Final Fantasy VII Remake

http://au.ign.com/articles/2015/12/07/psx-2015-final-fantasy-7-remake-will-be-a-multi-part-series

If this is true, this would explain how SE had suddenly decided to tackle such a crazy project. People had wondered how in the world they'd be able to recreate the game for modern consoles without sacrificing some content, given how more sophisticated and difficult it is to produce games these days. But splitting the title off may be a way to achieve a full-fledged remake without losing anything.

I doubt it's anything sleazy like "Play half of the Midgar segment in Part One!" or whatever. It'll probably be akin to how the story was split off into separate discs. We'll be getting multiple "full" experiences instead of an insanely gutted single one. It'd be also be prudent to ignore the rabid, irrational, inferior minded fans throwing a shitfit over this announcement right now, as they're exaggerating things and going on about how it'll be done in a Telltales-esque episodic fashion and all that nonsense.

Eevil-Psycho wrote:

Spoiler:

It seems this will work closer to FFXIII's battle system than XV's, but with VII's limit breaks instead of staggering. Can't wait to see how this develops.

http://www.novacrystallis.com/2015/12/snippets-of-new-final-fantasy-vii-remake-info-from-famitsu/

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From the beginning, we have considered it impossible to remake FF7 into one single game.Althought it’s impossible to tell you the details about the splitting at the moment, please wait for our further announcement.

Nomura: If we tried to stuff the whole game into one release, some part of the game would have to appear as digests. We’d have to remove some contents from the game, and it would be difficult to add more to the game. Considering that a full remake of the original game must be achived, we have decided to split the game into episodes.

Kitase: Taking the No.8 street shown in the video this time, even just this is already highly dense. If we are to remake the content of the original version at that quality, it would have been impossible to do with a single release.

Splitting the original version into episode with nothing dropped, as well as adding complements, and remaking the game the game in its full volume is what we are thinking.

I love it when I'm right. Shitfitters be whack, yo.

I warn them. This is modern Square Enix, expect them to change stuff.

I have two theories on this episodic thing

They could do in the fair and logical way where all the parts together will eventually accumulated to a full 60 dollars. If this is case (which is unlikely), then they might have a fair argument for this.

But I expect it in a way where we get 3 or 4 parts 40-60 bucks a pop. Meaning you are getting an incomplete game until you buy all the parts for way over the price of a full game.

It's probably neither of those things. It is more likely that we're getting what's essentially a duology or maybe even a trilogy. Basically splitting the storyline of FFVII into multiple full-length titles, so they can pack in and recreate all the original content instead of making a gutted single release where there would have to be more compromises made so they don't piss away a lot of money and time.

People have been misconstruing things and assuming we're getting some kind of stunted single game that'll slowly be built up in pieces, when it's more likely that it'll be akin to those two .Hack series or Xenosaga, where each installment was more or less a complete game in its own right.

I suspect each disc will be full retail price.

Probably.

SOK wrote:

It's probably neither of those things. It is more likely that we're getting what's essentially a duology or maybe even a trilogy. Basically splitting the storyline of FFVII into multiple full-length titles, so they can pack in and recreate all the original content instead of making a gutted single release where there would have to be more compromises made so they don't piss away a lot of money and time.

People have been misconstruing things and assuming we're getting some kind of stunted single game that'll slowly be built up in pieces, when it's more likely that it'll be akin to those two .Hack series or Xenosaga, where each installment was more or less a complete game in its own right.

Oh yeah, I forgot about .Hack and Xenosaga.

It could like that too, but we'll have to see.

Also I remember didn't FFIV After Years did this type of episodic nature?

No. That was just bits and pieces from what I understand, not a full blown Xenosaga situation.

I'm perfectly fine with it being a multiple part series, I expected the worst when I first heard episodic, but reading up on it it does seem like it would be for the better. Especially if they're adding areas that weren't in the original.

I do hope the wait in between episodes won't be too long though.

Depending how full of an experience each installment will be, I can imagine a wait that's far longer than just a few months, but it probably won't be anything too excruciating either. We won't be seeing, like, 5 years in-between each one or something. It'll be like waiting for a sequel that was already in early production while the first game was being made.

I see a 6 month to a year gap between each game. They will be using te same assets for the most part so they wont take the piss.

It'll probably be a little bit longer than that.

What makes the overall scope of the remake so huge is how they have to recreate ALL of those places we saw in the original game. There's very little copy and pasting involved with the assets when it comes to the actual settings, which is one of the conveniences that open-world RPGs and the like could take advantage of when making villages, cities, forests, dungeons, and so on. Not that I'm saying the likes of Witcher III, Fallout 4 and such were pieces of cake to do, since they have their own different sorts of complicated and time consuming bullcrap to overcome (in some ways, they're even crazier to develop), but they've managed to make their vision more feasible for singular titles, as well as probably having more manpower and money put into it all.

With FFVIIR, part of what makes it such a big project is how they're stuck recreating many, many locations that have to remain faithful to how they were depicted in all those pre-rendered backgrounds. They aren't just generic village/dungeon/building 1, 2, 3, and so on. Almost every place had some individuality and unique structures to them. Not to mention all the mini-games and other varied gameplay elements that they have to recreate as well. It's somewhat of a hellish project, and various SE employees were probably crying themselves to sleep at night, thinking of the daunting task ahead when they all started.

Meanwhile the fanbase continues to bitch about things they don't understand, act all self-entitled, and make stupid ass comparisons to other massive games, disregarding the level of difficulty that separates FFVIIR's production from others. It must be absolute ass to endure so much whining and irrational horseshit from these inferior minded idiots that call themselves fans, knowing full well that what they're doing is best for the remake if they want to reproduce everything and not make any cuts.

You can argue anything with facs and logic.

True followers of FF7 will use conjecture and what some random posted.

This fanbase are sick.