General Gaming Final Fantasy VII Remake OT - Big Trouble in Little Midgar

[Paperclyp]

Looks good. 

[crispy4000]

Also, a day 1 patch rumored to be in the works, though DF didn't hear it:

 

 

[Bloodporne]

On 3/3/2020 at 11:39 AM, Bloodporne said:

Tried the demo last night and despite my massive nostalgia for the original, the gameplay in this fucking sucks and I managed to be bored and disinterested before this demo was even over. 

 

I mean it's gorgeous and also fun to see these locations in 3D and all but I'm not buying 1/5th, or whatever, of a remake with now shittier gameplay for $59.99. Kudos to Square though for the funny irony of Shinra-ing the fuck out of this product. 

 

...so I downloaded the demo again...and...I like it now somehow...

 

[crispy4000]

 

[Bloodporne]

I can't wait to completely eat a bag of huge shit and actually buy it for exactly $59.99.

 

@Keyser_SozeDon't you guillotine me, jerk!

[TwinIon]

I must have forgotten that this was a UE4 game. It sure does look pretty good. I really do expect a patch for some of the issues that DF point out.

[crispy4000]

I’ve still got the pre-order I got from Amazon for $45 during E3.  But it’s supposedly not coming in until Tuesday for me.

[vaxick]

My order from Best Buy shipped today.  It was apart of my pre-order spree I went on when I was on the final day of having Gamers Club. 

[ALIEN-gunner]

Seems like at most, if you plan to do everything, the game will last you around 40 hours. That kinda short.

[Keyser_Soze]

17 minutes ago, ALIEN-gunner said:

Seems like at most, if you plan to do everything, the game will last you around 40 hours. That kinda short.

 

It's quite lengthy compared to the same section of the game from the original, however.

[Kal-El814]

8 hours ago, ALIEN-gunner said:

Seems like at most, if you plan to do everything, the game will last you around 40 hours. That kinda short.

I 100%’d FFVII in <80 hours and if you don’t grind you can beat the whole game in around 40. 40 hours for a chunk of the game seems like plenty to me. 

[Paperclyp]

14 minutes ago, Kal-El814 said:

I 100%’d FFVII in <80 hours and if you don’t grind you can beat the whole game in around 40. 40 hours for a chunk of the game seems like plenty to me. 

Really? I would think it would take longer to get the builds necessary and level up high enough to kill the weapons. 
 

Certainly you’d have to know what you were doing pretty well to do it in 80...
 

But yeah the base game isn’t really too long. Hell with the ports that let you speed up the game speed you can really blast through it. 

[Kal-El814]

30 minutes ago, Paperclyp said:

Really? I would think it would take longer to get the builds necessary and level up high enough to kill the weapons. 
 

Certainly you’d have to know what you were doing pretty well to do it in 80...
 

But yeah the base game isn’t really too long. Hell with the ports that let you speed up the game speed you can really blast through it. 

I dunno... howlongtobeat has completionist runs around 80 hours. 

[Paperclyp]

7 minutes ago, Kal-El814 said:

I dunno... howlongtobeat has completionist runs around 80 hours. 

Maybe it is around then if you know what you’re doing. 

[Keyser_Soze]

@Kal-El814 is a pro. Believe me!

[Firewithin]

gave into hype and bought this and i dont even like FF.  quarantine is a hell of a drug

[Kal-El814]

11 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said:

@Kal-El814 is a pro. Believe me!

I'm not at all.  Those old Square RPGs aren't as long as people remember. I had assumed I'd spent a few hundred hours on my old FFVI save file, and when I booted up the cart a few years back it was at 56.

[Keyser_Soze]

Load up your PS1 saves and report back!

[XxEvil AshxX]

To be fair, 40 of those hours were spent trying to get that fucking gold chocobo.

[Bloodporne]

I kind of want to play the original again. I still have my PS1 disc but nothing to play it on  

[Paperclyp]

25 minutes ago, Bloodporne said:

I kind of want to play the original again. I still have my PS1 disc but nothing to play it on  

Totally worth it to buy the port that’s on like everything. 

[Bloodporne]

11 minutes ago, Paperclyp said:

Totally worth it to buy the port that’s on like everything. 

I assume that includes the PS4 port? I wasn't sure what the quality was like, just remember the backgrounds looking really blurry maybe?

[Paperclyp]

33 minutes ago, Bloodporne said:

I assume that includes the PS4 port? I wasn't sure what the quality was like, just remember the backgrounds looking really blurry maybe?

The backgrounds I believe are the backgrounds of the original game. The character models in battle look...great actually, which accents how low rez the backgrounds are. But it’s not like OG FF7 looks good nowadays. 
 

The main draw is the time speed up option. It makes any grind of this game so much more enjoyable. You can also click a button to fully heal and bring your limit breaks up if that is your bag as well. But the speed up option has made those late 90s JRPGs a pleasure to play through again. I recently 100%’d FF8, and I bet I did it in less than 40 hours. 

[Chris-]

You also have to consider that most of us were young back then and/or didn’t have access to a whole lot in terms of walkthroughs/guides. Easy for games to last a long time in that context. 

[Keyser_Soze]

1 hour ago, Bloodporne said:

I kind of want to play the original again. I still have my PS1 disc but nothing to play it on  

 

I threw my discs away because one day I looked and I was missing the 3rd disc. Also I let my friend borrow it a long time ago and his mom wrote my name on every disc.

 

But then I got it on PS3 later. If you get the PC version you can use some sweet mods.

[Brian]

GameFly won’t ship this until the end of April. I am bored and weak so I might cave. 

[Spork3245]

2 hours ago, Bloodporne said:

I kind of want to play the original again. I still have my PS1 disc but nothing to play it on  

 

Use an emulator?

[Bloodporne]

Cool thanks for suggestions everyone.

 

I was thinking the Steam PC version but to mod it looks like a big fucking hassle and I'm not into having to mess with games to that degree, I don't care about visuals enough. I'll get the PS4 version probably.

[crispy4000]

The AI upscaled background mods are probably worth the hassle though.  Square’s upscaling efforts are ugly.

 

If I play through the original again, it’ll be with using those, or portable on the Switch.

[Keyser_Soze]

18 minutes ago, Bloodporne said:

Cool thanks for suggestions everyone.

 

I was thinking the Steam PC version but to mod it looks like a big fucking hassle and I'm not into having to mess with games to that degree, I don't care about visuals enough. I'll get the PS4 version probably.

 

Actually the best FF game to mod is FFT (through emulation as spork suggested for 7) and you can run the LFT mod which re-balances some of the game and adds new abilities and such.

[Bloodporne]

3 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said:

 

Actually the best FF game to mod is FFT (through emulation as spork suggested for 7) and you can run the LFT mod which re-balances some of the game and adds new abilities and such.

Is that Tactics? I never played that one back in the day as I sucked shit at strategy games haha

[Keyser_Soze]

9 minutes ago, Bloodporne said:

Is that Tactics? I never played that one back in the day as I sucked shit at strategy games haha

 

Yes, Final Fantasy Tactics.

 

If you suck at shit at strategy games then you should know this game is not very difficult. I guess the first part of the game is somewhat challenging but you can cruise once you get some levels and pick the right jobs.

[Bloodporne]

1 minute ago, Keyser_Soze said:

 

Yes, Final Fantasy Tactics.

 

If you suck at shit at strategy games then you should know this game is not very difficult. I guess the first part of the game is somewhat challenging but you can cruise once you get some levels and pick the right jobs.

Might give it a shot...so much stuff to try out, phew.

[Greatoneshere]

1 hour ago, Keyser_Soze said:

 

Actually the best FF game to mod is FFT (through emulation as spork suggested for 7) and you can run the LFT mod which re-balances some of the game and adds new abilities and such.

 

The only problem is it isn't The War of the Lions version, which is immensely better than the original PS1 version. It has an excellent mobile port which I played it on (and I don't usually game on phones). So much so I would never recommend anyone play Tactics again if it isn't The War of the Lions version.

 

You can emulate PSP games on PC now though, so I recommend playing The War of the Lions version that way for the best experience. Like with other emulators, you can greatly improve the graphics, framerate, etc. as well. If I were to ever play the original FF7 again, I'd play it via PC emulation for sure (or the "official" PC version with mods I guess).

[Keyser_Soze]

10 minutes ago, Greatoneshere said:

 

The only problem is it isn't The War of the Lions version, which is immensely better than the original PS1 version. It has an excellent mobile port which I played it on (and I don't usually game on phones). So much so I would never recommend anyone play Tactics again if it isn't The War of the Lions version.

 

What's better about it than the PS1 modded version?