Poll of the Day > if you didn't like final fantasy 7 remake tell me why

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Jen0125
02/06/23 7:24:09 PM
#1:


i'm almost done with a second playthrough so i can play intergrade (i know they are separate but i wanted a refresher of the new storyline stuff)

what don't you like about it? what did you want that they didn't do?

i love the game and i love new storyline elements. i really hope the second part is on time this winter.

edit - wish i had marked spoilers in the title ;-;
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Lokarin
02/06/23 7:26:54 PM
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Weirdly enough, I didn't like that Sephiroth was the main villain... since the timing doesn't mesh up

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Jen0125
02/06/23 7:27:50 PM
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Lokarin posted...
Weirdly enough, I didn't like that Sephiroth was the main villain... since the timing doesn't mesh up

so you don't like the earlier introduction to sephiroth? he was introduced as soon as they leave midgar in the original.
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Lokarin
02/06/23 7:28:45 PM
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Jen0125 posted...
so you don't like the earlier introduction to sephiroth? he was introduced as soon as they leave midgar in the original.

I did like the earlier introduction, but that was still just in Clouds head and no one has an inkling of his plans at all yet

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JigsawTD3
02/06/23 7:30:08 PM
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needed a shower scene with Barrett imo
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Jen0125
02/06/23 7:35:45 PM
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JigsawTD3 posted...
needed a shower scene with Barrett imo

Facts

Lokarin posted...
I did like the earlier introduction, but that was still just in Clouds head and no one has an inkling of his plans at all yet

Okay I see
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Lokarin
02/06/23 7:37:54 PM
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other than that... I really liked the remake, especially in terms of voice direction

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Jen0125
02/06/23 7:40:17 PM
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i will tell you the combat in FFVIIR is not the same as XV if that was the only thing putting you off. the combat in FFVIIR has a lot more control over each character.
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Jen0125
02/06/23 7:48:09 PM
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see if you can snag it next time it goes on sale on steam or epic game store (if you like that). i hate to pay for games at new price but i got it for $40 with the dlc on epic game store during one sale.
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Nichtcrawler-X
02/06/23 7:52:12 PM
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I do like it, just not that "Hard Mode" is more of a Gimmicky Challenge Mode and not just a difficulty increase.

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Jen0125
02/06/23 7:53:49 PM
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Nichtcrawler-X posted...
I do like it, just not that "Hard Mode" is more of a Gimmicky Challenge Mode and not just a difficulty increase.

ah, i never play games on hard mode. i just like to play most stuff for the storyline and i'm not super competitive so i dont care too much about achievements
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Nichtcrawler-X
02/06/23 7:59:48 PM
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For some reason I thought you said you did your second playthrough on hard.

7R's just mostly turns everything into a damage sponge and takes away your ability to use items.

I really do not like when a games takes away game mechanics as part of "difficulty".


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Jen0125
02/06/23 8:13:57 PM
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Nichtcrawler-X posted...
For some reason I thought you said you did your second playthrough on hard.

7R's just mostly turns everything into a damage sponge and takes away your ability to use items.

I really do not like when a games takes away game mechanics as part of "difficulty".

yeah that's pretty restrictive. why not just make items be less effective?
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DirtBasedSoap
02/06/23 8:19:25 PM
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too much walking around doing nothing and the writing/acting was bad. I never played the OG

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Jen0125
02/06/23 8:25:33 PM
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DirtBasedSoap posted...
too much walking around doing nothing and the writing/acting was bad. I never played the OG

i think the acting for the main characters is fine. who didnt you like? some of the npcs can be a lil annoying during questing. my biggest issue with the game is that the quests are just kind of pointless. i hate fetch quests but that's what they cram into rpgs nowadays. i hope the next game has a different quest system.

side note the soundtrack is fucking insane. heavy metal latin chorus just for battles is really making me feel some type of way
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Judgmenl
02/06/23 8:32:56 PM
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I was mislead into believing it was something that it wasn't.
It took several years to release on PC after it was released on <Sony Platform>.
It has action combat.

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Jen0125
02/06/23 8:42:25 PM
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Judgmenl posted...
I was mislead into believing it was something that it wasn't.

what did you think it would be? a 1:1 remake?
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Judgmenl
02/06/23 8:56:25 PM
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Jen0125 posted...
what did you think it would be? a 1:1 remake?
For like the first decade it was in development? Sure.
By the time it came out I learned that I will never support Square Enix again. Company grew up and does other things now.

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Jen0125
02/06/23 9:04:38 PM
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Judgmenl posted...
For like the first decade it was in development? Sure.
By the time it came out I learned that I will never support Square Enix again. Company grew up and does other things now.

oh okay i'm not sure what you mean by any of that but the game is pretty fun so
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SilentSeph
02/06/23 9:08:08 PM
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Jen0125 posted...
side note the soundtrack is fucking insane. heavy metal latin chorus just for battles is really making me feel some type of way
I literally listen to music from the soundtrack every day since the game released

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Jen0125
02/06/23 9:11:27 PM
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SilentSeph posted...
I literally listen to music from the soundtrack every day since the game released

i got my brother the vinyl for his birthday he was so excited
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SilentSeph
02/06/23 9:23:37 PM
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That's an excellent gift

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wpot
02/06/23 9:33:01 PM
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I really enjoyed the original, albeit mostly for the music and storyline.

Remake pleasantly surprised me by being quite faithful to detail in every non-whisper (or early Seph) scene for 80% of the game, combat was fun and well balanced, the music largely kept it's energy compared to the original, and the voices/graphics were of course amazing.

I was ready to call it a 90-95/100 based on that (only negatives being Whispers and Seph) but I found the ending to be so bad it was almost insulting. Let's forget the original storyline, replace it with a bad fanfic about Barrett getting held up and stabbed, then forget THAT entirely to break the fourth wall and kill the concept of a remake made alive in "fate". Add in a bunch of flashy Marvel mumbojumbo, imply there's an alternate dimension, and bring back everyone who ever died. Chef's kiss - we're so clever!!!

I really didn't like that (if you couldn't tell). 75/100. (Which is really sad given the start)

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Jen0125
02/06/23 9:41:22 PM
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well hopefully they do something with the plot that makes you reconsider how you feel about what they did
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Sufferedphoneix
02/06/23 9:58:57 PM
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My only gripe is the whispers. Specifically them being heavy handed in forcing the time line. Felt they shoulda been more subtle at least till towards the end.

Like them ripping cloud and aerith out of the room in the church is what I mean. I felt it shoulda been more something that made cloud change his mind about staying and fighting. Like idk a whisper making one of the grunts shoot and it's a near hit on aerith.

Other than that I loved it

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wpot
02/06/23 10:10:50 PM
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Jen0125 posted...
well hopefully they do something with the plot that makes you reconsider how you feel about what they did
I'm sure I'll buy the next one if the reviews are decent, albeit not on day 1, as the core of the game is good...and I do think they'll try to stay close to the original sequence of events at least up until the City of the Ancients, which is good. Although once we get there it is rather obvious that the most compelling event in the original isn't going to happen (or at least stick), right? And instead of Whisper distractions we'll have alternate universe/future/meta-whatever Zack/Avalanche distractions. And after that who knows, except that I'll bet you a million dollars they go for a super-happy everything-is-fixed ending this time around. :)

MAYBE they'll surprise me, but I don't trust current SE to write anything nearly as interesting as the original...I expect metaphyisical mumbojumbo. When remaking a game that was loved largely for it's storyline it is a rather large error to make me kill the storyline. IMO. But great game other than that! ...no, really!

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VampireCoyote
02/06/23 10:13:20 PM
#30:


It ended and now I have to wait some many years for the rest of it

the Cosmo Canyon theme haunts me now

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BADoglick
02/06/23 10:31:29 PM
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I liked it for the most part. Not sure if I liked the ending, and now we don't know when any more is coming. I don't like that it's only part of the story. Maybe I'll change my tune on that when I see the finished product. Regardless, I had fun playing it.

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Gaawa_chan
02/06/23 11:51:17 PM
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* didn't like the new soldier character.
* didn't like the whispers crap.
* didn't like a variety of things in the ending, such as Sephiroth not killing Shinra, the sanitized version of the late-game, the party letting Shinra get the upper hand on them (wtf), etc, etc...
* CAN'T. USE. RED. :-/
* HATED that they made Deepground a thing again, an injecting it into the original story? No, god no.

And in general, choosing to only do Midgar, imo, really hurt the pacing of the story as they had to pad the shit out of things. If they didn't want to do the full game, then it should have ended either when they reached Nibelheim, to bookend some stuff, or after the City of the Ancients.

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Zareth
02/07/23 12:03:49 AM
#33:


Can't believe there are people who honestly think Aeris is going to die in the remake

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LinkPizza
02/07/23 12:38:38 AM
#34:


I havent finished it yet. But had some fun with it so far I just stream it on PS5 I think the only thing I dont enjoy too much is the way items work with battling But its fine Once I get use to the system, I think things will move along better

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fishy071
02/07/23 1:27:52 AM
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WARNING: Very unpopular opinion

I didn't like Final Fantasy 7 in the first place. Of all the Final Fantasy games I've played, FF7 was my least favorite.

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Joelypoely
02/07/23 1:52:44 AM
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The action style of gameplay is not for me. Was hoping it was going to be fully turn-based.

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Zareth
02/07/23 2:07:15 AM
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Final Fantasy has been action-based for longer than it has been turn-based now

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Judgmenl
02/07/23 5:08:24 AM
#38:


Zareth posted...
Final Fantasy has been action-based for longer than it has been turn-based now
I agree, which is why The series / company are not for me anymore.

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LinkPizza
02/07/23 7:03:44 AM
#39:


Judgmenl posted...
I agree, which is why The series / company are not for me anymore.

So, youre more of a turn-based gamer?

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MagicalPrincess
02/07/23 7:08:37 AM
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The only part in FFVII and FFVII remake I don't like is the Corneo mansion and honeybee manor parts. I know Cloud went through that part for an ulterior motive with trying to help Tifa but still, it's the only part that's cringe. The only positive to that part in the remake is Cloud's reaction to Aerith in the red dress.

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MagicalPrincess
02/07/23 7:10:53 AM
#41:


Zareth posted...
Final Fantasy has been action-based for longer than it has been turn-based now

That's not true. Even the ATB is still turn based, just a different kind of turn based because the characters still wait their turn for the bar to fill up.

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Sufferedphoneix
02/07/23 8:25:52 AM
#42:


MagicalPrincess posted...
The only part in FFVII and FFVII remake I don't like is the Corneo mansion and honeybee manor parts. I know Cloud went through that part for an ulterior motive with trying to help Tifa but still, it's the only part that's cringe. The only positive to that part in the remake is Cloud's reaction to Aerith in the red dress.

Wall Market was like the best part of the game.

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DeSantis2024
02/07/23 8:36:17 AM
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The only thing I dont like is how long its taken to get the second part out lol. Other than that it was a fun game.
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Lokarin
02/07/23 8:37:20 AM
#44:


Zareth posted...
Can't believe there are people who honestly think Aeris is going to die in the remake

I think so, I think it will pull a Life is Strange

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Jen0125
02/07/23 8:53:13 AM
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Sufferedphoneix posted...
Wall Market was like the best part of the game.

She doesn't like it because she's a religious bigot
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wpot
02/07/23 9:08:05 AM
#46:


Lokarin posted...
I think so, I think it will pull a Life is Strange
I haven't played, so I can't say what that would be.

I think it's pretty clear:
  • Every time there were visions of the future and they talked about changing it the visions were Aerith dying and Meteor hitting Midgar.
  • Everybody else who is supposed to be dead is alive or...possibly alive
  • Having a giant metal plate fall on Sector 7 is something that the slums can apparently 'rebuild' from now. Not sure where the plate went. No point in showing that unless Midgar is going to make it in the long run, right?
  • It seems to me keeping Aerith alive and then having a super happy ending is why they decided to make changes in the first place.
I say they're going to pull an Act 3 of Dragon Quest 11: a super happy 'remake' ending with all plot threads resolved happily whether it makes sense or not (or is good writing or not).

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Jen0125
02/07/23 9:13:03 AM
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I really don't think they won't kill Aerith.
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wpot
02/07/23 9:17:54 AM
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Too bad we can't bet karma. We shall see, I suppose...

I'm sure she'll appear to be in mortal peril and might even appear to be dead for a while (possibly until the third episode) but...

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Jen0125
02/07/23 9:20:59 AM
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What benefit is there to alter that specific plot point? Her death was a main driver for the emotional plot for the entire game after that.
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wpot
02/07/23 9:26:38 AM
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Jen0125 posted...
What benefit is there to alter that specific plot point? Her death was a main driver for the emotional plot for the entire game after that.
I completely agree and think it's a bad idea. But, per the points above, I think that's where they are going. I think they believe they'll be pleasing the fans who wanted to find ways to revive her, etc. They probably think they can replace it with something else unexpected and please everyone.

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