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Final Fantasy VII: PS3 Remake
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08-08-2008 9:15am#1I have to assume its in the making. If not then they are cruel, cruel bastards for producing this PS3 Demo 2 odd years ago to show off what the PS3 can do:
The Video is from E3 2006 I think.May 3rd, 2008 wrote:Final Fantasy VII Director Yoshinori Kitase recently touched on the possibility of remaking the RPG classic for the PlayStation 3, stating that fans could “expect the probability of something spontaneous happening at some point.”
Kitase commented that if a remake were to transpire, it would have to include all of the core team members from the original 1997 PlayStation classic; something which isn’t possible right now due each individual’s commitments to other projects.
"My feelings are that if a remake were to work well then all the core members of the original team must be reassembled, all the artists and designers,” said Kitase.
“The problem is that, although all of us have an idea of what a remake should be and how to do it, organising such a thing right now is logistically very difficult. All the different members are now involved in very new, very large projects like Final Fantasy XIII and those projects are going to take a while.”
Despite this, he refused to completely rule out the chances of a remake on PS3, adding, “Maybe, when all those games are finished then we can look at doing something like that.”
”Of course, that said we came up with the idea for Crisis Core in just two days. It was a case of 'this is what we want to do, so let's do it'. So, you can definitely expect the probability of something spontaneous happening at some point, but it's hard to predict."
Stay tuned for further developments as they break.
I hope he's just pulling my chain and that they are going to make us all wet are pants by springing up a FF7 re-release from out of nowhere.0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thsnDqQu0mQComments
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TBH, I think that Square saying that what they showed was running in real time on the PS3 hardware is absolute bull. I was just a HD prerendered cutscene. Nothing on the PS3 has come anywhere near the level of those visuals and strangely enough it was used as a cutscene at the end of Crisis Core and it looked like the exact same level of prerendering as in all of that games cutsecenes.
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Its just the equivalent of a PS3 cutscene isn't it? In which case I think it is entirely feasible.
It's that fact that Sony are advertising it as being rendered in real time by the PS3 hardware which I severely doubt it is. In fact I'll so far as to say it's not being rendered in real time.
I also doubt it will get remade for the PS3. I don't think there would be a market. To completely re do the whole game up to the polished standards we would expect from a next gen game is going to cost a lot of money and the game is only going to apeal to a small portion of the market. The game will also get cut to pieces by the press. FFVII has aged quite a bit now with a storyline that dies on it's arse halfway through and some really bad and simplistic battle and magic mechanics. It's certainly not a bad game it's just that with the rose tinted glasses off, JRPGs have come a long way since and far superior games to FFVII have come out and even came out before FFVII.
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Anyways, you preferred 6. I can't see why, found it tedious, number of random encounters etc. You must wonder if you would feel the same had you played 7 first.
I did play FFVII first. I'd take Chrono Trigger over FFVII any day as well.
Honestly though after leaveing midgar the story really isn't up to much, it's really just an average anime storyline. Compare that to FFX which deals with themes of racism, religion and handles friendship a whole lot better. There are plenty of games out there that are far more mature with their dealing with issues or creating the abstract ending that FFVII went for. Games like Panzer Dragoon Saga, Ico and shadow of the colossus put that ending to shame. The ending of disc 1 was quite emotional but it was done before and handled a lot better in earlier games, to name check one of them Phantasy Star 2. Compare it to the ending of suikoden 2, a very mature handling of three youths who have their lives torn apart by war.
the battle system is also pants compared to even the games that came before it. FFIV, FFV and FFVI are much better. Chrono Trigger, Grandia and FFX also severely outclass it.
FFVII for me is a great game but it really is being viewed through rose tinted glasses an awful lot. It was groundbreaking when it came out but it's very obvious that it was a rush job and quite flawed.
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Well I only played Chrono Trigger quite recently, it was so good that i even forgave it when it burnt out the laser on my second PS2.
Honestly when I played FFVII for the first time I thought it was the best game ever. However I went back to play it about 3 years ago and well it really hasn't lived up to my memories of it although I still thoroughly enjoyed the experience. It's not the greatest game ever made, far from it.
Back on topic, I think the reasons I mentioned and the fact that it's just a nostalgia piece tarted up will mean that the market wouldn't be large enough to cover the costs of a remake of what still is a massive and highly ambitious game. Average reviews that i'm predicting it will get won't help expand the audience beyond some curious newcomers to the series.
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I seem to recall that Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes didn't do all that well at retail. I also felt they totally ruined that game with some really dreadful and silly OTT cutscene direction.
I'm guessing you overlevelled in FFX, keane2097. I don't level at all in FF games and found the battle system in FFX to be an absolute masterpiece. It was really very challenging and you really had to use the right characters for the right situation. Boss battles were even more strategic. I found the last boss to be a complete bitch (not the final fight which you couldn't lose).
I myself didn't think all that much of the materia system. I thought it was very simplistic. Any character could equip any materia which meant that characters quickly lost their personality. There was also no strategy in the fights you could breeze through the game with the only difficulty spike being the final boss unless you wanted to bore yourself levelling for the weapons.
I also found FFX to be the strongest storywise. Characters were brilliant other than Tidus who was way too whiny. Thought the way the story was told was very impressive and it never felt rushed or silly like some of the FF games. Then of course there was that ending, birlliant.
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