I have played Mass Effect and Saint's Row you know, but I wouldn't say his association to video games is stronger than other known voice actors, which was my main point. I know he does a lot of other non-video game stuff.
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Giant Bomb 18: Everything is always a surprise on some level
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I have played Mass Effect and Saint's Row you know, but I wouldn't say his association to video games is stronger than other known voice actors, which was my main point. I know he does a lot of other non-video game stuff.
CoolBatteryCharge
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I still never got my FF6 PSP anniversary remake when FF1+2+4 got theirs, so I'm sitting here laughing at FF7 fans being miserable after all the attention they got for the last 15+ years.
nckillthegrimace
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There are people in that thread who think it will be like a Telltale game just because it's episodic. Jesus Christ.
Here's what's going to happen: they break FFVII into three or four biggish chunks so they can charge you way more than $60 for the whole thing. See also: Ground Zeroes, Kingdom Hearts 2.8, .hack, The Hobbit, etc.
Here's what's going to happen: they break FFVII into three or four biggish chunks so they can charge you way more than $60 for the whole thing. See also: Ground Zeroes, Kingdom Hearts 2.8, .hack, The Hobbit, etc.
my vita has been ready
And people were complaining about the lack of a turn-based system; delicious.
CoolBatteryCharge
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Would be interesting if they lined it up 1:1 with the original 3 disc release.
Not only was FF7 my first FF it was also like the 2nd video game I've ever played.
Death Metalist
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That FF thread makes me laugh, I don't think it'll be that bad because it reminds me of anime films that are made in parts with different artists ala Gotham Knight. So, It's certainly an interesting take.
I wonder where the people who said why the G I A N T B O M B B O Y Z weren't excited for this announcement.
I wonder where the people who said why the G I A N T B O M B B O Y Z weren't excited for this announcement.
This gen suuuuuucks
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
To be fair, this would be a way to make giantbomb way more interested in the game.
nckillthegrimace
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Probably the same way it worked when games were split across discs: lots of data and assets repeated across discs.
FTFY
It's been years since I played it last so I don't remember how seamless that stuff was.
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thepotatoman
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I used to really want a FF7 remake myself, but after seeing this news and noticing my lack of care about it, I think all I wanted was the internet exploding with hype at FF7 remake announcement, and not the actual game itself.
IIRC everything was on every disc except videos and they were labelled in sequence unique to each disc. Effectively, that meant you could hack or glitch your way into play disc 3 stuff on disc 1, disc 1 on disc 2 or whatever, and the wrong FMVs would play when you got to one. That's about it.
Could be totally wrong here.
ThreePiMatt
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Disc 3 is largely the end of the game, I don't think that's necessarily a good breakpoint.
I think you could potentially expand all the Midgar stuff and make that its own part, then make part two end where disc two would normally start
, which would make part 3 a more appropriate size (assuming there would be 3 parts).
Edit - Expanding Midgar may also be a good idea since you wouldn't have to worry about the overworld yet, since I imagine getting that right could be a potentially big undertaking.
I think you could potentially expand all the Midgar stuff and make that its own part, then make part two end where disc two would normally start
Aeris's death.
Edit - Expanding Midgar may also be a good idea since you wouldn't have to worry about the overworld yet, since I imagine getting that right could be a potentially big undertaking.
Incandenza
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The other options is that they remake the game to be super linear such that backtracking isn't really a thing.
I've never played FFVII so I don't know if that's actually viable, but that is the next best "piss off everyone who loves FFVII" thing that they could do.
I've never played FFVII so I don't know if that's actually viable, but that is the next best "piss off everyone who loves FFVII" thing that they could do.
LurkerPrime
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In what way? Awkward translations, or just dense as heck?
(I should really watch the XBCX QL...)
Twin Tails
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#NoEpisodes4FFVII
Booting Tales from the Borderlands for the first time....
I know that Telltale are known to be a terrible studio tech wise but come on... I hate it when PC games default to stupidly low resolutions (1024X768 in this case)...
I use a bunch of floating windows on multiple monitors so changing resolution like that always screws up my windows.
It's really fucking easy to figure out what's the desktop resolution and then match it automatically.
Sorry... I had to say it... Pet peeve of mine.
I know that Telltale are known to be a terrible studio tech wise but come on... I hate it when PC games default to stupidly low resolutions (1024X768 in this case)...
I use a bunch of floating windows on multiple monitors so changing resolution like that always screws up my windows.
It's really fucking easy to figure out what's the desktop resolution and then match it automatically.
Sorry... I had to say it... Pet peeve of mine.
nckillthegrimace
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It's ridiculously dense. There are like eight thousand sub-systems.
It's only worrying because everyone knows this FFVII episodic remake will be more than $60 altogether and we don't know if they'll skip over parts of the original game in between episodes.
It's probably the right business move for them since they saw idiots like me still buying a PC port of FFVII on PS4 despite owning multiple copies of the game on every platform it's available on.
Speaking of episodic games I played the first ep of Tales From the Borderlands after all the glowing praise in here. Yep, that game is now my favourite thing to ever come out from both the Borderlands franchise and from Telltale. It's so good.
It's probably the right business move for them since they saw idiots like me still buying a PC port of FFVII on PS4 despite owning multiple copies of the game on every platform it's available on.
Speaking of episodic games I played the first ep of Tales From the Borderlands after all the glowing praise in here. Yep, that game is now my favourite thing to ever come out from both the Borderlands franchise and from Telltale. It's so good.
BUNTING1243
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Nothing like a Sunday evening press release to convey the confidence a publisher has in an announcement
Not one for no-comment gif posting but based on the current discussion...
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1151993
First episode ain't shit. Keep going and you'll see the real deal. There's a reason people call this the best thing Telltale's done since season 1 of The Walking Dead, if not the best thing they've ever done.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1151993
First episode ain't shit. Keep going and you'll see the real deal. There's a reason people call this the best thing Telltale's done since season 1 of The Walking Dead, if not the best thing they've ever done.
stump sock
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BreezyLimbo
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I hope Shenmue III is episodic too.
Just for you know, the consequences.
Just for you know, the consequences.
so much text and menus. just. like mmos would go 'woah there buddy, dial it back a little bit'
Mister Negative
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can you imagine
caring about a video game
caring about a video game
And let Last Guardian be I dunno, a dating simulator.
ThreePiMatt
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I feel dirty, but this had to be done.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=188211356&postcount=2086
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=188211356&postcount=2086
Hmmm... Anybody is having issues with the Loader bot controls in Tales on PC?
I'm in the first fight near the beginning of the game and the RT stuff just doesn't work. Seems like sometime I actually need to hit RB instead but it doesn't always work...
Using an XB1 controller with the wireless dongle.
I'm in the first fight near the beginning of the game and the RT stuff just doesn't work. Seems like sometime I actually need to hit RB instead but it doesn't always work...
Using an XB1 controller with the wireless dongle.
I tried playing 3 times already, but never got out of Midgar. Everything was so slow that it bored me and I dropped it every single time after ~1 hour. I'll wait for the remake too.
I played with an XB1 controller and had to use LT for all the RT prompts. It's weird.
Death Metalist
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I bought episode 2-5 on Black Friday but haven't got around to it. It reminds me alot of Edger Wright films that's why it's fantastic.
From the comments:
I know right? All I care about are my virtual friends on Giant Bomb. Jeff Gerstmann is my friendfu.
They don't need to do that any more. Everything gets installed to the hard drive. Why would they need to repeat assets on different discs?
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I can't imagine caring about humans, let alone video games!
That's a bit different though. Once you got to the end of a disc, you could just pop in the next one and keep playing.
With episodic releases, you reach the end of an episode, and then what? Do they just block off an area and say, "Now you're in free roam mode! Feel free to go back and do side quests that you missed!" and then exhaust all that content and wait another year until the next episode comes so you can chase Sephiroth a little bit more before the next road block? And what about when the story originally took you to older locations to advance the story. Do you block off those locations during "free roam" until the next episode is out?
All the episodic games I've played just end the game at the end of an episode and the only way to go back would be to reload an old save or do a chapter select. I don't think that would work in an RPG.
Making a big RPG like FF7 episodic seems like a really weird thing to do. They're going to have to frame the episodes really carefully. What I fear most is that they'll just make the game super linear (more linear than the game originally was) to solve that problem.
I'm disappointed with this "multi-part series" news, but I also am curious to see how they even pull it off. So many questions in the air.
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