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FF7 Rebirth launching for PC 1/23/25
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Seyken
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All the characters get major overhauls for the 2nd game. Aerial combat is a thing, dodge now works as an actual dodge and is much faster, snappy and just overall makes sense. You can now also parry by timing you guard.
Yuffie is still REALLY fun to play as in Rebirth and gets even more stuff, but everyone else also gets a BIG upgrade from Remake.
Nickolaidas
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That's amazing - can't wait for Friday!
Seyken
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You're in for a treat!
There are way too many improvements to the combat to mention, really. And just one thing to keep in mind, normal attacks may seem random at first, but they're not:
If you dodge with Cloud and then attack, he'll start using sonic booms to hit enemies from afar.
If you start attacking and you're aimed at an enemy, even if they are far away, you can hold square to rush in a gap closer to the enemy, even if they are in the air. From there you can combo normally.
There's a lot of stuff like that depending on how you're using your buttons and skills, so try to figure it out and have fun
Overall there's a lot more depth to the combat this time around.
Nickolaidas
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Wait - the game doesn't tell you about their abilities and combo patterns?You're in for a treat!
And just one thing to keep in mind, normal attacks may seem random at first, but they're not:
If you dodge with Cloud and then attack, he'll start using sonic booms to hit enemies from afar.
If you start attacking and you're aimed at an enemy, even if they are far away, you can hold square to rush in a gap closer to the enemy, even if they are in the air. From there you can combo normally.
There's a lot of stuff like that depending on how you're using your buttons and skills, so try to figure it out and have fun
Seyken
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If I remember correctly, they'll tell you about most of it.
But there are some of the more nitty gritty stuff that I think they leave for you to discover. I tend to see a lot of streamers and people online that don't use certain button combinations that would help them in certain situations (like the gap closer, it's amazing how many people don't use it) and that gets me thinking that either they didn't read the tutorials or the game didn't properly hammer in some of these dynamics.
But again, like I said, it's a game with a lot more depth and mechanics to explore, and you should try to play with all of them and go at it with this mindset to explore stuff and combo opportunities, kind of like a fighting game or a DMC game. At the start it may seem like a lot, but everything will make sense eventually and the game feels extremely good to play.
The game has VR tutorial battles for each individual character in which it explains their basic movement. You can also use it to experiment with later on as they unlock more.
It has a synergy one too for moves that require a second teammate.
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Touch fuzZy. get BizZay
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by the by if you play FF7 Rebirth in January and really like it you can still vote for it in the second round of Neogaf's game of the year thread, since you can keep changing your vote until Jan 30
Hollywood Hitman
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I should've waited as my 4090 would've loved to eat this game up, but I gotta say that the platinum for this game took 1 year of my life away soooo...good on the pc version but the game can fuck right off until the 3rd installment 
Mister Wolf
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I should've waited as my 4090 would've loved to eat this game up, but I gotta say that the platinum for this game took 1 year of my life away soooo...good on the pc version but the game can fuck right off until the 3rd installment
Did you enjoy it?
Hollywood Hitman
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Oh yea absolutely , but the final chadley trophies were just brutal.. Think it was 186 hours for the plat. I wish those gauntlet challenges had checkpoints or something but outside of those it was an amazing game.
HRK69
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It's exactly the kind of thing I'm craving right now, and having it included in this game is going to make me so incredibly happy
Hollywood Hitman
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Goodluck, those challenges were just damn lol like I Said took a year of my life away at least.
xenosys
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It's been sitting in the top 20 of the global Steam charts for most of the past 6 weeks since it's announcement, and now it's top 1 (sans the F2P titles and Steam Deck).
Pre-orders for this game are far exceeding the likes of FFXVI and God of War ports from last year, and it's also out-performing games like Metaphor, Persona 3 and Infinite Wealth in relative week-to-week positions in the charts prior to it's release.
If this is a decent PC port and continues with good word of mouth, it'll probably do pretty well sales wise on the PC. Weird how they didn't extend the Steam special offer of 30% for another couple of weeks to bring it in line with the EGS offer.
Pre-orders for this game are far exceeding the likes of FFXVI and God of War ports from last year, and it's also out-performing games like Metaphor, Persona 3 and Infinite Wealth in relative week-to-week positions in the charts prior to it's release.
If this is a decent PC port and continues with good word of mouth, it'll probably do pretty well sales wise on the PC. Weird how they didn't extend the Steam special offer of 30% for another couple of weeks to bring it in line with the EGS offer.
Go_Ly_Dow
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Still the Switch 2 ports to come for these games which can do quite well.
When the final game is announced (I am going with by the end of this year) I imagine a lot more folks will jump for both Remake and Rebirth in preparation for the finale.
Anthony Soprano
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Bought a Japanese game with a Hello World PS5 exploit hoping it would lead to a way to export my PS5 game save for this to import to the PC version, but nothing ever came of it. Oh well.
Nickolaidas
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If you play on ultra? Maybe!
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