Quote Originally Posted by Spooniest View Post

Hey, that would save a lot on processor time rendering the background...and you could use more expensive textures on a modern system. So...redrawn, pre-rendered backgrounds would be a thing.

I say redrawn because if you're going to have characters that are more realistically-proportioned than the original (as any remake had better, imo), the backgrounds would then have to be redrawn to fit those proportions. They don't always fit the proportions of the Polygon Characters of the original, to be frank.

This is diverging somewhat, but people don't often bring up the Honeybee Inn, or Don Corneo, or literally all of Wall Market when discussing a remake. Thoughts?
I think because final fantasy has such a worldwide appeal these days, they could keep an essence of the events, but it would be subject to a colossal rewrite. I feel that the general Japanese quirkiness would leave a bad taste in the mouth of people not entirely familiar to certain 'eccentricities' that come from our brothers in the east. =P

The homo-erotic elements would be completely scrapped. Games are designed with a much stricter thematic foundation these days. I don't believe that the art direction employed by modern developers would even allow this versatility in overall tone and mood. It would probably break immersion. Video Games are very much in an epoch of cinematic emulation, and hence, I imagine that Final Fantasy VII remake would, like most games of today, take itself too seriously to include such frivolity.