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Originally Posted by Seph
You just listed some of the very reasons it should be remade. There is no denying it is hugely popular and would sell a trillion copies regardless of its downfalls. So imagine it, FF7 remade, but harder, as in FF6- HardType. The apocalyptic setting would be way more involving and believable with current graphics and sound technologies. They could also use some of the stroy-telling techniques of other great RPGs released since then to make the characters more believeable and easier to relate to. It also gives them a chance to add in extra-content to fill in holes in the backstory of the compilation.
A remake of FF7 gives SE a chance to make an already amazing game (to millions of people, anyways) better and to show what it could have been.
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Casablanca was one of the best movies ever made. Let's redo it, in color, with new actors and modern camera tricks and CGI special effects and...
Goddammit.
How about instead of investing effort and rebooting FFVII thirty billion times, they try to make one of the
new ones not suck total ass? Everything Final Fantasy as of late has utterly reeked of laziness: reused settings, reused plots, reused everything. They're already planning on milking FFXIII dryer than they did FFVII.
First off, they wouldn't make it harder. I can guaranfuckingtee that. You know why? Because like, 35% (and that's being generous) of its fanbase don't even fucking play RPGs. They're hype train fankids that understand two things: FF7 IS TOTALLY SWEET and SEPHIROTH IS THE EVIL ;AJ;FJ;AJ;F. How do I know?
I went to school with these people. I live with one of these people. FFVII has a self perpetuating fanbase of retards, partially stemming from easy the game is. People who never played the game saw the movie, bought the figures, have the posters, etc., etc. And if they remade the game with some legitimate level of difficulty, those fans would piss and moan about it.
Let's take my Casablanca example. If the game's so fucking good, why does it need to be redone? If the plot's so damn amazing, why does it need sequels / prequels / etc? There's a laundry list of damn fantastic games that kept rolling on with their respective series', and didn't think twice about the characters from the games that got them famous. You know how many Earthbound games Ness is in? One. Just motherfucking one. Chrono Trigger? Never got remade, never got a movie. The sequel only concerns it in the least legitimate sense possible, at the last possible moment. ...And it sucked. Chrono Trigger got ported to PS, and that was about it. So what the fuck's so amazing about FFVII? Not a damn thing. It's getting milked for merchandising because it sprung up at the beginning of a market ideal for such. It was a solid game in the right place at the right time, let it fucking die.
Let's talk about the
wrong time real quick. Why fill in the holes in the FFVII backstory (God knows we need
more explaination, right? Games about Zack and the Turks and Avalanche and all that other bullshit's
just not enough), when there's games that are actually good that
didn't get finished? SaGa Frontier was an incredible game that met its memory constraints on the Playstation, and like Final Fantasy, the SaGa games don't tie into each other. The fanbase for SaGa Frontier is almost rabidly occult, and Japan went so far as to have established plot guides and artbooks to help fill in some of the blanks to the overarcing and, quite frankly,
massive plot that unlike FFVII, didn't come to totally hinge one
one angsty blonde kid. Why not go back and redo it, since as
it was too damn awesome for the time that it existed in.
What about Parasite Eve? Despite being an absolutely breathtaking and epic game, it was forced into poor sales by its competition at time of release:
Final Fantasy VII. Poor sales were misinterpreted as poor game design, despite the fact that PE's battle system was a console and a half ahead of FFVII's, and weapons / armor featured a level of customization FFVII can only pretend it had; PE's sequel was almost in name-only, and was essentially another Resident Evil knockoff. It's getting a cellphone game at some point in the future. ...That's about it. Why not use the slightly void RPG market of the moment to revive a franchise from its inopportune start? Why not give PE the fair chance it needed to build a real, mainstream fanbase?
I could do this all fucking day. There's RPGs all over the place that already had solid plots and believable characters and all that other shit that got screwed over by weird market timing. All you're doing by milking FFVII to death is soiling its legacy. It was an alright game that rolled in at the right time; let's not push our luck here.