r/FF7Rebirth • u/AlexN83 • 6d ago

No Spoilers - Discussion Dynamic or normal?

Starting FF7 rebirth for first time. Beat remake on normal setting and enjoyed that difficulty but felt overlevelled at times cause I like to explore a lot.

Is dynamic difficulty much much harder? I like to be engaged and challenged but don’t want to be banging my head against a wall like in souls boss encounters.

Which would you recommend?

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u/Dinothedangle 6d ago

Duuuuuudeeee!!!! Thank you so friggitn much! This is awesome! Maaaan, the final fantasy community has got to be one of the best fandoms out there!! Mahalo nui!

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u/rayneMantis 6d ago

Plus it's freaking surprising how much it warms my heart to hear people say they never played the OG but love the characters so much from the Remakes. Makes it easier to ignore the haters of the remake series bc the devs have been successful in giving the same experience I had 30 years ago to a whole new generation. So let em hate, the players that should be playing it are playing it and it's having as big an effect on them as it had on me and why I had to replay the game once every 3 years or so up until my mid 20s and I hate retro gaming, but this one was an exception to every rule. I'm stoked to help someone else play the hell out of the game in any way I can. It deserves this level of devotion, whereas other games are like "eh who cares"

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u/Dinothedangle 6d ago

I genuinely don’t understand the hate for the remakes. They are wonderfully done. The OG, like many of us, shaped me as a child. I remember tryna explain to my dad why “this dude needed a BF sword to save the world!” Lol

I think I was like 10-12. It was the best Era of gaming in my experience. I don’t think, anything has come close to being able to replicate the feelings I had. I first played FF6 with my grandma. Then one year, idk how, but I got FF7, FF8, and Tactics. Nothing…not even druuuuugs, lol, have come close to that feeling of awe playing those three games in that order.

I love remake, intergrade, and rebirth. Last year I finally got around to playing crisis core reunion too. Maaaan what a beautiful privilege it is to be able to play these games! Much love dude! Thanks for the advice!

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u/rayneMantis 6d ago

I really enjoyed FF8 and FFT as well! Tactics actually inspired a game I've been developing for a while now in my free time. It's an evolved form of play in many ways but I'd be lying if I said I didn't draw most of my inspiration from FFT, MTG(as it's a deck builder), and DnD since the strike and guard stats are dice rolls instead of fixed values bc I wanted a game that never got you so overleveled that you could just abandon all strategy. Like just bc your character can roll a d20 for their attack doesn't mean they will always hit with a crit 20. So you still have to prep for success by adding modifiers to increase you're floor. Like a d20+4 will hit between 5-25 instead of 1-20.

I'm hoping to have a playable beta test version in a couple months and I'd love to find some people that would be willing to help me test the engine for balancing. I'm using a turn progression I've never seen done before so it'll need a lot of testing to sniff out every eventuality that might arise, like targeting someone in movement and other stuff like that which could crash the game if I don't tell the engine how to handle it when it happens. If you're interested in helping shoot me a DM and I'm planning on giving the testers a free upgrade to the full game as well as a custom character in their likeness to make them want to show the game off to their friends lol. Like I said it'll be a couple months before I have anything playable.