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Jason Schreier: "Final Fantasy VII Remake's Box Art Sure Is Misleading"
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I genuinely don't believe that you believe the argument you're putting forth with this post. You're either trolling or intentionally not considering people's point.
It doesn't at all. It means it's getting made again. That's it. The only implication is that it's getting made differently than the original.
I mean he's right. The title of the game should indicate its episode 1 at the very least. Putting it on the back of the box is in no way acceptable. It may look really good but being just the midgar section, it is NOT Final Fantasy 7 and calling it such without qualifying what you're actually getting is misleading.
For a company that has never shied away from convoluted titles, it is suspect they're being coy on this one....
No, but it doesn't mean "only half of the story" either. If it says "Final Fantasy VII" on the cover people expect FF VII, it's misleading.
What Squeenix is doing is shady. And nonsensical. This collection of games is gonna look weird when the first episode is titled REMAKE and the others get some other, more meaningful subtitle.
Like what? What movie was remade into multiple parts with the first part not featuring any subtitle whatsoever to indicate it's the first volume of a larger collection?
Remember when "IT" came out in 2017 and didn't have "chapter 1" or "part 1" in the title because we all knew what the deal was since that story is so ubiquitous in society.
Same thing.
Also people in here are acting like Square Enix hasn't been clear and unambiguous about the plans for this game from the very start and are trying to get one over people.
Same thing.
Also people in here are acting like Square Enix hasn't been clear and unambiguous about the plans for this game from the very start and are trying to get one over people.
They were working on titles that had no been adapted to live action films and they at least had the decency to give their movies a subtitle.
The Hobbit: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY
Avengers: INFINITY WAR
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Final Fantasy VII REMAKE
You do know that a lot of people don't visit forums and the such. Saying pt. 1 wouldn't hurt anybody
Most of all for people who display them on shelves and for sorting the digital versions
People who say it isn't misleading:
Who does putting Part 1 (or its equivalent) on the box hurt? What argument is there against making it clear that the game is episodic, when it is episodic?
Who does putting Part 1 (or its equivalent) on the box hurt? What argument is there against making it clear that the game is episodic, when it is episodic?
No? LIS and Hitman's episodes were clearly just a small part of a single game. This remake is a full game that covers until Midgard, yeah they're gonna release FFVII2 and possibly 3 later but it's no different from a regular sequel.
There's like a 0.5% part of me that thinks they're planning a Kojima-style twist on us all and it's actually going to be the whole game and this is the only way they could recreate that feeling of leaving Midgar in the first game way back when, by making none of us expect it.
But yes, in the real world, this is very misleading.
But yes, in the real world, this is very misleading.
The Hobbit trilogy, while not strictly speaking a remake of another movie, was split into three parts, with the first simply called The Hobbit.
Edit: my bad, never noticed the subtitle on the poster
And 30+ hours (at least) compared to the 8-or-so hours it takes to watch the entire Hobbit trilogy.
But then these uninformed precious casuals that played the original game 20 years ago would probsbly just believe that it's a new FFVII game and complain when they find out its just a remake?
/not entirely serious
I'll agree it's misleading if the game hits store shelves and there's no mention of it being multi-parts/midgar only on the back of the box.
Does this really need to be spelled out for people? We have known all this for a very long time
they didn't put "part 1" on it for marketing reasons. acting like it's not purposely misleading, lol
What if we are the ones being misled and Square has kept a tight lid on the fact that it's actually not episodic anymore and just the full ass game that we will only find out upon release?
Yes, it's a misleading box art and they really should just put something like "The Midgar Arc" on it if putting an episode number is risky for sales or something.
unless as I already joked about in an other thread, Square is playing us and its the full game. Probably not, but hey.
First time I've agreed with Jason in a while. "Part 1" in small writing underneath isn't that hard to do surely?
And? It's still a full game. This is not SE releasing a 1/10th of the game and calling it a day.
But that doesn't matter if they add in a lot more detail/content based on that one disc.
He's absolutely right. If they don't want to use the "Part 1" label for fear of implying that it's not a full game, then they should subtitle it. "Final Fantasy VII Remake: Midgar" or something.
It'll have to be a very obvious marking to avoid some sort of false advertisement claims - putting it in the game description wouldn't be enough, especially if it's worded casually as something like 'explore the first part of...'
Basically this; calling it FFVII Remake is obviously meant to rely on people's memories/nostalgia for FFVII to make them want to purchase it, and sticking Part 1 in the title would probably lead to some people hesitating since it's not the full game/may not contain their favorite parts.
If we were in a world where multi-part remakes were the norm, and buying the remake of something was commonly meant to buy a remade slice of that thing, then maybe it'd be murkier--but it's being left out of the title because including it in the title/front art would have a negative impact sales. I don't think this is a particularly controversial suggestion; yes, it's on the back of the box, but the impact is different from just making it clear on the front that it's not a complete remake of the original experience. Whether or not people have a personal problem with this is up to them, but this isn't intended as a standalone work and isn't what the common understanding of the title would be, and that's a marketing decision.
The first movie of the Hobbit trilogy is not "simply called 'The Hobbit'". That's not the name of that movie
I think it depends how it shakes out - they really do seem to be going all out to make "part 1" a full game, which would be let down by anything that makes people decide to hold off till the "full release". Square Enix probably knows that's a bad idea - they have Life is Strange sales figures to show how many people buy in after the last Episode is out, after all. In this case that'd be 5+ years from now, which would be catastrophic financially.
Honestly they should have just dropped the "Remake" part instead, and advertised the following parts as sequels a la XIII-2 etc. but this is a Nomura production, don't expect the titles to make a whole lotta sense
Honestly they should have just dropped the "Remake" part instead, and advertised the following parts as sequels a la XIII-2 etc. but this is a Nomura production, don't expect the titles to make a whole lotta sense
Except it wasn't just called The Hobbit.
It was called The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.
This. Not calling this out is utter bullshit. It's not a remake when it only contains less than 25-33% of the source materials content. I'm all in on the remake, but not numbering it is very misleading.
But the boxart and title just says ffVII remake, but it's not a remake of whole original game.
Hope all future releases of Last Of Us gets Part 1 added to it or i guess it would mislead Uncle Joe of not getting the full experience.
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