Final Fantasy VII Now On Steam

[Celice]

My only beef is the lack of Z-buffering in PSX games. The character movements were too jittery, but that's just me. ePSXe and the PC version don't look that different filter-wise. There are also mods that replace the models, enhance the font, etc.

Oh? What filters/shaders does the PC release offer?

(the quality of the fan mods are... very questionable, and hit-or-miss. Which is surprising, as you'd think in a rampant fanbase, some individuals with the skill would dedicate themselves to enhancing and creating the remake that would never come)

 

[Öhr]

Too expensive for such a lame and cheap "remastered" edition. if anything, I'll wait for some massive price drop of at least 80% (~2.50 bucks)!

 

[the_randomizer]

Too expensive for such a lame and cheap "remastered" edition. if anything, I'll wait for some massive price drop of at least 80% (~2.50 bucks)!

It could be worse, they could have released the 5000th iteration of Final Fantasy IV with minimal changes

 

[Super.Nova]

I can literally play it on my phone... why should I care now?
Wake me up when they finally remake the game.

 

[BORTZ]

Looks interesting. Did they fix some of the shaders or something? Either way, its more fun the play on my PSP. I actually dont know if my laptop can handle it.

 

[M[u]ddy]

The emulator will actually offer better graphics quality, via filters, than what this PC release will offer.

My only beef is the lack of Z-buffering in PSX games. The character movements were too jittery, but that's just me. ePSXe and the PC version don't look that different filter-wise. There are also mods that replace the models, enhance the font, etc.

With Aali's Custom Graphics Driver I mentioned earlier you can play the PC version in high res too, with AA and AF and no jitters.
The PC version also comes with better textures and some models have more polygons.
The music is another problem, because you are supposed to play the game with a SoundBlaster AWE, but there is a fix for that too.
This is how the music sound on a SoundBlaster AWE btw:
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1jqXBawzTXS

 

[chartube12]

Why are some people complaining about the price? The PSN version is 9.99. So this "new" steam pc version is very little more. Beats trying to buy a disc pc copy for 50-100 bucks online or a ps1 copy for 40-99. Come on now, the game originally cost 39.99 new back in the day.

 

[the_randomizer]

With Aali's Custom Graphics Driver I mentioned earlier you can play the PC version in high res too, with AA and AF and no jitters.
The PC version also comes with better textures and some models have more polygons.
The music is another problem, because you are supposed to play the game with a SoundBlaster AWE, but there is a fix for that too.
This is how the music sound on a SoundBlaster AWE btw:
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1jqXBawzTXS

Never liked the "emulated" SoundBlaster soundfonts to be honest The original OST was how I liked it. I know about the graphics mods, I was referring to the PSX version, which the console was plagued with. PSX couldn't handle true 3D due to no z-buffering.

 

[jalaneme]

final fantasy 7 is so overrated imo.

 

[TripleSMoon]

final fantasy 7 is so overrated imo.

^This. I tried to play the game at least 3 times, and couldn't get past the first hour each time. The game has aged terribly and is just flat out boring, IMO. /rain

Edit: Though, to be fair, I've never played a Final Fantasy that I didn't give up an hour into, whether it was due to random encounters or absolute boredom due to a slow start or ridiculously self-important story. The one I came close to continuing was IV, but those random encounters, ugh...

 

[the_randomizer]

final fantasy 7 is so overrated imo.

Overrated, perhaps, but still more enjoyable than the abortive Final Fantasy X-2 Didn't see the appeal behind a Final Fantasy "sequel".

 

[chartube12]

I used to love FF7 & 8, but they are not as fun as I remember them to be. They don't feel as challenging as I remember them.

 

[RPG Hacker]

"Remastered" my ass!
Why don't they finally properly remake this game? It's one of the few Square Enix games that not only deserve it, but would also benefit from it.

 

[the_randomizer]

"Remastered" my ass!
Why don't they finally properly remake this game? It's one of the vew Square Enix games that not only deserve it, but would also benefit from it.

The only "remake" they've done is Cloud's costume in Final Fantasy XIII DLC for Lightning. Big woop.

 

[Celice]

The only "remake" they've done is Cloud's costume in Final Fantasy XIII DLC for Lightning. Big woop.

You don't remember the tech demo for PS3, showcasing the intro of FFVII?

I used to love FF7 & 8, but they are not as fun as I remember them to be. They don't feel as challenging as I remember them.

http://www.insanedifficulty.com/board/index.php?/forum/104-final-fantasy-vii-hard-type/

There are rebalancing/difficulty mods all over the place for this game. You should definitely give them a try, as most of the games in the series allow the player to become overpowered monsters (as a trope of game design)--these mods scale back the presence of the player and puts them on par, and disadvantage, with many of the game's enemies. You'll be quick to start exploiting status magic, elemental weaknesses, and other tactics that the vanilla game has, but is pretty secondary and token (like poison--you'll come to hate that shit instead of just laughing at it).

 

[the_randomizer]

You don't remember the tech demo for PS3, showcasing the intro of FFVII?

http://www.insanedifficulty.com/board/index.php?/forum/104-final-fantasy-vii-hard-type/

There are rebalancing/difficulty mods all over the place for this game. You should definitely give them a try, as most of the games in the series allow the player to become overpowered monsters (as a trope of game design)--these mods scale back the presence of the player and puts them on par, and disadvantage, with many of the game's enemies. You'll be quick to start exploiting status magic, elemental weaknesses, and other tactics that the vanilla game has, but is pretty secondary and token (like poison--you'll come to hate that shit instead of just laughing at it).

Yes, that tech demo is also known as a cock tease.

 

[the_randomizer]

Now that it's on Steam, I wonder if I should spend the $12 and get a copy of the game that I can actually re-download as many times as I want. Sure, there are issues with the game, but there are also reasons I wouldn't mind having it. One, no having to rip the ISO images from the PSX discs. Two, you can use the original PSX soundtrack, three, smoother animations in 3D (they look a lot better than the PSX version), and four, I don't have to spend high prices on Amazon for the original PC discs. Screw that. Maybe I'll wait for the Summer Sale.

 

[Issac]

I wish wish wish so bad that I didn't buy this horrible re-release from the SE site. It crashed a lot, looked awful (updated graphics my ass), and was all just.. meh. Would've been a lot better to get it on steam right away. (I think steam is awesome, keeping track of all my games and saves... instead of having some download files here and there and everywhere... besides, I got it before I installed win8 and threw in a new SSD in my computer... so I guess I don't own the game any more?).

Oh well, I do have it on PSX as well :3

 

[the_randomizer]

I wish wish wish so bad that I didn't buy this horrible re-release from the SE site. It crashed a lot, looked awful (updated graphics my ass), and was all just.. meh. Would've been a lot better to get it on steam right away. (I think steam is awesome, keeping track of all my games and saves... instead of having some download files here and there and everywhere... besides, I got it before I installed win8 and threw in a new SSD in my computer... so I guess I don't own the game any more?).

Oh well, I do have it on PSX as well :3

The graphics don't look any worse than the PSX version. The static background were at 320 x 240 originally. There are mods for graphics too, something you can't on the PSX version. Twelve dollars is nothing compared to Amazon.

 

[Issac]

The graphics don't look any worse than the PSX version. The static background were at 320 x 240 originally. There are mods for graphics too, something you can't on the PSX version. Twelve dollars is nothing compared to Amazon.

To me it actually looks worse than the PSX version. With the high resolution (low poly) models on top of low resolution static backgrounds looks like shit. On the PSX it looks evenly shitty that it's acceptable, if I should be pessimistic. I haven't seen any mods myself, so I can't comment on that. Actually never heard of any mods until this thread, I'd really enjoy to look into that sometime. Sure, 12 bucks (for a download) is nothing compared to XX bucks (for a physical copy). I managed to get the black label PSX version (not platinum or anything) for 20 bucks. Complete, good condition.

Anyway, my comment on it looking awful is based on the promise of updated graphics, which were nowhere to be seen. And my initial frustration is that I bought some crippled downloaded version, when I could've waited for a steam version.