@The_Nintendo_Expat It is 100% common practice. This is literally what customs do, and they do it all the time. US Customs is literally trained to immediately seize and destroy any "suspicious" objects. I really don't understand why people are being so disbelieving of this, or jumping to the conclusion that this is some fake stunt, when this absolutely lines up with thousands of other instances of US Customs literally doing the exact same thing.
If you even scroll down through the replies, you see people talking about their own stories of US Customs destroying their packaging and import products and others detailing what the typical border procedure is for this. They seized the item, found it suspicious and literally destroyed it. This isn't the first time this happened, it's not even a rare thing to happen. Why are people pretending to play junior conspiracy theorist about this when the conclusion to come to is immediate and blatantly obvious?
Customs does this to figures, they do this to boxes, they do it to game consoles, almost any import item is subject to a search seizure and a destruction of the item at the slightest provocation of suspicion.
The fact that so many people are sitting here saying this has to be come kind of stunt, that they want attention, questioning whether or not they did this on purpose, disbelieving of the whole thing, writing it off somehow, and just the general ignorance and apathy everyone is treating this with is baffling and severely irritating.
Do you people really so not want to believe that US Customs are literally this fascist even in a current political atmosphere where stories like this are a dime a dozen and there are heavy tariffs and massive ICE protests right now? Really?
The revised script from the Steam release was perfectly serviceable and still is. There's nothing improper about it.
You can grouse about the nerdy, nitpicky details of a translation from 30 years ago not having every single literal detail of the original Japanese meaning literally word for word carried over, or a tiny, literally insignificant amount of slight word or sentence choices conveying the Japanese meaning a little better, but the original and revised translations from 1997 and 2012 respectively were still perfectly valid and are absolutely good, both then and now.
You're spoiled by comprehensive nerd overhauls like the Shinra Archeology Cut to really understand that the original translation is and was still perfectly fine and reasonably well handled enough for what it needed to be and what it is. Final Fantasy VII is not exactly Breath Of Fire 2. It doesn't NEED some overhaul, it's perfectly enjoyable and good as it is. The work that was done originally was absolutely "proper" as it is. Especially with it's 2012 "proofreading" that's been the standard since.
But then again, what can I expect from someone who can't even spell the word "proper", well, properly, to know about translation and language in the first place, eh?
I swear none of you people can ever respect the work done on anything.
@jason160uk and you can still play it on Steam, too. There's nothing really wrong with this version. There was really nothing wrong with the previous version. There's nothing wrong with it on PS4 and Switch. You can play it there, too.
Oh but on PS1, you still have that unfortunate and awful resolution crunch that turns everything into an incomprehensible mess of pixelly garbled mess, huh? Guess they never fixed that on PS1. Guess what did though? Literally every other version. Which is still objectively better. This one included.
Vote bombing really is pathetic, and no surprise it's pathetic and overreactionary here, too.
So I tried it. Within a day, it's to the point where it works perfectly fine with only two minor notable things, and I hesitate to even call them "problems". The pre-rendered backgrounds are exactly the same as the Playstation original, just with a bilinear smoothing filter. Not that big an issue, same thing that the PS4, and Switch versions have. And the sound the status bar on the post-battle level up screens make sounds more like a single flat tone, not many little beeps.
AAAaaand that's about it. Cutscene lagging fixed, or non-existant from what I've seen, any other issues the article mentioned looks to have been fixed within the day. The backgrounds having a bilinear filter and the experience bar sound being slightly "off", do not warrant a "mostly negative" rating. What children.
People are being whiny babies and vote bombing it because they're whining about it not being some kind of "massive remaster" which they never promised and no one should have reasonably expected, and because the translation is still the perfectly fine, absolutely decent "revised" script from the original Steam release with a few of the overt typos like "This guy are sick" corrected.
It's basically exactly like the original Steam release with a few ported over bits that barely are worth note from the PS4 and Switch versions (woo, cheats). Two minor differences that you'd have to be extremely anal-retentive to notice and that deserves "mostly negative" responses? No, it does not.
What the hell were people even expecting? I want to know what people expected here? What was the expectation? Because if that expectation was anything other than "it's pretty much the exact same thing, except you get lame cheats now" (that apparently ADHD stricken Gen-Z'ers need to function now, I guess).... then your expectations were seriously skewed, way off base and that's on you.
People being toxic, entitled children again. They just want any slight justification to act selfish and pathetic, and I guess the backgrounds having a bilinear filter on them was the "someone in the room just hiccuped" excuse they needed to rage, I guess. This is just the default mode of a steam customer, it looks like. Hating for the sake of hating, just for the sake of making Square-Enix-senpai notice you and that you're mad about.... not getting the "massive remaster" you were never actually promised I guess, and for no other reason. Sad and just a little bit gross. No two ways about it, the over-reaction to this new version is sad and has no reason for being. Especially since the majority of these babies were just handed it LITERALLY FOR FREE.
It's still Final Fantasy 7. Suck it up and just play the game. If you don't already have the old steam version, you should have got it for the last 20 years when it was on sale for 5 bucks a million times. You don't get to complain now that it still has two SLIGHTLY different insignificant issues that'll probably get patched in another couple days. Or maybe not, who cares, they don't really affect anything anyway. The release is everything that was promised and expected. No more, no less. Cry about something that matters, please.
The British localization style for Dragon Quest is some of the most charming, original, cute, funny, and most inspired, imaginative choices in all of video game localization, ever. To this day when I go back to 8, and even play the new ones like 11, and the fully voiced new HD-2D versions of the classic games and even 7 now, I am always charmed and utterly delighted by how they feel with this important change, that, imo, has become an indelible part of it's western identity.
So much so that It absolutely bothers and low-key infuriates me that snobbish fan-translators these days are devoting themselves to doing things like "DE-LOCALIZING Dragon Quest games" through translation hacks. Purists always ruin everything good. They and their mindsets never help anyone or anything as much as they think they're doing.
@metaphysician The reason anyone whines or complains about Remake and Rebirth and the upcoming third game is because they are selfish, ignorant, sobbing crying little manchildren who can't cope with their toxic nostalgia being even minorly altered in any way, These people are ironic only in the fact that they're actually being less mature than actual children today about the entire thing. The new remake trilogy is absolutely phenomenal, end of story.
It is 100% just a very very slightly tweaked, if changed at all, version of the Steam release from before. And "to provide a better experience" is just their way of saying they're doing this to make the 7th Heaven mod launcher and all of it's mods incompatible.
There is only one reason they're doing this, and it's to keep people from using the many, many mods available to make FF7 look and feel better.
Square-Enix has routinely been making "updates" to things like the Pixel Remaster, which only updates shuffling the position of assets around so that the mods break. That's all this is, and anyone expecting anything different is in for some huge disappointment when they find that this is nearly identical in features and looks to the prior version, but shuffled around and rendered in a new engine that makes mods no longer work. Square-Enix has a long-standing vendetta against the modding scene. This is absolutely 100% the only reason they did this, nd the only real change you're going to notice. Mods will be broken and 7th Heaven mod launcher will no longer work.
So... are we still pretending that Ecco The Dolphin was ever good in the first place? Or have we all grown up and gotten over that shared delusion, already?
This roster is really bizarre, right? Not a one of these characters are who I think of as marquee characters at all when I think of Square-Enix. Also why is it not titled Capcom vs Square-Enix?
Like, where is Cloud, Tifa, Terra, Squall, Vivi, Erdrick, Sora, Primrose, Duran, Angela, Riesz, Randi, Primm, Aya Brea, Fei Fong Wong, Adam Jensen, Welch Vineyard, Agnès Oblige, Neku Sakuraba, or literally anyone else that would be associated with Square-Enix more importantly or that anyone might actually care about?
" I'm not interested in a "switch" itself. I am interested in the darkness that is illuminated by the light that it turns on."
........I don't know if he was actually TRYING to sound profound or meaningful with that or something, but that is legitimately the stupidest and most idiotic answer to an honest question I have ever heard in my life.
This is one of those responses to something that you'd expect from a fictional character in some kind of comedy movie. That ranks up there with "These go to 11" from Spinal Tap in terms of absurdly useless answers to a question that has ever been asked to anyone's face.
@AlienX "The 90s were riddled with ugly character designs for western cartoons,"
This is exactly the kind of awful opinion that I'll just run into reading and makes me feel legitimately ill for even having to see those words arranged this way.
His take on fan-translations is "interesting". He seems to be under the impression that they are trying to, want to, or care about getting actual permission from Sega to do it. It really shows just how disconnected Japanese developers are from the slightest semblance of understanding overseas fan culture, or the translation or modding scene in general. From everything that's been known, it feels like Japanese game developers are completly unaware of unofficial modding scenes, and if they could comprehend them or seemed to understand that fans are doing this illegally and don't care if they have permission or not, they wouldn't approve. It also feels like this is an indirect admission that the results of fan-translation and modding scenes ARE hurting the developer side, or at least causing friction between developers and company executives, primarily if they even get the slightest whiff that they're even remotely tied to supporting any modding effort, they'll get in trouble or blacklisted for sure.
@KingMike Why not? They were able to do that with Konami and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games. AND Konami was extremly forthcoming with every bit of concept art they had in their vaults for the games, too!
@Johnny_Arthur That was not needed. That isn't what this hack is. It's not what this hack is intended to do. When someone does make a hack that adds some sprite swaps for the Powered Up characters, you can judge that for doing what THAT was intended to do. This is entirely unrelated and very much worth paying attention to for what it IS intending to do. If you want to wait, keep waiting. But don't act like this has no merit just because it's not something you would rather have. It's like posting on a story about a someone uncovering a secret Mortal Kombat prototype with Jean Claude Van-Damme in it and commenting "Ok, but what about Mega Man Legends 3?" Ok. What about it? That's not exactly what the topic calls for.
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Re: Video Game Preservation Archive Myrient Has Been "100% Backed Up" By The Community
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Re: "Literally Crying Right Now" - 50 Copies Of This Adult-Only Visual Novel Demo Exist, And One Just Got Destroyed In Transit
@The_Nintendo_Expat It is 100% common practice. This is literally what customs do, and they do it all the time. US Customs is literally trained to immediately seize and destroy any "suspicious" objects. I really don't understand why people are being so disbelieving of this, or jumping to the conclusion that this is some fake stunt, when this absolutely lines up with thousands of other instances of US Customs literally doing the exact same thing.
If you even scroll down through the replies, you see people talking about their own stories of US Customs destroying their packaging and import products and others detailing what the typical border procedure is for this. They seized the item, found it suspicious and literally destroyed it. This isn't the first time this happened, it's not even a rare thing to happen. Why are people pretending to play junior conspiracy theorist about this when the conclusion to come to is immediate and blatantly obvious?
Customs does this to figures, they do this to boxes, they do it to game consoles, almost any import item is subject to a search seizure and a destruction of the item at the slightest provocation of suspicion.
The fact that so many people are sitting here saying this has to be come kind of stunt, that they want attention, questioning whether or not they did this on purpose, disbelieving of the whole thing, writing it off somehow, and just the general ignorance and apathy everyone is treating this with is baffling and severely irritating.
Do you people really so not want to believe that US Customs are literally this fascist even in a current political atmosphere where stories like this are a dime a dozen and there are heavy tariffs and massive ICE protests right now? Really?
Re: "Literally Crying Right Now" - 50 Copies Of This Adult-Only Visual Novel Demo Exist, And One Just Got Destroyed In Transit
@FR4M3 ............why is this your first thought? Why would that immediately be the first thing that comes to mind for you?
Re: "Literally Crying Right Now" - 50 Copies Of This Adult-Only Visual Novel Demo Exist, And One Just Got Destroyed In Transit
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Re: "This Is What AI And Greed Does" - Video Game 'Preservation Service' Myrient Is Shutting Down
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Re: Final Fantasy VII's New & "Improved" PC Version Is Now Available, But It Isn't Exactly Getting Off To The Best Start
@jojobar "and with a propper new translation"
The revised script from the Steam release was perfectly serviceable and still is. There's nothing improper about it.
You can grouse about the nerdy, nitpicky details of a translation from 30 years ago not having every single literal detail of the original Japanese meaning literally word for word carried over, or a tiny, literally insignificant amount of slight word or sentence choices conveying the Japanese meaning a little better, but the original and revised translations from 1997 and 2012 respectively were still perfectly valid and are absolutely good, both then and now.
You're spoiled by comprehensive nerd overhauls like the Shinra Archeology Cut to really understand that the original translation is and was still perfectly fine and reasonably well handled enough for what it needed to be and what it is. Final Fantasy VII is not exactly Breath Of Fire 2. It doesn't NEED some overhaul, it's perfectly enjoyable and good as it is. The work that was done originally was absolutely "proper" as it is. Especially with it's 2012 "proofreading" that's been the standard since.
But then again, what can I expect from someone who can't even spell the word "proper", well, properly, to know about translation and language in the first place, eh?
I swear none of you people can ever respect the work done on anything.
Re: Final Fantasy VII's New & "Improved" PC Version Is Now Available, But It Isn't Exactly Getting Off To The Best Start
@jason160uk and you can still play it on Steam, too. There's nothing really wrong with this version. There was really nothing wrong with the previous version. There's nothing wrong with it on PS4 and Switch. You can play it there, too.
Oh but on PS1, you still have that unfortunate and awful resolution crunch that turns everything into an incomprehensible mess of pixelly garbled mess, huh? Guess they never fixed that on PS1. Guess what did though? Literally every other version. Which is still objectively better. This one included.
Re: Final Fantasy VII's New & "Improved" PC Version Is Now Available, But It Isn't Exactly Getting Off To The Best Start
Vote bombing really is pathetic, and no surprise it's pathetic and overreactionary here, too.
So I tried it. Within a day, it's to the point where it works perfectly fine with only two minor notable things, and I hesitate to even call them "problems". The pre-rendered backgrounds are exactly the same as the Playstation original, just with a bilinear smoothing filter. Not that big an issue, same thing that the PS4, and Switch versions have. And the sound the status bar on the post-battle level up screens make sounds more like a single flat tone, not many little beeps.
AAAaaand that's about it. Cutscene lagging fixed, or non-existant from what I've seen, any other issues the article mentioned looks to have been fixed within the day. The backgrounds having a bilinear filter and the experience bar sound being slightly "off", do not warrant a "mostly negative" rating. What children.
People are being whiny babies and vote bombing it because they're whining about it not being some kind of "massive remaster" which they never promised and no one should have reasonably expected, and because the translation is still the perfectly fine, absolutely decent "revised" script from the original Steam release with a few of the overt typos like "This guy are sick" corrected.
It's basically exactly like the original Steam release with a few ported over bits that barely are worth note from the PS4 and Switch versions (woo, cheats). Two minor differences that you'd have to be extremely anal-retentive to notice and that deserves "mostly negative" responses? No, it does not.
What the hell were people even expecting? I want to know what people expected here? What was the expectation? Because if that expectation was anything other than "it's pretty much the exact same thing, except you get lame cheats now" (that apparently ADHD stricken Gen-Z'ers need to function now, I guess).... then your expectations were seriously skewed, way off base and that's on you.
People being toxic, entitled children again. They just want any slight justification to act selfish and pathetic, and I guess the backgrounds having a bilinear filter on them was the "someone in the room just hiccuped" excuse they needed to rage, I guess. This is just the default mode of a steam customer, it looks like. Hating for the sake of hating, just for the sake of making Square-Enix-senpai notice you and that you're mad about.... not getting the "massive remaster" you were never actually promised I guess, and for no other reason. Sad and just a little bit gross. No two ways about it, the over-reaction to this new version is sad and has no reason for being. Especially since the majority of these babies were just handed it LITERALLY FOR FREE.
It's still Final Fantasy 7. Suck it up and just play the game. If you don't already have the old steam version, you should have got it for the last 20 years when it was on sale for 5 bucks a million times. You don't get to complain now that it still has two SLIGHTLY different insignificant issues that'll probably get patched in another couple days. Or maybe not, who cares, they don't really affect anything anyway. The release is everything that was promised and expected. No more, no less. Cry about something that matters, please.
Re: Interview: "I Did My Best To Make It Work" - Legendary Localiser On Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, & The "Total Nightmare" Of Xenogears
The British localization style for Dragon Quest is some of the most charming, original, cute, funny, and most inspired, imaginative choices in all of video game localization, ever. To this day when I go back to 8, and even play the new ones like 11, and the fully voiced new HD-2D versions of the classic games and even 7 now, I am always charmed and utterly delighted by how they feel with this important change, that, imo, has become an indelible part of it's western identity.
So much so that It absolutely bothers and low-key infuriates me that snobbish fan-translators these days are devoting themselves to doing things like "DE-LOCALIZING Dragon Quest games" through translation hacks. Purists always ruin everything good. They and their mindsets never help anyone or anything as much as they think they're doing.
Re: Final Fantasy VII Is Getting A New Steam Version "To Provide An Improved Gameplay Experience"
@metaphysician The reason anyone whines or complains about Remake and Rebirth and the upcoming third game is because they are selfish, ignorant, sobbing crying little manchildren who can't cope with their toxic nostalgia being even minorly altered in any way, These people are ironic only in the fact that they're actually being less mature than actual children today about the entire thing. The new remake trilogy is absolutely phenomenal, end of story.
Re: Final Fantasy VII Is Getting A New Steam Version "To Provide An Improved Gameplay Experience"
It is 100% just a very very slightly tweaked, if changed at all, version of the Steam release from before. And "to provide a better experience" is just their way of saying they're doing this to make the 7th Heaven mod launcher and all of it's mods incompatible.
There is only one reason they're doing this, and it's to keep people from using the many, many mods available to make FF7 look and feel better.
Square-Enix has routinely been making "updates" to things like the Pixel Remaster, which only updates shuffling the position of assets around so that the mods break. That's all this is, and anyone expecting anything different is in for some huge disappointment when they find that this is nearly identical in features and looks to the prior version, but shuffled around and rendered in a new engine that makes mods no longer work. Square-Enix has a long-standing vendetta against the modding scene. This is absolutely 100% the only reason they did this, nd the only real change you're going to notice. Mods will be broken and 7th Heaven mod launcher will no longer work.
Re: "The Fine Arts Were Always A Massive Grift" - Controversial Earthworm Jim Creator Goes All-In On Generative AI
He was always walking human scum. The fact that this is his opinion is the least surprising thing in the universe.
Re: "Not A Single Pixel" Of The New Ecco Game Will Be Generated By AI, Insists Series Creator
So... are we still pretending that Ecco The Dolphin was ever good in the first place? Or have we all grown up and gotten over that shared delusion, already?
Re: "Plays Like A AAA Native Release" - Super Mario 64 Gets A Dreamcast Port
"Mario looks like a biker dude with that 'stache...Oh well, still looks better than it did on N64"
Who led this putz on to wrongly believe he has a place to express any opinions on this?
Re: Industry Giants Capcom And Square Collide In This New Fan-Made Fighter
This roster is really bizarre, right? Not a one of these characters are who I think of as marquee characters at all when I think of Square-Enix. Also why is it not titled Capcom vs Square-Enix?
Like, where is Cloud, Tifa, Terra, Squall, Vivi, Erdrick, Sora, Primrose, Duran, Angela, Riesz, Randi, Primm, Aya Brea, Fei Fong Wong, Adam Jensen, Welch Vineyard, Agnès Oblige, Neku Sakuraba, or literally anyone else that would be associated with Square-Enix more importantly or that anyone might actually care about?
Re: The Analogue 3D Is The Best Retro Hardware Of 2025
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Re: Best Of 2025: "Music Is Pretty Much All I Think About" - PaRappa The Rapper's Creator On His Journey From Pop Star To Game Dev
" I'm not interested in a "switch" itself. I am interested in the darkness that is illuminated by the light that it turns on."
........I don't know if he was actually TRYING to sound profound or meaningful with that or something, but that is legitimately the stupidest and most idiotic answer to an honest question I have ever heard in my life.
This is one of those responses to something that you'd expect from a fictional character in some kind of comedy movie. That ranks up there with "These go to 11" from Spinal Tap in terms of absurdly useless answers to a question that has ever been asked to anyone's face.
Re: Best Of 2025: "We Were Actually In Line To Be Sega's Mascot Character" - ToeJam & Earl Co-Creator On The Origins Of Gaming's Funkiest Duo
@AlienX "The 90s were riddled with ugly character designs for western cartoons,"
This is exactly the kind of awful opinion that I'll just run into reading and makes me feel legitimately ill for even having to see those words arranged this way.
Re: Best Of 2025: "I Have All The Freedom & No Power" - Astro Boy & Segagaga Director Tez Okano On His Greatest Hits & Going Indie
His take on fan-translations is "interesting". He seems to be under the impression that they are trying to, want to, or care about getting actual permission from Sega to do it. It really shows just how disconnected Japanese developers are from the slightest semblance of understanding overseas fan culture, or the translation or modding scene in general. From everything that's been known, it feels like Japanese game developers are completly unaware of unofficial modding scenes, and if they could comprehend them or seemed to understand that fans are doing this illegally and don't care if they have permission or not, they wouldn't approve. It also feels like this is an indirect admission that the results of fan-translation and modding scenes ARE hurting the developer side, or at least causing friction between developers and company executives, primarily if they even get the slightest whiff that they're even remotely tied to supporting any modding effort, they'll get in trouble or blacklisted for sure.
Re: This Classic Game Boy Tiny Toons Adventure Is Now Available In Colourised 'DX' Form
@KingMike Why not? They were able to do that with Konami and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games. AND Konami was extremly forthcoming with every bit of concept art they had in their vaults for the games, too!
Re: "They Lied" - New Research Casts Doubt On Analogue 3D Accuracy Claims
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Re: Cookie's Bustle, The Game That Was Almost Erased From The Web, Is Finally Playable In English
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Re: The Original NES Mega Man Has Just Got A New "Revamped" Version, Courtesy Of A Fan
@Johnny_Arthur That was not needed. That isn't what this hack is. It's not what this hack is intended to do. When someone does make a hack that adds some sprite swaps for the Powered Up characters, you can judge that for doing what THAT was intended to do. This is entirely unrelated and very much worth paying attention to for what it IS intending to do. If you want to wait, keep waiting. But don't act like this has no merit just because it's not something you would rather have. It's like posting on a story about a someone uncovering a secret Mortal Kombat prototype with Jean Claude Van-Damme in it and commenting "Ok, but what about Mega Man Legends 3?" Ok. What about it? That's not exactly what the topic calls for.
Re: The Original NES Mega Man Has Just Got A New "Revamped" Version, Courtesy Of A Fan
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