Originally Posted by chionos
Actually Aeris, i'm one of the biggest ffvi fans there is, and I'd love to see an action game based on my favorite game of all time. A game based around edgar, double-fisting fully automatic cross-bows. OH yeah, that'd be killer.
The reason Square has lasted so long, and given us so many FF's is because of their ability to step beyond the borders of projects they've had in the past, and create something wholly new and original. I really don't know what you mean by "ffvii-ness." Do you mean it might lose the horrible graphics, repetitive battle system, and overly easy exp system? How horrible that would be. And you do realize that creating an rpg sequal would end up like ffx-2. Maybe a little better, b/c the game would be based on ffvii and not ffx, but still. Think about it. There would be two ways to make the game: 1. With a battle/magic/summon/weapon system completely new; and a brand new map, with new places(that coincidentally don't make sense), in which case it wouldn't be ffvii anymore.(thus no ffvii-ness) or 2. With everything the same, in which case it'd just be a ffvii clone, and not worth square's time, or mine for that matter. If that were the case, I'd rather they just remake ffvii.
I'm really excited about this new game, even though vincent never was really one of my favorite characters. I hope it overcomes all this silly whining, b/c i'd hate for it to bomb all because of the millions of idiot ffvii fans who think that squenix should revolve around them, and do their every bidding like spoiled brats. Hopefully it'll sell well, and incourage SE to give us more innovative sequals.