Twisted Voxel: "We compare the story in the original Final Fantasy VII and the new Final Fantasy VII Remake trilogy."
NPD analyst Matt Piscatella has hinted at sales of Square Enix's Final Fantasy VII Rebirth having underperformed in the US.
Its a great game but the texture resolution on props/environmental assets is unacceptable I dont think its right for a AAA videogame company to put out a game for $69.99 with such low quality assets. The character models and Character textures look great but again the blurry textures on environmental assets is shocking for a game on PS5. I see hardcore FF7 fans on reddit defending the asset quality however nobody defended the apartment door textures on FF7 Remake but for some reason nobody cares about FF7 Rebirth's abundance of low quality assets.
the textures are barely that bad at all. sounds like you never played it and are just going by some random screenshots you see online.
unlike the first game where the texture issue was more glaring, i've not run into this at all in rebirth
I really like the game but my heart dies a little when the map opens up and a laundry list of open world padding appears with those damn towers. I know they're optional but my OCD doesn't care! It's the reason I stopped playing Assassins Creed games, it just doesn't feel fun in the slightest. When Rebirth is laser focused on its actual story the game is top class.
The textures are really not that bad. There's some low res textures in some of the environment but generally it's decent. I honestly think the encouraging environmental textures in Stellar Blade are much worse, yet you don't hear anyone talking about this.
It's funny how often the term "analyst" gets tossed around nowadays. But again, that's the only way they can remain relevant.
He's been following the industry for decades, he's not just a random person on Twitter.
Exactly. He's an Executive Director at Circana/NPD. Not sure why analyst became a buzzword over the years. It's literally part of his job description to report on them. 🤣
Yeah. It's not about relevance, it's literally *his career*. Not tossed around, it's what he does and has been doing for a living.
They should of released it on Xbox and PC as PS5 owners don't seem to buy JRPG'S. Also they could of made a deal with MS to have it on gamepass Day 1 with MS giving them a few billion to make up for sales.
Hopefully the new CEO of SE will cancel all exclusive agreements with Sony and make Part 3 and all future SE games multi-platform.
Not wishful thinking at all as both FF 16 and Rebirth are both not selling well on PS5 and shows that PS owners are not that interested in JRPG'S. SE will have to recoup the cost of the games by releasing both game and all future games on as many platforms as possible.
Exclusives are a cancer in gaming so i don't understand why gamer would want a franchise like the FF franchise to die off because of PS fans not buying them.
"Exclusives are a cancer in gaming so i don't understand why gamer would want a franchise like the FF franchise to die off because of PS fans not buying them."
They are for Xbox because so little people are buying Xbox, now they have to put their games everywhere. Meanwhile, Sony and Nintendo will keep doing exclusives because it differentiate their consoles from the competition, it boosts hardware sales. Sony and Nintendo will never release anything on Xbox, so you guys get nothing while the rest of us get our exclusives plus Microsoft's.
LMAO release it on a dead console that is on decline by 30% every quarter yeah good solution XD keep waiting for that port of a 2019 game 5 years and counting.
Is this a real post? FF7 Crisis Core sold 5% on Xbox and over 80% on PS and you think that PS owners don't buy JRPGs? 😂😂 the sales didn't perform as well as Remake because that was released in Covid when people were home all the time, and it released to twice as many platforms users. And PC? Sure that would sell well, but then it'd take an extra year or two to come out. And I overlooked the part where you said "a few billion to make up for sales". A few billion is 50 million sales, you think the XB port is selling that? 🤣
people grew tired of this episodic greedy releases
better wait for the complete edition, no need to wait years between episodes
by the time they release another part, you already forgot where the story left
people want complete games not crumbs, glad it under-performs
that's a lesson
100 hour game is crumbs? Remake had a ton of content as well.
And what is episodic? People had to wait years after cliffhanger endings to see what happens to see the next "episode" like with Mass effect, halo 2, god of war 2, etc... did people complain they forgot what happened when the sequels came out?
Saying Square got greedy with Rebirth, it not having microtransactions and a massive amount of content is essentially brain dead.
l liked the episodic. I get more game over a time rather than one hit XD
I just don't like how...creepy sephiroth is with Cloud. Like the erotica fanfic writers and artists are going nuts.
The same thing could be said about any game that was made with sequels in mind though. If they released the whole remake project in one game it would've been much less ambitious. Some people like yourself might've been happier with a conservative Remake approach, but others probably would've complained about the unrealized potential of remaking the classic.
The original aged very well and is still perfectly playable. I just don't see anything particularly interesting that they could've accomplished with 3-5 years of production time for the entire Remake. At that point they probably would've scaled it back even further and it would've ended up being a slightly expanded version of the original with a new coat of paint and voiceover. Maybe that would've been a more profitable path, but I for one wouldn't have been interested in that and I'm glad that they went all out and gave the game the attention it deserves.
Eh it ain't that at all. 12 years of development costs isn't greed. They just wanted the project to the be the best it can be. If they rushed it and put it into one release it would have been a disaster. Now sales or not, the game is outstanding and will likely win game of the year. So they definitely succeeded in making it great. And I mean just play it again like I did before the next part comes out. It was given away on the monthly PS games so there's so excuse really.
The game isn't episodic, idk why people to this day keep saying that. It's no different than 13, 13-2, 13-3 or X, X-2. It's sequel based, and no one is tired of sequel based games or episodic for that matter cause episodic games aren't even all that common anymore.
No it's mainly People who played Remake and didn't like the changes didn't bother with Rebirth all together
It's always like this. FF8 sold very well on release because FF7 was awesome, meanwhile people didn't like FF8 as much as FF7, so guess what? FF8 caused FF9 to sell less at launch.
According to the devs, Final Fantasy 7 Part 3 will be "curtain call" for some of the newly introduced characters in Remake and Rebirth.
What about VII in general
It’s time to focus on other FF games rather than just FFVII
big nope haha
if they make newer 7 games woth the same quality they lut into reborth, im more than up for it.
newer titles will always be developed at the same time.
Hows that complaining? Not wanting something to be exploited forever and wanting other FF titles to be remade or get some love so their fans can enjoy it.
Got to love full on die hard trolls, fanboys and more being on here with no filter and yet you'll pick on me to complain about...
You got nothing to say other than to have a little bitch about me then take it to the PMs or f*** off
Literally every single time. No matter the game. No matter the topic. No matter the day of the week.
Yeah he always just complains. When you point it out, he just starts complaining about you next.
What are you talking about ?? xvi's 2nd dlc just came out and xiv's new expansion comes out in a couple months . They've been feeding us good . A triple dose of FF in a span of a few months which is basically consuming a majority of my gaming time for the rest of the year.
People love safe sequels, then complain when publishers make nothing original. They've made 1 actual mainline sequel since 15, no clever spinoffs, people forget how many games they used to make during the PS1 and 2 days. Definitely time to move on from milking 7, end it on a high note.
I agree. I love VII but this remake trilogy should be it. Please no crap like Advent Children or Dirge of Cerberus after this.
In 20 years we will get the remake of the remake of FF7. Looking forward to it.
Also, screw FF8, hehe.
I mean, there is 1 studio working on VII content, and other studios working on XVII and other projects.
I want the VII games to keep coming til I die.
I mean, the last 20 years of Final Fantasy games has been good but none has been as good as VII Rebirth.
What makes it time to focus on other ff?
If the game is successful and the trilogy isn’t out yet, why should they move on to something else?
I want FF8 remake but id rather have the episode 3 before.
I’m sure FF17 is currently in development
That'll be great if ps6 had a one disc edition using that new physical media format that was announced recently.
I hope so I heard of a pb disc announcement too so it'll be perfect but I know companies afraid of the power of physical media lol.
The problem with those discs is the same as all disc formats, high seek time (latency) and low transfer rates.
Fair but discs are a way to preserve things and over time disc's do improve look at bluray to 4k bluray for example it's not like disc's can't be improved upon I rather have disc consoles with digital only consoles to create more options.
I’m 110 hours into Rebirth, I have been doing EVERY side quest, battle and exploring the map. I absolutely love the way they expanded the narrative for all characters.
Even the sub stories actually feel like they are done well with Kyrie and her grand mother. Leslie impacted by don corneo. Chadley having a connection to Hojo and more.
Barrett is such a good person caring and considerate, heck when they were in the mythril mines and Tifa was concerned for the robes. Cloud was dismissive but Barrett saw Tifas sadness and offered himself to check on them to make her feel better.
That’s one of MANY interactions that just landed for me so well. I’m so glad I chose to take my time and appreciate this game
The Outerhaven writes: Aerith Gainsborough has always played an integral role in Final Fantasy VII. But with Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, the ending ensures that you'll know it.
huh?
she was already plenty powerful even without rebirth, especially if you read the novals and watched the movie.
it definetly was a battle between her and Sephiroth and cloud was just there for show ha.
the end part with Cloud basically being a puppet and Aerith knowing and playing alone...shivers.
DON’T SPOIL story, or reveal changes about characters for a BRAND NEW GAME in the headline - people should be able to avoid spoilers in articles on N4G.
Would be cool to see Aerith with yellow hair or blue hair yelling KAMEHAMEHA lol. Also would be cool seeing Aerith and Tifa do the fusion dance and wear the potara earrings I wonder what they would be called when fused. She all ready has the power she is literally part of the life stream of the planet.
original game has it's status because of her and last part will most likely be about finding out how to get everyone on her path of whisper white so of course she is the main character
they are different stories