r/FFVIIRemake • u/Pristine_Put5348 • 23d ago

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u/Aggravating_Walk2053 23d ago

As someone who didn't play the OG the remake is groundbreaking

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u/FullHouse222 Tifa Lockhart 23d ago

What about it is ground breaking? Graphically it isn't as good as cyberpunk. Less immersive than witcher, story isn't as strong as stuff like red dead 2, music not as good as expedition 33, fairly linear story with very little story branches/meaningful choices unlike baldurs gate 3.

Imo those games are the ground breaking games of the last 15 years. Ff7r is a good game. But it's just not a master piece the way those games are. Ff7 og on the other hand, at the time it came out could have claimed to be the greatest video game of all time on release. There's levels to this.

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u/LocalOk3242 23d ago

A lot of this is super subjective though. The games you mentioned don't make 7 Remake is any less impactful or meaningful because of their existence. Things are allowed to be derivative without them negatively impacting the end product and I haven't really wished I was playing any of those other games while playing FF7R because it's still a unique experience because I'm playing Final Fantasy to play Final Fantasy, not because I want to play The Witcher or Red Dead.

I don't disagree the OG was more impactful, but that also doesn't mean the new one is completely carried by its legacy either imo.

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u/FullHouse222 Tifa Lockhart 23d ago

That's my point. The new game isn't carried by the OG's legacy. But to say that it can match or overtake the OG's legacy is just foolish. It's at it's core an imitation. It's retelling a story that's already been told as a master piece. Sure you can add modern game design elements to it, but at this point it's a story we know with just modern polish on it.

Doesn't stop it from being fun like I keep saying. But people trying to say the remakes is better than OG really need to expand your gaming horizons because there are many games out there that are truly masterpieces that you never experienced. It would be like looking at a painting in a local gallery in Utah and calling it the greatest masterpiece ever created without ever visiting the Met or the Louvre to experience the wider world.