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Steve Watts posted a new article,
Shack PSA: Final Fantasy VII now on PC
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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
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Final Fantasy VII is now available on the PC through Square's site, for $9.99.
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Fuck yes!
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Dschinghis Khan
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Bonus features include: Internet connection required DRM.
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silent prophet
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People still have a problem with this?
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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...
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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. ...
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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...
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Jermu_H
Are you a retard?
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Crabs Jarrard
when there is no need related to game play --- YES I spent 4 days in the hospital & could not log into...
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Nation
I know right? There has never been any issues with always on DRM!
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serenj
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Apparently the soundtrack is the shitty MIDI version.
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DrWaffles
sadly yeah...
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Jermu_H
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I'd rather play the psx version than, soundfonts are annoying to deal with.
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kaankasim
According to some news posts and other comments, it looks like they have rendered out the MIDI version to
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DrWaffles
fuck that.
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at0micgarden
Really
? But why?
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Creepin_Jeezus
Well, shit. Ah well. I can just mute the music and the OCremix sound track playing on Spotify or somethin...
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Dschinghis Khan
for now it seems the only good thing about this re-release is the support for shared saves (which would b...
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Jermu_H
lol then what's the fucking point
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avatar_58
wtf why would they do that?!
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Shadowdane
Lazy
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BouillonCubes
@#^%&^%#*^(@#*#$
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omnova
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There are different versions? Can somebody please enlighten me? :(
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harpersmells
The original PSX music is 100 times better
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Shadowdane
Just found this comparison: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7E9fSgPtmc
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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...
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Schnapple
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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...
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daggot
Yeah you're better off ripping your FF7 discs to ISO's and firing up ePSXe.
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Schnapple
i bought the old pc version because i liked the psx version so much and the game ran upside down, the pic...
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alphablu
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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...
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Jobos
Uh, *CRT*
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Jobos
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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EricZBA
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EricZBA
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Amex worked just fine, some places are just not supported by the SE store (new zealand and australia amon...
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Jermu_H
Workaround: http://na.square-enix.com/go/thread/view/139347/29315409/Were_sorry._The_payment_method_selec
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EricZBA
lol at the modern editing of the FF7 trailer. What an anachronism.
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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...
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jeffcox111
yup, that's the one i played too. i still have it in the cardboard sleeve. no trapezoid box, though :(
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waxthirteen
Yeah, by the time I got it we had moved to Windows 2000 and it always got stuck on the Chocobo races :(
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one random winner
Sweet Jesus I need to buy this, play this, and ACTUALLY FINISH THE DAMN GAME. Anybody notice anything ...
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moonfist80
i guess i'll be installing windows on osx just to play this.
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xxiv
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is there anything "changed" about this from the previous time they released it on PC? (other than support...
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Demius
I hope they fixed the speed of the motorcycle attack sequence and chocobo racing because before it wasn't...
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CrimsonHandHiro
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It adds achievements (but Kotaku points out , they are relatively tame and bland, the usual for completin...
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Masem
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so nothing that compels me to play it on PC over PSX with a good emu with great graphics filters?
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Demius
Not that I'm seeing, unless the optimization for Win7 is really slick.
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Masem
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I have never played this game. Is now the time?
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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.
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David Craddock
I've played through it recently and it was as good as I remembered it to be. Fantastic game.
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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...
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Iazu
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Will this play at 1920x1080? Or is the background art not meant for 16:9?
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wandering jelly dog
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super-stretchy mode. http://truepcgaming.com/2012/08/14/final-fantasy-vii-pc-re-release-impressions/
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jimvolk
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http://truepcgaming.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/6.jpg JESUS that's ugly
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wandering jelly dog
lol, even if that background was of a higher resolution, you would easily get better graphics by using a ...
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Creepin_Jeezus
Ooph. I'm glad I played this back when these graphics were
good
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Jobos
ugh are you serious... I guess you could create a custom resolution for 4:3?
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Shadowdane
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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 ...
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daggot
Really? Afraid? They never even tried to claim it was going to be anything but this. It's exactly what I ...
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Creepin_Jeezus
activation? Why, in case people pirate a game that's already widely available on torrent websites? Som...
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avatar_58
That sucks. FF VII looked fantastic in epsxe the last time I played it.
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thecatinthehat
It plays at 1920 x 1080 but not really. It puts two black bars at the side of the screen to maintain the ...
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Nehvrook
Though it's def not my fav FF, watching that Youtube video brings back memories. Also, lol @ this quote ...
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pgharavi
Very poor release for $9.99 and because of the DRM it can't be modded. The modders have create a far b...
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cetra00
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Just bought it, best thing Square has released in like the last 10 years. =/
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HL3dsx
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And can't activate the game... LOL Internal server errors ftw.
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HL3dsx
makes you wonder why they didn't just use steam
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wandering jelly dog
Sounds like the PSN version is better because it's the original PSX version right? I played that not that...
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rick
I heard it sucks... hard. Online only DRM, too.
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Metasparks
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meh
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bolneze
Iawtm.
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shirif
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Apparently this release breaks compatibility with a lot of the mods, too. Especially anything that requir...
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Orange Pylon
Oops, meant to add the word "forums" at the end there.
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Orange Pylon
All the music/video files are just standard ogg and avi files. Hopefully it will be easy to mod with high...
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EricZBA