Last Fantasy 7 Rebirth is coming to PC in January, and you already know what which means: nude mods. Sport director Naoki Hamaguchi would actually want in case you did not do this, although, saying in an interview with Epic Video games that he hopes everybody will maintain it clear.
There’s a complete host of mods obtainable for the Last Fantasy 7 Remake—we have a roundup of some good ones, in case you’re out there—and it is honest to imagine that we’ll see the identical with Last Fantasy 7 Rebirth. Sq. Enix at the moment has no plans to supply official mod help, Hamaguchi stated, however is comfortable (or no less than keen) to let it occur. Simply, y’know, thoughts your manners.
“We respect the creativity of the modding neighborhood and welcome their creations,” Hamaguchi stated. “Although we ask modders to not create or set up something offensive or inappropriate.”
That is after all an announcement that, to place it mildly, is open to interpretation. Last Fantasy 7 Rebirth is a sport that appears to lean fairly closely into the entire “swimsuit version” factor, in any case, and whereas that is nonetheless a long way from full frontal nudity, going the total monty is hardly uncommon in videogames lately, even with out the magic of mods. I get an eyeful of Mini-V each time I modify outfits in Cyberpunk 2077, and you’ll recall that one of the urgent pre-release questions on Dragon Age: The Veilguard was whether or not or not we would see any wang.
The Last Fantasy 7 neighborhood, to its credit score, is responding precisely as you’d anticipate:
One redditor stated Hamaguchi’s request “is like asking the sky to not be blue.” One other wrote, “If somebody doesn’t put a large hog on Cait so when it jumps it slaps the bottom then the mod neighborhood is over.”
“First mods are at all times about TAA, however as soon as the collective submit nut readability begins to settle in, you begin to see some precise helpful and quality-of-life-improvement kind of mods,” a 3rd redditor predicted. “However TAA first.” Presumably they don’t seem to be referring to temporal anti-aliasing.
This is not the primary time a developer has taken concern with “inappropriate” mods on PC. In 2015, Staff Ninja warned mod makers to be “good and ethical” with Useless or Alive 5 mods (a warning that held up for about 24 hours), and Last Fantasy 15 director Hajime Tabata stated in 2017 that such issues are as much as the “ethical sense” of gamers, though he fairly clearly had some trepidation about the place that sense would lead. Only a few months in the past, Last Fantasy 16 producer Naoki Yoshida stated “we positively do not wish to see something offensive or inappropriate” in mods for that sport.
Then again, Mr. X grew to become Mr. Intercourse because of a revealing Resident Evil 2 thong mod and Capcom did not appear too bothered by it. Clearly there isn’t any set trade requirements in place on this one.
All of it appears very foolish to me, particularly given a few of Sq. Enix’s personal merch, however the backside line is that this: PC gaming is the place it is at, and nude mods are the place PC gaming is at. You possibly can’t have one with out the opposite, so that you would possibly as properly be taught to respect it.
Last Fantasy 7 Rebirth involves PC on January 23, 2025. I am trying ahead to what occurs on January 24.
