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[Cidd]

Lol at people getting angry about character design and battle systems of a game still in early development stage smh.

This game probably won't be out until 2020.

 

[DragoonKain]

Holy crap, if people are going to nitpick over every single detail and the minutia. The remake isn't going to please everyone. I'm sure a ton will love it, and a ton will hate it for various reasons. Remaking a game is difficult. You need to take a ton of things into account. Totally redoing some things from the ground up, and then leaving other things exactly the same could very well leave the game feeling uneven and unbalanced. This is not an easy project, and it simply won't please everyone.

I guess for the people that hate it, just kinda pretend it doesn't exist or something.

 

[RevolverRoden]

Battle system's not FFVII Souls but this'll do tbh

 

[DiipuSurotu]

HOLY SHIT

I don't even consider myself a huge fan of FFVII yet I'M FUCKING HYPED

FFXV just got fucking DESTROYED

RIP TABATA

 

[Crash Station]

Anyone think Square would put out some turn-based DLC seeing as there's demand for it? Sure it would be a lot of work, but it would theoretically be more about model placement as they could just copy and paste the battles from the original without rebalancing anything.

 

[entremet]

and here I was, thinking that this boss would be the closest to ever fighting guard scorpion in good graphics :_:

This just reminds me of how long it took the FFXIII battle system to open up.

 

[Cindi Mayweather]

But this is the beginning area, which is in a cosmopolitan section.

You're talking about the slums. Those are another area and they appear after the bombing operation.

Nope. This is on the top levels right after the bombing.

Whatever that city in this trailer is, it ain't Midgar.

 

[anaron]

Lol at people getting angry about character design and battle systems of a game still in early development stage smh.

This game probably won't be out until 2020.

this is what they're showing off, how else are people supposed to react?

 

[illmatic22]

Cloud too skinny tho. His Dissidia arcade model looks better.

 

[Shadow780]

Somehow this makes me way sadder when Jesse looks like this and

Spoiler

she dies later on ;_;

 

[potatohead]

Midgar looks too clean. I'm not sure why any FFVII fan would think this is faithful at all. Midgar is a place that sales a dream, but is actually a dreary, polluted, trash-filled wasteland. In the original FFVII after the bombing, the first thing you see are people running around and power surging due to the explosion. When you run into Aerith, you're on a trash filled street with signs knocked over and people scattering for safety.

And they decide to make Midgar perfect looking and sleak and new?

I just don't like it.

What?

You're thinking of the wrong Midgar. Midgar slums is all dirty and nasty.

Midgar upper levels were always like this clean and cobblestones and late European architecture.

You see it plainly in the FF VII intro when you are running in the streets just before you jump onto the train. It is clean streets and architecture until you get to below ground.

The only reason the immediate area is destroyed (where you first see Aeris) at that time is because you blow up the Reactor right next to it, and no other reason.

Nope. This is on the top levels right after the bombing.

That's only immediately NEAR the bombing site.

It's only like that because you just blew up a Mako reactor. Smh.

Go back and play the intro and see the streets when the Shinra soldiers surround Cloud before he jumps on the train.

You clearly don't remember that part.

 

[Regulus Tera]

btw Barret looks ridiculous with glasses and the English dubbing was baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad

 

[『Inaba Resident』]

HOLY SHIT

I'M SO FUCKING HYPED

FFXV just got fucking DESTROYED

RIP TABATA

Two different games going for two different things

 

[Ferulci]

I just do not understand this mindset. at. all.

Same here. I think the "ATB is not relevant anymore" is pure ignorance. That being said, it doesnt mean that the remake combat system will not be good.

 

[UpDownLeftRight]

Midgar looks too clean. I'm not sure why any FFVII fan would think this is faithful at all. Midgar is a place that sales a dream, but is actually a dreary, polluted, trash-filled wasteland. In the original FFVII after the bombing, the first thing you see are people running around and power surging due to the explosion. When you run into Aerith, you're on a trash filled street with signs knocked over and people scattering for safety.

And they decide to make Midgar perfect looking and sleak and new?

I just don't like it.

That section is upper Midgar. It's the location before you hop on the train and when breaking back in to Midgar at a later point. It was also a clean area in the original. The places you're thinking of are from the slums below which is where they would be going at the trailers ending when Cloud hops on the train.

 

[spindashing]

It's interesting because at the time the game was released, hi-tops were in or at least were just fading away from being popular. When Advent Children came about, braids were all the rage so it made sense for Barret to shift to that style.

Now, hi-tops are back in and here we are with Barret having one again!

 

[TheActtionFigure]

Those complaining about the combat should know that FFVII as we knew it is available on PSN today. Sooo, there's that.

Anyway, Final Fantasy VII is the game that I attribute to saving my life. I was a very depressed teen when it was released, and the game's music, theme, and story at the time were the perfect formula for making me view my world differently. FFVII will always have a place in my heart for what it was at the time.

With that said, times do change. I can't sit here and expect Square Enix to remake FFVII exactly as I remember it nearly 20 years later. The new trailer blew me away, and I'm happy that they're changing the combat to be more action focused.

It's interesting because at the time the game was released, hi-tops were in or at least were just about to fade away from being popular. When Advent Children came about, braids were all the rage so it made sense for Barrett to shift to that style.

Now, hi-tops are back in and here we are with Barret having one again!

Hi-tops were not in in 1997 bruh.

 

[RevolverRoden]

Holy crap, if people are going to nitpick over every single detail and the minutia. The remake isn't going to please everyone. I'm sure a ton will love it, and a ton will hate it for various reasons. Remaking a game is difficult. You need to take a ton of things into account. Totally redoing some things from the ground up, and then leaving other things exactly the same could very well leave the game feeling uneven and unbalanced. This is not an easy project, and it simply won't please everyone.

I guess for the people that hate it, just kinda pretend it doesn't exist or something.

It's only gonna get worse from here d:^)

 

[jett]

I think like PS3 tech demo Cloud better.

 

[Falk]

Anyone think Square would put out some turn-based DLC seeing as there's demand for it? Sure it would be a lot of work, but it would theoretically be more about model placement as they could just copy and paste the battles from the original without rebalancing anything.

Broski this is getting old real fast.

 

[Lindsay]

I hope the Stealth segment in Shinra HQ doesn't go real-time an sticks to being a matter of timed button presses. Stealth parts in non-MGS games always turn out being a pain in the butt for me x.x

 

[Meccanical]

Nope. This is on the top levels right after the bombing.

Did it occur to you that the screen shot is from a different part of the city?

 

[Perfect Cha0s]

The only doll face he has is the one he has is in the compilation plus in this game. I don't know what you're seeing.

The remake design is less soft than the Advent Children one, and quite different from the somewhat plasticky faces of Smash and Dissidia.

Smash:

Dissidia:

Advent Children:

Remake:

 

[Plywood]

Midgar looks too clean. I'm not sure why any FFVII fan would think this is faithful at all. Midgar is a place that sales a dream, but is actually a dreary, polluted, trash-filled wasteland. In the original FFVII after the bombing, the first thing you see are people running around and power surging due to the explosion. When you run into Aerith, you're on a trash filled street with signs knocked over and people scattering for safety.

And they decide to make Midgar perfect looking and sleak and new?

I just don't like it.

I'm going to guess it depends on location.

 

[Mr. RPG]

Man if only VI would get that kind of treatment. ;_;7

No thanks.

 

[Megalosaro]

U actually get the feeling this is more like ffxii than ffxv. Notice the defend option on the menu? Or the meters on the right?

 

[DangerMouse]

using Steve Burton and (what I assume will follow) the compilation casting is the rotten cherry on top. they're awful voice actors

Nope.

And it was obviously going to be them.

Also, beyond the main cast I'm also glad for more freaking Crispin Freeman as Rude and Quinton Flynn as Reno again. Those two were great.

Can't wait to see Tifa.

 

[ZangBa]

I just do not understand this mindset. at. all.

People with low attention spans or something, I don't know.

 

[Sapphire Dreams]

What's up with Barret and the glasses ? They stick out.

 

[RevolverRoden]

It's interesting because at the time the game was released, hi-tops were in or at least were just about to fade away from being popular. When Advent Children came about, braids were all the rage so it made sense for Barrett to shift to that style.

Now, hi-tops are back in and here we are with Barret having one again!

wraparound sunglasses are definitely not in style tho

 

[entremet]

Nomura had heavy input in all of the titles in the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII. It started with him directing Advent Children, after all.

Ah, you're right.

Totally forgot about that all that stuff. I took a break from gaming during that time.

I vaguely remember the Advent Children trailer and Dirge of Cerebus (lol) getting panned.

 

[TheOfficeMut]

Anyone think Square would put out some turn-based DLC seeing as there's demand for it? Sure it would be a lot of work, but it would theoretically be more about model placement as they could just copy and paste the battles from the original without rebalancing anything.

They have a product for those of you who can't handle ATB, it's called the original Final Fantasy VII.

 

[Cindi Mayweather]

You guys saying "this is upper Midgar" need to replay through that intro again. Even upper Midgar has its share of poverty and litter. Abandoned turned over cars, trash on the street.

 

[anaron]

It's interesting because at the time the game was released, hi-tops were in or at least were just about to fade away from being popular. When Advent Children came about, braids were all the rage so it made sense for Barrett to shift to that style.

Now, hi-tops are back in and here we are with Barret having one again!

Not sure it was ever a hightop, it's always looked more like a giant metal belt.

 

[potatohead]

I think like PS3 tech demo Cloud better.

It's basically the same except this Cloud doesn't look perfect facially.

 

[Philippo]

Looks amazing, can see why the complaints about it not being turn based anymore, but this sounds like a natural evolution.

hat's really ridiculous is people shitting on XV.

 

[GSG Flash]

But ask yourself this: If the technology 20 years ago would have allowed it, wouldn't developers have gone with a more real-time battle system in the first place? ATB was just a transition phase from total turn-based gameplay to real time, which couldn't be done well yet because of limitations in technology.

I think it's still possible to have strategic elements and things in real-time combat.

No they wouldn't have and no it's not. Action-based battle system isn't a successor to turn-based, they're two different game mechanics.

Lots of Square games from the PS1 era were action RPGs, if they wanted to develop FF7 as an action RPG, there was nothing stopping them.

There was no limitation on the PS2 and PS3 either, but they still developed FFX/X-2 and FFXIII as turn based RPGs.

I believe Sakaguchi may have had a big hand in the decision to go turn based, his two 360 games were also turn based RPGs.

 

[old]

Fuck Nomura. Fuck action RPGs. Bargain-bin purchase at best now.

 

[Shpeshal Nick]

Is there a thread on the Xbox confirmation?

 

[Coffee Dog]

Anyone think Square would put out some turn-based DLC seeing as there's demand for it? Sure it would be a lot of work, but it would theoretically be more about model placement as they could just copy and paste the battles from the original without rebalancing anything.

lmao

why would they even bother

they have turn based games for people that want them, they're on handhelds in the low budget slum the market has placed them in

 

[NOLA_Gaffer]

I'll be honest…I'm rather bummed it's not a true remake…top-down perspective, turn-based combat and all.

 

[Sami+]

Midgar looks too clean. I'm not sure why any FFVII fan would think this is faithful at all. Midgar is a place that sales a dream, but is actually a dreary, polluted, trash-filled wasteland. In the original FFVII after the bombing, the first thing you see are people running around and power surging due to the explosion. When you run into Aerith, you're on a trash filled street with signs knocked over and people scattering for safety.

And they decide to make Midgar perfect looking and sleak and new?

I just don't like it.

dude are we even looking at the same picture lmao

 

[Cindi Mayweather]

I'm going to guess it depends on location.

Much better.

 

[fantomena]

Is there a thread on the Xbox confirmation?

Where's the confirmation?

 

[sappyday]

Two different games going for two different things

And it's not like we can't get both. And like both. Not sure why it's a competition.

 

[Garrett Hawke]

Is there a thread on the Xbox confirmation?

"First on PS4" = Xbox confirmation? I'd wait and see. Ambiguity like that could go either way (Titanfall vs. ROTTR)

 

[Kor of Memory]

Nope. This is on the top levels right after the bombing.

Whatever that city in this trailer is, it ain't Midgar.

Exactly. It's right after a bombing. Thats why people are running all over the place screaming and cars are in walls.

Notice how at that part of the game, the further you get from that area, the nicer/cleaning the streets get.

 

[Regulus Tera]

U actually get the feeling this is more like ffxii than ffxv. Notice the defend option on the menu? Or the meters on the right?

It looks like Kingdom Hearts to me.

 

[Meccanical]

You guys saying "this is upper Midgar" need to replay through that intro again. Even upper Midgar has its share of poverty and litter. Abandoned turned over cars, trash on the street.

No, you need to replay the game again, because we never really saw that much of upper Midgar and what we did see looked fairly alright.

 

[DangerMouse]

Somehow this makes me way sadder when Jesse looks like this and

Spoiler

she dies later on ;_;

Yeah, those character designs look good.