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FFVII releasing this Winter? (Early article from Gamespot)
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The kind that wants press access to Square Enix in the future?
Embargoes happen all the time.
It's quite likely Gamespot doesn't know any date, but as others have speculated, this is simply a placeholder article cooked up to make it quicker to publish a news article on the off chance that something does get announced during the concert. I suspect people are getting worked up for nothing here.
It's an article that they have prewritten for when they learn the release date, so all they have to do is put the date in and publish rather than waste time by writing the full article.
It's prewritten. So I assume there's an NDA and it'll publish after the trailer airs or after the SE conference tomorrow.
Its almost 4am here. Should I wait for the supposed trailer? would it even be published or is it just a concert thing?
It's been a long time that I played ff7 but is that end of disc 1?
Squares conference is tomorrow night, Monday right?
I hope it releases this year. That would be awesome. Even if its just a part
I hope it releases this year. That would be awesome. Even if its just a part
This is going around twitter,
EDIT, Removed since old fan picture. Apologies. I had not seen it before
EDIT, Removed since old fan picture. Apologies. I had not seen it before
This is going around twitter,
And that is a fan model that's been going around for months.
This is going around twitter,
That picture has existed since 2018. It's not real.
You will be spending more than 10-15 hours at least in Midgar in whatever FFVIIR comes out this winter. Whether it is the whole game or not within the city remains to be seen ;)
uhh no way. Disc 2 goes by real fast in terms of story because of the airship travel and disc 3 has almost no story. Disc 1 is by far the longest in terms of story
Disc 1 ended with the big death scene. It certainly wasn't 4-6 hours in.
Repeat with me.
Gamespot does not know the date or window. That's why it's not in the article.
This is a placeholder post made just in case they announced the date at the concert.
That's why most of it is made of old nothings and the only relevant part is blank. Old trick which went wrong when someone pressed publish by mistake.
Gamespot does not know the date or window. That's why it's not in the article.
This is a placeholder post made just in case they announced the date at the concert.
That's why most of it is made of old nothings and the only relevant part is blank. Old trick which went wrong when someone pressed publish by mistake.
Naw. You can beat Midgar in a single sitting, and I did on that first night I played it back in 1997. The rest of the game will take the average person days of playtime after that.
In the remake, though... we don't know yet.
Is everyone talking about the same thing here? You're Right, you can beat midgar pretty quickly... And once you leave it there's still about 15-20 hours of disc one left.
Yeah a lot of people are forgetting how long each disc is in FF7. Disc 3 has next to nothing in it aside from a handful of sidequests that couldn't be done in Disc 2, and Northern Cave.
Yeah, Disc 1 is the majority of the story. Being generous Disc 2 maybe has half as much story content, but it's probably less then that. Disc 3 is just the final dungeon.
I feel like the motorcycle chase out of Midgar is such an effective cliffhanger for the rest of the game, that a lot of people have false memories that "Disc 1 is Midgar/Disc 2 is the world".
Oh I agree. but for an episodic release I think the Kalm Flashback would be the best stopping point. It not only gives the player a cooldown period after Midgar, but sets up Sephiroth and hints at Cloud's spotty memories.
You should, that is absolutely ridiculous and deserves to be talked about
Agreed. Especially if they're expanding on the story. Kalm would be a great place to end it. Pick it up in part 2 with escaping the Midgar Marsh Zolom as an action set piece to get back into the swing of things.
Someone else already did while I was making it so it's up! Hopefully it gets attention.
We get out of Midgar and have a chance to explore the world at large and the game ends? No, I think Junon is a better way to end. It introduces the big world, more monsters, a big hard boss like the Midgar Zolom and other stuff so we can have actual optional content along with Fort Condor and finding Yuffie. Then travelling to a new continent is the perfect place to end things for the first episode. How many episodes would the game even have if it ended on Kalm? 5? 6? The second continent has a lot of story and fun places to explore and then it ends on a great story point. Then we have all of disc 2. It would be nuts to end on Kalm, and even Junon seems too early looking at the story.
How do you guys get this news? Is there a stream somewhere ?
I don't think you'd get "big open world" at that point if it is where they choose to end (if there even is a world map at all in this version). I can imagine the walk to Kalm being a cutscene (or cut entirely), and then an expanded on version of the flashback, and ending with the characters having a "well then we gotta go stop him!" moment or something after Cloud's story about Nibelheim wraps up.
That said, I would be happily surprised if pt1 goes way further than that. Heck, go full Disc 1 if possible (tho I'm not holding my breath for that).
you don't get to explore the world at all in the original game until gold saucer, minimum
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