Final Fantasy VII Rebirth - coming to PC on January 23rd

[ADULF HITLOR FAN KLUB]

 

[Mauman]

I wonder how they'll fuck it up this time. The plot of FF7 already was a giant mess without having to throw in

Spoiler

alternate realities and time travel shenanigans

 

[InD_ImaginE]

Eh honestly let them went full insane with the plot as this is alt universe. I can always play the original if I want the OG story. Let me have playable Jessie + saving Aerith ty.

Interesting tidbit from the trailer is such heavy focus on... Yuffie? Seems they want to make a her a secondary protagonist or something?

 

[Falksi]

Pure fucking gaming AIDS on a stick

 

[Duraframe300]

Eh honestly let them went full insane with the plot as this is alt universe. I can always play the original if I want the OG story. Let me have playable Jessie + saving Aerith ty.

Interesting tidbit from the trailer is such heavy focus on... Yuffie? Seems they want to make a her a secondary protagonist or something?

Agreed. Just like most of the compilation shit it's easily ignored and doesn't have to be taken as canon. Might as well go batshit.
Yuffie's the protagonist of the Remake Integrade DLC *Mission* as well. So, probably.

 

[ADULF HITLOR FAN KLUB]

The new Final Fantasy VII trilogy is actually a remake and a sequel at the same time.

Mind blowing, I know.

 

[Modron]

It's an alternative, a what if, not a sequel.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

making fun of your audience doesn't work when you make it a multi-part series, the shock factor only works once

 

[InD_ImaginE]

making fun of your audience doesn't work when you make it a multi-part series, the shock factor only works once

But they never intend to shock more than once.

The shock is the stinger that FF7 Remake is not a remake but an alt-universe.

The hooks for the sequel is what to do with the fact that its alt universe. E.g. for people like me who like the Avalanche Trio from Midgar (its 80% Jessie), it gives the short scene implying they are alive. Saving Aerith has been urban legend in the 2000s, etc.

Square has been shit with FF7 expanded stories but hell, go wild. Just have fun and give the VII series a happy send off.

 

[Falksi]

When Alt-universe shit starts bleeding into any franchise it's a signal to everyone with a brain that said franchise is creatively dead.

 

[Tyrr]

So 2025 on PC? And that's just the second part of 3.

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

Interested to see how they handle combat this go around. The first part definitely felt like a game that badly wanted to play like Dragon's Dogma, but fell short when it came to the execution. But in the time since its release, they did pick up one of the combat designs on Dragon's Dogma and Devil May Cry. I know that guy is working on FF16, but it'd be interesting to see if it had any impact on this too.

I'd definitely love for the action combat of these FF7 game to feel like Dragon's Dogma, but also keep its own identity with stuff like character swapping in combat, and it's whole system with how you use items and abilities.

I guess at the very least the Yuffie Intergrade stuff will become the norm. Although not having a PS5 I haven't played any of that, so have no idea how it actually feels; it did however look more interesting than the combat of the main game.

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

I wonder how they'll fuck it up this time. The plot of FF7 already was a giant mess without having to throw in

Spoiler

alternate realities and time travel shenanigans

They really want to fuck with people they should tie the Final Fantasy Tactics stuff with Cloud being summed to Ivalice into these remakes. Think that's meant to happen when he falls into the Lifestream.

 

[lightbane]

I wonder how they'll fuck it up this time. The plot of FF7 already was a giant mess without having to throw in

Spoiler

alternate realities and time travel shenanigans

They really want to fuck with people they should tie the Final Fantasy Tactics stuff with Cloud being summed to Ivalice into these remakes. Think that's meant to happen when he falls into the Lifestream.

Too bad no-one remembers FFTactics. I'm not sure if Squeenix has the competence to make a good Tactics game (meaning, not too many cringe cutscenes and good turn-based gameplay) anymore. Or a Vagrant Story sequel.

 

[Duraframe300]

I wonder how they'll fuck it up this time. The plot of FF7 already was a giant mess without having to throw in

Spoiler

alternate realities and time travel shenanigans

They really want to fuck with people they should tie the Final Fantasy Tactics stuff with Cloud being summed to Ivalice into these remakes. Think that's meant to happen when he falls into the Lifestream.

Too bad no-one remembers FFTactics. I'm not sure if Squeenix has the competence to make a good Tactics game (meaning, not too many cringe cutscenes and good turn-based gameplay) anymore. Or a Vagrant Story sequel.

There was a FFTactics remaster/remake in the Nvidia leak IIRC, so might pop up down the line.

 

[Modron]

I am getting the feeling that the FFTactics remaster is just an AI upscaled version of the psp release.

 

[lightbane]

I am getting the feeling that the FFTactics remaster is just an AI upscaled version of the psp release.

If the remaster is the same game with prettier graphics and no more changes, that would be fine. Much easier to do than a new game set in FFT's Ivalice, which is what I was saying.

 

[Duraframe300]

I am getting the feeling that the FFTactics remaster is just an AI upscaled version of the psp release.

I mean its quality entirely depends on who's in charge of it. But that's been the case for quite a few years.

 

[RobotSquirrel]

Im actually more disappointed there's no "save Aerith" microtransaction. Yes, square are scumbags but not peak scumbags.
*This likely has to do with me not caring about Square Enix now that they don't own Deus Ex anymore lol. I've stopped caring.

 

[Infinitron]

 

[Duraframe300]

More timeline fuckery.

Combat looks a bit improved but still like a bad copy of elements of other SQE games that did it better.

 

[DJOGamer PT]

So Tifa got killed and Cloud is a Jenova/Sephiroth drone?
Wtf is Nomura doing?

 

[Duraframe300]

So Tifa got killed and Cloud is a Jenova/Sephiroth drone?
Wtf is Nomura doing?

Cloud was a Sephiroth drone in the original FF7. Unless I misunderstand you.

 

[DJOGamer PT]

yeah but I don't remember any scene where he became a wandering cultist or one those retards from advent of children or whatever that was at the end of the trailer...

 

[Delterius]

Wtf is Nomura doing?

trying to get fired

he keeps doing insane shit but it never works

he wanted to turn ffxv into a musical because he saw les miserable. somebody else else had to finish the game for him

so what i'm saying is that nomura has dirt on not just square's owner and ceos, but also the bank of japan salaryman who gives out loans to game companies