SQUAREWATCH (20100204): Yoshinori Kitase explains why an HD remake of FFVII is not go

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by Regulus Tera

http://www.thelostgamer.com/2010/02/...remake-to-ps3/



I'm calling bullshit on the grounds that Final Fantasy XIV exists and will probably have all the towns and fields and whatnot FFXIII lacked.

That has an entirely different team, though, and it's only just been announced. The thing's probably been in production for a few years already and it'll be a few more before it comes out. Games take a good five years these days.

Aside from that, people tolerate much lower poly-counts in MMOs than single-player games.

[Regulus Tera]

Originally Posted by bluestarultor

That has an entirely different team, though, and it's only just been announced.

So Kitase's team is composed of lazy crack-snorting monkeys? Sounds reasonable to me.

Originally Posted by bluestarultor

The thing's probably been in production for a few years already and it'll be a few more before it comes out. Games take a good five years these days.

Final Fantasy XIII was also in production for a long time. It started development in 2005, maybe 2004.

[Kim]

Originally Posted by bluestarultor

The thing's probably been in production for a few years already and it'll be a few more before it comes out.

Actually it has a planned release date of this year in both the US and Japan. So no go there.

As for your point about graphics... Fuck graphics. Graphics are cool, but once they start fucking over my gameplay they become substantially less cool.

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by NonCon

Actually it has a planned release date of this year in both the US and Japan. So no go there.

Is it really? I thought it-

Fuck, that's right, it's 2010 now. Never mind.