Why FFVII Remake Should Keep Turn-Based Battles

[OdinHades]

The Fury said:
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I'm pretty sure many people who love to be able to make games. You do not have to know how to programme in order to recognise what you would like in a game series over 20 years old.

This anaolgy you put forward is odd though. Let's say someone is told in an art class 'Reproduce Sunflowers by Van Gogh'. What they do is reproduce Sunflowers by Van Gogh, like they were asked. If the person asking them then says "Why didn't you change it?" The artist would be confused as that's not what they asked of them. People commission artist to do all sorts of work and expect it to fit a certain criteria and while in this case we as fans are not commissioning it, it's up to the developers to change it as they see fit but the produced product will still be Sunflowers... right?

Or will it be Self Portrait with Grilled Bacon by Dali when we expect Sunflowers by Gogh?

 

 

... I know what I'm on about. Change the battle system, different game, it's the main gameplay after all.

Reproducing something isn't art and you don't need an artist to do it. I know there are many many artist who are hired to do special tasks, as an author I am one of them myself. But even when I'm wrtiting for some advertisement or stuff like that, it gets better the more freedom I get. If someone says to me: "Write a script for an ad for my coffee!" I am free to think about whole concepts and can really let my fantasy come to work. If that person however says "Make an ad about my coffee with a happy family at the breakfast table and be sure my company logo is all over the place" I am pretty restricted in what I can do. The result is then for the most part some generic ad that you have seen countless times before. I did my job, I got my money, but it wasn't fun and nobody will remember it in the future. It's garbage. Gosh, I really hope I can release a book rather sooner than later. 

Anyway, now let's imagine Square-Enix tells the crew for FF7R EXACTLY what to do. Do this, do that, change nothing, just improve the graphics. The artists would be bored to hell, they wouldn't have fun working at something like that, they can't bring their own ideas in. I can't imagine a game becoming good if the developers can't put heart and passion into it. I guess it could work if you don't hire any artist but only dem technical folks who pump up the graphics. But really, that sounds boring to me.