I am going to be honest, I spent more hours playing Blitz Ball in FFX than doing anything else. Everyone on my team (except my goalie, because he never got to do anything) were an incredibly high level. Luckily, the players I recruited were locked into their cheap contracts too! I had a guy named Rop who was just phenomenal.
Great idea Square- remake the good RPGs before you ruined them with WOW mechanics.
Bad idea Square- should have started with Cloud's Tale.
It's not a remake, it's a remaster. No one ever seems to understand this.
Trying to remake FF7 would take so much it's almost not worth it.
The problem with remaking FF7 is that all the nostalgia glasses wearing people who praise it would be horrified in just how mediocre it actually was. Very few people who had experienced RPGs (especially FFs) prior to 7s release found it so amazing.
What is the difference?
A remade FF7 would sell like 10 million PS4s by itself. I don't see how that isn't worth the development cost. Would be cheaper than a new game but sell much better.
What is the difference?
One is just a straight port .exe with the original 4 GB of assets. The other has 25-50 GB of assets.
My understanding is that this X Remaster has new textures and maps. It sounds to me like someone that puts together a HD texture pack for a N64 game. What is the line between new textures and a complete redo? Replacing the engine underneath? Re-rendering the FMV? Heck I would take a 'remastered" FF7 if that is all we can get.
And yes, I know FF7 is not the greatest RPG ever. I would be like 4 or 5 for me.
BUT some of the plot elements were pretty revolutionary at the time (a main character dying, an unreliable narrator, etc.). Plus, lets be honest, any remake would add a little extra that would make it worth a replay. Square always does that with FF updates to new platforms.
Heck if they added in the long fabled resurrection of Aerith at the end of the game then we are talking about the greatest selling PS4 game of all time. Nostalgia is a strong motivator, and retrogaming is a big thing right now. FF7 was Square's peak, heck it killed the N64, why not remind people how important they once were?
Ok given what you said I want a remake not a remaster if done. I would expect a PS4 FF7 re-release would have redone FMV, character models, etc. Unless they did it more low-key (like an Android/iOS release), then I would be happy with the PC version's look plus the PS1 version 's sound. That would be more than enough actually, I hate that the best version of FF7 comes from an emulator.
Of course what I actually want is a new JRPG at the classic Square level of quality but that corpse is dead dead. Will just have to replay Crystal Chronicles and dream...
Although, you then have to ask... what would a remake do? Would it change everything around completely? You know... get rid of the pre-rendered backgrounds for 3D worlds similar to FFXIII? Or would they use higher-resolution backgrounds that are similar to the original to keep the same aesthetic? I could definitely see the character models and FMVs being updated, but if I had one thing I could directly affect, I would hope that (unlike FFX), they leave the music alone. You do not mess with Uematsu's work!
Xenogears was a pretty awesome game. I loved its minigame too, played it 2 player with my sister a lot.
I would hope they would use pre-rendered backgrounds again. More complex models everywhere, completely redone FMV, and some new stuff at the end, but the same music and battle style.
And I completely get that JRPGs are dead. My big thing recently is even with a decent level of dedication I never played all the bigs ones during their prime (especially non-Square ones), so there is more for me to play in my past than in gaming's future.
So how about that Final Fantasy X? :\
So how about that Final Fantasy X? :\
You know I have the CE on the way.
I really sucks that JRPGs have waned in popularity. With the advancing technology and media size, we could really get some massively epic JRPGs. Sadly, everyone would rather play Skyrim than Wild Arms.
So how about that Final Fantasy X? :\