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The Official NeoGaf Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Thread

Aeon712

Member
The DMW is weird I just got
Cissnei, and the game cut to a cut scene of her fighting some Genesis clones and Zack running to her rescue only to be beaten by Reno and Rude. Made me go wtf that didn't happen
 
I went at lunch to pick up the game with the CC deal and they had none in stock. I asked the guy standing at the computer, and when the PC said there was 0 in stock, he said 'we only get a few copies of each PSP game because the PSP isn't really selling anymore.' I pointed out that it was in the ad, and he said I could talk a lady there who should know when it is being restocked. I am still convinced they hadn't even got it yet.

I went to BB to price match, but I couldn't find the game anywhere, and they must have had the worst game display (for all their systems) I have ever seen. I guess the game just isn't out in my area yet.

I may just order on Amazon.

Digital Distribution of PSP games can't come soon enough :-/
 

bjork

Member
Tamanon said:
You'll go there later on, the train just isn't there yet.

Ah, okay.

I like the freeroam bits of it, but I figured Midgar would be more populated. Maybe it's late at night or something?
 

McLovin

Member
x-play gave this game a 2 out of 5. Their opinion usually doesn't influence me that much but it is a low score. So Gaf.. what do you guys think? Is it worth a buy? What would you guys that played the game rate it?
 

bjork

Member
McLovin said:
x-play gave this game a 2 out of 5. Their opinion usually doesn't influence me that much but it is a low score. So Gaf.. what do you guys think? Is it worth a buy? What would you guys that played the game rate it?

If the game industry were a shopping mall, x-play would be the Spencer's Gifts. A couple of things you might want to look at, but overloaded with stuff that tries too hard to be shocking.

Take them with a box of salt.
 
Only had a few left at the local CC and amazingly I didn't have to explain to the employees what deal they had advertised. They grabbed a gift card immediately and knew what to do.

buck_ff7.jpg
 

Hcoregamer00

The 'H' stands for hentai.
McLovin said:
x-play gave this game a 2 out of 5. Their opinion usually doesn't influence me that much but it is a low score. So Gaf.. what do you guys think? Is it worth a buy? What would you guys that played the game rate it?

I played the game for 16 hours and I would give it an 8/10 so far.

The missions could have been something great, but instead they recycle the same 4+ stages with the same mundane "kill the monster" quests.

It would have been pretty cool if they actually made this a traditional RPG, rather than an action RPG, complete with world map, a party, and a bunch of other stuff, but for what it is the game is quite great.
 

McLovin

Member
bjork said:
If the game industry were a shopping mall, x-play would be the Spencer's Gifts. A couple of things you might want to look at, but overloaded with stuff that tries too hard to be shocking.

Take them with a box of salt.

Hcoregamer00 said:
I played the game for 16 hours and I would give it an 8/10 so far.

The missions could have been something great, but instead they recycle the same 4+ stages with the same mundane "kill the monster" quests.

It would have been pretty cool if they actually made this a traditional RPG, rather than an action RPG, complete with world map, a party, and a bunch of other stuff, but for what it is the game is quite great.
All I needed to hear. Gonna pick it up today if possible. I'll probably pick up god of war later as well.
 

Amir0x

Banned
yeah i just dont know about this game. i tried it out a bit at lunch today at work, and... I just don't know. It seems way too fucking easy, and I can't yet find any strategy. Right now Crystal Chronicles on DS is way better.
 
So, I'm just about done with Lost Odyssey (great game, go get it if you haven't), and I'm looking at this. Is it worth a purchase? This is from someone who loved FF7 but hated DoC+AC. How long is it?
 

commish

Jason Kidd murdered my dog in cold blood!
Amir0x said:
yeah i just dont know about this game. i tried it out a bit at lunch today at work, and... I just don't know. It seems way too fucking easy, and I can't yet find any strategy. Right now Crystal Chronicles on DS is way better.

Yeah, usually a few minutes of playtime is indicative of an entire game's quality. You should probably stick with the DS game.
 

MechaX

Member
Amir0x said:
yeah i just dont know about this game. i tried it out a bit at lunch today at work, and... I just don't know. It seems way too fucking easy, and I can't yet find any strategy. Right now Crystal Chronicles on DS is way better.

Starting off on hard mode will pretty much erase the "too easy" complaints. At least until you're past the first Behemoth.
 

Tideas

Banned
BuckRobotron said:
Only had a few left at the local CC and amazingly I didn't have to explain to the employees what deal they had advertised. They grabbed a gift card immediately and knew what to do.

buck_ff7.jpg

7 purchases! muhaha take that suckers
 

Barrett2

Member
Just got mine from Circuit City; it looked like they didn't have many left, at least not on the shelf, and the employee had no idea what I was talking about regarding the $10 gift-card. Luckily after a few minutes of calm explanation, I walked out with the game & gift card.
 

Amir0x

Banned
MechaX said:
Starting off on hard mode will pretty much erase the "too easy" complaints. At least until you're past the first Behemoth.

I always start on the most difficult mode allowable, no matter what game I play, unless it's a RTS. I'm definitely going to put more time in it than the hour I did earlier today, but I'm not feeling it. Usually I can feel if a game is gonna click with me after an hour or two, but maybe this will be a late bloomer...
 

Tamanon

Banned
Id. said:
So is the DMW always so random? Lately I've seen Zack use Octaslash Lv5 about 20 times!

Not really, any time you see the box "Heightened emotions blah blah blah DMV", that means a certain character's portrait will pop up more often. Also there are certain events you can do, at least one that I've found that increase your affinity with certain characters.
 
Hcoregamer00 said:
I played the game for 16 hours and I would give it an 8/10 so far.

The missions could have been something great, but instead they recycle the same 4+ stages with the same mundane "kill the monster" quests.

It would have been pretty cool if they actually made this a traditional RPG, rather than an action RPG, complete with world map, a party, and a bunch of other stuff, but for what it is the game is quite great.

The missions are what make it a portable game; bite size pieces you can do in your spare time when you don't feel like diving into the main story. If anything, I found the quest structure strikingly similar to Mass Effect, what with the almost meaningless side-quests with the same environments being recycled over and over again being completely separate from the main story. It works much better on a portable device, mainly for the reason that in a portable you want little bite size chunks to do in a few minutes time.
 
Id. said:
So is the DMW always so random? Lately I've seen Zack use Octaslash Lv5 about 20 times!

It hides behind randomness. There's numbers running in the background that determine what goes on with the DMW, mainly in relation to your equipped materia, accumulated soldier points, and likely many other variables.
 

Id.

Member
Peronthious said:
It hides behind randomness. There's numbers running in the background that determine what goes on with the DMW, mainly in relation to your equipped magica, accumulated soldier points, and likely many other variables.

Ah okay. That makes a lot more sense considering I've been doing some of the missions prior to actually going through the game's main quest. Will doing all the missions net you some some unique, powerful Materia?
 
Id. said:
Ah okay. That makes a lot more sense considering I've been doing some of the missions prior to actually going through the game's main quest. Will doing all the missions net you some some unique, powerful Materia?

There's some missions that give you good materia, but it's not that necessary, unless I guess if you're playing it on hard. I got through the game on normal with no difficulties at 20% missions completed. Most of the materia you get in the missions can be made in materia fusion with materia that you come upon in the main quest anyway, so it's not that big a loss.

Edit: Hah, forgot about summons. Yea, there's a lot of summons that you won't come across in the main story, and have to do the missions to acquire.
 

jiggle

Member
Id. said:
Will doing all the missions net you some some unique, powerful Materia?

Yes
summons + materias + equipments















Changing my plan of taking it slow. I'm skipping all unnecessary missions and aiming straight for the ending now :lol
 

Tamanon

Banned
Also, some summons items are actually just randomly hidden away in mission chests.
Cait Sith's Megaphone
I was pretty shocked when I just randomly found some.
 

Tideas

Banned
I might make an impulse psp buy today when I go buy this game.

I thought I could wait til July for the God of War pack, but nope, dont think I can.

Hopefully I can find a good 4gig memory stick deal online.
 
Tideas said:
I might make an impulse psp buy today when I go buy this game.

I thought I could wait til July for the God of War pack, but nope, dont think I can.

Hopefully I can find a good 4gig memory stick deal online.

I would hope you made an impulse PSP buy when you buy the game; be a bit pointless to have the game sans PSP :lol

I've seen 4GB sticks go for around $40-ish, but you might be able to scrounge one up in the $30s some place.

Himuro said:
WHAT DO ANGELS DREAM OF?!!? :lol

Apparently they dream of overly melodramatic cutscenes filled with quotes from that god-awful LOVELESS.

In other words, Final Fantasy.
 

challen

Member
Hi,

I'm liking this game quite a bit.

I have a question. This is my first time playing crisis core, I started the game on Hard mode, and it is very difficult. I was very happy to beat the first summon after dying 10+ times.

For those that are playing this game on Hard mode for the first time, is it worth the challenge?
This feels harder than playing rock band drums with Metallica songs.
 

dirtmonkey37

flinging feces ---->
Amir0x said:
I always start on the most difficult mode allowable, no matter what game I play, unless it's a RTS. I'm definitely going to put more time in it than the hour I did earlier today, but I'm not feeling it. Usually I can feel if a game is gonna click with me after an hour or two, but maybe this will be a late bloomer...

NOOooooooo!

The impressions -- keep'em coming. :D
 

Zoe

Member
Tamanon said:
Yeah, sorry, but random townsperson deserves to be on that list more than Cait Sith does.

I dunno,
I cared more about his "death" than Aerith's
:lol
 

Zoe

Member
jiggle said:
he died? @.@ boy do i need to replay FF7 after.

Not really.

Something needed to be done in that shrinking temple, but the person who would do it would die. So Cait Sith did it cause he was just a remote-control doll. He came back immediately, but I thought his lines were pretty touching.
 

Tideas

Banned
Peronthious said:
I would hope you made an impulse PSP buy when you buy the game; be a bit pointless to have the game sans PSP :lol

I've seen 4GB sticks go for around $40-ish, but you might be able to scrounge one up in the $30s some place.



Apparently they dream of overly melodramatic cutscenes filled with quotes from that god-awful LOVELESS.

In other words, Final Fantasy.

well, the reason I might buy the game, and not the system, is because CC has a buy CC, and get a $10 gift card. I also have a 10% off Circuit City.

But I might buy my pSP online at Amazon since I get 4% back, and no tax.

So we'll see :) heh
 

Hcoregamer00

The 'H' stands for hentai.
Amir0x said:
yeah i just dont know about this game. i tried it out a bit at lunch today at work, and... I just don't know. It seems way too fucking easy, and I can't yet find any strategy. Right now Crystal Chronicles on DS is way better.

Some of the later bosses are hard as hell if you don't level grind, even in Normal mode.

Peronthious said:
The missions are what make it a portable game; bite size pieces you can do in your spare time when you don't feel like diving into the main story. If anything, I found the quest structure strikingly similar to Mass Effect, what with the almost meaningless side-quests with the same environments being recycled over and over again being completely separate from the main story. It works much better on a portable device, mainly for the reason that in a portable you want little bite size chunks to do in a few minutes time.

I rather have them give me an epic game that gives you the ability to save anywhere.

If you get lost in the storyline, there should be a story summary that you can read if you need to brush up on the events in the game.
 

CAVE343

Member
I'm very glad to hear all the very positive impressions. The wait is killing me, if I can trust my tracking it will arrive tommorow. I will say it one more time, I can't wait :)
 
Y2Kev said:
Waiting for Red Blaster's ending impressions :D

Looking forward to it but I'm in a bit of a stitch right now,
I've gotten 5 of the Materias so far and cannot find the rest, my patience is wearing thin because of the ridiculous encounter rate. I got the one that's right in front of you when you enter, the one on top of the cliff, and then the three in the Lake Of Oblivion.

Edit: just got the one under the cliff
 
Damn this game on hard mode. I can handle Ninja Gaiden and Devil May Cry no problem but there is just something about this game that is so annoying I don't want to play it on Hard anymore. There is nothing worse then trying to heal and getting killed only to start over and do the same damn battles with enemies that take 11 billion hits to kill.
 

Sallokin

Member
Just got done with the fight against
Bahamut Fury
and his special attack was fucking epic. This game has rekindled my love for FFVII which is something I didn't think was possible.
 
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