So you only have faith in Square when it comes to NEW games. Your trust disappears when the subject of OLD games comes up.

I believe that Square is possibly the best RPG maker in the world, and despite a few stragglers who dislike the old games in preference of the new or those who hate the new games because they're devout fans of the oldschool (and probably love Mario just as much), I love all of the FFs.
Granted, the newer games make me wish the older game were a little more 21st century but those were different games in some sense.
It's my belief that attempting superdeformed polygons in FF7 was Square's way of keeping the characters as spritey cute as possible to ease the old gamers into a new style. Just look at the concept artwork of Biggs, Wedge, and Jessie that has been floating around these threads.
In my opinion, it didn't work out like that. If there are going to be tiny characters, then they should carry through the entire game, instead of having cinemas and battles with "full-sized" characters. Which is what I believe they were trying to compensate for when they made FF9.
I don't think that FF7's graphics should be revamped to the extreme to make it surpass its predecessors . . . that would make it weird. I just think it could look better, the story could be TOLD better and not have so many typos and mistranslations.
I think that anyone who didn't like the arcade feel of FFX-2 are just a bunch of old fogies. You've got to admit it has ALWAYS been stupid to watch your characters just sit there and take the hit while you're waiting for your gauge to fill. The battles seem so slow that way. Actually, instead of FFX-2, I prefer more, Star Ocean: TTEOT.

I would buy FF7PL, of course, I'm the one proposing it.
I would still play FF7 as well, I never throw my games away. I still own my atari and my genesis and all of the games I owned for them and I still own an original PlayStation. I also own an N64, but I hadn't ever bought any games for it. I still own my nintendo games, but I can't play them because my dad got mad one day when I didn't do my homework and he smashed the system. The funny thing is, it was a piece of crap that hardly ever played the games anymore and it was HIS system, not mine.