Finally beat the story! Gonna mop up misc side quests and trophies if I can.
Finally beat the story! Gonna mop up misc side quests and trophies if I can.
I'm onto the big final bonus fight and it's almost comically difficult, even as much as I've maxed out this far
Digital Foundry Retro on FF7.
Making my way through Hojo's lab late in the game.
It is absolutely insane just how far out of their way they went to envision ways to make nearly every single original enemy from this game stand out, and here you can really, really see it.
Mother of god, I love FF again for the first time in a decade
Restarted mine in hard mode, good lord this might take some time! Exceptional game though..nearly papped me pants when hell house opened it's door on Hard Mode haha!
Realized on hard, you need to be extra prepared; a lot of trial and error, with not being able to consistently use level 3 spells can get tricky. I don't go past cure in a lot of battles on hard. The payoff feels so good once you beat a boss and Tifa is the most useful character once you understand her mechanics. Level 3 Chi is not to be fucked with.
Yeah, Tifa is easily the best character game-play wise. I'm eagerly awaiting Vincent to come into the picture.
I was able to finish the secret boss fight with no death, no Götterdämmerung, and preventing Bahamut from summoning Ifrit.
Special Edit soundtrack just came in the mail and it is fucking gorgeous. Honey Bee dance segment has been on repeat pretty much all day .
Loved this game. Felt like revisiting my original experience of FF7 with new life breathed into it. Now as for the trophy hunting, am I correct that getting all three dresses requires a total of 3 play throughs of chapters 3 and 8?
anyone know if this remake is ever getting a PC version?
I just bought a copy of the FF7 remake on eBay last week. Should be here any day now, but i have nothing to play it on until my PS5 gets here.
Been looking forward to trying the game out for months now.
So let me get this straight...
They are releasing a free upgrade to PS5 version if you own the PS4 copy... But you are now locked out of the new episode with Yuffie if you want to play on PS4. A game they pushed so hard to be available and exclusive to Playstation 4 (There is no news in sight for it coming to PC or Xbox yet btw) now has unattainable DLC because you were too slow to try and take hours out of your day to try and land a PS5.
... And we get to play and control Yuffie before Red XIII?? I really hope they don't fuck up Part II, because this all stinks.
This Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster thing is a mess. Removing all of the extra stuff they added in the PSOne/PSP/GBA versions, new sprites look like shit, removing the older ports of V and VI from Steam...
I understand the mobile/Steam versions were whatever, but this is a step back in every regard.
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really happy about the Crisis Core PS5 remake. I always felt that game was really criminally overlooked because not only was it a PSP exclusive, it was never released in the digital store, so you had to have bought a UMD disc version... and it is one of the best action RPGs ever made, and one of the few games to actually get me emotionally invested in its story.
And while we're on the general final fantasy topic, it's crazy that nobody in here has played FFXIV? It's not just an MMO. The story actually gets really good once you get to the first expansion, Heavensward. I'm just now finishing the Endwalker expansion, and it's tying up the story in such a satisfying way. For an MMO to reach JRPG storytelling highlights that remind me of Nier or FFVI/VII or Suikoden 2 is really something I didn't expect. The game is free now until you want to progress past Heavensward, and it's a little tricky to figure out how to get the free version running on console, but I can't recommend it enough. It's not just another micromanaging grindfest by a long shot, and I think it deserves the numbered title that marks it as a main entry in the series.
Only criticisms I really have are that the game's exposition gets really slow in some parts, the plot is really badly presented in the beginning, and it takes a bit of time and dedication to see what's great here... but if it hasn't clicked with you by the time you get to Heavensward, it's probably not going to be your thing.
Wow.
Feels like the FF folks *really* hate women these days. Game looks fine. But this coming off stranger of paradise and the way ff7 remake handles women and ffxv, seems like a big fucking culture problem in that office.
In general, the writing in Stranger of Paradise for all it's comically bad... You gotta worry about those folks. How do they not know?! How did that story and dialogue make it through as many layers of approval as it did?
I've actually played quite a bit of FFXIV in the expansion from a couple of years ago, I wanted to make it as far as clearing a few raids and high level activities, and I did that! Ultimately I found the combat a *bit* too complicated to stick with it. I really enjoyed playing as a red mage, and might have kept going if there was a little less to keep track of, but at the end of the day I have a lot of respect for that game and that community.
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There's this whole 2D HD trend going on, and I sure would fucking LOVE a new, OLD STYLE FF game: one without motorcycles and futuristic shit, that is NOT an MMO.
Give me FF4: Airship Crisis, or WHATEVER the fuck...I mean, just ANYTHING that was like the game I fell in love with on the NES, that was perfected as a series on the SNES.
I know I'm not the only one hoping for an official, 90s style, turn based Final Fantasy, with about 300 hours of gameplay.
I'm playing Dragon Quest XI (I know, I'm late) on the Switch, and I'm playing it exclusively in 2D mode. Looks like a SNES/DS game and I love it. It'd be awesome if FF games did that too, but I think those days are gone because the style of play is different than DQ (which is extremely traditional turn based)