Thread: Revenge of the Weapons (5.2 and Onwards)

Originally Posted by Kaiserdrache

1. You do know that summons will work completely different in FF7R due to the combat system not being anymore a turn based game, being limited to only 1 summon maximum on field, which is most likely the reason they decided to give us summons earlier?

Well, this is not really FFXIV related but I'll bite. FFVIIR does have a turn-based mode from what I understand so that isn't really relevant. More likely the reason why summons are being made available in it earlier on is because the remake is episodic content, with each episode a standalone game but only part of the overall story (like, it's pretty clear Ep 1 is the entirerity of Midgar to after the highway chase scene and will end as the party reaches the end of the highway at the edge of the Plate and prepares to head out into the wider world to Kalm, which, in the original FFVII was when the player first appeared out on the World Map), so it makes sense that the likes of Shiva and Ifrit are being given to players earlier than the original FFVII had summons available. But I digress...

Originally Posted by TheMightyMollusk

Ultima Weapon was destroyed, but we've also seen Proto Ultima, Ultima Warrior, Ultima Beast, and Arch Ultima (not to mention the Minstrel's Ballad and Ultimate versions of Ultima, but neither are technically canon). Another iteration is certainly possible, although it would be horribly repetitive.

Right, there is always a possibility some other Allag/Garlean copy of it is found somewhere (maybe it could called 'Atma Weapon' (from FFVI) or even 'Ultimate Weapon'... it's obvious there were plenty of copies of Ultima Weapon around and that we will inevitably have to fight them too, so this is as good a place in the story and game as any.