RoadHazard
Gold Member
So, I've never played FFVII. Not the original, not the remake. I have played a few of the SNES ones, as well as a bunch of other JRPGs, and I've enjoyed some of them and loved a few (my favorite is Skies of Arcadia - I just love the sense of adventure and discovery in that game). Anyway, I had no big game going on after having finished Elden Ring, so I thought I might try the remake since I had it in my PS+ library.
I don't like it. I really, really don't like it. In fact I got extremely bored almost immediately, and stopped playing once I got on the train after the escape from the reactor. A few of the things that really rubbed me the wrong way:
Why do people like it? Does it get better? Should I keep going, or should I just give up if this is how I feel now? Is the original FFVII better?
I don't like it. I really, really don't like it. In fact I got extremely bored almost immediately, and stopped playing once I got on the train after the escape from the reactor. A few of the things that really rubbed me the wrong way:
- The linearity: Maybe the game opens up later, but the first few hours are literally a string of corridors, quite often with forced VERY SLOW walking while the characters talk about stupid shit. And there's no real gameplay, it's just walking.
- The dialogue: I know, it's typical anime/JRPG style, but damn, I just can't do this anymore. In Japanese I can kinda deal with it because I don't actually understand what they're saying, but in English it's simply unbearable. Everything is so incredibly over the top, but simultaneously without any real emotion. I can't suspend my disbelief, and only find it extremely annoying and grating.
- The combat: I like a good turn-based RPG, and I also like good real-time combat, but I really DON'T like the combination they are trying here. To me it feels like the worst aspects of both systems, rather than the best of each. It's not turn-based enough to feel truly strategic, and it's not real-time enough to feel like I'm actually in full control of what's happening.
Why do people like it? Does it get better? Should I keep going, or should I just give up if this is how I feel now? Is the original FFVII better?
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