Hopes for Remake & Rebirth (gameplay/combat)

[Theozilla]

I think when it comes to the skyboxes, they're referring to stuff like this which is not super great:

Spoiler

Yeah, I have seen those. They aren't amazing but I think they look fine. I think the matte painting affect is neat. Reminds me of the OT Star Wars movies.

 

[Odysseus]

The more I look at the Chapter 15 one, the more I kinda like it. It reminds me of the old pre-rendered backgrounds. It doesn't look "flat" so much as it is just a little too low resolution.

 

[oty]

God I absolutely cant stand them tho.....Like, come on. At least for the backgrounds. Ok, maybe I'm a bit too harsh. But honestly,

Spoiler: just to make sure

Chapter 6

was one of the lowest points for me bc of that.

 

[Makoeyes987]

Mine was

Spoiler: (Chapter 14 & 15 spoilers)

the climb up Sector 7's ruins to Shinra HQ.

If their intention was to capture a retro feel in terms of 2D backgrounds.... They succeeded

Bless this game's heart, I love it, glitches/faults and all. Hopefully it gets fixed very soon. Since I'm replaying the hell out of it, I'll be able to see the correction when made lol

 

[Saven]

Sure glad I'm not more active in the FF7R subreddit. Apparently if you think there are texture issues you are "nit-picky" "bitching about nothing" "a manbaby" etc. Oh and the best "reasoning" I've seen by more than one person is that SE has purposely used low-res textures and skyboxes to recreate the feeling of the original.

Said topic: https://www.reddit.com/r/FFVIIRemake/comments/g0f8vt (fair warning it's rather cringey/toxic, and I think there might be some spoilers here n' there)

Reddit is absolutely a dread...its literally 90% of the times a 8 or a 80. Either the game is perfect or the game is an absolute trashpile. To be fair tho, thats about it in any subreddit of certain games.

I don't really visit that subreddit much these days. It's literally the anti-GameFAQs where this time, only positivity is allowed.

 

[Cannon_Fodder]

Should this thread be reborn as "Hopes for Part 2 (gameplay/combat)"? Or do y'all think it's too early after the release of part 1?

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

Hm, it probably wouldn't be too early to make one in the spoiler section. It can be moved out here into the main area down the road.

 

[Cannon_Fodder]

After thinking about it, it might be better to wait until the Ultimania for part one comes out later this month. Rushing to speculate about part two kinda seems like wasting part one's time in the sun. It's not like there won't be years of speculation later Thanks Tres!

 

[Kain424]

Yeah, I have seen those. They aren't amazing but I think they look fine. I think the matte painting affect is neat. Reminds me of the OT Star Wars movies.

Reminded me of the original game. I cheered out loud when I saw it.

 

[Jairus]

Do you really think the Ultimania will explain the ending, though? I'm not so sure...

 

[Theozilla]

I expect it will help contextualize some stuff and clear up others, but I don’t think it’s going to outright explain everything down to the nail. It’s obvious parts of the ending are meant to be unexplained/set-up for the future, so I don’t think the Ultimania are going to pre-spoil the entire Remake project.

 

[Kain424]

Will certainly be interested to see what it confirms and denies, though.

 

[Cannon_Fodder]

If nothing else, it'll get people talking again

 

[Rydeen]

Am I the only one who derived amusement from the bad textures? I found the game to be gorgeous otherwise.

 

[Kain424]

I wasn't so much amused as I was temporarily confused. Seeing the ground sudden flick into focus like a light coming on was always odd.

 

[Wol]

I hope they add a gambit / paradigm system to have some influence over your party actions.

 

[Cloud_S]

I'm really surprised by only having 10 save slots. I'm up to chapter 4, and was saving pretty freely as I wanted to make sure I could go back to a save if I missed something before triggering an event..... Something change? I remember KHII had like what... 99 save slots? Hope the'll expand the amount of slots you get.....

 

[oty]

Ok, so the fully playable UE5 tech demo came, and holy mother of god. I dont know if next part is already going to use it (maybe considering it is only in planning stages?), but some part is going to use it and it's going to be f*cking insane.

Tech Demo PS5

Here for everybody who wants to check it out

 

[Makoeyes987]

I hope Square shows those losers who's boss and make their own engine called Crystal Tools 5 and blows them all to hell.

It'd totally be worth it!

 

[oty]

Hahah, well Luminous Engine probably has something cooked up too.

I suspect the next part of FFVIIR will probably receive a port to UE5 (Epic said that those ports are something they are personally assisting), thus wont fully utilise it to it's maximum potential, but FFVIIR-3 is gonna be native UE5, with already experience on it, and shall be the insaniest ever.

Even still, next part will still be insane too. I mean, if the PS5 can do that, we are looking at an insane Gaia next time around folks. I just hope the next game really is native PS5.

 

[Prism]

Some aspects of XV look better due to Luminous Engine, but plenty of Remake looks better due to Unreal. Hopefully Unreal 5 will just resoundingly improve things, and it sounds like it will.

Especially since the world’s gonna open up in the next part, if they can push the technology further for the open areas, that’ll be ideal.

 

[oty]

Open World Gaia with Lumen lighting.....holy.

I mean, just imagining the Temple of the Ancients like that tech demo showed and I'm already giddy about it.

 

[Lulcielid]

Some aspects of XV look better due to Luminous Engine, but plenty of Remake looks better due to Unreal

It's less about the engine and more the fact that there's +3 years gap of tech developent between both games.

 

[Prism]

It's less about the engine and more the fact that there's +3 years gap of tech developent between both games.

Time and resources are definitely a huge factor, through I still can’t help but feel like there’s some individual strengths and weaknesses to both engines.

As far as personal impressions go - lighting and rendering as a whole seems to be Luminous’ strength, while the visual effects (magic, sparks, etc) and post-processing (motion blur) seem really strong in Unreal.

 

[Shademp]

Once Chocobo breeding becomes a thing, whether it be in Part 2, 3 or 4, we will not be allowed to mate close relatives.

The sidequest towards getting the Gold Chocobo will be changed so it's less tedious than the original game, even with the banning of unethical mating practices. One way might be to find rival Chocobo racers whose Chocobos can be matched up with yours for mating, thus linking Chocobo mating- and racing in a different way from the OG.


EDIT: One thing I did not consider while first writing this post is how Remake will deal with the passage of time in terms of raising newborn Chocobos. It must take a considerable time for a newborn Chocobo to grow enough to be ready for riding, so the game may feel obligated to remove the breeding mechanic altogether because the months and years required would break immersion.

The nature of the sidequest could be changed substantially with this in mind. Will we have to transform a single Chocobo on the path to a Gold Chocobo, similar to how our Chocobo in FFIX evolved? Will there be a single breeding instance in Part 2 that leads to a Gold Chocobo, only it won't be old enough for riding until Part 4? Man this is a can of game mechanic vs immersion worms.