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Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth New Trailer Revealed, Coming in Early 2024 on 2 Discs | Summer Game Fest 2023

K2D

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Why do sparks shoot out the buster sword when Cloud is slicing monsters? You'd think he was battling a fucking car with the amount of sparks that fly out. When will devs grow out of these weird inappropriate particle effects trend?


Scales. Belt buckles. Gil.


When you realize this you will be ashamed of your words and deeds.

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justonething

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When the game changes its name to Final Reality they will get rid of the sparks and all the effect on screen.
Scales. Belt buckles. Gil.


When you realize this you will be ashamed of your words and deeds.

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What a brain dead response. Just because it's a fantasy game doesn't mean the effects don't have to be grounded in reality. By your daft logic it shouldn't matter if silly string flys out from his sword when he attacks monsters. You plug in "it's just a story bro" into any criticism to justify any flaw in works of fiction. It still needs to feel real and grounded in some sense of relatable reality.
 
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Go_Ly_Dow

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It can be UE5 and look exactly like UE4 you know that don't you?

Anyway, friggin amazing, I'm there day one.
Lumen and Nanite are both heavily taxing for visually intensive games like this anyway. UE5 won't be maximised until PS6.
This looks incredible regardless if its UE4 or 5.
 
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Synless

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After playing back at x.25 speed, I'm having second thoughts and you might be right.

It sucked that they removed the blood with green ooze in Remake.
I think it will be dependent on FFXVI at this point. If that game sells well they may go the higher rating required to have blood. I thought I read that why it wasn’t there in the base game. The DLC has it, which now leads to some odd inconsistencies of Rebirth doesn’t in a scene like that.
 

K2D

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Exactly. They need to remove that.
They should but they won't. They want a 16/17 rating and blood and gore will get them 18+ ratings or bans in the middle east and asian countries.
 
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K2D

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What a brain dead response. Just because it's a fantasy game doesn't mean the effects don't have to be grounded in reality. By your daft logic it shouldn't matter if silly string flys out from his sword when he attacks monsters. You plug in "it's just a story bro" into any criticism to justify any flaw in works of fiction. It still needs to feel real and grounded in some sense of relatable reality.

Chill the fuck out it was a joke lol
 

Pejo

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SO - what are the odds that Nomura and co. can make the Tifa thing a compelling new storyline instead of just saying "It's Jenova cells lol" and calling it a day?
 

Sensei

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They should but they won't. They want a 16/17 rating and blood and gore will get them 18+ ratings or bans in the middle east and asian countries.
Exactly my thoughts.
I would hope that they would release different versions for different markets, depending on their rating systems, a la Resident Evil. But let's be honest, the chances of that happening are almost 0%.
 
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K2D

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SO - what are the odds that Nomura and co. can make the Tifa thing a compelling new storyline instead of just saying "It's Jenova cells lol" and calling it a day?
Care to elaborate? I'm well versed but I don't get the Tifa/Jenova cells reference..
 
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Go_Ly_Dow

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It's June 2023
It launches early 2024

They have more than enough time to polish/add detail
Despite the compressed footage and annoying 1080p upload, you can see the fundamental visuals are impressive. A ton of environmental detail, different foliage, texture work etc.... Definitely a big step up from Remake. Plus as you say, more time to polish up. As always the trailer would have been cut probably a month or two ago and using a build from earlier in the year.
 

Go_Ly_Dow

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Cid will be in this and you can see Highwind on Junon canon. Cid had a mocap artist a few years ago for Rebirth.

The real question is Vincent and Cait Sith! I think all will show in this no problem.
 
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adamsapple

Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Cid will be in this and you can see Highwind on Junonc canon. Cid had a mocap artist a few years ago for Rebirth.

The real question is Vincent and Cait Sith! I think all will show in this no problem.

Have they shown scenes in the trailer that take place after Neibleheim ? The farther I could make out was the Sephiroth / Jenova fight in the boat traversing the ocean.

Maybe Cid has been moved up, since you an see Highwind.
 
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Pejo

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Care to elaborate? I'm well versed but I don't get the Tifa/Jenova cell reference..
Not sure if you watched the whole trailer or played the original, so I'll spoiler it just in case.
Impression I got was that this new "rebirth" story is moving away from Aerith dying, and instead the implication is that Sephiroth kills Tifa back in Nibelheim, then asks Cloud "So who do you think has been with you this whole time", implicating that it's not the real Tifa. Along with the rest of the voiceover from Sephiroth, it makes it lean into the Tifa in your party just being Jenova cells similar to how in the original FF7 you don't fight Sephiroth until the very end of the game. All the other fights were with Jenova cells mimicking Sephi
 

Go_Ly_Dow

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Have they shown scenes in the trailer that take place after Neibleheim ? The farther I could make out was the Sephiroth / Jenova fight in the boat traversing the ocean.

Maybe Cid has been moved up, since you an see Highwind.
The cloaked clones scene may possibly be from the Northern Crater as that's where that event takes place in the original. But very hard to say at this point. Could be related to another scene.
 
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K2D

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Not sure if you watched the whole trailer or played the original, so I'll spoiler it just in case.
Impression I got was that this new "rebirth" story is moving away from Aerith dying, and instead the implication is that Sephiroth kills Tifa back in Nibelheim, then asks Cloud "So who do you think has been with you this whole time", implicating that it's not the real Tifa. Along with the rest of the voiceover from Sephiroth, it makes it lean into the Tifa in your party just being Jenova cells similar to how in the original FF7 you don't fight Sephiroth until the very end of the game. All the other fights were with Jenova cells mimicking Sephi
I'd say it's Level-4 Inception BS, but then again, I'm kinda sold on the Level-3 conspiracies Maximilian peddles, lol
 

stickkidsam

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Chocobo Ranch and the Midgar Snek are what I'm most excited to see. After that, Dolphin. After that, Marching band.

Most importantly though:

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No physics on the foliage at all, it's a bit disappointing technically.
I feel ya. Final Fantasy games can feel a bit stiff in some areas.

At least there's plenty of impact in the action. That shit looks gorgeous!
 
I still wish this game embraced turn based combat, instead of the half measures. The longtime fans really get this series. Look at how they rendered FF9. And I guarantee you they would keep the turn based combat,, while spicing up the animations, flow, etc.
 
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K2D

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Have they shown scenes in the trailer that take place after Neibleheim ? The farther I could make out was the Sephiroth / Jenova fight in the boat traversing the ocean.

Maybe Cid has been moved up, since you an see Highwind.

The Highwind sits at Junon when you first get there before crossing to Costa.

The cloaked clones scene may possibly be from the Northern Crater as that's where that event takes place in the original. But very hard to say at this point. Could be related to another scene.

The same scene basically is seen in Remake, although now it seems like one of the Sephy clones from AC. (I blame their animation department)
 
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adamsapple

Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
The Highwind sits at Junon when you first get there before crossing to Costa

Yeah but this also supposedly has Cid as there was an actor showing mo-cap stuff months ago. I have a feeling we'll see Cid earlier than we normally would in base FFVII, same as Yuffie being brought up to Midgar.
 

K2D

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Yeah but this also supposedly has Cid as there was an actor showing mo-cap stuff months ago. I have a feeling we'll see Cid earlier than we normally would in base FFVII, same as Yuffie being brought up to Midgar.
Interesting. Maybe he's in charge of the Highwind(he states as much in og), stationed at Junon until he reappears in Rocket Town..?.. where he basically explains to the party that Shinra has "stolen" the Highwind away from him.
 
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This looks amazing, I'm so incredibly here for this. And that new version of the Valkyrie theme for the second half of the trailer??? go OFF

Early 2024... so ready
 

Pejo

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This looks amazing, I'm so incredibly here for this. And that new version of the Valkyrie theme for the second half of the trailer??? go OFF

Early 2024... so ready
If they'd have included a remixed/remastered Cosmo Canyon OST, I might be casting Knights of the Round in my pants right now.
 
2 words for you my man: PC Version.

Actually, I don't know if PC is a word, but you get what I mean.
I hear ya brother, but I just feel the OG version should be more based, just like the original FF7 Cinematics lol. I get it, they toned done the pervy waifu stuff when the redesigned her years ago. Alas. They did my girl laura croft the same way too, even worse really.
 
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