Final Fantasy VII Remaster/Remake

I want the remake to be focussed on Sephiroth and how he destroys Cloud and his lame friends.

Call it nostalgia, but I've never loved a villain as much as Sephiroth.

They better not **** up Omnislash...

Retr0gamer wrote: »

No real reason and it's not strange in japan. Only really Nintendo keeps musicians as full time employees now. Most videogame musicians have gone freelance now, I'd say it's a cost saving measure by japanese companies but they still keep strong ties to their previous employees, although Uematsu seems to be more closely aligned with Hironobu Sakaguchi, possibly because they were mates since college.

I'd say it's not strange everywhere, there's very few western devs who do also.

Why are they changing it? A huge part of the nostalgia feel is the old battle system. There's nothing wrong with a command/turned based battle system that utilises an ATB gauge, like in the old FFs etc. Not a fan of action esque battles, or how the battles were in 13 When I first heard they were remastering the game, I was imagining fighting all the iconic battles again in glorious HD, with the old battle system. I'm not a fan of the hack and slash kind of battles, its one of the reasons I hated FF13/Type 0 so much.

Oh well, I suppose it is a remaster, they wanna change stuff around so I can understand the reasoning. I'm just a purist, would love to see classic turn based battles in the remaster tbh. Its likely they will make a complete muck of this though.

Underground wrote: »

I'll admit I haven't played either of the sequels to FF13,but I felt I didn't need to, FF13 was that bad. One man's minor blip is another man's utter disaster.

13 was crap, 13-2 was borderline decent. I haven't played Lightning Returns but the 13 series gave me no incentive to and left a bad taste in my mouth, it's not great at all. But that's just my opinion

Regarding nostalgia, IDK, it feels like forever since I've played an FF game, or an RPG, with turn based ATB battles. To me it's nostalgic, as far as FF goes. Would love to see it return in the remake, depth or no depth. And I'm well aware of the lack of depth in 7's materia/battle system overall, totally agree that I would love to see a revamp. On paper the materia system looks interesting but really was a broken and boring mess.

_Tombstone_ wrote: »

What was wrong with it?

You had no use for magic materia once you left midgar. You could breeze through the game with about 4 enemy skills that were completely overpowered. No exaggeration, you could one shot most battles and destroy bosses (even the final bosses) with some specific overpowered enemy skills.

Summons were also very weak and crippled your stats, no incentive to use them. The only useful one was Phoenix, which was ridiculously OP when paired with Final Attack, and KOTR, which is also insanely dumb.

Command Materia was also useless. There's not one useful command materia outside E Skill you need to complete the game. Towards the end you also pick up Mime and 4x Cut, 2 ridiculously strong materias that blow the rest out of the water.

Some independent materia is overpowered, too; Quadra Magic, Counter command, Final Attack, HP Absorb, Magic Counter. These allow for some nasty materia setups/combos, some that basically make you unkillable.

Lastly is purple Materia which is there as a novelty really, completely useless

From a viewpoint in terms of depth and balance, the materia system lacked both. Sure, the summons were cool, some of the yellow materia's were fun (deathblow, etc), and while the materia system surves a purpose just fine, it's so easy to blow wide open. You only need one piece of materia to complete the game, literally, and it's Enemy Skill. I recently did a playthrough where I only used that materia every battle. Towards the end of the game, some really crazy materia becomes available and you can set up some nasty stuff, it became way too crazy and exploitable.