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Square Enix releases the opening movie for Final Fantasy VII Remake
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Have you waited until 2019 to watch game of thrones? Have you waited until 2007 or so to read Harry Potter? I think not.
Comparisons I always hear that are more appropriate are KHII and XB.
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No I just refuse to play a remake for a game where I can't progress till the rest of the story is made.
I'd rather just wait. But that still makes me sad.
BLERGH *pukes guts out*
I really didn't expect that extra part at the beginning. I don't know how I feel about it. Of course it's no big deal, being only a few additionnal seconds of CG, but I don't know if it adds anything substantial to the original sequence that began with Aerith. Anyway, can't wait to play the game!
All the people saying they arent going to watch it to be spoiled, i assume have never played the original FF7. It's literally the same intro with updated graphics
Not at all. It's a TV show in parts, a book in parts.
Not anyone of those are feasible as a stand alone release. Just like FF 7, so, no disingenuous at all.
Is Harry Potter a remake of a legendary game that I grew up with in the 90's?
Is Harry Potter a 1 book story that has been split up into multiple installments?
No it's not, so ok stop with the bullshit comparisons and stop attacking me for not liking the way this 'remake' is handled.
Some of the character animation is pretty stiff and the first 90 seconds is kind of underwhelming? The color palate of the greys has this 10-15 year old FMV vibe to it. Kind of strange. Aerith, Cloud and Barrett look awesome though.
Not bullshit in any kind of way. It's just not feasible to release the whole story in a stand alone way, there's no budget or manpower to do it.
Oh, but the godfather book was split into two movies and had a third stand alone movie with content not present in the books. So this has been done.
Sometimes things have to be split because they're not feasible as one.
I think it hammers home the environmental message of the game, Midgar was actually a pretty sweet Cyber/Steampunk neighborhood until Shinra came in a fucked everything up. The insertions of One Winged Angel into the score really drives that home.
I agree with this, but I would amend that it's not feasible with the production values they've chosen for this.
If they just upressed the graphics of the OG, redid the backgrounds, animations, and CG, it would certainly be feasible. But that's not what this project is.
I'm happy they didn't do that. That would have been Horrible.
The problem with XV combat is the systems beneath just weren't well integrated with each other. You know you've got an issue when the party limit breaks are most used by players to prevent allies from running into AOE.
FFVIIR almost feels like it's got a closed resource loop with how its ATB feeds into your decision making and I wish more people would look at how that stuff seems to work before dropping the XV comparisons. At a surface level yeah they look kinda similar, but when you take a look at the systems and how they play off each other you're really looking at something that's a reworked XIII. Which imo had a great system, for all the other issues that game had. Then this looks better because you have finer control over your party members, fixing the XV issue immediately and bringing it in line with some aspects of XII
I've written a variant of this comment 25 times probably lol. All the more reason why we need a public demo, I suppose, and I don't even feel like I need the demo that much personally. I just want more people to see how good the combat in this game looks to be.
FFVIIR almost feels like it's got a closed resource loop with how its ATB feeds into your decision making and I wish more people would look at how that stuff seems to work before dropping the XV comparisons. At a surface level yeah they look kinda similar, but when you take a look at the systems and how they play off each other you're really looking at something that's a reworked XIII. Which imo had a great system, for all the other issues that game had. Then this looks better because you have finer control over your party members, fixing the XV issue immediately and bringing it in line with some aspects of XII
I've written a variant of this comment 25 times probably lol. All the more reason why we need a public demo, I suppose, and I don't even feel like I need the demo that much personally. I just want more people to see how good the combat in this game looks to be.
We're WC3 up in here with that bird.
Great opening, immediately establishes the themes on the game.
Great opening, immediately establishes the themes on the game.
As someone who has played the FFVIIR demo, I wish people would stop comparing the combat to XV. ATB charges and Tactical mode make FFVIIR's gameplay much more interesting. Plus you can't just spam the same regular attack button over and over again.
That's, uhh... shit, I think that's the first thing I dislike about the game. Well, not necessarily dislike but just not so keen on? I've been on the hype train for so long and everything's only made me more and more excited whenever we got new looks and info, until now. Maybe it's because I very recently started playing through FFVII again (after more than a decade!) so the intro and Midgar is fresh on my mind but showing Midgar during the day and what life is like there feels completely unnecessary. I get that they want to expand upon Midgar and show us that it's this whole city with life and people and that's wonderful! I'm all for that. However, for the purposes of the intro, it doesn't help. In my opinion, it would have been much better to save the "reveal" of everyday life in Midgar for after the bombing mission or whenever it is that the story will have the players go through those down times. Don't preface the bombing mission with it, you know?
Also, my god, it's so awkward knowing Cloud is just crouched atop the train the entire time while Jesse and co. are kicking Shinra butt. Like, holy shit... is he just posing there the whole time?? I mean, on one hand, I love seeing more of the trio and Avalance in general, on the other... Cloud should've just leapt first. Then have Jesse and Biggs ambush the Shinra troops as they react to Cloud. Simple.
Also, my god, it's so awkward knowing Cloud is just crouched atop the train the entire time while Jesse and co. are kicking Shinra butt. Like, holy shit... is he just posing there the whole time?? I mean, on one hand, I love seeing more of the trio and Avalance in general, on the other... Cloud should've just leapt first. Then have Jesse and Biggs ambush the Shinra troops as they react to Cloud. Simple.
Not when you'll have to wait till who-knows-when to play the full campaign
It hadn't really sunk in what this game means for the hobby at large. Chills!
Still incredibly bizarre that they didn't add a Vol. 1 or something to the title. Still feels just as misleading.
Still incredibly bizarre that they didn't add a Vol. 1 or something to the title. Still feels just as misleading.
FINAL FANTASY VII Remake
FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE Out 10.04.2020 for PlayStation 4. A re-imagining of the iconic original with unforgettable characters, a mind-blowing story, and epic battles.
ffvii-remake.square-enix-games.com
Weird how the link on the video itself still claims the game is coming 3/3/2020
beautiful CGI for sure.
the added day light bit is kinda unnecessary. the OG one is "focus-scale-focus": from one key character to showing the city to starting the game. The added bird flying to reveal the city bit breaks this structure. looks like two different openings stitched together.
the added day light bit is kinda unnecessary. the OG one is "focus-scale-focus": from one key character to showing the city to starting the game. The added bird flying to reveal the city bit breaks this structure. looks like two different openings stitched together.
I don't think it's even worth it to argue it at this point. Anyone who's read anything other than seen a few clips of it and still thinks it's XV's combat is being intentionally ignorant about it. What they see is "Final Fantasy" and "ARPG" and say, OMG it's XV all over again.
It honestly reminds me of Advent Children, and not in a good way.
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Nomura's on a "follow a bird as it flies around" kick at the moment. First KH3's opening now this.
Ok I didn't want to watch this until I tracked down a Japanese language version because I refuse to let those English voice actors ruin my experience, but I didn't realize there was only like one line of dialogue in the entire thing.
Just in case you want to see the version I watched, here's the Japanese trailer.
Just in case you want to see the version I watched, here's the Japanese trailer.
forget about book or movie, have you heard about someone says he won't play a video game until the series is concluded? like warcraft or gears of war? Only in FF7 thread.
really not into this weird one winged angel thing they've got going on in the intro music
other than that, looks great
other than that, looks great
i liked it, they are making the contrast of environment x machine (enviromnent destruction) way more obvious with many shots
like the eagle that introduces the city, the shots of gas pollution, the shot where they have a closed up in the dead plants/grass vs the city growing, the arid earth vs mako energy, and the older one where the citizen steps on aerith flower and doesnt care
like the eagle that introduces the city, the shots of gas pollution, the shot where they have a closed up in the dead plants/grass vs the city growing, the arid earth vs mako energy, and the older one where the citizen steps on aerith flower and doesnt care
i found the kids' animation to be weirdly stiff and yeah, the additions, whilst small, give me a feeling the project will be badly paced.