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I'll always say this about a prospective FF VII remake:
Sometime during our lifetimes. Probably not this console generation, perhaps not even the next, but as new platforms and ways to play video games are developed, SE may very well remake FF VII.
Until their core employees (the developers of FF VII) begin to leave the company, retire, or pass away, it will always be a possibility.
Sometime during our lifetimes. Probably not this console generation, perhaps not even the next, but as new platforms and ways to play video games are developed, SE may very well remake FF VII.
Until their core employees (the developers of FF VII) begin to leave the company, retire, or pass away, it will always be a possibility.
Like you said, I'm fine with it not happening. They said that it would be too difficult and expensive to make it happen, so I wouldn't count on it happening very soon... This is getting old and tiring. I'd rather have new FFs than remakes/remasters of old ones. Type-0 HD is somehow necessary, and so are the HD ReMIXES for Kingdom Hearts (y'know, never-seen content, the possibility to play everything on PS3, etc.), but I think that should be it for now. Then, XV, and then, PLEASE, XVI. I'm dying to know what the future games will be like.
The way I see it, remaking VII would be far too costly to be worthwhile. SE would literally have to remake the game from the ground up for it to look even halfway decent by today's standards. If we're talking XIII level visuals, then you've already got an amazingly expensive project on your hands. Not only that, they'd also have to redesign large portions of the game if they ditch the top-down perspective.
Or maybe I'm just saying that cause I don't give a darn if it's remade, lol.
Or maybe I'm just saying that cause I don't give a darn if it's remade, lol.
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Remasters, remakes and ports happen because there are a new generation of gamers who have not experience older greats. I think it will eventually happen.
All games take a lot of time to work on.
Coming from a guy who wants to milk the IP to death, I don't think he really believes that. Either way, he's not in charge anymore so his opinion is obsolete.
All games take a lot of time to work on.
Coming from a guy who wants to milk the IP to death, I don't think he really believes that. Either way, he's not in charge anymore so his opinion is obsolete.
He probably just wants people to stop asking him about a FFVII remake. Same with Wada as well. It can get pretty tiring.
Death of the industry?
I should point out that these remasters we're getting right now aren't just about a new generation of gamers.
We're getting all these remasters because AAA games today take too long to make and cost ton of money. A company's output has decreased because making those high production titles today require a ton of resources. The total amount of AAA games we see per generation has decreased because of this.
A remaster is suppose to be cheap and quick to make. Right now, they are filling in the holes and covering up this drought as we wait for the primary reasons why we bought a next generation console in the first place.
Death of the industry?
I should point out that these remasters we're getting right now aren't just about a new generation of gamers.
We're getting all these remasters because AAA games today take too long to make and cost ton of money. A company's output has decreased because making those high production titles today require a ton of resources. The total amount of AAA games we see per generation has decreased because of this.
A remaster is suppose to be cheap and quick to make. Right now, they are filling in the holes and covering up this drought as we wait for the primary reasons why we bought a next generation console in the first place.
I think it will, and should, though not in the near future.
Cost and time are irrelevant, the game would be changed so much (to be at 13/15's standards) that it will be equivalent and treated as a "new" game, this isn't a problem, it's just a way to skirt around the issue of reputation/morale. On changing things, I'm currently replaying 7 for the millionth time alongside 8/9/13-2/LR and X/X-2 HD (I know...) and some of the more comedic scenes would be hard to reproduce, so hard that they would be almost totally different, due to original models having basically no real facial or body animations outside of the few limited ones, things like Don Corneo bouncing ontop of the bed and bouncing around to be reproduced in 3D and at a different perspective would have to be totally retooled and changes to the script for voice over, and quality purposes.
Now for me personally, I think they should remake 8 and 9 first, for a few reasons, putting opinions aside, neither are bad games, 9 especially, 9 would make a fantastic remake because it's so damn creative and beautiful, Hironobu Sakaguchi himself has said that it is his favourite Final Fantasy, the one that represents the closest vision to the "true" Final Fantasy, alongside being the one that would deserve a squeal more. So by remaking 9, or 8, first, they can test the waters, the reaction of such a massive change in graphics and perspective, the retooling of scenes and script editing (Story shouldn't be touched, but several scenes in all 3 games would need rewrites to come across properly in a remake with highly detailed scenes and characters), they can see the fan reaction, see the media reaction, the reviews, and sales, without the risk of tarnishing the "holy grail" of FF7. < Fun fact, iirc, they considered remaking 9 on PS2 a year after it was released, and it got cut.
I think G-Bike, and possible other games based on the Golden Saucer could indeed be leading upto a remake, the original fans of FF7 are getting old, a lot don't have time to put 100 hours into a game anymore, so building up a fanbase in the massive mobile market, with new customers, making them interested in the world of FF7 is a great step towards the "final goal". So whilst they are building up a new fanbase in the future with FF7 spin-offs, in what is frankly, a much larger market, will it be enough to replace old FF7 fans who, if given enough time, simple won't care about the remake they have craved so long?
Regardless, a remaster should be handled by SE themselves, whilst the FFX remaster was great (imo), a lot of LR was handled by an outsourced company, and the flat background textures and buildings look absolutely awful in comparison to Lightning and monsters.
Edit: Funny, watching the new Dragon Quest Heroes trailer for PS4, is pretty similar to how I'd imagine an FF9 remake.
Cost and time are irrelevant, the game would be changed so much (to be at 13/15's standards) that it will be equivalent and treated as a "new" game, this isn't a problem, it's just a way to skirt around the issue of reputation/morale. On changing things, I'm currently replaying 7 for the millionth time alongside 8/9/13-2/LR and X/X-2 HD (I know...) and some of the more comedic scenes would be hard to reproduce, so hard that they would be almost totally different, due to original models having basically no real facial or body animations outside of the few limited ones, things like Don Corneo bouncing ontop of the bed and bouncing around to be reproduced in 3D and at a different perspective would have to be totally retooled and changes to the script for voice over, and quality purposes.
Now for me personally, I think they should remake 8 and 9 first, for a few reasons, putting opinions aside, neither are bad games, 9 especially, 9 would make a fantastic remake because it's so damn creative and beautiful, Hironobu Sakaguchi himself has said that it is his favourite Final Fantasy, the one that represents the closest vision to the "true" Final Fantasy, alongside being the one that would deserve a squeal more. So by remaking 9, or 8, first, they can test the waters, the reaction of such a massive change in graphics and perspective, the retooling of scenes and script editing (Story shouldn't be touched, but several scenes in all 3 games would need rewrites to come across properly in a remake with highly detailed scenes and characters), they can see the fan reaction, see the media reaction, the reviews, and sales, without the risk of tarnishing the "holy grail" of FF7. < Fun fact, iirc, they considered remaking 9 on PS2 a year after it was released, and it got cut.
I think G-Bike, and possible other games based on the Golden Saucer could indeed be leading upto a remake, the original fans of FF7 are getting old, a lot don't have time to put 100 hours into a game anymore, so building up a fanbase in the massive mobile market, with new customers, making them interested in the world of FF7 is a great step towards the "final goal". So whilst they are building up a new fanbase in the future with FF7 spin-offs, in what is frankly, a much larger market, will it be enough to replace old FF7 fans who, if given enough time, simple won't care about the remake they have craved so long?
Regardless, a remaster should be handled by SE themselves, whilst the FFX remaster was great (imo), a lot of LR was handled by an outsourced company, and the flat background textures and buildings look absolutely awful in comparison to Lightning and monsters.
Edit: Funny, watching the new Dragon Quest Heroes trailer for PS4, is pretty similar to how I'd imagine an FF9 remake.
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I for one would love to see an AC quality Don Corneo bouncing on the bed and hip thrusting. 
Though I know my hopes of what a VII remaster should be like is so far off from the typical fanboy's. I'd want pre-rendered backgrounds at a higher resolution and for it to be available on a portable system. It doesn't have to be 1 mil+ triangles but I'd like improved character models, like PS2 quality with nice textures. I don't care about voice overs either. Though people have freaked out at me for even mentioning this before...
I'd like similar remakes for VII and IX.
Though I know my hopes of what a VII remaster should be like is so far off from the typical fanboy's. I'd want pre-rendered backgrounds at a higher resolution and for it to be available on a portable system. It doesn't have to be 1 mil+ triangles but I'd like improved character models, like PS2 quality with nice textures. I don't care about voice overs either. Though people have freaked out at me for even mentioning this before...
I'd like similar remakes for VII and IX.
Honestly a Final Fantasy VII remake might be more necessary than the Kingdom Hearts ReMixes. With that said I don't believe a remake is needed, but then again I look how I own remakes of the older Final Fantasy's I-VI and if they weren't remade I wouldn't be able to own them.
So a remake might be needed sometime if they want to introduce it to newer fans in the future.
So a remake might be needed sometime if they want to introduce it to newer fans in the future.
You can play FFVII on your PS1 or PS3, but you need like one hundred systems (PS2, GBA, PSP, 3DS) to play all KH games, and now they're (almost) all available just for the PS3. In my case, just owning a PS3 at the moment, that's what I call a necessity .
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