It's actually out for real now.

[Shorty]

At first glance, $10 seems pretty cheap, but if there's essentially no new improvements aside from the achievements (that seem to be kindof lame) then I don't really see the point of buying it. Sad to get fans all excited about a re-release hoping for some significant improvements and then to see disappointing reviews make me not really care about it. :/

They're never going to top FFVII's story or game sales, so they should quit dancing around and just remake the damn thing so they can actually top the original's sales like they want to.

[krissy]

nah
remaking it in the current gen will just make all the flaws stand out
it's a wonderful game and probably my fave ff
but atmosphere would be different
and remaking it would mean the atmosphere would change
and let's be honest not likely for the better (compilation has achieved some stunning moments of 'wtf are you writing for a kindergarden audience' moments)

[Rostum]

Square's latest excuse for not wanting to remake the game just yet is actually quite a good one, from a business point of view. So I'll give 'em props for that.

But yeah... Would it really have killed them to add in better achievements? Maybe new character models (can still be chibi, just high resolution polygonal count and actual textures rather than vertex colouring - unlike that god awful fan mod going around where the characters don't even fit in to the backgrounds). Even just re-rendering the backgrounds at a higher resolution wouldn't have been such a big task with today's technology.

So much potential, just down the drain.

[Mercen-X]

the Reunion.

This should be an achievement for talking to all of the Black Cloaks before reaching Northern Crater (mustn't forget the one in the Midgar slums).

Tri-Force (lol, I know they can't use it) - Obtain Cloud's Apolalypse (more difficult than Scimitar since you must defeat Ultima)

[escobert]

Yup I got my copy and started playing. I'm at Wall Market currently. I'm enjoying it so far. The redone music sounds great. And it's actually kind of fun reading the dialogue again since so much of it has been re-translated. Also I love how the added mouths and now everyone looks like Lego Final Fantasy

[Jiro]

From my discussion with IDNAN, everybody seems to be walking blowjobs now with their big :O faces.

[Cloudane]

Hahaha yes

I think they always had those anyway? But it was fuzzy because low res TV. Now it's not so fuzzy. I think the first time I noticed it was Jessie stood in the elevator looking all

(One of the Youtube vids mentions that Barrett also gained a thumb. Same story I think)


E: Encountered my first bug. Went to sleep in Wall Market (and picked up the crap from the vending machine) and.... didn't wake up again! Black screen of death! Good job I saved...

E2: Can't get past it, happens every time. No tiara for me then..

E3: Never mind, turns out it was the remixed music. Replace yado.ogg with the original one that shipped with the game!

[ReloadPsi]

From my discussion with IDNAN, everybody seems to be walking blowjobs now with their big :O faces.

The PC version was always like that. Horrifying innit?

[Jiro]

Really? I didn't notice while I was playing. Maybe I did notice and tried to block it out. Regardless, it's bloody weird.

[krissy]

E3: Never mind, turns out it was the remixed music. Replace yado.ogg with the original one that shipped with the game!

great job squarenix

[Sephex]

"YOU'RE GOING TO GIVE US YOUR MONEY AND LOVE IT."

[Jinx]

I might buy this because I lost the first disc of my PSX copy, and I want to play it.

You know, these achievements are totes lame. They'd still be lame, but not as lame, if they gave them quirky names a la WoW.

[Jiro]

Jesus smurfing christ sephex you have just given me eternal nightmares

[Raistlin]

The list of achievements is shockingly lame, and this is from someone who generally doesn't give a crap about achievements. And with the lack of superior music or anything else, it's like they put zero effort into it.

Sure, it's still FF7, but I'm not giving Squeenix any money for this. If I want to play FF7 on my laptop, I'll just emulate it. More people need to stop rewarding them for crap work.

[Rostum]

They could have at least done what Final FanTim did and fed the MIDI files through a symphony orchestra sound library and remixed the songs. I've done this with East West's Symphonic Orchestra before and you can get very good results without much effort (though I use it for my own compositions these days).

Ugh. I just can't get over the laziness of this re-release. XD