Final Fantasy VII's PC Return Is Official
See Full ImageWhat we had heard through the grapevine is now official.
Final Fantasy VII is returning to the PC, as Square Enix has formerly revealed.
It's "coming soon" and it will feature achievements, cloud saves, and a "Character booster" that will let players cheat. Yeah, they can artificially increase their stats and money...I call that cheating, but whatever. By the way, this latter feature might be microtransaction-based, although we're not really sure...all I do know is that I don't recall experience or money to be especially tough to come by in FFVII. Just put a little leveling effort in, and you're good. What, too much for the current twitchy gamers?
Oh, all right, I take it back. Anyway, the FFVII PC re-release will be exclusive to the Square Enix store and it'll be available in the US and Europe in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Well obviously, this means a remake is coming. I mean, come on. Right? ...uh...right?
P.S. "Cloud" saves. ...ha.
Related Game(s): Final Fantasy VII
Tags: final fantasy vii, ffvii, final fantasy vii pc, ffvii pc, square enix
7/4/2012 8:18:50 PM Ben Dutka
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Geobaldi
Wednesday, July 04, 2012 @ 9:49:45 PM
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Phoenix
Wednesday, July 04, 2012 @ 9:50:23 PM
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WorldEndsWithMe
Wednesday, July 04, 2012 @ 10:11:35 PM
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LimitedVertigo
Wednesday, July 04, 2012 @ 10:30:38 PM
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WorldEndsWithMe
Wednesday, July 04, 2012 @ 10:41:25 PM
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Geobaldi
Wednesday, July 04, 2012 @ 11:12:14 PM
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Ben Dutka PSXE [Administrator]
Wednesday, July 04, 2012 @ 11:54:07 PM
I also remember saying, "...what fool is playing FFVII on the freakin' PC?"
...HA.
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Temjin001
Thursday, July 05, 2012 @ 7:49:38 AM
PC game marketing back then thought the bigger more shelf wasting space a box could be the better. But the illusion failed every time when picking up the box from the shelf. Lots felt so cheap, hollow, and light weight it made one wonder why the box was so big.
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Underdog15
Thursday, July 05, 2012 @ 8:29:35 AM
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WorldEndsWithMe
Wednesday, July 04, 2012 @ 10:15:16 PM
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I can see why they are adding the cheat system, as much as I love the game and put in time I was still never able to beat the underwater Weapon.
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Nas Is Like
Wednesday, July 04, 2012 @ 10:37:03 PM
Who would you guys say is tougher; Ruby or Emerald?
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kraygen
Wednesday, July 04, 2012 @ 11:54:11 PM
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Ben Dutka PSXE [Administrator]
Wednesday, July 04, 2012 @ 11:56:38 PM
Ruby was only a bitch because you had to go one on one and you never knew which one he would leave. You just had to keep resetting until the character you had set to fight him remained. And that character should have the Mystile equipped and...yeah, more KotR.
There are many other ways to beat these things, of course, but these are the easiest. Just the most time-consuming because of all the time you need to spend leveling up the KotR materia.
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WorldEndsWithMe
Thursday, July 05, 2012 @ 12:49:56 AM
Knights of the Round was so damn epic.
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ZenChichiri
Thursday, July 05, 2012 @ 1:36:58 AM
2) Mimic to conserve on MP and have the others mimic the w-summon KotR.
3) Final Attack + Phoenix to revive
4) Profit!
I would say Ruby weapon is the hardest as you can't mimic yourself and so need to be careful of your MP and use recovery items. With Emerald you can force your way through if you're lucky enough with little to no trouble. Ruby is weaker, but it's hard with only one person!
Last edited by ZenChichiri on 7/5/2012 1:37:21 AM
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RKumono
Thursday, July 05, 2012 @ 2:16:26 AM
Emerald's attack does 1111 damage per materia equipped. Max your HP, equip only 8 materia per character, and you can pound away and heal after each massive attack. Have Final-Attack-Phoenix for emergency raises. Or, you could do like I did and beat him in 2 minutes by rolling lucky with Cait Sith's lvl 2 Limit Break for an instant win.
Ruby is vunerable to Hades. Enter with two people dead, he sticks his tentacles in the sand. Revive the others with Phoenix and then W-Summon Hades and Knights of the Round. Soon as his stop wears off, Mime it with the next character. Easy win.
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Temjin001
Thursday, July 05, 2012 @ 7:43:28 AM
Yeah, I just cast zombie on it and then cast life on him. Pretty easy, really
(swish)
=p
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Underdog15
Thursday, July 05, 2012 @ 8:33:44 AM
Go in with 2 characters already dead, and Ruby won't dismiss anyone.
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kraygen
Thursday, July 05, 2012 @ 2:11:41 PM
That should make it much easier next time around, although nothing like the intensity of watching the timer get down to under a minute and practically begging for him to die.
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Underdog15
Thursday, July 05, 2012 @ 2:23:45 PM
You need to use your Morph materia to morph it into an item when it's health gets down low. The item you get is some sort of guide book. Take that book to a man in Kalm, and he'll trade you for an Underwater materia. Equip that to anyone in your party and it will remove the timer.
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Ben Dutka PSXE [Administrator]
Thursday, July 05, 2012 @ 4:10:09 PM
I just wanted to be a God, that's all. So when I was done, I'd have bunches of Master Materias equipped all over the place, all the characters in my party had their Lv. 4 Limit Breaks, everyone had KotR mastered, etc. The funniest was the Counter and Counter Magic materias; at the end, if anyone attacked Cloud, he'd immediately counter with KotR. If anyone attacked Red XIII, he'd counter with Flash (the upgrade from 4x Cut that is basically instant death), and Cid would counter with Bamamut ZERO.
That was after the WEAPONs were dead, of course. ;)
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Underdog15
Thursday, July 05, 2012 @ 5:18:17 PM
@World
I'm sure you knew. I was letting Kraygen know. He said he didn't know there was an underwater materia.
Last edited by Underdog15 on 7/5/2012 5:19:17 PM
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cLoudou
Wednesday, July 04, 2012 @ 11:18:48 PM
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WorldEndsWithMe
Wednesday, July 04, 2012 @ 11:30:48 PM
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kraygen
Wednesday, July 04, 2012 @ 11:55:58 PM
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However if they were going to add some cheats, what they should have added was the ability to play as any characters through the whole game. Including Sephiroth.
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Ultimadream
Thursday, July 05, 2012 @ 2:29:52 AM
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Seeing that trailer just makes me want to play play it all over again... ^-^
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___________
Thursday, July 05, 2012 @ 5:24:28 AM
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now can we please for the love of god get over a HD remake?
PLEASE!?
really silly $E is restricting this to their store though.
eh, whatever.
Last edited by ___________ on 7/5/2012 5:24:33 AM
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Temjin001
Thursday, July 05, 2012 @ 7:51:53 AM
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Temjin001
Thursday, July 05, 2012 @ 9:31:44 AM
;)
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Temjin001
Thursday, July 05, 2012 @ 9:33:24 AM
FiNAl fAnTasie 7
(Sketch of Cloud goes here)
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Underdog15
Thursday, July 05, 2012 @ 11:56:48 AM
But if you must have a real explanation, as a collector, it's pretty unnecessary for me to buy a digital copy for my PC. I have the original black spine PS1 version. And I got the dlc version to play it on PSP when traveling (which I definitely used!). But for PC... I could just download an emulator or something if I wanted a digital version. There's literally no selling feature to buy it online for PC. Not for me, anyways.
I don't need cloud saves and I would just end up maxing all my stats naturally anyways!
Last edited by Underdog15 on 7/5/2012 12:00:09 PM
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Underdog15
Thursday, July 05, 2012 @ 11:58:10 AM
And it isn't the spelling and capitalization things that are bad, you know... it's the fact you would write 7 instead of VII!!!!!! BLASPHEMY!
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Temjin001
Thursday, July 05, 2012 @ 12:25:01 PM
Final Fantasy Seven:
The Death of Aeris
Much more impact that way
=p
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Underdog15
Thursday, July 05, 2012 @ 1:49:43 PM
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Temjin001
Thursday, July 05, 2012 @ 2:21:52 PM
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Jed
Thursday, July 05, 2012 @ 11:10:46 AM
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eLLeJuss
Thursday, July 05, 2012 @ 4:08:00 PM
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Underdog15
Saturday, July 07, 2012 @ 9:38:20 AM
eLLeJuss, that's like your tag line. How could you have forgotten it?!
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Nas Is Like
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Wednesday, July 04, 2012 @ 9:20:29 PM