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depends on what my work schedule is, most of these events will be running on U.S time and i start work at 4am UK time normally

actually playing less because of work increasing

@Ralizah oh absolutely true

@Ralizah yeah but PS4 has remote play, which isn't just available on PSVita anymore but also P.C, Phone and Tablets so it does have some form of portability, it's not native like the Switch but it's still there

@ShogunRok yeah FFXII is definitely one of my top 5, it's an amazing game with some of the best characters in the series

@LN78 that and because the characters were to similar to FFVII' not in personality but in style, heck Zell even has all of Tifa's limit breaks plus people were confused by the junction system

But i still maintain that 8 is an awesome game

@Grindagger yeah it is although personally i think FFV is the most underrated of the franchise

It's about damn time, i had given up hope

@kyleforrester87

so basically like Horizon Zero Dawn but with actual Dinosaurs not robot ones?

count me in

@kiki3400 they did in pretty much all the old games, there was always something blocking your way be it a mountain range, the sea or even a broken bridge you could never fully explore the world until you got the airship (unless it was like in FFIV for example where you had multiple airships, some that could go over mountains and some that can't)

lets look at the OG FFVII once you left Midgar there was only one place you could go, Kalm then it was to the Chocobo Farm, etc etc

i would say that (not counting XI and XIV as they are MMO's) the first proper open world mainline FF game was XV

linear games seem to get a bad rep these days but some of the best games of this and previous gens have been linear take the last God of War for example where as open world games have become cookie cutter, copy and paste jobs, you only have to look at a lot of Ubisofts output to see that

big open worlds don't mean it's going to be a brilliant game, sometimes a more structured style is the perfect way to do it

@ApostateMage personally i thought Tifa was the best, she was quick, strong had powerful techniques and can stagger foes quite easily

@eumenes yeah that's true but you have to admit thete are some who only play cod or fifa games nothing else

I work with a guy who only plays fifa, that's it

Well it's Cod and FIFA and the sheep will always keep them selling

@Genrou then why not just add the MW Reboot MP mode with the remasters then everyone would be playing the same one

Why didn't they just wait and release a bundle with all 3 games and a multiplayer mode with all the classic maps

It probably would have sold loads

@GoblinKing86 so it's not a full game because the story takes place over multiple releases?

I guess the original Mass Effect isn't a full game either then, or God of War or Batman Arkham Asylum or heck even FFXIII

No of course they are an so is this, the game has a beginning and an end so leave off with this we aint gamers and anti consumer nonsense you spout on every FFVII Remake article because quite frankly we are all sick of your bull

If a 30 to 40 hour gaming experience isn't a "full game" then nothing is

wouldn't i need "friends" for that?

@ShogunRok well i guess we will have to wait and see and while the original isn't as open as people think, (you are stilled funneled down a pretty linear path for most of the game, it just LOOKS big and open) the originals world map does lead to many possibilities for the remake

i guess it all depends on what Square can do in the time they have, i imagine they wont want to make people wait too long although rumour is that they have already started some voice work on it

of course COVID-19 could delay it a bit

@1_W1NG3D_4NG3L hey at least we know they got the tip right

@Kidfunkadelic83 yeah same for me, i think it has to be a normal kind of fight

i found fighting Fat Chocobo was the best opportunity to get it, build up Tifa's Triangle attack with Unbridled Strength and then wail on it with them once i have staggered it

also you gonna want your team to have crappy weapons equipped otherwise they might beat FC before you can get it over 300%

@ShogunRok yeah but i think that's where the GF refinement system comes in, you can then turn your surplus items into magic so you don't have to rely on Drawing

at least that's why i think it's there it makes no sense otherwise

well i guess i'l have to do some grinding, once i can take myself away from FFVII Remake that is

@ShogunRok you know i love the Junction system, it takes a bit of getting used too but once you understand how it works it makes the characters SO customizable, when i play VIII now a days i can have my party so OP by the end of disc 1 i can take out the bosses a piece of cake

i can understand why others don't though

@ArcadeHeroes it's been confirmed for something else but no idea what at the moment, could be P.C, could be XBOX, could be both

hell it could even be Nintendo Switch for all we know

@Rob_230 oh i would love a 9 version too, i bloody love that game and i don't think it would be too fantastical, just look at Zidane in Dissidia for example, it would work

@Rob_230 i love 7 Remakes battle system, it's so much fun and we know that the rest of the Remakes chapters will continue to use it (and probably refine it too) but i wonder if they will use it in any other future FF games

i said before but a FFVIII game (remake or sequel) would be amazing with 7r's battle system,

@ShogunRok yeah potion spamming got me through the Adamantoise fight if i'm honest, still at least i did it before people cried it was too difficult and so Square put in the ability for the Ring to take it out

but it's not just in terms of battle mechanics the way the game flows and stuff feels similar too

take a look

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcUSXub_ypU

there is one thing i was wondering, do you think how the Remake plays might have been the kind of vision Nomura originally had for VsXIII/XV because i was watching the FFXV announcement trailer recently again and i see a few similarities

do you think peoples reception to XV would have been different if it did play like VII Remake?

@GamingFan4Lyf me too

@GamingFan4Lyf there are still a few Ultra Rare Bronze ones such as Staggering Feat: hit a enemy with a 300% Stagger gauge

but that one is quite hard to get to be fair

i wouldn't say the game itself is divisive, more that people can't agree on what the ending means

but at least you can say it's got people talking

@HungryWolf you know what always got me with that about Zack having the sword the other way (i know it's because he uses the flat of the blade so it doesn't get damaged) it's that surely if he runs too fast he could cut the back of his legs open

seems like a bit of a safety hazard to me

@Matroska like when they included a disc with the Platinum version of FFVII that showed of the entire Dance Scene as a trailer

@Matroska that might work but i always thought it was a robot

but then again why would someone build a robot to look like a house?

@ShogunRok oh i get that and sorry but when it come to writing things i'm not great at putting my thoughts into words i either tend to ramble and make no sense or not write enough and make no sense

but back to it and can't the same thing be said with any trailer for anything or a write up or even a poster, i order to sell your product you have to advertise, in order to advertise your product you have to show it off and by showing it off you have to spoil something right?

@ShogunRok that's not what i meant, it's like every time Square does something right with a FF game the only things people seem to want to talk about is what things they did wrong, the trailer didn't ruin anything, if it had shown the entire Colosseum segment then yes it would have but again like i said context, i watched the trailer and i never once thought "oh great that just spoiled the entire game for me" all i saw was a trailer showing off the game

now i know someone is going to say "well you a FF fan, you're biased" or something but i'm saying this AS a fan and as someone who has finished the game, the trailer doesn't spoil a thing because there is no context behind what is happening in the trailer by giving the events context, by explaining them is what spoils it

@ShogunRok you know a spoiler warning isn't going to stop anyone reading it (which you only get AFTER you have opened the article), this is the internet

but the thing is the trailer had no context to those scenes or events but your article has given them that context and thus could actually spoil things for people, like i said the only reason we know that is Zack for example is because we have played the game and seen the ending otherwise looking at it blind you would see a person with the Buster Sword wearing purple and most likely assume it was Cloud, we all knew Rufus was going to be in it because the game covers the Midgar section and we know that's when Rufus is introduced, we already knew Sephiroth was going to be here because we had seen it in other trailers and it was in all the marketing materials so it's not a big deal

the Barret thing like i said was confusing but again as i said out of context didn't mean anything, the Hell House was also a enemy from the original FFVII (and also been in other FF games too) so it being in the trailer wasn't an issue, i knew it was going to be in the game because of the trailer but i had no idea how and it was still surprising when it ended up being a boss in the Colosseum

the game is a remake for many people none of this trailer spoiled anything, again it's about context and the trailer had no context about any of these scenes, this article gives them context and that actually spoils these events more than the trailer does

like i said you know by the very nature of people and the internet that this article is going to be read regardless of how many spoiler warnings you put

the trailer wouldn't have made any sense to people who never played FFVII it would have just been all flashy and exciting and to people who did it was full of little moments showing us just how much they have put into this and how big and grand they are trying to make it

i think you're just looking for something negative

i swear you're just trying to find things to complain about now, it was a trailer, Rufus showing up wasn't an issue everyone and their mothers knew he would be in the game, same with the Hell House

the Barret thing granted was confusing but out of context didn't mean anything and as for Zack, well the ONLY reason we know it's Zack is because we have played the game otherwise it could just as easily have been Cloud

in fact i would say your article has given more away than the trailer did because you actually spelt out what everything was where as the trailer was vague about everything

like you said it could be hard with the current situation but lets hope it goes well

last thing we want is for Sony to mess this up

FINAL FANTASY VII Remake trying to do each chapter on hard mode

first boss has already kicked my arse and i was over level 40 with powerful weapons and armour

this is gonna be a challenge

Noice, that's gonna be a day one buy i LOVE the Streets of Rage series

still have my original Mega Drive carts too

@DonJorginho @Matroska you know maybe it just me but that is not how i interpreted it they were fighting against fate itself, fate or the planet was using the whispers and was trying to stop them leaving Midgar (hence why they always showed up to make sure certain things happened) because that wasn't their destiny but instead of accepting that they fought against it and pushed through, every time they beat fate (one of those 3 harbingers) then as Red XIII put it, they got a glimpse of tomorrow which isn't anything new but is in fact what we know as the original outcome, the death of Aerith, Sephiroth summoning meteor etc, etc, those events were never meant to happen but now because they fought fate and won so they could go and beat Sephiroth they have a new destiny which is the events of the original game and i think Aerith might know she is going to die to save the planet now but i don't think the others do, that's why she was so sad

the we wont be the same anymore line doesn't mean they wont become who we know they will it means they WILL become who we know them to be but they were never meant to be that if that makes sense

@DonJorginho i think that's why so many are having an issue with it because it's opened up everything so nothing we know about the original FFVII is relevant anymore, at least in this version

still that's what a remake is

@DonJorginho well the thing is it's not just Nomura doing it this time, he has many of the original FFVII staff including the writer so i don't think we will get another KH3 situation

@DonJorginho @Matroska i thought the ending was perfectly fine if a little confusing at first but once i thought about it and talked it through with my mate (who is also a huge FF fan) then it made sense

i'm not going to post here because you know spoilers but to me it makes sense and i liked it

sounds interesting but a DC Game Universe, there is so much that could go wrong with that concept

just imagine if they do a Superman game and mess it up it could affect the entire series

@Cornaboyzzz i love FFIX although honestly the one i would love to see remade next is FFVIII even if it used the same basic battle system as FFVII Remake they could expand it so much, perhaps they could even have SeeD jobs you can do, kind of like the hunts in FFXII for example

@parvaz1 you know i would love to get a look at the total sales numbers

@Cornaboyzzz honestly, joke release date not withstanding that would be an amazing game to remake

good news because i want this to succeed because there are other FF games i would love to see remade (or get sequels)