I spent 7 hours in Spider-Man remastered for the PC. It's a really good game. Probably one of the better modern games based on a comic book character. It's on par with the Arkham games. Matter of fact it reminds me of the Arkham games. The good ones and not Arkham Origins which had problems. The fighting isn't total button mashing like it is in the Arkham games and Spiderman can die. I died a few times and had issues getting a hang of web swinging through the city. My first hour of play was more like Spooder-Man than Spider Man.
I remember the Spider-Man games from the early 2000's that released with the Toby Mcguire movies. They were ok and I believe there was another open world style Spider-Man game that released in the mid 2000's on the ps2 Xbox and GC. But this new game is better. It's modern game so of course it looks really good. At times I think I am watching a movie or something. Web slinging around the city is amazing.
There are some frame rate drops when you start moving around the city really fast. I think the lowest I saw was 45fps and that's with everything on max settings at 1920x1080. RTX is set to high instead of very high. I am using a RTX 2070 Super and a R7 3700 with 16GB of RAM. Hopefully they can fix that with some patches. But other than that, it's an amazing PC port. It's better than what RDR2 was on release. RDR2 is a really good game as well but the first few months after its PC release it wasn't the most well optimized game ever and had really bad performance issues.
It plays well with the keyboard and mouse, but I have been using my Xbox One controller I use for games that don't work well with the K&M.
The team that Sony hired to do the port did a really good job.
Thanks all, I'll stick with it. Absolutely massive number of mods exist for it, but I'll just go with GBA with some sort of sound restoration hack.
FF7 is interesting as I kind of think suffers from the childhood effect -- graphics look like ass today and the story is some real emo shit that was more appealing back when everyone was listening to Linkin Park. Biggest problem with it for me was that the on-rails intro in Midgar just takes forever to get though and was the single most boring part of the game. Mind-numbingly boring. When you finally get to the open world it gets dramatically better.
That's the reason I never tried the remake -- an entire game based around the Midgar section. Fuck no.
FF7 is also a great JRPG. It has nothing to do with nostalgia. Maybe people's tastes have changed over the last 20+ years and they no longer have a tolerance for the old style JRPG's but it doesn't mean it's bad or people view it through nostalgia glasses.
FF7 represented a leap in technology for games consoles and specifically JRPG's. Square took the classic JRPG and made it 3D. Back in the 90's and early 2000's with a CRT those prerendered backgrounds looked amazing. A few years ago, when I tried playing FF7 again on my PC because I bought the Steam version during a sale the ugly pixelated mess that is the prerendered backgrounds hit me pretty hard as someone who was playing the game in the 90's and early 2000's. As far as the character models are concerned, I don't mind them. That's where the nostalgia comes in for me. It's what I remember playing and seeing. It's like Square took the old cartoonish 16 bit era character design and recreated it on a modern system (PS1) and used modern graphics for the time. I don't really care for the character design in the remake. It's too modern and looks like some kind of CGI Japanese anime.
If you have the Steam version, you can play it in windowed mode. Smaller resolutions and screens make the prerendered backgrounds less pixelated. I played it on Steam in windowed mode at 800x600. Then I got a PS Vita used and it played it on that for a while. I got out of the Midgar opening on that. Then I bought it on Switch when it released on that. The Switch is the best version because you get a larger screen, they added in some kind smoothing that makes the prerendered backgrounds look better and the Switch is portable so you can play FF7 anywhere. The rerelease on Switch and PS4 also allows you to turn on 3x speed so the game moves faster you can turn off random battles and the other option is like a god mode. Where you HP constantly refills after being hit. You also get unlimited limit breaks in that mode as well.
The second-best version would be the Steam version because of the mods. There is a mod that used AI image enhancement to make the prerendered backgrounds look better. You might want to look into it.
The site for the Remako Mod, a Final Fantasy VII mod that uses AI to improve the graphics of this classic JRPG.
captrobau.blogspot.com
There are also mods for the character models if you have issues them. But all the issues can't be fixed because they are just part of the game and it's an old game. There are just some things you will have to get used to like the random battles and the turn-based nature of the battles.
As far as it being emo and no it isn't. JRPG's have always been melodramatic. FFIV was and FFVI is kind of as well. It's just how they are. You can always ignore the overly emotional teenager like story elements.
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R: Gary Whitta and Amy Hennig are probably brought in for the early world building, while other two are main writers.
