FF7R Part 2: You Can (Not) Release

[tony123]

They'll finish it no matter what. Tomb Raider didn't sell as well as they had liked and they made two more games. They'll know it's diminishing returns over time but they'll also know that this is a no-brainer that they have to complete it. The game will sell easily.

Also, I'm only up to Wall Market and I have already got my money's worth. I'm actually astonished at how well this game has turned out, I wasn't expecting it. This game is genuinely good. Some people might not like that they turned 8 hours into 30+ hours but I'm delighted they have, and I know many more feel the same. They have fleshed out this game and the characters to the perfect degree, and I can totally see why they've done everything they've done so far through my playthrough. No overdosing on sidequests, either... they just throw six in every few hours and that's it.

I can't say for the later parts of the game that I've not played but so far this is a fantastic game, it's getting fantastic reviews, everyone is buying it and most are enjoying it, I don't see any reason at all that they won't finish this when they know all about episodic content from Life is Strange.

Loony Bob I think it depends on what you are comparing it to. If you are comparing it to games released in the late '90's/early '00's it is indeed a fabulous game. However if you are comparing it to some of the better titles released post 2010 or so when gaming companies really started upping the standards for narrative storytelling I don't think FF7R holds up nearly as well. A lot of the better games of today are able to seamlessly combine gameplay and storytelling together in order to tell a very fluid narrative. Twenty years ago or so stories in video games pretty much just existed to connect one boss fight to the other so the FF7 story really seemed crazy good in comparison to it competition of the time. Now though we have games like Last of Us, Red Dead Redemption, God of War....plus several others that tend to make the video game stories of twenty years ago seem a little rough.

I think if they were going to choose to remake FF7 and release it in 2020 they should have tried to give it a narrative that could stand up to the stories of the better games of the current era. Not just allow the player to explore the world of Midgar a little more thoroughly than they could before or give the characters in the game just a little bit more development.

For example one thing they could have done is expand Avalanche and instead of it just being about Barrett and Tifa and a mercenary named Cloud have it be about dozens of different groups and how they plot together to take down Shinra. Show a little bit of politics going on within the Avalanche organization and which cells get a long with each other and which cells have problems with each other. Develop some stories like that instead of just going through two hour long dungeons and having Cloud and Tifa running around looking for little kids cats.