Social mobility... Haha

Why exactly ?

@@GameFan-pl7wp Soccer, Brazil v Germany (2014 FIFA World Cup)

@@anss321 oh wow okay thank you

@@anss321 Holy shit, 7-1 on wikipedia redirects to the wikipedia page about that match.

You learn something new every day.

A more apt comparison would be Snake hallucinating Liquid throughout the entire game, then it ends as soon as you beat Revolver Ocelot. That's how utterly little of Final Fantasy VII's story is covered in this remake.

Well they did cut off the entire chapter 3 of mgsv.

@Michael Martin Of course there will be, it will just be on a pachinko machine.

Don’t forget the obligatory Meryl dating sim. And when you fail Coronel Campbel calls saying “Snake Snake Are you there Nooooooo!”

I'm waiting for the MGS game where, after the final boss fight, the camera pans out from Snake's eye and he's against the wall smoking a cigarette.

It also seems like at 2:53 he's actually holding back laughter, which is probably the first time I've ever heard him do that

​@@fullmontisNoticed the same. Am mildly surprised the same didn't happen when he recited Destiny's original plot yet a perfectly reasonable point to crack up.

>Be wedge >Like pizza >become one

Titan Tohka Or his date with Tifa.

You misspelled "punani".

tad bit ironic when the girl who is promising you said delicious pizza gets killed by a giant slice of the one covering the entire sky.

That's a good thing. Considering how thirsty and crazy Jessie is this time around, she might as well swap the tomato sauce with her menstruation blood

I'd watch that anime.

"The Melancholy of Strife Cloud-Chan" :P

at least harem adventures end in sex...

I was calling it Final Yakuza 7

People have been calling it that since the first one.

yeah but that wouldn't sell as well since all of the people that didn't play the original wouldn't be decieved into buying this one

trueNgt48 well SE is gonna realized how fucked they are after the backlash over the deceiving title and the fact it no longer follows the original and when the sales start going down for each part

Jesus christ, I completely forgot about Rebuild Evangelion. Looked it up and began laughing due to the fact it's not finished.

@@mrcrazy7865 I can pretty much guarantee you that the sales won't drop much. Particularly since aside from the hardcore "it's not the same" fanboys, most of the people I've heard talk about the game enjoyed it a fair bit. Hell, even Yatzee didn't bash the game as much as he does most JRPGs. I have no personal interest in the game both because it's not complete, and because I prefer many Final Fantasy games over VII, but a great many people do like and care about the game enough that I seriously doubt the poor title choice is going to upset sales any. Particularly because the vast majority of those hardcore fans who do feel the need to complain just because it's not the exact same game, will still pick up the future entries regardless......

Gamer3427 well if you look at the sales for the remake already in the UK, it’s already dropped to the bottom 10 after 3 weeks and is losing to games that came out years and even months ago (ex: Jedi fallen order and COD modern warfare). And the fact that it isn’t even a complete version of the original is gonna push off people to wait until it’s all done

One of the nice easter eggs they have is that Sephiroth will say "Oh the memories" when smacking the crap out of Aerith with his sword.

@@ArlanKels It is actually when he does a Fire infusion and he refers to burning down Nibelheim.

The Mayor.

*Spoiler alert!* XDXDXD

*low-key hates you for making me laugh at that* lol

I still think his "more assholes than a donkey in an iron maiden" is the funniest thing I've ever heard.

Harley Q What review is that from?

@@sirapple589 It's the L.A. Noire review!

Harley Q Thank you.

No wonder he writes books

Technically it's about 1/3 of only disk 1.

And Jackson cut a lot from the books, says more about Tolkien imho.

A third of the first disc.

i think it is more to do with the engine they used not being optimized at the time, same problem with kingdom heart III

@@kaizer-777 So it's like if the first Hobbit movie was just Bilbo hanging around the Shire with the Dwarves. and it's still three hours long.

I was howling from that. XD

"Oh you tease." It loses all sense of flow without the "oh;" fix it. Edit; HE FIXED IT!!! 😁

He always has a funny joke at the end

Yes, well done, we all watched the video too.

Majora Except Yahtzee’s gone on record multiple time’s to say he hates this type of KZfaq comment. It adds nothing. It’s just filling the air and begging for likes.

@@theodorepinnock1517 Eight? mogworld, jam, galaxy 1, differently morpheous and galaxy 2. What are the other three?

@@theodorepinnock1517 Are those published though, or just books that he distributed online?

@@theodorepinnock1517 I've heard of maybe three, and it's only through self-plugging on this show. Just getting published doesn't mean success, and the fact is more people know about him from this show than those books. It's obvious where his revenue stream lies, what with entering into two other video projects from the same magazine.

@@singularityghost6290 What other revenue stream can you get with life as a writer in this century. He's making money off his writing career, and you're commenting on a video that is the only reason Escapist has over a million subscribers. He's done alright by modern media standards for sure

TBH a large chunk of writers never reach a level of success that they can survive of book sales alone they usually have some other job for consistent income because professional writing takes either an insane amount of luck or knowing exactly the right people to really take off, and it's rarely indicative of talent, for every worthy success story eg. Harry potter there's an abomination that gets inextricably popular eg. Fifty Shades, good artists are rarely recognized in their own time as well Lovecraft never lived to see his works truly take off for example. TL:DR, not having a writing career "take off", and having to keep one's "Day Job" so to speak is nothing to be ashamed off and happens to the best of us.

Yea but dont touch the sword if you do it

It was too big to be called a sword, more like a board for ironing.

Running Commentary 21 great ending imo. The last few mins was as good as it gets.

@@girshin If we're just talking about the last few cutscenes, I wholeheartedly agree.

Running Commentary 21 I am yes. Probably from where we first see Zack to “I miss the steal sky” with the rain and the song hollow playing. It’s just perfect and makes me want the next episode.

If they had just made the changes to the story without feeling the need for an in-universe explanation of why the things that happened differently in this version happened differently it would have been great. The whispers made an 8/10 into a 5/10. They even could have kept the showdown with Sephiroth via one of the clones. But I guess it's just not a real fantasy story if it doesn't have contrived predetermination as a central theme.

David Wilson we live in a predetermined universe 🤷‍♂️

Expansion packs have been a thing for a long time.

@@switchplayer1016 I cringe when I see people crying when they saw the trailers. I've played the original twice through but for fuck's sake its not the gospel of games

Xtraflux No, Pavlovian Conditioning is a method of training something to have a certain reaction to a specific stimulus. The way Pavlov used it was that he had a bell and when he rung it, the dogs he had trained would salivate. It’s an incredibly interesting thing.

@@TheCoffeeNut711 it's pretty up there in terms of importance for western gaming.

@@switchplayer1016 Perfect game to wait until 2026 for and buy the 3-part collection on sale.

Amnesiac falls in love, bad guy wants to blow up the world to absorb its life energy, bad guy kills amnesiac's love interest, amnesiac kills bad guy, world blows up anyway, everybody dies, boom, Final Fantasy VII

"Simple" might be a bit too much to expect, but FFVII is at least of the generation where it didn't take three encyclopedias and a college course to figure out what's going on. *SPOILERS BELOW* * Long ago the planet was populated by Ancients. * A meteor fell at the north pole containing a horrible planet-eating entity called Jenova. The Ancients stopped it or sealed it up or something. Most of them died. * An evil mega-corp named Shinra is all evil and mega-corpy. It finds, exploits Jenova to create enhanced soldiers and monsters, and siphons the planet's life-energy to power its cities and create magic crystals called Materia. * One of its super soldiers is named Sephiroth. He's the Big Bad. He's so bishonen that it's physically painful. * Cloud is a small town kid with big dreams. He joins Shinra, is there when Sephiroth discovers that he was altered with Jenova cells, gets caught up in Sephiroth's freak-out, kills Sephiroth, is put in a tank and experimented on. * Cloud escapes (with help), has a whole lot of amnesia and false memories, goes to Midgar (a big multi-layer city that's Shinra's HQ and is made of congealed class warfare and oppression). *This is where the game starts* * Cloud meets his childhood love interest Tifa and her ecoterrorist gang, blows stuff up. Meets Aerith, the last Ancient. Stereotypical anime love triangle ensues. * Sephiroth is still alive (gasp!), murders half of Shinra, everyone leaves and goes on a big trek through the countryside with oodles of side quests. * Sephiroth wants to use evil magic (Meteor) to wound the Planet and absorb all its life energy to become a god. * Turns out Cloud is battier than a belfry and gives Meteor to Sephiroth. * Aerith has the key to stop him. Aerith departs the world abruptly, crushing shippers' dreams forever. * The world goes to hell. Cloud betrays everyone, falls comatose, a bunch of living Weapons get out. * Tifa figures out that Cloud's got false memories oozing from his brain, helps him mop them up. * Everyone's back together and they go take on Sephiroth with the Power of Resolved Character Arcs. * The world ends, then doesn't end, then ends, then doesn't end again. The end.

"A group of teenagers who use the power of friendship to kill God."

Angsty blonde ex-Amazon employee with big knife loses girlfriend to beautiful alien man and the planet gets saved at some point from a comet. Edit: Also you can ride big bird from sesame street.

@@magicmon I was just going to suggest that.

@@Spartacus114 thankyou

I was gonna like this comment but it has 69 likes atm

@bill nye the russian spy he died for our laughs

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@@Zoxide_ what do you mean

Best line I've heard in like a year or more.

That made me literally lol.

hahahaha epic line take a reddit gold my good sir

Reddit incarnate

Gwyneth but with a dick Kinky

Ludonarrative dissonance, ho!

Obligatory "Phoenix Downs only work if you're *knocked out* not *dead* dumbo" Because when a dragon bites your head off everyone knows you're only fainting from the embarrassment of it all. Dont you dare bring up the "Life" spell.

Phoenix downs don't revive the dead. No one ever dies in battle, they are simply "KO"ed, which is where the phoenix down comes in. It revives the person from a downed state, not death. This is how it is in every FF. I don't care how spectacular the effects of the spells and shit are, in the narrative the characters win every battle unscathed and no one ever dies unless scripted too anyway so it really is just a separation of story and plot. So in the end: don't even mention it, it's not worth it.

@@Rebellions Yes, of course, no one dies from damage sustained in FF7 -- because everyone knows that the worst a planet-crushing meteor strike can do when it hits you is knock you out. So, a sword through the heart should be no big deal, right? She'll be *fine.*

@@smward87 Sorry, I know some people are still torn up about that part of the game. But c'mon, it's the feathers of a _phoenix,_ not a jar of smelling salts -- coming back from the dead is kinda their whole *deal.* And you can't expect me to believe that getting hit by a _meteor that crushes planets on its way to hitting me_ is going to be less lethal than getting stabbed, FF7 -- a Tonberry stabbed everyone in my party earlier, and they practically walked that off. A strong enough dissonance between story and gameplay can completely ruin the experience, frankly, and no matter which way you try to rationalize this one, it _still_ makes no bloody sense.

ah so the plot got nomura'd

The reason Barret shoved Cloud away from Marlene gets explained 2 seconds after the above sequence. And considering Cloud's personality, the reason Barret gives make a hell of a lot of sense.

@@katsasgeorge there is a part later in the game about how cloud gave Marlene murder eyes and cloud is softening up, being more real of a person. Also, don’t talk to strangers

David Castro You're forgetting FF X-2 and FF XIII-2 were a thing...

It was easily the worst part for me, but it always has been. Its a time wasting section on the way to far more serious plot points and they EXPANDED on that this go around. "DON CORNEO IS GOING TO CHOOSE A BRIDE AT ANY TIME! ...now run around town and do a whole bunch of stuff instead of just busting down the front door." Its so freaking stupid, especially when the end result was going to be the same either way, you were GOING to get that information from Corneo and escape and he was always going to be ostracized from Shinra for it. Its just dumb as hell that you have to run around doing all sorts of inane tasks to get from Point A to point B.

Palladiamors Of course it makes no sense. But if you start looking at Final fantasy that way, you can rip the entire story apart, since basiclly nothing makes sense. -Through out the entire game the entire Party is getting shot and never hit by a bullet. - Barret could have easily shot reno and rude through that scene and saved the Day - Cloud can rip through buildings and can jump several Meters with two children through the air and is yet hindered by simple things standing in his way. - Sneaking into the shinra building on top of that truck the way they did, should have exposed them right away. - And I don't even know where to Start with the wispers and Sephiroth. If my enjoyment of the game would hinge on what makes sense, I would have hated the entire story.

Nomura was also a 20-something fashion designer that could be told No. He wasn't lauded as a genius or revolutionary yet.

I don't really think he is alone in this, Square enix absolutely love this kind of convoluted narration that is all over the place. But to be fair Nomura is doing something right, and even if his plots are absolute nonsense and the dialogs are laughtable at best I'm always weirdly invested in those crazy stories.

I really don't like Nomura tbh. Dude's not a good director. Only need to look at how long FF15 spent in development hell pre-production because of him to see that. Now Naoki Yoshida, there's a guy who I want to see get the reigns to FF16.

@@666slateran666 He is talking about the Remake wich was being directed by Nomura until SE said "go finish KH 3".

@@bainbonic I still miss Hiroyuki Itou.

Not really, it's about timing up. You are not meant to perform certain attacks when the enemy is on the move or about to strike, you are meant to read the body language and assess what to do. You can pause for a reason, I am surprised that people are struggling with certain mechanics, I played the original and I love turn based, but this hybrid is good and really not that hard at all to adapt to. It's rather enjoyable even.

@@Carnage7209 It's the downside of a hybrid system that allows you to perform combos, which on the other hand, you can't do that in turn based. I can command Cloud to do his limit break and then quickly change to Tifa to execute an ability and vice versa. Combos like these give you a lot more dynamic as a comparison. Just because it's one of the downsides of this battle system it doesn't make it a flaw per se. The same way you can't do any sort of timing with turn based and have to wait out for certain actions to be performed in full. Which let's be honest about that, even back in 1998 the waiting time was excruciating (summons being the best example), we just didn't know better. Again, like I said in my first post, I do in fact wait for enemies to be busy with other characters, pausing for wtv reason or staggered. Come on, it's really not that hard. Lure the enemy to the character you do not want to use and quickly switch to the one using limit break to perform it when he has his back against you.

@@trailoffiends I think the problem is that, at certain hps the boss battle goes into a scripted state where the boss does a little dance to show-off the next phase of the fight, and they become invincible when doing so. So its really annoying when I use a limit move (ahem Ascension) when a boss is staggered and like 70% of the move misses because the first 30% knocks the boss into the next phase.

@@D-H-C Makes sense, I agree with that. Granted I am not implying that it's a perfect system, it should be corrected in a few cases, but I sense some exaggeration in criticism over this. This is undoubtedly better than turn based. For those who are struggling a bit on bosses, I would just recommend the use of Refocus. Those 3 ATB bars become much more important than limit breaks when taking too much damage.

The end of the game made it seem like they were taking the story in a new direction. The story will be new from here on out

They had to change the entire story going forward to make it not happen, not because it would please the fans, but because it would end up looking like a snuff film by the time they got to it.

How about if instead of him appearing and stabbing her just as she's trying to heal the planet... she instead runs up a bunch of stairs while everything's exploding, right, like in Dirge of Cerberus (Squenix reference!)... and then he shoots at her with a gun, because we all know Sephiroth uses a gun right, (Squenix style!), but she deflects every bullet a microsecond before it would go through her brain (Advent Children, woo!), but then he corners her and nearly kills her, but she dramatically kills herself in defiance! (DoC again)

She'll not die. They don't have the balls.

@@ilikecookies72_45 Except they are already backpedaling pretty hard core on that front after the backlash. And if its a new story far, FAR more people will be angry since they wanted Final Fantasy VII, not "Nomura's New Wet Dream."

Lol three instead of the is hurting my brain

He didn't really like this or the original.

Hard agree.

Doesn't seem to be episodic, there's no schedule.

@@usul573 uh... it IS episodic... the first part they released is just the midgard part. not even half of the story, they covered only the "prologue" of the story. it will take like four or five more releases if they plan to make it as long as the original.

@@pelgervampireduck What's the difference between calling it a series or episodic? Or a trilogy? It just seems like it's hard to even define what it is and only time will tell.

Nah, Yahtzee is exaggerating. The Midgar section is actually one of the most plot heavy areas in the original game. Like, the game can be completed in about 35-40 hours on a blind run, 3-5 of which you spend in Midgar, (100%-ing the game tends to clock in on about 85-90 hours and speedrunners can blast through the game in less than 9 hours,) but the writing gets a bit sparse after the Midgar section, to the extent that it contains about 1/4th or even 1/3rd of the full game's dialogue and exposition. Trudging through the overworld and dungeons actually consumes most of the time you spend in the game.

Ten years now? Wow, I remember the dumpster fire that made me quit WoW like it was yesterday...

There was also no build up to him. Any new player isn't going to know how much of a threat he is because, well, the game tells you nothing about him.

@@Ashurman666 I am one of said new players. I know he's the important main bad guy of the series, but I don't know anything about who he is as a person, his motivations or even why he can fly and do crazy, magical shit no one had done up until that point. The mystery surrounding him is also vague enough that I don't find it compelling. He was more of a character in kingdom hearts and I've heard fans lament how he was completely butchered there.

@@WolframiteWraith Bingo. See in the original game he didn't make his grand appearance until...i think around the end of disc 1 or two, i forget and before that he actually gets built up. Hell there's an entire part of Cloud going into his own backstory when he was in Soldier to build up just how much of a legend Sephiroth was when he was a Soldier(Basically the best Solider that ever was) as well as show his slow fall from grace and into madness. Also all the bullshit he spouts about "saving the planet"? Fuck no, in the original he wanted to destroy it all! Especially after he found out who, or should i say, WHAT he really is

@@Ashurman666 Well at the very least the remake has got me to start searching for the original game since I was so disappointed. Still deciding between the PC with the mods to clean up the backgrounds or just the console remaster version since that's how I prefer to play and own most of my games.

@@WolframiteWraith Pc with mods since mods can make the game look much, MUCH better, especially with the new models and animations like ninostyle's models. that's my preferred way to play the game. Well that and the New Threat mod but i don't recommend that to a newcommer

basically, but they stretched 6 hours of the game to around 30.

@@switchplayer1016 Closer to 1/6th, Midgar is a small portion of the original.

Nope its full game.

It's even more insulting than that. They didn't just sell you a small fraction of the original game at full retail price, they padded out that small fraction with unnecessary fluff to trick people into thinking the game has more content than the original.

@@greenboots_4661 and @Shezar20 How can you call a remake that advertises itself as THE remake to a beloved game yet features less than a third of the story with filler that no one asked for padding it out a full game?

You owe me a pizza.

Doesn't excuse shitty AI

Shame I can't use that explanation to get a Final Fantasy VII: Refund

GET OFF KZfaq AND FINISH YOUR ASSIGNMENTS, SLACKER!!

@@thisiswhatilike54 It has been 9 months, and yet this is still 100% fully applicable. (Though I don’t have any assignments tonight thank god)

I'd still trust anything Sephiroth is hawking over any of Gwyneth Paltrow's snake oil.

Yeah laugh at the people supporting a creator they enjoy

@@Chaos.A Well, supporting the company that employs the creator they enjoy. Though to be fair, I cant think of anyone else of note that works for the escapist

@@patchmoulton5438 True, but supporting The Escapist is the only way to support Yhatzee it seems.

It's only 2 bucks a month.

@@Chaos.A I could have sworn he had a Patreon but I wouldn't be surprised if the escapist wouldn't allow it

The dodge is less for the sake of s and more for the sake of get-the-hell-outta-that-spot-the-enemy-is-attacking, I think.

I tend to agree with you. I still had fun doing all the little side quests, but they definitely felt like padding. Combat is fun, until you realize that everyone is about to die, and Aerith is in the corner picking her nose instead of healing even though she has all of the healing materia. Or enemies can fly. or a cut scene interrupted your limit break. I liked the change up of the story. The characters got more characterization and I ended up liking ones that I kinda disliked in the original. (Even though Yahtzee was dead on about the bit where you go help Jessie.) And Wall Market. Was. AMAZING! I had to pause the game when Tifa sees Cloud all dolled up for the first time I was laughing so hard. And the toning down of the blatant homophobia from the original was nice. I do really wish they had put "Part 1" in there somewhere. I really don't like paying full price for *part* of a game, not matter how long it is. Especially when I could play what is (Or, what I expected would be) the same game, bought as a single game, right now because I own it on two different platforms.

Yeah I agree. Was it a perfect game? By no means but I think you can very much feel the love of ff7 the production had it shines through greatly in some very refreshing ways when it does work and it feels like the the dev team are taking all the criticisms to heart so I'm excited to see the progress in part 2

Yeah, I remember when Mass Effect 3 was new, shitheels were calling its detractors a "VoCaL mInOrItY" too. Anytime you want to downplay sometime, just call it a VoCaL mInOrItY and hope nobody points out you have no fucking evidence whatsoever it's a VoCaL mInOrItY and not a widespread criticism. It IS, in fact, a widespread criticism among people with an IQ above room temperature. Everyone clamored for DECADES to get a remake of FF7, and the ending is a metaphor for these fans in which you KILL THEM so the developers can do whatever goofy Kingdom Hearts bullshit they want in coming episodes. We asked for a remake of FF7, not FF7: cocaine edition. We knew we weren't getting 1:1, and we were fine with 1:1.2. We aren't fine with 1:banana, and that's what we're getting going forward. The ending could NOT have been more clear on this, but you still get retards who defend it saying "I'm sure, based on nothing at all, that they won't change the plot too much." Aerith's death is the lynchpin of the original plot, it doesn't work AT ALL with her alive. But her death is literally one of those "things that will happen only if we lose here today" from the ending. She's 100% going to live. The storyline going forward will be COMPLETELY different, and Square's B team doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt. People are right to be pissed. If you aren't pissed, you don't understand what's going on. They've ALREADY given us alternate timelines and time travel bullshit (Aerith from this is the Aerith from the original, meaning she already went through the plot and knows everything) and this one was 90% faithful! What in God's name will the rest be like?!

@@Veladus dude chill its video gamez

Go home Nomura, you're drunk

the next title will be called Recarpeting, where they spedn 40 hours on a quest to refurbish baarret's new house and then everyone dies cause spehiroth

@@sarafontanini7051 Are you actually implying that they will spend more then 5 minutes on a character that isn't Sephiroth or a waifu?

The remake title is actually blatant false advertising you mean. Squeenix defrauded a whole lot of people with that nonsense.

@@aprinnyonbreak1290 that's why eveyone dies. cause barret got too much screentime.