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[Loony BoB]

I've said before that I think it's possible we'll be able to explore the other sectors, and that they'll all be fleshed out (and the ones that exist will be greatly expanded on).

Not to be "that guy" but the funny thing here is that players actually visit almost every sector in VII in the original with the exceptions of Sector 2 and 3. Granted, some sectors are criminally short and the more obvious issue of never visiting both sides of a sector which is where I feel most fans mean when they say "explore the rest of the sector". I men the opening of the game is in Top Sector 1, the party escapes into Top Sector 8, AVALANCHE is based in Low Sector 7, the party takes the underground passage through Sector 4 to reach the No. 5 Reactor, Aerith and the Sephiroth Clone guy live in Sector 5, and Sector 6 is where Don Corneo and Wall Market are located. Sector 0 is the Shin-Ra HQ. So while Midgar may seem huge, we actually do visit almost half of the city in the original, and more likely visited all of the relevant places anyway.

I mean, I suspect (and always have) that we only see tiny portions of each sector we have seen, not the whole deal. It was supposed to house how many people? The game was severely limited by technology back then. I think it's entirely possible we'll see about 5-10 times more of Midgar than we did in the original game. Hell, if you were to compare to the "real vision" of Midgar, I think what we'll see in the remake is still only going to be about 5-10% of the actual city when you're considering the population the place is supposed to hold (I'm assuming that Advent Children is a good representation of what the city size actually was).

Just going off the top of my head here, mind you, haven't done any real research. Maybe I'm misremembering some things.