But Member??? Member the World Map? Member FF7? lol Sorry I'm being overly hyperbolic, but that's what it feels like since there are a multitude of other themes that fit the slums in the OST that would fit better.
I know that's how the majority will feel. It's pure member berry smoothie to everyone.
Sucks for that guy, probably a decent enough place to stop. People were reporting him/complaining in chat so it's to be expected.
Switch to other party member I'd imagine and punch the shit out of it. But Tifa was dead at the time I believe.
That is a reach and you know it. This isn't at all evidence of that.
I think you might need a team mate to save you. Otherwise, you are stuck for a given amount of time. Unless there's a materia that stops that from happening?
Let me know when you find another. I'm mainly curious to see systems and progression. At this point the story is kinda whatevs, I'll dive into that when I play it.
I can definitely see how frustrating that is. But it seems like you are stuck for at least a given period of time in that position. Maybe it's fixed on the Day 1 patch?
There are a lot of things from later in the game that they're bringing in early. You're not supposed to see Seph at all in Midgar. But I think it's the right choice to bring in overworld theme here. There is a lot more time now and the slums theme would get very old. Maybe there will be a bigger, more orchestrated version of the overworld theme once you leave Midgar. My personal quibbles are: You should be able to "hide" Clouds sword when not in combat. It looks completely ridiculous in HD and realistically people would be recoiling in fear at the sight of it. In the original game you never saw the sword when exploring. Also there should be outfit options in 2020. Tifa going on a quest in bartender clothes isn't realistic feeling and looks way out of place. They should have given her some practical clothes (like everyone else is wearing in Avalanche) and let the player revert to bartender clothes if its their choice.
Chapter 2 showed a severe disdain for the original soundtrack imo, but I know that's up to my own personal biases. Not using Heart of Anxiety except for one brief flash of Nibel in the Bombin Mission and going from Shinra theme, to Seph theme, to Aeris theme, to Battle theme for the next 30 minutes just feels like they're rushing you through the story to get back to combat encounters.
Here's two themes that would fit Midgar better they could have used from the original OST(that WERE used for the slums):
These posts add about as much to the topic.
It'll rate higher. The only people who will care about the sidequest quality and music and story changes are assholes like myself. It'll most likely be high 90s unless they really drop the ball in later chapters.
The only thing more tedious and annoying than complaints are the people complaining about the complainers lol. At least we're having a discussion.
Chadley provides Materia which looks like the biggest most relevant questline on the side for now. We'll see how the rest goes. I imagine Wall Market would be full of interesting things.
I just wish it was an option. Plenty of modern action adventure games have done it.
I'm actually fine with a mechanic punishing you for not managing using the team swap/managing your team properly, but I'm not sure if this is the good version of that. But hey we've only seen one version of it, we don't know if they missed a prompt or something.
It will eventually be on PC to my knowledge.
I want to see Gun Guy. There's a dude literally just unloading like an automatic rifle in the original Sector 7 slums across from one of the shops into a dummy and I want to see that lol.
Not really. Maybe modern representation, but if we go by the NPC models in the original, they were pretty varied in style:
I think the Boss and the women that that use that model were designed to be inspired by a 1950s look:
There's also Johnny, of course (we'll see him in Episode 1):
And maybe Episode 2 or 3, when we get to Corel and Gold Saucer, we'll see Mr. Coates and Ester(two I'm anticipating):
If anything, FFVII Remake's world needs less Normies and more spikey haired characters with unique fashion tastes.
I mean the original Midgar has goofy ass looking NPCs so I'm not going to nitpick that far, but using the WORLD MAP theme in this game for just walking around the slums in a tiny map (when it should have been like, the final theme of the game as they leave Midgar leading to the cliffhanger for part II) just kinda irks me a bit.
You're not going to get a consensus. Just look for yourself and judge
Them leaving Midgar. As we known forever
Agreed. The guy was rarely using ATB and switching members the first time. I like that the game punishes you for not using abilities regularly and requires you to keep an eye on your party. If you're playing this game through by just button mashing square and only using your ATB just to spam heals when near-death then it will be a hard slog. Know all your abilities and how to best utilise them to kill the enemy ASAP. That is what you'll need to do to get though this game.
It's one of the issues with designing these games as things get more realistic and why games like Xenoblade 2, KH, etc have weapons "apparate" out of thin air. So that people aren't walking around looking like murder machines. I actually prefer the grounded approach of having a Merc wearing his sword because it normalizes the behavior. Lots of fallout from Shinra and lots of mercs and people in the slums looking for work (after all Zack wasn't the first to come up with that idea), so it fits the world they're trying to set. They just need a few other people with weapons, and we haven't seen if maybe they do yet.
For everyone that was already sold they're going to continue to be sold.
I mean they abandoned the diesel/cyberpunk feel for more standard FFXV modern day adjacent tone from the getgo for the most part. Unfortunately that's just the new direction. Even the more "hammy" characters like Corneo are more realistic now, which is fine, but they were never going to do triangle shades and blade runner NPCs in this game. The new direction of Square just isn't that, and it's harder to mass produce and modularize npcs with such "unique" features and make them not look sameface. It's a double edged sword but I agree I'd have prefered more like that.
I agree there should be mechanics like this, I just don't know if pincer attacks and slowly watching your health drain while you're stuck is the way to go. I think just a pin with a one attack reduction of HP, while the big gameplay impact being lack of movement and control would be a fairer/better balance personally. IT still allows for punishment of not managing your other party members without making you watch your character slowly get its face eaten while being able to do nothing. Again though we'll see when more people encounter it if there's a way to shake it off/counter that.
This is a good thing. It means that people have to actually engage with the ATB system to make the combat work. This makes the combat work better in my eyes.
I'd like to think I'm being super fair when discussing it personally. I'm not going scorched earth and saying everything is awful, there's just some questionable choices that I'm seeing being made. That being said I know already and have stated before most of my commentary isn't going to be shared by a vast amount of people looking at or playing the game.
I deleted the comment because I felt I was being to mean. I'm really hyped so I'm not trying to let that make me to emotional if I see people complaining. I don't want to come across as a "stop disliking what I like!"
