Final Fantasy VII re-release: For PC

[Pr0d1gy]

I am finishing up yet another epic run through this game on my PS3. It's really fun playing on a big screen instead of the old tube TV's we all had when it came out, but some HD would be a welcome update that I would certainly pay for. I remember how great I thought it looked when I first played it and now it's soooooo Mario 3....lol

 

[magomago]

Top ten, I'd have to think about it a little harder. But Xenogears, Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana, Final Fantasy IV, Final Fantasy V, and Final Fantasy VI would be be on the list before Final Fantasy 7, if the latter even made the list.

FF7 isn't even in the same ballpark of caliber as any of the former as far as depth and story. It was a mini game and CGI wank fest by comparison. Oh and we'll randomly kill someone in the shortest and most emotionless scene possible and pretend we can still do drama and tragedy.

Oh, I did recently replay FF7, within the last 12 months. Did the perfect save file, farmed max stats in the sunken ship and all. Even played it via RGB on a Sony CRT on a real PS1 so it was as perfect as possible. My opinion of it hasn't changed. It's ok but it's still a empty shallow emotionless shell of a Final Fantasy. And what's up with the 15 second ending? That was about the most unepic conclusion of any Square title in history. I still feel cheated after all these years. FF6 raised expectations, and FF7 failed to meet all of them. It has some memorable musical scores though, I'll give it that.

If anything deserves to be remade, it's FF6, CT, and Xenogears. The FFIV remake on DS was excellent.

My top 10 list for Square (in no particular order):

FF6
FF8 (haters gonna hate - didn't understand junctions? Go cry me a river; references, albiet too vague for anyone to notice the first time, to ultemecia weren't even in the realm of 'subtley well done' and it was largely 'non existant'. Didn't ignore the fact that the love story is one of the best executed in a game, that the music was incredible, and that the worlds were just as interesting. Given FF7's story, where you automatically accept a lot of truths like the 'incredible sepiroth', FF8 did a much better job at showing us how each character acts so you can draw your own conclusion...its called character development)
SD3 (much better imo than the first secret of mana)
FF7:Crisis Core (BEAUTIFULLY well done for a story and incredible music; after so long I was concerned they were going to fubar it hard, but they did a great job explaining everything with beautiful graphics, excellent story, and unforgettable music )
Xenogears (so as long as we promise to ignore the second disc. The reason its on here is because of the first disc and how much potential it had, and how well the execution of that potential was in the first disc)
Chrono Trigger
Chrono Cross
Vagrant Story
Parasite EVE

 

[IlllI]

anyone read any info about what resolutions this one will support? nowhere that i've read listed the actual resolution that the game will run at. if its some crappy 640x480 upscaled or hell even 1024x768, it wont be too appealing to me. if they are going to re-relaease it i hope they made an effort and actually rendered everything in higher resolutions for modern day displays.

 

[Fingolfin269]

FF8 (haters gonna hate -

I've never understood the phrase "haters gonna hate". What does it even mean? Is it supposed to make people who dislike something feel inferior for disliking something? I don't feel inferior when saying that FF8 completely and utterly blew. Hell, I was never able to play another FF after 8, and I was only able to give that one about an hour (if that).

My favorite is probably FF3 (US). Chrono Trigger and Secret of Mana are awesome as well. I have fonder memories of Secret of Mana though just because of the ability to co-op.

 

[exdeath]

Oh, and I just learned that Ruby has a special counter attack when he gets under half a million.
It ONLY activates if you use Knights of The Round on him. Never use it, never see it. I've found a lot of articles that recommend Hyper on Cloud and constant use of Omnislash.

That's what Phoenix is for. Mimic, KOTR, Phoenix, Counter, some others.

Basically start the battle, go make a sandwich, come back in 10 minutes and collect loot.

 

[Baked]

I think I used a whole rime of paper to print out the walk-thru gaming guide from gamefaqs. It was epic.

 

[exdeath]

It's kind of sad to me the number of people who's first contact with a Final Fantasy game, hell even a JRPG, was FF7.

For that reason, I think it's overrated by the majority of people.

Pretty much sums it up.

Same with how Halo was console gamers first experience with FPS and so on.

 

[shortylickens]

Pretty much sums it up.

Same with how Halo was console gamers first experience with FPS and so on.

HALO was the beginning of the end.

 

[diesbudt]

My top 10 list for Square (in no particular order):

FF6
FF8 (haters gonna hate - didn't understand junctions? Go cry me a river; references, albiet too vague for anyone to notice the first time, to ultemecia weren't even in the realm of 'subtley well done' and it was largely 'non existant'. Didn't ignore the fact that the love story is one of the best executed in a game, that the music was incredible, and that the worlds were just as interesting. Given FF7's story, where you automatically accept a lot of truths like the 'incredible sepiroth', FF8 did a much better job at showing us how each character acts so you can draw your own conclusion...its called character development)
SD3 (much better imo than the first secret of mana)
FF7:Crisis Core (BEAUTIFULLY well done for a story and incredible music; after so long I was concerned they were going to fubar it hard, but they did a great job explaining everything with beautiful graphics, excellent story, and unforgettable music )
Xenogears (so as long as we promise to ignore the second disc. The reason its on here is because of the first disc and how much potential it had, and how well the execution of that potential was in the first disc)
Chrono Trigger
Chrono Cross
Vagrant Story
Parasite EVE

I personally never liked the Chrono series. Just never got me attached to the game.

The Final Fantasys I have played was 1, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12

Because I havent really played any of Squarenix's other games I can just rate the ones I have played based on playing them. (8 was the first Final Fantasy I ever played)

My fav list: 10 > 6 > 9 > 8 > 4 > 12 > 1

To each his own though. I think 7 would probably be somwhere between 6 and 4 based on how people talk about it and what I can see/heard about it. It seems decent to be sure, but I doubt it would be my favorite Final Fantasy series.

 

[diesbudt]

Pretty much sums it up.

Same with how Halo was console gamers first experience with FPS and so on.

Mine was Doom. Playing that on the computer when I was like 5-6?

Second FPS that I ever played around age 12 - Goldeneye for N 64

 

[Pr0d1gy]

It's kind of sad to me the number of people who's first contact with a Final Fantasy game, hell even a JRPG, was FF7.

For that reason, I think it's overrated by the majority of people.

I played the first one not long after it came out on the NES. Not everyone here is part of the Twiheart generation....but it never ceases to amaze me how every game thread people just come in to bash them.

 

[shortylickens]

Kept crashing on me last night. Makes me think it would be easier to get the original and run it on an emulator.
Am not looking forward to the chocobo races cuz that almost always crashes. You only have to do it once in the whole game but if you cant get passed that part you're screwed.

 

[Aikouka]

HALO was the beginning of the end.

At least from what I saw at college, Halo was one of the games that help popularize gaming among the non-gaming masses. However, this could be more of a bad thing since those people probably went on to become the frothing-at-the-mouth Call of Duty fans. 😛

It's also odd how many females you'll see that seem to really like Halo, but don't talk about many other games.

 

[dascoyne]

After playing Marathon on the Mac I was following Bungie's progress for the longest time with HALO as a Mac-only game. The initial gameplay videos looked awesome ...


... then things changed.

 

[Dumac]

It's kind of sad to me the number of people who's first contact with a Final Fantasy game, hell even a JRPG, was FF7.

For that reason, I think it's overrated by the majority of people. It's their benchmark. For those of us who had been playing JRPGs for years and years prior, it wasn't the be-all-end-all.

Sounds like WoW

 

[Anubis]

My top 10 list for Square (in no particular order):

FF6
FF8 (haters gonna hate - didn't understand junctions? Go cry me a river; references, albiet too vague for anyone to notice the first time, to ultemecia weren't even in the realm of 'subtley well done' and it was largely 'non existant'. Didn't ignore the fact that the love story is one of the best executed in a game, that the music was incredible, and that the worlds were just as interesting. Given FF7's story, where you automatically accept a lot of truths like the 'incredible sepiroth', FF8 did a much better job at showing us how each character acts so you can draw your own conclusion...its called character development)
SD3 (much better imo than the first secret of mana)
FF7:Crisis Core (BEAUTIFULLY well done for a story and incredible music; after so long I was concerned they were going to fubar it hard, but they did a great job explaining everything with beautiful graphics, excellent story, and unforgettable music )
Xenogears (so as long as we promise to ignore the second disc. The reason its on here is because of the first disc and how much potential it had, and how well the execution of that potential was in the first disc)
Chrono Trigger
Chrono Cross
Vagrant Story
Parasite EVE

someone sent me a translated rom of SD3 that i never got around to playing and now i cant find it, i loves the original

 

[Sulaco]

I played the first one not long after it came out on the NES. Not everyone here is part of the Twiheart generation....but it never ceases to amaze me how every game thread people just come in to bash them.

I try not to "bash them", or anyone for that matter, but I personally generally place substantially less value in the opinion of someone who has very limited experience in whatever field they happen to be commenting on.
It sounds elitist to some, but for kids whose first real gaming memories are from the PS2 generation, their personal gaming insights generally don't hold much weight. The same as a teenager who has been driving for 2-3 years giving his opinion on the "best cars".

To be clear, too, I LOVED FF7. Easily in my Top 10 RPGs of all-time, and the last great FF game made. I just think it's "hushed tone" reverence some people take with it is taken too far because their nostalgia and childhood is wrapped up in it as well. It's almost become MORE than a game to them.

 

[ManBearPig]

I think FF8 was the last great FF game.

 

[sactoking]

Final Fantasy 3/6 was easily better than 7. I remember being a kid and saving for months to get $100 so I could make the deposit to rent a SNES from Hollywood Video just to play FF3. It's now about 20 years later and I can still remember the battle music.

Few games could match the atmosphere FF3 had, from the depressing Narshe to the sad scene with Cyan on the Ghost Train to the pure, malevolent evil of Kefka.