Squeenix Final Fantasy VII Remake Integrade - now on Steam

[Mozg]

His hair is still too stylized, not sure if fits the story.

"This is a dangerous mission, but first I'm going to stop by the hairdresser"

The spiky hair shounen guy like Goku was originally just shorthand for making them out to be wild high-energy boys with unkempt hair. When it's transposed onto realistic 3D models and it doesn't mutate into different shapes in every stylized 2D comic book frame it's cargo cult stuff.

 

[Hobo Elf]

http://www.dualshockers.com/2015/12/21/413208/

The date event will be fully voiced, but due to changes in the social situation certain scenes have to be implemented carefully, like the Honey Bee Inn.

We all knew this was coming.

 

[Damned Registrations]

That rant had absolutely nothing to do with Turn-Based Combat and was instead about the common failing of battles being boring because you can heal faster than the enemy can damage you without ever running out of the resources to power that.

I think I would grade him an F on that essay for making the amateur mistake of not actually making points to support your thesis.

Pretty much. His complaint is about a legit problem, but that problem isn't turn based gameplay but rather bottomless healing resources. Games that either limit inventory harshly or balance healing properly don't have this problem. It's not even terribly difficult to balance- it's simply a matter of ensuring that healing during combat is more powerful than damage taken (otherwise it'd be useless) but limited by mana pools or scarce resources. Though imo healing outside of combat should be made scarce as well, so that attrition becomes a problem over the course of a dungeon. Lots of old jrpgs did this just fine, before putting save/rest points right before every boss fight came into vogue (no doubt due to shitty players wasting their resources on the way to the boss and then complaining of having to do the 'trivial' dungeon all over again that they fucked up the first time so badly they had nothing left for the boss.)

Ironically, FF1 (where he bitches about Warmech) was balanced pretty well in this regard; considering it let you build whatever kind of party you wanted from the available classes and some of those could be pretty gimped. But you could easily have something like a team of black mages that are far better off burning down a bosses with high powred spells rather than using shitty healing items, and even a team with healers on it could easily be running low on available spells by the time the boss showed up.

 

[ColCol]

http://gematsu.com/2015/12/final-fantasy-vii-remake-part-one-scenario-complete

As previously announced, Final Fantasy VII Remake is being broken up into parts as the density of the original game would not allow a remake to fit into a single release, according to Square Enix.

• They want add delver further into Biggs, Wedge, and Jessie.

It sounds like this is getting the Hobbit treatment, secondary characters getting their own arcs that either have no meaningful impact on the story or end up retconning stuff, just to pad out the playtime in each environment, to suit the episodic format.

Always fun to develop characters everyone knows are doomed.

 

[Genma:TheDestroyer]

http://www.dualshockers.com/2015/12/21/413208/

The date event will be fully voiced, but due to changes in the social situation certain scenes have to be implemented carefully, like the Honey Bee Inn.

We all knew this was coming.

"Yes, it's true; this company has no dick."

 

[Blaine]

Final Fantasy VII is one of the shittiest Final Fantasy titles, and people who hold it in high regard are retarded, period. Notice: If you're preparing to quote this sentence and argue the point, please be aware that a smirk and a slight, indulgent shake of the head will be my only response. I may also add that sucking air through the teeth noise that truculent black people do, but I'm not making any promises.

However, even VII doesn't deserve this sacrilegious mistreatment, particularly when it comes to "being sensitive" about the cross-dressing scene. Square and Enix were wonderful developers in their heydays, and even Square-Enix turned out some good games, but they're so far over the shark at this point that they've nearly circumnavigated the entire globe and are on course to jump over the same shark a second time.

 

[Hobo Elf]

http://en.yibada.com/articles/108654/20160310/final-fantasy-7-remake-rumors.htm

LIGHTNING
GOES
INTO
EVERYTHING

WE NEED MORE LIGHTNING!! EVERYONE LOVES LIGHTNING!!

 

[nil]

FROM STORMY CLOUDS
A LIGHTNING STRIKES

Spoiler

 

[Grimlorn]

WHAT THE FUCK!!

Japan's so crazy. It's funny because Lightning was created to just be female version of Cloud.

 

[Melcar]

Will they have sex with each other?

 

[Siveon]

If they do fuck, would that count as incest?

 

[vonAchdorf]

I really don't get why Lightning is that popular (or SE thinks that she is popular). She's probably in the "popular for being popular" phase already.

 

[Tehdagah]

I really don't get why Lightning is that popular (or SE thinks that she is popular). She's probably in the "popular for being popular" phase already.

For the same reason bishonen is popular I guess.

 

[Talby]

I've got to hand it to Square Enix, ever since they announced this remake they've been very diligent about fucking it up in as many ways as possible.

 

[Bastion]

I really don't get why Lightning is that popular (or SE thinks that she is popular). She's probably in the "popular for being popular" phase already.

Because kids can easily identify with Lighting? You know, pink hair, low IQ and the personality which is so common in Japanese cartoons (this game is like a cartoon anyway).

 

[Duraframe300]

Random Neogaf comment

I'd be into tonnes of streamlining, honestly. No real grinding (just hide secrets or additional challenges off the main path), streamline or cut aspects of the battle system and/or materia, node-based "over world," and so on.

 

[Whisky]

I really don't get why Lightning is that popular (or SE thinks that she is popular). She's probably in the "popular for being popular" phase already.

She's not, but the art director is in love with her:

 

[Jacob]

Random Neogaf comment

I'd be into tonnes of streamlining, honestly. No real grinding (just hide secrets or additional challenges off the main path), streamline or cut aspects of the battle system and/or materia, node-based "over world," and so on.

But how to streamline a game as simple as FF VII really.
Seriously, the battle system will probably be more complex since ATB is much more simple than many action game, materia is one of the most simple customization system in FF game, and probably they'll use open world or connected maps for the game world (Do we have any info for this already?)

 

[SionIV]

I'm a game collector of certain series, and Final Fantasy is one of them. I have every Final Fantasy game with the exception of the online ones, and I even have different copies of the same game (Steam, PS1, PC). To me the last Final Fantasy that stole my breath was IX, though I did love the combat and gameplay in 10. There have been awesome Final Fantasy games (VI, IX) and there have been good Final Fantasy games (VII, VIII, X), a few mediocre Final Fantasy games (Dirge of Cerberus, Crisis Core) and then there have been terrible Final Fantasy games (FFXIII, FFX-2, FFXII) but they are all on my shelf none the less.

For the first time in all the 20 years of collecting games from the Final Fantasy series, I'm not going to buy a game. God knows that I've bought some shit games to complete a series (Resident Evil : Operation Racoon City, Alone in the Dark on the Xbox360) but this time I have to put down my foot and not buy it out of principle. They are butchering everything that I liked about the game, and turning it into a 'new' linear game that cost 60x3 fucking euro. There is a reason that the game was so acclaimed back then, and it sure as hell wasn't because of linearity, censoring content, costing a fortune or going away from Turn Based Combat.

SquareEnix somehow keep surprising me in how far they can fall. I though it was bad when FFX-2 was released, then I was furious when FFXII was released. They fell so far that when FFXIII was released, I didn't even care anymore, any respect and excitement I had for their games was gone. Even after the third release of Lightning, I was indifferent. But this, this is just too much, I've gone from indifferent to disgusted. They have fallen to a new low, even further than EA and Blizzard and I will NOT support them anymore. I hope that they remove 'Square' from their name, so that the kids that are growing up now won't think of Final Fantasy XIII or Final Fantasy VII remake when they hear it, or they won't ever find the beautiful gems that are Final Fantasy VI and IX.

And to the people out there that are excited about Final Fantasy VII Remake, I would like to share my opinion on your character. You have a shit taste in games, and both the gaming industry and the gene pool would take a sigh of relief if you suffocated on your Fallout 4 CD and died a most painful death, you worthless shit.

 

[Makabb]

There have been awesome Final Fantasy games (VI, IX) and there have been good Final Fantasy games (VII, VIII, X), a few mediocre Final Fantasy games (Dirge of Cerberus, Crisis Core) and then there have been terrible Final Fantasy games (FFXIII, FFX-2, FFXII) but they are all on my shelf none the less.

I guess there are two kind of FF people, those that think that VI and IX are best and those that think that VII is best and IX and VI are only good. I'm in the VII boat, but we all agree that FF's post X are shit.

 

[Perkel]

You may not remember but already X was shitty game due to how linear everything was. FFXIII was basically sequel to design on FFX. Only difference was that it didn't have a map like FFXIII so people didn't notice it that much.

Only thing it rescued it was battle system

 

[Caim]

So the remake of VII will be "improved to fit modern design sensibilities" and not just have the visuals improved, voice acting added and the like?

And into the trash it goes, then.

 

[Siveon]

So the remake of VII will be "improved to fit modern design sensibilities" and not just have the visuals improved, voice acting added and the like?

And into the trash it goes, then.

Late to the party. When was the last time a remake just updated the presentation of a game, anyway?

 

[Makabb]

You may not remember but already X was shitty game due to how linear everything was. FFXIII was basically sequel to design on FFX. Only difference was that it didn't have a map like FFXIII so people didn't notice it that much.

Only thing it rescued it was battle system

FF X might be linear, but the storyline atleast is 50 hours long.

 

[Perkel]

You may not remember but already X was shitty game due to how linear everything was. FFXIII was basically sequel to design on FFX. Only difference was that it didn't have a map like FFXIII so people didn't notice it that much.

Only thing it rescued it was battle system

FF X might be linear, but the storyline atleast is 50 hours long.

FFXIII takes about 30-40 hours just to get to Pulse which is where linearity finally goes away a bit. To finish game you are looking at 60-70 hours. I did Pulse stuff and finished in ~90 hours but didn't finish all in Pulse.