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    Steve Watts posted a new article, Shack PSA: Final Fantasy VII now on PC.

    Final Fantasy VII is now available on the PC through Square's site, for $9.99.
    Aug 15, 2012 8:15am PDT
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    Steve Watts posted a new article, Shack PSA: Final Fantasy VII now on PC.

    Final Fantasy VII is now available on the PC through Square's site, for $9.99. : ShacknewsThis person is cool!

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    • Fuck yes! : Dschinghis Khan
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      Bonus features include: Internet connection required DRM. : silent prophet
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        People still have a problem with this? : Dschinghis Khan
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          yeah wondered about that aswell, buy the game and just play it, sure if you pirate it you'll just whine a... : Jermu_H
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            If I pirate this game I can almost guarantee I'll have a better experience with the DRM than you will. ... : bill crystals
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              make that a bet, pirate it and play it in one go without saving ^^ seriously tho, for cloud saves the nee... : Jermu_H
              • Are you a retard? : Crabs Jarrard
        • when there is no need related to game play --- YES I spent 4 days in the hospital & could not log into... : NationThis person is cool!
        • I know right? There has never been any issues with always on DRM! : serenj
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      Apparently the soundtrack is the shitty MIDI version. : DrWaffles
      • sadly yeah... : Jermu_H
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        I'd rather play the psx version than, soundfonts are annoying to deal with. : kaankasim
        • According to some news posts and other comments, it looks like they have rendered out the MIDI version to : DrWaffles
      • fuck that. : at0micgardenThis person is cool!
      • Really? But why? : Creepin_Jeezus
      • Well, shit. Ah well. I can just mute the music and the OCremix sound track playing on Spotify or somethin... : Dschinghis Khan
      • for now it seems the only good thing about this re-release is the support for shared saves (which would b... : Jermu_H
      • lol then what's the fucking point : avatar_58
      • wtf why would they do that?! : ShadowdaneThis person is cool!
      • Lazy : BouillonCubes
      • @#^%&^%#*^(@#*#$ : omnovaThis person is cool!
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        There are different versions? Can somebody please enlighten me? :( : harpersmells
        • The original PSX music is 100 times better : ShadowdaneThis person is cool!
        • Just found this comparison: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7E9fSgPtmc : harpersmells
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          Back when they ported FF7 to the PC (~1998) it wasn't common for PC's to be powerful enough to run both t... : SchnappleThis person is cool!
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            For that port they didn't even rerender the backgrounds. PC's even then had higher res than an SDTV. Th... : daggotThis person is cool!
            • Yeah you're better off ripping your FF7 discs to ISO's and firing up ePSXe. : SchnappleThis person is cool!
            • i bought the old pc version because i liked the psx version so much and the game ran upside down, the pic... : alphabluThis person is cool!
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        I played this on a 13", 4:3 CTR with a shitty mono speaker, and it's still the greatest game I've ever pl... : Jobos
        • Uh, *CRT* : Jobos
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      !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! : EricZBA
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        We're sorry. The payment method selected is not available for your location. Please select another paymen : EricZBA
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          Amex worked just fine, some places are just not supported by the SE store (new zealand and australia amon... : Jermu_H
          • Workaround: http://na.square-enix.com/go/thread/view/139347/29315409/Were_sorry._The_payment_method_selec : EricZBA
    • lol at the modern editing of the FF7 trailer. What an anachronism. : Creepin_Jeezus
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      This makes it sound like it was never released on PC before. My original playthrough of this game was on... : jeffcox111
      • yup, that's the one i played too. i still have it in the cardboard sleeve. no trapezoid box, though :( : waxthirteen
      • Yeah, by the time I got it we had moved to Windows 2000 and it always got stuck on the Chocobo races :( : one random winner
    • Sweet Jesus I need to buy this, play this, and ACTUALLY FINISH THE DAMN GAME. Anybody notice anything ... : moonfist80
    • i guess i'll be installing windows on osx just to play this. : xxiv
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      is there anything "changed" about this from the previous time they released it on PC? (other than support... : DemiusThis person is cool!
      • I hope they fixed the speed of the motorcycle attack sequence and chocobo racing because before it wasn't... : CrimsonHandHiroThis person is cool!
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        It adds achievements (but Kotaku points out , they are relatively tame and bland, the usual for completin... : MasemThis person is cool!
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          so nothing that compels me to play it on PC over PSX with a good emu with great graphics filters? : DemiusThis person is cool!
          • Not that I'm seeing, unless the optimization for Win7 is really slick. : MasemThis person is cool!
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      I have never played this game. Is now the time? : BeowolfSchaefer
      • I don't think it, or any of the 3D FF games, hold up as well as the 2D ones. But it's still fun. : David Craddock
      • I've played through it recently and it was as good as I remembered it to be. Fantastic game. : alexpr
      • I got it on psn last year and tried to replay it (last time was on it's release). I ended up stopping pre... : IazuThis person is cool!
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      Will this play at 1920x1080? Or is the background art not meant for 16:9? : wandering jelly dog
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        super-stretchy mode. http://truepcgaming.com/2012/08/14/final-fantasy-vii-pc-re-release-impressions/ : jimvolk
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          http://truepcgaming.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/6.jpg JESUS that's ugly : wandering jelly dog
          • lol, even if that background was of a higher resolution, you would easily get better graphics by using a ... : Creepin_Jeezus
          • Ooph. I'm glad I played this back when these graphics were good. : Jobos
        • ugh are you serious... I guess you could create a custom resolution for 4:3? : ShadowdaneThis person is cool!
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          was afraid it was going to be just a re-hash of that release. only minor tweaks to get it to run on win ... : daggotThis person is cool!
          • Really? Afraid? They never even tried to claim it was going to be anything but this. It's exactly what I ... : Creepin_Jeezus
        • activation? Why, in case people pirate a game that's already widely available on torrent websites? Som... : avatar_58
        • That sucks. FF VII looked fantastic in epsxe the last time I played it. : thecatinthehat
      • It plays at 1920 x 1080 but not really. It puts two black bars at the side of the screen to maintain the ... : Nehvrook
    • Though it's def not my fav FF, watching that Youtube video brings back memories. Also, lol @ this quote ... : pgharaviThis person is cool!
    • Very poor release for $9.99 and because of the DRM it can't be modded. The modders have create a far b... : cetra00
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      Just bought it, best thing Square has released in like the last 10 years. =/ : HL3dsx
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        And can't activate the game... LOL Internal server errors ftw. : HL3dsx
        • makes you wonder why they didn't just use steam : wandering jelly dog
    • Sounds like the PSN version is better because it's the original PSX version right? I played that not that... : rickThis person is cool!
    • I heard it sucks... hard. Online only DRM, too. : Metasparks
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      meh : bolneze
      • Iawtm. : shirif
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      Apparently this release breaks compatibility with a lot of the mods, too. Especially anything that requir... : Orange Pylon
      • Oops, meant to add the word "forums" at the end there. : Orange Pylon
    • All the music/video files are just standard ogg and avi files. Hopefully it will be easy to mod with high... : EricZBA