Multi-Part Final Fantasy VII Remake is Not the End of the World

Hardcore Gamer:This past weekend, more footage from the hugely anticipated Final Fantasy VII Remake was released in the form of a cinematic gameplay trailer. Understandably, the trailer and the announcements that accompany it, have caused massive amounts of speculation and discussion as the world dissects and digests the footage.

[SegaSaturn669]

I was thinking, what if they split the game into thirds and charged 20 dollars apiece so that the end result was the price of a regular MSRP game.

Part 1: Midgar
Part 2: Kalm to Ice Mountain Snowboarding
Part 3: Endgame

Sort of like the way the discs were separated.

[HammadTheBeast]

That's what you're thinking. What they're thinking, is to split up the game into 3 parts, like FF XIII, and then charge $60 apiece.

Because why not? People will still buy it. If you can milk the fans 3x as much, why not?

[Bimkoblerutso]

I have no idea why you are getting disagrees. NOTHING SquareEnix has done recently points to anything but a cash grab with this nonsense. Big business companies like this do not randomly develop good will.

I think with a game as legendary as FFVII, people are willing to accept anything just so they can stay excited.

[Summons75]

Oh you were in that meeting? Cool because they haven't went into further details about what they are planning and butthurt kids like you are being drama queens as always.

[gangsta_red]

They are definitely trying out this type of design by implementing it in one the most requested and anticipated title in their library.

It's no surprise that they wouldn't want to one and done this, but instead draw this out as long as possible.

[Bimkoblerutso]

I would be more than happy to eat crow on this, but I don't think it's going to happen. These people are not our friends and they didn't just randomly get a jolt of good will and decide to remake the game now after fans have been asking for it since the PS2.

The industry is at a point now where it is very profitable to milk older games and franchises.

[Gamer4News]

So it'll be split into 3 Disks, just like the original? I am fine with that.

[HammadTheBeast]

@Summons75

Literally everything we know about the company says they will do this. They've sold the same remakes of FF games for $15-20 on the app store for ages, they sold FF XIII as a 3-part series for $60 each (isn't that the same as this?), and they are a company who wants to make money, and that is an easy strategy to make 3x the money.

@Gamer4News

Yes, 3 disks, but the original didn't cost you $150+ did it?

[Suzyp]

99% sure they will charge 60 bucks for each part. They said each part will be a "full-sized game". Not sure what SE considers "full-sized", but will most likely be similar to content presented in the FFXIII series.

Fans told SE to take their money when they saw the teaser, and so they listened, LOL.

[SegaSaturn669]

You would think that an action oriented title would play much more quickly than a game with random encounters.

And then, if episodic, what happens if you try to start from a later episode with no previous save data? I thought I saw a clause in the ps vita unity devkit contract that stated a game published must be playable from start to finish even for separate standalone content.

[Adrian_v01]

@segasaturn

Mass Effect 2 and 3 could be played without previous saves. In 3 you had the option to go through the story of 1 and 2 in form of a comic book which let you make all the story important choices.

[TheROsingleB]

They probably won't do this, however. It will come out as a $60 game each time; Look at Final Fantasy 13 and it's sequels - only with this, you already know the whole story and if you want to play it to the end, you pay to the end. If you didn't like 13 but bought it, you opted out of the rest of it.
Square will milk milk milk the sweet tears of the Final Fantasy 7 crybabies, who will proceed to buy each part simply because "OMG FF7".
I will eat my fucking hat if part 1 of this game does not release at $60 initially. You are likely to be buying a $180 product when all is said and done.
Before you slam me with disagrees, look at it this way. With the amount of man-hours they need to put into this, it's an expensive -EXPENSIVE- project. It will absolutely be considered "AAA" when released, and will command that cost to recoup the expense of putting it all together. This is not a downloadable budget title, kids.

I'm not saying this will be a bad game, and I want to see it happen like anyone else, but I'm being realistic about what they're about to do.

[Rookie_Monster]

Maybe...but it could be the end of my wallet.

Let see the first game out first and see where this project is heading.

[deathtok]

Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!

[nick309]

So many articles about the multi part remake, only news i see lol

[Lon3wolf]

I'll wait for concrete info etc. before deciding whether this approach is good or bad.

[Big_Game_Hunters]

Wait and see. This could be a good thing as easy as it can be bad.

[TheOneWhoIsTornApart]

I don't get what the hell is so hard to understand about the reasoning behind why they are doing this. This is going to be one of the most ridiculously large projects ever made in the video game industry and it will have cutting edge current gen graphics and will cost unfathomable amounts of money and resources and man power. It needs to be split for other reasons besides just the cost. It will take until 2020 to come out other wise if done in one go and also need to have things cut and then make it much more streamlined. We don't want that. Being split into full AAA games that have many many hours of game play and absolutely packed full of content and lots of additions will expand the world of FFVII immensely and create a far greater experience for the remake. You are all fools to believe this is just to " milk the fans" and just be a "cash grab". Kitase and Nomura are extremely passionate about this project and want to give us the best FFVII remake they can possibly give us and do not want to give us some watered down game with lots of stuff cut from it. I am fully on board with what they are doing wit this remake and am happy it is a multi part series because we are getting what we dreamed of and a whole lot more.

[Sidewinder-]

"It will take until 2020 to come out other wise if done in one go"

Ridiculous. How would releasing the game in partition decrease the time to complete the overall product, if it would take that long to complete it anyway? If anything it would probably take LONGER OVERALL having to coordinate 3 seperate releases!

"and also need to have things cut and then make it much more streamlined."

Longer dev time = more things being cut? what?

"Being split into full AAA games that have many many hours of game play and absolutely packed full of content and lots of additions will expand the world of FFVII immensely and create a far greater experience for the remake."

Doesn't this sound better:

"A complete product that has many many hours of game play and is absolutely packed full of content and lots of additions that will expand the world of FFVII immensely and create a far greater experience for the remake."

They arn't going episodic because it's "good". They're doing it because they "can".

Will obviously be waiting for a 'complete compilation edition' for this.

[averagejoe26]

But they aren't going episodic. How can you possibly still be spreading this false info?

Game is going to split up into multiple full game titles...think Mass Effect 1, 2, 3...FF13 - 1, 2, 3...etc

To remake the entirety of FF7 plus new content would be a 10 year development plan.

FF13 and it's installments took the entire lifetime of the ps3 to be released and they have nowhere near as much content as 7.

They did not want to make us wait 10 years to play. This way, we can play the first full game and wait for its full game sequels as they are finished in the future.

You're going to be waiting 10 years for a "complete compilation"...just as the Mass Effect Trilogy was put on sale way after the release of its first title.

It's really not that hard to understand. I'm baffled that so many people cannot grasp this.

[bobsmith]

just buy them seperatley when the last part comes out
the first ones will probably be cheaper by then and it will be the same time it would of taken for it to come out all at once anyways.

[areisul]

The thing is nobody knows ANYTHING about how these episodes are going to be split up or priced, and everyone is just jumping to the worst conclusions. Clickbait articles are not helping. People need to calm down, until we know more there isn't any reason to set up a quarantine and burn the house down over a little unexpected news.

[KwietStorm_BLM]

It's only the end of Gaia.