Why did they turn this into an open world game?
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>>738278523Square Enix has been chasing the western audience ever since the western audience first shitted all over XIII's autobattle hallway simulator, and Rebirth becoming an open world meme game full of DEI, faggot NPCs, and censorship is the culmination of nearly 20 years of chasing the western audience.
>>738278523SE want to test the loyalty of the FF7 audience. Every step of the way they do something really shit to lose half of them. When they are done the survivors, battered and bruised, completely mindbroken - but loyal - will spend the rest of their days as hyperwhales. Every penny they earn will go straight to SE for Genesis NFTs and ugly mog house MtG cards.
>>738278523old school jrpgs were the original open world games you dunce
>>738278523Because it is a massive rpg wiht a big world to explore so that was the most natural way to tackle it
>>738278523if you actually played it then you should know it's actually not an open world game. Witcher 3, Skyrim and GTA are open world but FF7R are 5 interconnected maps kind of like Ocarina of Time. Each region slightly harder to navigate than the previous one.
>>738278523What is with the recent uptick of Rebirth threads? Is it pre-seething for when Part 3 gets revealed?
>>738279407Oh sorry, next time I'll use a valid criticism of 7R instead. Any suggestions?
It’s not open world.
>>738279540>Is it pre-seething for when Part 3 gets revealed?Yes
great bait I rate8/8
>>738278523Because openworld allows for more player freedom
The only player freedom I want is to behead Chadley and pee on his corpse (pee from any of the playable characters)
>>738279540they're seething because we already know 7Ret is good
>>738279820aerith should pee on chadley
>>738279407It's not a complete, true open world game, like BotW or whatever, but it's clearly very inspired by them, calling it open world is not unreasonable.
>>738278523Should have been hallway corridors like FFX
>>738278523Western game design is based around bloat and chores and the soulless japs at SE aped it without understanding that that trend has run its course.
>>738278798Square has been chasing after the western audience since they tasted that sweet 'murican cash after FFVI was even more of a success over here than FFIV. The difference is, they used to know how to cater to us.
Because deep down they know that FF7 got mogged by Zelda Ocarina of Time and now they are obsessed with trying to cope
>>738281202I don't think cross dressing and gay jokes were really for the American audience. I think that's Japanese humor. Or at least it was back then. Cross dressing now is definitely American, and it is humorous, but the people who do indulge in it do so with complete sincerity and they can ruin your life if you don't play along with them.
>>738281498>I don't think cross dressing and gay jokes were really for the American audience.
It isn't open-world though, it's a series of levels. The game, as the original also did, has a linear structure but a level of depth to each area that makes you believe you aren't 100% being railroaded between conspicuously hallway shaped mountain formations to the area needed for plot progression. Since FFX, linearity critics have exposed themselves as complete retards that have no idea about game design. FFX was the least linear game of the franchise up until that point.Rebirth is a faithful adaption of FF7 but with a different combat system
The original FF7 is technically an open world just a very archaic one on PS1 hardware.
>>738281202They were under the impression that FFVI failed in the West for a decade and a half, because nobody told them and they didn't care to know, so their sense of it was colored 100% by the Japanese failure. They expressed shock that the West liked VI, when XV was releasing. Sakaguchi's response a decade earlier to people telling him, that the West loved VI was "Oh, really? They should've bought it then." As far as they thought, it crashed and burned.
>>738278523I wonder.
I started replaying this on the PS5 pro since games with PSSR2 look great now, but i forgot how unbelievably horrible some of the textures are. And the pop in is so distracting.
>>738283363Nibelheim is for some reason the ugliest location in the game. The draw distance is completely botched and there's lots of texture issues like these. The game generally looks great, though. At least on PC.
>>738278523Its literally less of an open world game than the original ff7
>>738283926The original game's overworld is a level selector with nothing to do other than catching chocobos.
>>738283060they said one of their main goals was being able to fly the highwind. I'm hopeful given that I expected the buggy and tiny bronco to be cut, and they both made it in.
>>738284467They'll just have it fly way up in the air like in Secret of Mana. Separate overworld to traverse. Once you hit land, the ship transitions to the ground with a cutscene. The submarine will probably just be like the Tiny Bronco, but underwater. The underwater map is restricted to the center of the Meridian Ocean in the original game, so it's pretty small.
