Written by Konstantinos Koutsoubas
PSX 2015 faded to black two days ago, but I’m still blinded by that first, epic and utterly astonishing 10 minutes. Uncharted 4 Trailer and then Final Fantasy 7 Remake hitting my heart and soul with a new Trailer that included Gameplay segments? That was quite the shock I had to absorb! It’s true that almost no one on his right mind would expect a Gameplay segment so soon, especially after our first info for the existence of the game, came only 6 months ago! We have to give credits to Square-Enix for the dedication that is showing to their new videogame.
And what a videogame it seems to be! The initial chatter and excitement about it being a turn-based RPG was apparently just a fool’s dream. This is 2015 after all, and it’s almost impossible to expect that a gigantic brand like Final Fantasy would return to its ancient roots, even if we’re talking about the Remake of a classic. I’m not saying that I didn’t like the Turn-Based Combat because I really did, but with new influences and Movie Legacies like the Advent Children, it was evident that we are heading into a new more adventurous and flashy direction.
This new direction(and I will go on a limb here), probably will be a mix of some very fundamental Input Commands with really fast-paced and fluid Action combat. In the Gameplay Trailer we can clearly see Cloud hacking and slashing through enemies, but at the same time there are many bars, command boxes and possibly Limit-Break meters that scream ‘’Strategic’’ from miles away! Based on the very little information that we have until now, I see a future where Square-Enix capitalizes the inevitable success of FF7 Remake with some really deep gameplay mechanic like an Action-Based/Command System, that will transfer to other RPGs. It’s really nice to have hack and slash Action games, but millions of gamers crave something different, a new rebranded way of playing that will give them more options, more strategies, but at the same time they will be able to feel their power and cut through enemies with their sword in seconds!
That amazing combo of combat freedom combined with fascinating graphics about an iconic world that many of us loved, has the potential to create an entire new culture of videogames. Square-Enix lost almost an entire decade of expansion in the PS3 generation because of wrong choices and really bad decisions, but know they seem to be in the right place. They ditched the painful Luminous Engine and they are making rapid progress with all of their new upcoming hot titles. If things don’t go horribly wrong, I feel that we will have in our hands an entirely new kind of Monster that hears to the name Final Fantasy 7 Remake. If I could only Imagine what will follow after that!
UPDATE (per user’s request):
Final Fantasy VII Remake will be told across a multi-part series, with each entry providing its own unique experience, Square Enix has announced. In other words, the game will be released in episodes, or at least that’s what Square Enix implied. Not only that, but the latest reports suggest that there will be some stuff that will be cut from the. Still, Square Enix promised that there will also be lots of new stuff added to it.
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” I’m still blinded by that first, epic and utterly astonishing 10 minutes. Uncharted 4 Trailer ”
Oh right, uncharted 4 exists, i forgot about it.
yea season 4 of uncharted starts in March. right now they are offering reruns of another TV show called Beyond Two Souls. /sarcasm
at least with Tomb Raider reboot you feel more like as if you are playing a video game and not watching an animated movie.
Apparently it’s going to be released in chapters, I wonder why.
Please don’t be chapters. Well if it is, then I know where I’ll be going to ‘ship’ the game from… Me mateys.
Wait for them to finally release the new final fantasy game and then lets see if they gonna release this remake before the end of time.
seriously? WE JUST CANT HAVE NICE THINGS.
omfg
If this was a remake for the fans it wouldnt be such a different game. This remake is a cash grab for the new generation of bro gamers.
FF combat system can go F itself.
Better, go and F your mom.
fallout fan, gets mad i criticize the crappy ff combat system.
You cant make this up
Im sorry but WHO decided that FF7 combat was crappy?
Its not the general opinion of the fans, especially not the people that actually played this game when it came out.
It might be opinion of the Millennial teenager Dude-bro-COD-OCD-Semi-retarted generation of gamers and even not all of them want it to be one button game.
Its an OLD Game, it has OLD combat system, also its proper strategic, turn based system, what you want to do is DUMBOFAY the game, have you played any FF13 games or that PSP FF game?
You play by pressing ONE button, thats it.
In turn based game you have 3-4 charterers and you choose their actions and you can strategically combo their actions, using some type of buff or magic and follow it with what hits harder on that buff.
I would like FF7 to have modernized Turn Based combat, take all the best from FF7, FF9 and FFX.
If Square is smart they can make it both action and turn based, because for turn based all they need to do is stop the combat, add ATB counter for everyone so everybody waits until it runs out to make a move.
They already have the menus for magics and attacks and summons.
P.S. Fallout 3 had clunky shooting but VATS was fine, FNV improved it by much and Fallout 4 without VATS is like any other shooter: Perfect.
Basically you can say that F3 had s**y combat but not FNV and especially not F4.
Anyway I play Fallout not for combat but for the feeling it gives me, its the only post apocalyptic RPG where I can explore post-nuclear world and enjoy the science and the creatures.
Also its unique because its based on the 60s and not shiny future.
Hopefully Metro comes with open world RPG then we will have the golden DUO: Post Apocalyptic Old world America and Post apocalyptic Soviet Union!!!
Honestly man if you haven gotten tired of the classic FF combat by now there is something wrong with you.
“It might be opinion of the Millennial teenager Dude-bro-COD-OCD-Semi-retarted”
Which still allow you more options and have more complexity than FF
“Its an OLD Game, it has OLD combat system, also its proper strategic, turn based system,”
What strategy? Pc rpgs have strategy FF is all about grinding and buying potions.
“You play by pressing ONE button, thats it.”
and do you not see the problem of your argument with that?
“and you choose their actions and you can strategically combo their actions, using some type of buff or magic and follow it with what hits harder on that buff.”
and randomly auto use someones ultimate on a weak enemy because the game design is actually stupid.
What do you mean by now? Last Turn Based FF was FFX, thats back on PS2 more then 10 years ago
when I said that you play by pressing One button I was talking about the new action FF games, its horrible, you just press X to win, you have no strategy.
FF is not just grinding and buying potions, thats a wrong way to play, its like grinding in Dark Souls.
how many ff games are like that? over 15 last time i checked.
No.
The last proper Turn Based FF, was Final Fantasy 10, it had the best fighting and upgrade system IMHO.
Its the last turn based FF and both First and Last good looking Turn Based FF.
FF9, FF8 and FF7 were on PS1, thats LOOOOOONG time ago, most gamers weren’t even PLANNED by their parents and lots were small kids.
Before that we had the 2D FF, most modern gamers never touched them, we only had a remake of FF3 and FF4 in 3D on Hendhald, so they look like ass (I have FF4 + Expansion on IPAD, its the best place to play such Turn Based game)
FF10-2 had the stupid Dress system that you could swap Jobs on the fly, i hate it.
FF12 was Single player MMO, like what they showed in the FF7-Remake trailer, you play as ONE character, has Action button and can move on screen.
FF13, FF13-2,FF13-3, well you know how crap it was.
FF PSP was also action like single player MMO
FF Type 0, same thing, single player MMO
The New FF that should come this year, FF15, its ALSO Single Player MMO.
Single player MMO means unlike Action games that have each button mapped to Some Action, like in God of War and you can do combos, they have a Text MENU that you have to choose from, and have AUTOMATIC Action (thats because you cant be fast enough to choose from a Text menu) if you wont choose anything they will Auto Fight.
Your Party members ALWAYS auto fight, you can change the one character that you control, but you cant be strategic, like saying you do this and you do that and ill do something else, they fight automatically and you fight Semi-Automatically.
Its very easy, and boring.
‘Its very easy, and boring.”
Sums up my opinion for the FF games combat system.
You right, thats the modern FF that is so easy.
try playing FFX and its great, strategic and smart
ill try it better have a better combat system than 7 and 8
” Fallout 3 had clunky shooting but VATS was fine, FNV improved it by much and Fallout 4 without VATS is like any other shooter: Perfect.”
Actually i was referring to the old games. But since you metioned it. Fallout 4 without vats still has bullet spongy enemies.
New vegas pistols and automatic weapons are clunkier than a 90s shooter.
“I play Fallout not for combat but for the feeling it gives me, its the only post apocalyptic RPG where I can explore post-nuclear world and enjoy the science and the creatures.”
Yet people play FF for the story and environments but you enjoy their crappy combat system from the freaking 80s?
“Also its unique because its based on the 60s and not shiny future.”
Yet another thing that bethesda ruined, the older games while had a 50s not 60s setting, they were more sci fi and more “shinny”
A 1:1 remake would be a cash grab for the nostalgia-riddled old generation of gamers.
It’s pretty obvious they would have to cater to the new generations of gamers as well or else they wouldn’t be able to profit from a game of such caliber.
You are speaking about 90% of people, who is this new generation you are talking about? millennial OCD hipsters and dude-bros, both are very poor!
People that know about Ff7 and want its remake already played the original and just want the very same thing with 2015 graphics, we dont want no action crap, one button mashers and cheap OCD gimmicks like all Ff13 games or Single player MMO like FF12 and that stupid PSP game.
FFX HD sold A LOT, it means people want old school turn based with better graphics.
Yes, precisely. You just said it yourself, 90%.
This is video game industry. This is business. Square Enix are here to make money, not giving the old fanbase a delicate fanservice. It’s pretty obvious they will target that 90% rather than the 10% who wants the exact same game with updated graphics, especially with a project this expensive.
Thats other way around, 90% want FF7 to be Turn based and 10% dont.
Such games are for old school gamer, not 16 years old COD kids, they dont understand RPGs, maximum that they do is beating hookers in GTA and maybe putting buckets on peoples heads and downloading nude mods in Skyrim.
My generation is the one with money, that actually buys games, consoles and 10K PC’s.
teenagers dont and college kids need to buy weed and condoms not games.
Alright then who is this 90% are you talking about?
Nostalgia-ridden fans?
And how much is that compared to the larger consensus of gamers nowadays?
How come you can make such a large claim by saying that?
As I said, SE are here to make profits. Not make a fanservice to the old fanbase who liked turn-based gameplay. So of course they will appeal to the newer generation of gamers nowadays. Most people from the old generation will buy the game because they wanted the remake, you might not, but most will, and new generation of gamers will also buy the game because of its flashy gameplay.
I get your point, but face it, flashy action sells more than turn-based nowadays.
Based on incomplete info on vgchartz, FFX-HD sold 2.5 Million units across PS3/PS4 and Vita.
FFX was never as popular as FF7 and nobody asked for remaster, also it was still PS2 version with updates.
Based on this and the fact that FF7 Remake was demanded by fans across the globe.
P.S. How you can state that everybody wants action based FF when all action FF games never sold as well as Turn Based and are the most unpopular among the fanbase!!
FF12, FF13, FF13-2, FF13-3 and
The latest one FF Type-0 sold 0.8Mil across 3 platforms.
FFX PS2 Sold 8Mil on PS2, FF12 Sold 5Mil
After the excitement for new FF passed and everybody knew what kind of garbage FF13 is, it went downhill, each version of FF13 sold less and less.
“We have to give credits to Square-Enix for the dedication that is showing to their new videogame.”
– releasing Final Fantasy 7 Remake in multiple parts
– making (timed?) exclusivity deals with Sony
that’s Dedication alright. for the record all companies including EA show enough “dedication” when their main money maker is on the line.
if you are looking for true dedication, you should look at CDPR. they offer a more than fair price for their big DLCs, constant updates, free small DLCs etc.however just like CDPR fanboys that only accept praises and can’t take criticism, i am sure Final Fantasy 7 fanboys will be the same.
Final Fantasy 7 Remake reminds of EA’s Battlefront. both seem good and have the atmosphere, but so far, nothing beyond that. many will only buy them for their skins basically.
when it comes to Remake, old Capcom done it best with Resident Evil HD. not only it removed many faults the original game had, but it kept it’s spirit and dared to use fixed cameras.
I have to give Techland credit as well. They’re not a top tier developer by any means, but I’m thoroughly impressed with how much post launch support they’ve given Dying Light and they seem to be continuing their great business practices with The Following expansion and the just announced Enhanced Edition.
oh i like Techland as well and it seems they are Polish too like CDPR. there are other examples as well (like Larian Studio) but i used CDPR only because it’s the most famous one right now in this regard.
I want to add 4A Games to the list
The multiple parts thing is to deliver the feeling of swapping discs to the digital age you guys!
Dedication is not the right word
I’m disappointed that an exclusive pc gaming related site have to root for a console game.
all while at the same time this site never post news for pc titles like DCS series…
Final Fantasy VII is on PC as well, but I have to agree about DCS, ArmA, etc.
This was an over-hyped, underwhelming RPG back in 1997 and this remake that everyone is frothing at the mouth for will suck just as much.
I’m still blinded by that first, epic and utterly astonishing 10 minutes. Uncharted 4 Trailer”’
Damn DSO turning in a peasant site like PC gamer… Im out.
Final Fantasy 7 Remake is on the Unreal Engine 4.
“astonishing 10 minutes. Uncharted 4 Trailer”
dude, who are you shilling for ?
Shilling? I completely agree with the author.
which trailer?
The latest one where he meets his lost brother
that one did not have 10 minutes gameplay it was a cutscene.
Im sorry but looks like maybe English is not your first language?
Its defiantly not mine, but I understood what he was talking about.
Look up at the article, the very first passage, Quote:
“PSX 2015 faded to black two days ago, but I’m still blinded by that first, epic and utterly astonishing 10 minutes.”
He was talking about the first 10 minutes of PSX2015 show, it had the Uncharted 4 trailer + FF7 trailer, a total of around 10 minutes.
ah ok
don’t care
“Not only that, but the latest reports suggest that there will be SOME stuff that will be cut from the original”
Some or most? Hopefully it’s just ‘some’…