I don't care that it's going to be in separate episodes anymore (like in separate cd's back in the day). Just bring it soon please! So hyped for this...

Does this mean 2017 release is likely?

The multiple discs of FFVII contained the entire game each, it was the FMV and other assets that took up the discs, going back to an older sections didn't require you to change the discs.
I think they are going to fold in some of the other stories they have added to the game since then and make some of the other sections of the story longer. Hopefully they make Sepheroth a decent boss this time I was largely disappointed in the final fight with him after all the build up. I remember specifically leveling up for the fight remembering how the Kafka fight was at the end. When I finally went there hoping I was ready, it was the most disappointing few moment in my life. (3 moves he didn't even get anything non-scripted in)

And as for those hoping for it earily next year, it will not be ready. By senerio it usually only means the outline of the game. But it looks far along so we may see it in the second half of the year.

I think thats the idea, I mean no one was expecting to see anything about the game at all and all of a suden we got gameplay, aparently there are multiple studios involved in the project wich is speeding things quite a bit. The article says somethign about they not going to talk about online yet, wich begs the question "what fucking online ?" there better be no tacked on online crap feature on this game.

Hmm, not sure what this could actually mean, so it would be great if they actually explained what they exactly mean with episodes :/

kekrot said: vivster said: drdante said: I don't actually understand how are they going to divide into multiple parts. Is it going to be like VII-1,2,3,.... (you know, like X and XIII) or episodic parts, like Telltale games? If episodic like Telltale games then I'm gonna be pissed. Really? Have you even played the original? You know the one that was already sperated on 3 different discs? The one that seperated its story into multiple chunks. Probably not, or that wouldn't be an actual question.   The whole game was on all discs more or less. The only difference between the discs is the fmv cutscenes, and some extra boss animations on the final disc if I remember correctly.

Yes, but they easily could've released all discs seperately and nothing of value would've been lost.

drdante said: vivster said: drdante said: I don't actually understand how are they going to divide into multiple parts. Is it going to be like VII-1,2,3,.... (you know, like X and XIII) or episodic parts, like Telltale games? If episodic like Telltale games then I'm gonna be pissed. Really? Have you even played the original? You know the one that was already sperated on 3 different discs? The one that seperated its story into multiple chunks. Probably not, or that wouldn't be an actual question. Yes, I've played it on PS1. In fact, I've also played Crisis Core, watched Advert Children and Dirge of Cerberus movie. i asked this because they said before that they changed the story a bit by adding more. Could be they intended to do like VII-1, VII-2 and so on. No need to get angry dude, I'm just asking a question.

I guess they will have their own subtitles, or they'll call it part 2 or whatever. Is that really relevant though?

Nautilus said: vivster said: drdante said: I don't actually understand how are they going to divide into multiple parts. Is it going to be like VII-1,2,3,.... (you know, like X and XIII) or episodic parts, like Telltale games? If episodic like Telltale games then I'm gonna be pissed. Really? Have you even played the original? You know the one that was already sperated on 3 different discs? The one that seperated its story into multiple chunks. Probably not, or that wouldn't be an actual question. Alot of games back in the PS1 days were separates into multiple discs.Its not an excuse.Gigantic games are all made to fit into one CD, like Witcher 3 and FF15 by the looks of it(they didnt say anything about splitting them up).And I think people wouldnt mind if the physical version had multiple discs.Would even be a nice "easter egg" to the original.The episodic aproach is more money related than sheer density of the game

It's not about making excuses. As far as I care they could make it 10 games. It's just that so many people are doubting the method and are asking how it's possible to split the game on multiple releases when it's the exact thing that Square has done in the past and was just recently doing with FFXIII.

If anything Square Enix is probably the single developer with the most experince in doing mult part releases. So people asking the stupid question of if or how it's possible just riles me up.

vivster said: drdante said: I don't actually understand how are they going to divide into multiple parts. Is it going to be like VII-1,2,3,.... (you know, like X and XIII) or episodic parts, like Telltale games? If episodic like Telltale games then I'm gonna be pissed. Really? Have you even played the original? You know the one that was already sperated on 3 different discs? The one that seperated its story into multiple chunks. Probably not, or that wouldn't be an actual question.

The key difference may be though, depending on how they do it, that we didn't have to wait months to play the content on the second and third CD.

Yeah, it's surprising how fast they are working with this game. Would be cool if the first part wiil released next year. Also, there's going to be online to this..?

As much as I don't like the episodic aspect, we always knew that it was impossible to remake the whole game.

They already have a ton of big time games coming out. This could very well end up cannibalizing some of them. I'd like the FF7R to come out soon too, but considering how recently it was announced in comparison to FFXV and KH3 I think we can wait.

No one was really expecting the game to come out until 2017 at the earliest and the hype for this should last a while.