£70 for half a game

[FlabTheInHaler]

Never really played any of the FF's but I know they're amazing especially old school FF7. what I can't understand is why someone would pay £70 for half a game, when the other half is exclusive to PS5.

Make it make sense

[Weltall8000]

It's a full length game that is part of a trilogy.

Also, you could wait for a sale and get it for about half that.

The sequel, Rebirth, should come over to PC/Steam in a couple years. Third entry's release timeline to be announced.

It's a good game.

[Starscream]

More like 1/3 of the original game. bought it on release for PS4 and bought it again here for Intergrade when it went on sale last month. but I'm done encouraging Sony's bad business practices and skipped the PS5.

[Guybrush]

Originally posted by FlabTheInHaler:

Never really played any of the FF's but I know they're amazing especially old school FF7. what I can't understand is why someone would pay £70 for half a game, when the other half is exclusive to PS5.

Make it make sense

Do you split something in 3 and have 3 "halfs"?

[spectre199]

Original Final Fantasy 7 was a game with 3 discs.

Think of this game as disc 1

Think of rebirth as disc 2 if you play that on ps5 or when it gets here.

Think of the third game as disc 3 when it gets released.

[Herr Glaube]

Originally posted by Pronnu:

Originally posted by spectre199:

Original Final Fantasy 7 was a game with 3 discs.

Think of this game as disc 1

Think of rebirth as disc 2 if you play that on ps5 or when it gets here.

Think of the third game as disc 3 when it gets released.

Actually game 1 is 1/3rd of disc 1.
Game two is the other 2/3rds of Disc 1.
Game three will be discs 2 and 3 which means they wont have as much padding to do.

Not really because a large part of disc 2 and 3 is actually just a copy of disc 1. Remember that most disc space goes to video and sound too, not game data. The game was very lopsided towards disc 1.

That aside, this game is about as much content as the original FF7 in its entirety so the comparison isn't really fair anyway.

[Weltall8000]

OG FFVII's main story was mostly on disc 1. Disc 2 and 3 were heavily CGI scenes, with 3 being only the final dungeon and ending for main story and the rest was miscellaneous side content.

Setting aside the optional side content (primarily in disc 3), disc 1 is the lionshare of FFVII.

Of that, Midgar is a huge chunk of the story, and is the most density of it of any area in the game.

How they did the break down of this with the R Trilogy is probably the most sensible way they could have done it.

Midgar > rest of disc 1 > rest of the game (which was basically just disc 2, plus one dungeon on 3).

[Omnipotencia]

Originally posted by Weltall8000:

It's a full length game that is part of a trilogy.

Also, you could wait for a sale and get it for about half that.

The sequel, Rebirth, should come over to PC/Steam in a couple years. Third entry's release timeline to be announced.

It's a good game.

problem is at base price it is, even on sale its barely normal price so you aint getting a sale on it, being part 1 of a 3 part game makes it £30 at best making the complete game £90

[Last Seraph]

Originally posted by Weltall8000:

OG FFVII's main story was mostly on disc 1. Disc 2 and 3 were heavily CGI scenes, with 3 being only the final dungeon and ending for main story and the rest was miscellaneous side content.

Setting aside the optional side content (primarily in disc 3), disc 1 is the lionshare of FFVII.

Of that, Midgar is a huge chunk of the story, and is the most density of it of any area in the game.

How they did the break down of this with the R Trilogy is probably the most sensible way they could have done it.

Midgar > rest of disc 1 > rest of the game (which was basically just disc 2, plus one dungeon on 3).

Midgar was at most 4 hours of game time, and that's if you take your sweet time. Unless you're a kid playing the game and get lost anyway. Calling it a huge chunk of the story is drastically overselling how much content is in OG Midgar, it just had a habit of messing with kids on their first playthroughs since so many of them quit before even getting to the bike chase.

[Pack 4 Potatoes]

Originally posted by Last Seraph:

Originally posted by Weltall8000:

OG FFVII's main story was mostly on disc 1. Disc 2 and 3 were heavily CGI scenes, with 3 being only the final dungeon and ending for main story and the rest was miscellaneous side content.

Setting aside the optional side content (primarily in disc 3), disc 1 is the lionshare of FFVII.

Of that, Midgar is a huge chunk of the story, and is the most density of it of any area in the game.

How they did the break down of this with the R Trilogy is probably the most sensible way they could have done it.

Midgar > rest of disc 1 > rest of the game (which was basically just disc 2, plus one dungeon on 3).

Midgar was at most 4 hours of game time, and that's if you take your sweet time. Unless you're a kid playing the game and get lost anyway. Calling it a huge chunk of the story is drastically overselling how much content is in OG Midgar, it just had a habit of messing with kids on their first playthroughs since so many of them quit before even getting to the bike chase.

That's just factually untrue. The only way to beat it in 4 hours is by speeding up the gameplay. 30% of the game's dialog is in Midgar. It is the most story dense part of the original game.

[Weltall8000]

Originally posted by Last Seraph:

Originally posted by Weltall8000:

OG FFVII's main story was mostly on disc 1. Disc 2 and 3 were heavily CGI scenes, with 3 being only the final dungeon and ending for main story and the rest was miscellaneous side content.

Setting aside the optional side content (primarily in disc 3), disc 1 is the lionshare of FFVII.

Of that, Midgar is a huge chunk of the story, and is the most density of it of any area in the game.

How they did the break down of this with the R Trilogy is probably the most sensible way they could have done it.

Midgar > rest of disc 1 > rest of the game (which was basically just disc 2, plus one dungeon on 3).

Midgar was at most 4 hours of game time, and that's if you take your sweet time. Unless you're a kid playing the game and get lost anyway. Calling it a huge chunk of the story is drastically overselling how much content is in OG Midgar, it just had a habit of messing with kids on their first playthroughs since so many of them quit before even getting to the bike chase.

4 hours for Midgar is on the fast side. 5-8 is about normal for a normal run. That is, not knowing where everything is, reading/not skipping dialogue, doing everything. For those of us that have played this game dozens of times, sure, 4 is doable.

By the same token, with that proficency, the whole game is shorter and the 40 hour game can be done in the 20s (or less).

Midgar is basically all plot with little filler until the first sort of "dungeon," which is the puzzle shenanigans in Shinra tower.

After Midgar, it is a whole lot of just playing a game, with little story drip fed over the course of hours. You might get to an area and besides a one or two minute scene of dialogue, there's nothing else story done there. Midgar was hours of pretty linear, straight up story.

Size? It also had the most screens of any area in the game, bar none. Midgar is bigger than all of the new areas in disc 3 combined.

When the total game is 30-40 hours and you have Midgar being 5-8 of that, it is a huge chunk of that. And again, if you want to say Midgar is 4 hours while taking your sweet time? Fine, I can beat OG in 20 hours flat, so it's still about 20% of the play time.

[TimeKeeper Bank]

Originally posted by Weltall8000:

It's a full length game that is part of a trilogy.

Also, you could wait for a sale and get it for about half that.

The sequel, Rebirth, should come over to PC/Steam in a couple years. Third entry's release timeline to be announced.

It's a good game.

I thought this game was open world but apparently not.

[Weltall8000]

Originally posted by TimeKeeper Bank:

Originally posted by Weltall8000:

It's a full length game that is part of a trilogy.

Also, you could wait for a sale and get it for about half that.

The sequel, Rebirth, should come over to PC/Steam in a couple years. Third entry's release timeline to be announced.

It's a good game.

I thought this game was open world but apparently not.

Remake is definitely not open world. It is fsily linear.

[Ryan]

Originally posted by Omnipotencia:

Originally posted by Weltall8000:

It's a full length game that is part of a trilogy.

Also, you could wait for a sale and get it for about half that.

The sequel, Rebirth, should come over to PC/Steam in a couple years. Third entry's release timeline to be announced.

It's a good game.

problem is at base price it is, even on sale its barely normal price so you aint getting a sale on it, being part 1 of a 3 part game makes it £30 at best making the complete game £90

lol forspoken is still retailing at £70. SE is too prideful and stupid to bargain bin it, you would actually make more money with 10 people playing it at £10 then 1 person at £70.

[Fr0gg0]

Especially when the game is almost four years old now, it's pretty crazy they still charge full price for it. They should lower it to around £30 by now and have a sale at £15. You can get it new on Playstation 5 for like £20 or lower these days.

[Weltall8000]

Originally posted by Omnipotencia:

Originally posted by Weltall8000:

It's a full length game that is part of a trilogy.

Also, you could wait for a sale and get it for about half that.

The sequel, Rebirth, should come over to PC/Steam in a couple years. Third entry's release timeline to be announced.

It's a good game.

problem is at base price it is, even on sale its barely normal price so you aint getting a sale on it, being part 1 of a 3 part game makes it £30 at best making the complete game £90

Putting it that way, with the entire trilogy being £90... we're talking about getting ~35 + 80 + ?? hours worth of games for £90.

It is extremely misleading to say that the R Trilogy is equal or less quantity of game. As for story? It expands the FFVII story a lot and is a sequel in disguise.[/spoer]