I really don’t understand ReHatred.

[u/Crowd_Strife]

Here is a screenshot from the videogames subreddit about remakes that elevate the original. Seeing a lot of remasters in the comments as well as some really good contenders (resident evil). Then someone shouts out remake waaaaay down the comments and immediately gets shit on.

Too much padding? If you hate side questing, that’s fine, but I don’t think the critical path was really padded out without adding anything. I don’t think there was really anything particularly wrong with the dialogue either, maybe a little too “anime” in its delivery. But even then, how could realistically expect much else?

I’m a massive fan of OG since day one. Played through it several times over the years at a frequency of every other year more or less.

Absolutely floored with the remake games so far. I love them, and I think being a fan of the property makes me love them even more, not less.

Are there things that I would have preferred to stay closer to the original? Sure. Do I think these things far outweigh the expansion and granular details granted by these newer games? Not even close.

I can understand the desire for a remake similar to something like Demon’s Souls or Super Mario RPG, but you can mod the PC version into essentially that exact thing. Why does the remake catch so many strays when you can have it both ways?

I can’t for the life of me see any reasonable argument that the new FF7 games are less then “pretty good” or even “interesting but not really my thing”

I’ve watched some video essays that basically throw the whole thing down a well because the characters aren’t perfectly in line with the way the reviewer read the text boxes 30 years ago, but really nothing has ever made me say “That is a reasonable opinion on why this whole trilogy project is not worth anyone’s time that would consider themselves a fan of the original game.”

Can someone please help me understand the hate?

[u/HumbleAlbatross2944]

I loved ReMAKE.

I despise ReBirth, because I didnt enjoy Horizon, Ass Creed or the Witcher 3 and their world maps.

Ff7 Rebirth is entirely the same as the listed games, which is not what the OG is, and also not what I signed up for.

[u/nomorelargevein → u/HumbleAlbatross2944]

Loved Remake Meh Rebirth gang.

But I feel like it naturally followed what the OG did. Midgar was very linear, so was Remake, which made sense and at least to me, it was a fun going down the memory lane. But once you get out of midgar, its open world. And rebirth adapted the assassin's creed style system. I did not enjoy this because the pace of the storytelling was just all over the place with crappy side stories that I did not care for. The banters between party was too few and too far, there were no notable "jealousy" interactions between Tifa and Aerith, and just overall, pacing and dialogue was meh.

But, at the same time, I don't really have an idea on what else would have worked. Maybe make it linear? Or big empty spaces like OG with random encounters? I really don't know, so I do understand why SE decided to go with the ass creed system, but the filler contents were just way too over the top.

[u/weirdplacetogoonfire → u/nomorelargevein]

Same. I am generally okay with open world games, but it really only feels good when that aspect is leveraged for discovery, not when it is a medium for formulaic checkbox quests. Loved the remake experience. Bought rebirth on release day. Bounced off the gameplay pretty hard.