Final Fantasy VII Remake

Damn Amazon kind of pulled through. Shipped midnight last night and it's already here. They must be reading this thread

I preordered on amazon in june. Still says expected tue for me lol

Rajaah said:

The way nobody recognizes them is pretty weird. Shinra could easily just put security footage of them on the news and instantly put everyone on high alert. They don't, because...plot armour?

It'll be interesting if they explain this in the remake. Something like President Shinra saying that they don't actually want to capture the leader of Avalanche because as long as he's out there they can keep using him as a boogeyman to keep people afraid and keep people enlisting in the military.

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They do put security footage of them on the news.

Probably a mix of Heidegger being incompetent, President Shinra wanting to destroy parts of the city to get people to eventually move to Neo Midgar and Avalanche spies in Shinra HQ covering for them.

All of which you see but none explicitly explain why nobody finds you after the first bombing.

Is hardcore mode like a new game + where you keep material/gear/levels or is it a fresh game with a higher difficulty curve?

bigmark268 said:

I preordered on amazon in june. Still says expected tue for me lol

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Mine changed last night from Tues to today. I think they'll give you some credit if it's any consolation. Gave my SIL $10

Zaide said:

Is hardcore mode like a new game + where you keep material/gear/levels or is it a fresh game with a higher difficulty curve?

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It's New Game+ keeping everything and you can select whichever chapter and difficulty you want to move to at any time without restrictions.

So after finishing, I did sidequests in two random normal mode chapters to pick up some things I missed, then I did all of Chapter 1 and 2 on Hard which awarded Weapon SP for full completion.

Hard mode doesn't allow items, so I suggest giving everyone a Cure/Revive. You should have two of each anyway from Normal mode, the Cures level up really fast in Hard mode.

Rajaah said:

That reminds me of the Xenosaga series. It wasn't Square, but it ended up being a bit of a disaster. They had goals of making it a six-part series and ended up shortening it to 3 (with the story heavily rushed) because it was too expensive. The way the characters looked completely changed between episodes, as did the combat systems, etc. I hope FF7 doesn't end up being another Xenosaga. Funny thing is the original concept of Xenosaga was for it to be a drastically-expanded multi-game reimagining of the Xenogears story, sorta like this game.

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Expense didn't kill Xenosaga, Episode 2 did. That whole game was an utter disaster in every aspect. Completely annihilated any chance of 6 episodes, they're lucky they were even able to make a third one. Funny you say 3 was rushed, it's the only one out of the trilogy that would even be playable today. Episode 1 didn't age worth shit.

Also, aside from being "episodic", it has nothing in common with this remake. Xenosaga made a lot of homages to Xenogears but that's all it did due to IP hell. This game's supposedly an update to the original, when in fact it really is a sequel.

If there's any delays in PS5 launch and getting proper devtools out then Part 2 sliding an extra year later is definitely possible. Really tough to get a handle on development when offices around the world are closed and it's strictly work from home for so many studios.

Rude said:

This game's supposedly an update to the original, when in fact it really is a sequel.

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How is it a sequel?

Zaide said:

How is it a sequel?

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Aliens. and time travel.

RobXIII said:

Am I getting too old for this shit? I'm on the first boss and no idea what the fuck I'm looking at, or what I'm targetting lol..

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I feel I will be the same.. But, I am downloading the demo.

Don't know if it's the same offices (i'm sure it is) but someone working on ffxiv got sick and they bumped the next major patch, so I would expect pt.2 to get bumped back. At the very least, it gives them something to blame a delay on.

Zaide said:

How is it a sequel?

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It takes place after the original.
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Some of us are still waiting for our copies to play.

Yeah, was just thinking if exclusivity ends in a year it will be at the very least another year after that and that's highly unlikely unless they are already working on it which is just as unlikely.