Hoppin on the bandwagon...

Guero · Post by **Guero** » Tue May 17, 2005 3:01 am

I was one of those guys who felt that Square has milked FF7 pretty much as far as anything can be milked. I feel that Advent Children was enough and we didn't need anymore. I was also definitely against a remake but Square has recently showed off a Tech demo for the PS3 featuring the entire opening of FF7 in PS3 graphics. Supposedly these are real time and if that's the truth, I'm gonna have to join the others in saying I wanna see a remake!!!!!!!!!

Video here

http://www.gamespot.com/ps3/rpg/finalfa ... 051605.asx

Henchman #2 · Post by **Henchman #2** » Tue May 17, 2005 3:21 am

Damn... though part of me says I shouldn't be happy about this.

Doom · Post by **Doom** » Tue May 17, 2005 3:28 am

late late late!

but still good

tifa V, basically

Henchman #2 · Post by **Henchman #2** » Tue May 17, 2005 4:00 am

Doom wrote:tifa

I just realized why I should be happy. :>

Doom · Post by **Doom** » Tue May 17, 2005 5:20 am

i couldn't even fully follow her movements, so i opened it up in virtualdub and walked through that scene frame by frame. good stuff

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Tue May 17, 2005 9:12 am

That looks pretty and all (if not as impressive as I remember the FMV being at the time of VII's release) but I wish people would quit with the GIMME FF7 REMAKE stuff $:\$
I'm sure Square-Enix have noted this general desire and will be working on it, as soon as they've drained all your money with the stuff you don't want.

Entr0pi3 · Post by **Entr0pi3** » Tue May 17, 2005 9:49 am

Oh shit, now I find myself thinking a remake wouldn't be such a bad idea after all

But Cloud's face look weird at the end of that demo. Kinda like he is missing eyebrows or eyelashes or something around the eyes.

Plaztik · Post by **Plaztik** » Tue May 17, 2005 9:58 am

"SquareEnix has no plans on remaking FFVII for the PS3 *puppysmile* "

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Tue May 17, 2005 10:22 am

So it's an Xbox 360 project then?

fire2ash · Post by **fire2ash** » Tue May 17, 2005 10:29 am

No, there is just no "plans" yet. Although I think eventually, they will realize how dumb they are for milking the franchise with things no one wants, and perhaps come to their senses. Or they will take their "failure" in milking it as a reason NOT to make the remake, which would make me loose more hope in them. Lets just hope FFXII makes them tons of money, as well as AC, and hope for the best of the company.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Tue May 17, 2005 10:37 am

The thing is, Square aren't stupid. They know what people want and they know how much money they'll make from it.

BUT, they also know the longer they hold out for, the more people will want it, the better it will be, and most importantly, the more money they can make from the spinoffs.
Once the remake is announced, who'll still be as excited about Dirge of Cerberus?

Square-Enix are playing it safe and have a strategy.
i don't doubt there's a FFVII remake in the pipeline, we'll just have to wait patiently and lap up what comes before it.

fire2ash · Post by **fire2ash** » Tue May 17, 2005 10:40 am

By god you are right. I hope that the FFVII spin offs are at LEAST good, if they are, we can expect alot of new fans (including AC) to be produced, and their appetites thoroughly wetted for a ffvii remake. Even if they never played FFVII, if the remake is faithful and a "next gen" incarnaton in every way possible to the original, then they could make alot of money of the simple "wowness" factor. Imagine them making another commercial (just like the first FFVII commercial) with mindblowing graphics, and cinematic appeal. Oooo, I'm spoogin.

Of course, I think they would have to bring alot of "new" things to the table, and re-inspire the RPG genere, as it seems to be dying (man i miss the ps1 days). Although some might say it is against tradition to make a remake (I would hardly call the ps1 incarnations remakes, save the CG), it was also against tradition to make a sequel. But look where thats gone, oh well I remain hopeful.

Plaztik · Post by **Plaztik** » Tue May 17, 2005 11:58 am

I just hope that if the remake will actually happen, it can grasp the same magic FFVII had...you know...look and feel is what matters most for me...

if it doesn't breath FFVII, it's not FFVII

Guero · Post by **Guero** » Wed May 18, 2005 2:18 am

Plaztik wrote:"SquareEnix has no plans on remaking FFVII for the PS3 *puppysmile* "

Wasn't that how Advent Children started out? Just a tech demo for something?

livewire · Post by **livewire** » Wed May 18, 2005 6:13 pm

I think it was. Or a movie short of some type.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Wed May 18, 2005 6:18 pm

And look what it's evolved into...

A series of movie shorts

Jeff 2G6 · Post by **Jeff 2G6** » Wed May 18, 2005 8:05 pm

Square Enix needs to fucking die.

fire2ash · Post by **fire2ash** » Thu May 19, 2005 9:19 am

Damien wrote:And look what it's evolved into...

A series of movie shorts

rofl

I saw one of the fight scenes on G4 from E3 earlier today...Freakin' amazing. I'm never going to stop spoogin for more crazy hair style battlin' n' rattlin'

Helmholz · Post by **Helmholz** » Thu May 19, 2005 9:31 am

You know, I don't think I mind Squaresoft selling out.

Slashley · Post by **Slashley** » Thu May 19, 2005 9:46 am

If SE remakes FFVII it would be like admitting that it's their best game

The "remakes" of FFV and so on are like crappy conversions

So I doubt it's happening

fire2ash · Post by **fire2ash** » Fri May 20, 2005 10:01 am

Yeah

If they didn't loose so much money off movies like FF:SW and reputation from milking franchises, there would probably be a possibility out of mercy. But now..with new expensive hardware, maybe in about 2 years.

keinenamen · Post by **keinenamen** » Mon May 23, 2005 3:25 pm

I say remake it - throwing it back into the limelight might make someone, somewhere realise that, overall, it's a bit... well... a bit rubbish really.

If there's even a slender chance of it stopping all those sites that say "FF7 IS TEH BETS GAME EVAR!!!!" then I'm all for it, basically.

Guero · Post by **Guero** » Wed May 25, 2005 9:25 pm

I'm one of those people. I think it's my favorite because of the story. The gamelplay wasn't anything great but the story just kept me going. It was the first full FF I had ever played. I had played other FFs at my friend's house when I was younger but never took interest in them. I don't know if it really is my favorite game of all time but it's definitely up there. That might belong to Civilization 2, I don't know, it's hard to say.

fire2ash · Post by **fire2ash** » Thu May 26, 2005 9:43 am

It was also kind of the first of its kind. First of its generation (ps), and started a whole new trend of RPG's on the playstation. Like Guero said, the story was intruiging, and at the time, the graphics, and its environments were immersive. It felt like you were in a whole different world.

As for games that beat it in terms of my favorites: Xenogears as at the top, then comes a tie between Chrono Cross and Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy 7 would be my third. Then comes Tactics, and Lunar SSS

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Thu Jul 22, 2021 12:31 am

This thread is 8 years after FFVII came out and 15 years before FFVII Remake came out

cloud33 · Post by **cloud33** » Tue Aug 03, 2021 4:12 pm

I don’t get the love for FFVII it’s to sci-fi and dark bring back this old video game and bring the more serious tone to its plot. Plz by making a sequel that would hopefully get a better rating than FFVII it could set up a series like the great games of old. That is IF Square decides to do another game in the series like a remake, like FFV III or VIII with its legendary story, and game play. An epic story featuring one of the best looking video game environments ever? Now that would be something.

Tell us your thoughts on FFVII and it’s remake.