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So are you getting Final Fantasy VII Remake?

Day 1 All Episodes 27 32.93%
 
Will wait for Complete Collection 51 62.20%
 
Never planned to get it 4 4.88%
 
Total:82
ReimTime on 07 December 2015

This was not something I wanted to wake up to, but thank you Basil for giving full info. The way I see it, this will work almost exactly like the original FF7 did being on three discs (although this will unfortunately not be a multi-disc release; a dumb idea imo). Thus you can visit every area in the game in every episode, but some story events/cutscenes etc are only available in singular episodes. This is probably the reason why the game is being split up; cutscenes that is, not to mention the different animations (Knights of the Round Table anyone? LOL)



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ReimTime on 07 December 2015
BasilZero said:
ReimTime said:
This was not something I wanted to wake up to, but thank you Basil for giving full info. The way I see it, this will work almost exactly like the original FF7 did being on three discs (although this will unfortunately not be a multi-disc release; a dumb idea imo). Thus you can visit every area in the game in every episode, but some story events/cutscenes etc are only available in singular episodes. This is probably the reason why the game is being split up; cutscenes that is, not to mention the different animations (Knights of the Round Table anyone? LOL)


Yeah - it seems like they are doing this so they wont get the whole "You took 10 years to make" argument with FFXV lol.

I'm 50/50 on this - on one hand its great we'll get to experience FFVII sooner than later but at the same time disappointed that I wont be able to experience the full game until later.

teigaga said:
So the episodic format can actually be pretty cool, just not what people expected or necessarily wanted.

I think providing room to really expand upon the narrative explore places like Midgar in way the structure of the previous game simply didn't allow will really seperate this from a tradional remake and give it more value IMO. Of course if they could fit all of that into one game then cool, but i personally don't think we'd see it finished before 2020 if they took that approach.

I hope each part of the experience is at least 25hrs of core narrative. 40+ hours with sidequests and what not. My only other things is that they must not go beyond a Trilogy. They still shouldn't keep everything in the game, but that parts that they do keep, they should go above and beyond when bringing it to life.

part 1-Fall 2017
part- Spring 2019
part 3-Fall 2020

Looks plausible but I think its gonna look like

2017 - first release
2018 - second release
2019 - third release

Assuming there's only 3 parts.

They also confirmed that they've been working on the game even before they announced the original Final Fantasy VII port to PS4 at the December 2014 PSX show last year. So its possible we'll see a 2017 release with the first part at least. Just wonder how many parts there's gonna be.

I can see the "Escape from Midgar" being one whole part as that is a pretty long segment and especially one where they can make it longer.

You think it will be a year between releases? I suppose that makes sense but it is so frustrating.



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Teeqoz on 07 December 2015
SuperNova said:
Oh god, it's like all these teen movies being cut into two halves, because one film 'just couldn't contain all the plotpoints of the books' and then you get two insanely padded, boring movies. But hey, it rakes the cash in right?

I see seven ground zeroes sized, full price releases personally....ok, I'm being overly sarcastic, but it does sound as if they are splitting the game into multiple full price releases. It might be necessary to cover the costs, but it still reeks of cash grab to me somehow.


I actually have high hopes for The Avengers: Infinity War, because despite the fact that it's split in two movies, unlike all the other recen examples, the script is being written with that intent from the start, while all the other two part (or three part... looking at you, The Hobbit trilogy....) movies were based on single books.



Augen on 07 December 2015
BasilZero said:

Its kinda sad too considering a game from the 1990s is being remade but its too big for today's standards lol.


I'd be curious how long making a character model or town takes each successive generation.  



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Pavolink on 07 December 2015
BasilZero said:
Pavolink said:

 

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I know right! I wonder if new gifs were posted since last night - but this and the full one were awesome xD

Both made me laugh so much!



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DannyDesario on 07 December 2015

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DannyDesario on 07 December 2015
BasilZero said:
tiffac said:
I'm okay if they are going to release the game in like a trilogy format or something. At least this is what I'm expecting.

It would definitely be a bummer, if they release the game in an episodic manner like Life is Strange. I will have to wait for all episodes before I get the game, if that happens.


Yeah it sounds more like its gonna be full fledged games rather than episodes like in LiS.

If so - that is gonna be a lot of content that they will add to the game o.O.

Its kinda sad too considering a game from the 1990s is being remade but its too big for today's standards lol.

As long as the episodes are like 10-30 hours long and are released consistently I'll be fine



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Keybladewielder on 07 December 2015

Well, it wasn't too bad after all. I just hope they don't change the overworld for corridors



dharh on 07 December 2015

Still gonna day 1 buy each episode. Will probably day 1 buy the collection. And probably any and all collectors editions if they do em.



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