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Kitase: Remaking FFVII will take 10x as long as development of FFXIII

Posted May 31, 2010 at 6:23AM EST by Mabie A.

Listed in: PS3 Tags: FFVII, ffxiii, playstation 3 updates, Yoshinori Kitase

Fans are still at it, keeping their fingers crossed for a Final Fantasy VII remake. Time and again, Square Enix has said no. Yoshinori Kitase recently said at FFXIII's Korean launch that if they were to remake FFVII, it will take them 10 times longer than when they did FFXIII.

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For your note, FFXIII was developed in 3-4 years. The producer went on to expound on that statistic:

"To make FFXIII at this level of quality, it took us 3 to 4 years. If we were to make FFVIIFFXIII in the same style of , it would take 10 times as long, so it would be difficult to take it up immediately. However, we always keep in mind how often this is requested."

In not so many words, that means no.

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Some how I highly doubt it would take 30-40 years to make a game.

I think square-enix is over-exaggerating this stuff so that one day we may be surprised when they announce it. I realize FF7 is a long game, but FF7 is far less complicated in terms of story cinematics and battle system. How can it take that much longer?

Square, we are not looking for you to make a completely new game with the same hour long cinematics and voice acting as FF13 had. Just put some fancy graphics on top of it! I can care less if Im still reading text! I just want FF7 HD!

+5 # notice — phiyuku 2010-05-31 09:45

the lack of towns and world map in FFXIII. Yeah thats why. It would take them a long time to recreate all those towns and make a nice looking world map. Even the few towns in FFXIII they were so small.

+2 # RE: notice — Kyso 2010-05-31 13:10

Still. 40 years for one game? Utterly ridiculous. Completely bullshit. Sure, all the maps and the towns would take a while. You know, the ones that they already designed and rendered for FFVII originally. It would not-WOULD NOT-take 10 times as long as FFXIII. Heck, the time they spent on FFXIII would actually reduce the time it'd take them to make this. They likely have truckloads of reusable code from FFXIII. Besides, the story has already been written. And revised. And revisited in spin-offs. You do realize what I'm getting at here, right? About half the work is already freaking done!

# RE: RE: notice — cloud289 2010-06-05 12:57

surely its just a small brush up of the models and making new textures for them :S i know it would take a while but 30-40 years is insane!

# Yeah — UltimaXIX 2010-06-05 20:00

Chances are it'd end up being a PS3 exclusive, too. I wouldn't mind that myself, since I own both next gen consoles (notice how I ignored the Wii), but in the age of multi-platform games, I just don't see Square going down that route.

# RE: I doubt it. — GUNBEHINDTHESUN 2010-05-31 12:42

If there was a FF7 remake I DO want voice acting and not just an hd version of what we have now. I want the game to look at least as good as FF13 but have all the same story and content amount as FF7. I don't want to have to read the text all over again. FF7 remade in hd is an awesome story and needs the attention it deserves instead of being rushed and butchered.

# well.... — _xkiraisgodx_ 2010-05-31 17:35

If they did put voice acting, and cg cut scenes, what you'd end up with is a 40-50 hr long movie x__X

# So what — jordan1391 2010-06-05 09:28

Quoting _xkiraisgodx_:

If they did put voice acting, and cg cut scenes, what you'd end up with is a 40-50 hr long movie x__X

You sound like those fake metal gear fans who complained about cut scenes length.

Note to all: If you dont want a deep story with long cut scenes, dont play final fantasy. I thought you all would get this by now.

# RE: I doubt it. — mysterysword 2010-06-05 18:54

SE's force is a lot bigger than Square was back in 1995-1997. However, Square Enix works on as much as 25 games at a time. It'd sure take quite a while to make the game, though, that's for sure.

+3 # RE: Kitase: Remaking FFVII will take 10x as long as development of FFXIII — Mabie A. 2010-05-31 08:22

maybe they're really just not up to it. i mean, if you really want to do something, you'd find any and every possible means to get it done, right?

+3 # RE: RE: Kitase: Remaking FFVII will take 10x as long as development of FFXIII — Walo 2010-05-31 14:05

It's their loss, this is a game that would make a lot of sales.

+2 # RE: Kitase: Remaking FFVII will take 10x as long as development of FFXIII — MStatic 2010-05-31 08:54

30 hours. Bullshit, sorry.
Since 99% of the design is already done, that chops off a big chuck of time, the score is already written, just needs to be arranged again (an orchestra would be nice) which cuts another big chunk.
And finally, the script and story itself is already written, which for an RPG, is a huge thing.

So one of the main things they need to do is redesigning the world in 3D, which wouldn't take anywhere near as long as games today, FF7 actually had a small enough world, physically.
And of course, coding the actual game, and considering people still want the old battle system, there's not too much to do.

I'd even go as far to say that if they put their minds to it, it could be done in just over a year.

-3 # RE: RE: Kitase: Remaking FFVII will take 10x as long as development of FFXIII — truk 2010-05-31 21:39

Quoting MStatic:

30 hours. Bullshit, sorry.
Since 99% of the design is already done, that chops off a big chuck of time, the score is already written, just needs to be arranged again (an orchestra would be nice) which cuts another big chunk.
And finally, the script and story itself is already written, which for an RPG, is a huge thing.

So one of the main things they need to do is redesigning the world in 3D, which wouldn't take anywhere near as long as games today, FF7 actually had a small enough world, physically.
And of course, coding the actual game, and considering people still want the old battle system, there's not too much to do.

I'd even go as far to say that if they put their minds to it, it could be done in just over a year.

youre joking right??? so you want them to just cut and paste the remake together? gtfo

+1 # What — MStatic 2010-06-01 03:16

When and where did I say cut and paste, or even imply it?
I said that the game design, story and score is already written and done, which cuts a lot of time off development.
If you think that it would take longer to remake FF7 than it did FF13, then no offense, but you no little on the subject of games development.

In constrast with your 'cut and paste' implication, I in fact implied otherwise, claiming that more or less ALL the time spent on remkaing would go towards modelling and programming, which, as far as I can see, is the opposite to cutting and pasting.

-3 # RE: What — truk 2010-06-01 17:56

Quoting MStatic:

When and where did I say cut and paste, or even imply it?
I said that the game design, story and score is already written and done, which cuts a lot of time off development.
If you think that it would take longer to remake FF7 than it did FF13, then no offense, but you no little on the subject of games development.

In constrast with your 'cut and paste' implication, I in fact implied otherwise, claiming that more or less ALL the time spent on remkaing would go towards modelling and programming, which, as far as I can see, is the opposite to cutting and pasting.

wow dude, youre delusional to think that because they have few thing already "done" to think it would be that easy to make a game. honestly, did you stop to think about anything else that might be needed in the game? what about the world of ff7? they dont have any of that premande. what about enemies? they dont have any of that premade. what about summons? they dont have any of that premade. what about weapons and items? they dont have any of that premade. what about the menu? they dont have premade. what about all they other characters besides the main characters? they dont have any of that premade.

yeah dude, 99%, totally...

+1 # RE: RE: What — MARTINSTATIC 2010-06-01 18:22

Ok no offense, but take a course in games development and understand what the term 'design' means in relation to videogames development; programming and modelling is what I said is needed, which includes EVERYTHING in your 'not premade' list.
Summons, the 'world' (which is actually small in physical relation to todays games), weapons, items, enemies, the menu, all included in modelling and programming, and do not need to be designed.

The design IS 99% done. Live with it.
And yes, I think with Sqaure Enix's money, workforce, and studios, that this could be done in just over a year, no doubt about it.
The engine's and modelling software available to us today can make things that 5 years ago required a LOT of work.

I'm not delusional, I'm educated, experienced, and am merely making an assumption based on observation, evidence and deductions. Don't mean to come across as a knob, sorry.

-1 # RE: RE: What — jordan1391 2010-06-05 09:32

Quoting truk:

Quoting MStatic:
When and where did I say cut and paste, or even imply it?
I said that the game design, story and score is already written and done, which cuts a lot of time off development.
If you think that it would take longer to remake FF7 than it did FF13, then no offense, but you no little on the subject of games development.

In constrast with your 'cut and paste' implication, I in fact implied otherwise, claiming that more or less ALL the time spent on remkaing would go towards modelling and programming, which, as far as I can see, is the opposite to cutting and pasting.

wow dude, youre delusional to think that because they have few thing already "done" to think it would be that easy to make a game. honestly, did you stop to think about anything else that might be needed in the game? what about the world of ff7? they dont have any of that premande. what about enemies? they dont have any of that premade. what about summons? they dont have any of that premade. what about weapons and items? they dont have any of that premade. what about the menu? they dont have premade. what about all they other characters besides the main characters? they dont have any of that premade.

yeah dude, 99%, totally...

You sir, must have never played call of duty before. same game with different people, places, and times.

# RE: RE: RE: Kitase: Remaking FFVII will take 10x as long as development of FFXIII — Primebuster 2010-06-01 06:54

YOU'RE joking, right? You do realise everything other than the graphics are ready to go, right? All they'd need to do is make all the graphics in 3d, and possibly even orchestrate the music. I dont really care if there's voice acting, but they certainly have no need to write the story, compose the music, have all the story text written, think of a battle system, create their massive list of weapons, armour and trinkets... ALL of it is done, except the front end visual/audio stuff...

# RE: RE: RE: RE: Kitase: Remaking FFVII will take 10x as long as development of FFXIII — truk 2010-06-01 18:00

Quoting Primebuster:

YOU'RE joking, right? You do realise everything other than the graphics are ready to go, right? All they'd need to do is make all the graphics in 3d, and possibly even orchestrate the music. I dont really care if there's voice acting, but they certainly have no need to write the story, compose the music, have all the story text written, think of a battle system, create their massive list of weapons, armour and trinkets... ALL of it is done, except the front end visual/audio stuff...

yeah like they have button ready to just make things "3d".

i'm think i'm going to make this 3d today. **pushes button** now i'm going to make this 3d. **pushes button**

# seriously? — Primebuster 2010-06-01 19:34

You actually think it'll take them 10 years to make 3D things out of stuff they already made? Maybe if all the concept art didn't exist and they started from scratch with no idea on how the world of final fantasy vii looks MAYBE it would take them 3 or 4 years, MAYBE. But they have an entire blueprint right there. the game already exists, they know what all the characters look like, they know how all the materia and spells should look, its not gonna take an insurmountable effort to make better looking things out of stuff they already designed 13 years ago. for petes sake use your head. 3d modelling is relatively easy and they obviously have a talent for it, the graphics should the the quickest thing to accomplish even if they made the entire game from scrtach. which they totally dont need to do.

+2 # RE: Kitase: Remaking FFVII will take 10x as long as development of FFXIII — Rowaa 2010-05-31 08:57

Oh, so now having already story, musical score, designs, even ready-to-use 3D models makes development longer? Like anyone would believe it.

+1 # It's true — FrozenRay02 2010-05-31 20:23

How would a game take longer if you already have the characters, towns and music scores? Wouldn't it be harder to start from nothing?

-3 # RE: Kitase: Remaking FFVII will take 10x as long as development of FFXIII — NathJam 2010-05-31 09:13

I STILL don't know why so many fan boys clamour for a remake of FFVII.

Granted it was a good game for it's time and the story etc was good, but that's it, why remake a game that may just get picked apart by all these same rabid fanboys for not being just like the original. I think the "nostalgia goggles" are definitely getting the better of some people here.

I mean just to throw a high gloss on it to make it all sparkly I don't think is needed. Just let the teams go ahead and create NEW ideas and story lines and let the past be in the past.

ENOUGH with the remakes of old IPs. On with the new and exciting ideas.

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+1 # RE: RE: Kitase: Remaking FFVII will take 10x as long as development of FFXIII — Apollo887 2010-05-31 13:14

Personally I'd like to see the remake pretty much because of the graphics, I'm not a graphics whore but the first gen polygonal graphics have not aged well, I'd even prefer sprites to the boxy models we got in the original.

-2 # RE: RE: Kitase: Remaking FFVII will take 10x as long as development of FFXIII — truk 2010-05-31 21:40

Quoting NathJam:

I STILL don't know why so many fan boys clamour for a remake of FFVII.

Granted it was a good game for it's time and the story etc was good, but that's it, why remake a game that may just get picked apart by all these same rabid fanboys for not being just like the original. I think the "nostalgia goggles" are definitely getting the better of some people here.

I mean just to throw a high gloss on it to make it all sparkly I don't think is needed. Just let the teams go ahead and create NEW ideas and story lines and let the past be in the past.

ENOUGH with the remakes of old IPs. On with the new and exciting ideas.

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agreed.

+2 # RE: Kitase: Remaking FFVII will take 10x as long as development of FFXIII — pulseONE 2010-05-31 09:28

They are over-exaggerating this...I mean they already have designs, a script and a view of the basic programming, it's the graphics that'll take the most time...but not 30-40 years

+3 # lol — andre_euro 2010-05-31 09:42

he prob means itll take 30 to 40 years b4 tech will allow the game to fit on one dvd for 360, seeing as you'll need to be able to revisit towns and all lol...

+2 # RE: Kitase: Remaking FFVII will take 10x as long as development of FFXIII — TuckerN 2010-05-31 09:44

The last thing I want is for the remake of FFVII to be anything like FFXIII, because quite frankly FFXIII was a let down. The only thing I ask for FFVII is HD graphics, new side quests(that lead to getting new summons and new materia) and a trophy system, that way when you beat ultima weapon you can show everyone how epic you are :)

P.S. MORE KICK ASS LIMIT BREAKS!!!

+2 # ... — Untopped555 2010-05-31 14:31

ultima weapons was nothing ...

ruby was a bitch, it took half an hour to beat and on top of that when i beat it the first time the game froze so i had to load up and use up another half an hour to beat it... but yea trophies for that would be AWESOME.

+3 # RE: Kitase: Remaking FFVII will take 10x as long as development of FFXIII — yoshi314 2010-05-31 09:52

i wouldn't like remake of ff7. not after what they did to original ff7 storyline with all those spinoffs.

it's obvious that the game would include all storyline additions of dirge of cerberus, crisis core and whatnot, to integrate with those additions to the series.

personally, vanilla ff7 storyline was good enough. the remade ff7 that square would create - that wouldn't be good. well, maybe only graphics-wise.

besides, i don't think square has the balls to remake could's cross-dressing adventure in high-def 3d graphics ;)

# Lol yeah — UltimaXIX 2010-06-05 20:05

Don't forget how FFX was retroactively made canon with FFVII.

# Kitase: Remaking FFVII will take 10x as long as development of FFXIII — TheRockness 2010-05-31 10:41

Boo this man!

+5 # RE: Kitase: Remaking FFVII will take 10x as long as development of FFXIII — Navani 2010-05-31 11:06

I said this before when talking about the DS and the remakes on that.

You have the plot. You have the characters. You have the designs of the levels, characters, and pretty much everything else. You have the weapons. I'm sure you have most of the same team that has worked on that game. If not, you SHOULD still have all of the resources that went into the game, you don't just throw that stuff out.

Use the FFXIII engine, spend a couple million hiring a lot of people to recreate the models using the newer engine, I'd say two years if it's in the back of the company's mind.

of course, if you put it on 360 that'll add about 5 years to the production cycle.

# RE: RE: Kitase: Remaking FFVII will take 10x as long as development of FFXIII — T-Max Blaze 2010-05-31 17:35

You bring up a good point on how Square Enix should approach this remake idea. Don't forget they also have the voice acting cast from the Advent Children movie with some completed remastered & remixed soundtracks.

Sorry to disappoint fans of the remake idea, but this is my opinion on the matter. I don't support the remake idea.
Square Enix was Squaresoft when they made the Legend that is FF-VII. Now times have changed. They do their own thing where they like to fix things that aren't broken, compromise Specific console brand quality games to make more money (Xbox 360, the FPS console), they don't listen and respond to people as often as they should (which would save them from making some stupid mistakes), AND SO FOURTH. Do you seriously believe they can still be trusted to remake a game compromise free after all these mishaps we witnessed with them?? if not for all these things, I would love to entertain the idea of a remake. But they WILL change it regardless of how strictly fans want it copied and pasted. I don't want them to ruin it.

and if you agree or disagree, reply! I got my opinion, you got yours.

+1 # RE: RE: RE: Kitase: Remaking FFVII will take 10x as long as development of FFXIII — Snaku 2010-06-01 15:54

That's a pretty good point. They really aren't the same company they used to be, and there's a very good chance they'd screw it up.

I still want it and I'd still buy it if they made it, but I think it's pretty much a dead dream at this point. They either won't make it at all (while making all kinds of lame excuses) or they'll ruin it (I used to want a Transformers movie too and look what that got me).

# RE: RE: RE: RE: Kitase: Remaking FFVII will take 10x as long as development of FFXIII — T-Max Blaze 2010-06-01 16:47

Another important thing we need to realize as fans is that If we all pressure Square Enix into doing this even if we disregard any reasons they may have for not going through with it, most likely the FF VII that we hoped for would come out worse than expected.

Anything that feels forced without tender love and care will come out ruined. That would not be Square Enix'es fault either because of the overwhelming , massive demand of raging, restless fans who want updated nostalgia. Either leave it up to them to make the right choices (if the ever reconsider), or don't ask for a remake.

# ... — papajag 2010-05-31 22:50

Don't forget that they already have models of the characters done from Advent Children.

+1 # Hmm — Andy Mitchell 2010-05-31 12:11

Maybe if they started remaking FFVII when the ps3 was released it may be well on it's way to completion.

Stop delaying and get on with it already!

+3 # RE: Kitase: Remaking FFVII will take 10x as long as development of FFXIII — xInSoMnIaTiCx 2010-05-31 13:53

"To make FFXIII at this level of quality"
Really? To me it felt extremely rushed even though it took them that long I feel like only graphics and bugs were being worked and not the actual game. It takes wayy too long to have something anywhere near a world map, and the battle system just doesn't feel right.. It's as one of the posters said; they don't have to change ANYTHING from the old game, just rework the CG's and graphics in general and of course hopefully add a good and big amount of perks throughout the game. They definitely should have worked on it from release to now because it probably would have been near completion.

# RE: Kitase: Remaking FFVII will take 10x as long as development of FFXIII — raymandue 2010-05-31 14:11

why dont they just remake it on the psp or psp 2 if it coming out? PSP is much easier to pregramme and the grap[hics wont need to be like ff 13 it could be like crisis core.

# Remake — rapturestar 2010-05-31 14:44

4 CD equal to about 2.8 GB; one DVD = 4.8 GB, Dual layer DVD = 8.2(?) GB; The 3d model is already there in the game, polishing the graphics could probably take about 2 yrs along with voice-acting & extras. There is NO WAY in the world, it would take longer than the development of FF 13. If anything, they should stick to what FANS like/want. Alot of fans want FF 8 & FF 9 on PSN already and gotten that wish completely in Japan.

+2 # ummm — hush404 2010-05-31 15:42

He can do math right? 10x 3-4 years is 30-40 years for the remake... I highly doubt that.

# Im sick of the "towns" excuse — ptspyder 2010-05-31 16:23

And yes, it IS AN EXCUSE. If square wants us to honestly believe that they cannot design towns, what they are admitting is that they are woefully behind the rest of the videogame world in terms of abilities. For the most part, every single game worth playing has highly detailed and open world architecture now. Do FF games have better graphics then GTA or Just cause 2? In general, yes. But they should be able to find a balance between visuals and good game play and stop being lazy/making excuses.

-1 # Another excuse... — Sarita 2010-05-31 16:44

they said that b/c they are sick and tired of this topic coming up every time.

+1 # RE: Another excuse... — Ken K 2010-06-01 22:01

A-fucking-greed.
I want a remake but I'm starting to get sick of this coming up all the fucking time when it's clearly not coming right away. I can only imagine how aggravated the FF7 team is of hearing about it.
DEAL WITH IT. THEY WILL SAY SOMETHING WHEN IT COMES, IF IT COMES. CONTINUE IRRITATING THEM AND WE ASSURE IT DOESN'T COME. Fucking idiots.

+2 # Yeah.... — Fenrir 2010-05-31 18:00

I highly doubt that. Considering the game already has a base story, and development. Must have taken them 15 years to render that tech demo of 7 when the PS3 came out ;P There are RPG's already out that have open world maps and lots to explore and were done from scratch. Unless the PS3 and 360 were in development 40+ years ago I don't think it took those devs long to make them.

Honestly I think its a matter of why mess with a good thing. As nice as a re-make would be (even a refreshed graphical structure, hell throw in the models from CC for the PSP with a coating of HD res lol) They run the risk of ruining an already amazing game in its own rights.

# :) — cjackson 2010-05-31 19:59

They do that to tell anyone who even don't know anything about FFVII (maybe to new gen. or new RPG players) that FFVII was one of the best game so that when they release remake, they can get more money.
And i think, they have already started developing, just my thought :)

# RE: Kitase: Remaking FFVII will take 10x as long as development of FFXIII — FrozenRay02 2010-05-31 20:29

They did a tech demo right? Why do they say it'll take more time?

# f them — D 2010-05-31 21:39

if they start making it then it would not take them 10 times.

# RE: Kitase: Remaking FFVII will take 10x as long as development of FFXIII — truk 2010-05-31 21:44

news flash, ff7 is done and aerith is dead. sorry guys.

# RE: RE: Kitase: Remaking FFVII will take 10x as long as development of FFXIII — Deathrow 2010-05-31 21:58

Yea your quite right. I just wish they would at least polish the damn game so it looks more appealing. The story won't change, but improvements detail and design wise might get some new people who have never played any of the Final Fantasy series. I also think that saying "10x longer than FF XIII" was an exaggeration. Besides, Square is already busy with a bunch of projects: 3rd Birthday, Kingdom Hearts series, and probably a lot more unannounced.

# she is not dead!!! — lando 2010-06-07 22:16

She is not dead in the pc version! you can uhhh.....cheat.....and bring her back to life in all her glory!!! Or shit even plAY AS sephiroth!!! so if you make facts make sure you know about them!!! I know its not real but it still is!! if that makes sense!

# ... — justaperson 2010-05-31 21:54

it would take them 30-40 years because their teams just aren't what they once were.

+3 # 30 to 40 years? — Saito Forte 2010-06-01 02:31

That will put Duke Nukem Forever to shame.

# ... — papajag 2010-06-01 03:40

Quoting Saito Forte:

That will put Duke Nukem Forever to shame.

lol Good one

# Funny Square, funny — Scribe 2010-06-01 06:42

Obviously over exaggerating, however, if square are trying to make the point that modern graphics affect the size and scope of their games so much, then they should start producing larger games with standard graphics, as I still love playing 7 even with 13 out on the market now, I'm sick of a compromised world and story.

I personally would rather see a new game rather than a remake. Having said that if there's to be a remake and it's to take 30 years, you best get started and stop moaning!

# Also 13 team — Scribe 2010-06-01 06:46

Also I forgot to mention, I don't want the FF13 team touching 7 with a barge poll, leave it to the kingdom hearts/13vs/advent children team. The 13 team are the same guys that did and 10 and 10-2 and lets face it, besides decent storylines, the games have always got the balance wrong and not had a real world map.

# RE: Kitase: Remaking FFVII will take 10x as long as development of FFXIII — senz 2010-06-01 08:19

I think its just an excuse to not remake FFVII, how big can the world of FFVII be,im sure 3-4 year is enough time to remake it, think about WoW the world map it's big and it wouldn't take 30-40 year for Blizzard to design and make it..even of blizzard used a new graphics engine for WoW and remade it , it would take long..

# ... — kobayashi_reiko 2010-06-01 08:29

probably most of FFVII original creators are no longer with Square Enix, that's why I think remake is never gonna happen.
I really miss Squaresoft...

# RE: Kitase: Remaking FFVII will take 10x as long as development of FFXIII — EiN 2010-06-01 12:40

to remake FFVII in the SAME STYLE as FFXIII will take it 10x longer?

I have to strongly agree, They'll first remake EVERYTHING FFVII has to offer (side quests etc) and promised it on PS3, but decided to bring it to 360.

Hence removing a lot of areas, side quests and mini games, and ended up with a linear FFVII just like FFXIII which could have taken them less than 3-4 years to make without all the extra-won't-be-used-data.

# LOL — davidg 2010-06-01 17:41

So they say that polishing graphics cost more time than creating a complete game? LOL. Yeah right. They only have to put ONE team, the graphics team, on the remake, that's all. No illustrations/story/etc guys since they can simply use the FF13 dev tools to make the FF7 remake. Nothing could be as simplistic as that...

-1 # LAAAAAAME!! — Darkchild169 2010-06-02 15:48

it's crap, guys. you know it, I know it. they would do it if it was financially justifiable, and if it weren't for piracy, it would be. but concidering that the community has been able to crack EVERY firmeware to date, create emu's for EVERY system, and rip and burn EVERY game EVER made, can you really question why they wouldn't remake this game? I would love it; won't lie. but they won't. not cost effective. labor + group of greedy hackers does NOT = FFVII remake. You possess all the coding knowledge required.... you obviously know what to do. why don't any of you remake it? you make it sound so FUCKING easy!

# Wait a sec? — DangerDan 2010-06-02 15:51

10x? may I remind anyone who reads this, that they redid the engine for 13 at least once?

+1 # RE: Kitase: Remaking FFVII will take 10x as long as development of FFXIII — Arliman 2010-06-03 02:28

He just openly admitted that VII was ten times better than XIII.

+1 # I don't believe Square/Enix BS lol.. — SnowSerpent 2010-06-05 02:01

BS try harder Square/Enix your excuse's..Are mostly all lie's..
It took my friend and I 6-7 month's to translate FF7. Jeez if your to lazy to do it let some smart game programmer do it for you! :P..I don't care anyway like 1up.com blog's said Japanese Rpg's are getting boring with the same plot and story its no wonder why there a becoming a dying breed!

# *Insert massive WTF reaction* — FAIL Train 2010-06-05 17:00

When I read this I thought it was some kind of a joke. Hah, 30-40 years just to improve the eye candy of a game?

# It doesn't have to be 3D — NeoHumpty 2010-06-06 13:01

I'd like everything to stay the same, just prettier graphics. People like these games better for a reason, SE. Dumbasses.

# they are dumb — tailslol 2010-06-07 04:27

i calculated basicaly...
so they took basicaly the time to dev advent children and multiplied it by the minimum playable your of ff7...
and yea it give 30years of dev...
thats dumb because we dont want a movie,we want a regreshed game...
if they gecame so useless after the time they should take every old guys who left square (for those dumb reasons) and use all affliate studio they got... (like they done for ff9...some part got dev in france.)

# I dont see why its so hard.. — Rayn 2010-06-07 17:59

you have the storyline just make some character models and create a new battle engine that compromises that of the old one with increased graphic quality. record some voice overs and maybe add a few touches to it but not to drastic. i really dont see why its so fucking hard. Square Enix needs to out-source to mexico to make game so they can afford to make this one. but then cloud would be wearing a sombrero

# damn. — lolmonger 2010-06-07 18:00

heres to hoping i see it when i'm 50.

you owe me something good squeenix, the wait for ffxiii was too long to find out you ripped out the fun part of the FF series so you could beef the graphics. I might forgive you square, but i'll never forget.

# RE: Kitase: Remaking FFVII will take 10x as long as development of FFXIII — solshootersolid 2010-06-29 22:41

Duke Fantasy Forever

Honestly they do have much of the design already laid out so there is no denying that a significant chunk of time (in terms of developing a game from scratch) would be saved.

Plus the engine for FFXIII is already done and can most likely be used in effect on the remake.

In other words its kind of like a recipe for a cake. You got all your ingredients already laid out. You just put it together, mix and bake.

FFXIII however was a cake made by farmers growing and harvesting flour, sugar and a whatever else goes in cake mix. Surely the tools are left over from that to be used.

But still I doubt a remake would be considered with static backgrounds. Most likely they are going to have to model and scale many of the locals in FF7 and flesh out areas that weren't previously visible due to the perspective and interaction of 3d world movement.

Any cut scenes are subject to be redone. Take for example Twin Snakes!!!
Story elements or extra content may be added or subtracted.

Next in line is a story translation if they deside to fix the errors of the first and increase the accuracy of it. Then a possible voice over. Its possible they could reprise the cast of Advent Children but who knows who will actually return.

In conclusion the statement of 10x as long would be a gross exaggeration unless the team consisted of only a hand full of members. Take in consideration games like Resident Evil REmake (gamecube) Nights into dreams (PS2) EXCITE bike (N64. All games taken from previous generations updated to the current standard of graphics. An even more recent example would be Ninja Gaiden(xbox)>Ninja Gaiden Sigma (Ps3). None of these games took a fraction of the time it would supposedly take to develop the ff7 remake and yet most were done by companies working on multiple project simultaneously. There is really no excuse why Square could not make this game in a respectable amount of time based on their resources. However there must be some alterior motive to put this on the back burner, and since this is their intellectual property I have no choice but to respect that decision.

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