Obviously. Just like The Hobbit.
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Final Fantasy 7 Remake had "no option other than a trilogy," lead says, since the "sheer appeal" of making such a cash grab from the original PS1 JRPG was too obvious
Fixed ;)
The trilogy has so much added filler content. Each of the games is almost as long as the original. So many mini games and such.
Some of it was good, but even the best of it was half-baked. I did all the side content in Remake, but still didn't find all the music discs, and if there had just been map markers, it would have made a lot more sense. The map itself was just bad. Never knew where I was or where I was going.
One bad part was when you'd stumble upon an area and nothing would happen. Then a guy would tell you there were some monsters there. You go there again and still nothing. You report back and they give you some more lore, and then you find the monsters in there. A better game would let you deal with them the first time you went, whether you had the quest or not, and then tell the quest giver that you already cleaned house and then get the reward (and maybe a bonus for doing it without being told).
Easily I'll admit that I love this super bloated 3 parter stretching way past the original's content. I like the filler because I like the games. That's subjective opinion. Nothing nostalgia baits me harder than FF7. I don't even like most of the series. There's flaws. Time janitors reek of Kingdom Hearts (derogatory) in the worst way and makes my eyes roll harder than anything. I wanted to strangle Chadley to death by the mid point of Rebirth. The high points make up for it, personally.
It doesn't always work out, I hate The Hobbit movies with a passion. These games aren't ruining anything for me.
But this self sucking corporate mythology narrative making the OG seem like more than it was is nauseating. Just own it, cowards. FF7 could've been remade without stretching it.
Interesting that you hate The Hobbit movies with a passion. I know a lot of people aren't fans, but I thought they were all right. I am one of those people that likes The Hobbit novel more than the LOTR trilogy (I love LOTR too, just I like The Hobbit more). Probably nostalgia since The Hobbit was the first novel that I read "independently", school librarian saw a curious 9 year old who hadn't even heard of Tolkien before; I bet it was an easy recommendation for her.
I hated the little of the Ring of Power that I watched; from the first episode it felt like a Tolkien themed generic streaming fantasy story.
The hate mainly stems from how I see it less as art and more as a money grab because it failed to win me over, so I don't begrudge anyone for liking them that's just a personal hang up I'm inconsistent about.
Read The Hobbit as a kid too! I've watched the movies only once in their original form and then a fan edit. The fan edit was on the originaltrilogy forum (or at least was at one point in time) that cut down The Hobbit movie trilogy into a much better IMO single movie. Dropping a lot of The Silmarillion material.
The Ring of Power I didn't try to watch. Wheel of Time left me so disappointed and then I kept hearing nothing good about Amazon's other fantasy series :p
Edit: What do you think of Stephen Colbert making an upcoming movie out of a few ommited from the Jackson movies chapters of the first LOTR book?
Edit: What do you think of Stephen Colbert making an upcoming movie out of a few ommited from the Jackson movies chapters of the first LOTR book?
Never even heard of this! I am assuming the focus will be on the Old Forest and extending the Bree parts? I got to check this out.
“Listen guys, the original game is on two CD-ROMs. TWO!
We had no choice but to use three BluRays.”
Three cds akshully 🤓
To me the selling point of the remakes is literally just the music for walking in some damaged road or something, up a mountain, and following a dog. And the transitions from normal to battle and back. The other tracks are pretty good with the nostalgia boost but not amazing if you aren't already invested in ff music. I also got a kick out of playing with jap audio and not recognizing the voice actor for red until the return home scene and being like "it was this fucking guy the whole time?!"
The rest was kinda disappointing and had a bit much jank for such a large title. Lots of terrain modelling and traversal issues, quests not up to modern quality of life standards, 'fuck right off' level achievements, and I could be misremembering but I swear yuffie had more polished ninja-feeling animations in part 1 dlc compared to part 2 especially when climbing where everyone seemingly got some shared generic 90s console level animations. Also just the disjointedness between the two currently released games.
So because the og was on 3 disks, they had to make the remake 3 whole fucking games? 🤨
What a crock of shit.
BG3 and Elden Ring has loads more non-bloat content and they have it in a single game and without the horrific SquareEnix writing and acting.
Remember when Square could make content-dense and relatively concise games with complete stories in single ~4 MB cartridges, CD bundles, and single ~4.7 GB DVDs?
I feel like Persona 5 even before Royal was filled to the brim with more content than any final fantasy game. Rebirth feels a lot better with the content though the main story moves at a glacial pace. Remake, example I remember is that train graveyard section and anything involving the sewers and ladders. That first part I can't recommend that game. The story is so light in that game, you can read a synopsis and be solid for Rebirth
I grew up on FF. This "remake" has not impressed me. I wanted to like it but every possible story beat is done worse than the original. I feel FF16 felt like doing homework.
Capcom is showing every studio how actual remakes should be done. They don't spend 7 years and over 100 million USD to do it. They all sell block buster numbers and is exactly what the old fans want with the upgrades and quality of life changes the new fans want.
The only way to convey to the decision makers at Square Enix I do not like their game is with my wallet. If you feel the same way I recommend doing the same. Do not pre-order, do not buy.