Look at it this way, jumping into disk 3 of FFVII without playing the first two disks would be odd. It wouldn't work.  Same with Star Wars... watching jedi without background wouldnt work.  hence the term episodes. Because the first pieces are required to understand the latter pieces.

Uncharted 2 doesn't require uncharted 1 to understand 99% of the story.

Do you buy the full game once and then get parts of it every few months until it is done, or maybe get them episode per episode for a few bucks every time an episode lands, with the complete thing being a 20-30 hour experience, or do you buy a 50-60 hours game once every year or two?

Regardless of how they name such game, what makes it episodic or not is the way it is distributed. One is a single game separated into bite size parts every few months, which can often be bought at once as a season, while the other is a full game bought once for the whole thing, with subsequent parts of the same story not being delivered as bite size episodes, but as full sequels.

The fact that the original game wasn’t like that has no bearing in this. The remake is adding a lot of stuff that weren’t in the original either.

In any case, I know you understand full well what an episodic game is, yet you seem hellbent on arguing over this. Why?

I don't worry about game length to be honest. Quality trumps quantity. Game length is a worthless measure.

And the remake is episodes. I'm not arguing but rather laughing at the sensitivity of others.

Again, episodes aren't a bad thing. Star Wars is amazing, despite being episodes.

All episodes mean is watching (or playing) the first pieces are largely required to understand the full picture.  Nothing more.  Length doesn't play a role.  Playing disk 3 of FFVII without playing the earlier content would be stupid.

Ok, by continually dismissing/not addressing what is referred to as episodic games in the current industry, you clearly show that you want to argue for arguing sake. I’d say that’s as laughable (if not more-so) as what you consider other people’s sensitivity.

Lol, ok.

Yakuza 6 doesn't need any of the other 6 before it for you to understand that game. But they put a summary of all the others for you to recap or at least have better ambience.

So if they make 3 full titles of FFVII with each being fully understandable within itself and with recaps to tie down all would have what you want.

After you play the remake them your conclusions may be right. You are coming from what you played to say it can't be done while you would need to see what was done to determine if it's possible to understand any of them alone.

I don't get all the negativity surrounding episodes either. I personally don't like it because I want to continue playing the game from begging to end. Which is why I'm just going to wait for all the episodes to come out and boom problem solved.

I'm not gonna be playing this game.

I'm a huge fan of the series up until X. But I really hate western RPGs and "Battle System" of these western games that SE is trying to go after. For instance, I don't only think Final Fantasy XII is a terrible FF game. It's one of the worst, least fun games of all time.

I've had more fun with Tomb Raider AoD, which was a buggy mess but still satisfying. FFXII, XIII, XIV and all those with a Western RPG "Battle" System have been absolute garbage, and I will never buy one of these games again. I want a Final Fantasy VII Remake that plays like the classic. As it is, I have zero interest in this awful westernized remake.

By westernized, you obviously mean real-time. A shallow way to look at japanese JRPG games, considering real-time action RPGs existed long before the games you mentioned (the Mana and the Tales of series for example) and as far as I know, no other game had a battle system like the gambit system from FF XII when it came out, so it’s hardly a “westernized” battle system.

Final Fantasy XIII is definitely not a western style battle system lol. You should go back and look at the game, it's basically turn based battles.