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JBP posted:My complaint was only in the context of the demo just for clarity. The demo was pretty short, so it really stood out as a big clang to me, along with Cloud's fake limp at the end of the demo and how holding L2/R2 before the big scene kind of drained all the oomph out of it for me. I am kinda understanding of the whole "wounded walk" thing to emphasize focusing on your environment when poo poo is going down but the L2 R2 where they wait patiently for you to hit the button before doing anything and otherwise they just stand there indefinitely was lmao
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:I am kinda understanding of the whole "wounded walk" thing to emphasize focusing on your environment when poo poo is going down but the L2 R2 where they wait patiently for you to hit the button before doing anything and otherwise they just stand there indefinitely was lmao Yeah, I have to say that scene just does not hit right. They needed to be shooting at Sephiroth and he needed to be butchering them independent of your actions. It's a genuinely odd misstep. (Or if not shooting at him at least like... more obviously terrified to the point of dropping their gun.)
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:I am kinda understanding of the whole "wounded walk" thing to emphasize focusing on your environment when poo poo is going down but the L2 R2 where they wait patiently for you to hit the button before doing anything and otherwise they just stand there indefinitely was lmao agreed, it was very silly in the mythril mines now and it's safe to say that the "yellow paint" furor was overblown, though there wasn't much doubt about that in the first place. i've only seen it on that single outcropping texture so far
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Mar 1, 2024 05:24
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This open world is a lot bigger and neater than I expected. I'm having fun just riding around and exploring, which usually doesn't appeal to me much. I also like some of the quality of life things, like being able to fast travel directly onto your chocobo.
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:I am kinda understanding of the whole "wounded walk" thing to emphasize focusing on your environment when poo poo is going down but the L2 R2 where they wait patiently for you to hit the button before doing anything and otherwise they just stand there indefinitely was lmao Yeah it made the scene come across as very comical. I get that they're trying to evoke the original with these moments and respect the effort, but this part came across as really silly to me, and the ensuing cool cutscene felt poorly served by it. If it went straight from that guy getting stabbed, to more guys getting stabbed and into the cutscene it might have hit better for me. ImpAtom posted:Yeah, I have to say that scene just does not hit right. They needed to be shooting at Sephiroth and he needed to be butchering them independent of your actions. It's a genuinely odd misstep. I genuinely thought I had missed something here. I wondered had they already fired the guns and the animation was borked or something. Really weird. It just needed to be sudden and violent. JBP fucked around with this message at 05:27 on Mar 1, 2024 |
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:I am kinda understanding of the whole "wounded walk" thing to emphasize focusing on your environment when poo poo is going down but the L2 R2 where they wait patiently for you to hit the button before doing anything and otherwise they just stand there indefinitely was lmao See, THIS was legit quite bad, I'm not gonna try and defend this one
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Mar 1, 2024 05:26
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oh yeah the limping/crawling was awful and inexcusable
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I'm saying, all that poo poo adds up to make me feel frustrated by my time being wasted when I have very little time to play somtimes, the vacuum, the fire limping, the hold R2 to crawl, etc. Which I'd think is a very fair and understandable point. I was really clear on that, and yet goons are literally timing the mako vacuum thing with stop watches saying "ITS NOT THAT LONG" and saying I must be "staggeringly bad at video games". But I suppose goons freak out when encountering mild criticism of whatever the currently liked thing is. And btw, the 2.5 minutes that one goon decided to be all dramatic about makes up almost 5% of a 1 hour play session. Drunk Driver Dad fucked around with this message at 05:38 on Mar 1, 2024 |
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Mar 1, 2024 05:30
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I thought maybe I had misremembered the original scene coming from Sephiroth in the library and watched it again. The entire sequence between leaving the library the end of the cutscene goes for all of one minute. Cloud isn't wounded and just runs in going this is terrible. The limp is obviously an homage to the animations of the original but why the gently caress is it here!?
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JBP posted:I thought maybe I had misremembered the original scene coming from Sephiroth in the library and watched it again. The entire sequence between leaving the library the end of the cutscene goes for all of one minute. Cloud isn't wounded and just runs in going this is terrible. The impression I got is that it's supposed to be a moment of "wait, something is wrong" because (FF7 classic spoilers) why is Super Soldier Cloud Strife limping like he's badly injured after some stuff collapsing, and when you encounter ' Real' Cloud lying near his house he's also got the same basic injuries. So it's trying to emphasize that the guy you're controlling at that moment is Cloud the injured Shinra soldier and not Zack the super soldier. But it's not super well executed, no.
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ImpAtom posted:The impression I got is that it's supposed to be a moment of "wait, something is wrong" because (FF7 classic spoilers) why is Super Soldier Cloud Strife limping like he's badly injured after some stuff collapsing, and when you encounter ' Real' Cloud lying near his house he's also got the same basic injuries. So it's trying to emphasize that the guy you're controlling at that moment is Cloud the injured Shinra soldier and not Zack the super soldier. Yeah for sure... but it sucks. That's not where the drama of this sequence is and doesn't matter.
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Mar 1, 2024 05:40
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I've done nothing today but play Rebirth.
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I said come in! posted:I've done nothing today but play Rebirth. Well you must be pretty far into it, right?
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Mar 1, 2024 05:42
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ImpAtom posted:Well you must be pretty far into it, right? 11 1/2 hours and on chapter 4. So I don't feel like i'm that far? Barely anything has happened with the main story.
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I’ve also just reached the Junon region and with the way this place looks I half expect to see pilot C4-621 flying overhead
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I have been playing for half of today and I am still in the grasslands lol
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I said come in! posted:11 1/2 hours and on chapter 4. So I don't feel like i'm that far? Barely anything has happened with the main story. Oh yeah, no, you've barely scratched it.
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:I have been playing for half of today and I am still in the grasslands lol i'd head to the swamp if chadley wasn't so loving stingy with his materia
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Mar 1, 2024 05:56
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I have so many Chadley Points and I haven't even gotten the tower in the swampland
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I will slowly figure it out I'm sure but all the sphere grid and weapon ability stuff across the whole party feels like a lot lol, I usually just default to using the core abilities. Even keeping track of magic materia across the party takes some effort. Also I haven't messed with the transmutation even as keep unlocking new stuff lol
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ImpAtom posted:The impression I got is that it's supposed to be a moment of "wait, something is wrong" because (FF7 classic spoilers) why is Super Soldier Cloud Strife limping like he's badly injured after some stuff collapsing, and when you encounter ' Real' Cloud lying near his house he's also got the same basic injuries. So it's trying to emphasize that the guy you're controlling at that moment is Cloud the injured Shinra soldier and not Zack the super soldier. That was my impression also, the game is playing up the dissonance of Cloud’s account. The scene still was a bizarre misstep, though. Just doing a drive by of the thread, since I’m mostly trying to avoid spoilers, but here are some random early thoughts after starting chapter 2: How many different Clouds are there? There’s the player Cloud, the one with Zack and the one reported missing in Midgar when the other party members are dead/accounted for. Is the player party like, in the life stream or something? I have a feeling this is going to be a stupid mess, but we’ll see. General question: how much do I miss from skipping mini-games? I’m not sure if I have time for queen’s blood, and I almost certainly don’t want to deal with the piano. Will I miss out on cool weapons/materia from stuff like this? I really like how the early weapon upgrades (except for Cloud’s) seem to be meaningful gameplay choices, not just stat increases. Last question, about gear in chapter 1: Did I miss the sword for purchase there? I didn’t have the gold to buy it. Was I supposed to sell things to purchase it?
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Heithinn Grasida posted:Last question, about gear in chapter 1: stuker fucked around with this message at 06:34 on Mar 1, 2024 |
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:I have been playing for half of today and I am still in the grasslands lol
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Should I care about Assessing everything? I just missed assessing one of the enemies during the first zones first protorelic quest thing. IIRC Remake gave you some wiggle room where you could miss some Assesses and still complete all of Chadley's things.
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I didn't play the demo or read any pre release studd so excuse my getting breathlessly hype over things the thread has known about for a while but HOLY poo poo THEY PUT A CARD GAME IN FF7
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I picked the absolute worst time to get a promotion I'm becoming a streamer *6 months later in the goon fund thread* Help me my family are dying
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i sort of wonder if cait sith is going to have a different arc, given that chadley already took the spot of a weird lil shinra guy constantly listening to and tracking you
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Obtained the CHAD module. You know it game.
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The chapter 2 boss music goes hard I should probably be prioritizing the story but I ended up doing almost everything in the Kalm area before moving on. Dammit Chadley stop distracting me 
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I skipped doing all the Junon side content since i really wanted to see the parade and I have just the biggest smile on my face, I haven't even started it properly yet
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Oh, this game big big. I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed at all the different systems they've thrown at me and I got to Chadley and went up against Titan and he kicked my loving rear end, which has me worried, because I've been able to faceroll every overworld mob so far. Like, yes, I understand that they want me to go find his summon crystals to make him weaker, but that fight was level synced and he was loving two-shotting my entire team while laughing off my attacks. I'm worried that it's a signal I'm going to do bad at any fight that requires tactics. Also why does my minimap/tracker frequently have the word "Destination" on it, apparently centered right on wherever I am at the moment? It goes away sometimes, but rarely, and it's very distracting. Am I just getting a weird bug?
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I didn't bother with trying titan straight away because I haven't even upgraded anything. I'd just look at getting more stuff and do the area then give it a go.
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I feel like beating the un-debuffed summons is going to be one of those extreme gamer challenges and not comparable with any normal fights. Is it usually a good idea to save up 2 bars on everyone before executing a bunch of actions? I normally mostly use the bars as they come up since I'm afraid of capping and "wasting ATB," but this might be suboptimal. I generally find it hard to manage both the action elements and the "swapping characters and using skills" stuff. If I devote all my attention towards action I can successfully do things like perfect block enemies and avoid their attacks, but this often results in lots of time passing with my other party members not getting ATB.
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Ytlaya posted:Is it usually a good idea to save up 2 bars on everyone before executing a bunch of actions? I normally mostly use the bars as they come up since I'm afraid of capping and "wasting ATB," but this might be suboptimal.
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Ytlaya posted:I like Barret because he's low maintenance. Yeah as much as I like Rebirth I find combat to be very micromanage-y. It’s been years since Remake came out and I’m still not comfortable with the combat loop. I never really “got” it like I did the original. Maybe I’m just missing something?
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yeah i'm not particularly good at combat, but my one experience with a no-debuff titan tells me you do not need to be worried about that level of difficulty level sync or not. plus you're forced halfway into hard mode w/o itemsYtlaya posted:I feel like beating the un-debuffed summons is going to be one of those extreme gamer challenges and not comparable with any normal fights. agreed, and imagine it's also an easier fight endgame which probably works well for folks who want to roll through the main quest and not do world stuff but still get the summons CapnAndy posted:I have no loving idea, but it definitely wasn't in Remake or InterMISSION. You need your ATB to, y'know, do things, so if there's something that needs doing right now... spend that poo poo. Especially on abilities or anything that doesn't cost MP. Fights that take less time are fights that take less resources and do less damage that needs to be healed also with resources. also agree with this take-- unless you're fine with a battle playing out with mostly normal attacks the only reason you should really be letting anyone's ATB hit 2 is because they have a skill that requires it stuker fucked around with this message at 07:57 on Mar 1, 2024 |
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After playing 10 hours so far I've just done enough poo poo to reach upper junon, man the game is massive. I took friday off just to play, something I've never done before, and can't wait to goblin mode it all weekend. Game blows my pretty high expectations out of the water, almost everything about it is just phenomenal. Only things I strongly dislike is Chadley (what a offensively idiotic character concept) and the portrayal of yuffie. She was so bad even in intergrade that I stopped playing that 30 minutes in, and it didn't get any better. She's just pure cringe every time she appears. Every other character however is so good, even Barrett "2 grand" Wallace.
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JBP posted:Why did they make the moogles ugly Yeah I dont like the moogles in this.
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