This pretty much summed up my thoughts. It doesn't sound that bad, but it also sounds like it's gonna take immensely long time. This is a huge task, no wonder really that they waited so long with doing this.

I have a strong feeling that they will use the expanded town areas and the like as an excuse to cut out the world map. Like I said in one of the other threads, nowhere has it been indicated what the intended length of each episode will be, and I've also explained that file size does not correspond with length of content. It is far more likely that each episode will net about 10 - 15 hours of content.

I think each episode is going to be a "disc" like in the original...

If they release portions on a streamed way it's okay... this way they can use the full team for a longer time cycling on the parts. But it certainly is a way to monetize... just hope they don't overcharge on it, but anyway I'll wait for a compilation.

Oh god, it's like all these teen movies being cut into two halves, because one film 'just couldn't contain all the plotpoints of the books' and then you get two insanely padded, boring movies. But hey, it rakes the cash in right?

I see seven ground zeroes sized, full price releases personally....ok, I'm being overly sarcastic, but it does sound as if they are splitting the game into multiple full price releases. It might be necessary to cover the costs, but it still reeks of cash grab to me somehow.

At least for areas and history involved that is a reasonable expectation.

And the funniest part is that Squaresoft was the company that shafted N64 because the lack of CDs couldn't contain the full experience and grandness of the game... and now they complain the game is too big to be make =]

They totally killed my hope for a FF IX... would love to see it remade.

So the episodic format can actually be pretty cool, just not what people expected or necessarily wanted.

I think providing room to really expand upon the narrative explore places like Midgar in way the structure of the previous game simply didn't allow will really seperate this from a tradional remake and give it more value IMO. Of course if they could fit all of that into one game then cool, but i personally don't think we'd see it finished before 2020 if they took that approach.

I hope each part of the experience is at least 25hrs of core narrative. 40+ hours with sidequests and what not. My only other things is that they must not go beyond a Trilogy. They still shouldn't keep everything in the game, but that parts that they do keep, they should go above and beyond when bringing it to life.

part 1-Fall 2017
part- Spring 2019
part 3-Fall 2020

The multi release is not really surprising me, ff 7 it's a huge game, and remake the game means a big effort and many time. So making more parts an not waiting years like at ff xv, is not so bad. That they are making more money with this is naturally another point...for the gamers it means paying more times...

If this is like FFXIII, then that would mean each episode is a full retail priced game :/