Information Final Fantasy VII Re-released for PC

[Jaesun]

But... with this have shitty DRM along with Steamworks?

I hope not.

 

[Diablo169]

I wonder if itll have the shit cloud saving only like the recent rerelease.

 

[Average Manatee]

Fuck the haters.

Only Quistis was worth playing FF8 for. For the first 5 minutes.

 

[Helly]

Darn germans

 

[SwiftCrack]

did that faggot really rip off markleung's college saga?

 

[Helly]

did that faggot really rip off markleung's college saga?

According to the videos' posting date, it's the opposite. And it's nothing new; there have been a lot of stuff like this; but this one takes the cake with its 25 episodes of pure bliss

 

[Jaesun]

Holy fuck that was disturbing. D:

Could. Not. Watch. Anymore.

 

[felipepepe]

Wow, even PS1 graphics looked better than that Cloud & Tifa!

 

[LeStryfe79]

did that faggot really rip off markleung's college saga?

According to the videos' posting date, it's the opposite. And it's nothing new; there have been a lot of stuff like this; but this one takes the cake with its 25 episodes of pure bliss

I was so close to giving up the booze. Oh well............

 

[rpgcodexusername]

It was the nineties....
After playing Fallout, I read some reviews of this new RPG Final Fantasy 7, I had played a few JRPG's on genesis and SNES and some of them where good, like secret of mana and sword of vermillion.

I bought the game and took it home, I was presented with hundreds of lines of emo dialogue, a story and world that made little sense, a very linear game, retarded monsters like furniture and giant pac-men.

This was much worse than those 16-bit JPRG's which I had played years earlier.

 

[spekkio]

Heh, I remember playing Metal Gear Solid (PSX) after Thief 1 & 2.
I was like: "So this is the best console stealth game? Hours of retarded dialogue and fucked up boss battles, with short gameplay parts between them"?
Oh well - millions of gamers can't be wrong, can they?

 

[abnaxus]

Fuck the haters.

 

[spekkio]

@ Metal Gear Solid - obligatory:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/297383

 

[Ignatius Reilly]

Re-releasing old games with zero updates? This truly is a company in a state of desperation. http://www.enixorigin.com/square-enix-reaching-rock-bottom/

Sakaguchi would probably be laughing his ass of but I don't think he's doing so great with his company either.

 

[Azalin]

Final Fantasy VII

There is cloud saving and achievements,

 

[Minttunator]

What really boggles my mind is why they don't just remake it with modern technology - an HD remake of FF7 would sell untold millions. Square must really hate money - either that or they're holding off on it until everybody's bought these shitty rereleases.

 

[felipepepe]

I disagree, FF7 remake would sell well, but not all the millions people think. And to remake a game of that scope in next-gen graphics would cost insane ammounts of money. It had way more ambients and art assets than any of todays games.

 

[Rahdulan]

Not if they turn it into Hallways: the Game. Then again, considering Versus has essentially been in development for an entire console generation and still has no release date sight tells you that you can never know what SE has planned. And that their development pipeline is beyond repair.

 

[Random]

Square-Enix's execs said some kind of bullshit about not remaking FF7 until they can surpass it with new FFs (this was after 9 came out, before you point out that it's an objectively better game). It's just an excuse to never actually remake it. Honestly, I would cream myself if they just remade FF7 to high end PSX graphics (character models as good as 9's were) with updated CG backgrounds (UNF UNF). You could make incredibly good PSX games for 1/10th the budget that modern AAA games require, in half the time, with twice the content as the old days. Imagine throwing EA's combined studio manpower into making the ultimate PSX game. If they had a good director and good writers, they could make the greatest game of all time. Studios are so held back by things like engines and graphics that the quality of games has suffered for it; what if we removed the offending issues and left only proper game making?

 

[felipepepe]

I also would love to see "Ultra-PSX" games, but I think most of the consumers/reviwers out there wound't, they would cry about no voice acting, no BLOOM, no motion blur, and all that shit...

 

[Average Manatee]

I don't see a FF7 remake getting untold numbers of sales. The people who desperately cling to FF7 as a good FF game are the kind of people who are still buying the new FFs no matter how cheaply Square phones it in. Most of FF7s sales came from the time and circumstances of the release, not the release itself.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

yes, but the fact that most of FF7's success is due to the circumstances at release is irrelevant in this case, the point is that it was massively successful and it has passionate fans until today (which is why Square keeps milking it with movies, spin-offs and tie-ins).

 

[Minttunator]

yes, but the fact that most of FF7's success is due to the circumstances at release is irrelevant in this case, the point is that it was massively successful and it has passionate fans until today (which is why Square keeps milking it with movies, spin-offs and tie-ins).

Yeah, that's pretty much what I'm saying - whether or not FF7 was objectively good is somewhat irrelevant at this point. What is relevant, is that many of the millions who liked it when they were 14 would immediately buy again now, it if it was remade. Felipepepe raises a good point, though - it might well be cost-prohibitive to (re)make a game with that scale for modern consoles.

 

[Tigranes]

What really boggles my mind is why they don't just remake it with modern technology - an HD remake of FF7 would sell untold millions. Square must really hate money - either that or they're holding off on it until everybody's bought these shitty rereleases.

They're waiting until they're one step away from bankruptcy. There's about 100 million hidden in Mt. Fuji and when they run out of everything else, that's what they'll do.

 

[Jick Magger]

That and I'd imagine they wouldn't be able to get away with half the shit they pulled in 1997 today. Can you imagine how modern Final Fantasy 7 "fans" (most of whom probably only know the fucking game through emo-Cloud and Yandere Sephiroth in Advent Children and the Kingdom Hearts games) would react to the fucking crossdressing section? Or the part where you must be massaged by bodybuilders in a hottub to aid in your attempts to look more convincingly like a woman?

That and yeah, Square Enix does have to sink alot of time, money, and manpower into their major console Final Fantasy releases, and I'm sure they'd rather try and re-spark their earlier success by getting their fans interested in a new entry as opposed to pining for shit they made almost 16 fucking years ago.