FFVII Remake... It's Official! (Discussion)

The longer I look at it the more it seems to me to just be a fancier Crisis core system with maybe a few kingdom hearts aspects thrown in.

Personally really dont care for a ffVII remake. The trend nowadays seems to be, the better the graphics the more the game sucks. I like my Aeris dying looking like she's been made out of cardboard boxes.
Lost my intrest for FF games at XIII.

for all we know it could be a new ATB system, and instead of having charas and enemies lined up in combat (old FF7) they are located in a small 3d environment and just move around hitting stuff ? idk

Maybe they can remaster ff9 so its actually good. lol yes, im one of those people who didnt like 9, found it forgettable compared to the other titles in the ff universe.

Forgettable? Maybe if you didn't play any Final Fantasies before it. The game is chock full of so much callback and reference you'd have to be a block of ice not to catch feels.

FF9 is a love letter to Final Fantasy fans.

In a way it seems like a retelling of FF3

I'm doing a re-play of FFXIII since I needed to replace my previous PS3.

FF13 sucks, ff9 sucks, there's no such thing as man-made global warming, GMOs arent harmful, Ross Perot-2016!

Yes, at least in the greatest hits version.

yea i had to do a search on the store. but good news its 10.87$ till dec 12th

I wanted to make this thread to see what people appreciate the most about the original game, and what would they most like to see in the Remake.

So I'm going to lay some ground rules down. Firstly I ask everyone to post ONE thing (per post) they want to see in the Remake (whether it's exactly the same or if you want to some tweaks, explain that), and you can only post again after someone else has followed, to avoid spam.

Also, secondly, mentioning the battle system is against the rules. We only want to talk about the rest of the game here. If you want to talk about the pros-and-cons of turn-based combat versus real-time combat, go to the other thread.

Thirdly, this is an appreciation thread, so only true love for FFVII is allowed. No hate please. I love FFVII, I love the game so damn much it bugs me when people talk down about it. It bugs me when people won't even give the game a chance because "the graphics suck!". So I'm looking to connect with other FFVII lovers here. I have so many things I want to see in the Remake, but I'll start us off with one example.

World Map & Highwind

One of the biggest things for me is the chance to traverse the World Map. FFVII was the first world map I ever traveled across, and back in 1997, it was a huge thing. Nowadays we don't see World Maps anymore, instead they are split up in to zones, and generally you can use an airship to "warp" to other zones (I hated FFX when I got the airship and couldn't fly it), but that's not enough!

I want to be able to physically pilot the Highwind, land the Highwind, watch Cloud & Chocobo depart from the Highwind, and hell why not, give that ship some firepower! And the World Map .. imagine it in today's graphics, extended, and in glorious detail. Being able to land and "zone" into Cosmo Canyon. Wouldn't it be great? I can clearly see why they would choose not to include a World Map like the one in the original, but hopefully they manage to do it. While they are at it, make the interior of the Highwind bigger, with a bigger room so you can store your favourite Chocobos.

And lastly, I want to be able to chase Ultima Weapon around the world map! Oh man, that would be epic.

FF13 sucks, ff9 sucks, there's no such thing as man-made global warming, GMOs arent harmful, Ross Perot-2016!

I guess I don't fully understand why there's this whole "turn based vs. ATB" debate happening.

Isn't Final Fantasy mainly about the storyline anyhow?

To be honest, I like both turn base and ATB. Matter of fact, I'm doing a re-play of FFXIII since I needed to replace my previous PS3.

^ This is why I made a new thread. To get away from posts like these.

Excellent point.

I've revived the appreciation thread, keep the critic talk in here. If you're tired of of the back and forth, go there.

Keep it civil.

IX was awesome (although it could use some tweaks).