In response to your previous post. I disagree. Auto-attack was all i needed. Heal paradigm and tank paradigm. Got through everything until the last open area in the big planet where i finally gave up out of boredom. I had fallen asleep twice while playing it.

Now, as for your point on the post i'm quoting and other people i have to say you have completely backwards. Do you find FF7 boring? If you do, the you probably aren't one of the people that clamored for a remake for years and years. The new FF is FFXV. FF7 is a classic game that has its loyal fanbase.  

This game should be aimed at the people who love it. It should be as much as possible the same game taking advantage of new sound and graphics technology, maybe even voice acting. But to completely make it a game in the line of FFXIII and FFXV is to disrespect its legacy. Regardless of how you feel about turn-based, turn-based is what this game is. To make it ARPG is to no longer be making a remake of FF7.

It's really just because most games of the genre never dropped the stupid archaic shit that make JRPGs hard to enjoy for most people. Random Encounters be damned. It also could be because gaming has grown quite a bit, and now people find the premise of taking turns to attack is, well, fucking stupid, from a "sense" aspect in a game's world, I mean, or maybe because most people like to feel like they're actually playing instead of patiently scrolling through menus, who really knows, but one thing it's for certain, those guys are right, Turn-Based is a thing of the past unless something happens that revolutionizes the game mechanic and makes it fun to people that don't love it already.

Random encounters =/= turn based. Anyway an action game is not a substitute for a strategy game. I don't often hear people say chess is so archaic we should play football instead, for example. 

Appealing to people who aren't fans of a certain playstyle has the issue of possibly alienating those who enjoyed said playstyle. Both turnbased and real time RPGs have their niches to target even today .

Personally I found (SMRPG>)FFX>FFX-2>FFXII>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>FFXIII

Didn't enjoy it a bit.  

I can't disagree more about the sentiment that turn based being archaic.  Some implementations of it might be archaic, but as a whole, and personally I find it more enjoyable than a lot of other gameplay mechanics.  The notion that it's outdated is like saying board games are outdated, or movies are outdated.  Look at the Last of Us, look at the new gen, we don't need movies anymore!  We can do that in real time now.  

The reality is that those are different experiences, but they aren't bad.  They might not be your preference, and black and white movies for the most part might be outdated, but they can still use black and white as a theme to accent the movie.  Which people might very well love to see a brand new black and white movie.  

ARPG is definitely not what I want to see.  I certainly find those types of games enjoyable, but it's not what most people have been asking for all these years, it's not what I've been looking forward to.  

I think both sides are being too dramatic.  

It could be a good improvement, but like I said turn based isn't archaic.  

I think FFVII should get some changes made to be a better game, but not a different game I guess.  

Dramatic changes, we just don't know what he has in mind.  Personally I want it to be a change that still makes it absolutely feel like Final Fantasy VII, rather than "they made a new Final Fantasy game, with the same characters as the 7th game."

No matter what they do, it's going to be a Final Fantasy game, there's a lot of variance in the series for gameplay.  

Actually what I wouldn't mind is someone attempting to try to make game modes for both.  Have the vast majority of the core game be a certain set, with two different sets of gameplay.  One that has the dramatic changes, and maybe one that doesn't.  That sounds silly, to be honest though.  

I want it to be improved.  Not different.  

It's complicated.  

I don't want something completely brand new, I want something that keeps the core of the original and builds on it.