Final Fantasy VII Remake
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Siliconemelons
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How does classic combat work...do you still only control 1 character and the others work off of some stupid ai while running around aimlessly
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Rajaah
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I ended up doing the sidequests as I go in this first go-around, even though I want to see the end of the game sooner than later. Turns out the sidequests are all really short, at least in the early-game, and inoffensive. Even did the "kill 50 monsters" non-labelled sidequest and got MP Up from that random babe. Point is I ended up actually wanting to do them all and it worked out fine.
Right now the only thing I'd change about the game is that it'd be nice if you could switch your lead character outside of battles so I could look at Tifa instead of Cloud.
Right now the only thing I'd change about the game is that it'd be nice if you could switch your lead character outside of battles so I could look at Tifa instead of Cloud.
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StoiCynic
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Gotta be up early so only got to dip my toe in for an hour, work is gonna draaaaag tomorrow.
Few QOL improvements I noticed from the demo. You can turn down the camera stick sensativity in the options and it was a game changer for me. Also, I found moving the camera back made combat and exploration a little more fluid. Speaking of combat, it took me till the end of the demo to get the hang of it but now going through it again at release knowing what I know i'm really quite enjoying it. Can't wait to get into materia and whatnot. Lastly, they fixed it so you don't need your ATB bar full to use a potion out of combat which is a no brainer. Got stuck in a bit of a death loop in the demo because of that. Couldn't get JP audio to work though, gonna have to look into that. Lips not syncing with the dub is kinda triggering.
Soon as the intro started I got all those feels I got as a 15 year old way back when the original launched. Really wasn't expecting that. Trading in my juice boxes for cheap beer, it's gonna be a fun weekend!
Few QOL improvements I noticed from the demo. You can turn down the camera stick sensativity in the options and it was a game changer for me. Also, I found moving the camera back made combat and exploration a little more fluid. Speaking of combat, it took me till the end of the demo to get the hang of it but now going through it again at release knowing what I know i'm really quite enjoying it. Can't wait to get into materia and whatnot. Lastly, they fixed it so you don't need your ATB bar full to use a potion out of combat which is a no brainer. Got stuck in a bit of a death loop in the demo because of that. Couldn't get JP audio to work though, gonna have to look into that. Lips not syncing with the dub is kinda triggering.
Soon as the intro started I got all those feels I got as a 15 year old way back when the original launched. Really wasn't expecting that. Trading in my juice boxes for cheap beer, it's gonna be a fun weekend!
Fadaar
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Metalhead
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I am man enough to admit that when the FF7 logo flashed during the intro while the camera pans above the city and the music really hits I teared up a little. God damn.
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AladainAF
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The worst texture I've seen is when you get to that one place after that, I think where you do the lights. At the very beginning there you can clearly see two seperate non-seamless textures on the wall.
However, with that said, I'm having a fuckload of fun and taking my time with everything. 15 hours in and am in the kids hideout. The texture thing doesn't bother me, though it is a very low-quality deal form Square for sure.
Is there any way to change the controls? Using X to being up a menu is constantly fucking with me.
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Has there been any discussion as to when the second part is likely to release? Are we talking 6 months, a year, more?
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Zaide
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This was my biggest issue going into the game, I originally planned to just wait until the whole thing was done because I don’t want to spread the remake out over the better part of a decade.
But then 2020 happened.
It would be cool if they could do the next few parts in 12 to 18 month intervals but I don’t believe that for a second sadly.
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Rezz
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A big part of the work is the art assets; since they can reuse a good portion (reskin monsters, main characters, etc) it should cut down overall development time to a degree on any sequel. Granted, knowing square they will want to spend a non-trivial amount of time modifying the character's looks to a degree just "because" so that may be somewhat negated, but just having the combat animations and what not in should reduce overall development time a bit.
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Noodleface
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Rude
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They also farmed the game out and that venture failed miserably.
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Rajaah
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That's been me a couple times too. The Barret/Marlene stuff with Tifa's theme playing also gets me a little bit, and just being able to look around at Midgar.
I don't think Square said anything concrete, though if I had to guess...18 months between episodes? They've got the engine and basic assets all finished, which should speed up development time. It wouldn't shock me if it ended up being a yearly release, but I know better than to get my hopes up with Square. Might be bi-yearly. We'll see. If I were a betting man I'd put part two at Q4 2021 though, on PS5.
That reminds me of the Xenosaga series. It wasn't Square, but it ended up being a bit of a disaster. They had goals of making it a six-part series and ended up shortening it to 3 (with the story heavily rushed) because it was too expensive. The way the characters looked completely changed between episodes, as did the combat systems, etc. I hope FF7 doesn't end up being another Xenosaga. Funny thing is the original concept of Xenosaga was for it to be a drastically-expanded multi-game reimagining of the Xenogears story, sorta like this game.
