Yeah, I haven't purchased one since FF III, and I only bought that because I had a gift card to a book store that was closing down and it was the only thing I wanted there. The internet has killed it.
This is not to say that I haven't been given many guides over the years, especially those pennied out from Gamestop. Some guides, including every Pokémon guide since fourth gen started and every FF guide since X-2 have been amazing. Hell I consider the guides for XII and XIII better than the actual game.
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But that's why I use GameFAQs.
That being said I do buy the occasional SG if its really nice looking.
I think the only guides I would consider would be fighting game guides. Ipad + Gamefaqs + Youtube is all I need. But man they sure make awesome bathroom reading material.
Gotta collect all the official Piggyback guides, love em forever. FFXII collector's edition is just gorgeous, and the 13 and 13-2 ones aren't bad either.
I really like the Doublejump guides that Atlus did for P3/P4/Demon's Souls. Even if the P4 one had a lot of printing errors. They're the sort of games where having a handy table of fusion options is really helpful, and not easy for some dude on Gamefaqs to replicate.
This is not to say that I haven't been given many guides over the years, especially those pennied out from Gamestop. Some guides, including every Pokémon guide since fourth gen started and every FF guide since X-2 have been amazing. Hell I consider the guides for XII and XIII better than the actual game.
I have the guide for 12. Doesn't have the best binding, but it really IS a good guide. Tells you basically everything you actually need to know about the game, and Whoever wrote it was at least SOMEWHAT competent at the game. (Unlike whoever wrote the FFVII guide I'm reading right now, who's all like "Oh this attack will wreck your shit" and then it does 50 damage)
Plus, hey. It tells you what chests not to open, and also gives drop rates FOR chests. Which is nice.
I have a disturbingly significant number of those special edition guides that came out for S-E's PS2 games. And they're actually pretty dang good. They certainly do their job at any rate.
Still, nothing compares to Doublejump. Those weren't strategy guides. Those were freaking bibles.
"The sausage of Green Earth explodes with flavor like the cannon of culinary delight."
I still look upon the Versus FF7 guide with great fondness.
I loved that guide so much that after a friend's dog ate my first copy of it, I bought another one on ebay, as it was years later and the only way I could get it. I still have the poster from it framed in my home, 15 years later.
Totally picked up FFVII PC, installing now. Probably going to run into the whole activation error thing, too.
I hope they don't wait until Gamescom to actually put the game 'live'
I'm waiting to see if they release it on steam myself. I still have the original CD of this :P
I'll be curious to hear if they actually improved it any. I heard some talk of "up-scaling" but that could have honestly just meant the fact that the game could run at a higher resolution. That means jack shit for 90% of the game which is just static backgrounds drawn at 320x240. Now if they actually took the original assets of those and replaced the crappy low-res ones with high-res ones, that would definitely be nice.
Totally picked up FFVII PC, installing now. Probably going to run into the whole activation error thing, too.
I hope they don't wait until Gamescom to actually put the game 'live'
I'm waiting to see if they release it on steam myself. I still have the original CD of this :P
I'll be curious to hear if they actually improved it any. I heard some talk of "up-scaling" but that could have honestly just meant the fact that the game could run at a higher resolution. That means jack shit for 90% of the game which is just static backgrounds drawn at 320x240. Now if they actually took the original assets of those and replaced the crappy low-res ones with high-res ones, that would definitely be nice.
What's sort of concerning is that they sort of rushed the game out to the store (quick enough that some store links dont even have a 'Buy It Now' button), so that may mean they did that same sloppy job with the other aspects, as well
I have the PSX disc version, the PSN version, but never owned the PC version. I spend about 95% of my gaming time on PC, so just the idea of having the game on PC is a great one for me
Plus, I can always play more Skyrim or DDO until they fix all the silly things that are happening right now
The new PC version of FF7 is fucking terrible and not worth giving SE your money for.
- No built in controller support whatsoever.
- Compressed artwork worse than the PS1 version.
- Compression artifacts on the FMVs.
- Doesn't use the PS1 audio. One Winged Angel for example has no lyrics.
- Installs known and documented malware on your computer (SECUROM)
- Uses Digital River
Totally picked up FFVII PC, installing now. Probably going to run into the whole activation error thing, too.
I hope they don't wait until Gamescom to actually put the game 'live'
I'm waiting to see if they release it on steam myself. I still have the original CD of this :P
I'll be curious to hear if they actually improved it any. I heard some talk of "up-scaling" but that could have honestly just meant the fact that the game could run at a higher resolution. That means jack shit for 90% of the game which is just static backgrounds drawn at 320x240. Now if they actually took the original assets of those and replaced the crappy low-res ones with high-res ones, that would definitely be nice.
From what I've been hearing from places like GAF, the sound is kind of fucked. There's no vocals in One Winged Angel, for instance, and everything else just sounds kind of off.
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This is not to say that I haven't been given many guides over the years, especially those pennied out from Gamestop. Some guides, including every Pokémon guide since fourth gen started and every FF guide since X-2 have been amazing. Hell I consider the guides for XII and XIII better than the actual game.
That being said I do buy the occasional SG if its really nice looking.
On the other hand, I have been unable to obtain their Nocturne guide in any format
Plus, hey. It tells you what chests not to open, and also gives drop rates FOR chests. Which is nice.
Still, nothing compares to Doublejump. Those weren't strategy guides. Those were freaking bibles.
However, Square's database to authenticate FFVII PC's keys apparently did not.
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Ugh. I'm already at cosmo canyon. I'm not restarting.
Stupendously incredible understatement
I loved that guide so much that after a friend's dog ate my first copy of it, I bought another one on ebay, as it was years later and the only way I could get it. I still have the poster from it framed in my home, 15 years later.
I hope they don't wait until Gamescom to actually put the game 'live'
I'm waiting to see if they release it on steam myself. I still have the original CD of this :P
I'll be curious to hear if they actually improved it any. I heard some talk of "up-scaling" but that could have honestly just meant the fact that the game could run at a higher resolution. That means jack shit for 90% of the game which is just static backgrounds drawn at 320x240. Now if they actually took the original assets of those and replaced the crappy low-res ones with high-res ones, that would definitely be nice.
What's sort of concerning is that they sort of rushed the game out to the store (quick enough that some store links dont even have a 'Buy It Now' button), so that may mean they did that same sloppy job with the other aspects, as well
I have the PSX disc version, the PSN version, but never owned the PC version. I spend about 95% of my gaming time on PC, so just the idea of having the game on PC is a great one for me
Plus, I can always play more Skyrim or DDO until they fix all the silly things that are happening right now
Sadface.
- No built in controller support whatsoever.
- Compressed artwork worse than the PS1 version.
- Compression artifacts on the FMVs.
- Doesn't use the PS1 audio. One Winged Angel for example has no lyrics.
- Installs known and documented malware on your computer (SECUROM)
- Uses Digital River
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From what I've been hearing from places like GAF, the sound is kind of fucked. There's no vocals in One Winged Angel, for instance, and everything else just sounds kind of off.
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
Laughter, yes, but no words.
Yep, it's on the activation page, same one as a few Ubisoft games
Oh well, I still have my original discs, even if it'd be a total pain to actually get it to boot up in a modern OS.
Hey, does anyone who bought it have the achievement list?
Because there was no Securom key database ready.
So. This all seems pretty catastrophic.
EDIT; I should refresh pages. :P
Gah, this whole situation is frustrating. This coulda been a money printer, maybe shook em into doing the actual remake.
Yeah, that area is probably the game's most glaring flaw. Fortunately, it's the only place that's like that.
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