I'm not sure if a lot of you heard about this cause i didn't see a topic about it, but they are re-making FF7 for the ps3, big surprise, huh? Anyway, the only main thing that's going to be different about it is the graphics so far, but I hope they will add some more stuff to the story. From what I heard, it's coming out around 09' or 10' so that'll be a while. Anyone even thinking about getting this?

Link?

I am pretty sure that Squeenix is still denying this, as they are busy with Final Fantasy XIII and the entire project.
They have no time to remake Final Fantasy VII.

Now, I am pretty sure there will be one, as all other Final Fantasies are already being remade, even tactics got a release on the PSP.
So, I am pretty sure that they will jump to VII, VIII and IX in some time, but not for now.

So, unless you are proving me otherwise, I think you got misinformed.

Judging by the lack of glee and happiness from your post I'd say you're just pulling our leg, also no link or anything like that :/. This also would be all over every other forum on the net.

Come on, try harder .

There are new (and 'false'') rumors of a FF7 remake every month. EGM are great at spreading this particular rumor.
If you have a link to where you read it then by all means post it, but I doubt this is anything but another rumor.

if you check 1up.com it shows this game coming out in november of this year.. but i highly doubt that.

Ack, not this again. FFVII remake rumors! I love 'em! It would totally rock if this game would be remade! =D

Okay, seriously? I don't care much, but I would get it just to see more of Rufus. <3

I still think it'll happen regardless. There's enough of a fanbase and we all know a revamped version would sell. Considering they're willing to shoot off spinoffs I've no doubt a remake will happen at some point. We'll just have to wait for solid word, whenever if and when that will be.

And Athrun stop reading Kotaku, it breeds hate for a magazine you don't even read. They're definitely not the only ones starting any FF7 rumors, and when they do... Guess what? They're listed under rumors.

Nah, I don't even read Kotaku actually, unless I get redirected there. I check other gaming blogs for news. But when gaming media spread rumors that turn out to be false at such a frequent rate as EGM, the rumors lose credibility. And they could definitely handle it better. They use stock images from the PS3 tech demo without mentioning that the picture is not from the supposed upcoming game, even though they should be aware of the missunderstanding it causes among their fans on their own message board and around the net every time. There are magazins that handle the rumor section much better than EGM (Famitsu for example) that seem to be more careful about their sources, and because of that they more often have their rumors turn out to be true. EGM seem like they like to spread rumors no matter where it comes from or how little backing it has or even how many times it's been shot down.
And I have read EGM, I just don't buy it. I browse through it in the store from time to time.

Whatever else they do in the magazine may be great and all, but I distrust EGM for their quantity of unreliable rumors. No more than two-three weeks after Square Enix officially announced that the new FF7 rumors are untrue (which spawned from EGM) they revied the rumor again. I haven't seen any other magazine be that impatient. That's just reckless.

It will ABSOLUTELY happen. Here's why:

They plan to continue the FF7 Series for the next 10 years right? Well FF7 came out in 1997, and so they'll be making games till the 20th anniversary.

Most ppl who played FF7 originally were in their teens and some in their twenties. Are you to tell me that their projected target fanbase for the 20 year anniversary are people in their 30s and 40s? Somehow I doubt that.

They'll remake FF7 so that the younger generation can get the full effect of it. They'd be stupid not to.

I always just take rumors as rumors. I read EGM up until about 2 years ago since I was 14 and always took their rumor section with a grain of salt.

Still. With all the success of the series, and the help games like Crisis Core have given the PSP I just really see a remake or something of the like coming... Definitely more games involved in the universe of FF7.

Well yeah, because of the recent success with Crisis Core and such, I think it's inevitable that we'll see a FF7 remake eventually. And this current generation feels about right to me. It's hard to imagine them not doing it after such obvious huge demand. They'd be turning down a lot of money.

Spending the amount we pay these days for a game I played over and over many years ago is something that would put me off, maybe. Now a remake of VII, VIII and IX in one package would be better.

I think I just hurled.

Well in one package sounds pretty unrealistic. If the game is going to be up to todays standard it's going to need all that disc space for itself. A FF8 remake would also be great since it's my favorite FF game, but that game already had good enough graphics compared to FF7, so it's not really in need of a remake as much. And that goes without saying for FF9 since it had perhaps arguably the best graphics on the PS1 console.

The success of Final Fantasy VII has little importance to the most likely coming remake.

As I said before, Square has been remaking every Final Fantasy prior to FFVII for several times now. Eventually this has to stop, as people will just get annoyed, if they aren't already.

The reason they haven't announced anything related to a remake, is because they are working on other projects.
Also, what LW has little to do with it. You can run a game without making remakes.
Final Fantasy VII will most likely get a remake, but this will most likely be not untill several years later.
The reason why it isn't now, maybe it is still too early for those games being remade.

With that, people will expect a remake for Final Fantasy VIII and IX as well.
TED will loathe, but he likes Final Fantasy XII, so who cares =P. jk TED <3

I hurled over FFVIII. Not my favorite BY FAR!!!

Now IX would be super sweet to do. I'd like that.

The coolest thing I've seen is that youtube clip about the "remade" FFVII Intro. SWEET!!!!! (now only if they'd show more stuff like that to stoke the rumor fire )

well, I'm not saying this Will happen, I'm just saying that there's rumors. I checked up on youtube (i know, not the best source site but that's where I go) and saw the begging video for it.

Link on Youtube, the left side is the original and right is the new one.

This is the main problem about these rumors.
That video is not a game, and everyone should have known that by now. (It even says so in the info for the youtube clip)

It's a tech demonstration for PS3 back in 2006. It's showing off PS3's graphical capacities.

Square did this for PS2 as well by making a real time render of the ballroom dance scene from FF8.

Atty, I had to look up the FF8 Ballroom Tech Demo for the ps2 thing, Why does it seem like..silly?
But it would of been nifty, since it was real time. NEVER seen it before.

And the FF7 Ps3 stuff has been discussed to hell and back elsewhere.
HONESTLY, you know what I want?
Remake some Threads of Fate/Dewprism already. Its what I really want.

You're not? But, but...



Ay ay.
I can't say much more than has already been said here. I'll just slop down some bullet points...

-Old
-Tech demo
-Denial denial denial from Square, though yeah, they consistently deny everything. Still, denial.
-Tech demos of FF6 for N64 and FF8 for PS2 also kicked around. They were just as said: tech demos. Nothing came of it. That's what you're seeing in these YouTUbe videos, a PS3 tech demo from E3 a couple of years ago.
-Just wait until an official announcement to start making plans

I said that those were the rumors. Even still, I wouldn't really mind if they made it or not, there's still the original.

and Pes, if they were making FF7 again, you said that they have no time for it? They can always make the date longer than what it is, it happens.

Read my posts again, lol.

here is a little more for the topic..

Well it sounds like they want to do more than just update the graphics if they were to do a remake. Otherwise they wouldn't need the whole original team.

I wonder if adding voice acting might take away from some of the 'magic' of the game? Some times I wonder why some of the older games have a certain feel to them, and I think that having no voice acting might be a part of it.

good point.. no voice acting kinda gives you the ability to make up yourself how you think that character would sound and makes each players experience of the game a bit different.. but i still would want voice acting

Yeah me too. I just wonder if it might not lose some of that magical touch if it does, even if it gets something else that's positive. I thought I had an example of a game I played that was like that, but I can't remember now..

Maybe I was thinking of Metal Gear Solid. The remake had better graphics, yet I prefered the original. Even Snake's looks in the original, for some reeason.

Rumors rumors rumors.
I won't believe any until Square announces it.
It would be highly intelligent of them to remake Final Fantasy VII though. There are people who would buy a PS3 just to enjoy it and buy the game in a heart beat.

makes perfect sense from a business stand point, yes they will in time make it.. I am sure after XIII and versus release.

Maybe they're going to use it as a selling point for the PS7.

Right, you said that 8after* declaring the things I quoted from your first post.

And see, you do it again:



See, that's the thing, there *is* no date, dude. For now and the foreseeable future, just let it rest man.

I guess I should have been more specific, I can see how you got what I said mixed up. When I said "longer than what it is" I was talking about making the release date for FFXIII longer, not the rumored FF7

If it DOES get remade, it won't happen until 2017. FF7 was released in 1997 and Square said that they want to games until its 20th anniversary and then retire it. So, for now, we'll have games like Crisis Core and other spinoffs from the original game, but not the remake itself.

We probably still got another 9 years until a remake. So, look for it on the PS5 or so.

It doesn't help that most voice acting in videogames kinda sucks either.

true true, though some games have gotten it right (tales of the abyss comes right to mind).. or so i think

they shouldn't have made voice acting for Baten Kiatos, holy crap, the voices we're so boring, they had no emotion at all. That was one of the main reasons I stopped playing that horrible thing called a game, that, and because it fully sucked.

Good points on both. I kinda think of the first point of the Book vs. Movie arguement. You see and think of the characters being certain "types" of voices, but then when they make it into a movie, they kinda make it suckyus maximus with the casting, so it usually isn't what you imagined. This then makes you hate the movie, and still hold dear to the book.

Now to Voyou's comment. I think that some games DID a good job with voice acting (MGS series, [especially 3], FFX) There were some not-so good ones. (I think the .Hack G.U. needs to be in this catagory because the lines don't flow well, they always pause horrendously at the ends of lines... kinda needed to think that one over again.)

If they were going to do new voice acting, I think they should definately keep the cast from FFAC. (Especially Cait Sith, he's British ) Those are my thoughts.

Err.... the voice acting quote was mine..

rofl.. there are LOTS of elements that give OLDER games a certain feel. It's the stuff that makes them the reason that they're older lol.

It's like, I wonder what gives old movies the "older feel" to them. Yeah its nice for nostalgic purposes, but when you pull off something great, it is definitely possible to be BETTER than the original. Many times it fails. But one thing I can definitely think of is King Kong. The old movie compared to the recent remake. The remake from every critic, myself, and ppl who've seen both, say that the new one was better than the original.

But hey, we're talking about Squaresoft here, so whatever little chance they had of making a game BETTER, is instantly out the window lol

aaaaaand Bomb Wins... (Man, I'm stoked about FFIV DS...)

I was happy with the FFVII AC voices, both the English and the Japanese cast. The only character that did confuse me was Cait Sith, I can understand the origins of the accent but it was just a little too over the top... though I think his voice from Dirge suited him well enough. Ultimately I think Cait Sith is one of those characters who was always going to be a problem when it came to Voice Acting, I think the high Pitched Scottish route wasn't a bad one but I don't much applaud it either.

There are a few scenes I'd love to see with Next Gen Graphics but I just hope they don't mess around with the music too much. I don't think we're really that close to seeing a FFVII remake, it's most certainly Square's Ace in the Hole... Maybe they're keeping it in reserve just in case FFXIII goes the way of Square Pictures.

IIRC the 20th anniversary has come to pass.

Edit: My mistake. You mean FF7's 20th. I thought you meant series 20th.

I just see nothing but spinoffs in the future and a remake years from now in a galaxy far away.

No it has not. 1997 + 20 =/= 2008

The remake will eventually come when the PS3 needs to win the war.

Though I don't know if it would be the 1-2 punch that would end it.

Sorry bomb, ALLLL those games you llisted are just ports, I've played them llol.

Remakes just arent the same usually, it takes a GENIUS to pull off the best parts of a series and bring them back since every1 like games for different reasons.

What i menat is when you tkae HGUE game and remake it, like FF7, u take a tALL order to complete





then again im ##### HAMMERED right now, fuckkkk im drunk

^ This, everyone, is the post of a man who does not know the difference between a port and a remake.

The correct answer is "remakes."


And in the end, it all -- or excuse me --"ALLLL" becomes clear.

We need more members like Bomb.

To get off-topic all the time? Yeah, sure.


Remakes can be quite disapointing sometimes. But with FFVII, I don't think they could possibly make it more flawed than it already was. =P

Haha, that made me laugh out loud. Very true, I really have a hard time comprehending why FFVII was such a hit anyway. I think other RPG's from around that time were produced better. Better graphics, more enjoyable characters and fulfilling plot...confuses me a bit. Ah well, I own AC, DoC and CC so I really shouldn't talk. In defense, I got DoC just because of Vincent. In the original I could have chosen a better supporting fighter in the party but...the things I do for vampire love.

I'd be happy with a remake since FFVII had a lot of good things in it, it is a 'classic' I suppose you could say. I'd just be worried since SE has screwed some nice things up recently. The FF movie and X-2 were rather large misses, perhaps XII depending on who you are. Remaking could go both ways I think. I'd be worried that they would mess up the story somehow instead of making it stronger or better. Plus you can't quite voice act a "$#%!!@" for Barret. I'd get a laugh out of that, the first Final Fantasy to get an M rating.

Though on the topic of remakes, have there really been all that many? Actually I can't very well think of any truly remade games. Ports yes, the older FF's have been ported to the different handhelds as well as other RPG's. But to my knowledge there hasn't been a game where people were brought to literally remake a game released in the past into something different. Remaking the exact same thing doesn't exactly work. If FFVII did get a true remake, it would be something that would get quite a bit of attention, whether it was FFVII or not.