FFVII Remake... It's Official! (Discussion)

I wonder if this will make the story tolerable. Or even comprehensible. In fairness, that's a problem most Final Fantasy games have, even if you don't get sucked into spending 15 hours on sidequests.

Hey, y'know what'd make me actually give a damn about this tripe? In addition to giving the characters personalities and story arcs (seriously, excise Cloud, Aerith, and Sephiroth, and it's a peanut gallery of stereotypes with static motivations), how about making the characters meaningfully different? They're just Materia slots with a small handful of useful Limit Breaks and a couple ultimate weapons that vary in degree of tediousness.

But, again, in fairness, it's not like FFVI was a lot better and people wank off about that convoluted mess with a pointless second half nearly as much as FFVII.

If Squaresoft wants to see any of my money ever again, make an offline version of the FFXI stories. Tell me any of you wouldn't kill to roll up a character like the one you played, then go around recruiting party members like how the Trust system vaguely works in order to play a classic Final Fantasy game in Vana'diel. And, hey, except for Chains of Promathia, it's a reasonably comprehensible story, too, and the closest it comes to emo whining is when "Crawling in My Skin" starts up whenever Zeid appears on screen.



Genuine question: you lot who are whining about "Oh god, I hope it's a remaster and not a remake," why would you want a remaster? Oh boy, now the characters don't look like origami polio victims and Cloud's forearms aren't bigger than his legs. So what? If I need to wave my JRPG fanboy willy around in the air right now, I'm a Dragon Quest man. I adored Dragon Warrior IV and played the hell out of it. The only reason I prefer the DS remake is because, duh, it adds some needed gameplay improvements and extra content. If it was just a graphical update, I'd yawn.

If you really need those full-motion Tifa jiggle physics to get off now that you're no longer 12-years-old, there's plenty of that on DeviantArt.

I bet the success or reception of this remake will decide whether others in the series get the same treatment so I'd hold off for now.

VII is not without flaws and I'm positive Nomura knows every single one of them and will try to address them while remaining true to the premise.
Materia wasn't the best system (to be truly honest, it is the worst along with FF8's draw system) as the only thing that really separated the characters was their limit breaks and a lot of them were crap. Sure the positive was you could play with the characters you liked but there was no job/class system. And I think this is one of the changes Nomura can make, give each character a specific role in battle.

materia was a fine system. I was to young the very first time i played it to rly understand it lol

heres hoping they dont change the w-item glitch tho... One of the best glitches ever!

“I can’t get go into details, but this is not a simple remake. Let’s say for argument’s sake that we only pretty up the graphics for current gen hardware, I don’t think that would surpass the original version.

The original version is a game that came out in 1997, and if you look at it today, you can feel how dated the graphics and the game system are. We haven’t shown any gameplay yet, but since we’re updating them quite a bit, please look forward to that.”

“Since we now formally revealed Kazushige Nojima’s name for the scenario, there will be more plot devices in the story, so I think you can also look forward to that.”