Why is so important a remake of Final Fantasy VII?

[Kenryoku_Maxis]

MrT-Tar said:

Kenryoku_Maxis said:

I already posted all my reasons in another FFVII thread.  Suffice to say, FFVII is a game that both hasn't aged well and has many plot/character holes that can be fixed.  Even the creators have admitted this and said that's why they made Advent Children and Crisis Core.  The latter in my opinion being 10x better than the actual FFVII.

As much as I'm not a fan of FFVII, if they could remake, and fix everything, I'd probably be a bigger fan of it.  If they do like they did with the FFIV remake on DS....I seriously say just skip remaking it.  If you could even call FFIV DS a remake....

What was your problem with FFIV DS?  I loved it

How was it not  a remake: It updated the graphics to relatively high poly 3d models and backgrounds, added in real time cutscenes with good voice acting, included new game plus, introduced an augment system which really came in useful, upped the difficulty therefore making more fun and appealing to me, added several minigames (Kain's was my favourite), the music was updated with better MIDIs with IMO most tunes sounding better (the battle theme and King Giott are exeptions), featured battles over two screens leaving the top screen just for battle cinematics.

My only compaint was that it missed out some of the bonus dungeons from FFIV Advance.

Because two of the four things you mentioned were just graphixal updates.  As for the increased difficulty, that was just the same difficulty as the original Japanese SNES version.  And frankly, the game had a lot of limited and/or cheap difficulty that could have been improved with a new game engine.  Instead it was just a duplication of the original Japanese SNES version with improved graphics.

Compare this to something like the Dragon Quest DS remakes, which not only improved the graphics but added more items and skills to battle and balanced the experience gained each battle to remove grinding.  If FFIV DS had done anything like this, I wouldn't have had a problem.  Hell, if it had just improved bosses, it would have been better.  How am I suppose to know I have to steal from Rubacante to stop him from casting magic or that the CPU boss would have a OHKO move for my party?