Those lovable geeks over at Digital Foundry have uploaded a technical analysis of Final Fantasy VII Remake, and it's well worth a watch. The team's blown away by much of the game, praising its rock solid performance, art direction, detail, and stunning story cutscenes. But, much like we pointed out in our 8/10 review of the release, Remake does suffer from very strange environmental texture issues in certain areas. They're often so bad that we even went as far as to write a separate report on them, complete with screenshots.
Much like us, Digital Foundry wonders whether it's some kind of graphical bug. If it is, here's hoping that it gets fixed, because while we all know visuals aren't everything in a game, these textures definitely distract from an otherwise gorgeous PlayStation 4 title.
Interestingly, the team say that they tried playing on a PS4 Pro with an SSD installed, to see whether better textures could be forced through -- but it didn't change anything apart the speed at which the low quality textures loaded in.
Indeed, the textures are pretty much the only point of criticism that Digital Foundry has -- everything else is top notch. Square Enix is no stranger to making lovely looking games, and Final Fantasy VII Remake is another beauty. Well, mostly.
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B-b-but it looks fine to me
Doesnt take anything away from it being an absolutely amazing game tho. Im on chapter 10 and the last chapter was absolutely batshit crazy. Don Corneo....
I dont know how far i am from the end as this is actually where i got to in the origional but i dont want it to end anytime soon.
From what i can tell what i can compare it to they have captured the origional beautifully and those emotional moments can really shine and be as impactful as they were ever meant to me.
Hmm i wonder if Square will release a day 1 patch to fix this on the official release day?
Hopefully a day one patch?
I may get some screen shots in now then compare them if there is a patch to see if they have fixed anything. I havnt even noticed anything as ive just been enjoying the game so much. I bet for folk like @ShogunRok who have to look out for this sort of stuff when reviewing it sticks out like a saw thumb. Even when just playing a game not for review purposes.
@ShogunRok Hmm interesting, I noticed it was much better with my SSD. Maybe I just wasn't looking hard enough.
I think i spent most of my visual acuity looking at the beautiful character models, only taking the time to really take in the most nostalgic locales such as the Mako Reactors or Aeriths House etc.
@Grindagger such an amazing game, right? What chapter you on buddy without giving anything away for anyone?
Don't worry I'm sure the ps5 version will be All loaded in advance with that SSD lol
I saw these textures for the first time last night and they are poor. But y'know what? I really couldn't care less because the game is brilliant
@Tha_Likely_Lad and on the back of that I wanna say that the only reason why I noticed them was because I went looking for them. I'm currently up to Sector 5 slums. Sooooooo goooooood
@Kidfunkadelic83 I think 12 or 13.
C**t's trick posting spoilers like that.
@LN78 what an absolute parasite that guy was. I cant believe that some people would get pleasure out of ruining a games story for other. I mean, really nothing better to do. Its beyond me.
@Grindagger so you will have done the bit ive just done then. I wondered how they were going to go about it but it was fantastic 😂
Sorry about that folks, the poster in question no longer has an account here.
@LiamCroft cant be helped buddy. Some people just love to ruin stuff for other people, even during times like this when everyone is suffering enough. Im skipping out on this thread now just incase he creates a new account 👍
@LN78 just bear in mind he could create a new account and be back. He obvioustly has enough time on his hands today 😂
Maybe, textures are kept low res for a possible Switch port in the future.
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Yeah there are a few rough spots visually. One thing that I find off is the NPC's look like regular people (a couple of exceptions aside) but the main characters have an anime kinda look. FF15 had the same thing, its just a bit weird, jarring.....a bit Sonic '06 haha
@Lando_
Dammit, you beat me to it by four minutes.
Halfway into Chapter 2 and its been brilliant. I am wondering if SE have a "day 1" patch prepared to sort this out? I think its worth remembering the game isn't officially out yet despite many of us already having the game so a "day 1" patch may very well happen what sorts out this problem.
@WallyWest there are rumors yes.
however nothing official yet.
Someone who is reviewing this game just seemingly confirmed that a day one patch is coming to fix this, let's hope!
@jdv95 Most games have a day 1 patch now for better or worse so i'm just hoping this is the case, a game being released this early before the launch is very uncommon so we aren't used to not having that day 1 patch that every big game has. I mean people were buying this game in shops before even the review embargo lifted so that's how early you could buy it.
Some of the skyboxes are very ugly too... But other than that the game is amazing. Hopefully a patch will be released to sort out the texture problems
@LiamCroft what a sad little man.
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