Part of what Jason is talking about (I think) is that the game takes a very large flashback sequence from much later in FF7 and puts it at the end of Remake, before that story is really set up in the original, so the impact is different.

If it were up to me, every game would be turn-based.

the ending makes it very clear that the project’s director, Tetsuya Nomura, has spent the past two decades as the chief creative behind Kingdom Hearts, the messiest and most complicated story in JRPG history

Hard pass. Combat doesn’t sound fun at all. Turn based battles aren’t antiquated at all. It’s a good system that works and has worked for 40 years that allows for very deep strategy when well polished. This game looks like a western hack and slash with a vague jrpg theme.

Plus it’s a remake, not a 1:1 recreation. Any new content that hasn’t been shown by Square-Enix can be considered a spoiler. And this isn’t a movie. There are things besides story that can be considered spoilers such as gameplay mechanics, boss fights, etc. Hell, even things cut out of this game from the original game…

Am I crazy for thinking this would be an absolutely incredible twist? Turns out its not a straight remake after all, but an alternate-universe “what if” scenario. That would be cool as hell.

The rumors say next week. Relax, it literally has to be soon, because after AC comes out, Nintendo has no release dates for any other games for the year, and their shareholders won’t like that.

A) Yes. In fact, crafting and doing small things is basically the whole game. It’s a life sim so it’s nothing crazy. 

Interesting. Except that game streaming isn’t broadcasting anything. The media comes only to me. Not to me and my apartment building. Hell even if it did stream to my entire building, all my building would get to do is watch me play Borderlands or something. A thing they can already do on Twitch.

If my friend was Dell? 2K can decide Dell made money on selling me a laptop so 2K can ban me from playing the game they sold to me, because it’s on a Dell?

Part of it is because a bunch of EULAs for games on Steam prohibit exactly this sort of thing. Part of it is because the distribution agreement with Steam is potentially violated by Nvidia having cached copies of the game (there is a kind of instant install thing happening for GFN compatible titles because they aren’t…

They can do it because the software industry has long since differentiated between a normal workstation and virtualized hardware, especially when you own one and not the other. I am not saying that is right, but it gives them the flexibility to restrict running the software on virtualized/remote access systems and…

If anything, as someone who can remember finer details for a game that’s not even my favorite FF, this remake is more of a modernized retelling than a Grandpa’s War Tale.

For instance, they changed President Shinra’s design(imo, for the worst), and I don’t recall Jessie being so expressively thirsty. Giving her more…

I wish at the very least, the health display was bigger. Many times, Cloud and Barret’s health got low for me just because in the heat of action, I couldn’t read it at a glance it with the numbers and gauge so damn tiny, so I wasn’t picking up on needing a potion replenish.

This. Midgard is the most interesting location in the game and I still remember feeling let down that your return there on disc 2/3 is so brief. 

People’s concerns that Midgar isn’t enough are bizarre to me. Midgar is the only interesting location in what turns out later to be a completely incoherent world. Frankly, Episode 1 is the only one I’m really interested in, because it represents the entirety of content that I personally consider worthwhile in FF7.…

Adding to this: in the original Jessie expresses surprise that the explosion was as powerful as it was. That seems to at least imply that they didn’t plan on it being so big and maybe something got cut or lost in translation.

FF7:R feels like an interpretation of how someone who was young when it came out remembers the original game. Through rose colored glasses shrouded in the fog of days gone by, they recall crazy sword fights and a man with gun for an arm yelling out obscenities while blasting his way out of trouble and a flower girl…

Oatmeal and chocolate is an amazing combination. I’ll often stir a tablespoon of chips and a good-sized dash of cinnamon into a bowl of oatmeal. Breakfast of champions!

Is there a “hack” to remove the raisins from the oatmeal cookie dough?