Jason Schreier: "Final Fantasy VII Remake's Box Art Sure Is Misleading"
- Thread starter Deleted member 8196
- Start date
- Status
I do imagine it'll happen, probably en masse, if they don't alter it between now and March. Though I'm still wondering what the broader implications will be. If it hurts sales of part 2 onward, if the game lives in infamy for being misleading, etc. Or it just lives on as a memory of games media articles and tweets
There is a difference between hitting different beats and the game just ending at the opening part, but calling that a full remake.
What video game remakes are you guys defending this playing that only cover 1/4 of the original games content?
Fuck comparisons to the Witcher or other games that are not remakes. You see the name remake in the name of a game, you are expecting it doesn't cover the full game? We aren't talking alterations. We are talking fucking characters missing, no world map, and Aerith still fucking alive lol.
Like some of these arguments are such trash.
Fuck comparisons to the Witcher or other games that are not remakes. You see the name remake in the name of a game, you are expecting it doesn't cover the full game? We aren't talking alterations. We are talking fucking characters missing, no world map, and Aerith still fucking alive lol.
Like some of these arguments are such trash.
Not remotely the same thing.
I'd be fine with calling it Final Fantasy VII Remake: Midgar...but the current title is clearly misleading the general game-buying public.
S-E willing to part with the IP for free, that says alot about how much sold.
Like imagine if they remade like a Star Wars movie. A New Hope for example. And it just ends up covering less half of the original movie and then the credits say some shit like "to be continued in Star Wars Episode IV-2 (and possibly Episode IV-3 cause we're not sure how many parts we're gonna make this)". Like people would be PISSED. And saying "well, the trailers only showed stuff from the beginning of the movie, so even though the trailers didn't outright say it was just part 1, you should've just assumed" or "the description of the movie on the Star Wars website mentions it's just part one at the very bottom" or "they added new scenes to drag shit out, so it's now a complete movie on its own" would not fucking cut it.
How on earth is this an attack on your excitement? It's just a comment on the box, I thought the same thing when I saw it lol
misleading to who?
everyone knows its a remake of the first 1/3rd of the original. I don't see the issue here.
everyone knows its a remake of the first 1/3rd of the original. I don't see the issue here.
If that's honestly what they do, then they deserve the criticism, but we do not know if there isn't going to be a fully fleshed out story arc in this Remake. We only really know Midgar in the context of the original game, in which it very much was the starting point of the game.
Imagine being a retail employee at GameStop or something and having to explain that, no, this game:
is actually not a complete remake of this game:
This thread is peak Era bubble
is actually not a complete remake of this game:
This thread is peak Era bubble
In most cases sure, but if it's called Final Fantasy VII Remake: Part 1, I don't think they'll have trouble selling it.
That doesn't surprise me. Sometimes I think people just argue just to argue or complain.
I disagree. So what if it only covers a part of the original if its still a full length game? Hardly misleading, you pay 60 bucks and get a full game - the end. It's not like they're selling a 5 hour game and pretending its the whole thing.
For a few seconds maybe, and then they will reflect that they have just played through a full game's worth of content and realize there is nothing to get mad about.
Everyone who follows gaming news. That does not 1-to-1 correspond to everyone who's going to buy this game.
They've done nothing to hide the fact that it's episodic. If the only thing that matter is the front of the box then that's stupid.
The title says that it's a remake of Final Fantasy 7, it's not. It's a Remake of the Midgar section of Final Fantasy 7.
My post was 100% snark, and fair enough on that.
From what I've understood, they never said "episodic". Or they did, but it was in Japanese and I think I remember someone saying that the Japanese term they used is used for, like, everything that is released in/divided into more than one part/episode/chapter. I don't think they've ever claimed that this is "episodic" in English, but were quick to correct that they meant dividing this into more than one "full" game.
Never said it was.
They are adding a storyline for the Midgar section that will conclude in part 1 while also creating the cliffhanger for the rest of the remake. That's my take on this.
its easy to tell since 3 disk are not included.... and no I'm not serious lolImagine being a retail employee at GameStop or something and having to explain that, no, this game:
is actually not a complete remake of this game:
This thread is peak Era bubble
People shit on nintendo for the wii u name misleading people to think it was a wii expansion.
Yeah, you are right and I did forget about that. Though it didn't 'tank hard' imo, it did fail at what both companies expected but no game with a fully-fledged sequel can be that much of a failure.
But I can't agree that it failed due to the simple fact that they advertised it was episodic, especially if that argument is then used to explain why FFVIIr of all things can't advertise that it's Part 1. The episodic model just didn't fit Hitman and the fact that Hitman 2 came out and is itself doing OK shows that.
Even in this thread you can see people who never knew this
What an absurd argument. So a fan sees a remake of a beloved classic and then sees the credits roll while knowing there's more because he/she played the original. Maybe they're still satisfied, but maybe they would've rather waited for the complete story to be out. Getting a full game doesn't make it any less misleading because the original is the whole story while the remake is a quarter of it.
I imagine it will have the same bell curve of initial hardcores versus the people who will wait for the full compilation on sale in 20XX.
I'm kinda on the fence about what to do. It might be in 8k on PS6 by the final chapter, but I might be dead/underwater/defending my territory for clean water.
How can people be so pedantic about the supposed incomplete story of a game we know so little about? For all we know they probably intend to write the story in a way that feels mostly self-contained with some plot threads to tease the rest for future games instead of it being a 1:1 rethread of how it was told in the original, and that's why it's not indicating a "part 1" in the title.
It's entirely too soon to call this false advertising or whatever.
It's entirely too soon to call this false advertising or whatever.
At the point where you're some casual folk that don't read gaming news/forum and see this game on a retailer's shelf, thinking it's the same game as 20+ years ago.
Look at the comments and then look at the poll results lol. Couldn't be more contrasting.
- Status