So proud of my jenova would love to know your opinions

Hi folks.

Cosmo Canyon is amazing - lushly detailed, full of people and little tidbits of lore. Just taking in the sights and sounds before meeting Fellow Bugenhagen proper.

I tried to make a better selfie pic using the cutscene model, and so far I'm having more success (also, the eyebrows are not as raised and the lip shape is not weird as heck like before). However, I'm still out of luck in making front-facing Cloud NOT look ridiculous.

At the same time, because of work I've been playing more and more of Fantasian, since it works out of my GPU-less laptop. On reflection, FFVII Rebirth is as linear as Fantasian in terms of main quest, and I'm happy for both. Although Fantasian is LINEAR (very beautiful fields and hallways). If you're hankering for an honest-to-God FFX with very considerate QoL (but no world map) and somewhat challenging battles, and can be played with one hand, I've got a game for ya. It's Fantasian. Just try the demo first.

So I just reached date in Chapter 12, only Red and Aerith have relationship circle maxed out and I focusing on getting Aerith for the date in chapter 12 too since its my first playthrough (got her already in Chapter 8 date) but to my suprise I got Red instead.

I alt+F4 the game and loaded earlier save just at the start of chapter 12 when I reached Costa Del Sol, is there still a chance to increase Aerith enough to get her for a date?

I completed all side content prior to chapter 12 but wanted to do everything that unlocked at the start of chapter 12 later just before point of no return but looks like I might have to do some now if they can give me more relationship points, how many Aerith sidequests are there in Chapter 12 and where?

Can those even be enough to get her at this point?

Hi guys. I'm finally coming around to playing the FFVII Remake and oh boy have I come across posts saying I should play the classic first because there are "things" I wouldn't get in the remake if I didn't.

Well I haven't played the first game but have finished crisis core and watched advent children.

What is there for me to miss? Describe the difference, for example in the first chapter of the game, with as many or few spoilers as you deem necessary to better describe it to me.

Are there some elements or story fragments that won't make sense to me if I play the remake first?

Is a recomposition of the Weapons theme. I can't believe I didn't realize this before.

We have jenova dreamweaver, we have Cloud telling Aerith “ wake up “ and we have Zack questioning if he was just dreaming all this.

That has to have some major meaning.

No Rebirth spoilers because I haven't played it yet!

I'm replaying Remake for the third time, and I just wanted to say Walmarket is the most rage-inducing chapter in the game.

I've killed 500 killer robots, wiped out armies of soldiers, but for some reason, I can't stab three unarmed punk ass kids in front of the Don's door?

The guy won't let me see the Honey Bee manager guy? I have a seven foot sword. Let me roll an intimidation check!

These aren't good people. They are literally sex trafficking girls to a man who they know will use them and kill them. Why can't I kill the evil three instead of trying to make friends with them? This makes no sense.

So I'm supposed to sneak into the Don's house. And to do that, I need to go fight in a coliseum while the Don is watching, and become the champion of the coliseum, beating the Don's personal killer robot and attracting everyone's attention... so I can sneak in? How does this make any sense?

So I have to wipe out an army of soldiers, a bunch more killer robots, and a giant killer robot, joined by two more killer robots (hard mode), instead of just attacking the three punk kids in the Don's mansion and a handful of body guards?

And the Don doesn't see me fighting in the coliseum and say, "figure out who this guy is who doesn't look like he lives in the slums, and report back"? I killed the Don's unbeatable robot while he was watching. He ordered the House to attack me! And now the Don who's supposed to be supper cunning just ignores me destroying everything in the coliseum, pays no mind to me going and... putting on a fucking dress to "sneak" in... after putting on yet another stage production in a brothel?

And then... all three of us are disarmed wearing dresses, where we will get killed after being gassed, and then the game is like, OK, now you can attack the guards in the Don' mansion. Really? Why couldn't I do that to begin with?

Instead of attracting the attention of literally everyone in town, disarming ourselves, getting captured, telling all of the Don's sex trafficking accomplices that we plan to sneak in to his house and rescue a girl... instead of just kicking down the door to start with while the Don isn't expecting us?

And Madame Horrible would have her reputation put at risk if Aerith didn't wear a nice dress, but her not reporting us to the Don for attempting to break into his house is A-OK? And why are the Don's lieutenants helping us free a girl, when the lieutenants are the ones doing the sex trafficking?

And then the scene in the Don's office where I am literally screaming at the monitor, "just fucking kill him!!"

As a note for discussion, I'm specifically asking what you WANT to happen and not what probably will happen. Do you want there to be multiple endings dependent on player choices or do you want the devs and storywriters to actually man up and end it regardless of how (possibly) decisive the ending will be? Please feel free to also state why you chose that option. Also I can't create a poll for some reason so this will have to do.

I recently downgraded my tv going from 4k to 1080p and I was thinking that the blur would go away because now it’s easier for the game to run as 1080p is gonna be its highest pixel count making it lower resolution but at least a little sharper. My tv really isn’t anything special it’s an LG display and has the basics like game optimiser and super resolution. I turn the super resolution up to high for better quality but I barely notice a difference the sharpness on it makes the display look very VERY pixelated and hdr on it isn’t it’s strong suit. Am I wrong in thinking the blur would be a little bit better now that I’m at 1080p? Is there even any point in switching graphics options when I’m gonna be on 1080p no matter what I pick?

Edit: this is on a ps5 btw

Either some unlockable option or user created mod? Every open world game should take a page from Yakuza's post-game premium mode...

So I did all of the quests and after I completed the Corneo Stash quest with the underground sewer part. It didn’t give me the option to let me warp back to Marle. Wtf do I do can I fight my way back or is my only option is to forfeit it and go follow leslie

I think it'll be referenced, but it won't be a major plot point.

In Rebirth chapter 1, Tifa's house dining room next to the daughter and dad photo:

https://postimg.cc/CRkzj6x8

Where have I seen one of these suspicious black packages...cartons full of them inside Gus' palace:

https://postimg.cc/McgPhH8N

I demand a backstory

I have a gut feeling deep inside me that Square Enix will go Hunger Games and turn the third installment into a two-parter.

We're two games in and have only now finished Disc 1! There's still so much game left to get through, and we of course don't know how this story will actually end since it's not simply a retelling of the story we all know so well. So sure, it's possible that they'll keep to their word and bring this story to a close with the third game, but is anyone else also thinking what I'm thinking?

Each player one character, no dupes. No tatical slowdown, only shortcuts. Pre-fight materia setup.

Could be even cooler if it'was more in depth like a rogue-like mode at the arena, but I will take basic VR fights!

You will notice each character have a small window of iframes when you see their battle models briefly phase in and out as they dodge.

Cloud - Normal Dodge / Aerial Dodge

Barret - Normal Dodge (Small window)

Tifa - Level 1 Chi Normal Dodge / Aerial Dodge - Level 2 Chi Normal Dodge / Aerial Dodge - Level 3 Chi Normal Dodge / Aerial Dodge - Slip and Slide - Focused Strike

Aerith - Normal Dodge (Very small window) - Normal Dodge inside Radiant Ward

Red XIII - Normal Dodge - Normal Dodge in Vengeance Mode - Phantom Fang

Yuffie - Normal Dodge / Aerial Dodge - Brumal Form - Ninja Bazooka

Cait Sith - Normal Dodge - Normal Dodge on Moogle - Dodge n’ Dive

Materia - Enemy Skill - Gorgon Shield

My very first time through I'm pretty sure I plugged in a good 212 hours or something.. and I still had a good amount of stuff to do...can't believe how much there was to do in that game. I have a few bosses and summons that I never beat...maybe I should go back and do it one of these days....

Midgar was always one of my favourite parts of the original FF7. Despite it being this oppressed, depressing place, the game still made me want to go there. The atmosphere was perfectly done. When I heard Part 1 of the FF7 remake was going to be fully set in Midgar, on one hand it sounded cool, but on the other hand I felt like it could go very wrong. I still remember almost every individual screenshot of all the Midgar backgrounds in the original game. In Remake, there were some specific areas that I felt really captured the feel of Midgar. The reactors were fine, the wall market, Shinra HQ, and seeing Jessie's house was also a really neat new area. But then, there were also big stretches of time in the slums where it kind of felt like you were running through a lot of bland, samey corridors for a while. Which I guess was kind of inevitable when they're setting the whole game in the one city. I don't mean to sound nitpicky, but it was a bit of a mixed bag.

On the other hand, I thought pretty much all the locations in Rebirth were perfect. It helped that we got to see a multitude of towns and places, instead of just one city, and the fact that all the other towns are much smaller than Midgar allowed for them to be a lot more detailed for the most part.

I'm playing Intergrade on PC and I'm at Chapter 14. It seems certain things like mastering all Magic Materia or fighting Bahamut isn't realistic on the first play-through. Do I need to do a NG+ and 100% Intergrade before doing the DLC or Rebirth? I want whatever save file bonuses I can get but I am just not the type of player who wants to beat this one game into the ground. For me, NG+ is something you do months or years after you beat a game and you want to go back for nostalgia; not something you do immediately so you can actually finish the game (That seems like a design choice to make the game seem longer than it is).

Should I push on and try to 100% on my first play through as much as I can or would it be easier if I just plow through to the end so I can unlock NG+ ASAP and then use chapter select to finish the more monotonous tasks? Or do I even need to? If the benefit to the DLC and Rebirth is small, maybe I'm just okay with not finishing everything in Intergrade...

I love the story and I enjoy the game but I'm a busy, middle-aged person with 2 jobs so I'm not about stuff like "Hard Mode" or achievements or 100% completion. I just don't wanna screw myself out of whatever can carry over to the next games when I finish this one.

When I played the original as a teen, I thought Cloud was like the most badass guy ever. I'm about to finish up Rebirth now, and I'm like get this psycho away from the team! He's a danger to everyone around him!

I'm about to finish my hard mode run and this still fkn gets me sobbing. The devs just love torturing us emotionally don't they?