Square Enix just announced that the original FINAL FANTASY VII is being refreshed, with existing owners granted a free copy of the new one.
  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    25 days ago

    If you think this is great news, just wait until they announce their next big project: Final Fantasy VII refined! And after that: Final Fantasy VII reworked.

    There are even rumors of a Final Fantasy VII reboot!

    • mushroommunk@lemmy.todayEnglish
      14·
      25 days ago

      I’d trash on Squenix for this more of it wasn’t going to be free to owners of the previous version and wasn’t likely to fix a bunch of issues (like controller support). As announced it is basically a large patch to the current version.

      • Baaron87@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        25 days ago

        As someone who finished Rebirth recently and decided to revisit the original after, I’m actually glad to hear about this newer version. Mostly for the (hopefully improved) controller support.

      • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        24 days ago

        Nah, feel free to trash regardless.

        SquareEnix has become an awful, greedy, shit of a company. I’m sure they’ll fuck up this new version somehow.

        I miss the days when Square and Enix were seperate companies…

    • shinratdr@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      24 days ago

      Maybe it’s just me but I kind of hope it does.

      I love the mods but they work because the 2013 version is just the 1998 version repackaged. Why would SE make yet another version based on the rickety old codebase of the 1998 version? If that was the case this would just be a version update. I know the response will be “cash grab” but they’re giving it away for free to anyone with the 2013 version so that doesn’t fit either.

      This strategy is why the mobile port of FFVII is also awful, it’s literally just the PC port in a virtualization wrapper. The 1998/2013 version will be around for anyone who wants to use the mods. I’m hoping to see something akin to the Unity rebuild we got for FFIX, which will allow a wave of new supported ports for mobile as well.

      Unfortunate they are delisting the 2013 version though. That does mean that there may no longer be a moddable version available, which is definitely a regression.

  • HeartyOfGlass@piefed.socialEnglish
    4·
    25 days ago

    I’m confused why they’re releasing what’s effectively a patch for the 2013 release as a standalone thing. Why not update what’s already out there?

      • HeartyOfGlass@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        24 days ago

        That’s the source of my confusion. They’ve re-released FFVII on nearly everything, remastered it, etc; I guess I’m more confused by their decision to break save compatibility.

        I have gobs of games that have saves in different game versions. Some games handle large updates as “mods” that can simply be toggled. Some auto-update the old save. It’s doable. For the company that’s rewritten this game a half dozen times I can’t imagine it was because they “couldn’t”. Maybe if they ran out of time?

        • shinratdr@lemmy.caEnglish
          3·
          24 days ago

          The secret is that they actually never have rewritten it. Dig into the code and every single version, even the iOS/Android port, is just the 1998 PC version with hacks on top. The 1998 Windows EXE is even included in the iOS version.

          Fingers crossed that this is a real rewrite to allow a modern mobile port.

  • foodvacuum@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    25 days ago

    Still waiting for FFIX pixel hd remake. Or update the regular FFIX with that faster combat animations mod so it’s pleasant out the box

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2·
      24 days ago

      FFIX was a 3D game, they’re not going to make a pixel hd remake for it. If anything, it’ll be a full remaster

  • Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2·
    24 days ago

    This reminded me Ever Crisis existed, but then got upset again when I remembered it was a gacha game.