FFVII PS3 Remake - Yay or Nay?

[DaggerLite]

[...] and you'd have to be an idiot to lose to any storyline boss.

The fights in VII are overall the easiest I've ever played (not having played the newest games). You didn't need enemy skills to get through. IX comes close in fight difficulty, but also had some interesting encounters. Difficulty can be increased in a remake however. I somewhat doubt they'll do that if they do a remake, though.

Though man, I was so happy the day Emerald Weapon missed with Aire Tam Storm, just as I was about to reset the game. I played that fight so many times. I now know that it 'only' does 1111 damage per materia equipped, but I didn't know that back then. ;p

[PithyGriff]

It'd be nice if any remake or subsequent games would actually be hard. It's been a while since I've played a video game that was actually difficult on a base level. (Not just the 'dumb' system of making you weaker and your enemies stronger as you increase difficulty levels.)

Personally I think VIII had the easiest battles because all enemies were adjusted according to level. Over-level Squall (which inevitably happens to everyone), run him in critical health, Renzokuken will sail you straight through disc four. On the other hand you have IV, sudden party-wipes are a frustrating guarantee (dumbed that down seriously in the DS remake).

@forsaken: No implication intended. Secret of Mana, Secret of Evermore, Super Mario RPG, Earthbound keep me coming around.

I think everyone's thoughts bring us back to Jesta23's comment. No pleasing everyone. I'd argue no pleasing anyone. But nostalgia and fantasy are endless. And SquareEnix knows the profit. Worst thing they can do is give us what we think we want.

[forsaken]

Hahaha, I remember how frustrated I was on the first boss-fight against Reno on the Sector-7 platform. He casts that weird triangular shield on a character which takes that character out of the fight until you attack your character once with a melee attack.

I don't think I even found out that trick the first time around. I just re-tried him so often until I managed to defeat him before all three of my chars where in the shield ^^;

Also, the first time you get to the world map you've gotta go to that little town and then head down to the Midgar Zolom on a Chocobo, get a short cutscene and then you're meant to walk into the cave that's there on the world map. I didn't spot the cave for like 4 hours. I tried literally everything you could on the world map, rode all over the place and leveled all my materia an entire level subsequently xD I even tried beating the Midgar Zolom because I figured, Sephy did it so maybe I should too? I got really fcking frustrated aswell and then I walked into the cave by accident

Ruby, Emerald, Ultima Weapon. The Wall Boss, several of the Jenova fights. I disagree about VII being the easiest. I didn't play it with a walkthrough to be fair. Maybe that's why you found it so easy? Maybe I just didn't spend enough time leveling up ^^ Who knows

So far XIII is by far the easiest I've played ^^; X had some tough boss encounters, but only a few... VIII was easy. IX & XII wasn't. And I disagree with VII but it was the first game of the sort that I played so maybe it's down to that...

[kurandoinu]

What do you mean IX wasn't easy? I beat it without trying :/

[Crimson13]

"Right now we don't have a clear direction, but many fans have requested we remake Final Fantasy VII," Wada said. "We're going to explore the possibility - whether or not we're going to do it, if we're going to do it, and the platform."

Yes, I'll take a FFVII as long as I don't need to buy a PS3 for it.

[DaggerLite]

"Right now we don't have a clear direction, but many fans have requested we remake Final Fantasy VII," Wada said. "We're going to explore the possibility - whether or not we're going to do it, if we're going to do it, and the platform."

Yes, I'll take a FFVII as long as I don't need to buy a PS3 for it.

They've actually mentioned the exact same thing quite long ago (in recent times), but I can't recall where to look for that. On a related note...

You both worked on Final Fantasy VII, a game very close to my heart! There are always rumours of a possible Final Fantasy VII remake, but would you personally like to see it happen? Do you think a remake is even necessary?

YK: IF it were possible that we had all the right facilities and the right environment to be able to make and prepare a Final Fantasy VII remake within a year, we'd very much like a go at it! But even Final Fantasy XIII has taken over three and a half years to create. If we were to recreate final Fantasy VII with the same level of graphical detail as you see in Final Fantasy XIII, we'd imagine that that would take as much as three or four times longer than the three and a half years it has taken to put this Final Fantasy together! So it's looking pretty unrealistic! But if any such situation came about by any remote chance, then yes, we'd do it!

Edit

Apparently, it wasn't the original source of the Kotaku article (as I stated earlier), but fairly related anyhow. I didn't read their source article completely before posting, and it looked like they had taken it from another site without posting any source. I find it a bit weird that they post something like that before the actual interview, though.

[Sion4000]

YES!!!!
A remake with better graphics, Voice acting, and a better combat system would be so awesome!

[sdedalus83]

No, God no.  Why don't they put some super team together to create a true successor to Crono Trigger?  Not a remake, not a sequel, not even a spiritual successor, just something that breaks the mold and shocks the gaming world in the same way CT did.

And will somebody please tell Squeenix to cut the "Game is too big" and "We'll need 2 50 gig BD discs just to do it" crap?  I didn't see Bethesda have any problems creating one hell of a massive world with Fallout 3.  And everybody outside of Japan has long since learned how to manage texture and audio file sizes without things ballooning out of control.

Tease and delay, tease and delay - a truly magnificent tactic for marketing to a captive audience.  When they do release an FFVII remake, people will buy it at a record pace no matter how much effort they put into it, so all this BS about it being too big is just chum to get the water boiling.

[fohfoh]

There's a lot of other older games that probably could do with a remake.

Chrono Trigger is already one that has been mentioned, but seriously, there's a lot of other candidates.

I seriously only see this issue becoming a 2x50GB disc game if it's turned into a 1080p galore game with enough extra cut scenes to rival MGS4.

[Xtras]

I indeed say yay. So long as they keep the story roughly intact, they can improve anything they think needs improving and I'd love it.

If I could make a request though, I'd ask that they replace the turn based system with something more like what Kingdom Hearts 2 has.

[WiiLeeYum]

I think there is a big debate on whether it should be turn base or active battle.
I would love to replay it in a new look but changing the whole battle system might ruin the game and don't forget the time used up to replay everything from start to finish.
Or they could make a FF Arcade Disc with minigames from VII (and others) which would not harm the game(s) itself. I just remember playing the minigames more than the game itself.
Other than the graphic issue, I would say keep VII as it is.

*goes on youtube and plays FFVII OSTs*
Ahhh so nostalgic.....

[ilk3000]

I beat the final boss in IX without even realizing it was the final boss and the game was over. I do wish some of Square's games were shorter though. I lost interest in FFXI - I think I had ~100 hours of play and I don't think I was even close to the end.

[nstgc]

I beat the final boss in IX without even realizing it was the final boss and the game was over. I do wish some of Square's games were shorter though. I lost interest in FFXI - I think I had ~100 hours of play and I don't think I was even close to the end.

FF 11 had an end? I only played for a few months, but given that its an MMO, I assume you mean FF 12...which plays like an MMO (or so some say).

[Crimson13]

IX=9 XI=11

[ilk3000]

*12

Like I said, it's been a few years.

[TorturdChaos]

I would love to see a FFVII remake for the PS3.  FFVII got me hooked on the whole jRPG genre, and completely changed the way I looked at video games.

[Klocknov]

I myself would say yes, threw playing many of their remakes I will say they do a good job on them and I think it would be well worth it to see this game get brought into todays graphics. Though I will say adding a couple things here and there doesn't sound like a bad idea, but if they change the story-line the game has just been really messed up. The story-line has to stay intact as it was since that is one of the major parts of why that game was great. Also the battle system really shouldn't be hit to much since with how it was setup the turn based system I still think is one of the best systems for that game. Also it would give the chance for them to add VAs and all that nice extras to the game that didn't quite fit on discs back in the PSX/1 days.

Now though as other said there are many games that would benefit better then FFVII for a remake or a continuation to the series. Take Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross, both great games that could use for a continuation or remake. Then we have the Lufia series, it would be interesting to see that game come back from the dead. Also the Seiken Densetsu series with Secret of Mana (Seiken Densetsu 2) being another great game. That is just some of the games from the SNES (well minus Chrono Cross from the PSX/1) that made a major hit on RPGs of today. Though the Final Fantasy franchise is probably the biggest of all of them due to it's major fan base.

PS: I so agree that Kefka so owns Sephiroth as a villain. Also I would like to point out that FFVI is still my favorite FF yet and I would love to even see a remake of that to bring it back from the old time.

[kyanwan]

This game deserves to be remade. 

Also, I would like to see Chrono Trigger remade.    I got somewhat pissed when the fan remake of CT was killed by Square.    If they're just going to stop us for enjoying this now 16 year old game as a remake ... well ... they better fucking use their IP so we can enjoy it.

[sdedalus83]

I got somewhat pissed when the fan remake of CT was killed by Square.    If they're just going to stop us for enjoying this now 16 year old game as a remake ... well ... they better fucking use their IP so we can enjoy it.

In the minds of Square's management, the DS release was that remake.

[Klocknov]

I got somewhat pissed when the fan remake of CT was killed by Square.    If they're just going to stop us for enjoying this now 16 year old game as a remake ... well ... they better fucking use their IP so we can enjoy it.

In the minds of Square's management, the DS release was that remake.

DS remakes = fail... Though probaly the main reason is I can't get use to playing anything on a DS no matter how hard I have tried.