Final Fantasy VII PC/PS4 re-release with extra online features (achievements etc)

[Odin'sLaw]

Other than a few grammatical errors VII's dialogue was fine really, Barret is supposed to sound like Mr. T and Cid is supposed to be a foul mouthed bastard.

no Supposed to about it he is a filthy mouthed son of a bitch with a smoking and tea addiction, and got damn is he the best cid ever! (oddly enough most of the cids are inventors or pilots in some way or another)

[miokomioko]

Cid hierarchy:

12 > 7 > 3 > 6 > the rest

ARGUMENT GO!

[Raldo]

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__...-Cid_Oglop.png
Oglop-Cid is not amused.

[Shenrien]

I laughed harder than I should have.

[Correction]

Cid hierarchy:

12 > 7 > 3 > 6 > the rest

ARGUMENT GO!

Bitch,



PLEASE

[Shenrien]

Everyone in Tactics artwork looks the fucking same

[AoE]

To be fair, they all look the same in-game, too. >BO

[Apelila]

So I'm playing this again. If I had any idea how to setup a stream I would.

Things I'm struck by in the first hour:
O and X are reversed, they're using SNES setups. Its possible to reconfigure all of the buttons in the menu at the very start of the game. Speaking of which, the menu is copy pasted right out of FF5/6 - FF8 marked the start of a the menu used in 8 through 11. Also, you have to hold the cancel button to run or walk painfully slow. Oh god does this suck. Barret's dialogue, while funny also makes him look like an idiot. I named him Mr. T. Mr. T, despite having hired you

Where SOLIDER and the like in all caps in Japanese?
Holy fuck I'm glad they learned how to limit where you could go on the backgrounds by FF8. There's a lot of places you can wander off the beaten bath a lot, and while its cool since I can't count how many games anger me with foot high invisible barriers ("JUST RAISE YOUR GOD DAMN FOOT") there's also a distinct lack of why you can't go through some doors.

Playing this for the first time after 9/11 makes the scenes with everyone running around mildly confused despite the graphic depiction of the reactor having taken out half the town when you first walk outside slightly...off.

[hey]

Where SOLIDER and the like in all caps in Japanese?

There is no such thing in japanese.

[Apelila]

I didn't think so. I'm fairly certain the only reason some names are in caps is to highlight their importance.

[Apelila]

Pictures!

Spoiler: show

So Midgar's 50 meters off the ground? For reference that's about 16 stories. I think they forgot a Zero.

Also I retract my earlier comment about the incidental dialogue being wonky. I don't know who was butt naked and why because the event timed out and went to a battle.

I hope if this game does get remastered Midgar gets a grander sense of scale than it has in the original version. I'm constantly getting a feeling of discordance of the size that everything feels and how everything appears.

[Ratatapa]

All is important to know is if they fixed the Chocobo races in the PC version

[Fereydoon]

Where SOLIDER and the like in all caps in Japanese?

SOLDIER and AVALANCHE have been capitalized in the entire Compilation, I'd like to assume they're acronyms, but nothing points in that direction.

[Niiro]

They aren't acronyms it's just sort of a translation quirk. In the JP game they're simply called by the English words soldier and avalanche using JP characters, which is a trend comparable to an American developer doing the same thing but using Latin or Greek words in a similar manner.

When they translated it they wound up with ordinary words used to describe particular things, they could have just capitalized them but they decided to go a step further and use all caps to make it clear that they were referring to specific groups and it just became kind of a stylistic thing.

[miokomioko]

It's akin to the naming convention used by a few classic authors (Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice, Victor Hugo - Les Miserables) where they pretty much omit the name of an important place or person and you are just given the first letter or even a suffix. It's the concept that the idea/description/purpose/etc. of the noun in question is far more important than the name of it since names themselves can set presumptions when they are discussed in dialogue before they are properly introduced or described.

The names of SOLDIER, WEAPONS, and the like are brought up several times before you really get an idea what they actually are.

[Mrbeansman]

The translation also had a ton of inconsistencies in item names on the field and in menus.

[Correction]

So it looks like this came out early accidentally. Folks were buying it but because it wasn't officially out yet, SecuROM wouldn't let them register their copy so nobody could really play. Early mining of the binary shows that they're using .ogg files made from the PC version .midi files (no vocals during One Winged Angel) and that no real effort was made to improve on the visuals. :D

[Kaisha]

Why would you OGG a midi......., if you're to OGG anything, do it on the original PSX output.

Next thing you'll say is that they have all the dupe content of all three discs there also.

[Scythiroth]

Ugh, that is going to be some terrible music. Not surprised at all by visuals not being improved, but the music being just as terrible as the other PC release is kind of pathetic.

[SephYuyX]

BUT IT HAS ACHIVEMENTS AND CLOUD SAVING