Final Fantasy VII Remake Gets New Information on Minigames, World and More

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrTSYhGtaqw

Ebonics don’t exist in Japanese. That was an “Invention” of the old localization team to begin with.

Sorry, but it’s not the job of localization to “add character.”
Well, not the job of good localization, at least.

Barret reminds me of BA from the Ateam.

Hey Mr Nelva one thing i want to point out about your translation that reads “but it won’t be an open world or sandbox game” but i’ve seen in one of the other sites it reads differently “We cant’ say anything yet, but we don’t plan on fussing about whether it’s a so-called open-world or sandbox” can you please check with the original quote once again ?

Not specifically, no.

However, trying to adequately get across that person’s character while using a completely different set of societal standards IS.

I agree, it’s not really fair to call out Barret at the moment. Though, I hate to say it, as is this remake really isn’t the game I was wanting, nor does it look or sound like something I would like so I’m pretty much out at this point. Hopefully XV is decent though. Lord knows after 11 years of waiting I only want the best for that game.

I didn’t say it would be terrible, I said it would be “modern”. So far, from what has been shown, I can deduce that this is not the remake I wanted from Final Fantasy VII. I don’t like the episodic format. I don’t like the action battle system they went with over the traditional battle system. I think the new designs look stupid and don’t work well with the weird stylized realism thing they have going.

Surely you have to see where people who like the original are coming from. You wait so long for a game to be remade with better graphics, a remastered OST, and the kinks worked out, and instead you get something that basically only shares the same characters and hints of the story(well, this has been more talked about than seen in various interviews). It’s a pretty big let down. If this genuinely looks appealing to you then more power, as for me it’s just not the game I waited for and I don’t really want it. If anything the battle system looks very similar to XV so why would I need two of that game… of course, that’s also just an observation.

It’s been confirmed by multiple places that it will be episodic. I’d provide the links but after giving gameinformer a view I’d rather not link more terrible sites from a good one(just google it if you don’t believe me). They did say, however, that each part will be the length of a AAA game, which now of days is not a terribly good sign considering AAA games are shorter than they have ever been, but that will have to be seen.

On the battle system, what has been shown so far I don’t like. Alpha or not that is what they seem to be favoring instead of a more traditional turn based system. Of course it is early and things can change, but as it is now I’m not a fan and I believe people should voice their displeasure over it. It’s how people got XV away from the one button battle system initially(well, that and beta feedback). As of now that battle system is what they are advertising and it looks to be very action heavy.

In terms of the art direction, that is completely subjective so we’ll both have different views on it. Which is fine. I think the characters look awkward and to close to uncanny valley, you dig the stylized choices. It’s all personal taste.

What has been shown so far, and the information out, albeit not much and it has the potential to change, is enough for people to make and form an opinion on the game. It’s not like the case of DmC where people only had a few seconds of a prerendered cutscene before they jumped the gun. We have cutscenes, character models, gameplay, the model they will be using to release it, and quite a bit more. Unless it goes through some drastic changes by the time it releases, which it may, I definitely have enough from the early footage to gauge that this game is not the remake I wanted, and from the sounds of it quite a few people feel the same way.

well, seeing as at this point we’d both have to research game lengths and compare old games with new ones, I’ll end my part of the conversation here. I believe old games have new AAA games beat easily in terms of length and replay value, but at this point I’m not willing to do the research to prove somebody wrong in an online conversation. If you’d like to then be my guest, but I’m stopping my end here.

I will say that it’s pretty silly to argue what to call a game that is split into pieces. I think episodic fits that title just fine, but whatever. Multiple sites said it was episodic and I believe there is little difference between an episodic release or one with multiple parts unless they are taking it the XIII route, which would be just as bad imo, but we’ll see.

Why would going the XIII route be bad? Because you disliked the way the games were played out? That has nothing to do with the actual content. Please don’t just generalize everything about the XIII series as horrible, it happens too often and needs to stop.

He was also a strong, light hearted character who cared deeply about his daughter. If you want to make a big deal about him being black and speaking Ebonics, Cid was a white guy who talked in a southern drawl. There was no issue there unless you are looking for it.

Also, you best not be hating on Mr.PoPo.

I honestly think you are looking to be offended man. The southern drawl can be used in a very similar manner to Ebonics. When people do their misinformed redneck impressions what crosses your mind? What sort of speech do they use?

Sometimes doing something like changing the way a character talks just adds personality and helps them stand out, it helps distinguish them. Underhell did something similar with all the characters in it. It’s aggravating that tropes and “cliches” are looked down upon seeing as they can help us get a quick read on a character. It doesn’t mean that character isn’t unique or deep, just easy to understand at first. They can mimic a reality we are familiar with. Barret was a similar in this fashion. You write him off as an “angry black man” but there was a hell of a lot more to his character than that. Don’t get blinded by the bullshit you are told to be offended by. You seem a lot smarter than that.

I’m a bit of a skim reader when it comes to people and arguments I feel I have dealt with before. It’s a bad habbit, so yeah, my bad there. After dealing with the same arguments and complaints over and over again you just begin to pay less attention to the contents.

I put quotes around “cliche” because I don’t feel the things people complain about are all that cliche. They are often just familiar character types that people might not personally be fond of, but when it comes to story telling having a character who falls into a familiar archetype is not a bad thing and never was. Actually, I find that characters that are made today to avoid such “tropes” and “cliches” are more boring and marysue like than they ever were back in the day. Much like the art of design and visual story telling, having a simple characterization makes them more interesting because we are instantly able to identify them. Simplicity should never be written off or looked down upon, especially in the medium of story telling and art. After that characterization has been established you can layer on whatever, but that quick read is not an inherently negative or lazy thing, actually, it can be quite difficult. This isn’t to say that some more complex confusing characters can’t be a good thing, just that you writing off characters like Barret is pretty foolish.

I also never said that adding the accent helps you understand the character, I said that it can help the character stand out and distinguishes them from their supporting cast… which it does. Where as I have issues with skim reading, you like to make a lot of assumptions and put words in peoples mouths it seems.

Also, you bringing your race up in the first post sure did hint at it being about racism rather than laziness, but perhaps I was the one making assumptions there. Either way, I don’t think it was lazy and I don’t agree with your points.

I guess we’ll cross that bridge when we get there. It really sucks that all this stuff is even a concern. I guess in a perfect world we would just get the old game with a nice face lift and the bugs/kinks worked out.

They’ve had this in their back pocket for such a long time just in case they ever ran into financial troubles, it’s weird how they are wasting it and dividing everyone so hard on it when there is a large established fanbase they could just cash in on. Hell, their Japanese audience is as divided as we are.

Then again, maybe they really can’t match the amount of content the original had with today’s technology, at least not in a timely manner.

“Hey Mr Nelva one thing i want to point out about your translation that reads “but it won’t be an open world or sandbox game” but i’ve seen in one of the other sites it reads differently “We cant’ say anything yet, but we don’t plan on fussing about whether it’s a so-called open-world or sandbox” can you please check with the original quote once again ? EDIT : Ok u fixed it, thanx”

from a couple posts below.

man, you just live in a cartoon world don’t you.

you’re pathetic.

nah man, seriously, you get proven wrong multiple times in various conversations with sources you either ask for or don’t and all you can do is repeat the same things over and over. That or you are being hypocritical as all hell while pretending to be on some moral high ground.

You are just wasting peoples time now. Take a break, get your bearings, then come back when you are ready to be mature and accept when you are proven wrong.

Jesus Christ…

You:”how about you link us to these so called complaints?”

link:
“DON’T WANT: Don Corneo’s Mansion As-Is

Some fans love the weird sequence where Cloud needs to cross-dress to confront Don Corneo, but the whole quest and its surrounding side objectives are goofy, and deal with situation with all the grace and nuance you would expect from a late-‘90s video game. Some silliness is fine, and Nomura has implied that we’ll still see a cross-dressing Cloud, but the rest of the scenario could easily altered without losing anything of substance.”

this is not positive, they don’t want the elements they personally deem as “offensive” as part of the game. This is what SJWs do. You wanted a link to people complaining about elements of the game they found offensive, I found it for you, now I’m taking the exact part where they said they don’t want it in without being altered. Now stop living with blinders on and get over yourself because at this point I’m done giving you attention.

Journalists always side with SJWs. Its a very small minority of y’all that don’t.