Final Fantasy VII Remaster/Remake

Watch every single one be Cait Sith

NoviGlitzko wrote: »

Tried the demo. Gonna probably sound like a miserable fecker here folks. I'm disappointed but not surprised. It looks great, but I'm not a fan of this gameplay and that it's a bit all over the place. Can't emphasise enough how melee action-RPG's gameplay disinterest me when you've to repeatedly just press square for the majority of fights. The sparks that fly everywhere upon hit and the darkness of the Midgar setting make it hard to distinguish enemies. Why can't it be turn based like before, as in properly turn based not the hybrid they have alternatively. Something like the gameplay of FF12 would've been perfect IMO. The HUD is unappealing too. It feels like the element of warmth & charm about the first game is gone.

To be fair, anything released by Square for me is met with massive pessimism these days when it's been 14 years since FF12 which was their last decent release. They have serious issues with story development and dialogue. If you couple that with my distain for the direction they're taking with Action RPG's then I'm not sure I'm giving this a fair assessment. I'm sure others will love it.

On a side note, I'd wish they didn't spend years making this game just so it can look so lifelike. It's going to take over 10 years to fully develop this entire instalment. Just make the graphics a cross between Uncharted and Dragonquest for example to quicken up the process. If it mean's you get then game in much quicker time then who cares.

The dev time has very little to do with the graphics. In fact their choice of using unreal engine would have massively sped up dev time compared to making or using an in house engine. The toolset, optimisation and support is simply superior to anything else out there once devs get used to the workflow. The quality of the graphics is largely to do with the choice of engine. It's very easy to make games look better.

Converting what was simply text dialog into animated and directed scenes that needed to be rewritten, voice acted and expanded upon I would say is a large part of the dev time in the remake after the base systems were designed and implemented. There's going to be hours and hours of this stuff.

I would say the dev time for follow up parts will be a lot shorter now that most of the games systems and main characters have been designed and implemented. It's not going to be 5 years between parts. We could be seeing the follow up as soon as next year imo.

Potential-Monke wrote: »

So gave the demo a go. It's a beautiful looking game, no doubts about that. Tifa looks crazy real. Movement is ok, bit slow, and they need to speed up the box breaking attack animation for Cloud, takes too long. And the auto movement is meh, would prefer a button press to mount obstacles or climb ladders.

Combat is strange. Its hack n slash with live pause. I saw you can map certain attacks so that should save some pausing. Couldn't get the hang of blocking though, especially on the bigger enemies.

Oh, and the terrible voice acting. The lad playing Barrett is taking it too seriously. Also, the Barrett character seems like a pain in the hole. Will definitely be using Japanese.

Overall, I'm not sure if I'd pay top dollar for it.

In fairness Barrett was always an ott character. The voice actor based his voice on Mr T who was the main influence for the look and attitude of Barretts character who is the complete opposite of Cloud so he does a great job imo.

Compared to most games, especially final fantasy games, the voice acting is great. I don't get why anyone would play it in Japanese unless they could fluently speak Japanese.

Zero-Cool wrote: »

Cast released. Ones i recognise:
Tifa - Justine from GLOW
Wedge - Badger from Breaking Bad
Heidegger - Bender from Futurama

https://square-enix-games.com/en_GB/news/final-fantasy-vii-remake-voice-actors

Honestly thought Mark Hamill was the voice actor for Don Corneo but obviously not.

I think Hamill would have suited the character well given his voice acting roles.

billybonkers wrote: »

Anywhere I can order this for delivery on launch, Amazon, Smyths and GameStop not taking orders

Digital is the safest bet at this stage.

endainoz wrote: »

Yeah looks like it, would have liked to have the physical copy but screw it we've been waiting long enough for it.

Some one selling 3 from the uk - got 4 copies of the deluxe edition somehow

Was on reddit

Was hoping they were shipping early for the distribution issues but the consensus seems to be theft on the reddit page.

billybonkers wrote: »

Which Reddit page? Link?

Page is here for now

I took a chance there and ordered a deluxe edition from game.co.uk

international shipping is 5-7 days it says though. and thats maybe on top of an expected delay of 1-2 days from them. just hoping that because square has sent it early that it may balance it out. worst case scenario, if it's not arrived by the 10th I'm sure I can just buy it on PSN and sell the phyical copy on

Zero-Cool wrote: »

Let us know how that goes! I saw on reddit some online shops say that no matter when they get the game, they will ship 1-2 days prior to release date. Looks like this might only pay off if you ordered direct from square enix site.

Finally ordering off that site has paid off!

No idea where to order this to get it on the 10th. Can't get it from Square direct on their EU site any more.

Trying simplygames, shopto, shop4ie, basecompshop on eBay to see if they can deliver for release here as Square are shipping it early

endainoz wrote: »

I'd say people are going to spoil the ****e out of this now.

I'll let ye know if I get it, but will keep schtum on pretty much everything else unless someone is looking for a "can you tell me X so I know to buy it or not" sort of thing