Final Fantasy 7 Remake AKA I'm Buying a Ps4

Can this game alone expand the PS4 base by some millions of units? I think yes.

If they are remaking and not just porting, they can remove loading screens, make all battles skip the screen flash effect and even make the whole world load seamlessly without having to resort to world map with miniature locations scattered through the map. And rebalance the whole game: damage caps, curses, life, etc.

F! Ye...aw! reaction.

Don't believe this thread hasn't been updated in nearly 5 years.

Anyway, new trailer:

This moins incredible really. The shinra top brass are really well done.

It looks incredible

lol, and they say Kojima's games are strange. I have no idea what the fuck I just watched.

Guy wearing a dress, furries, big birds, fat bald dudes drinking tea, talking wolves..... okay. lol

Big bird... please they are called Chocobos ?

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4 hours ago, ElectroSheep said: Big bird... please they are called Chocobos ?

Aye, that's what they were called in FF15, right?

Which is also something that I never understood with this franchise, every game exists in its own enclosed universe, but they do share some commonalities? How does that work?

Yeah there is no link between the games except the bestiary and sometimes character names. It's the same with Zelda and Breath of Fire for example.

Chocobos are a mascotte to the serie but are considered like horses (you even have chocobo races haha).

And about the talking wolf, he is my favorite character of the serie

this year will be the only one where I play more than one game on my ps4 lol

It's crazy how much effort they put on the first part of this intro when they didn't even need to do it at first. But it really brings life and texture to Midgar.

It's funny, I don't know about you guys, but It's so god damn obvious when in some games, you can tell the team behind poured their hearts and souls into it. Your human instinct can absolutely tell, and you can tell the people behind this seriously cared about the original game's legacy. Just as much as the guys that made RE2 Remake.

Picked up my copy today, it’s too good. Gonna be GOTY for me I’m sure. Absolutely LOVE finding entirely new gear, bosses etc. Must buy/10.

Yeah I'm about 6 hours in and having a blast with this, I just want to play more!

It's way more "anime" than the original now they've got the budget and modern day effects to pull it off, there's lot of people doing crazy moves, but it's a Japanese RPG so I can overlook that. Midgar is absolutely gorgeous and I love exploring it. Running around the slums and looking up at the plates above really helps sell the scale of the place.

Get it!

Aight half-way or so in, here’s my honest opinion.

Things I really like: excellent combat and excellent sound design. This is where the remake really flexes on the original. The original story beats are re-imagined in a great way. Monster design is great. The game looks good and runs great on an old ps4.

Things I don’t like: the world building is OK. I don’t buy the slums at all. All the NPC’s look upper middle class. The whole place looks gentrified rather than oppressed. Super weird. It’s like the NPC’s were ported from FF15. I think they should’ve gone hard on the 90’s punk aesthetic instead, and way less cheerful.

The new content and story beats are inconsistent in quality. Sometimes they feel like typical anime (big emphasis here) filler episodes, which I would enjoy even less if this wasn’t FF7. Cloud even complains about it being boring, making the game appear self-aware. Weird design decision..

Assets and texel density are WILDLY inconsistent in quality. Looks rushed in some areas.

There’s still hope for the remaining new content to blow me away, but I don’t see my other points changing.

I feel like an 8/10 is justified.

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11 hours ago, grapen said:

Assets and texel density are WILDLY inconsistent in quality. Looks rushed in some areas.

Sounds like every other Final Fantasy

I'm really tempted to get this, especially for the art, but I won't have time to play it

Been playing it for a while and agree with the points above. I think it is a streaming issue on vanilla ps4 that is causing the texel density being all over the place. And yeah all the NPC's in the slums looks like something they bought in an asset pack or something, looks like actors from a mid-budget tv-show hehe. The music is excellent though, hooks you right in