This game could be shovelware and it'd still be better than XV. Minesweeper is more challenging, engaging and moving than XV.
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Final Fantasy VII Remake - Review Thread (MetaCritic: 88 | OpenCritic: 89)
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No, it just means that we understand that it's one person's opinion and not the objective actual real score.
Also worth mention that a 3/5 is not the same as a 6/10. The latter scale has more points to use, so something that might bump the game up to a 7 in that scale likely won't bump it up to 4 stars in the other, because there's probably a bigger gap to make up. All said though, review scores don't and shouldn't mean diddlysquat.
Yes you spam 2 moves, so? I played the demo too. In the end you choose how you want to play xv, if you don't want to use your party that's your choice. lots of bosses in the souls games for example can be beaten by one attack, doesn't mean anything.
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The Last Guardian
Shenmue III
Final Fantasy VII Remake
The 'E3 of Dreams' turned out a little unspectacularly in the end...
Shenmue III
Final Fantasy VII Remake
The 'E3 of Dreams' turned out a little unspectacularly in the end...
Wow. I expected this to hit the low to mid 90s. Gonna read the reviews. Don't feel as obliged now to buy it for a while (decided to clear my massive backlog before buying anything new )
Didn't play Shenmue, and don't really care about it, but The Last Guardian is a top 5 game of all time to me, and FFVII seems to be amazing, can't wait to play it after a price drop.
Thank E3 of Dreams. :)
As a deluxe buyer: it's not really worth it but if the money makes no difference it's absolutely "worth it"
It's also kind of nice to unpackage a game that you have been waiting for and there being a collection of things.
Cactuar is ridiculous and my SO laughed at me spending an extra 40$ on him, an obsolete cd and small book. Steelcase is as nice as any steelcase.
The book served as a distraction during the install time, it's a pretty good teaser for enemies to come.
You can brute force your way through a lot of encounters in the game, but it will take like three times as long.
The game wants you to figure out each enemy and be prepared for them. Like, yeah, you can fight drakes by just jumping in their face and hitting attack three times and eventually they'll probably die in five to ten minutes. Or you use one spell to settle them down into one place, activate an ability with Barret to put some pressure on, hit them with Aero so they don't run away from the second half of the spell, and then go nuts on them when they're staggered and close to the ground.
Every enemy is a different combat puzzle they want you to solve with the least time and ideally not spending out all your MP. Spammable is the last thing I'd call it.
The game wants you to figure out each enemy and be prepared for them. Like, yeah, you can fight drakes by just jumping in their face and hitting attack three times and eventually they'll probably die in five to ten minutes. Or you use one spell to settle them down into one place, activate an ability with Barret to put some pressure on, hit them with Aero so they don't run away from the second half of the spell, and then go nuts on them when they're staggered and close to the ground.
Every enemy is a different combat puzzle they want you to solve with the least time and ideally not spending out all your MP. Spammable is the last thing I'd call it.
Does a thread about FF7 having good reviews have to turn to a chance to shit on XV? C'mon ya'll
May not have the bombast but TLG is probably my favourite game of 2016. Looking forward to playing this when I get a chance as there have been plenty of positive impressions.
2 of my favourite games this gen and Shenmue, which was exactly what I thought it would be and made me happy.
Pretty spectacular for me.
I feel like I've heard that sometimes that contract incentives depend on MC scores. If this true? I certainly hope not if this is philosophy but which people review.
Souls games aren't even comparable, I didn't even have to use magic in ff15, in ff7 I had to use magic on even the first boss
you didn't have choice if you wanted to use magic or not, you had to use magic
No, that is not how opinions and people work. You cannot simply average scores to arrive at some nebulous "objective truth". This is why metacritic is so harmful to actual meaningful discussion. If a game is extremely divisive and gets a bunch of extremely high and extremely low scores then metacritic will tell you that the reception was mediocre which would reflect none of the reviews because in this hypothetical example some people really liked it and some people really disliked it but nobody thought it was mediocre.
Did reviewers mention the textures / objects messing up? Or have they been playing a patched version?
Kinda interested after trying the demo but those textures I've seen are far too much of an issue until they patch it.
Kinda interested after trying the demo but those textures I've seen are far too much of an issue until they patch it.
I wouldn't necessarily put much stock in the difference between late 80s and 90s. I absolutely expect to prefer this to RDR2 and GoW for instance because of my love of the source material, presentation and spectacle.
While this sounds amazing to me, as someone who loved the combat in the demo, I still think they're leaving worse players with a boring version of the game. Taking too long shouldn't be enough, either the game should kill you for playing that way (and seems like it does on Hard, which is fantastic!), or there should be some sort of ranking for battles, to inform players that they're doing poorly, even if they're scraping by.
A happy middle ground could be achievable by having more limited items, too. If players are quickly running out of potions and MP for Cure, they'll eventually have to stop spending so much of it. But it seems like even tying it to ATB isn't enough to stop people from potion spamming through most of the game, XV style.
It's really sad how people can't get over it.
So the problem is that they didn't force you to use spells? but let's leave bosses aside (even though that they are much cooler in xv) low level enemies doesn't look that much fun either, plus you don't even have a jump button to fight flying enemies.
Still have a decade to go before that can be argued as we await the complete Final Fantasy VII Remake experience.
Glad the game is reviewing well, had some doubts with what I read on first impressions and spoiler threads. Kinda worried about the story
Reading that the endgame deviates heavily from the source material. Not sure how this is presented, but really wasn't expecting this.
At first I thought I wanted to see some really low scores just for the metldowns, but the meltdowns are funnier when the score is actually good but somehow not fair.
Bonus payments for developers are sometimes tied to a MC average, which is an extremely shitty practice. The infamous example is New Vegas where the target for the bonus was a MC of 85 but the game only managed a 84. I don't know how common this is these days but one would hope it is the exception to the rule.
Yeah, I would have liked a ranking system. For what it's worth, if someone finishes the battle with low HP, the characters comments about how they should be doing better.
One of my complaints about the game is how extensively everything feels playtested. Anyone is going to be able to get through it and that probably means a worse overall experience and that kind of sucks for them. I wish I learned early on how important it was to switch characters constantly, but you really end up coming to those realizations on your own later on.
i mean, the last guardian was fantastic and FF7R seems awesome too so i dont see your point.
Probably held out to play Witcher 3 on Switch to get the best experience.
Guys stop responding to obvious comments meant to troll and rile you up. Either report or ignore
Bosses are cooler in ff15? You mean like leviathan that can't even kill you?
flying enemies you hit them with ranged attacks
I think all these games have value, I'm not complaining they're not the best games ever.
The Last Guardian and Final Fantasy VII Remake are both amazing. So it's all good.
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Oh wow, this is REALLY cool. Actually said this out loud, was not expecting something this interesting to be implemented, hahahaha.
Character switching is soooooo satisfying in the demo, I'm glad to know it's important throughout the whole game. Ahhh, can't wait to play this.
Thank you again for the impressions and the time to answer our questions.
Wow this is the most scathing review for the game I've seen.
Sounds like there's next to nothing about the game he liked.
Sounds like there's next to nothing about the game he liked.
Uh...what? There's really only one dud in there and that is Shenmue. TLG and now also FFVIIR turned out to be both critially acclaimed games.