Chocobos in the Remake

[Flare]

Since there hasn't been one made yet, here's a thread for discussing chocobos in the remake!

Firstly, their appearance. will they be redesigned to look more 'realistic', like XII & XIII's chocobos? In CC's chocobo stomp, they were upgraded with graphics but still had a cute look about them, and was about as tall as Zack.

Next, riding them on the world map/in the game. I really hope you get to still ride them around. And also, the different colors and abilities. Will they still include that in the remake? Will there be more colors you can obtain?

Then there's breeding them. I hope that the nuts they have are all able to have some use, not just two out of, what, ten? Perhaps some nuts could give chocobos decorative colors, ones that don't grant abilities. Perhaps the breeding system will be revamped and there's a whole new way to capture chocobos and breed them.

Finally, the last thing I can think of, is racing them. They'd better include chocobo races. I'd love it if they had a couple more courses to race on as well, and a revamped system of prizes perhaps?

So then, are there thoughts on any of these subjects?

 

[Octo]

I hope it's ultra realistic, up to and including having to wank off the male chocobos to get sperm for insemination. It could be a button bashing mini game

Sorry.

But yeah, I think they'll have to look more realistic. Otherwise, sadly, it's just going to look weird.

Part of me suspects they're going to remove the Chocobo world map element, but maybe keep the breeding and racing element,.

 

[Starling]

They don't need to remove the chocobo tracks, they could make them more subtle instead, maybe give other signs that chocobos are around, like a few feathers lying around. CC's chocobos looked more realistic than the OG ones, while still keeping the general look of FF7 chocobos.

 

[Octo]

^Sorry, I meant the running around on the world map on a Chocobo, not the tracks. I should have clarified.

I guess if they're aiming to have it open world and they're not going to do that thing of the party members disappearing they could have 3 people riding around but it might look a bit weird.

 

[Starling]

I don't really see how it'd look weird. I'm going to miss characters walking in and out of Cloud though.

 

[Wolf_]

Think I mentioned it in another thread somewhere but I hope they expand on it so you could get all of the colours seen. Purely for racing purposes and it would make use of the other 8 or so nuts that are virtually pointless. If love online multiplayer races with championships. If that was its own game I'd buy it.

 

[LicoriceAllsorts]

Yeah, I hoarded all those nuts like a demented chipmunk and then they were useless.

 

[Wolf_]

Me too. All they do is give you is yellow chocobos with terrible stats. The cheapest being the worst. My fiend gamesharked a white one and told me this ridiculous, long winded breeding method, that at 10 I believed. That's 3 months of my childhood that I'll never get back.

 

[LicoriceAllsorts]

You have a fiend? I want one!

 

[Wolf_]

Funnily enough I fell out with him after that. Turns out he was stalling me as we were seeing who could go from start to finish in the shortest time. The joys of being 10. I'll be your friend haha

 

[Flare]

^Sorry, I meant the running around on the world map on a Chocobo, not the tracks. I should have clarified.

I guess if they're aiming to have it open world and they're not going to do that thing of the party members disappearing they could have 3 people riding around but it might look a bit weird.

Whether they have a world map or just a wide open map (like Skyrim for example) I think it would be fine if when you come across chocobos, they're in groups of 3 or more, and all three of your party members out at the time get to ride one. That's like in XII, right? All three of your party members have chocobos? Or am I just imaging it?

 

[e.suna]

I loved everything you could do with the chocobos in the OG. I hope they keep everything and expand on the breeding/racing aspects. Agree 1000% about the uselessness of the nuts (seriously, why have such a variety of them if they all suck?) and that they need to fix that.

As for how the chocos will look....well, I hope they don't go overboard making them look realistic. It's really the same thing with how I felt about Nanaki's updated design in AC. I thought his OG version was so much more appealing, and a lot of that got lost. Getting carried away with making things look too realistic, the same could happen to the chocobos.

 

[55-]

For some reason I can't shake the feeling that chocobo breeding is gonna get cut. Something about the world map being different, and how absurd it would be to have chocobos running straight over mountains and villages. Plus how much of a mess chocobo breeding was as a side quest. It was always pretty unfun. Even if you know how to manipulate the rng it still takes a million years and a million resets.

I think that if they wanted to incorporate chocobo breeding into the remake, they would need to overhaul the whole system. Maybe it's pessimism speaking, but I could more easily see them simplifying the system and just letting you buy different chocobos or something, rather than bothering to spend time and resources making it equally as complex or more complex.

Would love it if they did tho. Would love to see a river chocobo running over water in HD. And I dream a dream of riding my own white chocobo.

 

[Starling]

How are players going to earn their way to the materia caves then? If they make the mountains nice enough it shouldn't be too absurd to see chocobos crossing them.

 

[55-]

I guess I'm just assuming they'd take that out. Idk, FFVII is a huge game and I have my expectations low for how much they're going to bother recreating.

Would love to be wrong though. I'm a big fan of big, complicated, long-term processes resulting in really nice prizes. Would be sad if Knights of the Round was taken out or nerfed.

Also I guess you're right RE: mountains. I guess I'm just picturing it like in FFVII where your chocobo is the size of the mountains and just bops over them. Wouldn't be too bad if there were just certain areas not safe for travel on foot.

 

[Fangu]

That's like in XII, right? All three of your party members have chocobos? Or am I just imaging it?

XII and XIII both only shows the party leader.

 

[Mayo Master]

Regarding chocobo breeding: I wouldn't be surprised if they keep most of it, after all FF Type-0 still had a very similar chocobo breeding quest.

I think it would be nicer if all party members could ride chocobos (well, maybe except for Red XIII and Cait Sith). I'm imagining the riders following the winding trails amidst the ochre cliffs, illuminated by the golden rays of the setting sun (music by Enio Morricone remastered by Uematsu )

 

[Flare]

^I like the idea of two of your party members riding chocobos but Nanaki is just running alongside you.
That's true though, while I'd love to see all your out party members get a chocobo on screen, it might be hard to get all the party members on a chocobo. I mean what would Nanaki do when you cross water? And Cait Sith would be left behind (which might not be a bad thing)

I just want to breed them and get different colors and abilities so I can ride up a steep mountain cliff and watch them walk on water, dammit!

 

[Keveh Kins]

I want to see HD Joe weep after I beat him in a race.

Just for all those times he'd show up in my B-Class races, thrash my poor, besotted yellow chocobo and force me to run another race to level it up. Bastard.

 

[Mayo Master]

One alternative may be to actually have a team of chocobos dragging a large carriage where the whole party would fit. For river crossing, the carriage could be converted into a barge while the (blue) chocobos would swim like ducks to drag it. As for the mountain situation, I've not thought of anything yet

 

[Lex]

If they include breeding, I wouldn't mind them retconning the gold chocobo to fly like in FFIX. The walking across the ocean thing would be weird. Shallow water isn't so bad, but the ocean XD.

I actually think they'll include breeding, because they wouldn't get away with cutting the gold saucer, and chocobo racing is such a big part of that. Of course, they could include racing and cut the breeding, but what's the fun in racing chocobo's if you didn't catch or breed them yourself?

 

[Starling]

Maybe look at the more recent FF games, see what's in there that could apply to how they approach the remake.

 

[Lex]

I'm cool as long as they don't have those weird FFXIII rasta ears, wtf was that all about

Gimme this plox:

Those are both from XIII. The long-eared ones are supposed to be gran-pulse chocos and the short ones Cocoon. RETAIN ORIGINAL DESIGN OR RIOT

 

[Ghost X]

I think they could make chocobos both real-looking and cute. Below is a quick drawing I did, borrowing from the original design, and features of real birds .

 

[Starling]

Not a fan of the tail-feathers. I want something more like

Spoiler: this:

The CC chocobos were nice enough so they just need to touch it up a bit to meet graphical standards.

Spoiler: Looks pretty faithful to the OG design already.

I'd like it if they could keep the expressiveness. Maybe the blue eyes too.