― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Thursday, 12 January 2006 00:07 (eighteen years ago) link
Also, WHERE DA GAMEPLAY AT?
― Excelsior Syndrum (noodle vague), Thursday, 12 January 2006 00:22 (eighteen years ago) link
On the other hand...
--easiest last boss ever
--no hands
--"..."
--chocobo racing
― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 12 January 2006 00:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Excelsior Syndrum (noodle vague), Thursday, 12 January 2006 00:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― jeffrey (johnson), Thursday, 12 January 2006 11:45 (eighteen years ago) link
I think people have a tendency to penalize games often very harshly (and the "otaku bullshit" certainly makes FF an easier target) not because the characters are really any more ridiculous or the gameplay is really less satisfying, but because it doesn't make them feel the same way it did when they were younger. I say it is a very rare and classic game that can accomplish such a feat. I could much more easily get behind the thread title "Final Fantasy VII: Not Quite as Classic In Retrospect."
― Laura H. (laurah), Thursday, 12 January 2006 13:51 (eighteen years ago) link
When the game came out, I completely fell in love with it and played it endlessly until I realized about 2/3rds of the way through that it was really making me hate roleplaying games due to the insanely long cutscenes. Add into that a couple of really annoying characters (Cait Sith, Yuffie) and minigames that just suddenly stopped being fun and, well... the game is kind of retarded.
Conversely, I still love the PC RPGs that rocked my world (Baldur's Gate I & II + expansions, Planescape: Torment, Neverwinter Nights, Icewind Dale I & II + expansions). They really, really did it right with those games and I'll defend them until I die.
― Dan (Fuck A Chocobo) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 12 January 2006 14:28 (eighteen years ago) link
At least we can all agree that Cait Sith is retarded.
― Laura H. (laurah), Thursday, 12 January 2006 15:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Laura H. (laurah), Thursday, 12 January 2006 15:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― adam (adam), Thursday, 12 January 2006 16:22 (eighteen years ago) link
I will not deny that the storyline to FFVII is great. It's some seriously excellent narrative. I found the actual game mechanics irritating, though; even when it came out for the PC, I had absolutely no desire to pick it up (I'd played it on my roommate's PS and I was moving out due to getting married.)
― Dan (But Yeah, Cait Sith Is Retardo) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 12 January 2006 17:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 12 January 2006 17:24 (eighteen years ago) link
xpost I don't think they are!
― sleep (sleep), Thursday, 12 January 2006 17:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Flower King of Flies (noodle vague), Thursday, 12 January 2006 17:44 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.icybrian.com/freezer/tavisramzapower.php
― TOMBOT, Thursday, 12 January 2006 17:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Thursday, 12 January 2006 18:18 (eighteen years ago) link
MORE BOLD CLAMS
― Laura H. (laurah), Thursday, 12 January 2006 18:30 (eighteen years ago) link
BOLD CLAM: Tactical games have more replay value than conventional RPGs.
― TOMBOT, Thursday, 12 January 2006 18:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Laura H. (laurah), Thursday, 12 January 2006 19:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― A BOLD QUAHOG (ex machina), Thursday, 12 January 2006 19:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― sleep (sleep), Thursday, 12 January 2006 19:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Flower King of Flies (noodle vague), Thursday, 12 January 2006 20:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― c(''c) (Leee), Thursday, 12 January 2006 20:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― A BOLD QUAHOG (ex machina), Thursday, 12 January 2006 21:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― A BOLD QUAHOG (ex machina), Thursday, 12 January 2006 21:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― kingfish russian bigamist (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 12 January 2006 21:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Laura H. (laurah), Thursday, 12 January 2006 22:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― kingfish russian bigamist (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 12 January 2006 22:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Flower King of Flies (noodle vague), Thursday, 12 January 2006 22:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Laura H. (laurah), Thursday, 12 January 2006 22:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― sleep (sleep), Thursday, 12 January 2006 22:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― c(''c) (Leee), Friday, 13 January 2006 00:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― rio natsume, Monday, 16 January 2006 10:47 (eighteen years ago) link
I don't know if your clam holds up to inspection when considering their entire line of stuff since FF7 (b/c the only Square game I've played to completion since that came out is Parasite Eve), but the lack of quality control sure pissed me off during my initial playthrough of the game after it came out. It seemed to me obvious that I was playing an unfinished game once I got past being totally enthralled by the early city stuff. All of a sudden, little touches started disappearing, like the branching dialogue boxes for the relationship subplots. I suppose that that Earthbound review duder would claim that that was just a brilliant bit of misdirection on Square's part, but the way it was handled was really sloppy. Moving on from the first part of the game, the overworld seemed nowhere near as interesting or well-formed an environment as the city was. Is that comparing apples and oranges a bit? Maybe, but why did the characters have to leave that environment at all? All the characters in the party that weren't part of the terrorist group just felt superfluous (especially Cait Sith-- WTF Japanese kawaii bullshit). And why did the third CD basically just contain the final boss?
― Chris F. (servoret), Monday, 16 January 2006 12:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Laura H. WHO IS A GIRL (laurah), Monday, 16 January 2006 16:22 (eighteen years ago) link
I can't remember what I changed cait sith's name to, but I'm sure it was better than cait sith.
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 13:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 13:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 21:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Laura H. (laurah), Friday, 20 January 2006 17:52 (eighteen years ago) link
yeh, and after all that it causes only 200 damage or something.i have very fond memories of ff vii, as i was very ill at the time i played it & the only thing i could cope with was switching on my console & then lying in bed pressing x and o repeatedly.
― zappi (joni), Friday, 20 January 2006 22:04 (eighteen years ago) link
hell, even Planescape and Anachronax had them, and both games made explicit where they cribbed it from
― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 20 January 2006 22:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan (Haws) Perry (Dan Perry), Sunday, 22 January 2006 19:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Sunday, 22 January 2006 21:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Sunday, 22 January 2006 23:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― adam (adam), Monday, 23 January 2006 01:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― VIDEO STRESS (blastocyst), Monday, 23 January 2006 04:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 23 January 2006 05:33 (eighteen years ago) link
this is sort of adorable
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKq9iJMXs8Y
― Jordan, Friday, 21 December 2007 18:23 (sixteen years ago) link
this thread makes me so sad because its mostly kind of right. i used to have a poster of cloud--this whole game was my life for like 6 months.
― max, Friday, 21 December 2007 18:27 (sixteen years ago) link
maybe it's just best to wait for the inevitable Final Fantasy VII HD complete on-disc edition in 2017
― Nhex, Monday, 7 December 2015 15:08 (eight years ago) link
remake is giving me The Spirits Within flashbacks
― welltris (crüt), Monday, 7 December 2015 15:26 (eight years ago) link
Man fuck this episodic bullshit. If it means that open-world exploration is severely curtailed at best then... I don't know.
Stupid of me to get excited about a video game dammit.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Monday, 7 December 2015 18:40 (eight years ago) link
You know I didn't realize till I saw the remake trailers that Aeris doesn't have (and never had!) pointed ears.
― Camina Burana Drummer (Leee), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 01:43 (four years ago) link
just saw a spoiler for the remake that made my interest in it go from 0 to 100
― ciderpress, Friday, 3 April 2020 17:02 (four years ago) link
Finally, the chocobo-fucking minigame we've all been clamoring for.
― Unparalleled Elegance (Old Lunch), Friday, 3 April 2020 17:10 (four years ago) link
― Nhex, Monday, 7 December 2015 15:08 (four years ago) bookmarkflaglink
Sad lol
― Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Friday, 3 April 2020 17:40 (four years ago) link
mini games are dangerous. I remember just losing all interest in the story in FFVIII and just playing triple triad constantly, only playing the story to provide new games of triple triad
― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Friday, 3 April 2020 17:55 (four years ago) link
i'd be cool with them expanding the FF7 maybe HALF as much as they seem to have done, and then cranking out the games twice as fast.
that's how it works, right?
but seriously, i have no interest in playing a 250 hour full re-make of FF7, anyway, especially if that takes 8 years to put out. if it was around 125 hours, maybe, and over 4 years? that's way more in my range
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Friday, 3 April 2020 20:43 (four years ago) link
especially if that takes 8 years to put out
8 years starting now, i mean
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Friday, 3 April 2020 20:44 (four years ago) link
― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Friday, April 3, 2020 1:55 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
i'm doing a playthrough of 4 through 13 and triple triad is the thing i'm most excited about, hope it's as good as i remember it being when i was 12
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Friday, 3 April 2020 20:59 (four years ago) link
there’s at least one implementation of that game mechanic outside of having to play final fantasy eight, you know
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Saturday, 4 April 2020 03:32 (four years ago) link
― ciderpress, Friday, 3 April 2020 17:02 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
can you put it in rot13 or something
big but vague spoilers: gurl ner tbvat erohvyq bs rinatryvba jvgu gung fuvg
― wasdnuos (abanana), Sunday, 5 April 2020 03:56 (four years ago) link
nrevf qvrf
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Sunday, 5 April 2020 04:47 (four years ago) link
im heading in tonite
― adam, Friday, 10 April 2020 20:17 (four years ago) link
The early hours of this are more like Yakuza than I expected, i.e you walk around a vivid urban sandbox having chats and doing sidequests and uh also there is an awful deranged Goro Majima expy who loves fighting you
― Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Friday, 10 April 2020 22:06 (four years ago) link
jesus now i am even more hyped
― adam, Friday, 10 April 2020 22:34 (four years ago) link
I'm seven hours in and approximately 40 minutes into the plot of the original game
Looks great, spend a lot of time just looking at stuff and soaking up the vibe, it's kind of bittersweet idk
The combat mechanics work for me, clattering people with Tifa doesn't seem like it'll get old and there's plenty of stuff for you to do in combat with each character right from the start
A lot of the hardcore fans seem excited that Biggs, Wedge and Jessie have (extremely) expanded roles, but a lot of the interactions with Jessie are just kind of distractingly uncanny gibberish. Britt Baron is a bit more natural as Tifa
There are at least two Skyrim guys in this game whose voices I'm extremely sick of
― Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Saturday, 11 April 2020 00:18 (four years ago) link
kill me
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Saturday, 11 April 2020 00:44 (four years ago) link
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Friday, April 3, 2020 8:32 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink
The only one I know of is through that square app but they no longer have online play
― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Saturday, 11 April 2020 02:42 (four years ago) link
it took me a few minutes to place the voice actor who plays Wedge: it’s Matt Jones, who played Badger on Breaking Bad. And the character is kind of like an optimistic, less-stoned Badger
― mh, Saturday, 11 April 2020 03:20 (four years ago) link
as far as I can tell, Cloud is now dating every female character. And also probably Sephiroth.
― mh, Saturday, 11 April 2020 03:21 (four years ago) link
jim i swear every year someone does it on iOS with the serial numbers filed off -- e.g. here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/elementimals/id452197048 -- but i don't know if there's any recent versions still working on modern iOS iterations
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Saturday, 11 April 2020 03:51 (four years ago) link
i am not sure if this game is "good" but it's fun and very strange and very much interested in its own remake-ness.
― adam, Sunday, 12 April 2020 14:09 (four years ago) link
the latter being what i was referring to upthread that made me interested in it
― ciderpress, Sunday, 12 April 2020 14:37 (four years ago) link
Game is very hornyAerith is very annoyingChadley is a little fucking weirdo and I wish I could smack him
Music is great
In the middle of a strangely sequenced bit where Cloud just sort of chills out for hours after a major catastrophe
― Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Sunday, 12 April 2020 15:15 (four years ago) link
no PS4/didn't play but watched the entire game online m/l start to finish on a cpl twitch streams. pretty amazing! def a surplus of drawn out parts and a little melodramatic but overall beautiful, they did really great things with all of the characters and the soundtrack is about as good as you could hope for. And after a cpl days thinking about the ending and how they remixed + restructured the game... pretttty fuckin smart!
― lumen (esby), Monday, 13 April 2020 20:07 (four years ago) link
have they nailed the psychedelia of the origibal game? sooo trippy in places
― thomasintrouble, Monday, 13 April 2020 20:46 (four years ago) link
It's less trippy, I think. You lose a bit by having expensive orchestras playing everything instead of cheap but extremely evocative ps1 electronic noises. Like the mako reactor music does not chill me to my core any more for example
Also lots of gaps that your imagination filled in the original game are now filled by realistic character models and voice acting
Every time I think I'm going to finish this game I get north of midnight and get attacked by 300 robots in a labyrinthine facility that didn't look like it could be that big from the outside
Reserving judgment on the ending til I see it but I am fairly up for them pruning/abridging the less iconic bits from the middle bit of the original game. I won't be disappointed if I don't get to fight for my life for eight hours while traversing the network of sewers beneath the Costa del fuckin Sol
― Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Thursday, 23 April 2020 09:37 (four years ago) link
ILG: the gaming board where no one has time for Final Fantasy VII Remake, really
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Thursday, 23 April 2020 11:57 (four years ago) link
It's really good! But when are we going to get to the fuckin fireworks factory!!
― Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Thursday, 23 April 2020 12:13 (four years ago) link
I was going to download this but I'd have to delete some games off my PS4 to make space for it and I don't actually care enough to do that
― DJP, Thursday, 23 April 2020 13:49 (four years ago) link
I'm to the point where I've almost finished fighting my way up the stairs as the Turks are hovering in a helicopter getting ready to drop the plate. Taking my time, I guess
― mh, Thursday, 23 April 2020 14:01 (four years ago) link
I won't be disappointed if I don't get to fight for my life for eight hours while traversing the network of sewers beneath the Costa del fuckin Sol
i haven't played the game, only read about it, but correct me if i'm wrong in thinking that it is more likely that you will instead have to fight for 16-24 hours in the sewers beneath the Costa del fucking Sol, with a bunch of expanded scenes and mini-bosses
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Thursday, 23 April 2020 15:06 (four years ago) link
man I have played a lot of ff7 and yet I'd completely erased that whole section from my memory. almost tempted to invest in a ps4 on lockdown but not sure it's really what i need in my life
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Thursday, 23 April 2020 15:08 (four years ago) link
At this point, Costa del Sol is probably going to be in like... part 3 or something
― mh, Thursday, 23 April 2020 15:16 (four years ago) link
Not a spoiler at this point, but the released remake thus far only covers Midgar, from what I've read
― mh, Thursday, 23 April 2020 15:17 (four years ago) link
the name 'costa del sol' is a sleeper hit for one of the wackiest real-world-appropriated name choices in all japanese video game development
and man i hope there's someone out there who's really really hyped for this and somehow hadn't learned it only covers midgar, and after their 60-hour midgar experience they're furious that the game ends there
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Friday, 24 April 2020 07:30 (four years ago) link
Woulda been me eventually
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 24 April 2020 08:17 (four years ago) link
I’m glad the kind-of-spoiler I read is actually something that becomes clear as you’re playing, regarding the weird spectres
― mh, Friday, 24 April 2020 15:17 (four years ago) link
Big fan of Cloud's mom being called Claudia
The late game bit where some toughs sic a monster on you in a junkyard with great fanfare is also good clean mischief
― Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Monday, 27 April 2020 19:24 (three years ago) link
This game is very very pretty on ps5 and I have having a great time playing it. I think after 15 years of trying final fantasy games, it’s finally starting to click why they are so well loved
― hrep (H.P), Sunday, 13 March 2022 07:52 (two years ago) link
Initial (~8-12 hours, rmde) impressions:
This game is long! I'm still pnly bombing Shinra buildings?After reading some guides, I think I'm finally understanding the combat, but man, it's complicated and the game doesn't do much to ease you into it. (It does make me long for simple nice turn-based action.)I really don't like Barrett's voice actor. :(I guess it's been a while since I played an FF (lol I think 9 was the last one) but I've forgotten how campy it could be.
― Carnegie Felon (Leee), Saturday, 30 April 2022 20:01 (one year ago) link
Pretty much everyone who played the first part of the remake said the only thing it was really missing was having constant interruptions from that weird little cunt in the sailor outfit
― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Saturday, 2 March 2024 19:29 (one month ago) link