Which game are you more excited for?

[Loony BoB]

VII remake, because the original VII is my favourite game of all time. So even if the VII one sucks, I'm still really looking forward to it, because, well, FFVII!

Still looking forward to XV as well. Just with an adult level of excitement instead of a kiddy level of excitement.

[Wolf Kanno]

Honestly, neither very much, which makes me sad because I used to LOVE the series so much. But XV because it is a new game

Pretty much my thoughts. The original version of VII can barely hold my interest anymore since I know the plot goes to hell in a hand-basket halfway through. I doubt the remake is going to fix most of my major issues with this game so I'm going give this a pass.

XV would have interested me if it was an original work and not some Frankenstein creation made from the wreckage of Nomura's failed dreams that was Versus XIII. I want to give this game a fair shake though and at least it has the chance to really surprise me whereas I know what I'm getting out of the VII remake if the original and Compilation are anything to go by.

I'm just kind of bummed that I would be more interested to know what is going on with XVI at this point because SE's three biggest projects (KHIII as well of which Dream Drop Distance kind of killed my enthusiasm for) are all fan nonsense we've all been waiting for the last decade for. I'm kind of just waiting for SE to distance itself more from the failure of last generation before I can really get excited for anything by them. This is not exactly a mindset I'm happy to be in either.

[Loony BoB]

I'm just kind of bummed that I would be more interested to know what is going on with XVI at this point

SE will read this and announce FFXVI five years earlier than they had intended to announce it, and five years before it is ready.

All because of WK. And two years after they announce it, WK will lose his enthusiasm for FFXVI and ask about FFXVII. He won't like FFXVII in the end, though, because it has VII in it.

[Wolf Kanno]

I'm sure SE learned their lesson about announcing projects that are still in the abstract pre-production phase. Hell, I'm actually taking the announcement of the VII Remake as SE giving a vote of no confidence for FFXV at this point. The Remake stole what little thunder that game had. Doesn't help I feel most people share my feelings on XV having too much of a negative stigma attached to it by this point.

[Fynn]

Glad I'm not most people

Seriously, though, I never took the wait personally and am simply excited to finally see it soon.

That said, I still think XVI has been in development for a long time now and it has Ito in it and they will announce it right after FFXV comes out, because they don't want to shoot themselves in the foot again. #ffconspiracies

[Wolf Kanno]

Glad I'm not most people

Seriously, though, I never took the wait personally and am simply excited to finally see it soon.

It's not so much waiting for it, I just feel lots of gamers gave into the hype for it, especially after XIII turned out to be a divisive entry. The other issue here is the backlash the game has been getting once SE actually started giving out details. The all boy team, Stella being replaced with Lunafreya, the more action-RPG style battle system, the mixed feelings about the demo and so on. I feel Tabata is trying to salvage this game and I feel a little bad for him because he'll probably end up being the fall guy for every bad element of the game even if he didn't come up with it (like the all-male team which was obvious from back when it was still Versus XIII) when the reality is he kind of got saddled with fixing this game after SE sat on the IP for so long and needed Nomura to finish KH3 asap.

The game is kind of the last entry associated with SE's troubling years as a developer.