"Yes, Final Fantasy 7 Remake is still episodic "
What exactly about this game isnt just a lame cash grab?
Its not turn based, we got Blade Barret and Blade runner Midgar. WeEoeoEO
So long as each episode is AT LEAST 30hrs (and they claimed they would be full length FF titles EACH, so 30hrs is the minimum I'd expect)....I'm fine with Episodic.
There is a thin line between not knowing and not caring, and I like to think that I walk that line every day.
I can't really believe them. There's not enough to do in FFVII to warrant MULTIPLE full-game-length episodes. Which makes me think it'll be 10ish-hour chunks of story with some optional side content or something like that. Which I'm sure they'll charge near full-game prices for.
There is a thin line between not knowing and not caring, and I like to think that I walk that line every day.
There is a thin line between not knowing and not caring, and I like to think that I walk that line every day.
They are. I seem to recall them saying that one of the main reasons they wanted to go back and redo FFVII was because there was a lot they wanted to do, that they couldn't at the time, because of various limitations.
For instance, there was a whole sector of Midgard, that we were supposed to go to during the first disc, that they had to remove. Because they couldn't fit it all on one disc, and wanted to end the first disc on the escape from Midgard.
So, imagine that each "Episode" will be the content that was on one disc of the original game... But imagine they were all as long as the first disc was.
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The one game fans didn't screw up...
It's good then and now... period.
That said the remake definitley has issues, there's time though....
Specifically it's way flimsy it doesn't have the gravitas of the origianl FF7 and they screwed up Barret badly....
They need some shot for shot remake stuff in there like the intro cinematic should just be basically exactly the same same music and stuff just enhanced....
Lots of parts like that...
Plus they clearly lost the surrealistic kinda painit er painting/style background of the Ps1 game... every pre-rendered scene made ordinary moments feel spectacular
and significant and they ran right over that...
there's limited development in getting that feel on modern games modern gens... but it's definitely a necessity....
Valkyria Chronicles water canvas thing is ok... but it's just not the same really....
Theres the standard shiny polished approach of like various first party PS4 games like Gravity Rush 2 etc... which is nice but....
It's sad to think there aren't really any live lush 3D feel of the prerendered PS1 games out there....
I hate to say it but only Nintendo with like Pikmin 3 but even then it's still kinda blubbery or something, not pristine...
So yeah... that's a big problem...
The gameplay is much more fine... the turn based system and ATB system has merits but plenty of these sorts of hybrid games work out fine...
Anyway it's bizzare to say but in some ways I would view FF7 as like a 2.5D game... it's still has strong roots in the 2D era before everything went more
fully 3D... and now that we're here I feel like it's often just not done in an interesting way.
Also sometimes it's best to put something out like Nobuo was overrated or something but the thing is he never was overrated
he always was and still is to an extent underrated.
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Instapass with that garbage 'action' combat they are obsessed with in every FF now.
Granted I haven't played any modern FF titles (think the last one I tried to work my way through was X and I disliked it to the point where I never finished it), but while I loved FF7 and I'm really pumped about the remake, I'm also concerned about the switch to what looks like more of an action RPG combat system. Granted, 7's original turn-based system (especially with the unskippable summons cinematics, which I'm sure they'd change at this point since gamers would revolt at having to sit through a couple thousand casts of Knights of the Round) might be a hard sell in this day and age, but if they don't get the combat right here it's really going to risk losing a lot of people. I'm sure I'll buy and play it regardless, but Square is playing with fire with this remake in a lot of different ways. I'm encouraged to hear that they got the band back together to work this through, though.