Squeenix FF7 Enhanced Edition coming to Steam?

[ForeverStynes]

stynes needs to contemplate sudoku.

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stynes would pay the top dollar for final fantasy 7 remake. have you heard any announcements?

 

[Ermm]

Spirits Within I think actually was not that bad as everyone says.

It actually tried to tell a story, but Advent Children on the other hand was one and a half hour of endless CGI fight scenes, with a plot that went almost nowhere further in FF7 mythos, except for Rufus, and some other minor details about Shinra corp.

Otherwise, the movie was just an excuse to give FF7 maniactards reason to spend their cash for a chance to see Cloud kicing Seprioth's arse once again.

And of course they wouldn't use the kickass 90s art design, because this is 2012, of course, it has to be more emo (and Mr.T is no more relevant, so, bye bye Mr.T of FFVII )

For me, personally, there is no Advent Children in FFVII canon.

 

[Necroscope]

stynes needs to contemplate sudoku.

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stynes would pay the top dollar for final fantasy 7 remake. have you heard any announcements?

Confronting the modern standards with needed resources (time, money, ppl) the remake is impossible, and I remember an interview which someone from Square stating that openly.

 

[Ermm]

If Advent Children character design would be a template for FFVII remake, then it's better that they're not gonna make it.

Altough recently they said that they're gonna make remake only if one of the FF's would sell better and be more critically acclaimed than FFVII.
So buy more and bribe more, you sheeples.

 

[groke]

derp

Newfag detected. Those generic "90's" designs and the new shit are both Nomura decline, and it shows. The only :monocle: FF's are those done by Amano.

Anyone who disagrees with this is obviously a tasteless faggot untermensch.

 

[Ermm]

It's only sad that SNES couldn't fully display Amano's design's, so I wonder how it could've been if he would've worked on FFVII.

 

[stabby]

It's only sad that SNES couldn't fully display Amano's design's, so I wonder how it could've been if he would've worked on FFVII.

Uh, he did? Amano's been involved with pretty much every Final Fantasy made, though he's always been more the concept art & character illustrations guy. Polygon's aren't his thing exactly.

 

[Ermm]

Oh, ok, I am not really up to speed on who has been working on what, so I stand corrected.

 

[TheEntitledOne]

No love for FFIV? There aren't many games out there in which you start destroying towns... Just for the beggining I consider it as good as 6. The newer ones are just good fo what they are.

And I don't wan't to sound repetitive, but I find more emotional engagement in the Rance games than all the FF games put together.


Also, WTF? Naruto avatards in the codex? It's a joke right?

 

[stabby]

Rasputin - Hold that, I take it back due to context. Didn't realize that post-VI he became promo art guy rather that concept art guy. Jumped the gun as I'm more an Amano fan that a FF one, and his promo art for VII fits the style of his earlier FF stuff. Though he did do the concept work for IX, which I find nice and pretty (and is a fact that further mixed me up), and I can see how I prefer it to the previous two games.

Still, my bad.

 

[Necroscope]

derp

Newfag detected. Those generic "90's" designs and the new shit are both Nomura decline, and it shows. The only :monocle: FF's are those done by Amano.

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Anyone who disagrees with this is obviously a tasteless faggot untermensch.

And the fact that you managed to register 6 moths earlier makes you the right guy to showboat. Obvious troll with small ePenis detected. Here, use this:

Amano is undoubtedly a great and unusual artist, so unusual that I can't see him handling cyberpunk:


I'd say Nomura did a pretty good job for FF7, though it was the first and the last time I enjoyed his art.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

As a person who basically can't stand anything that comes out of Japan nowdays (porn movies including), I'd say that FF7 is a really good game, if not the best of it's kind (though I really don't want to involve myself into any FFY vs FFZ dispute)

It's pretty average. This guy nailed the reason for the huge success.

http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?p=2728906&sid=0c021b9df076e2d42c7f451bc3df2f2d#p2728906

Nobody played PS4. Everyone thought it would be like PS1-3, which were annoying to play, and after later PS games shit on the brand nobody had nostalgia towards it anymore. PS4 was an awesome game though, best RPG on the genesis platform. It's also much more playable today than similar age RPGs due to it's macros, fast loading, and simplistic combat.

I think the whole death thing in FF7 was significant on an individual player basis. It's just a game that came out at the right time on a platform kids were pushing for. It was a game a lot of middleschoolers were talking about and being that young, it was their first exposure to a plot in something they cared about more complex than a boxcar kids book. That same age group went on to be the first widespread embracers of the internet and thus FF7's status was concrete. People born before and after will never quite get it even though the internet's age group has now widened.

Repetitive random battles that don't threaten you or your resources is the main problem I have with it. The emoness is greatly exaggerated though, the cast acts in a positive manner most of the time.

No love for FFIV? There aren't many games out there in which you start destroying towns... Just for the beggining I consider it as good as 6. The newer ones are just good fo what they are.

I actually rather like 4, but it's even more on rails than FFs usually are and it pulls the heroic sacrifice card too many times (possibly on par with FF3 and Tales of Symphonia)

 

[TheEntitledOne]

it pulls the heroic sacrifice card too many times (possibly on par with FF3 and Tales of Symphonia)

Well yeah, all those sacrifices. Funny was, that most of them didn't die. (In FF2 on the other hand everyone died)

Anyone played the spinoffs/sequels of FF4 yet? Should I get an extended demo for those for some emulator?

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

Amano is undoubtedly a great and unusual artist, so unusual that I can't see him handling cyberpunk:

I wouldn't say it's that unusual, well at least not given the region. His artstyle is very much built on top of the Japanese woodblock printing tradition (with foreign influences like American comic books added to the mix), especially this particular picture.

 

[Damned Registrations]

it pulls the heroic sacrifice card too many times (possibly on par with FF3 and Tales of Symphonia)

Well yeah, all those sacrifices. Funny was, that most of them didn't die. (In FF2 on the other hand everyone died)

Anyone played the spinoffs/sequels of FF4 yet? Should I get an extended demo for those for some emulator?

Most of the tragedies in general were superficial. FF4 would have been a great game I think if it had been portrayed as more of a crapsack world. Yang and Cid and the twins should all have died for real, Rydia should have as well, and Edward, and probably a few more I'm forgetting. I mean, who actually died in that game that wasn't a monster? Tellah? And after how many fake outs? Oh and Anna too. Cause she really mattered.

 

[TheEntitledOne]

it pulls the heroic sacrifice card too many times (possibly on par with FF3 and Tales of Symphonia)

Well yeah, all those sacrifices. Funny was, that most of them didn't die. (In FF2 on the other hand everyone died)

Anyone played the spinoffs/sequels of FF4 yet? Should I get an extended demo for those for some emulator?

Most of the tragedies in general were superficial. FF4 would have been a great game I think if it had been portrayed as more of a crapsack world. Yang and Cid and the twins should all have died for real, Rydia should have as well, and Edward, and probably a few more I'm forgetting. I mean, who actually died in that game that wasn't a monster? Tellah? And after how many fake outs? Oh and Anna too. Cause she really mattered.

Those fucking twins man. They should have stayed in stone form until the heath death of the universe. But yeah, gotta love the fake deaths.

And seriously people dying in 2 was even worse. From the beggining you get the party of 3+1, the last one being the cursed guest character that will sooner or later die, and you keep getting more and more cannonfodder for that spot, one of the suckiest occupations in a game.

 

[Gragt]

And the leveling system sucked in FF2, which meant that the expendable party member wouldn't be leveled too much since you'd lose him sooner or later anyway.

 

[Necroscope]

It's pretty average. This guy nailed the reason for the huge success.
http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?p=2728906&sid=0c021b9df076e2d42c7f451bc3df2f2d#p2728906

While he may got the point when it comes to the worldwide success, I don't think that judging the game through the prism of it's popularity gives it justice. It would suggest that before FF7 there were significantly better jRPGs, which is difficult to agree with. I mean sure, FF6 and Chrono Nigger were both good, but not as good as post-7 titles like Suikoden II, Xenogears or Breath of Fire IV.

I still have The Official Playstation Magazine issue with FF7 cover story and the article pretty much concentrates around how the game is a step forward towards its predecessor, not really mentioning anything about it being appealing for a new generation of players.

And I agree that FF7 was indeed innovative, though it suffered from some old flaws.

I wouldn't say it's that unusual, well at least not given the region.

Which doesn't really make his style less unusual in terms of game concept art, since I dont think you can can name any other artist with similar technique. When you see Amano, you know it's Amano.

 

[alkeides]

Amano did some concept art for FFX as well. Someone dig up the picture he did of Tidus.

 

[Hobo Elf]

What, this one?

I like the way he uses colors. It's pretty rad.

 

[Falkner]

Amano is pure monocle.

 

[SuicideBunny]

eeeh, the el dorado gate covers he made are kinda meh.

 

[Sul]

Why everybody on the 'dex started to use "eeeh" as a sign of suprise and/or enjoyment? Goddammit this is like the 4th time I saw someone using it today. This is not some kind of shitty anime you goddamm weebos.

 

[groke]

Amano is undoubtedly a great and unusual artist, so unusual that I can't see him handling cyberpunk

Because cyberpunk is such a mundane genre.

And join date isn't the only rule by which the newfag is judged, if you weren't such a newfag you'd probably realise this.

 

[Ion Prothon II]

Funny thing, so far I've seen this picture only on the old covers of 'Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch'. Fucking publishers.