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Final Fantasy VII Remake (part 1?) is on two Blu-Rays
- Thread starter D.Final
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- E3 - Square Enix
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
I really like the idea of fleshing out Midgar. Back in the day it always felt like Cloud was roped in last minute to this revolutionary stuff that he didn't actually have a stake in besides having known Tifa as kids. Giving them more time to be a real team running around Midgar with some highs and lows and all the narratives they tell themselves will do really well to build important bonds for the drama later on to be far more impactful. It might seem like Cloud actually knew Aerith for more than 3 days, you know?
Also, as wonderful as FFVII was for replay value, a lot of it was because the story was fed to you in chronologically random pieces and missable secret scenes. A lot of people probably wouldn't be able to accurately describe what happened in the story without some dedicated fan's help piecing it all together. The original was a very unique mishmash of vignettes with wildly changing styles and moods; it is not replicable. However, if creating a remake with a consistent and dramatic style, fleshing it out will provide the best opportunity for a weighty, emotional journey.
Personally, I loved FFXV (I played a late version, it just before the Royal Edition came out) and after experiencing that, I think they have what it takes to make this into the lengthy full-cast emotional journey that it needs to be.
Also, as wonderful as FFVII was for replay value, a lot of it was because the story was fed to you in chronologically random pieces and missable secret scenes. A lot of people probably wouldn't be able to accurately describe what happened in the story without some dedicated fan's help piecing it all together. The original was a very unique mishmash of vignettes with wildly changing styles and moods; it is not replicable. However, if creating a remake with a consistent and dramatic style, fleshing it out will provide the best opportunity for a weighty, emotional journey.
Personally, I loved FFXV (I played a late version, it just before the Royal Edition came out) and after experiencing that, I think they have what it takes to make this into the lengthy full-cast emotional journey that it needs to be.
Nymphae
Banned
I haven't been this excited for a game in a long time. It really feels like they're doing it right. The tactical mode looks perfect, and the combat systems seem like they'll be fun. I am so ridiculously excited to play through this and see how they've remade every part of the world.
danielberg
Neophyte
Its all well and good but what does "fleshing out midgar" actually mean in practice.. they basically can only add fluff not needed story beats (reminder the reason why they split it up was because they didnt want to cut anything... but now they ad filler?)or sidequest.
I also dont consider shoving sephiroth in my face throughout midgar as "fleshing out midgar" or even particular engrossing/worth the time, he was not seen once in midgar in FF7 but its to soon to say how they handle this and if they overdo it lol
Fbh
Member
I interpreted it as "The entire part 1 ,which comes in 2 discs, will all be dedicated to Midgar".
I hope they don't screw this up. That presentation really sold me on the gameplay but a lot can go wrong trying to stretch a 5 hours segment into dozens of hours of content across 2 discs. Specially with Nomura ,and his awful taste in storytelling and writing, in charge
I hope they don't screw this up. That presentation really sold me on the gameplay but a lot can go wrong trying to stretch a 5 hours segment into dozens of hours of content across 2 discs. Specially with Nomura ,and his awful taste in storytelling and writing, in charge
The thing to always keep in mind about anything FF7R-related is that SE did not become a good developer overnight just because they decided to finally green light the damn thing. This isn't a "return to form" situation. It took two decades of searching for greener pastures for them to become as bad as they are now--which is bad enough that they need to go back to the nostalgia mines and dig up some shit from their glory days instead of making something new--so there's no reason to think the most cynical project in the history of the medium is going to re-ignite old passions. This is Todd Howard re-making Fallout 1, so your expectations should reflect that.
Larxia
Member
"Two blu ray worth of content" doesn't mean anything at all, and I'm not sure why people are excited by this.
The size of the game doesn't reflect its content at all, only its data weight, you can have a 200 hours game that is only 2 gb, and a 2 hours game that is 100gb, if you are going to use only 4096 pixels or even higher textures, and have tons of pre rendered videos in 4K, it quickly makes an extremely large size.
I'm not saying it's the case here, but a lack of optimziation can be the reason for a super large game, so it's not always a positive thing.
The size of the game doesn't reflect its content at all, only its data weight, you can have a 200 hours game that is only 2 gb, and a 2 hours game that is 100gb, if you are going to use only 4096 pixels or even higher textures, and have tons of pre rendered videos in 4K, it quickly makes an extremely large size.
I'm not saying it's the case here, but a lack of optimziation can be the reason for a super large game, so it's not always a positive thing.
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AlexxKidd
Member
My expectations were threw the roof, and this still blew me away. Never have a wanted to play a game so badly. They just got everything fucking right and it's insane.
CyberPanda
Banned
Fucking small tiddies.
Heimdall_Xtreme
Jim Ryan Fanclub's #1 Member
so will they sold us 3 parts of 1 game or how???
Pallas
Member
So the first part(part 1) of FFVII remake will be two discs, I guess we can probably say part 2 will be that as well if not more. Hopefully after installing, we won’t have to disc swap.
How do you know that, just out of curiosity?
How do you know that, just out of curiosity?
bitbydeath
Member
I just looked it up and it was on disk one but later on in it.
Still quite a bit on from midgar though
D.Final
Banned
The first part consists of 2 BluRays.
The next one, or the following ones, will probably have as many BluRays (whether they are 2 or 4).
E.T. Waifu
Member
GOD, they're all so pretty its insaneNew Characters render
bitbydeath
Member
Disc three was really short on the original so hopefully this will only arrive in two parts total. 4 Blu-rays of content should be plenty.
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DragoonKain
Neighbours from Hell
I’m also confused.
It’s either: the game is 2 blu rays, one of them is midgar, the other is the rest of the game and it’s all released March 3rd.
The game is 2 blu rays, both cover midgar only, and the rest of the game will be released in other releases.
It’s just one disc, which is midgar only. And another disc at another time will be released as the rest of the game.
Not sure which one it is.
It’s either: the game is 2 blu rays, one of them is midgar, the other is the rest of the game and it’s all released March 3rd.
The game is 2 blu rays, both cover midgar only, and the rest of the game will be released in other releases.
It’s just one disc, which is midgar only. And another disc at another time will be released as the rest of the game.
Not sure which one it is.
Pallas
Member
Pallas
Member
Yeah didn’t it just contain the last dungeon + cutscenes?
CyberPanda
Banned
No. Part 1 is on two discs.
Final Fantasy VII Remake (part 1?) is on two Blu-Rays
So they're going with FFVII Remake as the name? No Cool Subtitle or anything, just Remake? Also shouldn't they label this Part I or Episode I?
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EDMIX
Member
"Plenty of huge open world games bigger than Midgar" ?? When did you play the remake?
Psykodad
Banned
Thnx. I'm cool with that.
So, Midgar disc 1, Aerith's death at the end of disc 2?
I like that idea.
CyberPanda
Banned
D.Final
Banned
True.
If he had only 2 parts it would be beautiful.
But I also think that, in light of this presentation, their ambitions are probably richer and bigger than this, probably.
Because, even from this Final Fantasy VII Remake, it can be seen how a section of the game, in this case Midgard, has been expanded in a considerably larger way than the original.
(in fact it is likely that we could visit all the Shinra mako reactors)
And it's so rich, that only 2 BluRays were needed to make this game section of Final Fantasy VII Remake.
(where a game like RDR 2 is also made in 2 BluRay)
So, taking this into account, I think the (total) game of Final Fantasy VII Remake could be done in 3/4 parts too.
(but each part will be composed, probably, of at least 2 BluRays, for a total of 6/8 BluRay for the whole game of Remake)
The important thing is that each part is totally faithful to the original for the story, and that it greatly enriches all the bought narrative of the story and the lore of the characters of the game universe.
If so, Final Fantasy VII Remake could easily become the biggest game that has ever been made in over 30 years.
Then, I also hope that the game will have as few parts as possible.
(to me it would be enough that they all come out on PS4 at least)
bitbydeath
Member
Can you link me? I want to read!
Might be more information.
I’m just looking through the original stuff.
Cactuar (Final Fantasy VII)
The Cactuar is an enemy in Final Fantasy VII, found in the Corel Prison desert. It is quite rare, confined to this one desert area, and comprising only 1/16 of the encounters there; the other 15/16 being Land Worms. It is evasive and tends to run away, but if the party manages to defeat it, they...
finalfantasy.fandom.com
Cactuars don’t show up until Corel Prison.
Final Fantasy VII/BlueHighwind
finalfantasy.fandom.com
Chapter 15 of disc one.
Chocobo riding occurs shortly after that too.
Pallas
Member
I’m just looking through the original stuff.
Cactuar (Final Fantasy VII)
The Cactuar is an enemy in Final Fantasy VII, found in the Corel Prison desert. It is quite rare, confined to this one desert area, and comprising only 1/16 of the encounters there; the other 15/16 being Land Worms. It is evasive and tends to run away, but if the party manages to defeat it, they...
Cactuars don’t show up until Corel Prison.
Final Fantasy VII/BlueHighwind
Chapter 15 of disc one.
Chocobo riding occurs shortly after that too.
OH I thought you meant you knew when that dlc summon would be at in game
Because otherwise Cactaur isn’t a summon in FFVII original. He was great and frustrating to get in FFVIII tho.
bitbydeath
Member
OH I thought you meant you knew when that dlc summon would be at in game
Because otherwise Cactaur isn’t a summon in FFVII original. He was great and frustrating to get in FFVIII tho.
Yeah, I just figure the summon would be located around those enemies.
Virex
Banned
2 Blu-Rays? This is very detrimental
I'd like to hear
Freedom Gate Co.
opinion on the 2 Blu-Ray discs
I'd like to hear
Freedom Gate Co.
opinion on the 2 Blu-Ray discs
Ar¢tos
Member
Obviously a reference to bluray movies. Since a movie is about 2h long, it means 4 entire hours of gameplay!!
Still day 1 for me!
Day 1 when the bundle of Part 1 and Part 2 goes on sale for under 30$
CyberPanda
Banned
This game runs on Unreal Engine 4 right?
GenericUser
Member
I wish I had this level of self control.
Problem is (and I'm not even kidding): by the time square finishes the full remake, I could be dead. Run over by a car, die from an illness or whatever. Life can be over pretty fast and if there is one game I want to play before I die, it's the remake.
Also, if they continue at this pace, the remake will have more then 2 parts. Could very well be 4 or more seperate parts if they give every location in the game this level of attention.
Ar¢tos
Member
It's only a game. Don't make games so important in your life.
The last game I bought day one was God of War, and since then I bought maybe 2 games on sale for under 20€. There are games I want to play, but if I don't get to play them, it's OK, there are so many other fun things to do.
... I guess I'm not a really serious gamer... (i split my free time between gaming, reading and learning french/Swedish/German)
Ichisuke
Neo Member
As they already told you, Cactuar is not an "original" summon (well even Carbuncle) of the game, also the original Chocobo summon was available as soon as you left Midgar (actually when you reach the Chocobo farm and it's actually the 1st summon you get).
So in the original game using summons inside Midgar was a no-go (the only way was cheating with action replay, save editor etc).
Now they probably change the first part of the game and you can find/use summons inside Midgar (it would be pointless to release summons dlc that you cannot use) or the first part of the game actually ends way after Midgar where you can use the summons.
But still all those dlc summons are probably less powerful ones/support ones (for example Carbuncle was most of the time a supporting summon and the little Chocobo is probably not the original one) and they don't ruin the game experience by overpowering you and you can just use those right away from the start.
bitbydeath
Member
I’m aware of this. I’m saying it would make sense for this summon to become unlocked near the creature it represents in the game.
WhartoX
Member
Digital Pre Order Link: https://store.playstation.com/en-US/product/UP0082-CUSA07211_00-FFVIIREMAKE00000
Virex
Banned
Yep.
CyberPanda
Banned
They did a good job with it, and I assume they modified it a lot to make the game look the way it does. Good job SE.
lifa-cobex
Member
They look wired.
It's like they are cramming them into a way too small sports bra.
Werewolf Jones
Gold Member
I'll buy it if they keep "Let's mosey." & Barrett seeing Jenova and saying "Ain't got a fucking head."