Final Fantasy VII - "Remake"

Somethin about the voice actor for Cloud that really annoys me. Even in advent children thought his actual voice took somethin away from the film (not that the film was great anyway)

Suppose when you've played the original so much you just imagine it sounding better.

But yeah..... His voice sucks :p
 
Rossi~ said:
Demo was kinda awful. If I wasn't going to walk away just on the principle of the sales model alone, then the story changes are enough regardless. I don't know why I am surprised, they were bound to simplify and open up early on for the new gen of short attention spanned gamers, but whatever. Good one SquareEnix..
Now I think i'll go play the original.
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What's wrong with it. Need more in what you don't like.

There's already mods out there to make the original very pretty graphics wise so a like for like wasn't needed hence its called remake not remastered.

I don't like the combat ill admit that, but then I don't think turned based fully would work in how they are making the world. Classic mode is plenty for me as allows me to sit back and take it all in which Is what I personally want.


The sorry line itself isn't being changed, just expanded on in certain parts and I for one welcome that with open arms.

As with any remake, just go in with it being a completely new game, If you compare it anyway then yes you will always be disappointed, but if you go in as no comparisons and this is all new you may be surprised on how you feel.
 
My biggest concern about this was the battle system (I too would have prefered a tweaked turn-based system in line with the original, hated the fighting in FF15) and so after reading the negative comments in this thread about that part of the demo I was even more worried but having played the demo just now.. it's not bad actually. I dunno.. perhaps just having a source material you know and love (I hated FF15 in general and pretty much every FF since 10, which itself wasn't great either) helps but it's a lot better than the FF15 battle system IMO and I reckon it could make for some epic boss fights later in the game.

I also didn't find the voice acting as annoying as I thought I would, though I wouldn't have minded none at all and just text tbh.

But yeah, I liked it and I'm pretty hyped for the "full" game now. As others have said.. I hope the materia system is good.
 
Simmz said:
What's wrong with it. Need more in what you don't like.

There's already mods out there to make the original very pretty graphics wise so a like for like wasn't needed hence its called remake not remastered.

I don't like the combat ill admit that, but then I don't think turned based fully would work in how they are making the world. Classic mode is plenty for me as allows me to sit back and take it all in which Is what I personally want.


The sorry line itself isn't being changed, just expanded on in certain parts and I for one welcome that with open arms.

As with any remake, just go in with it being a completely new game, If you compare it anyway then yes you will always be disappointed, but if you go in as no comparisons and this is all new you may be surprised on how you feel.
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As I said, the chaptering of the game and DLC hidden content isn’t a great start, then same as you I hate the combat style, I can’t stand this action platform RPG, what happened to JRPG style? Being a fan that was wanting a polished remaster or remake in the same vein as the original rather than a complete reimagining. I have to go to mods instead of relying on Square Enix to deliver. This remake was the answer to a question nobody asked, but is the most lucrative.

As for story, Cloud already having memories play out rather than thinking he’s Zack. There are no other SOLDIER’s part of Jenova synthesis, they’re just mako “ghosts” and the stupid lab under Midgar from DoC.
Also Sephiroth haunting him from the beginning of the game thus removing the long build till you actually see him.
That’s just from the demo.. Oh and the voice acting is absolutely atrocious, I mean Barret..? Lol!

It’s not for me, and increasingly I find that I generally don’t fit with current generation of games and their development/sales tactics. I’ll not be buying this game but I will continue to love the original and it will still remain as one of my favourite games of all time.
 
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Rossi~ said:
As I said, the chaptering of the game and DLC hidden content isn’t a great start, then same as you I hate the combat style, I can’t stand this action platform RPG, what happened to JRPG style? Being a fan that was wanting a polished remaster or remake in the same vein as the original rather than a complete reimagining. I have to go to mods instead of relying on Square Enix to deliver. This remake was the answer to a question nobody asked, but is the most lucrative.

As for story, Cloud already having memories play out rather than thinking he’s Zack. There are no other SOLDIER’s part of Jenova synthesis, they’re just mako “ghosts” and the stupid lab under Midgar from DoC.
Also Sephiroth haunting him from the beginning of the game thus removing the long build till you actually see him.
That’s just from the demo.. Oh and the voice acting is absolutely atrocious, I mean Barret..? Lol!

It’s not for me, and increasingly I find that I generally don’t fit with current generation of games and their development/sales tactics. I’ll not be buying this game but I will continue to love the original and it will still remain as one of my favourite games of all time.
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How else would you like him to sound like...?!?! Will Smith....Idris Elba....Michael Clarke Duncan?!?!:D
 
None of the voices were overly great, it was very reminiscent of an old badly dubbed anime... though overall I was okay with the choice they made for Barret's voice as in the original, the way the wrote his text segments showed a very strong Mr T influence, so I find the choice of voice acting for him in this fairly appropriate.
For me it's Cloud & Wedge's voices that I have the most issue with. I can't quite put my finger on what exactly it is about their voices but they both make me want to mute the entire game whenever they're speaking.

I'm a little bit hopeful that we'll get an option to change the dialogue audio to Japanese in the final release.
 
Cloud english VA sounds similar to RE2R Leon VA but it's not the same guy, interestingly Barret and side chars like Jessie VA have got decent amount of VA experience compared to Cloud,Tifa and Aerith.
I honestly hope they do include japanese dialogue as well for western release, they should have given the option for KH when they ported it over to PS4.
Apparently Red-13 isn't playable either.
 
I haven't got a problem with any of the voice actors. This is a remake of a game which originally had no voice actors. Everyone had their own imagination of what they sounded like back then.

It would be the same if the next Zelda game, Link was voice acted.
 
I have no issue with the way they sound whatsoever.

Did anyone else notice the materia slots in Cloud’s sword? I really do hope we do get a lot customisations, different weapons and upgrades like the original. Otherwise it will be disappointing and end up feeling like a silly hack & slash game.
 
TNA said:
I have no issue with the way they sound whatsoever.

Did anyone else notice the materia slots in Cloud’s sword? I really do hope we do get a lot customisations, different weapons and upgrades like the original. Otherwise it will be disappointing and end up feeling like a silly hack & slash game.
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Really liked the way they subtly showed the piece of Materia attached to the sword slot, really looking forward to seeing more of how they show off stuff like that... also really interested to see they're doing the summons with the new combat system.
 
suenstar said:
Really liked the way they subtly showed the piece of Materia attached to the sword slot, really looking forward to seeing more of how they show off stuff like that... also really interested to see they're doing the summons with the new combat system.
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Yeah. Was not a fan of summons in FF15, I hope they do much better here.
 
Would be interesting to see how they go about the other weapons to showcase the number of materia equipped and accessories.
Looking at some of the original weapon design,can't really see anywhere they can show materia on ultima weapon.
 
kurosagi01 said:
Would be interesting to see how they go about the other weapons to showcase the number of materia equipped and accessories.
Looking at some of the original weapon design,can't really see anywhere they can show materia on ultima weapon.
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Im really wondering how they are going to deal with the weapons and summons, we've seen Ifrit and Shiva in the trailers but they dont come until after Midgar, ultima weapon is end game. How is it going to work in the remake? are we only getting the low powered weapons in part 1, will saves carry across, they really need to give us some more info. Im feeling like these will be more standalone games rather than episodic releases. I am still super excited for release day tho.
 
Rossi~ said:
He sounds like Mr T... I was not expecting that level of goof.
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That's exactly how I read his lines in the original. I thought he was clearly based on him?

I don't have any problems with any of them to be honest.

I've decided I'm not going to play it anymore or complete the demo. I'm going to save it for next month.
 
ShortWarning said:
That's exactly how I read his lines in the original. I thought he was clearly based on him?

I don't have any problems with any of them to be honest.

I've decided I'm not going to play it anymore or complete the demo. I'm going to save it for next month.
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The demo is super short anyway, so not like you would spoil much ;)
 
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