You mean like the Scarecrow sections in Arkham Asylum except everything's on fire? Or do you mean as a cutscene?
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Final Fantasy 7 Remake Announced (First on PS4)
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My feelings exactly.
Cutscenes. And not too many of them(it's easy to go overboard with that kind of thing). With what I have in mind, Seph wouldn't necessarily just be fucking with him. At least not in the obvious sense. He might just want to talk at some point.
In any case, I'm just curious what they'll do with Cloud and his psyche.
Out of curiosity what country do you live in?
That would definitely be cool. It's a fine line to walk but I would love to see more of what's happening in Cloud's head. Also maybe we'll get to know who the mystery voice that occasionally talked to Cloud was. I eventually thought it was Zack. Has that been confirmed yet?
Brawly Likes to Brawl
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You had 20 years to get over this, people.
yo guys I have an idea
let's remake Star Wars but Obi-Wan doesn't die and neither does Darth Vader
MistressMoitie
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I'd like to see more cutscenes, too. Part of the reason I like Crisis Core so much is that we got to see the more character driven moments. I especially liked witnessing Sephiroth's progression from who he was to who he became in FFVII. I'd love to see more of him in the remake. Those of you who suggested even to see him toying with Cloud's mind - that would be very cool.
There is a great opportunity here to expand upon FFVII here while still honoring the source material, and I hope they take some liberties to flesh out the story and moments even more.
There is a great opportunity here to expand upon FFVII here while still honoring the source material, and I hope they take some liberties to flesh out the story and moments even more.
SolidSnakex
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http://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/10475025/
It's a poll that 444 people participated in. And only 89 of those 444 actually played the original.
stargateheaven
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I'm cool with being able to revive Aerith.. but ONLY after you've completed the story. To me that's fair.
355 played only up until that point lol.
SolidSnakex
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Being able to revive her under any circumstance is unnecessary fan service. A major part of the impact of her death was that it was final. There was no way to bring her back. That's why years after the games released you had to trying to find ways to bring her back as well as countless bogus rumors about how to actually do it.
GregLombardi
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Wasn't Aeris' death a necessary thing? I doubt they're going to change your options.
Andrew Evenstar
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I agree with this. Make it NEW GAME + only or some sort of extra content. Would be fun to actually have extra dungeons and missions with her in a post game setting.
Shadow_FFVI
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Are people serious when they suggest this?
LOL Perfect reaction.
Aeris' death is as integral to the story as Meteor being summoned.
DoktorEvil
Banned
LOL
Even presenting the option to revive her breaks the original narrative!
No. No reviving of Aerith.
stargateheaven
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i'm honestly surprised it wasn't a a long process of reviving her option in the original.
Ghost Slayer
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SE can sell "what if" DLC, i bet people would buy it even haters
Pagusas
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There were little hints of something that could have turned into it, but I'm glad there was never a way to do it. Death needs to mean something, otherwise there are no stakes to anything.
It was the same for General Leo in FFVI. All the rumors to revive him as well.
You can actually glitch the game to keep him though.
DoktorEvil
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The narrative proceeds forward with the idea that Aerith's death motivates the crew to hate Sephiroth more and to see to his demise. It was a powerful plot device and watershed moment in video games, especially in 3D.
Changing everything short of her death(such as the ability to revive her) makes FF7 something it isn't. Changing when, how, and why would be much more palatable, as those details are forever spoiled.
DLC presenting a "What If" extra scenario where the party COULD revive Aerith may be much more palatable as well.
Acquiescence
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The greatest paedo-pop song ever recorded. It would be the perfect soundtrack to such a moment.
GregLombardi
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I've given up trying to remember which is correct. Our confusion will remain for ALL time until the remake is in our hands!
Only a few hundred people took part in this poll in one website.
I think it would really destroy the entire game if it was ever considered, but i don't think Nojima would worry about that. Her death was planned in the very early stages as the main driving force for the events of the game. Getting over a major character's death was intended to be the theme
AuthenticM
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How old are the people who want Aerith to be revived?
Oh God, this ff7 love triangle heated debate has made my pimples reappear and Linking Park to pop into my playlist again. Are you happy now, bringing my teenager years back? YOU HAPPY NOW???
Silliness aside, I consider the romantic aspect of ff7 in the same vein as the Persona dating options. There's an overaching plot and hints towards certaing pairings, but in the end a big part of the game's charm resides in giving the player control of its romantic aspect, thus making the players far more attached to said choices and characters (see also how heated this debate can get).
This is one of the things that I want to see out of this remake: more dating options, more waifus, more Barret-esque dates of hilariousness, more people jumping at each other's troath in forums claiming how Jessie inclusion into the dating pool changes the game forevar, MOAR INSANITY, MOAR. And changes in the game's ending due to that, of course. Aerith's resurrection? Sure, why not. We need to trow this beloved fandom of mine into full rage overdrive
Silliness aside, I consider the romantic aspect of ff7 in the same vein as the Persona dating options. There's an overaching plot and hints towards certaing pairings, but in the end a big part of the game's charm resides in giving the player control of its romantic aspect, thus making the players far more attached to said choices and characters (see also how heated this debate can get).
This is one of the things that I want to see out of this remake: more dating options, more waifus, more Barret-esque dates of hilariousness, more people jumping at each other's troath in forums claiming how Jessie inclusion into the dating pool changes the game forevar, MOAR INSANITY, MOAR. And changes in the game's ending due to that, of course. Aerith's resurrection? Sure, why not. We need to trow this beloved fandom of mine into full rage overdrive
pls dont do it S-E
DiipuSurotu
Banned
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
The supplementary material confirms that the official localization has been Aerith in every game since Kingdom Hearts was released.
Also, a way to save her? No way. DLC to keep her in your party in a non-canon form? Maybe... it would give her limit breaks a chance to shine.
freikugeln
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SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
Star Ocean 4 did this
when Faize leaves and is replaced with Arumat. On a second playthrough you can choose to keep Faize, although Arumat still appears in cutscenes.
Pitch Black Flint
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I can't help but feel the people who want to revive Aeris don't understand the significance of her death. And I'm not talking about the emotional impact that watching her be killed had on us back then either.
She intended to die. She understood Sephiroth's plan to become god by creating a catastrophic event that would force the planet to gather the souls of everything living in order to protect itself and she beat him to the punch. By becoming one with the lifestream, she effectively used her power as the sole survivor of the Cetra to influence the lifestream and prevent the destruction caused by Meteor. She became the goddess of the planet and saved everyone. That's understood, right? If she didn't die, then everything else on the planet would have. She can't be revived without completely undermining the entire plot of the game.
Also, that's why I refuse to call her anything but Aeris. Heiress? Get it?
She intended to die. She understood Sephiroth's plan to become god by creating a catastrophic event that would force the planet to gather the souls of everything living in order to protect itself and she beat him to the punch. By becoming one with the lifestream, she effectively used her power as the sole survivor of the Cetra to influence the lifestream and prevent the destruction caused by Meteor. She became the goddess of the planet and saved everyone. That's understood, right? If she didn't die, then everything else on the planet would have. She can't be revived without completely undermining the entire plot of the game.
Also, that's why I refuse to call her anything but Aeris. Heiress? Get it?
Um, no. It's been explicitly explained by the creators that she did not intend to die, and in fact her death was specifically intended to be the opposite of 'heroic sacrifices' so frequently seen in other games.
Are people serious when they suggest this?
I think it would be an interesting option to be able to save Aerith in exchange for someone else, like Tifa. Yeah it would basically be a different game at that point, but honestly, not THAT much happened after Aerith died anyway.
It would be cool if whoever you dated died at the forgotten capital.
Or maybe Cloud gets killed, and you play as Aerith for the rest of the game.
There's a difference between changing game elements of 20 years ago, and changing the entire crux of the plot, which is to have this person who is intricately connected with the lifestream die and become one who watches over everyone on the planet.
According to Nomura and Nojima, Tifa was created specifically to hold Cloud together and take up the role of heroine after Aerith died.
That would kind of fly in the face of that entirely.
Dark_castle
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Still find it a little hard to believe that this remake is actually happening. I get my daily mini mindfuck seeing this thread.
Pitch Black Flint
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Well, that was my interpretation. I haven't read what the developers have said about it after the fact. But regardless, her death still has the same effect whether that was her intention or not and she does become the savior of the planet. So, everything else I said I still stand by.
Bitch Pudding
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Why not switch all those rifles to walky talkies while they're at it....
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
This year has been totally insane. FFVII-R, RE2-R, Shenmue III, Star Ocean V, DQXI Console AND 3DS, playable demo of what used to be vaporware (Episode Duscae), etc.
The world is going to experience some sort of cataclysmic event preventing all of this from coming to pass. There has to be some sort of negative component to all of this. It's all too good to be true.
Also, on the walky talky comment above, that actually brings up a pretty good point. Will Cloud and co. still use old 90's cellphones (PHS) to swap party members?
You left out Nier 2, Virtue's Last Rewards 3, and confirmation of The Last Guardian's 2016 release as well.
It's been a bonkers year all around. Absolutely love it.
DiipuSurotu
Banned
Plot twist: there are only 89 console RPG players left in Japan.
ThreePiMatt
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Make it so Aerith dies, and then her twin sister, Aeris shows up ala Beerfest. And you just pick up from there as if nothing happened.
Sounds like L4D
"Oh nooooo, our comrade-in-arms was brutally massacred by zombies, but wait, a few minutes later we found another survivor trapped in this closet who looks and sounds exactly like him but no one bats an eyelid"
Secretly, Aerith was controlling Caith Sith the whole time. She did "die" in disc one, just not where you thought. Reeve was just a cover-up---you heard it here first.
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