Ahh that reminds me of the Bike chase minigame. Imagine that in HD and with more beautiful effects!!!! Droool....

When I think about it, there was a lot of weird stuff in FF VII like honey bee manor, Johnny, don corneo, the whole of Gold Saucer (pretty much). And you know, most of those things are what gave it the fantastic feeling of life it had. Yes, I thought the main story was brilliant too, but all the little things just added up to make it such a well-rounded, fleshed out game.

Sad. But I think Badgegnome is right. FF VII remake is a last resort for when Squeenix really screw the pooch in grander-than-FF XIV-failure.

I chuckled. I get what you're saying as i absolutely hated FFXIII.

If that is the price, i would rather SE didnt remake FF7 at all.

It looks downright terrible by todays standards, final fantasy 9 holds up well though.

@ 007BondAgent,

Did you finally play final fantasy 9? You were wondering if you would buy it a week ago from PSN i remember. Does your comment mean you did? It is my favorite one, with 7 and 8 being real close contenders. I thought it was weird you were asking by the way, i mean your avatar is from that game lol!

The only thing that's really bad are the blocky models when you walk around the map. The in battle models are perfectly fine. Also, I don't care all that much about how it looks, it's how it plays that makes it a kick ass game.

Weather people like it or not, it doesn't make sense. In WRPG games, you spend points on what your character is getting better at, which is why it's called experience points, and then the effects apply after you have done that. But a Sphere Grid or a Chrystarium doesn't symbolize anything, It's just there to make the same system look flashier and make it more complicated for the sake of it.

EDIT: Same with the battle system, they make it different, just for the sake of making it different, thus disconnecting it from the content of the game and making it more and more abstract.

Wether it is simple and easy, or awesome to anybody wasn't my point :P

Paradigm shits aren't representative of anything that happens in a combat. Neither are crystariums representative of how people gain experience. When I say "doesn't make sense" I don't mean that I don't understand them, I mean that they just do abstraction, and gameplay gimmicks like paradigm shifts just because they want everything to be more flashy, abstract, and complex, and different from what was before. It doesn't make sense for representing the content or anything like that, unlike say WRPG's like Oblivion where you put points into what your character gets better at though experience.

(on a totally unrelated note, that's something I love about oblivion, when you do something, you get better at what you do, just like in real life, it adds so much to the suspension of disbelief and immersion /rambling over)

I care more about variations in the content than in the gameplay. But anyway, in FFVI and VII they at least had some lore behind their systems, IE Materia and Magicite (which is made from those poor dead vespers ;_;) . I don't demand much in terms of lore explanations, but it just kills it for me when the gameplay system is totally disconnected from the content.

This is a really old article isnt it? I remember reading this like a year ago...