Hopes for Remake & Rebirth (story/content)

[Kain424]

Yes, me too. Argh, this is kinda frustrating at this point. I want the information.

Everything could be longer in absolute terms though, maybe that's what you meant?

Yeah, basically.

 

[jazzflower92]

Agreed. I would like to see the ruins of Genesis' old hang out if they are bothering with that continuity.

It's not going to be in continuity with the Compilation, so thankfully no Genesis.

 

[Kain424]

More like hopefully. But, from what I understand, there is a rights issue with using Genesis anyway.

 

[Theozilla]

It's not going to be in continuity with the Compilation, so thankfully no Genesis.

I’m pretty sure that’s not exactly what they said. IIRC they said they won’t be beholden to the Compilation titles/exact continuity, in the same way the Compilation wasn’t super specifically beholden to the OG or even to other titles within the Compilation. It wasn’t a total mass decanonization like what Disney did with the old Star Wars EU.

 

[Kain424]

I think Nomura said something like there would no longer be any kind of "coherence."

 

[Theozilla]

I think Nomura said something like there would no longer be any kind of "coherence."

Yeah, and the context of the answer was originally in response to a question regarding a HD Collection port/remaster of the Compilation games. It wasn’t a declaration of heretofore decanonization like what happened with the Star Wars EU.

 

[Kain424]

Man, I really wonder what they're going to do in terms of all the player choice stuff from the original. I mean, the dating minigame alone sort of changes the entire context of the primary storyline.

 

[jazzflower92]

I’m pretty that’s not exactly what they said. IIRC they said they won’t be beholden to the Compilation titles/exact continuity, in the same way the Compilation wasn’t super specifically beholden to the OG or even to other titles within the Compilation. It wasn’t a total mass decanonization like what Disney did with the old Star Wars EU.

I want it decanonized fast.

 

[Ite]

I think Nomura said something like there would no longer be any kind of "coherence."

Yes because it was so coherent to begin with

 

[LicoriceAllsorts]

I think Nomura said something like there would no longer be any kind of "coherence."

It's so adorable that he thinks it ever had any.

 

[Gary Caelum]

Surely most of it is continuous with the other games anyway? Isn't it?

I don't remember any Obi-Wans not remembering owning droids.

 

[Kain424]

Oh man, are we going to get to call Don Corneo "Daddy"?

 

[jazzflower92]

Oh man, are we going to get to call Don Corneo "Daddy"?

Ha ha.

 

[ChipNoir]

More than anything for story now, I hope the idea of party banter and chill-out moments carry over from XV. There's not much about XV I like, but how they were able to flesh out the characters outside of story dumps was really impressive and worked well. VII could use that.

 

[Vyzzuvazzadth]

Regarding the splitting points you guys were talking about, I'd love to throw my 2 cents in the bucket, but I'd be repeating what I already discussed in my Game Talk Episode 1 video, so I'll leave it at that.

For those who have never seen it or feel like rewatching it and have around 45 minutes to spare, Here you go.

@ChipNoir: that's what I sincerely wish for. There's a thread on the GFAQs board somewhere in which people made up their own FFVII banter and it was glorious! It's one aspect I loved about FFXV.

 

[ForceStealer]

The lack of chances for the party to discuss amongst themselves is one of my strongest issues with getting into FFXII, it just never feels like that party cares about being together, the game just sort of tells us that they're friends. I love whenever you have the chance in FF7 to talk to everyone on the bridge of the Highwind, and yeah XV took that to the next level. And hopefully VII won't interrupt every single conv-IMPERIALS ABOVE US

 

[Tetsujin]

And hopefully VII won't interrupt every single conv-IMPERIALS ABOVE US

I want to like this twice

 

[LicoriceAllsorts]

What's hilarious is when the imperials land a little way away from you, and you just ignore them, and they go on standing there....

 

[looneymoon]

I think Nomura said something like there would no longer be any kind of "coherence."

A Nomura plot without coherence!? I never...

Edit: fuck you guys for beating me to this joke

 

[ChipNoir]

Regarding the splitting points you guys were talking about, I'd love to throw my 2 cents in the bucket, but I'd be repeating what I already discussed in my Game Talk Episode 1 video, so I'll leave it at that.

For those who have never seen it or feel like rewatching it and have around 45 minutes to spare, Here you go.

@ChipNoir: that's what I sincerely wish for. There's a thread on the GFAQs board somewhere in which people made up their own FFVII banter and it was glorious! It's one aspect I loved about FFXV.

I don't remember that. Must have missed it under the pile of shit usually over there.

 

[X-SOLDIER]

I am 100% behind making the thematic pacing of FFVII Remake match the way that the Lord of the Rings Trilogy manages its pacing. Even when Max starts talking about things like completely replacing the Kalm conversation and restructuring it into the prison cells in Shinra HQ feels like it could be pretty damn brilliant.

There's a lot of stuff that he mentions about the RE2 Remake and the multiple generations of people working on the game who helped make it something that turned out as well as it did that I hadn't considered, but find more and more interesting. June cannot come quickly enough.



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[Clement Rage]

How did I manage to get through the game without being interrupted by Imperials? Was that a patch?

The gall of Nomura, having the temerity to help make a bunch of our favourite games.

 

[Gary Caelum]

Did you drive everywhere and do very little exploration? I think that's the only way to avoid them.

 

[Ariga]

I was interrupted by those imperials all the time. It was annoying. I did ride chocobos everywhere though. I did a lot of exploring on the chocobos.

 

[Gary Caelum]

Level 10 chocobo eating the best greens was basically the same speed as the base car anyway!