P-Mack posted:

If you're drawing magic you're a sucker, just convert cards and items. The game is extremely broken and it's great.

Oxxidation posted:

for all its quirks and shortfalls FF7’s English script felt raw and real in a way the other games never really matched. characters mutter fragments of sentences, they occasionally lose coherence, they talk around subjects without ever really confronting what they mean to say

it’s an effect that’s inextricable from the translation’s jank and we’ll probably never see its like again

Oxxidation posted:

Barudak posted:

Disc one has the space witch screaming about how shes going to kill all of you when you she gets free which is whats on every tv channel, an antagonist who joins the villain because its just like the movies he watched growing up, downloading physical things from the internet, an undead body double of a president, a villain having her parade dancers do thriller, your sniper not mentioning why he sucks at sniping, the legendary ancient civilization who traveled the stars and left ruins everywhere and nobody knows anything about dissappeared only 80 years ago, and its all in a world where hover boards without visible power sources exist regular coal powered trains and gas cars exist.

Edit: and monsters travel from the moon to gently caress up human civilization. Anyone who thinks disc one is unconnected or more normal is deluding themselves.

Ghost Leviathan posted:

JRPGs in the old days seemed to be pretty economical to the point of abstraction and mostly didn't care about the world making much sense, the combat especially tended to be abstract as hell. It's harder to do that in modern development where all the detailed assets especially in Square's house style means you have to make everything look like part of the world, which is going to be jarring when they've forgotten institutionally what the game's setting and tone were even meant to be about.

Barudak posted:

The truly insane are claiming it will come with voice acting, which friend, I assure you it will not

cock hero flux posted:

give doomtrain a big honkin dong

kloa posted:

Are people going to grind Episode 1 to level 99 and just breeze through the remaining episodes?

Dell_Zincht posted:

Like the original game was, you mean? Because yeah you could technically go anywhere once you had a Golden Chocobo but until Disc 2 the game was pretty strict about which path you could take.

The White Dragon posted:

you know, the game for the n64 digital disc add on. you run around as link looking for the triforce and there's this sick scene where you finally find assemble it at a temple--well maybe you've seen the screenshots but long story short obviously america never got the DD

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speaking from experience being a fat teenager and growing out of it is way better than being a skinny teenager and then just getting crazy fat because you didn't learn good nutritional habits in your 20s

me every time i see a "29 years and 355 days: 130lbs / 30 years and 0 days: 310 lbs" meme:

great big cardboard tube posted:

I was the kid who ordered the Chrono Cross soundtrack off eBay and made my mom play the CDs in the car while I read the strategy guide

Vincent Valentine posted:

I liked War of the Lions but the problem people seem to have with it is that a lot of super memorable lines were changed which didn't feel good, if only for the case that it changed the atmosphere and feel of the characters. The most egregious offender is the famous:

"Don't blame me. Blame yourself, or God." *skateboards away*
"Oh, God..."

Like bam, Agrias is unable to blame herself straight out of the gate and is happy to put that blame onto literally anyone else, immediately. Anyone but her. We're immediately given insight into a lot of characters personality and motivations in a big hook of the game. Delita feels like cold and dismissive. This is what needs to be done, and the following scenes only reinforce that. He's the 99% and gets poo poo on constantly. This is eating the rich.

In the WOTL version it was changed to.

""Forgive me. 'Tis your birth and faith that wrong you, not I.""

Which has a completely different tone. He isn't absolving himself of blame anymore. People only ask forgiveness if they think your opinion matters. Now he either cares for or respects Agrias, and might even feel remorse over his actions. In the end he doesn't believe he's the real problem here, the 1% still is, but he doesn't feel as certain in his actions.

Heath posted:

Sephiroth has (so far) gone from total mystery in the original to haunting specter of Cloud's madness in the remake. I don't think he even appears on screen in the original until the Kalm flashback where you see him rip apart a dragon. Even in the manual his stats and portrait are all big question marks. That is one change I'm kind of not a fan of if only because Sephiroth's mystique was a big part of his appeal as a villain, but he's a victim of his own success in the remake. So while I don't care for seeing him so early, I understand why it was necessary. Like he kind of has to be there for fanservice reasons, and he can't really be mysterious anymore since we're 24 years out from the game.

The game is hitting something of an odd balance between certain minor elements being beat for beat identical to the original, if slightly meatier. The attention to detail is actually pretty staggering, but it stands out all the more when something doesn't conform to the original (Sephiroth showing up, the specters haunting Aeristh, etc)

Heath posted:

The Jenova cells are the cool guy part of Cloud's nerd brain

LadyPictureShow posted:

It's a perfectly normal name.