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Please be excited.
A couple notes:
-Jessie!
-I think those are stand in voice actors for the purposes of the trailer. A few of them sounded kinda sketch, and I don't see any reason why they wouldn't bring back the Advent Children/Kingdom Hearts cast. As far as I can recall they've only had one guy voice Cloud up to this point and this isn't him.
One thing that really stood out was that it looked like Barrett was playable. Which is a load off because I was afraid we'd be stuck with Cloud the entire time. And now I'm curious to how all the party members will play. Cid, Yuffie, and Red will be interesting.
Not sure about a stand-in cast, I compared new Aerith to Crisis Core Aerith and I think they're the same actress - Andrea Bowen. I also think Cloud sounds about right compared with Crisis Core.
In terms of sound of the acting sounding a bit sketchy... yah, that's English Final Fantasy in a nutshell! They haven't had a non-sketchy one since XII. Overall, looks good! Last year or so I'd got into the 'lol FFVIIR is such a joke' phase but this has restored some of the magic I felt at the 2015 announcement. Shame the UI showed Tifa a bunch of times but she didn't actually appear in the trailer ¬_¬
I think Aerith sounded really good and Jessie as well but whew lads that Barret.
Maybe i'm just a scorned Beau Billingslea fan.
So, more to come in June - E3 presumably. I don't expect a release date, I don't expect much more footage, although maybe a short stretch of uninterrupted gameplay.
I do expect confirmation that they're dropping the 'episodic' plan. It's a dumb idea that is going to turn what should be the world's easiest PR coup into a catastrophe. They know it, we know it, and they know we know they know it. So they may as well confirm that now and reap the goodwill.
Ready to jump on that hype train !
Crossing fingers for some drag Cloud in June.
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Originally Posted by Fractoggen
Do you work for the Shinra?
welp yes I am excited this is going to be amazing
Whether or not they've made some major changes to the gameplay, the most important thing for me is that it feels like FFVII. And that smurfing trailer captured it.
Hell yes, just when I was ready to abandon hope it's time to get back on the hype train!
One thing however, why is Sephiroth appearing in the bombing mission? Is it just a random flashback?
I haven't been buzzing this much since E3 2015 when the remake project was first announced.
Also in the State of Play at the end of the trailer the announcer lady said that it's coming soon to PlayStation 4. So maybe it's actually a lot closer than we expect (especially if they're sticking to the silly episodic idea).
I’m just happy people will be more active again
I really like the way they look and the way they sound. I really can't wait for more informations in June! :D
I will never be excite for the trout combat system they're putting into this game. Sorry, I have no intention of playing it.
Of course I'm excited. My first ever post in this forum referenced the FFVII remake. It's nice to see it might actually be happening at some point in my lifetime. Let's be honest though, we're still not gonna see this game for a long time...
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Cloud sounds good, Aeris sounds good, Sephiroth sounds bad, Barret sounds abysmal.
Gotta see more gameplay to get a real idea if I'll get it or not.
Sephiroth does sound weird. Is that even George Newbern anymore?
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There's actual materia in the Buster Sword!
Fewer than 12 hours after I posted this it turned out to be wrong. Talk about aging poorly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fox
Well done SE, you once again show me the error of my ways when I give you just the slightest, tiniest amount of credit whatsoever.
Well at least we're finally seeing footage past the second Mako Reactor. All the way up to Don Corneo at least. I still imagine Episode 1 will only cover the Midgard section. Combat looks like a variation of FFXV and Crisis Core at the moment, and I'll say right now that it's likely too early to say for sure that Barret and the rest of the cast are fully playable.
Not a bad trailer and I'm happy we're finally seeing some Aerith for once and that she sounds normal. I've been playing too much KH lately and completely forgot how awful her VA was in KH2. I'm still predicting the game will be released at the earliest by next year, but it's a good sign that SE is actually starting to talk about it again.
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I have watched this trailer a few too many times. It's looking really good and I can't wait to find out more about it in June. The trailer made me start replaying FFVII today, but I'm not sure whether I'll continue or not. On one hand I want to, but on the other I just want to wait for the remake.
I’m beginning to have doubts that Red XIII will be playable in this episode.
The voice acting seems fine for what it is: A dramatic video game with eccentric anime-like dialogues and statements. They're not in context in the trailer, obviously, and are just pulled soundbites that will inevitably make sense when given context, scenario, etc. Also, I felt like they were the same voice actors from previous games.
Digging everything about this. Can't wait for Tifa and Red XIII to be revealed! I am hyped.
I've already been seeing people complain about Tifa's tits and we haven't even seen them.
Also saw some complaints about how Cloud looks to feminine. I lol'd
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Why ? This episode should at least go up to leaving Shrina HQ.Quote:
Originally Posted by 8ther
I heard somewhere that you'll be able to switch freely between any characters in your party. I think it was the Final Fantasy Union video on YouTube about the myriad blink-and-you'll-miss-it details hidden in the trailer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vermachtnis
It's looking good so far - I especially like the fine detailing on the scenery and characters, and fine touches like the animations and hit effects for each character during combat.
I'm still dubious about whether they'll ever actually finish and release any of it. The fact that it'll be episodic also gives me pause - how much content per episode, and how often? How many hundreds of HDD-hogging gigabytyes by the time it's actually done? Are they going to use "episodic" as an excuse to discard tonnes of content and reduce the game to a highlight reel of key scenes? Or just as bad, go the Valve route of abandoning future episodes entirely because it's cheaper and easier to focus on other games instead?
Sure, I sound very pessimistic about all this. It's mainly because I have so little faith in Tetsuya Nomura's creative ability. I simply don't think he has what it takes to direct a full-blown remake of FFVII in its entirety, and I don't think Square-Enix has sufficient talent or passion to commit to the project either. I'd love to be wrong, but I've been seriously dubious ever since that early announcement that the remake was going to be episodic, apparently because they simply couldn't figure out how to release it as a complete product.
*potential FFVII spoilers if you somehow haven't played it yet*
There's still so much we don't know about this game, hopefully we will get the answer to many of those questions next month.
I mean, this is Final Fantasy VII. However, they're touting this as a "new story". So far the opening scenes feel extremely faithful to the beggining of the game, but we have to remember that Final Fantasy VII is part of a compilation now.
We can forget about Advent Children and Dirge of Cerberus due to the fact that they take place after the events of Final Fantasy VII. However if they really want to tell a new story then they'll have to of course reference Crisis Core if they want it to remain canon. Aerith will be pivotal to this and I hope they get her to expand on her past, especially in the scene with her being taken away from her mother and when she references Zack. I don't want her to just say "oh you look like someone I knew once".
If anything they have been giving off the impression that they will expand on existing content, with more of Midgar being explorable. They have stated something along the lines of each episode having a full game worth of content which I'll take with a pinch of salt but still will expect something at least on par with Life is Strange levels of content, with likely additional cutscenes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Big D
Life is Strange doesn't have that much content. Don't get me wrong, I like it, but if that's the measuring stick we're going by we may have trouble.
Well, with the inevitable story of Midgar with fighting added in, it'll already be bigger immediately. And, again, it has been at least suggested by SE that each episode will be on par with a full game from them. I don't think it'll go to that extent but we shall see.
Personally I'm not overly bothered so long as the price of the episode justifies the size/length of the episode. And to be honest, I'd pay three times as much money for my favourite game of all time in comparison to what I pay for a regular game, so a remake would probably get me paying silly money no matter what.
They said that in terms of length, it will be comparable to the games in the FFXIII trilogy.
I'm usually weary of developer talk about game length, especially with RPGs, because I find more often than not, that they try to make a game sound longer by using the number associated with a 100% playthrough over someone just trying to finish the story mode. With that said, I'm more concerned about the episodes getting over-inflated with boring side content to pad the game out. You know, Episode 1 could have been the whole first disc of the game, but instead it's just the Midgard sequence because half the game was helping the various inhabitants of Midgard get those 50 bear butts they desperately need to live another harrowing day in their dystopian setting. You might be saying to yourself now, "WK, are you still bitter about 70% of the content of Crisis Core was the same quest just in one of the games seven different dungeon maps?" and I would say: "Yes, I'm still really bitter about that" :wcanoe:
Course, we'll have to wait and see but judging by many of their recent games, SE really likes MMO style quest shenanigans.
Yeah, that would be a shame if it's all badly written etc. and overly repetitive, but I don't think I'd let that get in the way of my enjoyment of the game for what it is. At least, I hope not! I'm going to go into it assuming the worst and enjoying the moments more than I am focusing on the game in it's entirety - if I want a replica of FFVII, I have FFVII. Similar to how I don't bother buying HD remakes of FFX/FFXII (although admittedly this is on a completely different level of graphics improvement).
Rumored leaks are saying it's actually only going to be two episodes, with the first ending where disc 1 ended, but take that with a grain of salt, as with all rumors.
hahaha barrett doesnt sound good i havent been following the remake thing honestly this is the first thing ive looked at but it looks like it will be kinda fun
The original FFVII wpuld have been well worth the full price of the PSX + game price + price of a memory card if I never had played another game on the console. The remake though? Hard to put a price on having your memories trout on. Let's say $20 for the curiosity factor/hope that it's not bad.Quote:
Originally Posted by Loony BoB
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Originally Posted by Lone Wolf Leonhart
You'd seriously only spend $20 on a tribute to a great game? I wouldn't bother playing it if I were that sensitive about my precious memories. The memories will still be there, the remake changes nothing about the original game. Based on what I've seen so far, they will have a buttload of amazing custscenes of what we saw when we played the original game, and I would pay $20 for all of those cutscenes alone. I might not like parts of what they change if they change anything, but I'm not going to act like my favourite game of all time is somehow tarnished for it. It'll still be the greatest game of all time for me. This is just an opportunity to see some seriously cool upgrades on the graphics, beyond anything else in the series, done to my favourite game. What's not to like about that? I'll happily pay.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lord Golbez
not everyone made a million dollars off eoff amazon referral link revenue bob. christ.Quote:
Originally Posted by Loony BoBYou'd seriously only spend $20 on a tribute to a great game? I wouldn't bother playing it if I were that sensitive about my precious memories. The memories will still be there, the remake changes nothing about the original game. Based on what I've seen so far, they will have a buttload of amazing custscenes of what we saw when we played the original game, and I would pay $20 for all of those cutscenes alone. I might not like parts of what they change if they change anything, but I'm not going to act like my favourite game of all time is somehow tarnished for it. It'll still be the greatest game of all time for me. This is just an opportunity to see some seriously cool upgrades on the graphics, beyond anything else in the series, done to my favourite game. What's not to like about that? I'll happily pay.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lord Golbez