The Inevitable Final Fantasy VII Remake Will Be Terrible

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shinsa said:

blaydcor said:

...almost without a doubt.

What makes the original such a great, more-or-less timeless game are a number of things that are often overlooked by the game's more juvenile fans. The atmosphere. The characters (and I don't mean their appearance). The story. The groundbreaking level of immersion it offered at the time. Final Fantasy VII sucked gamers into its world; it was transporting in a way that very few games are these days. It had a unique, compelling identity, one that was in large part due to the all of the ambitious creativity poured into the game. 

I can already tell you what the remake will focus on.

Flashily redesigned characters. Incredibly complex and overwrought limits and summons. An elaborate, complicated, and only sort-of fun new battle system. Long, drawn out, overly epic cut scenes. Heavy metal-edged remixes of all the harder music, too ambitiously orchestrated versions of everything else. Dialogue filled with cliches and stupid b-movie quality one-liners.

It will be a technical marvel, and the juvenile "Cloud is so badass! Sephiroth is the man!" fans will of course be delighted by the no-doubt absurdly over-the-top fight scenes will get...but the magic will be gone, because this won't be a game driven by creativity and vision. It will be driven by a market-propelled need to be flashy, cool, and 'bad ass'. 

I'm not just saying this out of blind pessimism; this is, quite the simply, the type of remake that will sell the most in today's market. Just look at Advent Children: it literally retained nothing of what made the original game great; the characters were hollow shells of their game counterparts. 

Square Enix has demonstrated repeatedly in recent games that it has lost sight of what so endeared gamers to their games in the first place. With a game as high profile and guaranteed-blockbuster as a Final Fantasy VII remake, this is going to be reflected more than ever.

so what your saying is that you dont want to game to be remastered and to pregress and be something better???

 

- like you dont want orchestrated remastered music....therefore wanting the old...which wont do, they are outdated.

- not a cutscene guy eh...i love them and i think its  a really big set back for cinematgraphy in a game if they dont have them.

- you dont want something new to be implemented in the gameplay...therefore playing the same old game. they have to add something new but something that will mesh into the old style of game to make it up to date but yet something that still makes it feel like the old. if there's nothing new about the game. then why make a remake? just to update the graphics? now that would be stupid.

- i do agree they need to work on the script, alot of games have very very poor scripting specially when translating jap to eng game.

- i dont think they will be redesigning the character but rather fix flaws within the designs so that it can work.

- whats wrong with the metal remixes? you want some rap crap or hip hop of just the out dated music from ff7. the music is iconic but its outdated.

 

its sad but it is true, thats how media is. they must sell out in order to be succesfull just look at the wii!

i do agree again that alot of teens/nerds get blinded by the overly cheesy epic or badass idea of things and that games need to move foward in terms of its atmosphare and story.

you see i do agree with you in some asspects but in order to even create an updated verson of the game it needs some essentials but since games cost so much to develop they need to sell out.

IDK, J-E-N-O-V-A can't be messed with: