FFVII Remake FUCKING CONFIRMED!!!!!!! XD

[Kyanbu The Legend]

Unofficial Footage from the conference taken from one of the youtubers I watch. At least till it's up on Sony's page.

EDIT:
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God damn, the universe really wants me to own a PS4!!!! XD

[Kyanbu The Legend]

Ok I updated the first post.

[Revising Ocelot]

Whoops, turns out I'm slow too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kznek1uNVsg is the actual official trailer shit. And hey it's a timed exclusive so go nuts on whatever you choose.

I dunno, I'm just going to jump out the window Reynholm style if I can't keep up my Pfffffffft levels.

[Daimo Mac, The Blue Light of Hope]

This is me and my feed right now.
-GHX8dvuFUQ

There was so much excitement on twitter I began to have a literal panic attack...not fun

[Solid Snake]

SONY TAKE MY MONEY

SQUARE-ENIX TAKE MY MONEY

IT ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE THEY'RE PUTTING REAL CREATIVE EFFORT INTO THIS REMAKE

IT LOOKS UNIQUE AND FAMILIAR ALL AT ONCE

IT LOOKS FUCKING GORGEOUS

I WANT TO HUG THE UNIVERSE

[Daimo Mac, The Blue Light of Hope]

Mind easing up on the caps/bold/large font. It kind of triggers panic attacks in me

/edit: thank you

[Flarecobra]

The noises I just made were not natural.

[Nique]

I have nowhere else to turn to talk about this stuff. NPF, you are my home.

I'm nervous that this is going to be shit because it has to strike that careful balance of, as snake said, new and familiar, and that has to work into the gameplay somehow (I'm mainly thinking of how archaic the ATB turn-based battles might feel, now, almost 20 year later).

But, uh, yeah, I'm excited. This more than anything will motivate me to buy a PS4, finally.

[Loyal]

FFVII, whatever its value when it came out, has not aged well in any respect worth mentioning. If its ANYTHING BUT a pretty-much-brand-new game telling the same story as before (Think Lufia 2 -> Lufia DS except not dumb), no amount of aesthetic touchups will make it good in the year 2015.

So, let us watch and wait, yeah?

[shiney]

I'm just scared Cloud will suddenly hate his dad and stuff and be whiny and teen

[Gregness]

This is me and my feed right now.
-GHX8dvuFUQ

There was so much excitement on twitter I began to have a literal panic attack...not fun

SONY TAKE MY MONEY

SQUARE-ENIX TAKE MY MONEY

IT ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE THEY'RE PUTTING REAL CREATIVE EFFORT INTO THIS REMAKE

IT LOOKS UNIQUE AND FAMILIAR ALL AT ONCE

IT LOOKS FUCKING GORGEOUS

I WANT TO HUG THE UNIVERSE

I have nowhere else to turn to talk about this stuff. NPF, you are my home.

I'm nervous that this is going to be shit because it has to strike that careful balance of, as snake said, new and familiar, and that has to work into the gameplay somehow (I'm mainly thinking of how archaic the ATB turn-based battles might feel, now, almost 20 year later).

But, uh, yeah, I'm excited. This more than anything will motivate me to buy a PS4, finally.

Whatever it is you guys are feeling, it's mutual for, well, everyone. (https://twitter.com/Nibellion/status/610640304430010368/photo/1)

I'd have personally been more excited for a VI remake, but there's also a part of me that kind of doesn't want them to try it for fear of them getting it wrong. Which is stupid because I'd still have the old one even if they fucked it up.

[phil_]

I've never played FF7. I really don't care about paying $70 plus tip to play a remake. I'll go sit in my shame cube now.

[Solid Snake]

NieR 2
Just Cause 3
Final Fantasy VII Remake
Last Guardian
Fallout 4
Shenmue 3
New Galaxy Mass Effect


Faith in humanity restored
FAITH. IN HUMANITY. RESTORED.

[Revising Ocelot]

BEST E3 OF ALL TIME

Unless you're a Nintendo fan. And particularly Metroid.

Hah.



Hahahaaaaaaaaa

[shiney]

Shenmue 3

Controversy!

[BB]

Unless you're a Nintendo fan. And particularly Metroid.

Hah.



Hahahaaaaaaaaa

Hey, we got that... really great looking... blast ball thing...

Who wants a continuation of Fusion's plot when we have that, right...?

[Kyanbu The Legend]

Hey, we got that... really great looking... blast ball thing...

Who wants a continuation of Fusion's plot when we have that, right...?

Thankfully we're still getting this.


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In 2014, Shin'en came out to the world and defended the WiiU. They claimed it was indeed gen 8 material (technically all 3 are a joke compared to what they could have been sorry.) And that they would max out our little friend and show it's full potintial...
They went quite for a year. Until today and they did not disappoint because I can't believe THIS is our little console that could at it's fullest. (or close to it?)
Nintendo... why wasn't this in your direct... sigh... -_-;

[mauve]

Crapdammit The Last Guardian is finally a thing and I have a Wii-u instead of a PS4
Granted, I remain skeptical of whether it'll actually be released soon or if it'll fall into the same development hell as last year's biggest E3 titles for most consoles (new Kingdom Hearts, new Zelda, Starfox, etc).

[Kyanbu The Legend]

Kingdom Heart 3 is a bit of different story as that actually started development that year before the unveiling.

[mauve]

Fair enough.

[Raem]

dilly dally shilly shally.

[Arcanum]

I have a really hard time caring about E3 because all the neat stuff they announce won't be out until 1-2 years from now.

I mean, yeah it's neat to know what they are working on, but I have a hard time buying into the hype train for every new thing.

[synkr0nized]

I have a really hard time caring about E3 because all the neat stuff they announce won't be out until 1-2 years from now.

I mean, yeah it's neat to know what they are working on, but I have a hard time buying into the hype train for every new thing.

This is a good post.





But I am still pretty pumped about a modern VII.
Hell you slap a new rendering engine, textures, cutscenes, etc. over the same game/mechanics and I'd be happy.


Also kind of diggin' DOOM being more like the run-and-gun against the hordes of its roots than a horror game.

[Glass Pencil]

You already had my money, Squaresoft, but now you have my heart.

Or the other way around, not sure.

I'm kind of hoping they clean up the sprawl of the latter half of the game actually, mechanics are secondary since the original ones were fine, just implement a slicker UI and I'm cool with it being the same, but a certain amount of rewriting and streamlining would do wonders. The first part of the game is amazing. Pefectly dense and characterful setting, great characterization, one of the greatest video gaming experiences of my life. The ending starts to get all random godzilla monsters and dudes that are vampires but turn into other monsters, for some reason and cat robots.

I mean ok, leave all that shit in there by all means, but clean it up!

[Arcanum]

Alright I lied.

Shadow Warrior 2 is coming. And it will have co-op. Consider me hyped. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSeBcZR2pI8)

[Flarecobra]

FF7 Director says none of the lighthearted elements were taken out. (http://www.vg247.com/2015/06/17/final-fantasy-7-director-says-please-look-forward-to-crossdressing-cloud-in-the-gritty-remake/)

Hope that means they left the crossdressing part in. In full.

[Solid Snake]

FF7 Director says none of the lighthearted elements were taken out. (http://www.vg247.com/2015/06/17/final-fantasy-7-director-says-please-look-forward-to-crossdressing-cloud-in-the-gritty-remake/)

Hope that means they left the crossdressing part in. In full.

Hysterically, the fact that production had apparently begun when they did that huge fake-out "FFVII...Now on PS4!" trailer six months ago just about completely justifies Square trolling the fuck out of us then. An ingenious way to both gauge interest in the remake when it was probably early enough to walk away if reception was poor and, even more importantly, an ingenious way to get us all talking about an FFVII Remake under the assumption it would never happen.

Like I'm not saying it's ethically the way to go about it all or anything, but it sure makes that executive's out-of-touch response to our reactions to that trailer make a hella lot more sense.

EDIT: Honestly I'm really glad Nomura isn't trying a shot-for-shot remake of FFVII here, in part because a re-imagining will allow for much more creative interpretations of the world (I already really dig the new interpretation of that playground, and they've captured a lot of Midgar's oppressive spirit and even some notable architectural details while making the world much more believable), and in part because we frankly should scrub out some of the more offensive bullshit from the game (including Cid and Barrets' constant swearing, Don Corneo, homophobic stereotypes, etc.) while keeping the heart and soul of the game that made it so appealing in spite of its flaws. It's also a chance for Nomura to scrub away some of the more confusing plot elements and present the backstory more coherently.

The negative reaction to said re-imagining seems to be focused on "BUT THIRTEEN WAS SO AWFUL!!!" which isn't really a criticism I share because Thirteen was okay, they're not going to emulate its linearity after all that backlash and more importantly, XIII-2 was incredible and Lightning Returns was above average. Seriously, I'd actually have been more concerned with the quality of an FFVII remake when the PS3 was first released, when our last experiences with Final Fantasy included X-2 and XII.

The original FFVII will always exist and will always be a beautiful game (silly lego graphics and all; those background drawings are aesthetically gorgeous to this day), we don't need an exact replicated version of that, we need something that tells the same broad brushstrokes of the story to a modern audience.

EDIT 2:

Hope that means they left the crossdressing part in. In full.

No, I'd much rather they washed away a fair deal of the more offensive content in Wall Market.
The crossdressing on its own is okay I guess? So long as it doesn't delve into brazen transphobia.

[rpgdemon]

I hear you can revive Aerith in this one.

[Solid Snake]

...I'm assuming that's a joke.

In "Not at all a joke" news, though, Nomura's on record as wanting to remake FFVI and FFV next if FFVII sells.
...This now puts all you old-school FFVI fans who dislike FFVII in the deliciously awkward position of having to support FFVII to get your FFVI!!

Also, poor, poor neglected FFVIII fans. (...All three of you.)

[Loyal]

...This now puts all you old-school FFVI fans who dislike FFVII in the deliciously awkward position of having to support FFVII to get your FFVI!!

You say that like it would need my help. Someone's not so confident in his vaunted remake. :smug:

[synkr0nized]

I hear you can revive Aerith in this one.

This would be dumb.
In addition to Snake's title-comment, there are even plot elements/story and narration for things after that point in the game that, within-game, explain why sometimes you just can't wave magic around to get your way.

[Solid Snake]

Now that Nomura's on record with wanting to preserve light-hearted moments in the game, my biggest fears with the remake are as follows:

1: There may be light moments in the narrative in general, but I'm still suspicious of the likelihood that Nomura's going to write Cloud as anti-social, emo and incapable of experiencing happiness.

2: Nomura may also write Nanaki that way, and that'd honestly piss me off even more. We don't need an entire cast of Vincents.

3: They may get rid of the world map and just railroad us from location to location.

4: They may do a great job with expanding Midgar, at the expense of everywhere else.

5: Yuffie and Vincent may become downloadable content!

6: Aeris and Tifa may swap personalities, as Aeris being stereotyped into the hapless damsel in distress has become every bit as pervasively wrong an assumption about her characterization as Cloud being emo. (Here's hoping Nomura takes a long look at Aeris' confidence in her initial scenes with Cloud.)

7: Sephiroth may be played up as an antagonist and Shinra and the Turks may be played down; it's worth remembering that Sephiroth is barely even on the player's radar until Cloud has his storytelling time at Kalm.

8: Nomura and his buddies may mess around with a gameplay system for battles that isn't broken; FFVII's random battles are among my favorites to grind through for a reason.

I'm not really worried about the remake messing up that death scene. It's actually one of the sequences in the game I'm most confident in the remake getting 'right' and even improving upon the original. An orchestral score, better graphics with the character models, and a modern moviesque approach to the cinematography is basically guaranteed. It will pack the right punch.

I'm more worried if anything that the team may overvalue that scene at the expense of other emotional moments that were very important: Nanaki and his father, Cid into space, Barret and Marlene and her father, etc.

EDIT:

Bonus concern: They may bring back several of those awful Advent Children VAs and require you listen to voice acting throughout the damn game

[BB]

5: Yuffie and Vincent may become downloadable content!

If that means I never ever have to worry about accidentally walking into that stupid, stupid, STUPID sidequest where she steals all your stuff and you have to chase her around that town and solve stupid puzzles and then the last switch won't pissin' work because something bugged out in the game and AARRAHAGGRAHRGARHARHRHAHARHRHARHARGARHG

...then I'm all for it.

[Revising Ocelot]

Terrible, terrible thought: they might bring back the Cloud cross-dressing scene, but he'll end up looking like Lightning.

[POS Industries]

I hear you can revive Aerith in this one.
Nah, they'd never do that.

The twist is that you do, however, resurrect Galuf and Leo.

[walkertexasdruid]

Other games they should remake or reboot:

Legend of Dragoon
Vagrant Story
Legaia
Final Fantasy IV
Final Fantasy Tactics

[BB]

Other games they should remake or reboot:

Legend of Dragoon
Vagrant Story
Legaia
Final Fantasy IV
Final Fantasy Tactics

Can't speak for the others, but FF4 has been remade about two billion times now, and each of those remakes individually ported to every electronic device that exists. There's probably toasters that can run it.

[phil_]

They should remake Chester Cheetah: Too Cool to Fool. I mean, he's still on the Cheetos bag; he's still relevant.

[Kyanbu The Legend]

When they do the FFVI Remake. I hope they handle Shadow a bit better gameplay wise. So that you don't risk losing your equipment whenever he randomly ditches you.

[Flarecobra]

*Looks at the 8 platforms FF6 is on: SNES, PS1, GBA, Wii (VC), PSN, Android, Amazon, and iOS.* (http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Final_Fantasy_VI#Ports_and_Remakes)

Yeah.

[shiney]

They should remake Cool Spot. Who cares if 7-up isn't culturally relevant anymore that game was bomb as fuck.

[Kyanbu The Legend]

But it's not in 3D yet.

[shiney]

CAUSE IT AINT BEEN REMADE YET SON

[Kyanbu The Legend]

No not that, what flare said.

[Krylo]

They should remake Cool Spot. Who cares if 7-up isn't culturally relevant anymore that game was bomb as fuck.

YOU'RE NOT CULTURALLY RELEVANT ANYMORE

[Flarecobra]

No not that, what flare said.

At the end of a press conference for the Android and iOS versions of Final Fantasy V and Final Fantasy IV: The After Years it was revealed Final Fantasy VI would be receiving a remake for Android and iOS devices

They decided to keep it 2D instead of 3D.

[Flarecobra]

Another trailer popped up... and they changed the combat system. It's now an action-RPG with real-time combat.

Here's the trailer with some gameplay and voice acting in it.

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EDIT: Upon further review, I spotted the ATB bar. So now I am very curious as to how the combat works.

http://i.imgur.com/nv2l3j1.png

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http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/12/07/psx-2015-final-fantasy-7-remake-will-be-a-multi-part-series


...Are you fucking kidding me?

[Kyanbu The Legend]

Yeah I'm going to wait and see or at least till more info is available and square isn't being cryptic.

During the Playstation experience interview they mentioned why they went this way as a means of making the ATB more real time. I'll post a link later, assuming no one beats me to it.

[Kyanbu The Legend]

More info.
http://na.square-enix.com/us/blog/final-fantasy-vii-remake-psx-2015-message-yoshinori-kitase


For many years, people around the world have asked me “Will you ever remake FINAL FANTASY VII?” For many years I gave the same answers and on a personal level, having made the original FINAL FANTASY VII, did I really want to spend so many years making the same game again?


With FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE, we have the opportunity to go beyond the story, world and experience of FINAL FANTASY VII in ways we’ve always dreamed of - from the depths of Midgar to the skies above the Planet. The multi-part format enables us to expand the original story and turn it into an epic experience for fans and new gamers alike.




This past weekend at PlayStation Experience we were thrilled to present more of FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE. It was great to see so much excitement when we surprised everyone with the first gameplay footage and it was a treat for us to show that development is going well, and further along than perhaps many had realised. Just like when we revealed the announcement trailer at E3 earlier this year, we like surprising you.

One thing that we wanted to be clear about during this weekend to accompany the new trailer was the scale of this project. We wanted to tell you this now and not in the future so that you’d share our vision for what we want to deliver. The biggest reason why we haven’t done a remake until now is because it’s a massive undertaking to reconstruct FINAL FANTASY VII from the ground up with the current technology. Producing a proper HD remake of FINAL FANTASY VII that maintains the same feeling of density of the original would result in a volume of content that couldn’t possibly fit into one instalment.

We’ve seen everyone’s comments and reactions to the news that FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE will be a multi-part series and many have speculated correctly as to the reason why we have made this decision. If we were to try to fit everything from the original into one remake instalment, we would have to cut various parts and create a condensed version of FINAL FANTASY VII. We knew none of you would have wanted that.

I hope that by explaining a little more about our design decisions that you can appreciate the size of this project and what we have planned for this remake. Going beyond the scale and depth of the world, narrative and gameplay from the original to deliver something that feels familiar yet new. As I said before, we like delivering surprises. :)

See you all soon and Happy Holidays!

-Yoshinori Kitase


I love how fan reactions to FFVII:Remake went from being the best thing ever to Sonic 2006: FF edition in record time. And honestly I still say wait and see. Because Square is still not being entirely clear on what's going on exactly. Which is only adding fuel to the frustration. On the other it's doing "wonders" for the their marketing. ::V:

[tacticslion]

Other games they should remake or reboot:

Legend of Dragoon
Vagrant Story
Legaia
Final Fantasy IV
Final Fantasy Tactics

Hm, I may have found who I am voting for in the NPF wars...

EDIT: I'd say the platform is lacking Chrono Trigger, FF6, and a very, very different version of Chrono Cross (with more clarity, more custom ability, less opacity in both mechanics and story, and less "railroad-y" version of the plot), but no platform is perfect and I don't particularly like all the changes they've made to CT, soooooo...

[mauve]

I haven't been following this much, but my guess is that combat will be similar to ff12, where you can move characters around in real time while combat is still semi-turn based with ATB bars.