Current Events > The side quests in FFVII remake are ass

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do I miss out on anything for skipping them? Im doing the ones in the sector 5 slums

i wasted 40 mins running around to find these 3 blue jellyfish looking enemies. Its wasting my time and I dont have a lot of time to play after work.

it actually pisses me off. All these sidequests seem to be fucking fetch quest, why the fuck were they even added in the game FFS.

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Padding. So you get your full games worth out of a 3rd of a game

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Vermander posted...

Padding. So you get your full games worth out of a 3rd of a game

worth

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Side quests in Xenoblade = sweet man
Side quests in FF7R = douche bag

LMAO never change, CE

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Some of the side quests are lacking, yeah, but bro...

gna647 posted...

i wasted 40 mins running around to find these 3 blue jellyfish looking enemies.

Literally how lmao they straight up tell you where they are

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Veggeta_MAX posted...

Side quests in Xenoblade = sweet man
Side quests in FF7R = douche bag

LMAO never change, CE

This.

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Remember Hot'N'Cold in FFIX?

Now that is how you do a motherfucking side-quest
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UnfairRepresent posted...

Remember Hot'N'Cold in FFIX?

Now that is how you do a motherfucking side-quest

unless you had that early release of FFIX and it glitched your whole game if you got too far with it, lmao

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I've never seen anyone not shit on Xenoblade's sidequests so I assume fake vegy and caution are just doing their usual dumb shit.

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Caution999 posted...

unless you had that early release of FFIX and it glitched your whole game if you got too far with it, lmao

Wasn't that only if you entered Ispen's Castle rather than the side-quest itself?

I remember hearing that if you do that skip then Garnet has the "Garnet couldn't concentrate" for the entire rest of the game lol
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Tbh I hated Chocobo Hot and Cold. The actual idea of finding a map and tracking down treasure was fun, but the game was too frustrating, and I could only ever be bothered to do it with the PC port that added a speed up mode that somehow didnt affect any in-game timers

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Irony posted...

I've never seen anyone not shit on Xenoblade's sidequests so I assume fake vegy and caution are just doing their usual dumb shit.

Well I never seen anyone shit on Xenoblade's sidequests so you're wrong.

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AlisLandale posted...

Tbh I hated Chocobo Hot and Cold.

https://youtu.be/NOs_beuYJjY?t=3
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AlisLandale posted...

Tbh I hated Chocobo Hot and Cold. The actual idea of finding a map and tracking down treasure was fun, but the game was too frustrating, and I could only ever be bothered to do it with the PC port that added a speed up mode that somehow didnt affect any in-game timers

Bro

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Veggeta_MAX posted...

Well I never seen anyone shit on Xenoblade's sidequests so you're wrong.

Try the Xenoblade board

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I didn't mind them since they fleshed out the world a little bit. There were parts of the map you otherwise wouldn't have gone to.

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Irony posted...

Try the Xenoblade board

Lemme know when the Xenoblade side quests gets hated so much that it leaks onto CE.

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I love Xenoblade but some of the side quests are fucking excessive and its annoying how the good ones are locked behind a ton of dull ones

At least they use the vision mechanic to warn you when an item is useful in the future but thats like a band-aid

Im sure less people complain about Xenoblade because it is more of an open world though

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Im gonna be straight up honesr

ive never seen a good sidequests from a JRPG

Ever. All they have are copy paste missions. More developers need to take note from Witcher 3

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idk why people always bring up witcher 3 when almost every single side quest boils down to use witcher sense, play detective, hit something, and come back

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I would initially agree about Chocobo Hot&Cold, but putting ~30 min into it as you level up, and it easily becomes one if the best and addicting minigames... period

What about WRPG?

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gna647 posted...

ive never seen a good sidequests from a JRPG

Hot'n'Cold
Celestial weapons
Blitzball
Hunts
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I quite liked the Angel of the Slums, Garden Angles, and Toad King so far.
Haven't finished yet, but those stood out.
Those blue jellyfish kicked my butt!

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PowerOats posted...

I would initially agree about Chocobo Hot&Cold, but putting ~30 min into it as you level up, and it easily becomes one if the best and addicting minigames... period

It's just such a good change of pace when you want to stop playing the regular game. Although it does have its share of maddening moments when you get 20 KWEHHH!??!s in a row and you still can't seem to hit the fucking treasure lmao

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The celestial weapons were definitely NOT good side quests

Lightning Dodging
Butterfly Evading
3-6 hours of Blitzball straight
Chocobo Balloons
Chocobo Race
Slowly, SLOWLY Building the Sphere Grid to be strong enough to fight endgame stuff

I really enjoyed Blitzball. And you don't need to do it straight if you don't want to lol. Go do stuff, play some blitzball, rinse and repeat.

Also, I really enjoyed the Monster Arena and capturing in 10. And I LOVED the creature creation in X-2.

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SuppleSnake posted...

Also, I really enjoyed the Monster Arena and capturing in 10.

I liked it on paper but man it got old

It needed a way to increase the odds of the fiends you needed showing up
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Pretty standard RPG side quests.

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The side quests in the remake are hot garbage. Just an endless slew of go here, kill these monsters, come back. Perfectly fitting for the intro zone of an MMO, but not in a story focused single player game.

Edit: to answer your question, some of the side quests drop Materia that I think you can only get through side quests so yes, you have to do them if you want to be prepped for later fights. Plus it makes a cheating battle Intel easier because you have more opportunities to fight a wider variety of enemies.

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part of the problem is that it feels like the side quests were slapped together and thrown into the game to pad the length out. when a low quality NPC is talking with bad lip sync then it cuts to cloud with millions more polygons and higher quality textures it just feels jarring with such a dramatic shift

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gna647 posted...

i wasted 40 mins running around to find these 3 blue jellyfish looking enemies.

Dude. Just look at the map. You can see the parts where it conveniently has a circular clearing where a battle would take place. Dont just blindly search.

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It seems like the side quests are just there as a way to grind, for the most part. A little better mindlessly running at enemies when it's a quest goal.

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cuttin_in_farm posted...

Dude. Just look at the map. You can see the parts where it conveniently has a circular clearing where a battle would take place. Dont just blindly search.

I go straight to the marker and nothing shows up.

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gna647 posted...

I go straight to the marker and nothing shows up.

Read my post again. That particular quest has a region youre searching in. The marker is just the center. The giant green circle is the area youre searching. Come on now.

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Finding the blue jellyfish shouldnt have taken you any longer than 10 minutes at the most.

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The only good side quest is the one where you go into the lab and kill the monster you heard earlier in the lab. It felt like an actual final fantasy dungeon and boss run.

But fucking finding 3 cats, 5 kids, Chase down a girl for her to tell you to go fight some dudes in the colleseum like huh??? Why do I have to go all these places? Why aren't they just outside? Oh right padding.

I knew this game was padded as hell when you're playing as aerith trying to get to Marlene and shit just keeps dropping in front of you

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Yeah, I am torn on bothering with them allI have a tad more playtime during shelter in place but that ends soon and I go from maybe an hour if Im lucky to back to no spare time lol.

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Mezcla posted...

The only good side quest is the one where you go into the lab and kill the monster you heard earlier in the lab. It felt like an actual final fantasy dungeon and boss run.

Was that a side quest? I just did that last night and I thought it was part of the story.

You mean when you go back to sector 7 and find Wedge and fall through the floor, right? I was playing as Barret and there was this door covered in caution tape with something roaring behind it, then later when I reunited with Tifa a bunch of alien looking things attack and a giant one bursts out of the ground roaring. I assumed that was the thing behind the door

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Tired-Insomniac posted...

Was that a side quest? I just did that last night and I thought it was part of the story.

You mean when you go back to sector 7 and find Wedge and fall through the floor, right? I was playing as Barret and there was this door covered in caution tape with something roaring behind it, then later when I reunited with Tifa a bunch of alien looking things attack and a giant one bursts out of the ground roaring. I assumed that was the thing behind the door

No there's a side quest to go back there after all that. The monster is a behemoth.

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How many Remake sidequests are there, cuz unless they are dumping dozens of non- combat quests, it doesn't sound that bad <_<

Haven't played the game yet

Mezcla posted...

No there's a side quest to go back there after all that. The monster is a behemoth.

Oh shit

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PowerOats posted...

How many Remake sidequests are there, cuz unless they are dumping dozens of non- combat quests, it doesn't sound that bad <_<

Haven't played the game yet

There are 24 sidequests in the game, and I'd say most of them involve combat in some way.

They aren't bad at all, and TC, you do get weapons from some sidequests so it's a good idea to finish them. Plus all the exp and AP you get.

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The best minigames:

Triple Triad
FFX Blitzball
FFX-2 Blitzball

The worst:

Tetra Master

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markconigliaro posted...

There are 24 sidequests in the game,

26

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jumi posted...

The best minigames:

Triple Triad
FFX Blitzball
FFX-2 Blitzball

The worst:

Tetra Master

hey just because you had a stronger card and still have a chance to lose as well as the computer being able to combo seemingly at will to pull a last turn victory doesn't mean tetra master is a bad minigame

though the only thing that brings triple triad down a little is the spreading of rules and some inconvenient times to play to get everything

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I'd rather have side quests that I can do at will and involve fighting than the game being padded by Cloud walking slowly and terrible puzzles in dungeons. I like the battle mechanics. I don't like slowly using machinery in a brain dead puzzles.

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Jiek_Fafn posted...

I'd rather have side quests that I can do at will and involve fighting than the game being padded by Cloud walking slowly and terrible puzzles in dungeons. I like the battle mechanics. I don't like slowly using machinery in a brain dead puzzles.

Puzzles are very scarce. Lets not make a complaint just to have one. The game cant be fighting 24/7. You need to break up the pace. Its not just the puzzles that are happening too.

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jumi posted...

The best minigames:

Triple Triad
FFX Blitzball
FFX-2 Blitzball

The worst:

Tetra Master

Did your goofy ass just call Blitzball good?

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DezDroppedFreak posted...

idk why people always bring up witcher 3 when almost every single side quest boils down to use witcher sense, play detective, hit something, and come back

Because the writing for each quest was unique and well written so it didnt feel like a chore.

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