Final Fantasy 7 teaser

[Samtemdo8_v1legacy]

i've never actually played a Final Fantasy game before. should i start with this remake or start with the original game?

You should start with Final Fantasy IV. The Steam version is pretty good. It isn't the best FF (that's Final Fantasy VI), but it's the best entry point.

He has to play the 2D one. Not a fan of the 3D remake.

 

[CaitSeith]

i've never actually played a Final Fantasy game before. should i start with this remake or start with the original game?

You should start with Final Fantasy IV. The Steam version is pretty good. It isn't the best FF (that's Final Fantasy VI), but it's the best entry point.

He has to play the 2D one. Not a fan of the 3D remake.

Unless you are a fan of 2D graphics from the let go, the 3D one is a better entry point.

 

[Silvanus]

He has to play the 2D one. Not a fan of the 3D remake.

The 3D version can be pretty easily accessed on Steam, though. If he wanted to play the 2D version, it would involve hooking up a past gen console.

EDIT: Well, or an emulator, I suppose.

 

[Samtemdo8_v1legacy]

He has to play the 2D one. Not a fan of the 3D remake.

The 3D version can be pretty easily accessed on Steam, though. If he wanted to play the 2D version, it would involve hooking up a past gen console.

EDIT: Well, or an emulator, I suppose.

I am gonna go hardcore and tell him to either buy the PSP version or get that same version on Mobile Phone:

 

[Dalisclock]

He has to play the 2D one. Not a fan of the 3D remake.

The 3D version can be pretty easily accessed on Steam, though. If he wanted to play the 2D version, it would involve hooking up a past gen console.

EDIT: Well, or an emulator, I suppose.

Are we allowed to say the E-word on Escapist 2.0? I remember it was a big no-no in the old days.

 

[Drathnoxis]

He has to play the 2D one. Not a fan of the 3D remake.

The 3D version can be pretty easily accessed on Steam, though. If he wanted to play the 2D version, it would involve hooking up a past gen console.

EDIT: Well, or an emulator, I suppose.

Are we allowed to say the E-word on Escapist 2.0? I remember it was a big no-no in the old days.

Emulators are perfectly legal. Obviously everybody here is only using roms they personally ripped from cartridges they legally own.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

I kinda want the remake just so I can finally play FF VII. I just hope it really is FF VII and not a modern-day equivalent.

 

[meiam]

I kinda want the remake just so I can finally play FF VII. I just hope it really is FF VII and not a modern-day equivalent.

Modern day equivalent, at least as far as gameplay goes (oh and you'll need to buy three game to get the full thing)

 

[Dalisclock]

I kinda want the remake just so I can finally play FF VII. I just hope it really is FF VII and not a modern-day equivalent.

I'm curious what's stopping you. It's available on numerous platforms at the moment, including steam and switch. As long as you can put up with the awful looking characters from 20 years ago, you should be fine.

I've mentioned above, I'm not holding my breath for the remake. The fact I haven't been excited about a FF game since FFX(and man, that was a mistake) because nothing they've put out in more then a decade looks that great(I picked up FFXV on sale, but still haven't gotten around to it). The fact it's episodic on as yet unknown number of episodes and timeline is even more reason for me to go with "Cool, wake me when it's out". I'm actually more confident that RR Martin will finish his Song of Ice and Fire series before FFVII remake is completely out, and I'm not holding my breath for those either.

 

[CritialGaming]

I kinda want the remake just so I can finally play FF VII. I just hope it really is FF VII and not a modern-day equivalent.

I'm curious what's stopping you. It's available on numerous platforms at the moment, including steam and switch. As long as you can put up with the awful looking characters from 20 years ago, you should be fine.

I've mentioned above, I'm not holding my breath for the remake. The fact I haven't been excited about a FF game since FFX(and man, that was a mistake) because nothing they've put out in more then a decade looks that great(I picked up FFXV on sale, but still haven't gotten around to it). The fact it's episodic on as yet unknown number of episodes and timeline is even more reason for me to go with "Cool, wake me when it's out". I'm actually more confident that RR Martin will finish his Song of Ice and Fire series before FFVII remake is completely out, and I'm not holding my breath for those either.

You know, Final Fantasy XV was actually pretty good. Way better than XIII, and it actually falls into maybe the 3rd best FF game imo. Though it got better with the Royal Edition as well. If you ever liked FF games, then you should at least put a few hours into XV to give it a fair shot.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

I kinda want the remake just so I can finally play FF VII. I just hope it really is FF VII and not a modern-day equivalent.

I'm curious what's stopping you. It's available on numerous platforms at the moment, including steam and switch. As long as you can put up with the awful looking characters from 20 years ago, you should be fine.

 

[Dalisclock]

I kinda want the remake just so I can finally play FF VII. I just hope it really is FF VII and not a modern-day equivalent.

I'm curious what's stopping you. It's available on numerous platforms at the moment, including steam and switch. As long as you can put up with the awful looking characters from 20 years ago, you should be fine.

I've mentioned above, I'm not holding my breath for the remake. The fact I haven't been excited about a FF game since FFX(and man, that was a mistake) because nothing they've put out in more then a decade looks that great(I picked up FFXV on sale, but still haven't gotten around to it). The fact it's episodic on as yet unknown number of episodes and timeline is even more reason for me to go with "Cool, wake me when it's out". I'm actually more confident that RR Martin will finish his Song of Ice and Fire series before FFVII remake is completely out, and I'm not holding my breath for those either.

You know, Final Fantasy XV was actually pretty good. Way better than XIII, and it actually falls into maybe the 3rd best FF game imo. Though it got better with the Royal Edition as well. If you ever liked FF games, then you should at least put a few hours into XV to give it a fair shot.

I've heard it's good, at least the first half, after which it gets really linear and rushed. I even enjoyed Kingsglaive(though I've heard pretty much none of what happens in Kingsglaive shows up in the game). It's more of the massive backlog issue where I have far more games I'm interested in at a given moment then I have time to play(I could name five off the top of my head), and I try to focus on one until I'm either done with it or finished with it rather then try to multi-task them(which tends to end up with none of them getting finished).

 

[CritialGaming]

I kinda want the remake just so I can finally play FF VII. I just hope it really is FF VII and not a modern-day equivalent.

I'm curious what's stopping you. It's available on numerous platforms at the moment, including steam and switch. As long as you can put up with the awful looking characters from 20 years ago, you should be fine.

I've mentioned above, I'm not holding my breath for the remake. The fact I haven't been excited about a FF game since FFX(and man, that was a mistake) because nothing they've put out in more then a decade looks that great(I picked up FFXV on sale, but still haven't gotten around to it). The fact it's episodic on as yet unknown number of episodes and timeline is even more reason for me to go with "Cool, wake me when it's out". I'm actually more confident that RR Martin will finish his Song of Ice and Fire series before FFVII remake is completely out, and I'm not holding my breath for those either.

You know, Final Fantasy XV was actually pretty good. Way better than XIII, and it actually falls into maybe the 3rd best FF game imo. Though it got better with the Royal Edition as well. If you ever liked FF games, then you should at least put a few hours into XV to give it a fair shot.

I've heard it's good, at least the first half, after which it gets really linear and rushed. I even enjoyed Kingsglaive(though I've heard pretty much none of what happens in Kingsglaive shows up in the game). It's more of the massive backlog issue where I have far more games I'm interested in at a given moment then I have time to play(I could name five off the top of my head), and I try to focus on one until I'm either done with it or finished with it rather then try to multi-task them(which tends to end up with none of them getting finished).

If you have the Royal version, the "linear" final parts do expand a bit more and the story is far less rushed than it was originally. It didn't bother me before, but the Royal version is way better on that front.

 

[Baralak]

I kinda want the remake just so I can finally play FF VII. I just hope it really is FF VII and not a modern-day equivalent.

I'm curious what's stopping you. It's available on numerous platforms at the moment, including steam and switch. As long as you can put up with the awful looking characters from 20 years ago, you should be fine.

I've mentioned above, I'm not holding my breath for the remake. The fact I haven't been excited about a FF game since FFX(and man, that was a mistake) because nothing they've put out in more then a decade looks that great(I picked up FFXV on sale, but still haven't gotten around to it). The fact it's episodic on as yet unknown number of episodes and timeline is even more reason for me to go with "Cool, wake me when it's out". I'm actually more confident that RR Martin will finish his Song of Ice and Fire series before FFVII remake is completely out, and I'm not holding my breath for those either.

You know, Final Fantasy XV was actually pretty good. Way better than XIII, and it actually falls into maybe the 3rd best FF game imo. Though it got better with the Royal Edition as well. If you ever liked FF games, then you should at least put a few hours into XV to give it a fair shot.

I've heard it's good, at least the first half, after which it gets really linear and rushed. I even enjoyed Kingsglaive(though I've heard pretty much none of what happens in Kingsglaive shows up in the game). It's more of the massive backlog issue where I have far more games I'm interested in at a given moment then I have time to play(I could name five off the top of my head), and I try to focus on one until I'm either done with it or finished with it rather then try to multi-task them(which tends to end up with none of them getting finished).

FF15 is... a good story told poorly. Gameplay's all fine. Especially the Armiger Unleashed from the Royal Edition. That mode is a total blast.

But the story has this problem where something would happen, and I wouldn't care. Then afterwards, the game would tell me why I should care, and I'm just left screaming at my TV "That would have been nice to know beforehand!"

Not to mention the essential parts of the story cut out for DLC that you can't even access in game. You have to totally back out of the game, and select each DLC episode from the main menu. Then once it's done you load back into your main game. It's a pain that totally breaks the flow of the story, especially since the DLC are, like I said, critical parts of the story and take place during the middle of the game. The fact that you're expected to watch both a movie and a 4 episode anime before even starting the game doesn't help, either. The movie gets summarized in about a 2 minute scene early on in the game. The anime establishes WHO THE MAIN CAST ARE AND WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT THEM.

But the story itself is good, and I like the world they built. Just read the plot on Wiki instead of actually playing the game, then just spend your time in game screwing around in the open world, driving around listening to classic FF soundtracks.