Developers made do with less back then and those with passion showed it in a masterful synergy of good writing, sound effects and voice acting, and art. Not to derail the thread, but I'm playing Homeworld Remastered and everything about holds up 20 years later.
It is amazing how bankrupt creatively more modern games are. Thank goodness the older titles still have active communities and patches to make the games work on modern systems, that way you can still have something good to play even when the AAAA gaming space collapses onto itself.
And it created some Leon/Claire shippers
A 1 to 1 remake is quite literally what everyone wanted; a full remake with modern graphics. That's literally what everyone was asking for. People just wanted the original game, but looking like what people were imagining it looked like in their heads when they originally played in 1997. A full remake would have sold gangbusters, and everybody would have loved Square Enix for it.
The main reason anyone even remembers FFVII, and the main reason it was critically acclaimed, was because of its story. Aerith's death is one of the most memorable events in modern gaming. Sephiroth's is one of the most iconic villains in gaming. FFVII was a solid RPG gameplay wise, though I've also heard it described as easy by modern standards from friends who played it, but the reason everybody still remembers that game is the story, characters, and world it portrayed. For many games, story or characters are of lesser importance. For FFVII, that is absolutely not the case.
Hell house was the fight that made me hate Remake. I didn't have one of the elemental spells equipped (I think it was Ice) and basically had to trudge through the thing.
Well, materia system is more complex than esper system from ff6 but more variated like job system.
since i kept getting my shit kicked in, i had many opportunities to fuck around with my materia and general strategy. because hell house is vulnerable to magic in general, that also would include abilities like cloud's blade beam, which did like 1.2k non-elemental magic damage to an unstaggered hell house. sure, it's a slow and risky move, but when you get that fucker into stagger and get like one or two blade beams in, you can do some good damage without having to worry about using any MP.
I'm so tired of this argument since its barely true in many respects when it comes to these "remake" games and even when it is, the vast majority of people hate the changes to the story they made. What exactly even are these "different" thing(s) people wanted? Have Aeris not sacrifice herself for the greater good? Ok, and our heroes manage to save themselves from the Meteor how then? Do they just conveniently find some other way to save themselves? If so how? Or maybe perhaps, these people want Sephiroth to win this time around. Maybe, that's what they want. That would certainly be different though I don't guarantee most people would like that. Or lets suppose Zack survived somehow. Ok, then what? Is he just another member of Avalanche then? He can't go back to Shinra since they should still be after him. That and I highly doubt he would, even if he could, go back to working for them. If he does decide to work with Avalanche how would that not make Cloud go mental or do you intend to handwave that away and thus deprive the main character of his story arc? I could go on and on. The people who say they wanted things "different" have no clue what they're talking about. The original story is simply too tight to make anything but the most insignificant changes that wouldn't ruin the overall story.
Huh? Aerith dying had nothing to do with the Holy spell. She got it to work in the lost city of the ancients, Sephiroth was just holding it back from working when he was inside the planet at the northern crater. That's the tragedy of Aeriths death, it wasn't suicide to save the world, she wanted to live as much as anyone else but Sephiroth killed her.
"FUCK MY SISTER, LEON! THE BLOODLINE MUST CONTINUE!"
Because then there is no reason for her to leave the party at all or cryptically tell Cloud she'll come back when all of this is over. Why would she do either if all she had to do was just pray for a moment at the Forgotten Capital?
I thought the whole "she had to die" thing was that she basically knew that going to the Forgotten City would lead to her death, not that she literally had to die to activate it.
Being able to do a second take on a big game or franchise is a luxury and every studio should have a chance at it. Not my fault people either don't know what they want, the studios lack the imagination or talent to make something interesting, or both.
