Didn't we see the Chocobo Chick summon being used on a regular enemy in the last trailer?
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Hot take. This is a more interesting system than summons just being super powerful spells that you can use any time.
On the subject of sidequests:
I'm really curious if Yuffie and Vincent will still be optional party members
No, but I'll wait for PC.
Even the haters like myself are going to get it to see if we're (hopefully) wrong so I highly doubt it lol.
I'm hoping I get to wear a Giant L on my forehead after the game comes out. I really do. But just for "popcorn action flick" levels of graphic fidelity the game will sell millions alone. It's a looker and has one of the biggest names behind it in the business of one of the most popular RPGs. Nothing I say or do would deter people lol.
I would assume new guy is 1st because he's wearing black and the uniforms are pretty...uh...uniform across anything lower than 1st class. That being said I could be wrong. They're probably going to put him opposed to cloud to take all the subtlety out of Cloud not really being in SOLDIER away, since the other dialogue that I've seen supports such.
WEAPON should stay as WEAPON was, but Sephiroth is already being jerked around to being AC:Seph so I have no faith in this writing team for that.
Aeris's development is well built across the beginning of the game. Sure they could flesh it out a bit but I don't think we needed ghosts fighting her or scaring her to nail that story beat. This girl was seeing dead people at age 8 when her adoptive mother's husband died in Wutai. I think the game assumes you're intelligent enough to deduce that she starts embracing her "gift" the minute they have the dialogue about the Promised Land when they're all caught in Shinra HQ and talking through the walls.
That being said they could build up her talking to the planet more sure, but I think the City of Ancients is where we would do that, since that's where a big part of her plot is and where she makes the decisions after the Black Materia fiasco.
EDIT: Sidenote Elena isn't allowed to even be a turk until Reno is hurt, but the compilation kinda murkied up those waters so who knows.
They will almost certainly be mandatory in later games.
I sowish this was releasing on PC simultaneously.
Really? Oof, not sure if I care for that. Though again, I'm not sure how feasible it would be for Ifrit to show up in some cramped space and try to find random grunts.
To be a bit more clear, he said bosses "and powerful enemies" so it appears that it's not just bosses. Not sure what would classify a "powerful enemy" though.
Pitioss is one of the coolest experiences I've had in a Final Fantasy game. I hope the VII Remake incorporates something crazy like that.
This is why summons should just be cutscenes instead of stupid NPC guests.
You're right will update previous post with that additional info.
Pitioss is AMAZING. A shame so many people missed it just because there's no trophy tied to it.
Cool. Though the sidequest screens make me groan a little bit. I know, it's expected.
It's funny, as during the SNES and PSX era, whenever there was a sidequest, it was like, "cool!" But these last two gens have really sucked the life out of doing side quests in an rpg.
My hope is that they at least try and include interesting flavor text, with some development of character involved. At least, on some of them.
I agree. The cool stuff like this made up for all the other generic quests in the game. I hope FF VII does something similar. There's an easy way to do it, you make a cool, intense dungeon for Knights of the Round.
It's funny, as during the SNES and PSX era, whenever there was a sidequest, it was like, "cool!" But these last two gens have really sucked the life out of doing side quests in an rpg.
My hope is that they at least try and include interesting flavor text, with some development of character involved. At least, on some of them.
I agree. The cool stuff like this made up for all the other generic quests in the game. I hope FF VII does something similar. There's an easy way to do it, you make a cool, intense dungeon for Knights of the Round.
It's not like the summons from the OG FFVII were that silly for the early ones.
Right, but this sets a terrible precedent for shit like Bahamut Zero or KOTR.
And that's precisely the reasoning. I frankly hated the eidolons in FFXIII and while XV's summons were spectacular, it was basically an IWIN button every fight that was only randomly usable. You basically just needed to get hurt and walk around avoiding the enemies long enough to summon.
Contrast that style with VII OG where the summons weren't particularly powerful up until Bahamut, but the MP use was prohibitively expensive so it was saved for bosses anyway.
Where people are going to get upset with this is the lack of freedom to blow that MP on say, a group of sahagins if they choose to do so.
lol trying to imagine KOTR all on the battlefield attacking a boss
Exactly. It's either going to look really stupid or be so toned down it won't even feel like KOTR at all anymore.
Hard disagree here. This makes summons actually feel like a separate mechanic from spells, which they should be since the concept is entirely different. Summons got better once they became something more than "flashy, powerful spells". Also, from the released Aps gameplay, we can see that the cinematic element of the summons is still there once their summon time expires.
By the time we get them it will be in a open world \open space .
Plus if the later summon in this game have more silly enders it won't be a problem .
They can just say some summons don't join in battle for the later parts.
This game has not ceased to amaze me yet.
PLEASE BE FUCKING GOOD
I'm gonna play as Aerith the whole game!
PLEASE BE FUCKING GOOD
I'm gonna play as Aerith the whole game!
I don't mind they can join you in fights, but I mind how restrictive they are regarding what kinda fights they are allowed to participate in. Summons should be able to appear in ALL fights. They should also be expensive MP-wise. The choice is whether to allow a summon join you should be left up TO YOU, manually. If YOU want them to participate in a normal battle, that should be YOUR choice. By doing so, you are also fine in wasting so much MP on such a small skirmish, but still, that should be YOUR CHOICE.
It BETTER be. One thing I hoped for, with a first game being solely dedicated to Midgar, is the expanding of areas to explore. If they add new areas, they could also map unique quests TO those areas. Technically, there should also be slums located all around UNDER the plate, so in the original game, we only explore a bit of the slum area and a bit of the upper plate area. If they wanted to go crazy and expand the area, story-wise and quest-wise, they could.
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They should be able to appear in all fights, across all versions of the game. The fact that some summons are paywalled and then only applicable to a handful of fights is dumb, and indefensible.
That easy really just have one knight attack and have the ender with all the knights .
It Bahamut version that would cause more problems.
ff15 had exclusive DLC too, but was available to purchase but at a later date i dont remember how much later
A few small summons (Carbuncle, Cactuar, and chocobo chick) are behind the special editions. If it's anything like Carbuncle for FFXV, they'll be pretty inconsequential gameplay-wise. Still lame though. I dislike gameplay exclusive gameplay content.
That hair is ridiculous lmao, looks like a super saiyan. I love it[
"Where is your God now?"
The crappy little baby summons (cactuar, carbuncle and Choco/mog) are preorder and/or deluxe edition exclusive.
Still unsure on if I'm going to purchase FF VIIR, so don't want to preorder. But if I do buy the game, would like to have all the summons, even if I need to buy them.
Thanks.
Oh no is FF7R is now bad catching on?
I'm curious what area this even is. 😯
Getting major FF15 town/NPC vibes from shots like these.
I'm curious what area this even is. 😯
Haha why is that a bad thing?? FF15's cities and rando NPCs were pretty good if I recall right.
Carbuncle and Cactuar are deluxe edition, Chocobo Chick is preorder.
Game is supposed to be 40 hours, we're not going to be able to identify each and every place from the original. However, this is from sector 7 slums.
So that's how they expanded the midgar section to be a "full length game."
i think chocobo chick is pre-order exclusive, so you will have to wait until the summons are available to purchase or pre-order.
Are people not allowed to critically discuss the information we currently have about gameplay design decisions? On an enthusiast forum?