Final Fantasy VII Remaster/Remake

I played FF6 on the SNES and it was alright, although I never finished it.

It was good, but I really didn't love it. FF7 will always be king for me.

Does the story line go batty, yeah absolutely, and that's what I kind of expect from a Final Fantasy game in general.

I'm a simple person. I don't follow plots, themes, the pacing of a story, why the creator did this that or the other. So none of these things bother me when watching a movie, reading a book or playing a game. I'll pereseve with it if I like it without wondering why, to the point of obsession.
FFVII is the best for me, followed by X and then 8 but I couldn't explain to you why.

I might be a bit crazy here, but maybe, just maybe, a thread full of people really excited for the Final Fantasy 7 remake is not the ideal thread or place to start the same old waffling about how other games are better.

It's like some weird hipster obsession.

"You shouldn't like this thing because this thing is better" in the face of all the contrary evidence and twenty damn years of it being consistently considered one of the greatest RPG's ever made.

https://www.reddit.com/r/FinalFantasy/comments/fd6meq/merchandise_lottery_starting_in_japan/

More details on it here:

You take the cardboard ticket from the display and pay at the counter. Then the staff will go you a box from which you choose another kind of ticket. Open that up and you will get a letter, that's what prize you have won.

I was talking to my brother about the little figures and apparently when the promotions end, they sell them off as normal merchandise. I've told him to keep an ear to the ground for me so if he comes across them after the promotions end, I should get updates. If there's enough to take orders here, I'll set something up to get them shipped over, but its completely based on stock levels after the promotion

I remember when i first played ff7, rented out a ps1 and ff7 in the local video shop. Could only rent the ps for one or two nights, if the folks payed up for the second night it was a serious, to which they did.
Only had ff7 for the one night though and i was instantly hooked.

I remember i got to the part where you run up the endless stairs to the shinra building. I was glued for hours up until then. Video shop rang the next day and said they needed ff7 back as someone else had it booked. **

Devasted i didnt get to finish it. Maybe 3/4 years later i was on break in school and went wandering around zhivago looking at cd's.
Boom right there was ff7.

(This was when you couldnt buy games online from amazon or any of that craic and anytime i went into town i always checked if smyths had the game)

Man i picked up that 4 disc box and hid thay **** behind like some old school foreign language music section. Went back 2 days later when i had the cash and got it.

When i got past the endless stairs bit i was blown away with the scope of how much was left of the game and little i had done in comparison.

Nostalgic to the max as im downloading the demo now.

** i got metal gear solid the second night and didnt finish it but was like, **** me i need a ps.
Was Nintendo house growing up, which ti be fair was excellent.

AidoEirE wrote: »

Man i picked up that 4 disc box and hid thay **** behind like some old school foreign language music section. Went back 2 days later when i had the cash and got it.

I can't help but think someone else's childhood would have been entirely different only for your deviousness

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.

Hmmm, previous FF fans not liking the game, I'll probably like this!

Actually, question on the talking. Are the animations for the conversations for English or Japanese?

Edit: Nevermind, seems like they have both! Watched the Japanese vs English trailer video, and the mouth animations when yer one in red asks if spikey hair dude (cloud?) is ok, and then immediately the lips moved to Yā! Daijōbu?. Sweet! Japanese with subtitles it will be!