Final Fantasy VII Remaster/Remake

About an hour into chapter 8, what a blast this is. Even stepping back and removing nostalgia from the equation, it's just a fantastic game. 15 hours in, and with where the story is right now, I would say is roughly about 3 hours into the original game, and I'm constantly amazed at how they have managed to expand on the story so significantly to the point where nothing outside of a couple of the optional side quests has felt throwaway.

My only gripe would still be the visuals. Once you leave sector 7, and make the trek towards sector 5, the textures on the landscape become nothing short of abysmal in a lot of areas, to the point where even calling them last gen would be too kind. It is especially noticeable when contrasted against the superb character models. Luckily however the art direction is enough to shine through for the most part, but it is baffling as to why some of the environments are so lazy looking at times.

Homelander wrote: »

Can anyone clarify - my friend bought this, and says it's episodic, and he paid €60 for the first? Does this mean that technically, you will end up paying €200-300 for the full FF7?

It looks like it will be 3 parts (guesstimate) but part 1 is definitely a 60/70 euro game. I'm on chapter 9 of 18 and 18 hours clocked up and loving every second of it. This is not your typical episodic content. Anyone waiting for the inevitable 'all parts for 60 euro' will be waiting 5+years imo and this first part is too good to wait that long. Just my opinion.

Made a 'perfect' run attempt on Airbuster hard mode (not taking damage from avoidable mechanics, excluding ally AI). Fecked up at the end and Cloud got shot a few times at the end, gutted.



I need to get a move on with chapter 9 but this sector 5 stuff is rough going on a second playthrough. I didn't do any of these sidequest things the first time, running around squeezing through little gaps in walls to chase kids is some fairly low effort content it has to be said.

But I'm looking forward to actually doing the Wall Market stuff properly this time.

Given what the level cap is in this they seem to be somewhat interested in carry over I'd say.

There's no way it's a full carry over though, because they would have to add new skills and eventually all the characters will have lots of skill bloat. I expect it to be something like the way they do FFXIV, where they will prune some older skills (they better not take away my steelskin)

I'd say carryover will be possible with the BC compatibility but I don't want to carry over all my gear, I'm only half way through the game and have an absolute ton of materia already. Will be interesting to see how that's handled.

Would be easier to manage than something like Mass Effect where there are actual choices to keep track of.

joe123 wrote: »

I love the FF series but started on FF9 so I've never actually played 7 or even know the story.

Looking at a couple of videos while trying to avoid spoilers, is the combat in this exactly like FF15? Have to say I'm a little disappointed it isnt turn based.

Really hard to summarise in a few words, but it's really nothing like 15. You do attack in real time as far as your standard attacks go, but you are only using standard attacks to fill your ATB gauge. Once that gauge is full you are generally pulling up a tactical command menu to order each character to use their abilities, and this slows down time to a crawl to give you time to plan out your attacks and which abilities to prioritise. You're also required to switch between party members as well to ensure all characters have ATB gague to spend, and also to make sure you're maximising damage output and exploiting weaknesses as much as possible. In FF15, it wasn't even possible to switch party members at launch, and when it was brought in it felt gimmicky, whereas here it is an absolute necessity and you almost certainly will struggle to beat certain bosses without doing so.

The closest comparison I can think of is the Dragon Age series, where you can attack in real time, but really to make any decent progress you need to be pausing combat and queuing abilities constantly, it honestly has more in common with the turn based nature of the original than it does with the shallow combat of FF15.

joe123 wrote: »

Think I'll have to buy this, despite only having a PS4 on loan. Has there been any word of this coming to XboxOne any time soon? From what I read online most are saying 2021?

It will probably be available the Tuesday or Friday following April 10th 2021 as it is a one year timed exclusive on PS4.

The easiest fights in the Colosseum give you
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That's just for whacking some ****ty rats and bandits, definitely do them.

I just started chapter 9 last night. I didn't get all the rewards for whack a box minigame in the sector 5 slums. Will I have to wait till NG+ to give that another go?

https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2020/04/final_fantasy_vii_remake_has_a_serious_texture_quality_issue_on_ps4_and_ps4_pro

Good to see these issues called out and SE being taken to task. I've just reached a location in chapter 8 that I was eagerly anticipating getting to visit, and to be honest, the state of the textures has really pulled me out of the experience. I'm convinced at this stage it has to be a bug of some sort as there is absolutely no excuse for a game this linear looking as utterly s*ite as it does at times, especially when it is capable of looking stunning 20 seconds later.

The daytime sections of the game really make the game look bad. Textures look flat, lack of ambient occlusion and some of the environment just having no shadows at all. Then we have the nighttime sections which look really great, even if some of the shadows are baked in rather than rendered in real time.

Next gen is long over due for consoles. I hope the PS5 has a shorter life cycle than the PS4 just for the sake of the exclusives released towards the end of its days not being close to something that would run well on mid range spec PC

martingriff wrote: »

So finally got the game yesterday and loving it. While playing it I had a thought will people have to keep there Part 1 disk/system disk (I know I will) and finished safe to be able to start part 2 or will they do a Mass Effect and let people start from the 2nd bit with certain choices made. I feel there could be a lot of players of the game who normally sell games once they are finished and delete the save

I'm not sure how they are going to work carry over content. The only story choices that would matter (from original) would be deciding on who Cloud goes on a date with and optional characters if they are actually optional this time around. If i remember correctly nothing else you do effects the story, unless the remake changes some stuff as i haven't finished it yet.

Then obviously you have items that carry over and levels and materia progression. The one thing that makes carry over seem like it won't happen is cause of the amount of skills and materia you get in part 1 alone. Firaga, Blizzaga and Thundaga are all available in this game. Are we supposed to stick with those for the other 2* games? I'm at chapter 9 and each character is slowly building on their skill set. Cloud for example has 6 different abilities he can do outside of casting magic. Whats it going to look like by the end of part 3* of the game?

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Is shiva fight hard?

nope but definitely don't do it with a party of one.

my strat was as follows:

Just finished Chapter 9 last night and started 10...