I'm not overly excited. I don't like the idea of episodes and the required space for the full game worries. I will admit it looks really good thus far. But when will the entire game be available?

Me too...

It is a full game. Describing it as "Episodic" was/is a mistake. It's a multi-game series. Mass Effect isn't episodic, and neither is this.

Except FFVII was a singular game and now is being broken up into pieces, e.g. episodes.  Midgar wasn't originally a full game but is now 30 hours.

Regardless I don't like it. FFVII isn't a 200 hour game.  I'm concerned about what extra content is being added.  Additionally, given how long episode 1 is taking, I worry about how long the other episodes will take.  Especially with the ps5 possibly launching 2020.  

ME was released as 1 game, due to it's success it's spawned 2 sequels. If it sold poorly and was not well received it wouldn't have had those 2 sequels. FF7 is already out, we know the story and we've played the game. This is that story in 3 parts. Sadly, no matter how many people try and spin it, it's episodic.

At least you used a good example mind you, people using FF13 as an example just make me laugh, can you imagine if FF7R part 2 sold 50% of Part 1? It would be considered an utter disaster.

You don't seem to understand the difference between "episodic" and "parts"

Is the matrix trilogy episodic to you as well? How about the Avengers movies?

Parts vs episodes is a semantic argument. Regardless a game that was 40 hours in a single offering is being split into multiple 40 hour offerings. That concerns me.

Resident Evil 2 and Wind Waker are remakes done properly.  Time will tell on VII.

"Episodic" while not necessarily wrong by definition associates it with the more commonly referred to "Episodic" games, Walking Dead, Resident Evil Revelations 2, Life is Strange. Comparing FFVII Remake to being just an "Episode" when it is completely incomparable to these "Episodes" could be misleading. Typically each episode of an episodic game is around 2 hours long. FFVII Remake will be longer than an entire season of your usual episodic game.

I think the connotations people take from calling the game episodic is the issue. Star Wars is episodic, is it any lesser because of it? If Square had said it was going to be a trilogy, rather than it was going to be "episodic" I think the reaction wouldn't have been the same as it is.

Episodic/Parts are the same thing here, it's still taking a game that was 1 game and splitting it up. Hobbit was 1 book split into 3 films (parts/episodes) for the cinema. Matrix was 1 film with 2 sequels because of the firsts success. Avengers are stand alone films in an on going 'saga', more series I'd say there, tied in with spinoffs. :P 

Do people call Toy Story films one story? It's 4 movies each individual stories with conclusions just with the same characters. Now if they remade the first Toy Story but instead of 1 film it was 3 drawn out ones, then maybe we would be on to something.

I think I and many others use episodic because that was the term news media used at the start. Parts is the better correct term but that doesn't mean it's any real different as it is still taking a single game and splitting it into parts (or episodes as we know the story). This isn't like other trilogies where it's one game which through success spawns 2 sequels of varying success, it was 1 game 23 years ago which now is being divided up for (what many fans feel) is cash.

Episodic games are usually 1 story over many parts to form a complete game. This is the same, 1 story over many parts to form a complete game. Do people think the gameplay will change like it did with ME series or Dragon Age or even FF13 and it's 2 sequels? Not really the same game if it does.