I personally think it's a cash grab. Why release the whole game when they can release 3 or 4 fully priced 60$ games that cover the same story a 20$ game did 20 years ago? Ive played quite a bit of it too. Yeah it looks good. Yeah the combat is engaging. I don't really care for all the filler though which is basically what all this 'expanded story' amounts to. We know where the story is going to end up, the original game has been out 2 decades,going on 3. All of this 'extra story' isn't needed. But how can they stretch midgard over 40 hours if they don't add a bunch of filler? They couldn't. Because it only encompasses maybe 7-10 hours of the original game. I love final fantasy. And yeah the game looks pretty. And now over the next 5 or so years probably we'll be waiting for them to do the same thing with the other parts. The pace of the story has been ground to a halt so that this first game only has to encompass midgard. No Vincent, no red 13, no cait sith. The game is actually about 15% of final fantasy 7 remade and i personally don't agree with that. It's marketed like this is in fact, the entirety of ff7 remade. And its not. And I've no doubt that they draw it out to 3 or 4 games if they can just like 15 needed 5 dlcs to be purchased for you to actually have the full game. The worst part is the original still exists and nobody is going to remember it once this series is fully released in 5 to 10 years. They're saying the game wouldn't 'look as good' or have enough content if they made the whole game in one, like you know, the original game? And i don't believe that. The witcher 3 looks about as good, and is about 8 times bigger than this 'remake' and CDPR no doubtedly has less resources than a company like square Enix. Cant wait til they do this to 8 or 9. Maybe by the time I'm 50 ill be able to play a remade 9 after i purchase the game, the 3 other games required to actually own the full game, the multiplayer expansion they'll shove in if they can, and whatever dlcs they decide to add, which will undoubtedly come for all the remakes. The graphics and combat are a step up. But don't just blindly believe the masses who are too blinded by nostalgia to see that this is incredibly anti consumer. Square enix has fallen from grace like alot of other studios, but so long as they keep riding the success of 30 year old games nobody is going to notice.
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Re: Square Enix Explains Decision to Split Final Fantasy VII Remake Into Multiple Games
I personally think it's a cash grab. Why release the whole game when they can release 3 or 4 fully priced 60$ games that cover the same story a 20$ game did 20 years ago? Ive played quite a bit of it too. Yeah it looks good. Yeah the combat is engaging. I don't really care for all the filler though which is basically what all this 'expanded story' amounts to. We know where the story is going to end up, the original game has been out 2 decades,going on 3. All of this 'extra story' isn't needed. But how can they stretch midgard over 40 hours if they don't add a bunch of filler? They couldn't. Because it only encompasses maybe 7-10 hours of the original game. I love final fantasy. And yeah the game looks pretty. And now over the next 5 or so years probably we'll be waiting for them to do the same thing with the other parts. The pace of the story has been ground to a halt so that this first game only has to encompass midgard. No Vincent, no red 13, no cait sith. The game is actually about 15% of final fantasy 7 remade and i personally don't agree with that. It's marketed like this is in fact, the entirety of ff7 remade. And its not. And I've no doubt that they draw it out to 3 or 4 games if they can just like 15 needed 5 dlcs to be purchased for you to actually have the full game. The worst part is the original still exists and nobody is going to remember it once this series is fully released in 5 to 10 years. They're saying the game wouldn't 'look as good' or have enough content if they made the whole game in one, like you know, the original game? And i don't believe that. The witcher 3 looks about as good, and is about 8 times bigger than this 'remake' and CDPR no doubtedly has less resources than a company like square Enix. Cant wait til they do this to 8 or 9. Maybe by the time I'm 50 ill be able to play a remade 9 after i purchase the game, the 3 other games required to actually own the full game, the multiplayer expansion they'll shove in if they can, and whatever dlcs they decide to add, which will undoubtedly come for all the remakes. The graphics and combat are a step up. But don't just blindly believe the masses who are too blinded by nostalgia to see that this is incredibly anti consumer. Square enix has fallen from grace like alot of other studios, but so long as they keep riding the success of 30 year old games nobody is going to notice.