Was the original story really that boring?

Was the original story really that boring?

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  1. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    That’s not what the article is saying, ESL

  2. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Damn if only FF7 was available on Steam or something so you could easily play the original story

  3. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    No, they just don't care about it. It doesn't matter to them, only the message they are paid to promote.

  4. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >haha won't it be interesting if there's a 50/50 shot we assrape every important story beat?
    No, that's not interesting or exciting. Only morons just want to see characters they recognize on screen regardless of what's happening in the story. There's a reason everything after the first "remake" will sell like shit.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      I don't want to see a copy paste of a story I've seen and played over 10 times since the original game released. I wanted a sequel to Advent Children, and FF7R isn't perfect, but its the closest I'll get.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        >I don't want FF7
        >I want Advent Children
        Then you're a homosexual with shit taste and Nomura and Kitase's new trashfire compilation games are right up your alley.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          Yeah I want more stories in the FF7verse, I want to see the franchise continue. The worst parts of FF7R is when it copy and pastes the old game.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          If I want FF7, I can play FF7. You obviously can't since you're too busy sucking wiener.

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            A good remake takes the original story and spirit of the game and gives it a facelift as well as new mechanics that couldn't be done before due to budget and technological constraints. Only moronic homosexuals think a remake is supposed to be fanfic-tier rewrites to a story.

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              >A good remake takes the original story and spirit of the game and gives it a facelift as well as new mechanics that couldn't be done before due to budget and technological constraints. Only moronic homosexuals think a remake is supposed to be fanfic-tier rewrites to a story.
              a good remake is re1 remake a bad remake is re2remake one is the same game with more the other is a new game wearing a classic games skin.

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            If you want gay emo shit you can just open up a gay porno or play whatever nu-shit Nomura and Kitase are shitting out in their spare time.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        It’s fine to want new stories with old characters, but then don’t make or call it a remake.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          Are you not familiar with the concept of a remake? I have a hard time think of a remake that is just a 1:1 recreation of the original, because that would be a fricking waste of everyone’s time. You basically want the Vince Vaughn version of Psycho, which was a lazy shot-for-shot recreation of the original, and everyone rightly mocked it for that.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Rebirth is actually really fun, the remake limited itself by just being the shifty tutorial area the entire game. All the fun stuff in the original was on disc 2, which is what rebirth is. They shouldn't of made a 30 hour game solely in midgar

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        >empty open world that still manages to handhold you
        >constant unnecessary qtes in cutscenes
        >gameplay still jank
        How is any of this fun?

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          The OG had qtes lmao and its more like mini games for long cut scenes. The open world is fine, le barren world will always be said about every game with open world. Then if it doesn't its a hallway Sim.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          >empty open world still manages to handhold you
          I'd beleive this actually. It seems the norm now to do empty open worlds and have normgays be amazed at how great the emptiness is but all the fun it holds!

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            Only he’s lying, and there’s a ton of unique shit to do.

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              You say this but I think you're dick riding SE honestly

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              i like the game but you are just lying now every region has the same chore list for you to do and they get progressively more annoying like the entirety of gongaga, frick those mushrooms.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                >gongaga
                I hope they don't let whoever designed that map work on the third game or any other game ever

  5. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    I played through the original 3 times. Voice acting, new gameplay and graphics is plenty enough.

  6. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    He means THEIR OWN INTEREST in order to keep producing it.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      I agree with this, just the whispers was a very unoriginal way to do it

  7. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    If thats the case why couldn't they just make the remakes like mass effect where you can make choices that affect the storyline, so you can get the original story or maybe another timeline

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      No one wants that. Rebirth still has the choices of who you get to date. They made barret a lot deeper character than just an angry meme

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        >They made barret a lot deeper character than just an angry meme
        What'd they do?

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          ?si=FiW5t7bn5w5SFI6y

          Gives him reasoning for everything and he's not saying everything is stupid

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            This isn't new. Barret being calm, regretful, and introspective are featured during Corel Prison. If anything this is just redundant, and spoils the impact of the Corel sequence as it features in Rebirth, assuming it plays out in a similar fashion.

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              Corel prison takes place before this. The dyne fight had a resident evil moment, which was weird and only added for a surprise factor I guess? Also kino jumping off the cliff was removed which was lame, but might have to do with japanese norms around that now

  8. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    God forbid they hire somebody to develop some competent gameplay so it's, you know, the GAME keeping player's interest.
    Instead it's just breasts, modeled and animated worse than amateur blender artists. Small independent studio, pls understand.
    Square has never developed a good game.

  9. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    No, it’s because it would have come and gone in maybe a month if it was just a cosmetic upgrade to the original game, playing Rebirth right now, I’m glad as hell that they didn’t listen to the “I just want the same thing that’s been available for 30 years, just prettier” gays. The lore and worldbuilding expansions are fricking great, like what the world was like before Shinra took over.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      This. No one aside from purists would give a shit or play a 1:1 remake.

  10. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Seeing the game flop miserably is pretty exciting, ngl.

  11. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    We could have gotten a faithful remake on the PS2 20 years ago but enjoy this Kingdom Hearts bullshit instead I guess

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >We could have gotten a faithful remake three years after the original release

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        It never went beyond some internal talks but it could have come out in 2005. For comparison that's a longer gap than the one between RE1 and its remake

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        moron

  12. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >"we'll keep the fans on their toes by not knowing where we're gonna frick up!"
    optimal strategy, well done

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      The people who are actually playing the game are enjoying it. It’s really just dick-shitters on here who are seething about it.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        The *few people who are playing it

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          Meaningless unless we see digital sales. As has been mentioned fifteen goddamn times, PSN Store was offering Rebirth and Remake for the price of one game.

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            The fact that SE didn't announce them can only mean one thing, you know

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              I feel once it hits PC the only worth of the game will be mods because everyone would pirate it.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Frick that noise.
                I pirated remake and couldn't finish it. When i got to the corneo sewers again, i said frick it and uninstalled.
                No mod could possibly fix that horrendous padding.

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            Of course you have morons though buying the game then playing it feeling it has no flaws at all and worth $70 for each.

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            What cope are shills going to pivot to when it turns out digital sales are also in the toilet?

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              Show me the digital sales figures. Until then, talk of how well it did or didn’t sell is pointless, and no amount of you saying “nuh-uh” is going to change that.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        I get the people who are sceptic because of remake. I liked it, but I get it's hate. Rebirth is multiple times better

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        I'm not playing it because I played the first remake and it sucked. It was a Nomura game in the worst way and killed any future interest I had.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          I’m not going to try and evangelize the game to you, but I will say that Rebirth addresses most of the issues with Remake. That one kind of felt like a practice run, but the original Midgar segment was also really constrained and linear too, and by the time this is all out, it’s probably going to proportionally be about the same percentage of the story as the original too. I just ticked over the time in Rebirth that it took me to play the entirety of Remake (including all side quests), and according to my PS5, I’m only at around the halfway point of Rebirth.

          Again, you do you, but I think it’s a big upgrade.

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            >but I will say that Rebirth addresses most of the issues with Remake
            Does the story stop being fanfic shit? Is Sephiroth no longer a gay rapist chasing Cloud around? Does the game do away with "epic" Kingdom Hearts style fights where during climaxes we'll all teleport to some random in between dimensions place where rules (and also therefor stakes) do not apply and whatever the director's want to happen can happen in a vacuum? Is all the shitty padding gone? Does air combat not suck? Does party AI not suck? Does the game stop being so fricking gay instead of treating gays like a quick one off joke like the original?

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              If by “fanfic shit”, you mean expanding the worldbuilding and lore to go into things like the history of the world republic that existed before Shinra took over, the mythology of the summons, and the history of each region, then no.

              I’m a little over 40 hours in, and while I can’t say that they never show up, I haven’t seen a single time janny ghost. Likewise, I haven’t seen any “Kingdom Hearts shit”, aside from some new guy in a black cloak occasionally showing up to talk to Rufus who kind of looks like an Organization XIII guy.

              As far as “padding” goes, Corel Prison is the only part where I’ve really felt it. It’s the same setup, where a “man with a gun for an arm” shoots up some Shinra soldiers, and Barret gets accused, and you get sent down below to find the real shooter, and clear his name. But then, a gang of wasteland thugs somehow get the drop on the party and held prisoner overnight (and all the girls somehow avoid getting gang-raped in that time), and then the leader makes Cloud buy their freedom by winning a chocobo race, which in itself made me say “can we just move the plot along?”, but then there’s also a sub-objective where you have to perform a certain number of odd jobs to get greens to feed the chocobo so you can race. Then, after you do all that, the gang’s leader takes the prize money, more or less calls Cloud his b***h, and sends the party on their way. It’s not even narratively satisfying, because the gang just kind of gets away with it.

              It seems like air combat has been improved, and Cloud can pretty much stay in the air in perpetuity if you want him to.

              The other party member AI can be set to auto-cast spells, weapon abilities, stuff like that, but you have to get materia to do it.

              Does the game stop being gay? Between Dio, Andrea, and Roche having a kind of “zesty” energy, that’s probably going to be a no, but frick it, the original had muscular dudes in speedos running around too.

  13. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    ironic since I'm at temple of the ancients in rebirth and it's some of the most boring shit ever

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      That's just true to the original game. Was detonate at least fun? Zam was fun fight

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        Demongate*

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        not at demongate yet. so far it's been hours of dungeon calling through le broken floating temple that rearranges itself, 2 Turks battles, a boring cliche flashback trial section. it's all the typical jrpg tropes just dragged out. aerith made some gay speech about hope or something too, it's painful

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          I don't even remember a turk battle there in the og. There's already been so many turk fights already.

          Also reds voice change is jarring and annoying

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            in the original, Turks battle were: Sector 7 pillar, gongaga, rocket Town, return to midgar, sunken plane. I think that's it.

  14. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    They already said everyone involved in remake was bored of the original FFVII. It isn’t about keeping the audience interested and everything about keeping the moronic “creators” interested.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      You have to be a right kind of autist to enjoy doing the same thing over and over and over and over and over

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        So then they should have stayed the frick away from the original plan outside of minor advisory roles instead of stepping in and scrapping it. The audience wanted the same thing but with graphics that matched the concept art. If they wanted to make multiverse time janitors they could have still fricked off and made that game. The remake wasn’t about them.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          >The audience wanted the same thing but with graphics that matched the concept art.
          Pretty much this.

          The audience wanted an expansion of the relationships between the characters and environment, some more lore behind whats happened or happening in the world "like coming across the tanks and getting the story of Junon vs Shinra"

          But instead, we get a Bugenhogin who for some weird reason now thinks we are lying about weapon yet not lying about the last Cetra?

  15. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    If producers at square have proven anything lately, it's that they have no clue what the frick fans want

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Frick what the fans want. The fans gave us Force Awakens.

  16. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    So the only intrigue they're able to provide is to wonder if square will shit the bed.
    amazing

  17. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    they missed the mark with temple of the ancients. in the original it was a weird place with strange vibes but in rebirth it's just depressing and uninteresting

  18. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    No, but Remake/Rebirth do a lot of the original better through expansion. Doesn't apply across the board, but:

    Dyne's death was particularly well done (Akira fist arm boss fight aside) compared to the original where he just an heros off the cliff.

    Escape from Shinra HQ was awesome, integrating Motor Ball into the chase game itself.

    Junon segment expanded the marching minigame in a very fun way. Collecting all the troops who are all doing various in-universe things was full of flavor.

    Gold Saucer is also very well done and it's nice to see put together instead of the very segmented look the original had with the connecting tubes.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Dyne's death was particularly well done
      No it wasn't, it robbed him of his agency. In the original Dyne served as a reminder to Barret about what could happen to him if he let his hatred consume him.
      Now it's about nothing.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Dyne's boss fight was stupid, it ruined the moment by being way too flashy and ridiculous

      It's a problem the game has in general

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Dyne's death was particularly well done (Akira fist arm boss fight aside) compared to the original where he just an heros off the cliff.
      have a nice day you stupid shill

  19. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Corel prison isn't actually a prison it's just some slum you can waltz in and out of
    ?

  20. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >we realized the only reason people have ever cared about FF7 was their nostalgic 12 year old memories so we had to add time janitors

  21. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >story changes were necessary
    TOTAL. SQUARE. ENIX. DEATH.

  22. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    You can always identify the non-gamers who need to be rounded up and killed by the amount of "You shouldn't cater to fans of the original game" posts.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Compilation > Original game.
      Star Wars EU > OT.
      Just laying down the facts.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        Actual fans > You brainrotted homosexuals.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          Nothing more brainrotted than people who want the exact same shit and relive their sad childhood. Sorry to say.

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            Says someone utterly stuck in 00s emoshitting FF.
            If you don't like Japanese games you should just admit it and go play whatever crap is shat out by western studios.

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              >Says someone utterly stuck in 00s emoshitting FF.

              Correct. Advent Children saved your shitty mediocre franchise.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                No one likes Advent Children. Not even the people who made it.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                90% of the world loved Advent Children. The other 10% is you. 10% because you're a fat motherfricker.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                >90% of the world loved Advent Children
                The emo Cloud stuff has been shit on relentlessly since AC came out. Only dumb teenagers like it.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                But enough about you.

                lmao no even back then people only liked the Sepiroth fight scene and that's old hat now.

                >consistently 90 to 100 scores on IMDB
                LMAO

                If you want gay emo shit you can just open up a gay porno or play whatever nu-shit Nomura and Kitase are shitting out in their spare time.

                >Purists can't stop thinking about wienersucking

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Average Nomura wienersucker

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Nomura and Lucas are the only people who's wieners I'd suck. Unlike you who consistently goes to your local gloryhole.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                t. the kind of homosexual who'd defend turning their favorite series into a chinese mobile clone game because NU & CORPORATE = GOOD. Probably seethed about people mocking Blizzard for it.
                Fricking have a nice day.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                you can "LMAO" all you want but you're a low IQ minority (both irl and in this case) that slopped up Squeenix cum

                https://strawpoll.com/PKgl3qQRJnp/results

                FF7R2 is a flop, as everyone with a brain knew it would be

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                >only 165 morons
                >vs. 200+ people of varying opinions
                ROFLMAO

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                you lost, nice thread btw

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                nah you are

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                he is?

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                100%

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                lmao no even back then people only liked the Sepiroth fight scene and that's old hat now.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Non gamers are being prevalent in gaming nowadays just by lurking the comments or posts on social media a.k.a "the game needs an easy mode", "games dont have to be so hard" ect.

  23. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Are you really that illiterate or are you pretending to be stupid?

  24. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Story changes didn't turn people off.
    It's the prolonged development that did. And it's being a trilogy that you have to play previous one plus OG plus compilation to understand. FF7 remake project was dead from the beginning, SE just overrated ff7 pull.

    Compare to Resident evil, in which each game is a standalone game. It's easier for normies to pick up from any platform which helps in the long run.

  25. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    I love FFVII on the psx!

  26. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >"We are able to give fans the excitement of wondering which ones of their nostalgic memories we will completely ruin and shit on, haha"
    People who like remakes are truly the shit tier of people.

  27. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >the forced slow walking and time jannies were necessary to keep interest

  28. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >america: you think you do, but you don't
    :l
    >japan: you think you do, but you don't
    :O

    They completely rewrote the fricking universe. You can still make a true 1:1 story while adding more side events and character building that the original lacked. Japanese boomers should commit seppuku and stop trying to insert their egos into video games.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >You can still make a true 1:1 story while adding more side events and character building that the original lacked.
      The sad thing is they did, and gave it a more fun combat system, and gave it fully realized 3D versions of a beloved setting you could previously only explore through jpegs. They did all this and then put moronic time ghosts and Sephiroth in your face every hour. They took something that could've been wonderful and just shit all over it for no reason. Absolute blustering unnecessary fricking incompetence.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        >more fun combat system
        opinion discarded

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          Play a video game that's not a spreadsheet.

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            Stay out of genres that aren’t made for you

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          This. Everyone knows the gameplay of every video game ever made is objectively terrible.

  29. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Show me one remake that wasn't dogshit.

  30. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    I started Remake again yesterday, trying to just enjoy it as its own reimagining instead of seeing it as a disappointing remake. The time jannies are still so fricking shit though, it's incredibly in your face about how different it is and constantly draws attention to it. If they wanted to make it a little different, they could've done it without fricking ghosts flying into the camera.

    Also, everything from Rebirth makes it seem worse as a remake than Remake. At least Remake actually nailed the remade parts. Rebirth seems to sand off literally all the original's grittiness and double down on making everything a bombastic action setpiece. The ending is also atrocious of course.

  31. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    No, but it's been told already.

  32. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    They intentionally fricked with it because they thought nobody wanted a faithful 1:1 remake.
    Looking at the sales number for part 2 it seems people were not impressed with the time jannies and premature Sephiroth encounter. Or all the padding.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Subversiongays have been a massive blight on entertainment in the past decade or so. They have no idea why subversions in old stories tended to work much better. Somehow the problem even includes people who worked on old stories (with FF7R outright being led by people who worked on the original FF7). It's not a personnel-specific problem, it's a zeitgeist problem.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      No, they fricked with it because THEY didn’t want a 1:1 remake. There comes a point where the artist has to step back and realize the thing they created had a life of its own after release. George Lucas was the poster child for this. The second version of A New Hope, aside from Greedo, was the easiest to swallow for this kind of shit where at least the Jaba scene brought back something that was left on the cutting room floor. Jedi is where you really see dementia stepping in with the stupid song destroying the pacing. By the time we get to the bluray release you have shit like Vader screaming “NO” because old man Lucas has lost touch entirely. Same goes for Spielberg with ET walkie talkies instead of guns. I try and leave Crystal Skull alone because they made a sequel, but it could be argued both of them as old men were fighting their younger selves in that movie. The tone is so different that it made Temple of Doom belong when that was considered the black sheep for 24 years. Time again we see this with original creators coming back to something 15-30 years later either in remake or sequel and it never turns out. The older one cannot understand what younger was doing and it always turns into Captain Hook hunting Peter Pan. The result is a shittier product than if they would have just done something else entirely. There is another side to this with the suits not getting it either and making sequels anyway, but that is a whole other rant.
      TLDR, maybe we should just preserve the past and make new things.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        Spoken like someone with 0 vision.

  33. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    holy shit its ok to change a story, but just fricking change it then. Don't fricking add time travel/alternate reality/fricking MYSTER homieS. It's fricking stupid.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      I'm still on the fence as to whether they're just making this shit up as they go along or if it was all locked in years ago and now they're stuck with it and can't easily change course.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        By the sons of it they making it up as they go and taking the audience's reaction to the previous into account

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          I'm still on the fence as to whether they're just making this shit up as they go along or if it was all locked in years ago and now they're stuck with it and can't easily change course.

          Wait wrong image lol

  34. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    I agree with the article despite wishing they had kept it more 1:1

    Not knowing whether Aerith dies or how Zack's weird timeline fits in might be stupid anime bullshit but it does keep me engaged and paying close attention. Despite the lousy writing of characters, the expansion of the world lore is actually pretty good. I'm happy to see information about a Republic before the rise of ShinRa, I like the ongoing Wutai conflict, I like how Rufus is cunning in different goals. The nostalgia draws me in but its the little changes that keep me hooked.

    Its also one of those things where I dont think modern Square could tell the same story twice as effectively.

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