Final Fantasy VII on PS3

[Xantar]

Originally Posted by Jerry Falwell

Stop antagonizing me because you don't think FFVII Is one of the best Final Fantasy games ever made. Aside from VI, VII marked one of the best storylines ever interpolated into a RPG.

It surprises me that you don't even know about the mass cult following FFVII has. Go to any gaming forum, mention FFVII and you'll get a mass amount of people from each forum that will accomodate you, Albeit GT considering it used to be a Nintendo forum and VII seperated marked a new relationship from Nintendo and on Playstation..

Nintendoids pay money all the time to see Mario in everything else, and they pay money for Zelda after Zelda game....... Now.... to pay $50 for a remake of a game thats only been done once....isn't going to hurt the franchise as much as you would hope it would. All FF games have been original, except for X-2 being a sequel. And you cannot count Advent Children considering it's a friggin movie.

So to have a VII remake? You act as if this is the millionth time they've remade a game. Honestly the only 'whoring' I've seen from Square is FFX-2.

You know, I think it's really cute how you keep posting as if you think somebody is going to seriously pay attention. But just to accommodate you, let me point out a very simple distinction:

The internet does not equal the world.

Got that? Ok, good. Now, how many people will I find on any particular message board who reply "yes" when I ask the question, "Do you want a graphical update of Final Fantasy VII?" A hundred? A thousand?

Now how many copies does a Final Fantasy game have to sell in order to be considered a success? 500,000? A million?

You see my point, I hope. I'm never going to find enough people simply by combing through internet message boards to conclude one way or another. I might find that there's a rabid fanbase, but that says nothing at all about the real world out there where people spend real money. Metroid Prime was hailed by many as the possibly the greatest game made in this generation, but that didn't help sales of Metroid Prime: Echoes very much. The news that Resident Evil was coming to the GameCube sparked so much furor that countless petitions were started up asking Capcom to bring the franchise back so the PS2. You'd think that it was one of the biggest deals of the decade from all the hype that was started up at the time, but the truth is Resident Evil: Remake didn't do all that fantastically well either.

So why don't you tell me again: what proof do you have to offer me that a graphical update of Final Fantasy VII is in demand and will do well in sales? Internet message boards don't count. The most you could prove to me with that is that maybe 10,000 people would buy it. That's a bit of a far cry from hundreds of thousands, don't you think? Don't make the mistake of thinking that just because there are a bundh of rabic fanboys on the internet that the world at large will care at all about Final Fantasy VII. Using that same logic, I could also conclude that a Catherine Zeta-Jones videogame is also going to be a huge hit. In all likelihood, there are more people who know her name than there are people who have heard of Final Fantasy VII.

Incidentally, if you think that the only whoring Square Enix has done is FF X-2, then I guess you haven't heard of Final Fantasy VII: Dirge of Cerberus or Final Fantasy VII: Before Crisis. Add these to Final Fantasy VII: Remake (or whatever they call it) and you get three games in the Final Fantasy VII world within a year and a half or so. At least when a new Mario or Zelda game is made, it takes place in a substantially different world. And besides that, it's been three years since either a Zelda or Mario game has come out on consoles. It's funny how people trying to criticize Nintendo always seem to miss little details like that.

[bobcat]

i'm a nintendo fanboy who likes FF

[Happydude]

what are these other 2 FFVII games? can anyone supply a link please?

[Perfect Stu]

Xantar, I know you like giving the guy a hard time...but I'll bite.

Who are you to say that a FFVII remake wouldnt sell extremely well?

REmake on Gamecube was a success...Resident Evil was a big hit when it was released originally

FFVII was a huge hit when IT was released originally...and with a 2-generation update (contrasting RE's one-gen update) I dont see why it wouldnt do just as good, if not considerably better.

Now, I honestly think a new Final Fantasy game would probably sell better...but I have a sneaking suspiscion that Final Fantasy VII remade on PS3 would sell its fair share of copies...

[Happydude]

everybody i know who has played FFVII and liked it want's to buy the graphic remake when it comes out....and that's quite a lot of people.

[MuGen]

Originally Posted by Happydude

everybody i know who has played FFVII and liked it want's to buy the graphic remake when it comes out....and that's quite a lot of people.

Thats the point I'm trying to make......A people who have played FFVII and liked it, wouldn't mind a newer polished version..

As did fans of RE when it was polished for GCN.

[DarkMaster]

Holy crap, I can't believe some people actually seem angry with SE for doing this. How can anyone be opposed to a company trying to make their fans happy? For years and years people have whined and bitched and begged for an expansion onto the FFVII universe (it IS widely proclaimed to be the best FF game ever, whether you agree or not), and now that the people are finally getting what they wanted, they still complain.

Yeah, they're also doing it for the vast amounts of cash. Guess what? That's what companies do, they make money. People will buy it, so they're going to make it.

If you don't like it, don't play it. The fact of the matter is, there ARE people who want this to happen, so instead of bickering about it, just go play something else.

SE can assign a team to develop a FFVII remake and it will not affect any other game's development AT ALL. They have a LOT of development teams (Square teams, Enix teams, Tri-Ace teams, Game Arts teams, Working Design teams...), how else do you think that they're managing to currently work on FFXII, Dirge of Cerberus, Crisis Core, Before Crisis, Kingdom Hearts 2, Code Age Commanders, Grandia 3, Radiata Stories, Romancing Saga, Dragon Quest VIII, Fullmetal Alchemist 2, FullMetal Alchemist 3, Front Mission Online, Front Mission 5, FFII Mobile, Front Mission 2089 Mobile, Hexcite Fushion, Ambrosia Odyssey, Drakegard II, Heavy Metal Thunder, Dragon Quest Monsters series, FFIII (DS), FF: Crystal Chronicles (DS), Secret of Mana (DS), World of Mana, Slime Morimori Dragon Quest 2, FFXIII (this is confirmed to be in development), and a sequel to FFXI?

I mean seriously, who cares what the company does? If you think they're whoring out a series, then don't buy the games and move on.

EDIT: I forgot a few games in that list, it's now updated.