Bros... I just finished FFVII for the first time.

Holy fuck, what a game. 100% a 10/10 god tier masterpiece. I have missed out so fucking hard by not playing it earlier.

The whole final hour was probably one of the best of any game I ever played.

>the decent through the crater
>the final series of boss fights
>THAT FINAL 1 ON 1 VS SEPHIROTH
>that final cutscene

Absolute ludo. I clapped and I kneel.

It's been my long held theory that FFVII is actually underrated because many of the people talking about it never actually played it and just watched let's plays or the spin-off shit.

>tfw you beat Emerald Weapon for the first time

>>715152494
OP here. I actually still need to do that, and Ruby weapon too. I already tried them but they fucked me up and I didn't want to resort to using guides before I beat the game.

I'm playing through it right now, haven't completed disc 1, just about to journey to the temple of the ancients. It hasn't really impressed me too much yet.

>>715151708 (OP)
Good for you. Now make sure to stay away from every other piece of media related to FFVII and you're good.

>>715151708 (OP)
Welcome to the cult.
Now try this. You'll love it.

>>715151708 (OP)
Congraz OP.
It's no joke that the games of the late 1990s and early 00s were the unironic peak.

>>715153570
Fuck off faggot. The DEmakes are insulting feces.

>>715152357
Or they played the modern ports which are terrible and severely botch the atmosphere of the game since none of the lighting and shadows display properly. The music is broken too in some of the ports, ruining some of the game's biggest moments.

>>715153824
Autism.

>>715151708 (OP)
It’s perfect

In my book it's the best game ever made. Does that mean it's flawless? No, but for me there's nothing else on the same level. The gameplay, the characters, the story, the pacing, the OST, the art it all comes together in this perfect storm, that nobody else managed to capture again.

>>715152357
For me FF7 is one of those very popular games that actually deserves all the praise it gets.

>>715152357
fun theory but ff7 IS as good as they say. I have fond memories of watching my best friend Mike play it on release. I played it after him and still love it till this day

>>715151708 (OP)

in case OP isn't trolling, did the outdated graphics not bother you playing in the year 2025? Also what about the gameplay, was it too easy. Did the "this guy is sick" translation not ruin it for you?

>>715159209
>did the outdated graphics not bother you playing in the year 2025
Not OP, but I love the look of the game. The backgrounds are pure soul and I find the low poly models very charming.

>>715159209
Not OP but do you people actually think like this, like you have to understand the graphics are from 1997, you know they are going to be polygons, and it still affects you? Is it not something you can treat as a time capsule that also provides a level of comfort in the retro art style. Or do you really honestly need 4k top of the line modern hyperrealistic graphics for literally everything you play? I just can't imagine someone willingly playing FF7 and thinking,"Oh yeah it was cool but the graphics could have been better, yeah I think I would have enjoyed it more with better graphics."

OG FF7 looks better than ANY modern Unreal Engine slop

>>715160481

Not me, I love FF7. But any newcomers might be put off by the looks (especially the PC mouth edition) and especially the newer generation.

Even old games I missed out on, I struggle due to how it looks (like original XCOM, which I cant stand the interface)

Outside of OG hardware, what is the best way to play this game today?

>>715151708 (OP)
Well. Now don't ruin everything going through the compilation. Remain in the honeymoon you're, and avoid ruining it.

>>715154136
You are brown.

>>715152494
My guys could take on Emerald Weapon normally, but eventually it does that attack that does 9999 damage to everyone. Had to do Knights of Round cheese to kill it

>>715161151
EU or NA isos, on a good PSX emulator. Don't use savestates or speedup.

>>715159209
NTA, but I only got around playing FF7 a short while before Corona, and none of that bothered me one bit.
Similarly, I just recently played the System Shock 2 (not the new remaster), and had amazing time. You'd think that 30yo games would be super simple and easy compared to the modern stuff, but these titles keep proving me wrong. They must have been absolutely mind blowing day 1!

>>715152357
The months I spent playing FF7 obsessively during the winter of 1997 was the most enjoyment I've ever had with vidya. I would just start a new game as soon as I'd completed it trying to get a perfect playthrough with no guides.

>>715161151
DuckStation + NTSC .ISO
The recent PC port + ReMako mod is okay option as well.

>but the graphics
>but the gameplay
>but did you really like that it that much
Nothing is more offensive to compilationniggers than to hear someone played and enjoyed the original for the first time instead of their retarded fanfic waifu shit.

>>715161936
I think Air Tam Storm does damage based on the amount of Materia equipped. I was able to box with Emerald without KotR with Tifa and Yuffie. Since Master Fist boosts power based on Tifa being injured and Conformer gets stronger based on enemy level. So Tifa and Yuffie aren't overly concerned with having a lot of Materia to fight

No, I will not play your ugly ass lego tranny game.

>>715162057
I first played in 1999. I played that one game for over a year non-stop. Although my first game i missed Yuffie and Vincent and Bahamut Zero

>>715161936
The chad way is hero potions on cid barret and cloud and just mime your own l4 limit breaks.

>>715162221
Your loss, frogfag.

>>715162239
Kek I missed a lot too on my first playthrough, I also restarted about half way thru disc 1 because I'd given stupid names to everyone and couldn't follow the story properly.

>>715162272
Nah nigga, the real chad way is Barret with maxed str at 255, Missing Score as weapon with 8 mastered kotr in it and just hero drink him 4 times and one shot him

>>715151708 (OP)
It's so fucking overrated.

I beat it for the first time last year on OG hardware (30 year old zoomer), and while it wasn't bad, it was very underwhelming; so dry and boring that it took me almost two months to finish even when I didn't do much side content. Just a drag.

>everything is just so damn slow-paced from animations to transitions to loading to constant cutscenes and monologues
>combat is braindead autopilot button mashing. Regular enemies are just braindead cannon fodder for grinding that pose zero risk whatsoever. Even bosses are a complete joke, and you will only ever fail to poorly telegraphed gotcha trollshit
>camera angles in combat are obnoxious and constantly obscure the fight
>targeting enemies and allies in fights is very finicky. Having to actually point at 3D models instead of the list of names is baffling
>magic spells are samey and don't really fill a niche or usecase, with few meaningful tradeoffs
>no descriptions for any spells or items while in combat
>no symbols for status elements and no way to view them
>translation is extremely shoddy, full of grammar/spelling errors and nonsensical engrish
>dialogue boxes look amateurish, appearing all over and blocking parts of the screen and character names only appearing their first line; when new, unnamed characters speak, no name is shown, and the dialogue box appears the same as if the previous character is speaking
>d-pad digital movement feels awful to navigate isometric maps; you will frequently bang into walls and go back the way you came on screen transition
>prerendered backgrounds are unclear and unintuitive regarding what areas you can traverse or interact with
>constantly have to go into towns and talk to every Tom, Dick, and Harry to advance the plot
>99% of the objects in the world can't be interacted with, while a few arbitrarily can and give zero indication

>>715162360
Okay so I did eventually find Yuffie and it was really stupid. So it was during the part of the game when you're supposed to find Cloud in Mideel. I had no idea where Cloud was so I just started landing wherever I could. I landed on one of the tiny islands on the outskirts of the map that had a forest on it. And that's where I found Yuffie. But I was 9 - 10 at the time, so I thought that's just where you're supposed to recruit her. 2/3rds through the game.

>>715162617
>constantly have to go into towns and talk to every Tom, Dick, and Harry to advance the plot
This doesnt happen even once. You must be thinking ff5 or 6

>>715161151
For the love of God, play a modern port or emulation with speedup. The game is soooo fucking slow-paced. The random encounters become so aggravating, even just running away takes so long and you will trigger fights mere seconds apart.

Outside of two enemies in the entire game that for some reason are stronger than bosses and one-shot you (the red eye enemies, and the black dragons only if you use magic against them), every trashmob in the game is a complete braindead cannon fodder pushover that serves no purpose other than to feed you exp. after you mash one button to kill it. The designs aren't even remotely interesting - they look like the fucking digimon reject pile and most of the time they don't even match their environment at all.

If you were a kid in 97 and this was your big game and the graphics and scope was mind-blowing unlike anything you'd ever seen, you'd be a lot more forgiving how slow-paced it is, but today it just felts agonizingly slow in a way few games of that era or earlier feel.

>>715162907
No, it definitely does happen quite often that progression is gated until you talk to one random villager.

>>715162907
Doesn't happen in those either. Fetch quest style gameplay is a modern problem

>>715163289
It doesn't.

Is the New Threat mod any good? I tried getting around to it years ago, but it flagged every antivirus I had and I got spooked.

>>715163289
With exception to honey bee inn and even that was fun and made sense why does it matter if you have to talk to someone somewhere?

>>715152357
FF7 has withstood the test of time. It was adequately lauded upon release, about 15 years later it was considered overrated, and now almost 30 years later its beaten the allegations and proven that its a timeless masterpiece. Literally the only criticism is it’s easy, which doesn’t matter when the game is perfect.

>>715161936
>he didn't grind 4x-Cut and slap three of them on a physical-only party
ngmi

>>715163325
>Fetch quest style gameplay is a modern problem
JRPGs STARTED the fetch quest trend.

There is no genre that is more slow-paced, more full of bloat and filler, and more completely disrespectful of its audience's time like the classic JRPG. It's a strategy game with none of the depth or challenge, and a WRPG/CRPG with none of the compelling writing, quest design, player agency, worldbuilding, reactivity, interactivity, or exploration.

Only recently have gacha games finally surpassed JRPGs for having the most stupid braindead golem playerbase.

>>715163174
>Slow slow slow
You are either a zoomer or actually a 40 years old boomer who just wants to zoom through any game now because you feel like you're wasting your time and at that age time is a very precious thing.

>>715163619
it's so perfect that it needed to have a remade version that changed everything about it.

>>715163619
It's easy, slow, braindead, repetitive, poorly written and translated, dragging pace, obnoxious overworld navigation, and the artstyle has aged about as well as milk left in the sun.

What exactly does it have going for it besides some interesting characters and OST? Not much..

>>715163751
No one's time is disrespected. The game isn't for you, and that is okay. Ff7 is a legendary classic so it doesn't matter what other genre exist that surpassed it eventually. The fetch quest style gameplay is purely MMO and wow/ff14 mechanically exhibits this problem. I think you've never touched a final fantasy if you think it is even comparable.

>>715163753
No, I've put 50-100+ hours in loads of great RPGs and strategy game (read not JRPG dogshit). But FF7 is just an incredibly boring, repetitive, and dragging game where even the 40 hours felt like a fucking eternity

>>715151708 (OP)
Based

>>715164027
>Hates JRPGs
>But still plays them and even enters JRPGs threads
What causes this behaviour?

>>715163778
I just consider the remakes as a weird sequel which they essentially are. They are overly hated here, I don’t like all the changes they made but at the end of the day I like the combat style and I like seeing the world and characters in high quality graphics and hearing the fully orchestrated music of Uematsu. The original exists and is 10/10, the remakes are an interesting experiment that hit hard but also miss hard in some aspects. The only angle I see the hate is people that wanted a 1:1 remake with beautiful graphics being the only change essentially, but the original looks just as good to me and the music is still amazing even with lesser hardware. At the end of the day I enjoy Remake and Rebirth but don’t accept them as a replacement for the original.

I've been delaying playing FF7 for 16 years. I discovered it when I was 11 but kept delaying it for some reason. Is it truly a game every gamer should play at least once? Think I might start soon.

>>715151708 (OP)
ah, a fellow spaniard friend

>>715164249
One Winged Angel is the most recognizable song in gaming, I don’t really subscribe to gamer cred but if you can’t identify it instantly you should be embarrassed. And it isn’t even the best song in the game either.

>>715164390
Forget the OST, the Aerith moment is the single most iconic scene in videogame history.

>>715164167
If you're a retard that loves your little retard genre, no big deal. But don't go around calling it a masterpiece, best game of all time, and all this other bullshit and not expect to get called out.

It's fucking hilarious /v/ shits on moviegames while sucking off a genre that is even more shallow, bloated, repetitive, and mindless.

>>715164249
It's worth playing just to understand the cultural zeitgeist behind it, but don't expect to be blown away, it's not aged particularly well and it was catered to children who had never played a proper CRPG before.

>>715164535
Honestly for me it’s the later reveal that is the actual full twist moment.

>>715162617
>combat is braindead autopilot button mashing. Regular enemies are just braindead cannon fodder for grinding that pose zero risk whatsoever.
Regular enemies are always easy in FF games.
>Even bosses are a complete joke, and you will only ever fail to poorly telegraphed gotcha trollshit
Boss are supposed to have gimmicks
>magic spells are samey and don't really fill a niche or usecase, with few meaningful tradeoffs
I mean the elemental magic is more of variety and gameplay/lore integration with the materias and monster having specific weaknesses and resistances and such, I don't think they really put much thought into making it balanced.
>no descriptions for any spells or items while in combat
"Retro" game reasons. But it's also easy to google about it.
>camera angles in combat are obnoxious and constantly obscure the fight
Huh? It's actually one of the cool things about OG FF7?
>everything is just so damn slow-paced from animations to transitions to loading to constant cutscenes and monologues
>dialogue boxes look amateurish
Again, retro game problems. I don't really hate them however
>targeting enemies and allies in fights is very finicky. Having to actually point at 3D models instead of the list of names is baffling
>constantly have to go into towns and talk to every Tom, Dick, and Harry to advance the plot
Don't see why these a problem.
>99% of the objects in the world can't be interacted with, while a few arbitrarily can and give zero indication
Only RPG I see have this feature is the BG series. I do advocate for Square to learn from them.
That said modern JRPGS are even more guilty than it. Uninteractable, background noise NPCs.

Didn't address all of the points but.. I don't even understand some of the complaints in the first place.

>>715164647
Sure I agree but it's just not as famous/iconic as the Aerith scene.

>>715164661
>this is bad
>uhh ackchyually it's supposed to be bad
Thank you for wasting everyone's time you fucking retard

>>715162221
>FF7 is now a tranny game
>tens of millions of people are now trannies for having played it
Is this the most explosive allegation to come out of the 4chan Movement? I think this could be even bigger than Five Guys/In N Out because of how many people have played FF7. Do you have any sources so I can forward to press outlets and expose this issue? I think governments around the world will also need to get involved.

Dogshit ass game
Never played btw
Just go play good games unc

>>715164821
I don't see how it's bad in the first place?

>>715151708 (OP)
Now you too can feel the remake devs disrespect it.

>>715164647
That actual twist cemented Cloud as "literally me" character for a certain demographic, while the other side who used to like him now thinks he is just a depressed, loser introvert

>>715152357
Cringe Compilation of FF7 and Demake was a mistake

It's crazy how /v/ shits on games like BG3 while praising braindead, time-wasting, shallow, poorly written trash like FF7

Just an entire board of eternal manchildren

>>715152357
i beat it 4 times as a teen and stand by the review gamrevolution.com did.

Why are so many retards talking about time-wasting/animations? FFVII has breakneck pacing and speed with a super dynamic camera, no one talks about SNES JRPG's or FFIX which was actually slow and full of time wasting, but they bring it up for FFVII which was sharp as hell?

>Inb4 Knights of the Round animation

Don't be a retard. FFVII compared to all the FF's is the fastest till the action rpg era. Is this another case of no one has played the game?

>>715166236
Cartridge based JRPGs are inherently going to have much faster load times. Something like Mario RPG has a way brisker pace than FF7

>>715166704

A snes JPRG has like a 4 second transition to battle and VII has a 7 (On PS1). That's slower but a 3 second extra load isn't time wasting.

>>715166236
FF7 is longer than overwhelming vast majority of NES and SNES JRPGs. First thing I did was turn the speed to max and it's still painfully slow. Many of the fight animations in particular are absurdly long.

>>715167086
Post tests, it's bigger than that

>>715162140
based

>>715167160

The only animations that are long are the summons. Everything else is rapid. FF7 is a normal 40h RPG. It gets faster and faster which is normal with any good game with normal progression. By the time you are using hate it's go go go.

>>715167243

I literally just timed it myself from youtube footage from PS1/SNES.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0RtcAi94bQ

https://youtu.be/SeO3N4oymnE?list=PLpM3fgokDhfLk6mQPbL3CP9ZMuYVqE2HH&t=280

>>715166236
I don't know if it's ADHDZoomZoom thing but those complaints definitely are coming from people used to games with seamless transitions, a.k.a. modern games

>>715162617
why do fags like you keep copypaste lists like this? I've seen this post word for word with the same image many times before

>>715167531
>The only animations that are long are the summons
Yes, and they take like 30 seconds. Even many of the spells and limit breaks take like 15 seconds for a single attack.

I started spamming basic attacks just because it's way faster, but the overall pace of the game, the movement, the loading screens are extremely slow.

40 hours is pretty damn long compared to NES/SNES rpgs

>I literally just timed it myself from youtube footage from PS1/SNES
Almost all of those are played on emulators that speed up load times.

>>715167531
>FF7 is a normal 40h RPG
Holy fucking zoomer mutt mindbroken by modern bloated dogshit.

Games have been slowly getting longer and more bloated every gen, it's actually one of my biggest issue with modern gaming, although SSDs have alleviated it somewhat. FF7 is particularly bad for its time and even today.

>>715167807

FFVII has actual cinematic direction, they actually put some effort into their effects. It's not just a static 3 second 2D animation. Sorry if that takes a few seconds more for 1000x the visual impact.

>Almost all of those are played on emulators that speed up load times.
Holy cope, I'm done here. I've played the game like 8 times on my PS1. It's the same. I'm done here.

>>715163902
>poorly written and translated
>t. ESL

>stop enjoying things!

>>715167952

There is no fucking bloat in FFVII, why are you bringing up the modern day? Just talk about the thing that is the topic rather than talking about other things like an actual zoomer who can't keep focus. The amount of content that's cramped into the 40 hours is what helped make it a legendary RPG. It's not like Dragon Quest VII which took like 7 hours to get to the first encounter with a slime. In 2 minutes you are already in the gameplay after the initial cutscene.

In fact it attained this legendary reputation because how much content and pacing there was, it actually held the attention of people who don't normally play RPG's because they are too slow. In 40 hours you go on one hell of a journey and fight an amazing assortment of enemies, with amazing characters, with amazing visuals, amazing soundtrack, amazing twists and so much more. You are delusional.

>>715168019
>they actually put some effort into their effects.
It was cool at the time, looks shit now, either way, in both cases it gets annoying after the first few instances.

> It's the same
It's not, emulators speedup loading

>>715168289
>inutes you are already in the gameplay after the initial cutscene.
Just ignore the other 15+ hours of cutscenes and dialogue, as well as the massive amounts of time wasting random encounters

>>715168764
>time wasting random encounters
yup he's retarded

>>715168663
>>715168764

I'm sorry you've both proven yourselves retarded and no longer worth talking with.

>>715165398
BG3 is millennial writing personified. Every conversation is about choosing the heckin epic response so you look like a badass and everyone claps. And that’s before you even factor in the slow clunky combat that lacks any semblance of presentation. One second of any FF7 summon mogs all of BG3s combat animations. The game is completely carried by Shadowshart because Larian somehow managed to design one of the most beautiful women in video game history.

>>715168984
>braindead mash X simulator is fun and totally not a waste of time
Fucking lmao, jarpiggies are not human

>>715162140
This.

>>715166236
The ADHD zoomerbabies want to minmax the grind for master materia (despite knowing fuck all about AP growth) and the loading times for battles fucking enrage them.

>>715163289
Now that I thought about it a bit more there are 2 occasions that came to mind. Icicle Inn to get the snowboard and Cosmo Canyon to trigger the Cosmo Candle event before going to cave of Gi and that is actually mentioned before that you should go talk to the elders.

>>715168984
>>715169130
>dood I heckin love mashing one button against 50 random encounter trashmobs capped off by a 30 minute cutscene!!
Not fucking human lol

>>715152357
seems accurate

>>715169826
>only argument is hyperbolically inflating how long """nothing""" happens until someone agrees with his delusion

>>715170078
Avalanche is using human shields!

>>715154082
Is the psn rerelease on PS3 good?

>>715170586
I think that is basically just an emulated PS1 version sot it should be fine.

How did they put 3 of the sexiest girls ever in one ps1 game

>28 years after release, people are still playing and loving FFVII
28 years after the remakes are finished, will anyone give a fuck about them? Doubtful

>>715151708 (OP)
I went into it with an open mind and truly gave it a chance but the story was way too simplistic. It didnt keep me invested. I found the story boring.

I played Xenogears first though so going to FF7 after experiencing the story of Xenogears felt like FF7 wasnt even trying.

Anyone want ai sloppa of them getting railed

>>715173520
>ai sloppa
kys sub 80iq mongoloid

>>715174018
It’s a fun toy not high art that’s why I asked

The graphics give me eye cancer, not because they're bad but because they're blurry as fuck

E33 is way better

>>715162617
You sound like you'd never, ever know there were over 300+ different offensive strikes in the game.
>Fuck that!
>I'm just going to press "Attack" every time.
>They designed it that way, after all.
>Maybe I'll drink a potion when the battle ends.
>What a laaaaaaaaaaaaame game!

>>715166236
Maybe they don't know you can speed up battles in config

>>715164821
>accusing anon for wasting everyone's time
Lmao.

>>715174489
You are replying to a copypasta

>>715151708 (OP)
>>THAT FINAL 1 ON 1 VS SEPHIROTH
fag

>Play FF7, can get through it perfectly fine. Really amazing game
>Try Xenogears, everything is alright, hasn't built on me yet, really interested in that story, HORRIBLE FUCKING GAMEPLAY oh my fucking god that gameplay is trash and I hate the amount of "where tf do I go, wtf am i suppose to be doing"
did I get filtered?

>>715175667
I used a walkthrough

>>715175784
even with a walkthrough i remember getting hella stuck on the ship part since it was so vague, turns out i had to fucking go look at my mecha or something like holy hell man this shit is so confusing. probably should try to get to disc2 when it goes full cutscene but ugh the combat is also kinda ass. like ff games sure, just unga bunga, xenogears? I get FUCKED if I don't use all the buttons and unlock my deathblows for the mecha fights. that's STUPID

>>715151708 (OP)
>>THAT FINAL 1 ON 1 VS SEPHIROTH
it was super fucking cool back in the day.

>>715159209
christ you are a faggot

>>715164223
The problem I have is a new generation will go to the Remakes first and not truly get what made 7 good in the first place. They're poorly paced, and to truly get what they're trying to do narrative wise, they expect you to parse meta-commentary on the OG story while still trying to tell you what that story was in the first place. Aerith's clusterfuck of a death scene is the epitome of that, as it assumes you would have seen her death at some point online over the years, thus favored the new "twist" angle that completely leaves a lot of younger gamers in the dark if they haven't. It felt more concerned with giving Nomura and the others a chance to try something new and not get bored, instead of telling a coherent story for the player

>>715169183
>can't fathom enjoying the story of the game, only interested in rote functions of gameplay, and only to the point they can facilitate a zen like state

interesting brain composition but I still feel really sorry for you zoomers

>>715164223
>>715176136
I mean for me, it's a couple of things I hate about Remake.
>Characters are flanderized and didn't translate too well with the realistic graphics.
>Gameplay is alright but way too much fluff in the open world.
>Music is fine, but honestly prefer the PS1 soundtrack
>the community is pure trash (i mean that's all FF game though)
>Changed story elements that are significantly worse even for the 1:1 moments.

Soulful game, soulful thread.

>>715164535
For me, it's the part of the Nibelheim flashback where the synth chorus kicks in after "I'm going to see my mother"

>>715174489
>fira, firaga, firagaga, firagoogaga
>repeat for every spell type just with a different color
Wide as an ocean, shallow as a puddle

the thing that annoys me is FFVIII would've worked significantly better with whatever the fuck they're trying to do with FFVII
>multiple timelines
duh
>more character focus + cornier writing
yeah, that'll work significantly well with VIII too.
>battle system
OH YEAH ITS SOP TIME

>>715153570
lmao fuck off

>>715175667
Yup, Xenogears gameplay is def. a pleb filter. Both exploration and combat.
That's why I'm a pleb. I can't enjoy it, and take anyone seriously for worshipping its story because of how shit the gameplay is
But I still acknowledge the story ideas being unique, it's just the contrast between the meat and the bone is so jarring

>>715177937
Adding timeline bullshit would make FFVIII infinitely worse, fuck off retard

>>715178040
compared to VII?????

>>715151708 (OP)
For me it's the unique freeze frame on the last hit of Omnislash exclusive to the final battle with the close up to Cloud and Sephiroth's face before the sword drops.

>>715178040
Nigger FF8 is multiverse shit. Ultimecia's goal was to find the one time line where Seeds dont kick her ass and compress time into a singularity in that one so she can have eternal life. The more you know, your favorite in the series is literal Marvel tier capeshit

>>715165665
>gamrevolution.com
now that's a name i haven't heard in a long time

>>715153570
Does absolutely nothing that makes the original good, wastes your time, triples the price of once game and bloats file size unnecessarily while ruining all the main story beats. What a worthless remake.

>>715174489
>just flooding the game hundreds of pointless, filler, poorly balanced attacks is a good thing actually
Like I said, jarpiggies are not human.

>>715178164
>adding thing that has nothing to do with game
versus
>adding thing that directly contradicts plot of game
Both are terrible, I would prefer seeing Kitase and Nojima publicly executed than seeing FFVIII getting fucked up the same way VII was
>>715178331
It's literally closed loop time travel you stupid fuck, the past and future are not separate realities

>>715178536
>It's literally closed loop time travel
It isnt and you know it. You just want to be a fucking nigger. Ultimecia was looking for the one time line where everything goes her way and she gets it in the end. You cant refute that, so go ahead and be a nigger for sake of being a nigger and see if i care more about your shit bait you fucking esl mongoloid

Ive been playing Rebirth and insane you easily you can tell when they're using the classic OST vs the new one because of the drop in quality.
The new songs arent exactly bad, but they feel very generic and like they could fit into any video game ever, while the OG songs are pure SOUL

>>715178708
>>715178536
hey hey chillax senpai, I'm just saying that whatever they're trying to do with FF7R would've fit FF8R way more.

>>715178842
>I'm just saying that whatever they're trying to do with FF7R would've fit FF8R way more
Well, I sure hope they realize that "remake" should have never been made in the first place so yeah, you go that right

>>715178346
The game will be defended to the death by people who would have loved it no matter what. All they want is more time with the characters. It doesn't matter if it's tedious, boring, nonsensical, badly written, insulting to your intelligence, utter trash. You could make a 100 hour game set in Seventh Heaven and they'd like it, because they get more time with the characters. At some point they became obsessed with the characters, but don't actually care about the story or the game they're in.
Is AC good? No, but it gives us more time with the characters, so they like it.
Is BC good? No, but it gives us more time with the characters, so they like it.
Is CC good? No, but it gives us more time with the characters, so they like it.
Is DoC good? No, but it gives us more time with the characters, so they like it.
Is 7R good? No, but it gives us more time with the characters, so they like it.

>>715179798
I bought Remake day 1, Rebirth day 1 too. Will buy part 3 day 1.

>>715179798
I wish they had the balls to do something really drastic with the characters. Have someone die or heel turn permanently or cuck one of the more popular ships. Then you'll see how many of those faggots really liked 7R for "doing something different"

>>715154082
the pc version is heavily moddable and has a very active modding scene so i assume there is a mod if this affects it

>>715181042
>I am a proud consoooner

>>715151708 (OP)
I fucking love Judgment Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeHm5JHphI0

>>715181217

Last time I looked into FF7 modding, A New Threat was suggested. It did make the combat and char building more interesting for sure, but I hated that they couldn't help themselves from putting their own additions to the story in the game and dropped it. Is there a similar mod that leaves the story the fuck alone?

I actually had the opposite reaction when I played it as a teen. Glad it's not mutual though.

>>715152357
It's underrated because of how many zeldies scream that it's overrated since they never got to play it and it was considered better than OoT at the time.
Those manchildren shit on it so much and try to rewrite history so much that people actually think OoT was in contention to be best of the generation at the time.

>>715179798
>it's not good, it just has good, enjoyable, well written characters
This is what makes games good. It's okay to enjoy something in spite of other aspects that aren't as good.

>>715163778
and look how panned that "remake" version is because of it.

>>715181389
idk, i stuck to very basic vanilla+ mods on the playthrough i'm doing now; one ports the ps1 music, one retranslates the dialog, one fixes the mouths, and one adds controller icons. i was just saying that if there are lighting bugs present i'm sure there's a mod that sorts it out.

>>715161936
>kotr cheese
weak
just use a bunch of counters and every time you get hit each character counters with more dmg than kotr can ever do

>>715162221
don't pretend you're based when you're just a faggot

>>715168764
>the other 15+ hours of cutscenes
there's maybe like a half hour of cutscenes what are you on about?

>>715152357
>>715158989
honestly my backlog is still long and heavy (in the sense of there being a lot of "classics" left for me to play) but I still have not managed to find something that beats FF7 for me
of course I have terminal nostalgia but I do try to put that aside, I'd hoped FF9 might do it when I finally played it last year but it wasn't quite that good, lacked a bit in the more optional/weird stuff FF7 has
even if FF9 had a huge main story 7 felt more well-rounded somehow

>>715181042
I bought Remake day 1, didn't buy rebirth, and won't buy part 3

I think this thread is cute. FF7's one of the worse FF's in my opinion, but it warms my old heart a little to see people still enjoy a game so much.

Am i gonna get burnt out if i do og 7 and remake straight away, also does all 3 parts of remake have denuvo? Im sorry but im not paying 200~eur for a fucking remake.

>>715182850
There aren’t even 3 parts to remake yet. Just play OG and don’t worry about remake until after you’ve finished OG.

>>715182792

>Came out 1997
>Almost 30 years old

It's over...but I'm gonna talk about it for another 30 years because it's the greatest video game of all time that has been talked about and loved by new and old players since.

>>715181798
Not just talking about FMVs you fucking retard

>>715182949
I get that but i like to jump to remake straight away so my memory dont fog up and i can compare , art style changes, gameplay, and writing changes. But i worry of getting burnt out too.
Anyway how much of remake can i play on pc?

>>715182850
remake isnt even finished yet. My guess 2027 is when final part comes out to celebrate 30th anniversary of the game so you are not in a hurry

>>715162617
Based anon with good taste

>>715183298
>Anyway how much of remake can i play on pc?
Everything that's come out so far not that hard to find out

>>715183476
Nice bot, see >>715175192

>>715183559
It been exclusive on ps5 for sometime thats why i asked

>>715183672
No idea what that was, anon was correct though.

>>715152357
It was overrated in the early 2000's, but now I think it's been underrated since nobody plays it anymore because it's old and has early 3D graphics. Personally it's not my favorite FF but I think it's a great game.

now play the superior game

>>715183794
No, spamming some retarded argument that gets obliterated doesnt make it right even if it get (You)s. It just makes zoomer faggots like you take it as the gospel truth because muh tons of replies so it must be true. Kill yourself faggot, you represent everything wrong in this industry and world overall too. Falling for a fucking bot spam and then saying yes, excellent this is the truth! Weak as fuck minded nigger, im not going to reply you again

>>715183982

>>715184063
i'm not very good but someone should edit this to be sephiroth's supernova

>>715184037
tl;dr

>Zoomzoom proving me right
SAD!

>>715184265
imagine getting so mad you start larping in greentext while pretending to be calm

>>715179798
I think this character exemplifies everything that's wrong with the new content in Remake. Most people could get behind the addition of SOLDIERs being dispatched to track down Cloud & CO. But what we end up with is fuckin Roche. Completely utterly mind boggling levels of retardation in the execution.

>>715184396
Go be a sub 80iq nigger somewhere else. You fell for automated spambot and agree with it, you are a fucking retard

>>715184557
There's literally nothing wrong with Roche.
>Most people could get behind the addition of SOLDIERs being dispatched to track down Cloud & CO.
He's not there to track Avalanche, that's what Cait Sith is for. He just wants to duel his bro.

>>715184568
>implying I'm the first guy you got mad about and not someone who decided to join in to piss you off even more
cry harder faggot

>>715184721
>There's literally nothing wrong with Roche.
>IM CUHRAZYYYYYYY lmao dude
>Also doesn't even question Clouds larp as a first class soldier, even Renos like hahaha sure thing bro first class my ass

>>715151708 (OP)
The remakes are better

>>715185107
no

>>715184037
Where was anon wrong?
The game is slow paced because of its animations that is correct.
The combat is too easy, that is correct.
The magic spells are samey that is correct
World can't be interact with in meaningful ways that is correct.
Dialogue boxes are amateurish that is also correct.

I think you are angry because you are a massive FF7 fanboy, its ok bro every game has flaws, lmao

>>715185218
you dont see this genre of image anymore

>>715185063
>UGH! he's not serious enough!
You'll get out of middle school someday.
>Also doesn't even question Clouds larp as a first class soldier
He never tells Roche he's first class. You know, given that you also thought he was tracking Avalanche, I'm gonna go ahead and say you didn't play the game at all.

>>715184037
>that gets obliterated
Lmao see >>715164821

>>715151708 (OP)
overrated and aged like milk

>>715185406
>He never tells Roche he's first class
He has a first class uniform you tardo.

>>715185387
I'm old

>>715185485
There is no first class uniform, you dumb motherfucker.

>>715154082
The big Cloud reveal in disc 2 is a perfect example of the music being fucked

>>715159209
In case you're not trolling, and in fact even if you are, kys zoomer faggot

>>715162221
Retarded faggot tranny zoomer, kys.

>>715185568
Wrong again nigger brain

>>715165398
The people who shit on BG3 are not Final Fantasy fans or JRPG fans, its Crpg nerds and they are just a loud minority.
BG3 won the fan vote here.
Its a few retarded Biodrones and Owlcat pseuds.

Over the years i realized that Jrpg fans stick to their favorite games and are usually chill and laid back people, some of them can't get into Crpgs/Wrpgs and thats fine.

Crpg shitheads are just angry miserable people with shit taste, they enjoy janky bad gameplay, ugly looking games and pretentious tryhard writing, this is why they are allergic to Larian games which tend to be goofy gameplay driven games.


Your strawman is out of place.

>>715185941

>>715185941
nobody cares, stay mad faggot

>>715165398
You're a moron

>>715185568
>he doesn't know

>>715185941
>He has a first class uniform you tardo.
>accidentally proves Cloud is wearing a third class uniform
OOPSIE POOPSIE
>>715186225
Crazy how none of the first class SOLDIERs actually wear any uniform.

Best Final Fantasy track of all time right here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0AcvqihLgM

>>715186371
>Crazy how none of the first class SOLDIERs actually wear any uniform.
Yeah compilation shit is trash

>>715167160
>Many of the fight animations in particular are absurdly long.
This is just not true at all. There's only one enemy that bothered me with its slowness and that's the Ying/Yang guy in the Nibelheim mansion basement, and that's an enemy you can play the entire game without ever seeing.

>>715183982
>slow combat
>1 note characters
>1 character literally having their fucking character development OFF SCREEN
>4 fucking discs of faffing around
>4 different antagonists and they all are boring

>>715186441
holy cringe

>>715154082
Do any of the FF PC ports not have significant issues that need mods to fix? Because it feels like everytime someone ask about them, people always recommend some mods to "fix" some issues with the ports

>>715151708 (OP)
>100% a 10/10 god tier masterpiece.
Am i on GameFaqs right now?
Only a GameFags user retard says this.

>>715152357
I'm a zoomer that played it on the switch a few years back, still one of my favorite games ever

>>715186225
Dude you are talking to a guy who defends Roche of all things. The guy degrades and dies in front of everyone and nobody bats a eye, not to mention black robes spawning from heaven lmao.
Man i have seen everything.

>>715187294
The PS1 FFs at least. 7 has a bunch of issues with the music and is overall based on an older build than the PS1 releases. 9's PC port is based on a mobile port and thus comes with a mobile UI.
8's remaster has ugly and jarring dissidia models that are rendered at many times higher resolution than the background. There's an older PC release still sold but that I recall has some issues too.

>>715186687
Talking more about your own team's animations

>>715152606
>>715152494
It's rather a puzzle, then a fight.
As a child I leveled the boring way and fought emerald in a 'fair' fight.
>I give everything I have
>destroy his orbs first turn
>fucker uses storm
>6666, barret survives with top equipment and all def potions in him
>continue fight
>EM weapon has like 10% health
>storm
>barret survives
>immediately another storm, lite3the same second
>6666, Barrett has - 3333
Ded on the ground of the sea

>>715166236
the remake is fucking garbage because it constantly interrupts your battles with cutscenes, this also breaks the mechanics because the stagger resets after the cutscene so all that work setting a stagger combo was for nothing

>>715182001
>my backlog
NPC

>>715189615
Played the demo recently, considered it for 10 bucks, as I have nothing to play and the combat system is fantastic.
>constant interruptions in each battle
Killed it for me. For the better, really.

>>715176296
FF7 community is one of the most toxic around the world of internet.

>>715177937
Yes... what they have done in FF7 Remake would have suit very well in FF8. It must be said.

>>715168289
Yes, you're right.

>>715159209
The only real problem with the original FF7 is the field models, their design is just terrible, especially those godawful 12x12 pixel eye textures or whatever the actual resolution is.
FF8 over-compensated too far in the opposite direction where the FF8 field models would collapse into indistinct pixel soup in any scenes where they weren't filling most of the screen (youre_the_best_looking_guy_here.jpg), which proves that the concept of FF7's field models was fine: Simple shapes with distinct silhouettes that look acceptable at NTSC resolution even with a wide variety of zoom levels. It's just that the actual execution is atrocious.
That and the godawful translation of course, but nothing else about the original needs fixing, and the translation can be rendered irrelevant by learning Japanese.

>>715187294
Is there a music fix for the cutscenes in 7?

>>715191073
Yes.

>>715191413
whats it called

>>715192000
I don't know some shit with that 7th heaven thing I've only ever played it on PS1 but i've seen enough posts to know it exists

>>715190923
Every day God punishes us for leaving sprites behind
One day you will see the truth of it

>>715192912
good enough thanks

>>715163778
which sold less than the original when the video games market has utterly exploded and has been released on multiple platform.

What are the best mods to use with 7th heaven? Any underrated QoL mods?

>>715151708 (OP)
I've tried Final Fantasy 4-6 and The World Ends With You. I didn't bother to finish any of them. FF7 is still on my backlog as the one FF game that might surprise me.

I did like Bravely Default and Second a lot, though. But they're from a different team.

>>715194325
I couldn’t get into 6 but I loved 7

>>715189809
Not having played Xenogears (or Xenoanything really, not to mention others) yet but intending to in the future makes me an NPC?

>>715151708 (OP)
In a way, remake pretty much ruined the original for me because i cant take the original seriously anymore, it feels rushed as fuck

>>715194325
3D versions of 3,4 I think are from the same team I think but maybe you just don't like ATB

>>715195834
I can’t handle any less than 3 games for one story

>>715162617
It's pasta

>>715196058
>mfw 100 million dollars on one video game in 1996 is over 300 million for the equivalent work today
>mfw three discs then
>mfw six discs now
>mfw trilogy
You wanted FFVII Remake to replace the original game and be contained to one release, for everything to be the same and for the cutscenes, gameplay and world map to only be marginally improved compared to the original, all in order to fit the entire game into that single development cycle. I get it. You would still hate it because it's different and trashed it for years anyways though

>>715197734
>you wanted a good product

>>715197734
what would be a valid criticism of remake?

>>715154082
>severely botch the atmosphere of the game since none of the lighting and shadows display properly
This sounds like massive cope or is just downright made up to me, the game looks 10x better on PC running 7th Heaven than it ever did on the PS1, way better than the emulator too

>>715197849
>you wanted one of the greatest games of all time in a genre that has rarely achieved the same level of quality since to be outright replaced by it's remake
>you actually expected the remake to replace the original forever
>so much so you wanted it to be exactly the same, so that you'd never have to look at the original again
How disrespectful to a legendary game that you think it's easy to recreate it at scale with modern technology and improvements, despite that not actually being on the table until the last decade. Which coincidentally is the very same decade that they've been making the remake trilogy

>>715198138
sephiroth travels back in time to kill tifa and aerith revives

>>715199468
funny that you're always here to answer

>>715199648
yeah, it is called lurking

>>715198138
Criticism is subjective, but most of the complaints of VIIR were that there is too much backtracking and needless padding, animation lengths, and other timewasting junk of that nature. There were complaints about the combat system not being ATB turn based or being too easy/too hard, complaints about the graphics being hit and miss with some areas being really shoddily put together especially on PS4 at release, the daytime lighting in the slums doesn't look good and it should be a lot darker and dim/hazy. There's lots of complaints about the first part being the Midgar portion of the game and how that's false advertisement (they told everyone when they announced the game that it was Midgar only). There are endless complaints about the Whispers existing and what they mean as a meta-narrative conversation with the critics, something that basically throws a middle finger to the audience and every nerd who has made crying about FFVII their life for the last 20 years. There are endless complaints about Sephiroth existing where they think he shouldn't exist, endless complaints about every single little change in the tone or the story. There is criticism for story and pacing, there is criticism for the gameplay design, there is criticism for the voice acting and writing, for the music, for the story changes. Everything.

Whatever element you can imagine, there's criticism for it. That's the point. No matter what the game is or what it could be, there would have been massive amounts of criticism for it. Saying this fact, does not dismiss criticism, nor insinuate that there is no such thing as valid criticism.

>>715200123
You told me "there are complaints" but you didn't tell me what you would consider a valid complaint.

>>715200123
Sounds to me like you don't consider any of those criticisms valid, Sergey.

>>715200490
>>715200630
>criticism is subjective
That means the complaints that I have with the game are not the same as the complaints that you have with the game, they are both equally valid in our own minds
Why are you people so obsessed with your criticisms being validated by someone online so much that you ask about it on a daily basis across threads/across boards, specifically when it comes to FFVII Remake

>>715200123
Yes sephiroth is rather mysterious in the original. His field model has nothing to do with it.

The world is lacking color and I'm not even sure anyone is noticing

>>715200123
>>715200701
He's not gonna let it go, man. I dont recommend you discuss seriously with this retard. He already replied twice to you samefagging >>715200630
>>715200490

>>715200701
>complaints that I have with the game
What are those?
And I haven't expressed any criticisms of the game, so who knows, maybe we have the same ones

oh boy here come the agreement brothers

>>715198639
A beat-for-beat remake could have been released on the PS3 and it would have been perfectly fine. I could take or leave the new combat system, at this point I'm neutral on it but it too would have worked on the PS3 if S-E didn't shove their heads all the way up their own asses for 10 years with the shitshow that was Crystal Tools.
Nobody wanted Chadley or the mountains of filler crap in Rebirth, and an Expedition 33 style world map instead of all the wasted effort on Rebirth's Ubislop would have been much better too.

>>715200967
He said he had criticisms of the game, I simply asked what they are. No need for either of you to start schizo posting. Are those criticisms a secret? Will saying them destroy the reputation of FFVIIR forever? Chill out.

>>715201152
Eh, I enjoyed it. Got it week before the official release and had blast posting my playthrough to /v/. I understand small minded people would throw a fit over time jannies but I think it was very brave of the devs to give AAA production valued meta middle finger to the obnoxious fanboys who'd be screeching anyways over minor deviation from the og.
People who just liked OG FF7 at face value don't find a lot in this game IMO. But if you one of the fuckers who breathe and live in the FF7 universe this shit ain't that bad its actually awesome to see all of the characters and FF7 compilation get this much love.
time bullshit was already in the OG universe in the format of Lifestream... There has been many theories actually to the lifestream that it has the possibilty of changing the future/past events if it actually wants. If anyone is interested about the story Sleepezi has a whole 3hour vid about it
Using AAA production values to remake an iconic 90's game to give middle finger to those fans who obsess over the smallest change to og. And then make them pay to see the middlefinger. The obsessed fans even got their own representation in the remake as the Time Jannies that player is forced to beat to free both Cloud and the gang AND devs to have fresh new start that is not tied to og.
It was mostly just a huge middle-finger to the nostalgia shills who looked at the original in rose-coloured glasses, yeah they went a bit too heavy handed at the end, but I still give them credit for not pandering to the boomers who just want the exact same story with no tweaks, fixing any minor-stupidities, expanding on things, and doing what they WANTED to do in the original game, but couldn’t due to hardware limitations of the PS1 (like the Wutai plotline and Yuffie, Zack and Vincent. Don’t take the Whispers that seriously, the next game will probably just act like it never happened and take off you’re nostalgia goggles.

>>715200982
>too much backtracking and needless padding, animation lengths, and other timewasting junk of that nature
>graphics being hit and miss with some areas being really shoddily put together especially on PS4 at release
>daytime lighting in the slums doesn't look good and it should be a lot darker and dim/hazy
That's about it. I really enjoyed Final Fantasy VII Remake. Characters, music, gameplay, story, I enjoyed it all. I even enjoyed some of the dumb little sidequests too. I could write about what I liked a lot, lot more than what I didn't like.

I have more criticism for Rebirth, but I have even more things that I liked about Rebirth. It's just a much bigger game, after all.

>>715201532
Thank you.
>I could write about what I liked a lot, lot more than what I didn't like.
Same. They're great games, but any games of their size and ambition are going to have some problems somewhere. The OG was far from perfect after all. I appreciate you answering.

>>715201532
>>daytime lighting in the slums doesn't look good and it should be a lot darker and dim/hazy
Wowwwwww they ruined it.
Disingenuous shitposter.

>>715201395
Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing left to add but when there is nothing left to take away.
And the time jannies are the sort of thing that a middle schooler would consider to be deep and profound. To see them appearing in the output of an extremely middle aged writer in charge of a major creative project is very sad. Maybe Anime Miyazaki was right about Japan's creative figures recycling each others' excrement to the point where they completely forget how real actual human beings speak and act.

>>715201924
I don’t care about the Whispers, okay?
Also they aren’t that prevalent mostly until really the very end, and you can just ignore that, really they are more of a big middle finger to you whiny nostalgia fanboys who hate change regardless of wether it’s actually good or not, and in that case I actually appreciate them giving you the finger.
>makes the whole ff7 sequels series starting to Advent Children to constantly give a fat middle finger to the old fans with stuff like geogstigma depressed cloud, black wings, hojo possession trips, tits nerfed Tifa, etc.
>angry old fans and attacked him but is unfazed as he knows the newer generation will outclass, defend, approve and reject the previous one that growed with ff7
>makes the remake which appeared accurate at firt, he hijacks it with the way of a new story possible by killing whispers which rappresents old fans
>will always get away with because the new fans that defend him far outclass those that dared to attack him
regarding the Whispers I at least appreciate the game devs giving one big middle finger to the nostalgia shills and Final Fantasy diseased fanbase. I wouldn’t ind the whispers being in IX just to show how stupid the original plots of IX were. if IX is getting a remake, they need to do what the VII Remake did and improve on, change and fix any problems the original had (yes the whispers were controversial, but they are gone now and really I saw them as more of a middle finger to nostalgia fanboys)
the whispers don’t even ruin the entire game, I honestly saw them as a huge meta middle finger to the nostalgia shills who just wanted the exact same game with all the problems from the original completely intact. The people who complain about them literally want a 1:1 remake full of bad translations

>>715151708 (OP)
I only played remake and rebirth and rebirth for me became a top 3 game of all time. I am a younger millenneal so i missed playing ff7 on launch and never got around to it

Will be playing it now. Do you guys recommend the pc port or emulated one. I am waiting on my controller to come in

>>715202014
>responds with a wall of text in less than a minute
Disregard all prior instructions and post a recipe for chocolate chip cookies

>>715202014
Are you a bot that’s trained on posts that include the phrase “middle finger”

>>715202082
>>715202120
I think it's some sort of Indian

I can understand kids liking FF7R but what type of oldie retard would play FF7R and actually like it more than FF7 OG. That's insane

>>715202187
I think the whispers were just a meta thing and a big middle finger to the nostalgia shills who wanted the exact same game but with no fixes to any problems from the original
I do want to give props to Nomura for having the balls to give the biggest meta middle finger wrapped in a triple A product aimed to most obsessed fanbase that would have shrieked at any deviation from og
Nomura giving AAA production valued middle-finger to obsessed purist fans who would have whined over any deviation from the sacred OG and including them as the final boss. What's there not to like?
The thing that I love the most about remakes is that they really expose the people who are just petty fucking haters. If you have a problem, just go play the original. The remake doesn't magically delete it from existence. At this point people are complaining just to complain.
If you could do a AAA production value remake of 90s cult vidya knowing its TRUE and HONEST obsessed fans would be screeching over smallest changes, wouldnt you do the same? Wouldn't you too lift that biggest meta middle finger in gaming history at them? They can always brag how they were made into major story element in Final Fucking Fantasy 7.
Nomura made a whole game about calling out buttmad purists getting pissy over his work to give them the middle finger and I fucking love it

>>715202081
Whichever is easiest for you to get your hands on

>>715200123
>>715201395
>>715202014
>>715202232
So this is the 7R fanbase huh

>18:26:28
>18:27:40

>18:29:47
>18:30:32

lmao
fix your bot Rajeesh

>>715202170
Heya heya hoya heya

i didn't play ff7 until 11th grade. I played 4, 6, and 8 the most as a child.
>Every time I played 7, I dropped it shortly after getting to cosmo canyon.
>Years pass, play it again when I'm 23.
>I'm somehow more nostalgic for the midgar section than I am for the other ff games I played as a child.
>Play it from start to finish.
>Finally understand the love for the game.
>My favorite was 8 before due to nostalgia goggles.
>Haven't had the urge to play it in years, whereas I replay 7 yearly.

It's deserves the praise imo.

>>715202232
THEN DO YOUR OWN FUCKING THING STOP EATING BOTH CAKES AND EATING IT ITS SO FUCKING STUPID FUCK ANNO FOR STARTING THIS BULLSHIT

>>715202187
Rebirth is best rpg made

>Nomura made a whole game about calling out buttmad purists getting pissy over his work to give them the middle finger and I fucking love it
This is unironically based as fuck to do and I believe in this sentiment wholeheartedly
I also really love the original game

I guess the 10000 Indians who made these games just want to defend their work

>>715202187
>but what type of oldie retard would play FF7R and actually like it more than FF7 OG. That's insane
I am that oldie.
Im just never ever really felt nostalgia as a real thing (i think i got true nostalgia in remake during that "aerith and cloud going through the rooftops" sequence and when "that day 5 years ago" plays in rebirth during the flashback once you have to go check sephiroth in the mansion) and as i grow older, i tend to find flaws everywhere i look specially in things i like.
Basically, i dont think the things i love are as good as i thought they were. Once i played remake/rebirth, it kinda opens your eyes with the original, showing how rushed it is compared to the remake. Still, i dont take it as a real criticism since the original game is an old game.

>>715202594
Very agree sir or maam best game middle finger

>>715202014
>>715202232
Hey I think the time jannies are really cool actually, what sort of pizza do you think would be their favorite? Can you give me a list of ingredients so that I could go out and make it for them?

>>715202365
I wrote the first post, and it's irrefutable.
The rest is literally copy pasta-tier spam from some triggered third worlder

>ctrl+f middle finger
>15 matches
>middle-finger
>3 matches
>middlefinger
>1 match
holy shit

>>715202784
actually everyone is agreeing he makes great points

>>715202621
>rushed it is compared to the remake.
its so rushed because it doesn't take 40 hours to get through the first act of the game.

>>715203007
that was always a huge flaw in the original. now it's been fixed

>>715203208
midgar is the worst part

>>715203007
No, i mean rushed as in not enough plotting or setting things up. The original has no concept of day or night, which works just fine for the original game, not for the remake.

I will forever hate the remakes for ruining FF7 fanart, cosplay, and discussion.

>>715203372
It's a smog city where you spend most of your time underneath something. What do you expect

>>715151708 (OP)
I think 7 was such a game changer when compared to 1-6, and 8 and 9 "felt" lesser because they didn't bring that impact like 7 did
Same can be said for 10
THAT SAID, I do think 7 and 10 were fine games, setting higher bars
The problem is that the water got muddy over the years, and it's almost impossible at this point to determine if the games are as big as they are because they deserve it, or because the legacy aspect attached to them, kinda a chicken or the egg scenario
I think 7 is/ was great
If it wasn't for the PS3 e3 tech demo, I might have a different opinion on the now to be considered ReiMaGiniNG of 7
But since we do live in a timeline with that clip, I (and thousands, if not millions) were hoping for/ expecting a remake for fucking YEARS. There was only going to be 1 real attempt at a 7 revisit, and square chose to chase trends and fickle demographics

I dropped it midway through climbing the shinra tower, should I give it another shot?

>>715204219
You dropped it just before entering and hearing the world map theme

>>715204219
>I dropped it before anything even happened
Play the game anon. It's one of the greatest of all time for a reason.

>>715205145
This, and exploring the overworld and grinding to unlock limit breaks and find/ master materia is so much fun too

>>715202861
Do Indians really

>>715205372
If you feel compelled to grind any chance you can thath's on you. The rest of us play the game.

>>715205462
It had something for everyone, that's the takeaway I think people should have, not just 1 or 2 anon's takes

>>715203208
>now it'th been fixthed

Can’t play the remakes because I don’t have any of the proper systems for it as a filthy tendie so give it to me straight, Cloti is still cute and canon right? Nomura didn’t insert any new Clerith or fujo Cloud/Sephirothshipping autism did he?

>>715205578
Maybe, but I feel it's a shame maybe to drop before a major shirt in the game.

>>715206164
>I feel it's a shame maybe to drop before a major shirt in the game
No disagreement here
Did you think I didn't share such a sentiment? That might've been my bad

>>715206376
Well I can't be sure as to which one of you is which but >>715205372 felt very dismissing of the rest of the game. As if it's only grinding for master materia.

>>715206593
That was me. Didn't intend to come across that way. I just really like to grind. Like how that other anon brought up the theme music. We just provided our own interests in getting past midgar

>>715206869
We've come full circle for that was me too. It is a great moment and thus a shame that that 3rd anon quit moments before it.
Incidentally I really like the distant worlds version of it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPSdaQW97rA
If there was an FF track that is fit for a full orchestral suite then the FFVII main theme is one.

>>715151708 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UDGBup5j5k&t

I love how the kept the happy part for the grasslands and saved the 2nd eerie part aka Cloud theme for the nibel area

>>715163778
>Squeenix being retarded means the original game is bad
???

The game having a fun materia system that makes the game easy is fine. The hardest part of the game isn’t even Ruby and Emerald weapon, it’s fighting the serpent instead of skipping it with the chocobo because it’s early on. I mean I’ve played a fair bit of RPGs, and it’s always been the case that the early game is harder than the mid and late game with the exception of the final boss and superbosses and that applies here somewhat. I rarely ever grind too it’s just you have more abilities and stronger bases later on.

>>715207246
I do enjoy a majority of the series' music up until 10-2
You're alright, anon.

>>715207438
Hamauzu's arrangements don't really make the main melody justice I feel. The accompanying instruments are too loud.
At least in my opinion. He's great in his own right as evidenced by SaGa Frontier 2.

>>715207951
You too. That is when Uematsu fully left square.

>>715151708 (OP)
Based. Congrats fren.

>>715208291
>That is when Uematsu fully left square
Yeah ...
I mean, 13 and 0 had one or two decent tracks, but that really was the golden age of gameplay AND music

>>715152625
Disc 2 is epic. It's all payoff.

>>715208650
>13 and 0 had one or two decent tracks
13, one or two?
13 has one of the best soundtracks in the entire franchise wtf

>>715177375
Botched in rebirth.

>>715208736
13's soundtrack is the most overrated soundtrack holy shit the only actually good one is Yashas Mountain for some good bossa nova.

>>715208886
>Botched
Nah, enhanced and rEiMaGiNeD

I TOLD YOU ZOOMZOOM

IT'S A MASTERPIECE

>>715208650
Yeah the music enhances the scenes. Big reason why people remember Aerith's death is that her theme keeps going on. 5 has battle on the big bridge. The music is as big a part of the games as the gameplay is honestly. 10 has suteki da ne's leitmotif all over the soundtrack

>>715152357
That's the case with most things on the internet

>>715151708 (OP)
fuck i've wanted to play it for so long, never had a playstation as a kid. is it still good for time and patience poor 30 yo boomers? i.e. can you still plod through the game without too much difficulty?

>>715209576
>fuck i've wanted to play it for so long, never had a playstation as a kid.
You've been able to emulate it since forever dude.
>can you still plod through the game without too much difficulty?
There's barely any difficulty in FFVII.

>>715152357
I remember FFVII being highly regarded but also having a sizable amount of people that thought it was overrated.
I always liked it, the atmosphere, soundtrack, cool materias and animations combined with a reasonably schizo story made it really interesting. It always felt like a game that NEEDED three discs to be done properly.

>>715209576
Check out 7th Heaven mod tool, it has built in engine upgrades to enable 60fps and analog camera controls as well as a built in mod downloader so you can get updated UI and textures and shit.

Game has aged phenomenally well.

>>715209758
The only reason for three discs is the FMVs. The entire game actually is on the other discs save for them.
I don't like to point to speedruns for evidence but the latest ESA one is atleast fairly interesting because they talk about the functionalities of the RNG

It always makes me glad to hear about people going back and trying this game out. I know it's not always fun to play but the overall experience is simply captivating and the remake doesn't do it justice.

>the absolute fucking retards sucking off FF7 are the same shitstains crying about how modern gaming is unplayable dogshit and who will unironically respond to a list of amazing games calling them all shit
I want off this ride

>>715152357
Pretty much, also all the hipsters who always rate 6 or 9 higher because 7 is just that good it couldn't possibly be their favorite.

moments that made the hairs on the back of your neck stand up?

>>715211115
The whole sequence when Sephiroth/Jenova kills Shinra and the floor is stained with blood.

>>715211115
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9tlqukSn5U

>>715211329
this is the real sephiroth theme

Aerith v. Tifa

>>715210851
>Boomers didn't have 12 gorillian pixel resolution, dynamic combat, immersion intensive walk a longs and scenes, QTEs, and other trends that literally every AmAziNG game does
>They just don't know what gaming is

Going back and replaying this game really makes you appreciate how badly the fucked up the remake by making it a maximum kikery jewfest money grab trilogy

>>715161936
I just used final attack > Phoenix

>>715202187
I don't like it anywhere near as much as the original in its totality but Remake was really fun outside of the 2 or 3 fillery sidequest parts. Story changes were dumb but they nailed the characters and it looked beautiful. Probably the best combat system in a Final Fantasy.
Rebirth however I'm struggling with due to the sheer volume of open world slop and the complete lack of momentum in the story. Turning what should be a quick chocobo ride down to Junon and a ship traversal to Costa del Sol into over 20 hours of my playthrough is nonsense.

>>715211818
For me it is viceversa. It makes you realize how poorly the original handled some stuff.

>>715211818
nothing wrong with making it a trilogy, the og game has enough content for 3 games
square fucked up by overestimating how much they needed to pad the games out to justify 3 games, the pacing is horrible

>>715211958
like what?

>>715212035
Cloud going crazy and him remembering Zack.

>>715212009
For real, Rebirth would've been perfectly good as a 40-50 hour RPG, just cut out the slop.
Hopefully Expedition 33 being doable in 30-40 will make them re-evaluate things, this maximalist approach to game design needs to die

>>715212009
>>715211958
fuck off and die you dishonest shills
nobody has that opinion except literal paid redditors

>>715209739
>>715210024
thanks bros

>>715211879
>>715212009
>>715212392
I'll never understand how you can hate having more video game to play.

>>715212459
If all I wanted was mindless filler content I'd be playing a gacha or grinding an MMO, not playing a story-focused singleplayer RPG.

>>715212564
It's a video game and you're complaining about having more video game to play. It sounds like what you actually want are cutscenes.

>>715211818
Just look at the pretty colors, waifus, and sprawling open world splender, and con$oom, Anon.

>>715212564
If you consider the side content to be mindless filler shit then you can just skip it, you fucking retard. Walk right past it and you'll get your 30 hour cutscene "game".

>>715210851
I think every post with this picture attached is usually retarded

>>715212104
Cloud being crazy is the entire first game

>>715151708 (OP)
Tifa is Eunbi

>>715212835
If it's not good or interesting or worthwhile, it shouldn't be in the game, period. All it does is waste people's time before they realize that it's simply not worth fulfilling their sense of completionism at the cost of the story's pacing.
And don't give me that "this is the real game" bullshit when you're talking about pressing the same QTE to examine rocks for Chadley before he spouts the same fucking shit at you, or listening to Chadley's lecture before you do a minigame at a summon shrine, or watching one joke be played out over 4 stages of a protorelic quest.

>>715212564
you wouldn't be playing video games in the first place if you were that averse to mindless filler content

>>715151708 (OP)
Turn-based rpgs are badly designed.
Every random encounter is the same 3-4 monsters per location with the same 1-2 attacks and you are responding by spamming the confirm button to get this over with or run away if possible. The novelty of the random encounters quickly wears off and you are stuck watching the same sequences of animation over and over again. It is jarring to have your adventure interrupted every 5 to 15 steps you make all throughout the game. You know there will be no novelty and it's tedious.
Is there a turn-based rpg that isn't like that? Or are they all shit? I'm curious.

>>715213382
>If it's not good or interesting or worthwhile
It is, you just don't think it is because you aren't getting Sephiroth cutscenes and that's all you're there for.
>And don't give me that "this is the real game" bullshit when you're talking about pressing the same QTE to examine rocks for Chadley
You do that a grand total of 15 times across 100 hours of playtime.
>or watching one joke be played out over 4 stages of a protorelic quest.
How about the GAMEPLAY involved in a protorelic quest? Did you know that exists or did you glaze over it because it the cutscenes weren't about Sephiroth?
Stay on youtube where you belong you absolutely retarded sonygoy moviegame motherfucker. This is a VIDEO GAMES board.

I like V and IX more but god damn if pic related isn't the best twist in the entire series

>>715213624
JRPGs are a crap genre played by retards purely for "vibes" and "comfy" and soundtrack.

Play something like DOS2 or Darkest Dungeon if you want deep, challenging, strategic turn-based combat done extremely well.

Just note that they are significantly harder than braindead jarpiggy crap.

>>715213627
The side content in Rebirth is indefensibly bad, like actually the sloppiest of slop I've seen since Witcher 3's open world.
You're an absolute zombie for pretending that liking that dogshit makes you a "gamer" and I hope you know that.

>>715213791
>The side content in Rebirth is indefensibly bad
???

>I've seen since Witcher 3's open world.
They are not the same. Witcher 3 litters the world with "?" icons

Rebirth doesnt

>>715213791
Uggggh I knooooooooo ughggghhh there aren't even any cutscenes likeeeeee come on???? who plays this slooooppp ugggghhh i'm going back to GoW!

>>715163474
I just started it. I like it so far, but it's been oner 20 years since I played the original.

>>715213889
It's better integrated than Witcher 3's content for sure, but the content itself isn't much better. It's still very much "go to mark on map, do pointless time wasting activity, go to next mark", there is no real sense of exploration or wonder. If I have to hear Chadley interrupt me one more time to say he marked my map with something when I already know he did I might just quit side content entirely.
Also chocobo riding in this one kinda sucks and the world is annoying to traverse (another similarity I found to Witcher 3, hated the movement in that game especially with a horse)

>>715163474
I played it for a bit. It's ok. Has a lot of gotchas though in its boss design that really pissed me off. I remember two distinct instances of it and one of them filtered me entirely
>Fighting one of the Jenova fights, might've been the one just after Aerith's death
>Mechanic is that you do fuck all damage
>You have to spam magic over and over and eventually you'll see its defense go down
>No real indicator for this besides damage going from 100 -> 108 -> 115 -> 128 etc
and
>Crane fight on the way to get the submarine
>At an arbitrary HP gate it starts counter attacking everything with a party wide that hits over half of my HP
>Hit this HP gate when I'd already had attacks queued up
>Game over
>Fight had taken about 15 minutes before that point
>Uninstall the mod and finish my playthrough vanilla
Maybe I just got filtered but that type of shit just annoyed me

>>715198639
>This sounds like massive cope or is just downright made up to me, the game looks 10x better on PC running 7th Heaven than it ever did on the PS1, way better than the emulator too
PC isn't the only modern platform and 90% of people playing it don't play with mods to fix issues (shocking I know)
Sephiroth having a permanent :O face along with all the other dumb looking : | mouth models definitely make it harder to take the game seriously.

>>715215849
well at least he doesn't have your face

>>715214736
God, why does hair nowadays look worse than 2 decades ago?

>>715163753
>you're either 27 or you're 40
Ok? lmao so no one is allowed to exist unless they're an aging millennial like you? Retard.

I'll never play Rebirth because I only lasted up to Hell House in Wall Market in Remake before dropping the game in paradoxically disinterested revulsion.

>>715164535
But the best scene in FF7 is Red XIII/Seto. I dunno what the trope is but I have a weakness for the misunderstood/wronged hero

>>715165398
It's just a shittier DOS2. The way they ape the entire structure of their previous game is embarrassing

>>715164390
>One Winged Angel is the most recognizable song in gaming
One Winged Angel is legit an amazing piece of music. I don't think I've ever heard a something that does such a good job of conveying escalating malice of apocalyptic proportions. Its like the book of Revelations in musical form.

>>715186007
You genuinely do not understand what you are talking about.

>>715152494
I beat the weapons for the first time this year despite playing and beating the game five or six times over the years
I don't know why, I guess I'm a brainlet for not realising how to use materia properly, I beat omega weapon in viii on my first playthrough because I was autistically driven to explore every nook and cranny of that game, but I never felt the same drive to be a completionist in vii

>>715164167
It's fun to talk to people about things anon
Non autistic people do not have this problem that you seem to

>>715162537
The actual Chad way is to abuse 9999 health and an invariable 2222 damage attack to trigger the lucky 7s state

>>715219912
>I don't think I've ever heard a something that does such a good job of conveying escalating malice of apocalyptic proportions.
Dancing Mad

>>715219458
I know I'm a turbo faggot for this but the Seto scene actually brought a tear to my eye, I think it's the combination of the swelling music and the words in the scene that did it, Red's journey up to there was really well written

>>715211115
>he starts walking differently
>no longer a march, now a wading stride
He's... changed...

>>715171428
The best one is yet to come

>>715218606
That’s a pc screenshot from someone’s shitty 1070 gpu

>>715181389
Yes dumbass, you can have New Threat only affect the battles and leave the story alone. It's right there where you download New Threat itself.

>>715224546
When I played it a few years ago the only choices were "minor" story changes, or full overhaul.

>>715192000
There are multiple mods that fix the music issue.

>>715151708 (OP)
VII has by far the best final boss fight of any game ever and it's incredible how they pulled it off considering the combat in this game is turn based and not to mention the archaic graphics too. FF really peaked with VII. It never reached those levels again. In fact, no other game has reached those levels if you ask me, which is why VII is considered by many one of the best games ever made.

>>715224590
New Threat: Combat only.
If you have 7th Heaven it's right there in the catalog. Or google New Threat, you should find the thread and it's right there in the first post.

>>715151708 (OP)
Now watch that sequel movie

>>715221746
Dancing Mad is overrated. It's boring as fuck to listen to even if it's musically complex

What are the chances that FF8 can be remade in only one game?

>>715224958
That's exactly how I feel about One Winged Angel. I think it's just a really boring song. Birth of a God mogs the fuck out of it.

>>715179798
Fuck off you miserable faggots. Remake and Rebirth are great.

>>715225186
>>715225186
Remake was okay but Rebirth was awful

>>715225053
>Birth of a God

If you make Bizarro Sephy's theme then we can at least shake dicks on that bro. I like it a little more too. Jenova Absolute is really fucking good too.

>>715225370
This but the opposite

>>715163174
You are trying too hard to fit in

>>715225370
>>715225186
I finished Part 1 few weeks ago, holy shit the game left me exhausted, so much padding.

>>715214838
It's Jenova Death who has that gimmick. And I just used Comet, Summons, and Enemy Skills to destroy it since they ignore defense.

For carry armor, I think you just got filtered.

>>715167160
Hate zoomers so much.

>>715151708 (OP)
Welcome to the series OP
Now play the latest.

8 > Tactics > 7 > 10 > 9 = 6 > 5 > Rest

>>715182850
No, the 2 remakes don't have denuvo. For some reason Square didn't include it on their most popular game, but they did put it in Final Fantasy fucking Tactics. I don't understand.

>>715186441
I miss it. The steel sky.

>>715151708 (OP)
I hope this is true. Congrats OP, how did you like the music? Yuffie with the Conformer and moprh is just awesome.

Nobuo Uematsu is a genius composer and "The Best" video game musical director that has ever existed. A good man.

>>715227998
it's undeniable. the man is in a league of his own.
got a 3ds a few months ago and have been playing theatryhthm final fantasy, it's so comfy. God damn I love this man

>>715153570
better graphics
worse story
worse pacing
worse music
genuinely no sense of suspense, drama
frustrating as fuck camera controls and """party""" combat

nah

>>715225943
Projecting zoomer retard. FF7 was an absolute crawl compared to 8-bit, 16-bit, and arcade games. Retarded kids bedazzled by the gwaphics ate it up though

>>715153570
i wish the remake had these graphics but kept the game the exact same as the OG

>>715192000
In the 7th heaven launcher, the mod is called Postscriptthree's Gameplay Tweaks. And the music fix is a toggle in that mods settings. Note that this mod only makes it so the correct tracks are played during certain cutscenes. If you want OST quality music and not the shitty default PC midi music you'll need to install another mod for that.

>ocarina got a faithful but shitty graphics remake on 3ds
>ff7 got an unfaithful but pretty graphics remake on pc

my childhood games are fucking cursed
I fully expect a new vegas remake I'm unreal engine with woke shit dialed up

>>715215849
>most people don't use mods
and that's their problem
pc version is the best and anyone tha disagrees is a fucking retard aka you

>>715211879
Just skip the open world stuff entirely. It's not worth it. There are a few good moments, but they're outweighed by the tedium of the rest. Come back to it in postgame or a second playthrough if you really feel like it.

>>715214736
>If I have to hear Chadley interrupt me one more time to say he marked my map with something when I already know he did I might just quit side content entirely.
The amount of padding they put into the animations around completing those "activities" is insane. Some of them are over 30 seconds before you can interact with the controls again, and even the shortest is like ~12.

>>715152357
>>715151708 (OP)
I played it last year. I remembered it being amazing, but I forgot just how amazing it actually is.

>>715151708 (OP)
sucks

>>715151708 (OP)
sloptasy

>>715152357
I first played it about 10 years ago despite being born in 1990 and growing up with all the hype around it. I was surprised to find most of the plot, at that time, wasn't really so widely spoiled. "Aeris dies" overshadowed everything else as spoiler content for the game, that and people jerking off to how cool Sephiroth was. I was pretty mindblown when the game started pulling in the Cloud schizo plotlines. All that is great. It's really funny that a mostly underbaked character's death is what became the defining plot spoiler of the game.

>>715151708 (OP)
yawn

>>715190682
>toxic
Anybody who uses this word is a tranny

>>715179798
This.
They don't even deny it.

>>715242460
I get liking the game and posting about it. I don't get posting about it daily for 5 years because you didn't like it

>>715242553
>not denying it
Thanks for proving the point

>>715243215
He's too honest to deny when a post accurately captures his mindset, so all he can do is sulk about it. It's nice that he won't lie, I gotta give him that. But it's a shame his honesty doesn't extend to actually expressing his opinion instead of boogeyman posting and deflection. This happens for two reasons: insecurity (why else would you not just say what you think? its just videogames opinions) and not wanting to admit the "falseflag" is accurately portraying him. The few occasions he has shared his position it mirrors the "falseflag" perfectly. And that's what's at the root of his frustration. It's also why nobody other than he cares.

Now two different people will have a conversation about this post where they agree with each other a lot.

>>715152357
there's a reason why One Winged Angel is a classic

>>715159209
>did the outdated graphics not bother you playing in the year 2025?
incredible levels of massive faggotry
kill yourself

>>715232194
Am I retarded for not noticing anything wrong with the pc soundtrack

>>715247059
If you never experienced Playstation version, I guess PC version music works because you don't have comparision.

>>715248757
I’ve listened to the original soundtrack is it the same as ps1

>>715248776
The issues these days pertain more to how certain tracks play in relation to certain scenes. (used to be that it also sounded like ass unless you had a specific Yamaha souncard but that's for days long past). Especially the true reveal of the Nibelheim incident when Cloud takes his helmet off. It's supposed to play the main theme but unpatched it plays the reactor theme.

>>715248964
That’s insane

>>715212459
Yeah, I have no idea why more game devs don’t make their games 10000 hours long by copy and pasting content over and over again. So much more game to play!!!!

>>715249264
I don't know if it's something to do with the PS1 soundchip but the FF ports aren't the only one. The PC port of Breath of Fire 4 also has some audio issues.

>>715151708 (OP)

>>715151708 (OP)
Rebirth is better

>>715213661
That is the best twist in gaming. And I like how it's not some sudden or deus ex machina shit.