Game Podunker DanCurtis writes, "2005 is the year most likely to blame for the furious speculation, internet-based arguments and wonderings that have been flying around cyberspace for seemingly forever now. This was of course the year when Square Enix decided to tease everybody by re-creating the original cinematic sequence for Final Fantasy 7 in glorious high definition for the PS3. It was a move that would cause a huge stir in gamers, with seemingly everybody under the sun (and probably the moon also) quietly whispering about the possibility that Final Fantasy 7 could be remade in spectacular PS3 glory. It didn't happen though, and five years later the rumour mill continues to generate rumours. The will they/won't they debate is constantly raging. People seem to want to see Final Fantasy 7 Version 2..."
Saad from eXputer: "I'm glad I don't have to choose between Square Enix, Atlus, and FromSoftware due to bad release windows and Shadow of the Erdtree."
Atlus is releasing their game one week before Erdtree, SE is releasing theirs one week after.
HZD released four days before Zelda, HFW released one week before Elden Ring.
It seems to me like they are still releasing their games too close to Erdtree.
Yuji Naka was fined $1.2 million and given a suspended jail sentence for the crime.
I find his comments around how Balan turned out to be very insightful as to why the game is trash. He basically apologises for its existence
can you please give some of us who don't know anything about this, a summary of what happened?
Balan was knowingly rushed out by S-E, it had an extremely short dev cycle and was fairly low budget.
Naka was the game's director until near the end when he was fired or perhaps he quit, I forgot.
@Chocoburger Yeah they did fire and replace him which caused him to unload a bunch of rants about the company. The project only existed because of Naka in the first place, he convinced Square to give him one shot at making a platformer. They gave him an opportunity but pulled the rug out before he was done for reasons not explained.
Final Fantasy 7 has come back under the spotlight thanks to the release of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, but is it worth replaying the original?
Got to Zacks part in 7 Rebirth. Said f it. Finishing my game in 7 og. Just got to part 2 yesterday. I also got Crisis Core... So it'll be a while before I'm back to Rebirth. I just keep thinking about it too smh, want to get back to playing it. Not till I know Zacks story though. I beat 7 og sooooooo long ago, it's crazy going through it again and remembering things.
Got to Zacks part in Rebirth?
You mean you started the game and turned it off?
The game starts with Zack...
... Really 🤓 lol. His second part, I've played for 80hrs lmao. <---- PS5 Run time, probably not all game time. You guys know how it goes.
Did you not ever play the OG FF7? After you recruit Vincent, later in the game, disc 3, return to that basement and look at the pod, there's a whole Zack story that'll trigger as a memory.... it's well hidden in the game and a lot of things regarding Zack are cleared up. FF7 Crisis Core is basically an extend feature of that hidden flashback... It took me years to discover it back then lol
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80 hours in Rebirth by doing everything, and you should've reached Zacks story about 5 times 🤣
Ye I kno that's y I said not all gameplay time. But also I am very anal when it comes to exploring.
Not to mention fighting Titan at his full strength. Hours spent trying still haven't succeeded. Found all 3 ruins but I'ma masochist when it comes to games.
Very much so. Graphically it's dated but the story and the gameplay haven't aged a day. It's still one of my all time favourite RPGs and for me is better than Remake in some ways.
It always takes me back to Christmas 1997, I got it as a gift and I was blown away when I played it. I couldn't believe games could look that good. The combination of pre rendered backgrounds and FMV really made it stand out. It definitely still has a certain charm that modern games can't replicate.
I can't imagine people will still be talking about Remake and Rebirth in 27 years.
Fully agreed. To me the atmosphere, pacing, gameplay and music are all better than in the remake.
Remake is so amazing, pure FFVII Love, play it on PS5 please! aww the graphics the battles, the music... a dream come true.
ff6:
+better story
+better character
+music is better imagine remaster with full orchestra(if nobuo uematsu make it)
+kefka is really evil
ff7:
+first in 3d
+soundtrack is a bit better
+one wing angel soundtrack
-sephiroth, emo mofo he only burn a village and menacing people to destroy earth with a comet. but didnt want to do it. so hes not really evil.
-story is weird
-spoiler: sephiroth is really stupid for killing aerith/aeris. why you want revenge cause humain kill your race but you kill someone in the same race has you.wtf is wrong with you.
OK I am tired of this. Square Enix used the opening cinematic from Final Fantasy 7 to show case what they could do with the PS3 because it showed a full contrast.
Final Fantasy 7 was the first of the Final Fantasy's not only on the Playstation but was Squares first real step into 3D worlds as a whole. By showing the opening to Final Fantasy 7 on the PS3 they could show just how far they have come in tech as well as show what they could achieve with the PS3.
People are in love the the concept and the possibility of what a remake may be but they don't seem to look at the whole picture. First off Squaresoft is gone and as such most of the brilliant minds of Final Fantasy 7 are no longer there. Second, SquareEnix is now in charge. In an attempt to appeal to every human on the planet they would rip apart the game and cater to the fan boys in there incessant nagging and closet shrines to Tifa's striking cleavage.
Everything that made the game special removed for one reason or the other. In it's place a horrible bastardization of what Square Enix thinks will appeal to the masses but actually will steam role over the fans of the game like a heaping manure truck with Wada in the drivers seat.
Lets not forget all the horrible spin-offs and such they would try to make work in the original not unlike George "frachisemurder" Lucas. Genisus was the larges plot hole I have ever seen next to Count Duku.
Honestly we should all play Final Fantasy 7 again and when Sephiroth stabs that insufferable red-head through the plot point we should stand and give a cheer to the fact that she died before she could see what Final Fantasy 7 has become.
To simulate the experience of a remake why not just in fact load that game of Final Fantasy 7 up and immediately start punching yourself in the face until the game gets so blurry that you can't even tell what the hell you are playing. You're Welcome.
/end rant.
I think a FF7 remake would be the only way SquareEnix would get back their popularity
this is why square is failing surely their most popular and requested final fantasy deserves a remake and yet they want to make ff13-2 thats pure retardation do they have no common sense?
I've waited a long time for a remake. Then they released a "sequel" in the form of a DVD. I waited even longer with endless responses from Square that they will not do it.
Years go by and Square starts wrecking things to the point I don't recognize their brand anymore. They basically dump their fanbase and target the mass market by changing Final Fantasy XIII AND going multiplatform. Then they make the 360 version noticeably inferior anyway thus negating the change in the 1st place. They jumped ship which eliminated the Playstation/Square brand image.
Then they go back to Playstation to try and recover their fans by announcing Final Fantasy vs. Then they flood their own market by announcing a 3rd title within two years of the other two with Final Fantasy XIV online. Yet they do all this after being absent almost half of the console generation when the PS3 had literally no RPGs to play. Oh, and during this time the PS3 had FFXIII listed as an exclusive since before launch day.
Now, if I added these all up into one package I can comfortably say that Square just might be trying to kill off their company on purpose. Why? Everything they have done now defies everything they used to do. Not only that they have made the opposite decision despite plain as day reasons to go the other way. In my opinion, I think Square started their mistake by making Final Fantasy XI online only and not releasing one for the single player fans who have played their games through ten straight sequels. The 10th being released in 2001 and the 12th being released in 2006. That's 5 years where gamers who didn't want an online experience had to wait for the next installment. Then they release 13 in 2010.
All I know is Square sold millions upon millions of their game during each sequel and it was because they had a great balance of core and casual audiences. I don't know why they needed to go out of their way to eliminate their core audience in order to appeal to the masses. It wasn't like they were broke with what they had built up the past 20 years. All they had to do was release a full version of the Final Fantasy VII demo for PS3 during it's infancy and it would have sold just as many as the FFXIII if not more.