Hopes for Remake & Rebirth (story/content)

[Deleted member 546]

Zackdeath Mountain

This now canon.

idk if the memories were made up by cloud himself, were injected, or were by zack telling him stories. then i saw another person say they interpreted how cloud 2.0 came to be which told me that there really wasn't any explicit "this is what happened" showing of what happened so now i'll just wait for the RM

The thing is, everybody interpreted this differently and so did the different parts of the Compilation, so you could argue there is no right or wrong answer because it's so variable. This is why we all have headcanons. Some of Cloud's memories are definitely Zack's, we know this from the OG. Some of the experiences he shared with Tifa are definitely inaccurate in his recollection, and we know this from when they fell into the lifestream. It's why the discussion about Jenova has been so interesting, we know her cells and mako were used in SOLDIER enhancements, but beyond the Reunion and Ifalna's recollections, we don't definitively know how much she was responsible for. Did she give Cloud bullshit memories? Dunno but it's an interesting idea, even if it doesn't sit with my headcanon.

 

[Claudius Caesar]

I'm wondering if it is possible that they could include open word elements in the remake, similar to Final Fantasy XV?

I'd like to see something like that.

 

[Kain424]

I'd love to have more to do, so I agree.

 

[T@ctic]

i thought everyone hated the open world (amongst many things) in XV.

 

[LicoriceAllsorts]

The open world in FFXV was one of my favourite things about it. I was only sorry there were limits to that world.

 

[Tetsujin]

Open world is fine for where it makes sense - and to be honest, it actually did not in XV considering the road trip theme they were going for. A road trip to me implies a linear journey. Like going from NY to LA for example.
In FFXV you're driving around in circles in Insomnia's backyard for a dozen chapters. It feels like you're never moving forward, just hanging out in the vicinity of your journey's starting point all the time until you go to Altissia.

 

[ChipNoir]

I could accept semi-open world elements. Basically, for every canonical story moment, throw in two or three sidetowns or dungeons that can expand the lore or just allow the player to extend their time between story beats. But the plot and world design doesn't really lend itself to a true open world experience.

 

[T@ctic]

Open world is fine for where it makes sense - and to be honest, it actually did not in XV considering the road trip theme they were going for. A road trip to me implies a linear journey. Like going from NY to LA for example.
In FFXV you're driving around in circles in Insomnia's backyard for a dozen chapters. It feels like you're never moving forward, just hanging out in the vicinity of your journey's starting point all the time until you go to Altissia.

oh gross. i wouldn't want to do that.

I could accept semi-open world elements. Basically, for every canonical story moment, throw in two or three sidetowns or dungeons that can expand the lore or just allow the player to extend their time between story beats. But the plot and world design doesn't really lend itself to a true open world experience.

wouldn't they be able to take advantage of the open world idea when you finally leave midgar in disc 1?

 

[Ite]

wouldn't they be able to take advantage of the open world idea when you finally leave midgar in disc 1?

Totally! Isn’t that kind of what they did in the first place? “Open world” is just a world map with new technology and more content.

 

[ForceStealer]

Technically yes, in the way people use the term now though, VII would only really qualify once you get the Tiny Bronco. Until then there was really only one option. (2 if you count going backwards).

 

[Clement Rage]

An open world can work, but I've seen it backfire too, it's not automatically a good thing. Beyond the scale of a city, it's something to do only if you can do it right.

 

[Roger]

An open world can work, but I've seen it backfire too, it's not automatically a good thing. Beyond the scale of a city, it's something to do only if you can do it right.

If you scale up what they had in FFXII, put more stuff in it, and have seamless area transitions, what you get is open world. They shouldn't shy away from where they naturally headed.

 

[Ite]

Technically yes, in the way people use the term now though, VII would only really qualify once you get the Tiny Bronco. Until then there was really only one option. (2 if you count going backwards).

Yuffie, Fort Condor, and Gongaga can all occur before the Bronco. CHECKMATE

 

[Kain424]

I've honestly been hoping that's what they do. Sort of like in XV, where there were story walls, but you could go about anywhere after a certain point.

 

[ChipNoir]

Open world basically lives and dies for each person according to the variety of activities the gamer can pursue. The problem for me is that since XII, the majority of side content that is 'open' has kind of been reduced to "Chase X monster to X Location" and "Collect XX items." and...Fishing. For some people, like MMO enthustiasts, that seems to be enough. For me, that tends to become monotonous very quickly.

So either way, Square seriously needs up their mini-game quality if they want to keep my interest across two or more games, or I may seriously end up watching the entire thing on youtube like a TV series.

Mind you Nomura has been showing a lot of promise with the variety of side-content in Kingdom Hearts, so hopefully he brings an equal amount of creativity to Final Fantasy VII R.

 

[LicoriceAllsorts]

This is a small thing, but when we're wandering around the FFVII open world, I would like to see cities and towns in the distance. They don't have to be places you can visit. It would resolve the issue of this world having such an advanced economy (in some ways) with only one actual city (and only one beach resort, only one ski resort, only two railway lines etc....) The lack of anything approximating a town in the so-called 'town' of Galden Quay in FFXV really annoyed me. Again, you don't have to visit it; it can simply become part of the background.

 

[Ite]

This is a small thing, but when we're wandering around the FFVII open world, I would like to see cities and towns in the distance. They don't have to be places you can visit. It would resolve the issue of this world having such an advanced economy (in some ways) with only one actual city (and only one beach resort, only one ski resort, only two railway lines etc....) The lack of anything approximating a town in the so-called 'town' of Galden Quay in FFXV really annoyed me. Again, you don't have to visit it; it can simply become part of the background.

Hub worlds, ironically, are usually more immersive in this way. “It’s there, you’re just not going there” is a perfectly acceptable thing for a video game to say, I don’t understand why it’s out of fashion, but I’m no producer.

 

[Kain424]

Well, you really only ever visited the edge of town with Kalm, so I don't see why they couldn't just do something similar again.

 

[ChipNoir]

The edge? Ehr, what do you mean?

 

[Tashasaurous]

It could either mean the City named Edge as shown in Advent Children and Dirge of Cerberus, or the edge of one of the Sector Plates in Midgar. Just my guess.

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

The edge? Ehr, what do you mean?

The outskirts.

 

[ChipNoir]

But....there is....We see the whole thing. I'm staring at a picture of it on google as I type this.

 

[ForceStealer]

I think they just mean it's pretty safe to assume that Kalm has more than a dozen buildings.

Dirge upscaled it nicely, I thought.

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

Even in the original, what we saw wasn't necessarily all of it (I doublechecked just now as well). In any case, yeah, Dirge did a neat expansion of it.

 

[Deleted member 546]

Nah, Dirge made it seem very linear and dull IMO. The most interesting bits were the cutscenes.