Brian Shea runs down a list of the best and most relentless years the industry has ever seen.
Final Fantasy 7 has come back under the spotlight thanks to the release of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, but is it worth replaying the original?
Got to Zacks part in 7 Rebirth. Said f it. Finishing my game in 7 og. Just got to part 2 yesterday. I also got Crisis Core... So it'll be a while before I'm back to Rebirth. I just keep thinking about it too smh, want to get back to playing it. Not till I know Zacks story though. I beat 7 og sooooooo long ago, it's crazy going through it again and remembering things.
Got to Zacks part in Rebirth?
You mean you started the game and turned it off?
The game starts with Zack...
... Really 🤓 lol. His second part, I've played for 80hrs lmao. <---- PS5 Run time, probably not all game time. You guys know how it goes.
Did you not ever play the OG FF7? After you recruit Vincent, later in the game, disc 3, return to that basement and look at the pod, there's a whole Zack story that'll trigger as a memory.... it's well hidden in the game and a lot of things regarding Zack are cleared up. FF7 Crisis Core is basically an extend feature of that hidden flashback... It took me years to discover it back then lol
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80 hours in Rebirth by doing everything, and you should've reached Zacks story about 5 times 🤣
Ye I kno that's y I said not all gameplay time. But also I am very anal when it comes to exploring.
Not to mention fighting Titan at his full strength. Hours spent trying still haven't succeeded. Found all 3 ruins but I'ma masochist when it comes to games.
Very much so. Graphically it's dated but the story and the gameplay haven't aged a day. It's still one of my all time favourite RPGs and for me is better than Remake in some ways.
It always takes me back to Christmas 1997, I got it as a gift and I was blown away when I played it. I couldn't believe games could look that good. The combination of pre rendered backgrounds and FMV really made it stand out. It definitely still has a certain charm that modern games can't replicate.
I can't imagine people will still be talking about Remake and Rebirth in 27 years.
Fully agreed. To me the atmosphere, pacing, gameplay and music are all better than in the remake.
Remake is so amazing, pure FFVII Love, play it on PS5 please! aww the graphics the battles, the music... a dream come true.
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Sales ranking announced by Famitsu. This time, we bring you a summary of estimated weekly game software and hardware sales from March 25th to March 31st, 2024.
Hardware Sales (followed by lifetime sales)
Switch OLED Model – 42,957 (6,958,780)
PlayStation 5 – 18,272 (4,713,002)
Switch Lite – 8,302 (5,793,705)
Switch – 6,274 (19,755,912)
PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 2,574 (746,561)
Xbox Series X – 938 (252,674)
PlayStation 4 – 679 (7,925,339)
Xbox Series S – 438 (306,446)
New 2DS LL (including 2DS) -6 (1,192,906)
Rise of the ronin sold twice as much as Dragons Dogma 2 this week...but no articles about that. It's only news if a PS exclusive is being outsold.
I don't wanna spoil the list so I'll just say #4 should be Higher!
2007 is one I really, really loved. Getting Bioshock and Mass Effect (which was oddly absent from the write-up) in the same year was fantastic. I didn't play the first Witcher until a couple years later, but that was amazing as well. Plus, the Orange Box releasing with Portal included...
What a great year. I hope to experience another one of those soon.
Yeah, 1998 is in my opinion the best year in gaming history. In fact, I don't think it can even be argued against from an objective standpoint.
2013 is looking really good. We have two games (Bioshock: Infinite and The Last of Us) that I feel are all-timers, and at least one more (GTAV) that has potential to join them. In the end, I don't know if there will be enough all time great games this year to compare to the best couple years, but it certainly feels like a year people will remember and talk about a decade from now.
1998. Half Life, Starcraft. Thats the best year.
1998 completely annihilates the other years.
It's not even close and the best thing about the games of 1998 is that most of them were original recipe, not sequels. It was that year in particular that caused the fall of the arcade scene. How could arcades compare to the epic win that was releasing on home consoles?
Gaming was changed forever that year and we are still feeling the effects of it. Of course, I loved the entire decade of the 90s but '98 stands tall as the shining pinnacle of gaming history. May we all see another year like that again soon!