faults. NONE. Even legendary games like Super Mario Bros. have their little issues. No game is a 10/10.

10/10 is a marketing gimmik to put on the box. That's all.

 

[Hideous Snake]

Great review as always by Karak

 

[Hideous Snake]

There are NO games without faults. NONE. Even legendary games like Super Mario Bros. have their little issues. No game is a 10/10.

10/10 is a marketing gimmik to put on the box. That's all.

Yeah but if the faults are minor and doesn't ruin the experience then I find no problem in that.

 

[Ellery]

Roughly where I expected it to be. It is very hard for a remake + episodic game to get an extremely high score.

Gonna play it all weekend

 

[HotPocket69]

Going to watch it now. So glad you don't do soy face youtube thumbnails. Most of the FF7 reviews on youtube have soy face thumbnails

Yeah, I much prefer ACG's long winded metaphors and Dennis Miller-isms

 

[ethomaz]

it should not be an episodic game.
SE added too much filler to the game that end breaking the pace.

 

[HotPocket69]

There are NO games without faults. NONE. Even legendary games like Super Mario Bros. have their little issues. No game is a 10/10.

10/10 is a marketing gimmik to put on the box. That's all.

Wrong. RE4 is a 10/10

 

[Hostile_18]

Great reviews... 88 on metacritic.

I mean between Persona 5 Royal, Dreams, Doom Eternal, Nioh 2, MLB The Show, Resident Evil 3 and this.... it's a good fucking time on PS4.

Let's take a moment for our fallen brothers who couldnt make the party; Last of Us and Cyberpunk

 

[GymWolf]

Where the hell is @D.Final ?

probably writing a wall of text trying to explain how the fanfiction bullshit plot change make absolute sense and we are in for a treat.

 

[Bryank75]

 

[Werewolf Jones]

Please don't fall for these perfect numbers. No way is one segment of a full game stretched out a 10.

 

[anab0lic]

Final Fantasy games just are not Final Fantasy games to me without the turn based combat systems.... this games looks like it did away with that to cater to the attention deficit disorder generation.

 

[Bryank75]

Final Fantasy games just are not Final Fantasy games to me without the turn based combat systems.... this games looks like it did away with that to cater to the attention deficit disorder generation.

Just turn on classic mode... it's still there.

 

[Virex]

Yeah, I much prefer ACG's long winded metaphors and Dennis Miller-isms

ACG does it too much at times and it gets old pretty quick

 

[-Arcadia-]

There are NO games without faults. NONE. Even legendary games like Super Mario Bros. have their little issues. No game is a 10/10.

10/10 is a marketing gimmik to put on the box. That's all.

This is the 'tism striking. I know, because it's struck me before in the same manner.

A 10/10 experience is not mathematical perfection with no flaws. It's just something so wonderful, you feel that it's at the uppermost bounds of what's even possible. Communicating that in a review is far more important than taking some weird stand on rating perfection.

Indeed, if that perfection will never exist, why even factor it into a review system? Who is even expecting a review system to function around this metric?

In a ten number system, it makes sense to use the final number to simply represent something truly amazing, that should be turning heads everywhere in the hobby. That's all.

 

[anab0lic]

Just turn on classic mode... it's still there.

it will be some half baked, thrown in at the end, worked on by some intern, not fully realized/fleshed out mode.

 

[-Arcadia-]

Final Fantasy games just are not Final Fantasy games to me without the turn based combat systems.... this games looks like it did away with that to cater to the attention deficit disorder generation.

I just played the demo with that exact mindset. It blew me away. Seriously.

It recreates the depth, and then some, of the classic RPGs in real-time. It even has a few ideas from Nintendo's Xenoblade, re: staggers and such. The boss that I played was genuinely one of the most satisfying enemy encounters I've had in a videogame in a long time.

 

[HotPocket69]

ACG does it too much at times and it gets old pretty quick

Yeah it's why stopped watching them awhile ago

 

[RPGCrazied]

Looking good to me. Did I really just read in this thread it has bad voice acting? I must have played the wrong demo because I think its fantastic. Also did I read techincal issues like ugly textures? Again I must've played the wrong demo because at least on PRO it looks great. I didn't see any muddy texture at all.

 

[HotPocket69]

Looking good to me. Did I really just read in this thread it has bad voice acting? I must have played the wrong demo because I think its fantastic. Also did I read techincal issues like ugly textures? Again I must've played the wrong demo because at least on PRO it looks great. I didn't see any muddy texture at all.

No they're there. You'll see muddy textures galore. GET HYPE!

 

[saintjules]

Thanks to the spoiler thread, it's kind of been fun checking some of these to see which reviewers actually finish games before reviewing or which ones even played the original, thanks to some key phrases.

Funny how some people were giving reviews with only finishing half the content.

 

[GymWolf]

Just turn on classic mode... it's still there.

if it is like the demo it's only on easy mode and i heard that normal mode is already a cake walk if not for some bosses.

 

[mejin]

finally the wait is over

 

[Virex]

I just want Tifa's thighs wrapped around my face

 

[Fuz]

Any of those shills pointed out it's not a remake but a reimagining?

 

[saintjules]

if it is like the demo it's only on easy mode and i heard that normal mode is already a cake walk if not for some bosses.

Was hoping Hard Mode was available right out of the gate, but on the other hand, it gives a good incentive to play it for the second time.

 

[-Arcadia-]

Coming from Switch, I didn't notice any blurry textures.

 

[GymWolf]

Was hoping Hard Mode was available right out of the gate, but on the other hand, it gives a good incentive to play it for the second time.

except i hate this modern practise of locking harder difficulty under some bullshit requisite.
let me play the first and most significant run (and probably only one) at the max difficulty, especially if the game on normal is piss easy like i heard...


worst modern gaming practise ever.

did you know the percentage of people who make second run on 40+ hours game? is probably less than 5% total if you consider than 50% of people don't even complete the game the first time...

 

[Hideous Snake]

Any of those shills pointed out it's not a remake but a reimagining?

It still applies under a remake. No?

 

[Javthusiast]

What's this I hear about shitty Kingdom Hearts styled story elements invading this remake?

 

[anab0lic]

Was hoping Hard Mode was available right out of the gate, but on the other hand, it gives a good incentive to play it for the second time.

Its ridiculous that developers do this... it essentially says to me that 'you must endure 20+ hours of mind numbing sleep inducing easy gameplay, until you get to play a game that offers any sort of challenge to overcome'... Its an instant: no thanks, don't waste my fucking time from me.

 

[JimmyJones]

Final Fantasy games just are not Final Fantasy games to me without the turn based combat systems.... this games looks like it did away with that to cater to the attention deficit disorder generation.

They did the same thing to Resident Evil. I feel your pain.

 

[GymWolf]

It still applies under a remake. No?

from a remake you expect same story and maybe some additions to explain characters\location better etc. not a fucking reimagining of fanfic tier level...

that is not how you make one if not the most hyped remake of all time.

 

[GymWolf]

They did the same thing to Resident Evil. I feel your pain.

re2 on hard strikes a good balance between old and new imo and i'm not even a huge fan of that remake.

 

[Carna]

Keep the spoiler related complains in the spoiler thread guys, and when the official topic comes out on release day.

 

[Fuz]

It still applies under a remake. No?

No.

 

[DonJorginho]

People are confusing man.

Meltdown if it scores well, meltdown if it scores bad.

 

[JimmyJones]

re2 on hard strikes a good balance between old and new imo and i'm not even a huge fan of that remake.

Nah fam.

 

[Hideous Snake]

from a remake you expect same story and maybe some additions to explain characters\location better etc. not a fucking reimagining of fanfic tier level...

that is not how you make one if not the most hyped remake of all time.

No.

Yes it does. I don't care how they approached it but thats a remake

Or reboot in this case?

 

[Fuz]

Yes it does. I don't care how they approached it but thats a remake

No.

 

[Hideous Snake]

No.

Let me know when you wanna have a proper discussion

 

[GHG]

I'm conflicted.

Really want to play this, the perfect time to do so while this coronavirus stuff is going on.

However ideally I'd like to wait for the inevitable PC version since I'm not convinced about Sony's stance on backwards compatibility next gen.

Will mull over it a bit but if impressions are as strong as the reviews then my resolve will be tested, the demo was splendid.