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Which remake will score better on Metacritic? Final Fantasy VII or Resident Evil 3? Let's make an avatar bet.
- Thread starter Dusk Golem
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FF7
RE3 will get hit with good ol' "more of the same" penalty.
Still, I know it will be my most played game of the year after playing the demo.
RE3 will get hit with good ol' "more of the same" penalty.
Still, I know it will be my most played game of the year after playing the demo.
it is still open?
In the FF7 team.
In my predictions RE3 will have some points docked for being similar to RE2. And if i remember right the dismembering wasnt present in the tech demo, right?
In FFVII reviewers will praise the new redesigned battle system making each character unique, revisiting and expanding a classic and etc, etc, etc...
(THIS is NOT a attack to RE3, i just trying to guess how the reviewer's reaction will be)
In the FF7 team.
In my predictions RE3 will have some points docked for being similar to RE2. And if i remember right the dismembering wasnt present in the tech demo, right?
In FFVII reviewers will praise the new redesigned battle system making each character unique, revisiting and expanding a classic and etc, etc, etc...
(THIS is NOT a attack to RE3, i just trying to guess how the reviewer's reaction will be)
My heart says 7R but my brain says RE3. There will almost certainly be critics who dock points for the fact that it's a $60 Part 1/??? and justifying it by calling it an unethical practice that is bad news for the future or something to that effect.
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We're getting closer to the deadline, I might move it forward a bit with game stuff coming out and I actually think RE3's review embargo is 8 AM PST on the 31st.
But want to see if anyone else wants to get in on this before whatever window closes.
But want to see if anyone else wants to get in on this before whatever window closes.
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RE3 is maybe one of the most wanted remakes ever, meanwhile FF7 is an extended demo for $60 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
RE3 is maybe one of the most wanted remakes ever, meanwhile FF7 is an extended demo for $60 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I do think a big thing against FF7 might be that reviewers (and players too) reach the end of the game and say "Yeah, this is 100% not a whole story", similar to the complaints of Deus Ex Mankind Divided. I'm not sure Square can make it really feel like a cohesive whole.
It's kinda hard to say. I mean, RE3 and FFVII are both pretty hyped and I'd imagine both will disappoint in some ways too. I s'pose RE3 is less likely to disappoint as much as FFVII since it's the full experience, although there will probably be more complaints that it's not different enough to a game that only came out a year ago.
After reading the RE3 leaks i would say FFVII. Plus one game was looked down inferior to its predecessor vs the other game is regarded as one of the best games ever made.
Negative comparisons of the original RE3 to RE2 were never even remotely justified, but there's no question that RE3 is nowhere near as beloved as RE2 all the same.
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We're nearing the final few days of this, I'm going to make some avatars for both in early April but others here free to submit avatars anytime for the next few weeks as well.
After playing the RE3 demo... yeah, no chance it's scoring higher than FF7. It feels cobbled together from another game and I think the whole Nemesis thing is going to get tedious for a lot of people.
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The review embargo for RE3 is sooner than I expected, it's lifting on the 30th, so the next three days are the last three days you can pick to join a team (or back out) before signing up for it closes!
Argh, this is like Sophie's Choice!
I'm gonna go with FF7, my reason being I think RE3 will do well anyway, but I am praying FF7 lives up to anticipation. It'll either be a frustrating mess or an amazing first episode.
I'm gonna go with FF7, my reason being I think RE3 will do well anyway, but I am praying FF7 lives up to anticipation. It'll either be a frustrating mess or an amazing first episode.
Not necessarily avatar betting but I think RE3 will score better despite FFVII Remake being my most anticipated game of all time and the one that I'll probably enjoy more. FF VIIR will be a much longer game that has a lot more to be critiqued in terms of pacing and content - and the Final Fantasy series has had skeptics both in the industry and amongst fans for a while now. I expect these factors to get reviewers to look a little more harshly on FF7R overall (plus the silly 'it's not a whole game' or ''this took then 20 YEARS) which are common [despite films commonly being adapted into TV shows on the flipside of media]. All of this, plus I think RE3 is gonna be fantastic and Capcom has been on a roll with their big franchises lately.
Im curious about the avatars we will bet. Have no idea on what would be a good one for the losing team.
So waiting for people begin to post some suggestions.
So waiting for people begin to post some suggestions.
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About 36 more hours to join in on this, back out, switch sides or whatever. Reviews for RE3 come in pretty soon.
I'll be whipping up a few in the week between RE3 & FFVII when I'm not busy crunching on them, but options for submissions I'll keep open until the 17th so we can have a week to vote on them ahead of time (and at that point though I'm giving FFVII some room for reviews since I know Square has a tendency to send late review copies and the game takes a bit to complete, we should have a kinda' decent idea at that point which way it's siding towards).
Let's go Jill. Let's go Nemesis. You can do this.
ps: I'm not betting, just hoping.
ps: I'm not betting, just hoping.
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FF7
I want RE3 to score higher, but I feel like the nostalgia around FF7 is so strong that even if it has some missteps, it will score really damn high.
I want RE3 to score higher, but I feel like the nostalgia around FF7 is so strong that even if it has some missteps, it will score really damn high.
It's gameplay being good is not a foregone conclusion, while it is for RE3.
Capcom was a joke not too long ago. FFXV has nothing to do with FFVII Remake.
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I'm guessing RE3, will review as good or better than REmake 2. But there's a chance that reviewers will whine about Nemesis and peg it down a notch.
FF7-R will be blamed for being padded and not being the full experience/story.
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I'm guessing RE3, will review as good or better than REmake 2. But there's a chance that reviewers will whine about Nemesis and peg it down a notch.
FF7-R will be blamed for being padded and not being the full experience/story.
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...Except for the person who designed everything, sure. But if anything it's in the remake's favor that the base material is already great so less chances to screw it up, I wonder if they'll manage that.
RE3 basicaly looks like RE2 thus it gets scored down a notch.
FF7R looks amazing but i'm worried about the story/game as a standalone
FF7R looks amazing but i'm worried about the story/game as a standalone
If it was RE2 vs. FF7 it'd be tougher but FF7 is just such a megaton that I don't think RE3 will compete with it, which is arguably the least iconic of the original RE trilogy, even if it's a really good game, it's just not the same as having Midgar reimagined in 2020 in HD. I think the hype and anticipation will put it over the top, while RE3 will have a harder time standing out from RE2make.
Not betting, but right now I am leaning to FF7.
Not betting, but right now I am leaning to FF7.