Final Fantasy VII now on Steam
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I must buy this and unlock all achievements so that everyone will know that I conquered this game and all it's challenges no less than 10 times in 1997. Because what the hell is middle school? I had a Playstation.
P.S. Now if they could just release 1-6 too. Specifically FFVI because Kefka is best villain.
Other than that, it came at a time when most RPGs were medieval fantasy games. Instead, FF7 brought about a modern world with cars and machine guns to go along with the magic and monsters. Characters came alive and were more relatable. The story and settings were always larger than life, with each turn bringing some form of excitement or a cinematic cutscene (a treat back then). The story was a classic "chase the bad guy", but it worked well enough.
For those on the fence, consider this: while the textures are still the same low-resolution ones from the past, the actual rendered resolution of anything with polygons (characters, backdrops in battle sequences, etc) are crisp with today's displays. It's a lot less muddy, especially for those used to the PS1 version's pixellated blockyness.
Finally, if you do get the game, read this tutorial. Apparently the music in the PC version uses inferior MIDI sequences. Someone took the music from the significantly better OST and made a music pack that replaces the crap MIDI versions. Follow the tutorial to swap them out.
As for how it actually plays on the PC I can't say. I was gonna wait until after my cousin's wedding to play it.
Also, FYI, there ARE mods for the PC version. The guides there are meant for the old PC version though, I'm unsure if they work properly for the STEAM version.
There was some dumb thing a ways back where Squeenix stated that they weren't going to do a remake until they could make a game that was more successful than 7, otherwise they were "failures". Which, given their recent history, they've more than branded themselves as fucking failures ANYWAY, and from what we've been seeing as of late, they could REALLY use the capitol. Honestly, I think that's the only reason they even allowed STEAM to do this in the first place.
It's also funny because the director that was working on XIII said that he really wanted to remake VII really badly, instead. The company has -officially- gone on record stating that doing a remake for VII would "cost more resources than they would be able to put towards it at this point and time".
...meanwhile, "The Chronicles Of Lightning (That Nobody Asked For) 3" is quite eagerly greenlit. Funny how that works.
But I also found something else. Apparently there is a fully orchestrated version of the soundtrack out there that you can use for an entirely new auditory experience. I haven't looked into it fully yet, but the word-on-the-street-pro-tip is to google for "FF7 OST Remastered Ogg Fix v4".
That boss battle where the normal boss music is replaced with this.
Dem fuckin feels.
I mean really, this was shown at E3 in 200FUCKING5. That's EIGHT YEARS AGO NOW.
If they ever had the perfect time to do it that time is long gone. We can always dream though.