If There Were A Final Fantasy VII Remake, Final Fantasy Would Be Finished

26 responses to “If There Were A Final Fantasy VII Remake, Final Fantasy Would Be Finished”

1. 

   Cap’n Crunch

   June 27, 2012 at 5:07 am

   I don’t understand the excessive praise FF7 gets, that isn’t to say I don’t think it’s good, It’s amazing, but I look at all the other FF games until after 10 just as amazing. But hey, I wouldn’t complain if they did decide to do a remake.

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   1. 

      Invid

      June 27, 2012 at 7:46 am

      It’s because VII had such depth of emotion with the Aeris, amoungst other things, I’m not saying that other games haven’t done this, but for a lot of us it was the first… it was the first game that truely seemed to be art.
      Some of the earlier FFs may have been close, but the fact is FF VII was a lot more approachable with its cutscenes and its wide distribution. It’s just that it was the turning point in the west for a whole generation of gamers.

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         Steve

         June 27, 2012 at 5:52 pm

         Pretty much this. It was just a product that came out in the perfect era. It was the first ‘good’ and accessible JRPG the West saw, and was launched on the burgeoning PSX. As mentioned, it was at the right place at the right time and all the praise for the game is rosy-hued nostalgia. The game itself is really nothing special, nor was it a technical achievement.

         Nonetheless, Squeenix will not remake it any time soon. They need a carrot to keep dangling in front of the hapless fans who keep buying their same product.

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         1. 

            Raheem

            June 27, 2012 at 9:42 pm

            I think it was a technical achievement, I remember seeing the FMV and going wow thats awesome, then your actual 3D character blends with it. That blew me away.

            I agree with everything else you say though.

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   2. 

      NegativeZero

      June 27, 2012 at 12:10 pm

      It was the right game at the right place at the right time. For most people playing it, it was a radically different game to what they’d played up until that point. It also resonated with the teenage audience of that era, which was back when Japan was considered cool, Anime was becoming really popular, and was pre-911 / ‘War on Terror’ stuff. You’ve got a whole generation nowadays that have spent their entire lives hearing about casualties in Afghanistan and soldiers shooting terrorists and stuff, so what is relevant to the developing gamer audience is Call of Duty – FF just doesn’t hit the way it did any more.

      It also doesn’t help that Squenix has managed to force out all their core talent post-FFX (Sakaguchi gone after X, Matsuno gone halfway into XII, Uematsu doing less and less composition after IX…) and doesn’t seem to know what direction they want to take their flagship series, let alone be able to deliver new games in a timely manner.

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2. 

   Kizaru

   June 27, 2012 at 6:48 am

   This will never be remade. Square-Enix wouldn’t be willing to bet so much time and money wasted on a product that everyone has more or less already played. They’d rather make something good, and new instead something good, but ‘been there done that’.

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   1. 

      Nestama

      June 27, 2012 at 8:11 am

      “They’d rather make something good, and new instead something good, but ‘been there done that’.”

      Final Fantasy X HD says hi.

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      1. 

         Akuma

         June 27, 2012 at 12:05 pm

         +1

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      Steve

      June 27, 2012 at 5:53 pm

      “They’d rather make something good, and new instead something good, but ‘been there done that’.”

      Really? Have you seen just how many goddamn times the FF games have been remade on every platform known to man? Just count how many iOS and NDS ports and remakes were released of old FF games.

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3. 

   JellyArrow

   June 27, 2012 at 7:45 am

   I don’t think even a 1/3 of the people who clamour for a remake of FFVII would actually buy it. Thi si more about nostalgia than wanting a remake.

   Plus, if there was 1 tiny little thing fans didn’t like, well, you saw what happened with ME3. Imagine that times a million.

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4. 

   Invid

   June 27, 2012 at 8:00 am

   HD Remake would be nice (just HD textures ect, and leave it at that… don’t add voices, or change the music in any way), but I don’t think it would be worth it. If they realy want to test the water start a kickstater for the amount they think it would require and see if it happens (With fabulous prizes like a copy of the game, the soundtrack, signed concept art for the HD, ect).

   What they should realy be doing is releasing ports of the original on every system under the sun. Build and release an android port, and an iphone port, release to XBOX, and Wii, any system that can handle it (i know android has emulators that can run it but an official realese, would sell well, even though it would probably clock in at the better part of 2 gig). Put the PC version on Steam.
   I never could decide if my favorite was VII or VIII… Wouldn’t mind a HD VIII either…

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   1. 

      Awnshegh

      June 27, 2012 at 8:33 am

      We’ve got HD texture packs on PC among other tweaks. In fact there was a write up here on Kotaku – http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/05/you-want-your-final-fantasy-vii-hd-remaster-well-here-it-is/

      I’ve got this link saved the next time I decide to delve into FF7.

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         Invid

         June 29, 2012 at 12:56 pm

         indeed… for those who own the PC version ( I’m sure it could be found on torrent sites, but they could give us a chance to pay for it…)

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5. 

   blue

   June 27, 2012 at 9:19 am

   any after FFX, but this time make it good.

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6. 

   xWisp

   June 27, 2012 at 10:05 am

   they have definitely already finished the FFVII remake and are waiting for a rainy day I swear. You know, I remember seeing on the making of FFX DVD that came with my copy when I bought it, he said on it that they weren’t keen to re-make FFVII because they were afraid of producing an inferior product that fans would be disappointed with. There’s been many reasons, all very ambiguous. Bottom line is that its a fallback for them and it’s not coming out till they absolutely have to. /shrug.

   Personally the FFX HD “remake” makes me like 7 colors of happy and I’ll be content with that.
   I think FFVI Deserves a 3D remake for 3ds or otherwise before VII anyway.

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7. 

   Pheobe Wolf

   June 27, 2012 at 10:27 am

   I doubt Square-Enix will ever make a Final Fantasy ‘better’ than FFVII. Now I’m not saying that there aren’t better FF’s or that Square Enix won’t make one That is comparable, but by the very act of comparing it to FFVII it will always fail.

   For many, FFVII was a game of firsts. It was their first involvement in a Final Fantasy game, the first 3D Final Fantasy, the first time they got so emotionally invested in the characters. So much so that they cried when Aeris died.

   Even for me, who likes FFVIII and FFIX technically more, nothing will beat the nostalgia, that feeling I get, when I play FFVII. And that is the problem. There will never be a better Final Fantasy because nothing will ever beat the idea of Final Fantasy VII.

   I think the question S-E should be asking is SHOULD they continue with the series? Is Final Fantasy dead?

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8. 

   Dunnowhathuh

   June 27, 2012 at 11:24 am

   In my opinion, a remake should only be made when the game no longer fresh in people’s minds. FFVII is still VERY fresh in people’s minds, especially after the whole Advent Children thing and the spinoffs they made. Right now, I’d much rather see an FFVI remake.

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9. 

   [Razor]

   June 27, 2012 at 11:33 am

   I love FF7, but I know if they remake it they’ll add a whole lot of new terrible BS while removing some of the parts that I loved about the game. Nomura’s said that much about the latter, removing things like the Honey Bee Inn or Cloud crossdressing to fool Corneo. Who knows what else would get the cut? I’d wager the random battle system (old and old-dated but damn it I loved it), some of the surprises that were only possible by the awful graphics (could Red XIII really pass off as a sailor?) and more things in that vein.
   And then it would go in the opposite direction. They would add a whole lot of junk from the sequels that would be unwelcome to me – new turks would crawl out of the woodwork, that kid from the movie would be jammed in somewhere and who knows what else.

   I think I’ll just wait for the PC rerelease.

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10. 

    Mase

    June 27, 2012 at 12:20 pm

    After the abominations that were FF12 (and it’s million spin off games), FF13/FF13-2 (and spin offs) and finally FF14 (which is still broken to hell); I think that SE needs to make that remake of FF7 and close up shop. The company hasn’t made a good game in years, so why not give the fans something they want and then walk off into the sunset

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    1. 

       Cregg

       June 28, 2012 at 12:29 am

       FF12 had exactly 999,999 less spinoffs than you stated. One. There was one. You’re right about it being shit though. FF12 on the other hand is pretty incredible.

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11. 

    Vapor

    June 27, 2012 at 12:29 pm

    It’s a kind of silly statement, considering how many people consider other Final Fantasy’s to be their favourites, and with a few exceptions between VI and XII, they’ve all had a good, solid remake made for them.

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12. 

    Mindez

    June 27, 2012 at 12:37 pm

    People will bitch, moan and complain no matter what game devs do these days

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13. 

    Manzam

    June 27, 2012 at 12:56 pm

    I love FFVII, but I’d hate a remake of it. They would have to include all of the crap that they’ve slapped the FFVII name on so it’d all fit, and it would result in being a bigger mess then their current games.

    Then again, I would much prefer for them to remake VII, but skip over V and VI, and then give up Final Fantasy(We can hope, right?). VII may be the second best game I’ve played, but nothing’ll top VI.

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14. 

    Neon Jackal

    June 27, 2012 at 3:26 pm

    “Oh, just add some HD textures and update models etc etc”
    You people do realise that the game had 2D backgrounds right? Most people just assume that you could easily just port it and update a few tiny things like it’d be no work, but to truly “remake” it they’d have to make it all from scratch.
    And I don’t know, maybe it’s because I got into FF before 7 came out, but I don’t get it, I never really liked it, 1 through 6 were more enjoyable, even 8, 9 and 12 I liked heaps better than 7.

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15. 

    Roninski

    June 27, 2012 at 6:54 pm

    Why are they trying to surpass FFVII? FFVI should be the one they’re trying to surpass….

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16. 

    Alex K

    June 27, 2012 at 10:32 pm

    If I were SE, I would be terrified to remake FFVII. There’s absolutely no way they’d be able to live up to almost fanatical hype there would be surrounding it. If it ended up curing cancer, people would still find it doesn’t measure up to their nostalgia-slathered childhood memories of the original.

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