Queen's Blood (Final Fantasy Thread)

[Sam]

Oooo I missed the news on this! Great stuff, starting to get that point where days are just going by without me actually managing to do anything of note, bar earning bells for Tom Nooks.

[RazorsEdge]

My copy arrived today. I played for 4 hours and barely accomplished anything. It's such a beautiful game, as well, you can see how much work has gone into making assets unique, it's just gorgeous.

[Ruki]

I just started my preload. So I got that going for me.

[Bobfoc]

My copy arrived today as well. Getting it a whole week early is fantastic.

[Ruki]

Just saw someone post this on Reddit:

As someone who finished the game last night: stay the away from the internet if you want to avoid MAJOR SPOILERS. The game has more significant changes than people would imagine.

[stokeriño]

My copy (pre-ordered from Amazon) still isn't dispatched yet.

...Well, I suppose if it arrived when I was still in the middle of P5R, that would be somewhat awkward.

[Your Mom]

Why is my game preloading? 

[Ruki]

34 minutes ago, Your Mom's Side Chick said:

Why is my game preloading? 

Because internet slowdowns across the world would make it difficult for people to play day 1. Thankfully, mine was done (I think? I have yet to turn on my PS4 to confirm, but it's out of my download queue) before I got out of bed.

[Bobfoc]

I'm liking what I've played so far. I'm only a little way past the demo section, but I'm already impressed with how they've expanded the game world. It's fun to just listen to people's conversations and look around the map.

[Bobfoc]

I'm curious as to what this game looks like on a PS4 Pro. Graphically, it doesn't seem to be an absolute cutting edge game, especially when it comes to facial animations. I'm not bothered, though. It looks plenty good enough for me.

[Sam]

3 hours ago, Bobfoc said:

I'm curious as to what this game looks like on a PS4 Pro. Graphically, it doesn't seem to be an absolute cutting edge game, especially when it comes to facial animations. I'm not bothered, though. It looks plenty good enough for me.

I'm playing it on PS4 Pro, some textures look a bit off but it's still a very beautiful game. Just loving how they've expanded out areas from what we originally knew. Wasted so much time just walking around the Sector 7 slums. 

[Bobfoc]

The review embargo has been lifted and the reviews are mostly very positive. The common complaints are ones that were similar to mine, and they don't bother me much. I'm still having fun with the game.

[Ruki]

I'm excited to play FF7 in a few days!

 

 

But! One of the most exciting things happened in FF14 tonight. My FC decided to run an old piece of content synced for someone... Moggle Mog Extreme. It was HARD. We wiped like...6-7 times. But we beat it! And I was basically the shot caller! When we won, that was a great feeling for me. 

[Benji]

It's downloading and sitting there. Taunting. Teasing...

[Bobfoc]

I'm about 14 hours in and have just got past a particularly exciting part.

[Ruki]

1 hour ago, Bobfoc said:

I'm about 14 hours in and have just got past a particularly exciting part.

It's good?

[Bobfoc]

3 hours ago, Ruki said:

It's good?

I'm enjoying it a lot. They've done some good work in expanding the scope of the original game and I like the combat. I could honestly take or leave the ATB from the first version of the game, and I usually prefer a more real-time style of fighting anyway, but I can understand if big FF7 fans aren't so happy. In any case, if you've played the demo, you know what to expect there.

A common complaint has been that the side-quests aren't great. I think that's fair, albeit it's not something that's bothered me. Most of the time, they amount to walking somewhere, fighting something and reporting back to the requester, which doesn't leave much room for variety, but they're usually short enough not to outstay their welcome. You're also given the option to fast travel to the sender after finishing the task, which is a nice quality-of-life feature.

Playing a remake is a particularly interesting experience because you know the broad strokes of what to expect, but you're always wondering how it's going to be executed in the new, extended format. Without spoiling anything, I can definitely say that there are parts that add emotional weight to previously known events, and I'm in favour of a lot of the little changes I've seen so far. Bigger fans of the original than me might have some quibbles, and I'm expecting a backlash among some of them, but I'm more than satisfied.

[stokeriño]

Going to have to spend the rest of this afternoon working and pretending that I didn't just hear the sound of FF7 arriving through my letterbox.  

[Bobfoc]

11 minutes ago, stokeriño said:

Going to have to spend the rest of this afternoon working and pretending that I didn't just hear the sound of FF7 arriving through my letterbox.  

I'm guessing it sounded like this:

 

[Benji]

Chapter 2

Spoiler

I have a sneaking feeling all is not the same with Sephiroth as it was in the original. "Her body shuddering on cold steel"? Is he really talking about Cloud's mum like is implied... Or is he talking about Aerith?