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Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade is Visually Out of This World

COG writes: If you've been waiting anxiously to feast your eyes on some incredible gameplay of Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade then you've come to the right place because we've got a couple videos just for you.

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Paleblood1041d ago

The game looks amazing on PS5 and Yuffie is so cool.

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SPEAKxTHExTRUTH1041d ago

It definitely is out of this world. I deleted my PS4 file (or didn't transfer it over) just so I could start fresh with the new graphics. The min Cloud hops of that train it was love at first sight. Those graphics are AMAZING. Well done S.E.

Babadook71041d ago

This game is the gift (to ps fans) that keeps giving. An amazing next gen version, totally free, a great bonus mission, and surprisingly exclusive still to PlayStation.

Master of Unlocking1040d ago

For some reason it tells me I can't download the free PS5 upgrade on the PC PS Store over here, though.

philm871040d ago

Do you have the PS Plus version?

Sharingan_no_Kakashi1041d ago

I'm gonna pick it up as soon as I finish Ratchet. But I am surprised it doesn't run at 4k60. It's not like they added ray tracing.

IanTH1041d ago (Edited 1041d ago )

It is and it isn't. If you just wanted to run the game as it was on PS4 at 4k60, done. Should be no problems there. But this game got higher quality assets/rendering/lighting/etc. So if you tried running that version on a base PS4, it would choke well below the 1080p30 it ran at.

On top of that, 4k is 4 times as pixel-dense as 1080p. The game ran at 1080p30 on base PS4, a ~2 tflop console. So running 4k60 would be not only 4 times the pixels, but those 8 million pixels rendering twice as many times per second as well. Even at ~10 tflops for the PS5, that's tough to do with added visual improvements. And 4k60 is a beast of a spec to run, even on high-end PCs that cost well above PS5's MSRP.

And native 4k is generally the worst place to spend a majority of your rendering budget (especially given how comparably close things like 1800p can look even without upscaling). It's why Nvidia and AMD are both focusing on upscaling techniques to allow lower pixel counts to remain sharp, so rendering budgets can be better spent on improving the visuals themselves. I'm all for it on PC, and even more for it on consoles where I'm always playing at couch-distance from the screen. I'm happy to play most PC games at 1440p60 on my 4k TV simply because it is hard to notice when resolution doesn't match native at that distance.

I think we're going to slowly see the focus on native resolution slowly slip out of the conversation in lockstep with improvements to upscaling techniques, and as we see more games take advantage of them.

MetroidFREAK211041d ago

It's honestly the best looking game I've played yet

UnSelf1041d ago (Edited 1041d ago )

you should see Ratchet. Im not even a fan and I bought it and the shit looks better than any game I have ever seen in my life

Babadook71040d ago

I bought and tested both INTERgrade and Rift Apart the same day. All I’ll say is it’s not that big of a difference with both being top end visually.

MetroidFREAK211040d ago

I just bought Ratchet today, I'll check it out tomorrow

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Final Fantasy VII Remake Trilogy vs Final Fantasy VII Original Story Comparison: Which Is Better?

Twisted Voxel: "We compare the story in the original Final Fantasy VII and the new Final Fantasy VII Remake trilogy."

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The creation of a real-life Final Fantasy VII Buster Sword

PlayStation Japan: “A great sword that has been passed down from generation to generation and carries the thoughts of those who fight.”

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Final Fantasy VII Remake Cutscenes Changed With New Patch, Comparison Inside

A new patch for Square Enix's action role-playing game, Final Fantasy VII Remake, has brought changes to certain cutscenes.

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Sgt_Slaughter51d ago

If you can't go without breasts in a cutscene, you need help

Rebel_Scum51d ago

Should’ve ended that sentence with either “you maggot” or “you puke” Sarge

Barlos51d ago

Well bloody hell, I guess I need committing then. Stick me in a padded cell

Eonjay51d ago

People need serious help if you 'need' to stare at a minors breasts. And some of you admitted that so at least we have acknowledgement. Can we not sexualize children? It shouldn't be considered progressive. I think the mass majority of people regardless of political view aren't into to kiddie boobs.

CrimsonWing6951d ago

look, man... why support censorship in any way? Forget the cleavage, it's the principle. Do you like owning the cable television edited version of a movie or do you want the original R-rated version?

I'd be just as irked by this if WB Games put out a patch that censored all the swearing and gore in an MK game. So, regardless of how you feel about boobs being covered up in the game, it's the principle of censorship that gets most people. I couldn't care less if she wore a sports bra from the beginning, what I hate is people covering my eyes and ears like I'm a 5-year old telling me, "This is too inappropriate for you."

So, yea, censorship is dumb as f*ck regardless of the content. Changing something that's already established that nobody made a big deal about, and nobody is getting their rocks off to (let's be real here), all because people get uncomfortable with boobs is dumb, plain and simple.

Like, give me a f*cking break here...

AdonisIsBeast51d ago (Edited 51d ago )

Yea, apparently you’re incapable of comprehending the point of the complaint. As another user mentioned, it’s principal. These are fictional characters in fictional worlds, it gives most people no pleasure see “the cleavage” as used in this example. The entire point is that we are all getting sick and tired of these fake and unnecessary DEI and ethics departments censoring media simply for the sake of it. Unless theres nudity, they should leave it alone.

Babadook751d ago (Edited 51d ago )

I prefer the before, but I won’t make a mountain out of a molehill. (No pun intended)

CobraKai50d ago

It’s about the needless censorship.

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andy8551d ago

I mean she is portrayed as being 15 in the scene. I don't really consider it woke to cover up a child (begs questions why they did it in the first place though).

Rocketisleague51d ago

In the original nomura was going nuts with child panty references and such. Look it up

k2d51d ago

Devil's advocate here.. who's doing the objectification here though? How would progressives react if teenagers where asked to not show skin and cover up their feminine traits? No bare shoulders. No hair. No make-up etc.. 20-30 years ago the main stream tune was the complete opposite, and games where under attack from conservatives and we had to defend games from them. Now publishers are pre-emptively chastising and censoring to please left AND right, depending on which region of the world their trying to up ease.

dmonee50d ago

Alot of Japanese animation, cartoons, video games, are SuS, when it comes to sexual exploitation lol.

Gamingsince198150d ago

She's not anything , she's not a real person, she was never born, they could make her nude and no harm would be done to anything but the minds of people that can't tell real life from video games.

OMGitzThatGuy51d ago

Black rock is against sexualizing minors? Those demons!

AdonisIsBeast51d ago

Actually they’re FOR exploiting children and promoting puberty blockers and life altering hormone treatment for minors. Do your research

qalpha50d ago (Edited 50d ago )

BlackRock is apparently FOR sexualizing minors. They (along with Disney) were vehemently against the Florida parental rights bill (better known as the 'don't sexualize young elementary kids' bill).

banger8851d ago

"It’s unclear why Square Enix opted to make this change around 4 years after the game’s release."

Because some progressive, blue-haired freak started quivering uncontrollably and frothing at the mouth?

CrimsonWing6951d ago (Edited 51d ago )

What’s weird about it? Females wear low cut shirts all the time, do you bust a nut over it? No… well, I’d hope not.

This is a person who has breasts that wore a low cut shirt, the end. It’s not child porn and nobody in hear was fapping to it.

When you go to a mall and some 15 year old has cleavage showing do you run up and throw a bed sheet over her? I mean Geezus you see more with swimsuits…

Our culture is so weird. We have people championing women for doing OnlyFans as such a brave and empowering decision. I see celebrities barely wearing anything on the red carpet exposing their nipples and butt cheeks and everyone is gawking at how amazing the outfit is.

A freaking game has a fake character that in no way looks 15 and in no way is oversexualized, but had a shirt with cleavage in what, a 30 second scene, and suddenly that’s where we draw the line… like what world am I living in?

andy8550d ago

Just personally find it weird. But what is actually weird is the people who are complaining about it. If she was 12 is that suddenly not OK. 10? There's a reason stuff like that isn't shown in media on children. You'll obviously see it in real life but doesn't mean it's right.

gold_drake51d ago

yes and to make it more in line with Rebirth. shes wearing a black undershirt in that game. consistency.

the japanese definetly didnt care if she has one on or not ha.

Barlos51d ago

Sweet Baby Inc is probably the reason

I_am_Batman51d ago (Edited 51d ago )

Seems much more likely that the team simply wanted to prevent perverts from zooming in on the cleavage of a 15-year-old in photo mode. I'm pretty sure the Nibelheim flashbacks in Remake were only a couple seconds with a fixed cutscene camera, so that wasn't much of an issue until Rebirth where this character model is obviously used a lot more.

Maybe you guys should hold your horses until you've played the game and stop jumping to conclusions. I've already got spoiled about a scene that happens later on in the game and it certainly didn't fit your hypothesis of Square bending the knee to oversensitive "progressives" with an allergiy to attractive females.

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franwex51d ago

They wanted to have consistency with the new character model. That basically it.

Why not make the new character model resemble the design of 4 years ago though?

gold_drake51d ago

while i want my games, especially the ff games with alot of lore, to be as accurate in their translation as possible, the english localisation took huge liberties in the first place.

the japanese and german for example are in line with one another. english is not. but yea. its a silly change, the steel sky was a great thing when she said it, but apperantly the original english lip movement was more in line with "i dont like it" than with "the steel sky, i miss it"

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