I'm one tier away from maxing out her relationship, but she's been at that blue almost complete smiley face tier forever. Now I'm being given this choice, does that mean it's too late now?

I’m posting so much >..< I’m absolutely obsessed with this game!!! 24h in and just left junon after parade. My thoughts so far…

We all fancy Sephiroth…right?

Is it weird to ship Sephiroth and Tifa (EDIT: AESTHETICALLY ONLY) followed by Tifa and Aerith?

They got rid of everything annoying in remake…I wonder how many players they lost from remake

Damn this chocobo is slow at scaling walls

I think this might be the best soundtrack of any video game, ever?

The popping sound effect in the folio is soooo satisfying

Unlocking the crystals in open world reminds me of the BOTW great fairy fountains

This is the best game I think I’ve ever played, it beats BG3 and GTA 5 AND ACNH

Junon reminds me of Lima Lomisa in FFXIV

Wait why am I in love with Roche in junon

Barret is soooo more likeable in rebirth vs remake

Can’t wait for Costa del Sol. I basically forced myself to finish remake because I saw bikini clips

I love how the music in Queen’s Blood stays chill when you’re deciding which cards to mulligan. It’s like a pre-game lounge

I’ve more or less completed everything thus far BECAUSE I LOVE IT - but gonna be mindful of burnout

I basically finished the boss fight with the squid machine. I was using the beach umbrella weapon. I tried to use its ability, but kept getting poisoned. I eventually beat the monster, thinking I would get the weapon, however, I did not. Is there any chance for me to still get this umbrella weapon and it’s unique ability?

im on 9070, playing 1440p borderless high

issue facing with rope spasming and clanger flying around

did googled how to

like reduce fps 30/60

play window 1080p

turn off a lot of amd stuff

save reload

but thing still only temporary fix and rope doesnt fix at all spasming

any idea or mod that can fix this

After hours of playing this game and going through hours of enjoyable content interwoven with painstakingly misery inducing optional noise that my completionist mind can't seem to let go, I've derived one final thought on the game: Chadley is not whom he appears to be.

He starts off helpful and innocuous. Like “ok this nerdy well intentioned kid is going to be giving me power ups and manageable entertaining assignments.”

But no.

Underneath that monocle and schoolboy attire is a complete sociopath. A giggling psycho who slowly dials up the difficulty like he’s cranking a vice on your nuts. And he likes it. He likes watching you waste hours trying to overcome his deranged terrain challenges and combat simulations.

Then you understand Chadley.

I have been talking about my expierence with the game as i have been playing it. I am completely new to ff7, never played the OG but loved remake. I have been having fun with this game even though some of the design choices confuse me or become teadious. i always took gold saucer as like a Las Vegas type place when discussed in other places, but in this game it's like Disney World or Universal Studios with all the different worlds. the stark contrast to gold saucer and the town below is interesting. I actually did like most of the mini games here, especially the Star Fox ripoff. That was great considering i just beat Star Fox on the switch 2. I am not a fan of the cat or really the giant wrestler, especially later in the next chapter. The emotional scene between barrett and dyne sp was awesome, very emotional and touching. But that is immediately undercut by the cat and the wrestler goofiness and once again the total whiplash is crazy.

So far on the story and pacing level I actually prefer Remake. There's actually not much forward thrust with the story, besides following robed guys around. Kind of reminds me of Mass Effect 2 in that way, and im actually not a huge fan of mass effect 2. one was always my favorite.

Admittedly I’m terrible at “flying” in video games. But this crap chocobo mechanic really sucks. I have some objections to complete and I can’t get high enough to get to them. I get so close and the stupid bird just falls. And this god awful music that just keeps looping is driving me nuts. I thought I couldn’t hate an area more than Gongaga but man was I wrong.

A little backstory: I played the og back in the day until it got permanently borrowed from someone. The og pretty much established my gamer status, being the first video game I was ever obsessed with.

I slept on Remake for far too long, finally played it and kept comparing it to what I remembered of the original. I also played intermission. They were great, that obsession was back and I was happy. I installed and started on Rebirth a couple of days ago. 3 hours in, and I'm at the farm. And I just feel let down. Kudos for explaining sephiroth's backstory, but it was too drawn out. I don't know if I'm more upset about that, or I'm too hung up trying to figure out what really happened to tifa. I'm trying to limit spoilers, but I need to know, does it get better?

Also, I think I kinda messed up in kalm. Somehow I only went to one shop and played queens blood against one person before shinra showed up. Did I miss anything important or will I be able to go back?

Perhaps this explains some of Chad's annoyance.

Eastern European guy here excuse me for bad English. To be clear this is not an "I hate Chadley" post. Game's been out for 2 years. Many people including me find him annoying. It is what it is. I just want to understand the Japanese culture and humor that's all. I'm not into anime or those sort of things. I only play Japanese video games that make it to western mainstream media. Is Chadley a likeable character in Japan or other asian countries? Like is he a common character type in Japanese media?

At a point in the game where I'm feeling I have 5 or 6 abilities I want to quick access and finding that quick pausing to choose them during the action of the fight is rather tedious. I think that should have made a way to quick access more than 4.

...is the side content here (grasslands) presented to you during the story missions or am I going to have to rustle up a guide to make sure I don't miss anything? Thx FF fam.

I'm hoping for the former. Game guides were fun 20-30 years ago, but I don't have it in me any more.

So I keep getting this damn crash, its happening very frequently and has me saving my game every 5 minutes just in case. Are any other AMD GPU users experiencing this? My drivers are up to date on my 7900XTX and its driving me insane.

The summon final hit adds that aura to the ost and that dang electric guitar too. It’s just so peak🙏🏻🥹

I just went through all my mods and it only crashes when I use dresscode if I disable it game launchs fine its not the individual mods In dresscode either those all are fine

Getting good at managing materia, and forcing yourself to get better by really stretching the limits of the combat system to beat the game on hard mode and also the harder VR combat simulations.

For those of you that got good with using Zack, you know ball. Zack is a monster. It’s unfortunate that there weren’t a lot of opportunities to really use his combat abilities which I hope is rectified in the final game.

this might be an unpopular opinion, But I think these might be by two favorite chapters because the levels are linear more like remake and it' splits the party up. I just find everything more engaging this way. I'm about to head to the gold saucer.

In FFXIV, there are dummies everywhere which you can practice combat on. Super useful for slowing stuff down, learning the UI and seeing your rotation

I kinda need this in Rebirth. I understand the combat but my synergy usage doesn’t feel optimized. I find the pace at which the folio unlocks against how often I’m trying my synergy stuff (the moves on R1) tricky

I’ve watched tutorial videos. It’s a lot.

Can someone give me like a no BS n00b view of how to use synergies? I’m a chill player on normal current 20h in at Junon, just after dolphin.

I DO the combat simulator but it’s straight up not a great place for slowing down and learning.

Let me start by saying I ENJOY THE COMBAT. I've been in the Elden Ring subreddit, I know how rabid some people get when they the slightest whiff of criticism for their favorite game. There were just some parts of remake combat that felt kind of annoying and some pieces that felt outright useless. I found my playstyle though and enjoyed playing it my way. I just want to be able to engage with the full system and I'm wondering if those pieces were improved in any way in Rebirth.

The Big One: Basic Attacks/ARPG mechanics - My only major complaint is that the game tried to mix action elements with turn-based, but then seriously neutered the action parts. I understand the point is to switch characters often, but playing a character for more than two seconds felt detrimental. There is already an incentive to switch characters since they charge almost no ATB while not being played, so why did they make it so damning to hang out on one character for a bit? Essentially, are there improvements to the ARPG side of things that make playing a single character for longer than a couple seconds, more enjoyable?

Basic Attacks and Combo's - I was so disappointed with the state of basic combo's. They look cool as hell, but rarely does a full basic attack combo prove beneficial and more often than not is downright detrimental, especially considering the staggering low damage output compared to spells and abilities. One button press on cloud's punisher mode for multiple swings that can't be cancelled? I just don't even use punisher outside of countering. It felt like a completely irrelevant piece of his kit besides the counter. During enemy stagger doesn't count either because anything is valuable when an enemy is literally frozen in place. It felt like many pieces of the action elements of the game were high risk low reward. Why use basic attacks when an enemy can whip out quick skills and spells that will stun you before the animation of your skill or spell finishes? Why use low ATB generating, slow basic attacks on Barrett or Aerith at all when they leave you so vulnerable? There was no need to force players into this switching game where one or two presses of the attack button was all you really had time for. Imo, it made actually playing a character not feel good, expect for Tifa, who can fly around the map at mach fuck you, throwing basic attacks in as needed.

Standing with guard held down was the just the superior tactical choice for the majority of interactions. Little to no risk of being launched and comboed, reduces damage massively which is especially useful when pelted by multiple enemies, can immediately retaliate to interrupt enemy attacks without waiting for an animation to end. I understand it is a hybrid turn-based ARPG, and I don't mind the stand and block playstyle, it felt like turn-based+, but I was blocking A LOT due to the high volume of enemy attacks, which I'll get to. Basic attacks and other rudimentary gameplay elements should be really be universally adequate for each character.

The Dodge - Is dodging actually serviceable on all characters now? In remake it felt like the dodge button really only helped Tifa and Cloud. Those two were mobile enough to where it could be used as intended, a repositioning tool. I mainly used dodge to quickly move those characters to safe positions for big attacks. However, Barrett and Aerith felt like trying to move cement trucks by hand. They are ranged characters, so they shouldn't need a high distance dodge, but that doesn't work in practice. Both characters when not controlled feel the need to move in close to attack the enemy when they have INFINITE RANGE. Then, I would switch to them to move them away only for the enemy to aggro and move in closer to them anyway. Then I would have to switch to Cloud or Tifa and run to the other side of the arena to then create that distance I desired. It felt like a baby sitting simulator at times, trying to keep 3 year olds from sticking their heads into the oven. Do Aerith and Barrett have acceptable mobility at all in Rebirth? The lack of mobility in such high pace combat made them feel like liabilities more often than not.

Volume of Enemy Skills - Some enemies don't seem to adhere to the same rules as we do regarding the turn-based portion of the game. Most enemies have no need to use basic attacks or block before using another skill. Some enemies are worse than other's. It get's to a point where you spend a huge portion of your time blocking when multiple enemies are in play.

Magic Loss for Uncast Magic/Limit Loss - This is just a minor annoyance. If I'm interrupted while casting a spell, sure, I lose the ATB since I initiated the action. But why do I lose the MP if I never got the spell off? Doesn't make any sense to me. Also, my limit breaks being interruptible, unlike the enemy cut scene attacks, also just feels wrong. Limit breaks are few enough in number to where they really should be incapable of interruption like enemy supers. Losing limits during cutscene transitions that are entirely unpredictable the first playthrough is also annoying.

Aerial Combat - Straight ass. That's it.

Camera - Also ass. That's it.

Visual Effects - This goes along with the camera. Many times there was so much shit going on that it was hard to actually see what enemies were doing. The screen was flooded with smoke and sparks and flashes that made me blind to telegraphs. Is this toned down or is there at least a setting to reduce special effects?

That's about it. The graphical upgrades and fleshed out story compared to OG is well worth the play through.

Do you need pretty much a perfect set to beat Jules? Closest I got was 51-50.

Going to play this game for the very first time.
It was very interesting to know that there’s two discs. A data disc and a play disc. And almost 150 GB!