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Apparently Super Mario Odyssey and GT Sport are also listed for PC on Amazon. Lol.

This better comes to Switch too

2 hours ago, Remij_ said:

Well... I'm disappointed as fuck.  They completely ruined this thing for me.  I can't believe I'm saying that as most of the game was great... but the ending and where they are going with this has completely turned me off of the game.  What a bunch of fucking bullshit.

 

I guess new fans of the series, and more open minded people might be happy... but I'd be lying if I said I was.  Plain and simple.

 

For FUCK sakes  

You know what? As a fan of the original too, I can definitely understand that.  But seeing how they managed to perfectly nail the presentation, soundtrack and even combat, I’m staying optimistic that they can still pull off something that do justice to the original. Fuck, I’m grinding some levels to prepare for hard mode but it doesn’t feel like grinding at all cause I’m having so much fun with the combat.

16 minutes ago, madmaltese said:

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Yup! It's a whole new thing now and they make a big point about it with the final line. Which is so awesome because it explains why there wasn't a 'Part 1' attached to the title. I can see the next being called like Final Fantasy VII Rebirth or something like that. I personally love the ending, makes it much more exciting moving forward. They already proved they can retell the story perfectly and even improve it with 95% of that game so what's the point of just going through the story beats over again.

 

 

My interpretation was that they possibly did Sephiroth a huge favour. They essentially killed the Whispers who were making sure events transpired as they were meant to. In that timeline Sephiroth knows he couldn't win. This now opens all that up again. Does mean Aerith might not die.....but could also mean they kill Tifa. Either way anticipation for the sequel is sky high now.

 

My only real main confusion is the Zack stuff at the end. That is clearly another timeline because of the different logo on the bag of chips, but he still saw the explosion that seemed to happen in our game's universe.

 

Just finished it   Holy shit, that ending is ballsy AF.

Damn things escalated quickly in Chapter 12. 

16 minutes ago, Twinblade said:

The only knock I have against the game is that the graphics can be a real mixed bag. Some of the textures are rough af.

That and side quests have been mostly generic stuff so far. Good thing there’s not many of those. I do like the colosseum in wall market though.

Already at Chapter 9 Wall Market. Damn it’s hard not to fall for Aerith.
Elemental materia is cool as shit. Combined it with lightning materia and my slashes now have lightning sparks.  I wanna try combining it with wind materia just to see the cool effects.

4 hours ago, madmaltese said:

It's amazing how they've fleshed out and given every character you encounter so much personality. So much style in it's presentation too. They did an unbelievable job on this. Beyond all my expectations. 

Word. Every character is surprisingly more likeable than you’d imagine them to be. The story and world is still intriguing. I think they nailed the combat as well, so much fun and style while not losing the tactical aspect. FF7 have so much charm compared to recent FFs like 13 and 15.  Can’t wait to find out how SE will handle the overworld aspect in part 2 once we get out of Midgar. 

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What John is saying sounds pretty right to me! I don't want to down play GPU power, but I promise everybody that you will be absolutely blown away by visuals on both consoles. However, the SSDs are the big difference when coming into this gen. We're not talking about "load times" in the classic sense. That's an antiquated way of thinking about data coming from your hard drive. For the last 10+ years we've been streaming worlds on the fly. The problem is that our assets are absolutely huge now, as are our draw distances, and our hard drives can't keep up. It means that as you move through the world we're trying to detect and even predict what assets need loading. Tons of constraints get put into place due to this streaming speed.

An ultra fast drive like the one in PS5 means you could be load in the highest level LOD asset for your models way further than you could before and make worlds any way you want without worry of it streaming in fast enough. The PS5 drive is so fast I imagine you could load up entire neighborhoods in a city with all of their maps at super high resolution in a blink of an eye. It's exciting. People don't realize that this will also affect visuals in a big way. If we can stream in bigger worlds and stream in the highest detail texture maps available, it will just look so much better.

I think the Xbox drive is also good! The PS5 drive is just "dream level" architecture though.

It’s obvious Sony invested in the SSD instead of adding a couple more TFs. Whether it pays off though remains to be seen.

So it comes down to 15% power difference vs 100% speed difference. Personally, I'll take the speed.

15 minutes ago, DynamiteCop! said:

Microsoft kind of forced their hand, they have to communicate what their console is and their plans with it.

Lol this was supposed to be Sony’s presentation at GDC.

4 hours ago, Remij_ said:

 

  

 

We're going to be seeing A LOT of this in the future  

That’s some scary stuff if this guy is actually serious and not trying to be funny.

Think GS is a 9 as well

Nice score

26 minutes ago, MalaXmaS said:

Pro - 1200

I don't get it.

What's so "pro" about it? 

Turdstation 

I think the priority is to keep the 30fps stable and it's the right decision. It'd be a disaster if pro runs at a higher res than it can manage but drop frames below 30fps.

Did Control go to Gamepass?
 

http://www.pushsquare.com/news/2020/03/massive_ps_now_update_adds_control_shadow_of_the_tomb_raider_wolfenstein_2

Damn game feels so much smoother the second run. Operator mode only for moving close to target, then immediately switch to punisher mode for attacking. And keep an eye on Atb bar to use abilities often. Still finding it hard to manage other party member at the same time though.

4 hours ago, Delita said:

kotaku. wtf am I even reading. Sad part is Twinblade will still post his review on release and take their word as gospel as to how it apparently is not great after all

 

 

 

 

Lol guy is getting roasted.  The comment section is glorious.

GOTG

14 minutes ago, Sabo said:

Did you have ATB meter? Abilities cost meter.

 

The AI in particular is very bad with managing ATB so you have to babysit the AI a lot. There really needs to be an option that lets you tweak the AI behavior sort of like the Tales games allow you to. Because right now the AI acts like an idiot with it's meter.

Oh I didn't even notice the Atb bar tbh. I was playing it like an action game. Will get back to it again later today.

20 minutes ago, Twinblade said:

The demo itself was good, but i did have trouble guarding and dodging attacks. Its not that those mechanics are clunky or unresponsive, instead it feels like theres a delay in which you need to allow the animation to play out. For example hitting R1 doesn't seem to immediately put you in the guard state, you need to wait a second before Cloud will actually block attacks.

I like to spam the attack button while going into command to use ability/magic/item but they are often gray out cause Cloud is in an attack animation. When i hit r2 to get Barret to do something the command is gray out too cause I think he is in an attack animation lmao.

Honestly its hard to see how sony can top this. Next gen Xbox will be much more competitive.

4 minutes ago, Remij_ said:

Because Sony has already sold 2x as much hardware and they charge more for PSN, and their games sell crazy amounts too

Makes sense. But still crazy that PSN alone generated more money than Nintendo in a year where Switch is on fire and this gen is dying.