FF7 Remake "Multi part series"
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Claymore
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Yeah, this just makes sense to try, which is why I definitely think it's going to happen. It will shift some focus to XV, and even if it doesn't, everyone and their dog will purchase it - even if just for the Remake demo and increase excitement even more. It's a win-win scenario.
Kermitu Kleric Katie
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I think the worst part of this whole multi-part thing is we won't get Cid until like at LEAST part 2, and that's if we're lucky.
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Scenario writing isn't exactly a large part of making a game. Even the script writing for the dialogue is relatively minor. What takes time is event scripting - scripting what everyone is doing and adding dialogue to it etc. in game.This just means that they've decided what events are going into the game and how those events will unfold on screen - something you'd usually be done with before you do pretty much anything else in most cases
Yeah, with scripts in pretty much in everything-movies, games and possibly even books-you'd have to be very careful and have the dialogue to make sense when people(or animals) are talking and how it'll fit to the story.
Another thing that takes a huge amount of time is the graphics, visionual(ugh, me and my bad spelling) effects, technology, models, ect, and that can take sometimes several years, or in Square Enix's case, several years all the time.
As much as it sounds nice and very surprising, I don't think they'll happen. They have FFXV, KH 2.8 and KH3 to worry about.
I'm with you on this one. Both titles are extremtely huge games, and we all know how god mother loving long they took on FFXV-A decade!
Hate to say this, but don't count on that. You'll be more lucky to get FFXV and World of Final Fantasy in 2016. I'm thinking more 2018/2019 for at least part 1 of the FFVIIR.
AvecAloes
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I just can't imagine that they're not going to capitalize at all on the anniversary in 2017. I think it's completely realistic to get at least the first installment in 2017.
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!!!!!!! Oh be still, my heart. This is such a marvelous idea. MAKE IT HAPPEN SQUARE.
And while I would be so excited to play a demo for FFVIIR, I'm also massively excited to finally play XV, so it would be a win-win for me too.
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Mayo Master
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I'd be surprise if they do, but eh, why the hell not.
After all, they did make a demo of the OG (I think around the end of 1996) which was about the first bombing mission. Then what you suggest would be a demo release for the 20th anniversary of OG demo!
Animexcel
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You're only paying for a game more than once if you buy the first part twice.
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So you never bought the original?
SirVival
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What I meant by that is that I haven't followed any of the episodic games that are being published, and I intend to keep it that way. I do buy and have done so in the past with different media, mostly with books. You could also include movies there, but not games. If you divide a work that was once published as a whole to separate pieces, I have no interest for that. I never watched the Hobbit movies for this reason as I find it stupidifying, for the book was rather small and was published all at once. I rather let the others, who don't mind spending years following this disaster, enjoy spending their time waiting and wasting their money on chapters, for this game should've been published as a whole. It's too bitter for me. And for that reason, I'm out.
So you never bought the original?
Actually that I game I did buy two times
The Twilight Mexican
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I can't fault you for being annoyed, but I don't think there's any other way this was going to happen at this point. SE shareholders just wouldn't finance something that huge unless it could pay for itself while it's being developed.
SirVival
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I know, though I don't know about the financing. I really don't see any point anymore, are they remaking a game or just using it as an excuse to cash out the last pennies of loyal fans, old and new.. I knew the moment they said this game would come first to PS4, that they have no chance of doing that, if they were to remake the whole game well. Back then I just expected them to eat their words and move the project onward, geez, to PS5 or some shit like that. I doubted the lifespan of PS4 would be that long, though I stand corrected. Now that I see they have reached this conclusion, I am very disappointed. I would've actually preferred them to fuck up the remake instead of making us wait for years, then give a bit of candy and then to wait another year again. Nothing kills the interest quite as well as waiting for the next release. This has happened to me with many series. On top of that it ruins my day knowing you're only good for your money, so yeah, honestly, I think I lost my interest. How come a disappointing company, which just keeps on disappointing, can still manage to disappoint as much as this? I think there's not much space left to do that anymore.
Oh I know a way! Let's play an imagination game for a second and imagine, that FF7 Chapter 1 (probably until Midgar Zolom
) comes out on 2017, everybody goes crazy and buys the game, just to be disappointed with different factors (like waiting!) of the game. By Chapter 2 (until Forgotten Temple, 'cause cliffhangerrrrzzz), which is to be released somewhere in the late 2018, the sales have already sinked, after which they won't recover. For Chapter 3 they decide to give their very best to nullify the damage already done, which will result in Chapter 3 to be constantly postponed all the way until 2020-2021. By then nobody cares anymore, excluding some hardcore fans, and the sales will hit the rock bottom. I give this project 3 Chapters until they drop the whole thing.
ForceStealer
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While I disagree with most of your prevailing pessimism, the chapter releases are hugely risky. If you disappoint people with one release, it's going to be a LOT harder to make those sales up on the next part. Just look at the status of the FFXIII series, the other games were ostensibly better than XIII, but didn't do nearly as well.
As for your comment about Cloud ducking through the stuff being an indication that it will be hallways like XIII. You're the second person I've heard say that and I think it's absurd. Did you not watch the whole trailer, the streets of Midgar look a HELL of a lot more open. That hallway Cloud is manuevering through is
That trailer covered probably the most linear section in the entire game. A game whose openness people seriously overrate.
As for your comment about Cloud ducking through the stuff being an indication that it will be hallways like XIII. You're the second person I've heard say that and I think it's absurd. Did you not watch the whole trailer, the streets of Midgar look a HELL of a lot more open. That hallway Cloud is manuevering through is
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There is definitely an element of risk in play with the multi-part release plan, but as long as part one sells well, I think it's going to be fine.
Starling
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I disagree that having to wait for the full remake would be worse than having the remake fucked up but all in one go. The waiting will eventually be behind you and anyone getting the game afterwards won't even need to worry about it. That fuck up will exist forever and, being the remake of a beloved game, probably never truly forgiven.