Why won't this rumor die already? If S-E doesn't say it, then it's not happening. It's that simple.
FF7 wasn't that good in the first place, anyway. It has the same exact gameplay as FF4, a game made on hardware years older than the PSX - meaning it's boring as all heck. You press the X button on a menu to attack, you sometimes use healing spells, and you gain levels. Oh, and there's customization - except you have a driving incentive to make all of your characters the same, since there's a handful of excellent materia and a huge pool of mediocre-to-poor ones. Wow. Exciting.
Most people just love it because of childhood nostalgia. There's been many innovations, both graphically and gameplay-wise, in RPGs since FF7 was released. Nowadays, it's nothing more than an interesting look at where the genre was 10 years ago - and how much it has progressed since then.
"'Casual games' are something the 'Game Industry' invented to explain away the Wii success instead of actually listening or looking at what Nintendo did. There is no 'casual strategy' from Nintendo. 'Accessible strategy', yes, but ‘casual gamers’ is just the 'Game Industry''s polite way of saying what they feel: 'retarded gamers'."
-Sean Malstrom
