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Square Enix: FF7 remake "a huge, huge task" |
Listed in: PS3, Xbox 360 Tags: Motomu Toriyama, Square Enix, Yoshinori Kitase

It's been 13 years, but the demand for Final Fantasy VII has not returned to the planet. The PSOne classic has long been a mainstay on PSN's most downloaded list, and the clamor for a remake is as persistent as the search for the Promised Land - that's even after Square Enix said no, no, and no. But if Sony was able to give God of War I and II the HD treatement for the God of War Collection, would it be possible to do the same for what could arguably be the greatest RPG of all time?
Through an interview with the European PlayStation Blog, Yoshinori Kitase and Motomu Toriyama explain their side:
We don’t know the details about the HD remake of God of War. If it’s just a case of attaining high resolution graphics, only, then that wouldn’t be that difficult, but if we were to achieve the same graphical standard as in XIII with a PS1 title, then that would be a huge, huge task. Almost unrealistic. Even with a PS2 title it would be difficult. In the case of God of War, there weren’t really that many characters in the game — the main character and some monsters, maybe ten people or so. That would not be unachievable.
As with Final Fantasy titles in the past, like on PS1, even just the main characters amount to around 10 people. Then you have all the NPCs, you’re probably looking at about 200 characters total. All with individual textures for the skin, plus costumes, facial features and everything. That would be a really tricky job.
So again, Square Enix hammers another nail into the FFVII remake coffin - that is, of course, until they decide it's time to whip out the Phoenix Down.
[via PlayStation Blog]
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but i'm no programmer
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They Can at least hide it for us and then put it on the market ,
i love the way people think about No remake or remake or w/e the only thing is the Orignial FF7 issnt boring and shiz
its still a great game , im not against the remake but if they make one it better be a great one .. els it would be a waste of time and monney =] Greatz
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adding a "skip" or a shortcut for Knights of the Round would also be very welcome
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i like the pre-rendered backgrounds, id be happy for them to stay but just in higher resolution. the character models need a lot of work but surely they have the engine for that already, KH:BBS / FFVII:CC. So the real time battle and world map need some work. Is it really that impossible?
I certainly was not expecting a full remake so it looks like FFXIIII
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the community is already doing a good job with ff7 the way it is.
custom models, custom effects, exceeding 9999 limits on hp,mp and damage, alternate video driver for ff7/ff8, texture replacements etc. that mostly applies to pc versions of ff7/ff8.
square would definitely never do that, though. all this was figured out by fans.
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But they have half of it done in Advent Children - And Crisis Core - just port the environments from there, give them a Spruce up, good as New.
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FF7 is a 3D game...you can't compare it to Zelda when Link to the Past was a 2D game. What made FF7 so awesome were the locations and the battle system, my favourite place in the game were The City of the Ancients and Cosmo Canyon. Remake those places with better sound quality and I'll give you all the money in my bank account and a handjob.
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And surely they have lots of basic models for the main characters already made. Look at Advent Children, all the main characters and some possible NPCs already modeled at extreme high resolution! At the very least cut-scenes wouldn't be a huge hassle. Oh yeah, don't forget whatever they have left-over from Crisis Core too!
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I haven't played FF13 yet of course, I'm not into importing. But one consistent thing I've been reading about it is that it is 100% linear, there are little or no towns, and a major lack of sidequests.
So what I'm getting from this is that if Square Enix is basically complaining about remaking a game with numerous towns, sidequests, and people, then it looks like we're going to be getting bland Final Fantasy's for the foreseeable future.
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The good thing about remaking is that the main idea is already in a playable form in this case ff7.
its not impossible or anywhere near that. it is in fact possible it just takes some money and effort if a company does not want to put in such an effort for its fanbase. no one should support them.
just my 2 cents
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Even if they put a full team of devs on this for 3 years to make all the lovely side towns/quests etc etc the profits would still massively outweight the costs! charge £50 for it and even if only those who downloaded the original psone version from the psnstore they would make a profit, hell i wouldnt even care if they were to make it multiplatform (as long as the xbox version this time actually didnt make any difference to the ps3 version).
The remake would be the biggest cash cow since .... well since ff7 lol!
even if they never do the remake tbh i would like them to sit down and look at what made ff7,8,9 great as they have seriously lost the plot a bit with the ff games after 9 (im still waiting to check out 13).
In a market which is either coming out of or still in recession surely you want to field your biggest players and make money! meh... they should have just stayed as squaresoft... that was when they were a great company!
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Just a reminder ff7 has been put on ps1, computer, psp, ps3 and has spin offs and even a movie. If theyd taken the money they made from just reselling the same game to us on different platforms we would have already had the remake.
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I'm convince that the strange obsession with FFVII by everyone is little more than nostalgia induced. Most FF fans that have played this series since the beginning will point to FF icons like IV, VI and IX as far better than VII.
Back in 1997, it was a landmark RPG that had incredible CG cutscenes, iconic characters, and a very cinematic story. Over 10 years later, the graphics don't hold up at all, the convoluted story pales in comparison to many other FF games, and the dialogue is cheesy (even for a FF game).
After a movie and an extended version of the movie, a re-release and quite a few spin-off games from PS2 to mobile phones, I think we can safely say that we have explored every bit of these characters and its high time that SE put their effort into other things.
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Players who loved the game back in the days shouldn't care about the graphics, and players too young to remember FFVII probably don't get what's so appealing about it.
Yes, it would be neat to have an HD remake, but just HOW MANY games other than God of War - which was way more recent than FFVII - and Super Street Fighter II - much more simplistic - have gotten HD remakes in recent years?
Think about it: Square's trying to look ahead and develop an entire trilogy of games for XIII while also keeping work on FFXIV, the Kingdom Hearts series, and new titles like Nier. Why would they dedicate the time and money - probably twice the amount they spent developing the original - towards bringing back a game from two generations ago?
Move on please.
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Resident Evil Series, how many different platforms has each of those games been Remade for. they weren't even HD - Capcom killed the Goose that laid the golden egg before if could drop the big one.
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The remake would be a conglomeration of the whole FF7 universe (the main games and features anywho), and May require Rewrites to tie it into one game, or a format in which they have several games in one - or many - either way, it would be - if at all - the FINAL, Definitive FFVII - therefore no one could ask for more.
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dude, all Sequels to games are HD remakes - if they have the same characters, or environments, they could be classed as that. Yes, SF2 was a simple task, GOW was probably fairly simple too, just change Textures for the New ones, half of which you have. But niether of these games Have the Following that FFVII has. Ask anyone, even Square, they will tell you, that although FFVII didn't build the company, it certainly made it what it is today.
At the end of the day, they have everything all ready to go, they just need to adapt it - if they make it, it WILL make money, no if's, but's or maybe's. but as i say, Nomura likes Perfection, maybe it's just not ready yet
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As other people - including SE - have said, they'd have to remake the game from the ground up. Sure, they could probably use the engine from FFXIII, but translating the massive open world from FFVII would probably be a huge ordeal that would require some hefty attention.
I doubt it's as simple as you think it is. Otherwise they probably WOULD have cashed in on this already.
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but what i hope most is the remake of ff6 , even for nds or psp or wii!
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I feel it would be a smart move on their part to pair it with the launch of the PS4. It would sell the system by itself.
-fingers crossed-
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-graphics(there is no excuse for not doing so)
-Gameplay(its tired and old)
-Extras(and i mean a ton oof them)
-Exclusive to ps3 no im not a fanboy but we all know that the ps3 is capable of more and i want a game that pushes the limits on this console
and another thing im tired of square b*tching and whining about how hard something is / isnt look at devs like kojima who announces a game and releases it the following year in all countries as oppesed to square who announced birth by sleep a hand held gamee like 3 years ago and it just came out last month... a psp game
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Do I think they eventually might do something with this remake? It's possible, but I somewhat doubt it will be during this generation.
That they even comment about it is a proof to that they aren't ignoring it.
Unless you really know the limits of hardware, and the difficulty of producing and delivering a good game, as well as earning profits, you can't really say that it's easy or simple.
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If they did remake it they would just update the graphics? and change the combat system too?..
FFVII combat system was the tradtional RPG system use for the old generation RPGS, havn't you people seen the way they keep evolving the combat system in FF series starting from FFX..
If money is spent they would rather on a new FF storyline since they make money from the name "final fantasy"..
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They fucked up the sequels and have even blatantly violated the canon to the original game just to add the pointless plots to go with those sequels/prequels. If they made a remake, it would NOT be the same because for them to do it right, they'd have to screw all the work they did with the movie and follow-up games. And c'mon, with a remake, do you really think they're going to concentrate on just upping the graphics? Don't be foolish. They will add crap and probably have to take some things out. Which is why, even if they make one, I'll never buy it because I see the "value" they place on story and its shit.
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