After his completion of Crisis Core Reunion, Max attempts to explain Final Fantasy 7’s insane timeline in preparation for the next game in the series, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth!
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just wanna know when the Remake is gonna update with the golden saucer expansion. cos i assume this will be the next
then we should have the 3rd expantion being the sepharopth campaine i guess.
Or maybe, just maybe the game isn't this convoluted at all and the Devs are just adding new shit because they feel like it 🤣
Nomura: You guys aren't ready for it, but your kids are gonna love it.
Your hair looks nice
Max u forgot about GENESIS AT THE END OF DIRGE!!!!!!!
Max has literally become the Charlie Day meme from Always Sunny 😂
I could absolutely see Hojo figuring out what’s going on because he is the only character in Remake besides Sephiroth who isn’t scared of, annoyed by or taken aback by the Whispers. He immediately goes “What is this fascinating phenomenon?” He’s going to figure it out. It MIGHT even be the new inciting incident that causes him to quit Shinra like he does in OG
Pedro Strife YOU COME IN HERE TALKING ABOUT RESIDENT EVIL WHICH WE DON'T CARE AT THIS POINT IN TIME WHILE WE ARE TALKING ABOUT Final Fantasy VII Rebirth IS GOING TO BE NUTS DUHH scxzxzczxzzzzcxzcxczx
Maybe a New timeline is the gift of godess, bannng genesis back
Final fantasy fans now understand kingdom hearts fans
The Elpis theme in the background tho 😭
WAIT!! That’s Endwalker music playing in the background!!
MAX do you plan on playing XIV again anytime soon..???
So glad I saw this live. Can’t get enough FF7 man!!
way off.. its not time first off. its Memory which has massive implications. The planets Memory. Red XIII also knows about things happening.
Who came here from Summer Summertime rendering
Wonders if the timelines eventually meet in Northern Cave in the fight against Bizzarro Sephiroth…..
I'm so glad I am not the only one who thought about a third split timeline going on here, Though for me it was more about noticing that aside from the original CC Buster Sword, Reunion and Remakes Buster Sword cross guard are also different. Reunions Zack has a silver cross guard and Remakes Zack has a black cross guard for some reason and Cloud in Remake has the silver cross guard Buster Sword. And knowing Square it has a reason. Whatever that reason may be aside from there are three timelines with three possible different outcomes.
The video is fun to watch, and the games of FFVII is amazing. It's just that the community is so chaotic, I'm sick of explaining the same thing over and over again…..
uuuhmmm… you didn't play the new crisi core then…
U are wrong what u see is a GCI scene not in game scene
I Want A Final Fantasy VIII Reamke!!!!
I always thought that in the original timeline, cloud and friends somehow failed to stop meteor, so aerith restarted the timeline which is why cloud remembers that scene with the materia falling where we see aerith and he keeps seeing more visions that's just my theory tho
When Ff7 becomes … Chrono Trigger 🙂
I think the cloud and the band is gonna lose in the trilogy and zack's existence will play a vital role for them to win that's my prediction….
YOU WANT TIMELINES….. LMFBO
Timeline One.
Last Order
Before Crisis Core
Crisis Core
Og FFVII
Advent Children
Timeline Two.
Crisis Core
Og FFVII
Advent Children Complete
Timeline Three.
Crisis Core
Og FFVII
Dirge of Cerberus
Timeline Four (Beagle)
Crisis Core Reunion
Remake
Timeline Five (Terrier)
Crisis Core Reunion
Rebirth
Timeline Six 4 and 5 in fused together
Crisis Core Reunion
Remake
Singularity
Rebirth
Revelation ?
Advent Children (alternate ending) AERITH HAS SIX STARS ON HER JACKET CHARACTER DESIGN
SEPHIROTH HAS A WATCH ENGRAVED INTO HIS BELT CHARACTER DESIGN
😆
Sephiroth gained the knowledge and unlocked away to travel back in time via the lifestream to change his destiny, Aerith becomes aware of this and tries to stop him by gaining the help from her friends she made during their journey in Og FFVII, she wanted to help Cloud against the man who plagues his fractured mind Sephiroth, and to stop Sephiroth from becoming reborn, Sephiroth failed with the remnants, and now seeks a new vessel for his potential rebirth, Lifestream White/Black Act III
Sephiroth wanted Cloud defeat the three whispers, to return them to the lifestream, to corrode it further, while Aerith returned to the plain of the living to journey once more with her friends from Og FFVII, the new unknown journey of FFVII has begun.
Or basically we're at the mercy of Nomura and co to hopefully give us a great game.
I love seeing Max love his mind into FFVII
This is peak time-line
I don't think they know anything that's going on anymore. They saw visions but after the arbiter of fate was destroyed, I think all that was just erased. That's why it's an unknown journey now. I think nobody in game knows what's going to happen. Not even buggenhagen or sephiroth. Things will play out differently. Different timeline than OG, but nothing is now known.
I'm a simple guy. Zack was my favorite since I started with crisis core. I'm glad there's a timeline where he lives on.
OMNI BUGENHAGEN
I actually needed this video, a lot. After I beat FF7RE I was confused as fuck. This helps breakdown the timeline changes I didn't know about..
But when does Cloud take Aerith and Tifa to Sector 69 – Poundtown? Cloud needs to wake tf up and clap cheeks
Not sure if anyone else noticed this but in the end credits trailer Cloud's eyes are VERY blue.
Fourth timeline: cloud knows somewhere out there with the lifestreams magic that aeris is still alive. Or will find her even in death. He makes a deal with hades to look in the underworld for her and after not finding her travels between planets and meets our heroes sora, Donald, goofy and Hercules and find out she’s still alive and in twilight town. After some help from sora they fight hades and his minions and eventually cloud finds his freedom and reunites with aeris. Sora is happy to help his friend and is encouraged on his own journey looking for kairi and riku.
Wait what? Is Zack really alive in the end of Reunion? Because in the end of VII Remake it's looks like he died so that Cloud could live
What if…. the Rebirh and part 3 almost has the same story as OG but…. after part 3 they will release a new FF7 game where the timeline is where Zack lives.
I need a whole 10 hour podcast of Max just going crazy with theories for FF7
4:30 I think there's still enough evidence to suggest there's not a 3rd timeline and that zack may have just been time displaced from the end of crisis core to the moment the whispers were defeated after the team left midgar in remake……….BUT we have no way of knowing for sure until rebirth probably.
I find it funny how back when Max played Dirge, at around 9 hours and 40 minutes into it, he said something along the lines of "We need to go back in time and make it so this game never happened".
Funny how that went huh
I don't speak Japanese, but something that I haven't seen anyone discuss related to Sephiroth in Remake is that, during his monologue before fighting Cloud at the end of Remake (before the whole 7 seconds before the end speech), in Japanese, Sephiroth uses the pronoun "Ore" to refer to himself. This is important, because this is how Sephiroth used to talk BEFORE losing his mind after finding the truth in the Nibelheim mansion. Post-mental breakdown mommy Sephiroth always uses the more detached pronoun "Watashi" to refer to himself. Listen to Sephiroth speak in Crisis Core, then listen to him speak in Advent Children.
Obviously this is a detail that is lost in translation/localization, as English doesn't use 2 different first person singular pronouns.
I don't know how relevant this will be, but to me, this is a sign that, perhaps, there's more than one Sephiroth trying to change things. For what end? Beats me, we'll see.
Or maybe it's just a bunch of hogwash and I'm just reading too much into it. Maybe it means absolutely nothing.
Unbelievable dude looks like a wannabe maximilian
All of this so they don't have to remake dirge
Where can I find the VOD for this stream?! I need to see the unedited version lol.
All we asked for was a game that retold the story of FF7 with super updated graphics, a few FMVs, and a good engine. But instead, we get Matrix meets Inception meets Butterfly Effect meets Project Journeyman meets Looper meets Back to the Future meets Ghost. LOL.
Maybe rebirth is just you playing as Zach after surviving crisis core
Sephiroth is fucking dead before OG FF7 even begins. Were you not paying attention? It's all Jenova's doing.
I get the feeling that the SE marketing machine is that "unknown entity".
Bugenhagen speaks. I love it!
I still have PTSD from when they canceled the KOTOR trilogy I swear if they never finish this trilogy I’m quitting games for good
Just for the sake of the argument, assuming that the three-timelines-theory is something Square intends to use to toy with the players' minds, could it be possible to see at some point in the story (maybe in the third new-FF7s) those three timelines merge and get a fight opposing Sephiroth to FF7R Cloud, FF7AC Cloud and Zack-from-the-timeline-where-he-gets-back-to-Midgar-alive ? Again, completely theoretical. Not saying that would be a smart move, just asking…