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11. Is Final Fantasy 7 really a "remake"?

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Alanah Pearce

Troybaker, Videogames, Video Games, Leisure, Mikebithell, Games, Austinwintory, Alanahpearce

4.8697 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2020

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

This week we talk about remakes, why they're made, and if games are 'aging' faster than other kinds of media.

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0:00.0

The College of the Advanced Warfare, there was this guy who was on set to basically be a technical advisor.

0:04.3

And he just kind of stood up to the side.

0:05.8

And this guy was fucking the shit.

0:08.9

And they'd have this whole scene of that, you know, blocked out and scripted everything.

0:13.4

He was like, all right, guys, you're going into battle right now.

0:16.1

And then they had like this whole apocalypse now thing.

0:18.1

Your helmet helicopter. this whole apocalypse now thing. You're on the helicopter and you're like, you're yelling and you're, yeah, there's all this

0:21.4

stuff.

0:22.6

And they kind of look over at him as like, Mike, whatever the fuck his name was, is like, anything

0:27.8

you want to say goes, yeah, you could do it like that.

0:31.2

They're like, uh, anything you want to make goes, nobody would be saying shit.

0:35.4

It's like, you don't, no one you are, if you allow your emotions to become part of the

0:41.1

equation, you'll go fucking crazy.

0:43.9

And I love that notion of, of like, if I, this can't be an emotional job, because if you

0:49.9

start thinking, oh, I'm going to, I'm going to get on this helicopter, this huge machine of war

0:55.9

and destruction. And these six guys that I know, we're going to ramp each other up, but we're

1:01.4

going to get down into the shit. And statistically speaking, 60% of them are going to die. And

1:07.3

in the course of them dying, they are also going to deal out death.

1:11.5

And we're probably, each of them are going to kill at least five people.

1:15.0

You just can't do that.

1:16.0

So it's just like, all right, target down, target down.

1:18.6

And it goes, no one's saying shit because you know your job.

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