20th Anniversary Remake?

[Ayen]

With how long they keep claiming it would take to make, I doubt we'd be getting one in the next three years even if they wanted to do it.

Those comments were during the Crystal Tools (see really dumb as hell development pipeline) era. Now that they have incredibly more efficient development tools and engine (see the Luminous tech demo with Maya integration, and the latest FFXV open world tech demo, as well as recent company restructuring and business model changes), I'd bet they could easily do it in a typical AAA development timeline and budget.

Well then. Final Fantasy VII Remake for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
I can already hear the outcry to it being on the Xbox One.

[Slothy]

Until they actually demonstrate an ability to churn out titles rather than tech demos I will remain skeptical as to how efficient they have actually become.

This is a very different scenario to previous hazy and non-transparent attitude they showed before recent restructuring and tech development.

You mean "look at the era of tech demos and a game that has not seen release after nearly a decade of development" as a sign of efficiency and ability to crank out a quality FFVII remake?

You do realize how recent their restructure, business model change, and technology change has been right? Tech demos and issues with projects before the showcase of the Luminous engine and those recent announcements are irrelevant to any point I was trying to make. The fact that they have actually showcased workflows and pipelines in a lot of detail with Luminous proves my point with how incredibly efficient the engine and their tools (again, just like the Autodesk Maya integration) is from an industry standard. This is coming from someone with game development (see character rigging and animating, as well as 3D sculpting/modelling) that has spent a lot of time in Maya and various engines until recently.

It's been more than two years since they demonstrated the Luminous Engine and they've released nothing. Most AAA studios in the west could develop entire games in that amount of time, or at least have a release date in mind. And FFXV, for all of your talk about how good the Luminous Engine is, uses it's own proprietary engine and only shares certain components with Luminous like the lighting. And Kingdom Hearts 3 is using Unreal Engine 4.

So for a company that supposedly has a great engine with a great pipeline and have their trout together, they aren't actually using it which means they don't have their trout together. At all.

[Bubba]

It will happen at some point. Pretty much guaranteed.

Of course I will buy it. I don't think it will happen on the 20th anniversary though. 25 sounds good to me.

[Shiny]

For once, they need to give people what they want. We want a high def remake!

[Psychotic]

They need to suck it up and get it done.

[Sephex]

A remake would please and displease fans of the game.

[Spooniest]

We will only see a remake when SE have exhausted all other financial options.

Basically, when they need their trump card, they'll pull it. Not before.

The solution?

If you want a remade FFVII, you must refuse to buy anything else from SE until they agree to make it.

Simple, no?

[black orb]

A remake would please and displease fans of the game.

>>> Who cares? the unpleased fans will buy the game too, SE will have their full money bag and then the FF7 fans can bitch at the remake to their hearts` content. Everyone wins.

[Sephex]

A remake would please and displease fans of the game.

>>> Who cares? the unpleased fans will buy the game too, SE will have their full money bag and then the FF7 fans can bitch at the remake to their hearts` content. Everyone wins.

This was a tongue in cheek comment. I am very cynical when it comes to a remake of this game, as well as Square-Enix fans.

[Aulayna]

I am approximately 49.86% sure it's happening.

[Bubba]

Yeah, I reckon 20 years is a good round number for the remake.