Final Fantasy VII Remake is a multi-part series
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freeofgreed
Member
How else could
"told across a multi-part series"
be interpreted though? At the very least the game isn't going to all be released at once, and that's more than enough to justify people's concerns here.
Pureauthor
Member
Hahahahaha.
Fuck off SE.
Fuck off SE.
diamond_is_not_crash
Unconfirmed Member
I think we're panicking a little bit early, the fact is we just don't know how it's going to be structered. We'll just have to wait and see.
LightOfTruth
Member
Why can't they understand that all people want is a remake of the original game? They just had to go and fuck it up.
Just when I started thinking that this company has gotten back in touch with the fans...
Just when I started thinking that this company has gotten back in touch with the fans...
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
I'm not going to be paying hundreds to play the complete story. The game may be hugs and expensive to make so I'd rather not say much until we get a solid breakdown.
cj_iwakura
Member
Serious hype killer. I'd rather wait until 2017 and have it all at once. This is FF7, not Metal Gear Solid V.
manipulate
Member
OK I don't care ENORMOUSLY about the fact that it's episodic. But what's terrifying is the the clear implication that this game can no longer have meaningful location-to-location traversal; everything will have to be a set sequence of events. No world to explore. And that, is a huge, huge game changer.
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It's not fair trying to equate game development back then and now. There's a lot of visual fidelity and cutscene creation that hampers how a game gets created now compared to decades ago. Especially in an RPG.
Sho_Nuff82
Member
You should get Opiate's tag. Realest post in the thread.
Explain the Witcher or Fallout or Skyrim or GTA or AssCreed. High budget has been doing open world non stop.
- credits of part 1 will roll after shinra building (would fit pretty perfectly honestly)
- there will be no world exploration
- each part will be the next major location (or two) in the story (every 5-6 hours of the original)
Seriously... recreating the first 6 hours of this game the way they are will be a AAA effort in itself...
- there will be no world exploration
- each part will be the next major location (or two) in the story (every 5-6 hours of the original)
Seriously... recreating the first 6 hours of this game the way they are will be a AAA effort in itself...
Yah, not sure why i typed Sony... heat of the moment i guess.
Scrooge McDuck
Member
Maybe the same way the original game was divided into three (disc) parts.
MaximumSpider
Banned
Way to kill my hype. Oh well, I still have good ol' Persona 5.
Aeternus Malum
Member
I was honestly just thinking "what if they stop making episodes?"
People will be more pissed than EVER
Seven Force
Banned
I was waiting for someone to bring this up, haha.
Sub_Level
wants to fuck an Asian grill.
Half Life 2 episodes were announced after the fact. Half Life 2 was still a complete game with a proper beginning, middle, and end. In fact the ending to Half Life 2 was less of a cliffhanger than the ending to the second episode.
Episode 1 had mixed responses. Episode 2 had a good fan response but thats partly because it came packaged with other games and partly because people were not expecting it to be the last half life game they would play for a decade.
Servbot #42
Unconfirmed Member
How to remake a beloved PS1 JRPG in 2015:
Step 1. Recreate all the fan favorite moments using a stunning graphics engine
Step 2. Cut the turn based combat system, overworld, sidequests, exploration, Etc
Step 3. Sell it as episodes.
Step 4. ????
Step 5. PROFIT!
Step 1. Recreate all the fan favorite moments using a stunning graphics engine
Step 2. Cut the turn based combat system, overworld, sidequests, exploration, Etc
Step 3. Sell it as episodes.
Step 4. ????
Step 5. PROFIT!
That's exactly what I'm worried about. They'll just cover major story bits and either ignore the rest or toss it in as a few lines of text. My goodness, the industry is pretty simple these days. 99% of the time a discrete, complete product on a disc is better than all this episodic, piecemeal junk designed solely to extract more money from you.
Leave it to SE absolutely fuck up something so simple.
Xamtheking
Member
You think it would be completely done by 2017?
I have no issue with people talking about it, but you have hyperbole like "ugh it's gonna be $60 for 1/3 a game" and "I'm out, greedy companies $$$" when the quote in no way says that.
Suzushiiro
Banned
The original game doesn't really let you go to places you're not meant to get to until later in the story already. By the time you have the airship you've already been to pretty much the whole map, to my recollection.
They might have to pull the occasional "hey Cloud we don't have any reason to be here so why don't you just turn around and go to where we do need to go," but that's easy enough to handle.
It doesn't necessarily HAVE to be a hallway. If this is actually episodic, then it could mean that they'll, say, make Midgar a lot bigger so that it's much more explorable, unlike the original Midgar which is just a linear, cinematic setting that you never really see past the paths they push you on. Other cities could also be expanded and they could make areas surrounding those cities explorable.
It could be a more linear experience, but it could also mean they just divide FFVII's world into smaller parts that still offer big areas to explore.
ShockingAlberto
Member
At that point it's just bad Dragon Quest
ShooterMcGavin
Member
#SaveUsNier
Jessie.Bristol
Member
If Capcom doesn't find a way to fuck it up. They just need to look at what they did for REmake on GameCube and say "Let's do that for the current gen." REmake 2 should be for the longtime fans and respect that and not go all in with people who just got into Resident Evil with 5 & 6.
You didn't buy 3 separate disc which launched at different dates.
Do you really think they would have finished everything by 2017?
So young and optimistic lol.
Dark_castle
Junior Member
If it was designed to be episodic, does that mean the major locations are all completely separated and there is no way to travel freely between them seamlessly?
This is not what I wanted it to be like..
This is not what I wanted it to be like..
GoldandBlue
Member
Too late, everyone here are ready to assume the game will have the world map removed, materia removed, summons as microtransaction, and the game costing 200+ dollars to play.
I can understand being upset by the episodic stuff but holy shit this thread.
If you don't buy a previous episode you can't continue the story.
How often do episodic games really do this?
Some serious outrage and hilarious jumps to conclusion.
"Only the best parts are going to be remade!"
"NO MATERIA WTF"
"Hello linear walkthroughs."
Like are you guys thinking straight?
I just see this as separating it across like three(?) parts and releasing them off in sections.
It's a way to get the game out faster, and if they can do it without ruining the experience, so be it.
We literally know nothing about this, so let's share the "here you go muthafukaz" and "wow so ff7 remaster is the only good one ffs" rage until we get one actual word on how this is handled.
Obv it would be the best if everything was there in one go, but we simply don't know yet.
"Only the best parts are going to be remade!"
"NO MATERIA WTF"
"Hello linear walkthroughs."
Like are you guys thinking straight?
I just see this as separating it across like three(?) parts and releasing them off in sections.
It's a way to get the game out faster, and if they can do it without ruining the experience, so be it.
We literally know nothing about this, so let's share the "here you go muthafukaz" and "wow so ff7 remaster is the only good one ffs" rage until we get one actual word on how this is handled.
Obv it would be the best if everything was there in one go, but we simply don't know yet.
Gunslinger
Member
Not the same. HL2 alone is a complete game. The episodes are just expansions.
My hype went from 11 to 0. I've played through VII about 20 times from beginning to end. And I am surely overreacting. I must be...
But seriously, what worries me the most is how they are going to tackle the freedom of the game. Once you were out of midgar, or once you got Tony Bronco and Highwind you could explore, go to a dozen places, find places like Wutai, grab Vincent to your party.
How are they going to offer all this in episodes? There's no way how!!!
This structure may well be very limiting in terms of scope.
Dude... Not like this.
But seriously, what worries me the most is how they are going to tackle the freedom of the game. Once you were out of midgar, or once you got Tony Bronco and Highwind you could explore, go to a dozen places, find places like Wutai, grab Vincent to your party.
How are they going to offer all this in episodes? There's no way how!!!
This structure may well be very limiting in terms of scope.
Dude... Not like this.