>>1065138 i'm gonna wait for the full game to be released before looking into playing it, don't want to end up waiting until my death bed for the last episode to release.

They probably should have put some better drm on it if its already a torrent.

>>1065138 Was it so hard to do what everyone asked for in 2005? I can't believe we're still getting bits and pieces of this tripe.

>>1065144 Weird. Square almost always uses denuvo at least for a period after a game's release. Is this because of that thing I heard about with denuvo being supposedly cracked?

>>1065138 Aeris comes back from the dead for a long cut scene AND a final battle alongside Cloud against Sephiroth's "Rebirth" form from the original game, at what would be the end of the original's first disc. This game is shit.

>>1065183 >Aeris comes back from the dead The game is considerably more vague than this. It's impossible to know if there's like a whole bunch of Aeriths, some magic ghost, or if Cloud is simply nuts. Essentially they kicked the can on whether or not they are going full rebuild or just tacking on same extra stuff that will ultimately lead to the same conclusion.

>>1065208 >Essentially they kicked the can on whether or not they are going full rebuild or just tacking on same extra stuff that will ultimately lead to the same conclusion. From the moment they put out that damage control interview about "future event points still being the same" after Midgar back in 2020 during the fucking Time Janny plot leaks, I knew they were gonna be gutless noncommittal cowards trying to appease both sides of the "I WANT NEW DIRECTION BECAUSE MUH SURPRISE <> DUDE I LITERALLY JUST WANTED A DELUXE VERSION OF FF7" debate.

And this is how you do a remake of ps1 JRPG.

>>1065258 I heard that Wild Arms is up there with Skies of Arcadia as an object lesson on the long term damage of (((localization))) - that there was a port of some game in it (I think for the PSP?) that undid localized name changes only for there to be an outright petition to change them back because western fans were successfully gaslit to believe those were the "original" names.

>>1065258 By making a half assed port with Wild Arms 3's engine and assets?

>>1065266 Well i only know there's certain nigger who's name is "runway" which is a joke at "niggeru". You also need to kill Sol Niger in Wild Arms 5 every dungeon to switch off encounters, and i think "run away" niggers were now called "ronwe" to even further it from "niggeru". And then there's this guy who accompanies "niggeru" fellows every third encounter that looks like nigger lips joke. Its also when game becomes more difficult because you have to search for shit yourself with no hints, puzzles become either too retarded or more annoying, and ship's captain dies somewhere in the ocean and i dropped it for being less obvious where to go than morrowind ever could be. In fact puzzles is all wild arms F and wild arms 3 is for on ps2, they can get ridiculous, but absence of hand holding makes the game feel "big".

>>1065273 And FFVII remake is not FFXV engine?

>>1065279 FFVII is UE4, I'm mpretty sure they permanently shitcanned their dev hell engine.

>>1065279 It's not. Only two games have used the Luminous Engine: FFXV and Lolspoken. To my knowledge FF7R uses zero FFXV assets or resources.

https://archive.fo/JPlRf “I respect mods. They breathe life into the PC market” Final Fantasy VII Rebirth director Naoki Hamaguchi said as the barrel was pressed into his back Also, apparently the PC port broke the franchise's record for peak concurrent player count on Steam at 40k. https://archive.fo/GKydv Not bad, but it does show how diminished the Final Fantasy brand is in consumer eyes and how much exclusivity hurt its reach. also the 3-part multimedia bigass push is hurting it as normalfags are just waiting to buy all three in one

>>1065138 I wasn't too impressed with Remake's combat, can someone tell me how this is somehow better than 16 which has a much better combat system than Remake?

>>1065651 >exclusivity hurt its reach Sony really did fuck things up.

>>1065651 Mods won't change the idiotic new plot of time ghosts, even if they fix the dialogue about faggots and dykes. >Naoki Hamaguchi Was he the one who went on a drunken rant at a online radio show, demanding people to buy the game? >it does show how diminished the Final Fantasy brand is in consumer eyes That happened ever since Final Fantasy X-2 and Advent Children. Everyone started abandoning the Final Fantasy brand, because everyone saw how shitty Square became with those retarded ideas.

>>1065835 >even if they fix the dialogue about faggots and dykes. Oh god, what did they do to my FF7?

>>1065871 It is literally in the OP, retard.

>>1065651 >>1065667 They're already confirming that Part 3 won't be a PS6 exclusive. No, I didn't type the number incorrectly. Get ready for another five year wait.

>>1065917 >webp

>>1065651 >Also, apparently the PC port broke the franchise's record for peak concurrent player count on Steam at 40k. >and how much exclusivity hurt its reach >40k The original FF7 sold 17 million copies. Exclusivity can't explain a 90% drop in sales.

Timed exclusives fuck sales in ways real exclusives don't, people just wait for time to run out.

>>1065933 The reason is that Squeenix has been gradually tarnishing FF over almost the last 2 decades, and FF7 Rebirth is a reflection of this. The original FF7 was a gold standard of time. It was quite literally revolutionary, it was new and interesting, it pushed gaming forward in a technical sense, as well as the entire RPG genre in terms of popularity. Square Enix took a very expensive and significant creative risk in making FF7 and they succeeded. After FF7 they got out a few more games people liked a lot before the decline (Anything after 10/10-2 has a significant amount of people to criticize it), but they wanted to change things around too much without realizing how much of their audience they alienate in the process. They don't give a lot of people what they wanted and the series has felt disconnected from a core, reliable audience. Mainline FF games had much longer stretches between them, and the reception was poorer with each release. FF11 was an MMO, which is a fundamentally different audience due to its genre, and while it could theoretically exist in parallel with traditional FF mainline, it had issues. FF12 was indicative of the decline but wasn't outright hated. FF13 (aka the Lightning trilogy) ended up taking 4 years to complete, and their reward was a mixed reception, falling sales and a newly large group of people to criticize FF as going downhill. FFXIV was another MMO that was half-baked and people hated it upon release, not to mention it was yet another In essence, there hasn't been an FF game that was liked without a significant amount of detractors since X, which was 2 fucking decades ago. FFXV was a bloated and empty open world ARPG with a disappointing story and cast. FFXVI was the same as above, just on a failed console. FF7R is an episodic remake of 7 which changes the game's iconic combat system to the ARPG shit, on top of many changes that weren't favorably received and tries to coast off its budget. It simultaneously takes no risk, changes shit for bad reasons, and drops the ball. Pretty much none of these, besides the slow repair of XIV, have given them much goodwill in the FF fan's eyes, let alone the average customer's. The first 11 mainline FFs (I through X-2) came out over 16 years. The last 8-9 mainline FF games came out over 21 years, with all the aforementioned problems and issues that come with those. Exclusivity is only a small part of it. People would buy shit like Mario and Pokemon games in a heartbeat on Steam, and Bloodborne on PC has been a meme for a long time. It's just that FF7 Rebirth wasn't something that a lot of people wanted, at least in the way they did it.

>>1065941 >Timed exclusives fuck sales in ways real exclusives don't, people just wait for time to run out. Also, in 1997, FF7 was one of the only good RPGs in 3D, Probably the best, it won the small market. Now it's a big market with 200 better RPGs in 3D, plus PS5 sold worse than PS1.

>>1065917 >Get ready for another five year wait Probably not. I'd say 2027 for the 30th anniversary is most likely. It took them a little less than four years to make Rebrith and with it they completed most of the world map.

>>1065930 I know, right? The URL will say PNG or JPG but when I save the file it saves as a WebP. I fucking hate that websites are allowed to do that.

>>1065943 It all started really with FF 8. FF 9 was good, but made by a different team. The development though process of FF 9 though infected the whole industry. The only thing that Square cared about was presentation and visuals, and nothing else. Every plot from FF 8 onward (excluding FF 9) was a shitty soap opera of angry shitty teenagers, with game mechanics that were so bad that everybody simply stopped caring about those games. And the numbers show.

So where are big tiddy mods??