FFVIIR Official Concept Art & Twitter Whatnots

[Jairus]

No, no new renders since President Shinra, Roche, and Heidegger months ago. They've gotten behind, I guess. A lot of hires character renders still to provide. Hopefully for every revealed character and not just a select few.

 

[pxp]

Does this go in this thread? Not the best, but a glimpse at Red's renders:

 

[Cannon_Fodder]

That reminds me, someone on Resetera posted close-ups of those renders.

Spoiler: Face shot

Spoiler: Full body

 

[ForceStealer]

Those are some serious claws

 

[pxp]

That reminds me, someone on Resetera posted close-ups of those renders.

Spoiler: Face shot

Spoiler: Full body

Suh-weeeet! He looks so good!

 

[LicoriceAllsorts]

I just love how feral and predatory he looks.
Even though he's really just a soppy kid who love his grandpa.

 

[LNK]

@Odysseus
I got you

I like the Loveless poster!

 

[ultima786]

Higher-res 2510*1080 (swapped out "medium" with "orig" at the end of the Twitter URL )

It’s beautiful. But something is off about Tifa’s face? In fact everyone’s face looks a tad off, like they didn’t polish the expressions. Except red 13, he looks fire

 

[Ite]

Okay. Still not sold on how he looked in the trailer, but the three pics of Red I’ve seen this week are fiiiiire. I made a quick and dirty brightness adjustment to the face render:

 

[Strangelove]

my son

looking great, keep it up

 

[Kain424]

Red looks so good. I love it.

 

[FFShinra]

I really like the shot of the reactors in the end of highway image (I mean, I love the image overall, but thats a unique shot of the city, daylight or no).

I too always assumed it was peasoup dark. The overworld map fed into that notion too.

 

[LicoriceAllsorts]

That's right, I forgot the overworld map portrayed Midgar as shrouded in perpetual murk.

 

[Rydeen]

If you really look, you can see quite a bit of pollution below that beautiful sunrise. It just doesn't extend that far above the city.
The leaked shot of Wall Market looks super polluted:

Spoiler

One thing that always annoyed me about the OG was the large ring of depleted soil that was depicted as very dark. Dark soil is usually more fertile. It would be better if it were a bleak tan - desert. I feel that AC did that right.

 

[Mayo Master]

The fog not extending far above the city is just a case of temperature inversion. It's hard to tell whether the fog is due to pollution or simple air humidity - you'd have to smell it.

Playing the OG way back, I never imagined that Midgar was permanently shrouded in darkness. The field screen of Aerith's house was a good indication of that (as well as the field screens shown when you're leaving Midgar). It's just that most environments in the slums are shaded by the Plate, and all the scenes above the Plate happened at night time. Being able to see Midgar under a different light was something I've been always looking forward to.

 

[ForceStealer]

Yeah I mean the world map darkened when you were near Midgar, but having bad smog and COMPLETELY OBSCURING THE SUN are very different ideas.

And yeah, you wouldn't be able to see Meteor in that case, and everyone definitely can.

 

[Ite]

I am really curious as to how Meteor will interact with a day/night cycle, if Part 7 has one. In the OG it was the sky-ball-of-plot-convenience, it’s there whenever the camera is pointing up and no matter where you go on the perpetual-daylight-world-map. Hmmm! I could see Meteor becoming beautiful, in its own way...

(please please please a Horizon or Uncharted style camera mode pleeease)

 

[Rydeen]

I am really curious as to how Meteor will interact with a day/night cycle, if Part 7 has one. In the OG it was the sky-ball-of-plot-convenience, it’s there whenever the camera is pointing up and no matter where you go on the perpetual-daylight-world-map. Hmmm! I could see Meteor becoming beautiful, in its own way...

(please please please a Horizon or Uncharted style camera mode pleeease)

Perhaps we can explain the continuity error of having it suddenly switch from afternoon to night (and then back again) during the Diamond Weapon attack as an eclipse between meteor and the sun.

EDIT: Shit, I just remembered that it switches back to night a second time, so that wouldn't work.

 

[LNK]

I am really curious as to how Meteor will interact with a day/night cycle, if Part 7 has one. In the OG it was the sky-ball-of-plot-convenience, it’s there whenever the camera is pointing up and no matter where you go on the perpetual-daylight-world-map. Hmmm! I could see Meteor becoming beautiful, in its own way...

(please please please a Horizon or Uncharted style camera mode pleeease)

I really hope there is a countdown until it destroys the planet. That way it gives us a sense of urgency once it's summoned. Make all the side stuff accessible prior to that happening.

 

[LicoriceAllsorts]

Maybe a countdown the player can turn off, because I find that stuff really stressful.

 

[Makoeyes987]

'Cause people never bitched about a forced countdown 'til the end of the world in a Final Fantasy game, right?

 

[Ite]

That’ll be hard to have a countdown clock that spans 4 full-length Final Fantasy experiences.

 

[ForceStealer]

'Cause people never bitched about a forced countdown 'til the end of the world in a Final Fantasy game, right?

Even one that gives you WAY MORE TIME than you actually need, lol.

But yeah I don't know how it could possibly be implemented in VII, I wouldn't bother.

 

[LNK]

That’ll be hard to have a countdown clock that spans 4 full-length Final Fantasy experiences.

What do you mean?

 

[LNK]

Maybe a countdown the player can turn off, because I find that stuff really stressful.

If they have all the side stuff accessible prior to meteor being summoned, I think it could work?

How much main story stuff was left to do after it was summoned in the OG, anyway?