FF7 Remake

[jomarkiller]

Has anyone played FF7 Remake? I do very little gaming nowadays, but I was feeling nostalgic for PS1-era RPGs so I gave FF7 Remake Interograde (what a weird name) a couple hours of my time the other day. It's kind of cool being able to revisit the characters and the story of FF7 and my god does everything look gorgeous (I have spent entire uninterrupted... minutes just staring at the details on the underside of Midgar's plates) but I couldn't ignore how absolutely horrid and lame the writing was. I don't remember the writing/dialogue being this cringey in the 1990s. I'm guessing I was probably just a stupid kid back then and didn't know any better. 

Another thing that gets at me is how the game assumes knowledge of the original story. None of it seems like it would make sense or resonate unless you're already a fan and played the original.

It doesn't make sense to me that a game that took millions of dollars to develop would have such glaring issues. A lot of it feels it could've been written by a kid.

Anyway, I want to finish it, but I probably won't because I don't have the attention span for gaming anymore; my brain (like the brains of many...) has rotted to absolutely nothing from excessive YouTube and Reddit consumption.

[etoven]

Has anyone played FF7 Remake? I do very little gaming nowadays, but I was feeling nostalgic for PS1-era RPGs so I gave FF7 Remake Interograde (what a weird name) a couple hours of my time the other day. It's kind of cool being able to revisit the characters and the story of FF7 and my god does everything look gorgeous (I have spent entire uninterrupted... minutes just staring at the details on the underside of Midgar's plates) but I couldn't ignore how absolutely horrid and lame the writing was. I don't remember the writing/dialogue being this cringey in the 1990s. I'm guessing I was probably just a stupid kid back then and didn't know any better. 

Another thing that gets at me is how the game assumes knowledge of the original story. None of it seems like it would make sense or resonate unless you're already a fan and played the original.

It doesn't make sense to me that a game that took millions of dollars to develop would have such glaring issues. A lot of it feels it could've been written by a kid.

Anyway, I want to finish it, but I probably won't because I don't have the attention span for gaming anymore; my brain (like the brains of many...) has rotted to absolutely nothing from excessive YouTube and Reddit consumption.

I did and it was amazing right up until Sony decided everyone needed ban PlayStation for the last chapter.