Quote Originally Posted by Rase View Post
Want a new game, will probably get a remake.

I don't think it will be FFVII though, for a few reasons:
1) People would want it to be the quality of the tech demo, which would be a ridiculous amount of work and money, which I personally don't think they would make back.
2) If I was Square I would be scared as hell to ruin peoples memories of the games (happened when I tried to play it again). However, if they try to fix/change things and make it a batter game, people will complain endlessly.
3) Didn't Square say they weren't doing anything else with this game?
Now now, let's check the side and rear-view mirrors here first. In all honesty, I feel that a lot of remakes are made out to be a lot more difficult than they really need to be. But before I go into this, I want to state which games would be nice to see remade first:

-I think if they re-did Final Fantasy I and II with a more modern look to them, they'd be pretty successful and help RPG gamers that aren't really "old school" understand the origins of Final Fantasy better. By "modern look", I mean simply re-do the graphics, make some polished remixes of all the old musics that are actually good, fix translation issues, get some good voice acting. Don't mess around too much with the original battle/development system.

This isn't ever going to happen, I'm sure, but it would be nice.

-I would like to see a remake of FF VII as well. I know I'm probably going to get a firing squad on me for saying this, and everyone knows that I'm not exactly the biggest FF VII fan to begin with. In all honesty though, a remake would actually be nice. Again, all they need to do is give it a polished/modern graphics look and re-do the musics in a nice way. In short, all they have to do is give it a nicer presentation. Maybe get voice actors that aren't terrible? It'd also be a good chance for them to make Cloud's character a little more likable instead of being overly mopey. I wouldn't want them to change anything about the battle system or the development, though they might want to increase the difficulty of the Emerald and Ruby weapons, and hell, they might want to raise Sephiroth's difficulty as well considering how much of a joke he was.

Again, I already know this is a remake that won't ever happen, but it would be nice to see.

-I really, really hope they remake FF VI for the 360 or the PS3. Unfortunately, it'll probably be a DS remake made with the same lame chibi polygons as I'm sure they don't want to put too much effort into making a polished look and feel for an older game like this. I'd have the same expectations though: voice acting that's actually good, re-done musics that are actually good, and nicer graphics to give the game a little more life.


In short, I think that remakes should only be about fixing the presentation and translation issues. I'm not a fan of tinkering too much with any of the original battle system, game play, or development/advancement systems as I don't think there's any real need to. Sometimes it's best to just keep things simple.