Board 8 > Final Fantasy VII will be on Steam!

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Square registered FinalFantasyViiPc.com 4 days ago:
http://whois.domaintools.com/finalfantasyviipc.com

Google cache has this on the page before Square apparently locked it with password:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://dev.finalfantasyviipc.com/en

Two interesting things of notes on that page:
- On the top, it says "Achievements", "Character Booster" and "Cloud Saves", indicating it will use Steam service.
- On the bottom, it mentions the price as "BUY NOW PC Digital Download £7.99 / €9.99", so this is definitely just a straight port or a rework of the old PC port, not a remake and I don't think Square will even "remaster" it >_>

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just play the remastered hardcore mod for pc

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I already have this game. Good news for people who've never played it I guess. Do those people even exist?

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The Real Truth posted...

I already have this game. Good news for people who've never played it I guess. Do those people even exist?

you don't have a PC version with achievements.

TRT always with the lies

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From: Xcarvenger | #001

"Cloud Saves"

lol GET IT

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Achievements, eh...?

I'm thinking about it now...

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Act of Terrorism - blow up Sector 7
Perfect Crossdresser - Cloud in bed of Don Corneo
Zolomy~ - pass the swamp for the first time without Chocobo
Mini Ninja - get Yuffie
Obligatory Zombie - get Vincent
Interrupted by Fireworks...? YES! - dating with Barret
Someone Cries - Aeris
Crisis Core - unlock extra scene in Nibelheim

>_>

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Haha "Obligatory Zombie" what

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From: pjbasis | #005

From: Xcarvenger | #001

"Cloud Saves"

lol GET IT

LOLOL

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being on steam doesn't mean achievements!

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I played the PC version. It had problems.

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Oh man I hope they add "Revive Aeris" DLC and piss off absolutely every fan.

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Well, the rest of the FFVII compilation would render all such DLC to be non-canon, so...!

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The rest of the compilation is non-canon in JZ Land, so...!

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I played FF8 on PC and got pretty far with that (never had the PS version) before I got sick of the bugs crashing my game and quit on it. If they had a bug-fixed version of that, I might consider playing it. FF7? Meh, I'll just dig out the PlayStation.

This is good news. FFVII deserves as many people to have access to it as humanly possible.

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From: ninkendo | #004
The Real Truth posted...

I already have this game. Good news for people who've never played it I guess. Do those people even exist?

you don't have a PC version with achievements.

TRT always with the lies
Get at me SHINE

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good news if it happens, I sold my PS2 a while ago and MGS and square's games are pretty much the only ones I miss

i have the game, but a pc version would be alright, especially considering the disc is not in the best shape these days...

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clearly this is pointing to a Wii U exclusive release of FF7 in 2013.
or a remake! remake goes to PS3, 360, PC, and later on Wii U.
perhaps even, an upgraded port to the 3DS or Vita!

(it's the pc release on steam)

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Vlado posted...

This is good news. FFVII deserves as many people to have access to it as humanly possible.

I'll download it off of the PlayStation Store eventually in that case. I'm not interested in the Final Fantasy series at all right now, though.

Metal Gear Solid, on the other hand...

ZFS posted...

being on steam doesn't mean achievements!

Actually being on Steam isn't technically confirmed yet, but having achievements is one of the strong indications that it will be on Steam!

(yeah, the game has been on Steam registry for almost a year now, along with FF8, but there's never been anything to come out of it until recently. hopefully this means they have been working on a proper port - and probably enhancing something, at least for that "Character Booster" thing - and not just give us the old buggy PC version!)

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Hey, it means I can actually try that remix mod without paying like 200 bucks for the PC version

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If its compatible with mods, it's a fine port. Most of the problems of the PC port were incompatibility issues with new Windows OSs and the godawful MIDI soundtrack, which the FF7Music mod fixes perfectly.

The hardcore mod patch is stupid however. I spent 30 minutes on Guard Scorpion because the mod thought it would be funny to give it 10x HP making you grind for potions for 2 hours.

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From: Wanglicious | #020

clearly this is pointing to a Wii U exclusive release of FF7 in 2013.
or a remake! remake goes to PS3, 360, PC, and later on Wii U.

watch out, Link

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Moar achievements woo

Official Naming - rename Aeris to "Aerith"
All My Strife Pays Off - buy the house in Costa del Sol
Summons of the Round - get all summons
Materia Master - master all type of materia at least once
Precious Stones? Pfft! - defeat Diamond, Ruby, Emerald weapons
Chocobo Racing Champion - get everyone to admit you are the best in Chocobo Racing!
I Wanna Be the Very Best - get all Cloud's limit break
Gotta Do This Before Dying Your Hair - get all Aeris' limit break
Be Nobuo Uematsu - get all Tifa's limit break
Now Is About the Train - get all Barret's limit break
Don't Lose Your Number - get all Red XIII's limit break
We Have to Dive Deeper! - get all Cid's limit break
All Parts of Growing Up - get all Yuffie's limit break
Mother Zombie - get all Vincent's limit break
Cloud Doesn't Save - not putting up a save point in Northern Crater and beat the game

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Those are some horrible achievements

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Cloud Doesn't Save - not putting up a save point in Northern Crater and beat the game

A better one would have been "Don't use Knights of the Round in the Northern Crater"

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It's more of an achievement to use Knights of the Round though. A) It's hard to get. B) IIRC, using it during Bizarro Sephiroth makes Safer Sephiroth harder.

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The only ones I liked are the Costa Del Sol and maybe getting all the summons.

Trophies/acheivements should not be about doing annoying things like changing a character's name or over-the-top challenges like beating the WEAPONs or mastering all materia.

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what should they be for, then? The worst is when games have achievements for doing things that are already required to beat the game

The simplest way to put it is that they encourage you to play the game.
Not just the main quest but to try out all aspects of the game, and to reward going the extra mile without going too far and alienating most players.

Getting everyone's Level 2 Limit Break is a good one because it requires you to use every character a good amount without forcing you to grind for the characters you don't care for, for example.
Mastering X amount of unique materia (like 5 about), because it calls attention to the AP system and encourages you to at least stick with a few.

Stuff like that.

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The Costa del Sol one is cool because it gives you a reason to do something with your money, and rewards the player who was a little more mindful with his gil.

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pjbasis posted...

The only ones I liked are the Costa Del Sol and maybe getting all the summons.

Trophies/acheivements should not be about doing annoying things like changing a character's name or over-the-top challenges like beating the WEAPONs or mastering all materia.

I agree about changing a characters name not being an achievement, but I don't see anything wrong with the Weapons one, or the Mastering Materia one. Stuff like that or breeding golden chocobos ARE achievements. They take work to do.

There should be an achievement for being selected by Don Corneo.

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From: Erugios | #034

There should be an achievement for being selected by Don Corneo.

Yeah that's good too.

but I don't see anything wrong with the Weapons one, or the Mastering Materia one. Stuff like that or breeding golden chocobos ARE achievements.

I feel that those things are above and beyond even normal hard work.
The existence of the trophies isn't going to convince anyone who wouldn't want to do it, and the people that do will feel rewarded because, as you said yourself, they are achievements in and of themselves.

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No thought put into those.
Though i kinda like the costa de sol one.

There should be one for dating barret, beating emerald without the underwater material, getting to that one forest area before beating ultima weapon, winning the slap fight, some golden saucer ones. Just to brainstorm a few

See?i hate achievements and i came up with better ones

You can get to the forest before defeating Ultima O_o???

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Wasn't aware you could get to the forest without beating Ultima either. His dying blows up the mountain blocking the road to it. Unless you can do it with Chocobos or something

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Yeah, that's a good point. You could probably do it with the mountain chocobo or gold chocobo. I didn't take that into consideration

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Honestly i don't know. Ive always ASSUMED you could get there yourself via chocobo based on the fact you find some weapons in there for cloud that are WEAKER than the ultima weapon, even though you just got it

You can indeed access the forest with chocobos.

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things I'd rather see than a straight PC port:

the PSX version just emulated. that's what we're all familiar with anyway.

or

the PC version with bugfixes and a retranslation. 7 could use one of those.

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Isn't the point of the sword in that forest the fact that it has a 3x modifier to AP gains, making it ideal for Materia grinding? Not for attacking? Or is that a different sword?

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I have Final Fantasy VII on the PC. Produced by Square East Asia or something like that. It's sort of a mess, and for whatever reason it crashes if you have the Community Codec pack installed, but it did fix a few of the stupider moments in the English script.

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Looks like they already changed Aeris to Aerith.

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