Final Fantasy VII Rerelease thread

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Yeah a little bird told me this was happening a while ago. The hint of the 'boost' would be in the system specs.

 Minimum System Requirements: Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7 (32/64-bit) • 2GHz Processor or faster • 1GB RAM •
DirectX 9-compatible graphic card
 That's a whole lot for a simple port. :?: There is a screenshot in there, it looks pretty sharp. The movies are 100% cleaned up.
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Well, look who it is! pt.2
 
It'll almost certainly have some sort of resolution option, just about every game does. Play it at 640x480, run it to your TV... definitely doable for the enthusiast, even if not particularly easy.

Yeah, the PSX ran at 240p, not 480p. Still, classic enough for a CRT.
 
If the minimum space is anything to go by, this probably isn't much more than simple re-release with a few tweaks here and there to get it running. It also probably hasn't been developed in-house by square, very few of the re-releases or "HD" upscales (if any) on the market are.
 
That is what he means.  Same as what has happened with the boom in noobs recently when the mods and this forum got reviewed.
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You know, a surprising amount of my traffic comes from people searching for FF7 mods.

(Not that I think it's my reviews you're talking about.  My audience numbers in the dozens.  On a busy day.)

Anyway...yay, I guess?  At least it looks like they cleaned up the video files, and it'll probably take less tweaking to get it to run.  That's...pretty much bare minimum, and "bare minimum" is about what I'm expecting here.
 
I hope this doesn't make things obsolete around here. I'd much rather enjoy the what you all make rather than what they do.
 
"As Square Enix's most highly regarded game FINAL FANTASY VII has been optimized for a wide range of hardware ensuring that you can play it with ease on the latest modern PCs."

From there features list. Hey, did someone stop to think is SE actually HAD the source material? contrary to popular belief. Maybe that was a rumor put out be eidos cause they did a terrible job. Also there are strong rumblings that this is microtransaction based. =/ well at least we can expect some aftermarket support.
 
If they had the source material they would have advertised the fact, not cobbled together the same quality FMV's in a trailer that shows nothing else.  High hopes = High disappointments.
 

Considering the work been put into remodeling ff7

If it's truely been optimized it may make the remodelling project even better.
 
Now without jokes, hope they port FFIX and X.
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FFIX is a must for porting, and if they don't release FFX HD on PC i'll pretend to get very angry about it.
 
There is no such thing as FFX HD...  Upscaling is not HD.
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However, redoing/ increasing the detail of textures is, as is proper widescreen support in 720/1080. Which is what a HD port is. Which is why it's called FFX HD.
 
dun worry. We could all use TEXMOD and make our own HD textures.
 
If they just make a little improvement on the backgrounds, I'll be happy :P
 
However, redoing/ increasing the detail of textures is, as is proper widescreen support in 720/1080. Which is what a HD port is. Which is why it's called FFX HD.
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I still think that is pushing it.  It is more a marketing ploy...  It hardly looks like a true 720p or 1080 game.
 
I still think that is pushing it.  It is more a marketing ploy...  It hardly looks like a true 720p or 1080 game.
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If it is rendered natively at 720p or higher, it's true HD. That's the definition of the term. "HD" refers solely to actual output resolution (before any full-frame upscaling done by the TV or console). Halo 3, a current-gen game exclusive to the current gen XBOX 360, may look better than FF7 even if you use Aali's driver to render FF7 natively at 2560x1600, but Halo 3 only runs at 640p and is therefore not high-definition. "HD" refers only to one objective measurement of quality, not to looks as a whole.
 
It still looks nothing like FF13 which is what people are going to expect when they see "HD" rerelease.  They are going to expect a level of quality they are simply not getting and that's the whole point of using those letters....  and it works.
 
Like Covarr said, it is HD the very moment it runs at 720p or 1080p, which FFX HD edition does. So it's HD, even if it still uses PS2 era assets and looks like ass. Doesn't matter what people would expect when you talk about HD as the technical definition always applies no matter what the general public says.
 
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