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Re: Final Fantasy VII Rerelease thread
« Reply #75 on: 2012-07-05 00:41:12 »
Well mods don't count. You are making the program do what it wasn't meant to do. with un-optimised resources... they bought eidos not to long ago wonder if it has sumthin' to do with that. It's very likley they at the very least fixed the broken mini-games and the pixelated look. As it stands barebones FF7 PC is unplayable. To me even with mods.

To each their own. I love what they do here. The mods are fun to learn, create, and play!

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Re: Final Fantasy VII Rerelease thread
« Reply #76 on: 2012-07-05 00:46:34 »
The mods here are better than they are ever gonna do haha

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Re: Final Fantasy VII Rerelease thread
« Reply #77 on: 2012-07-05 01:01:54 »
If they add a load game feature it will already be a huge improvement (in fact, it's unacceptable to not include it). Other than that, I really don't know what to expect of this. Hopefully it will be mod-friendly.


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Re: Final Fantasy VII Rerelease thread
« Reply #78 on: 2012-07-05 01:14:46 »
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The mods here are better than they are ever gonna do haha
I'm kind of a purist, I don't really care for the mods as much as fixing what was broken... Actually to me nothing beats an old CRT and the PS3 combo.

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Don't get me wrong, some of the mods are pretty neat! But some bugs in the PC version just is a deal breaker. Even with heavy mod/s the game has some glaring flaws, such as the minigames, and the already mentioned pixelation. =/

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Re: Final Fantasy VII Rerelease thread
« Reply #79 on: 2012-07-05 01:35:43 »
But pixelation is also there on the PSX version. At the very least, we can use a postprocessing filter to make it less glaring. And I was under the impression that the minigames speed was already capped when using AAli's driver.

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Re: Final Fantasy VII Rerelease thread
« Reply #80 on: 2012-07-05 02:42:22 »
Yeah a little bird told me this was happening a while ago. The hint of the 'boost' would be in the system specs.

 Minimum System Requirements: Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7 (32/64-bit) • 2GHz Processor or faster • 1GB RAM •
DirectX 9-compatible graphic card
 That's a whole lot for a simple port. :?: There is a screenshot in there, it looks pretty sharp. The movies are 100% cleaned up.
Well, look who it is! pt.2

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Re: Final Fantasy VII Rerelease thread
« Reply #81 on: 2012-07-05 03:27:13 »
It'll almost certainly have some sort of resolution option, just about every game does. Play it at 640x480, run it to your TV... definitely doable for the enthusiast, even if not particularly easy.

Yeah, the PSX ran at 240p, not 480p. Still, classic enough for a CRT.

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Re: Final Fantasy VII Rerelease thread
« Reply #82 on: 2012-07-05 04:29:54 »
If the minimum space is anything to go by, this probably isn't much more than simple re-release with a few tweaks here and there to get it running. It also probably hasn't been developed in-house by square, very few of the re-releases or "HD" upscales (if any) on the market are.

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« Reply #83 on: 2012-07-05 05:48:13 »
That is what he means.  Same as what has happened with the boom in noobs recently when the mods and this forum got reviewed.

You know, a surprising amount of my traffic comes from people searching for FF7 mods.

(Not that I think it's my reviews you're talking about.  My audience numbers in the dozens.  On a busy day.)

Anyway...yay, I guess?  At least it looks like they cleaned up the video files, and it'll probably take less tweaking to get it to run.  That's...pretty much bare minimum, and "bare minimum" is about what I'm expecting here.

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Re: Final Fantasy VII Rerelease thread
« Reply #84 on: 2012-07-05 09:57:42 »
I hope this doesn't make things obsolete around here. I'd much rather enjoy the what you all make rather than what they do.

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Re: Final Fantasy VII Rerelease thread
« Reply #85 on: 2012-07-05 10:14:39 »
"As Square Enix's most highly regarded game FINAL FANTASY VII has been optimized for a wide range of hardware ensuring that you can play it with ease on the latest modern PCs."

From there features list. Hey, did someone stop to think is SE actually HAD the source material? contrary to popular belief. Maybe that was a rumor put out be eidos cause they did a terrible job. Also there are strong rumblings that this is microtransaction based. =/ well at least we can expect some aftermarket support.

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Re: Final Fantasy VII Rerelease thread
« Reply #86 on: 2012-07-05 10:46:30 »
I'll believe it when I see it, for now it's just PR.

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Re: Final Fantasy VII Rerelease thread
« Reply #87 on: 2012-07-05 10:52:36 »
If they had the source material they would have advertised the fact, not cobbled together the same quality FMV's in a trailer that shows nothing else.  High hopes = High disappointments.

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Reoptimized FF7..
« Reply #88 on: 2012-07-05 11:54:11 »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr4TgU4SKLc&feature=player_embedded

Considering the work been put into remodeling ff7

If it's truely been optimized it may make the remodelling project even better.

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Re: Reoptimized FF7..
« Reply #89 on: 2012-07-05 12:13:17 »
It is the same quality as psx, upscaled.

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Re: Final Fantasy VII Rerelease thread
« Reply #90 on: 2012-07-05 14:12:34 »
Now without jokes, hope they port FFIX and X.

FFIX is a must for porting, and if they don't release FFX HD on PC i'll pretend to get very angry about it.

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Re: Final Fantasy VII Rerelease thread
« Reply #91 on: 2012-07-05 14:17:09 »
There is no such thing as FFX HD...  Upscaling is not HD.

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Re: Final Fantasy VII Rerelease thread
« Reply #92 on: 2012-07-05 15:14:37 »
There is no such thing as FFX HD...  Upscaling is not HD.

However, redoing/ increasing the detail of textures is, as is proper widescreen support in 720/1080. Which is what a HD port is. Which is why it's called FFX HD.

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Re: Final Fantasy VII Rerelease thread
« Reply #93 on: 2012-07-05 15:48:57 »
I'd like some actually exciting news for a change

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Re: Final Fantasy VII Rerelease thread
« Reply #94 on: 2012-07-05 16:26:27 »
dun worry. We could all use TEXMOD and make our own HD textures.

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Re: Final Fantasy VII Rerelease thread
« Reply #95 on: 2012-07-05 17:00:06 »
If they just make a little improvement on the backgrounds, I'll be happy :P

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Re: Final Fantasy VII Rerelease thread
« Reply #96 on: 2012-07-05 18:41:18 »
However, redoing/ increasing the detail of textures is, as is proper widescreen support in 720/1080. Which is what a HD port is. Which is why it's called FFX HD.

I still think that is pushing it.  It is more a marketing ploy...  It hardly looks like a true 720p or 1080 game.

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Re: Final Fantasy VII Rerelease thread
« Reply #97 on: 2012-07-05 19:12:46 »
I still think that is pushing it.  It is more a marketing ploy...  It hardly looks like a true 720p or 1080 game.
If it is rendered natively at 720p or higher, it's true HD. That's the definition of the term. "HD" refers solely to actual output resolution (before any full-frame upscaling done by the TV or console). Halo 3, a current-gen game exclusive to the current gen XBOX 360, may look better than FF7 even if you use Aali's driver to render FF7 natively at 2560x1600, but Halo 3 only runs at 640p and is therefore not high-definition. "HD" refers only to one objective measurement of quality, not to looks as a whole.

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Re: Final Fantasy VII Rerelease thread
« Reply #98 on: 2012-07-05 19:17:26 »
It still looks nothing like FF13 which is what people are going to expect when they see "HD" rerelease.  They are going to expect a level of quality they are simply not getting and that's the whole point of using those letters....  and it works.

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Re: Final Fantasy VII Rerelease thread
« Reply #99 on: 2012-07-05 19:33:47 »
Like Covarr said, it is HD the very moment it runs at 720p or 1080p, which FFX HD edition does. So it's HD, even if it still uses PS2 era assets and looks like ass. Doesn't matter what people would expect when you talk about HD as the technical definition always applies no matter what the general public says.
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