Hopes for Remake & Rebirth (story/content)

[Sprites]

Gongaga should have some form of expansion I feel, to do with Zack's backstory, particularly when Aerith finds out that Gongaga is Zack's hometown or at least have Cloud go back and tell Zack's parents their son is dead once Cloud gets his memories back it always bugged me that even when Cloud got his memory back if you went back to Gongaga and talked to Zack's parents there'd be no change in the dialogue, you'd think he want to at least give his parents some closure or tell them their son was a hero or something.

Speaking off actually I wonder if they'd change any of the original dialogue that Aerith has in regards to Zack in the original game she makes it seem like she wasn't that close to him, Crisis Core obviously changes that and whereas original Aerith doesn't seem to know what happened to Zack, Crisis Core implies she senses he's dying or seriously injured.

Edit: one more thing I forgot to mention, which I think was mentioned but expansion on Gast and Ifalna. In my opinion that part of Icicle Inn should never have been optional it's got backstory of Aerith, it's got information about WEAPON and Jenova you could so easily bypass in the original game it should always have been integrated as Canon

 

[Obsidian Fire]

^^See... I find the Icicle Inn reveal just way too convenient. I'd almost want them to find all that out some other way. (Hojo's videotape collection during the Midguard raid anyone?) Yeah, I get that FFVII calls for a lot of suspension of disbelief moments, but finding Aerith's parents' house untouched after 20+ years? That's really pushing it. I still have a hard time believing that Hojo (of all people) left all that info there for anyone to stumble upon... It just doesn't make sense on so many levels.

 

[Clement Rage]

"Attack while it's tail's up!

(If you do)

"That's the dumbest advice I ever heard!"
"I look like an engineer?"

Female voice actors for Shinra soldiers (including fightable ones)

Normally I'm not keen on too many winks to the other games, but I wouldn't mind some reference to Biggs/Wedge's sister, the one that Vincent escorts in Dirge.

 

[anxiousheart]

For me, I definitely want to see some other Turks. One big one for me is that I want to see is Tseng after the Temple of the Ancients. We obviously know from AC that he is still with us, but it was left so ambiguous in the game.

I'm really looking forward to seeing Junon (not sure if that's been mentioned yet) and the WEAPONs.

I agree with the earlier comments about Rufus. I feel like his character starts to realise what Shinra has done after Meteor is summoned and that's why he believes the Huge Materia strategy will work, as well as the sister ray later on. I'd like to see discussions between Reeve and Rufus.

 

[Sprites]

@The Engineer.

Except it wouldn't surprise me if Icicle Inn was subjected to surveying similar to Nibelheim, considering how close to the crater it is, yet out of the way of normal population and I'd say Hojo would have spent quite some time gathering info there after finding Gast and Ifalna maybe he got careless who knows, he did say it took him quite some time to find them so maybe he assumed nobody would really know where to look for the info, if they came looking at all it doesn't seem like a lot of people know much about the Ancients or Jenova.

For me I think there's a sense of poignancy and a bit of sadness of stumbling upon Aerith's birthplace so soon after loosing her, that and imagining what her reaction might have been had she seen that information for herself, for me it works. They might just need to flesh it out a bit maybe it could be mentioned after Elena makes her appearance with some Shinra Soldiers, some of town's people I'm sure would remember Gast and Ifalna or could make an allusion to when hojo and some Shinra Soldiers took Aerith and Ifalna by force fron the house, there was enough commotion from the video that someone probably saw it or heard something.

 

[Starling]

I got the impression the videos were the only noteworthy things that were left behind whe Hojo presumably cleaned out Gast's research.

It'd be cool if they made the towns bigger.

 

[Smaddy]

I'd like more expansive sidequests for each character to get their final weapon and/or limit break. It could just be one sidequest for one or both items depending on the situation. I like how some of them work (like Tifa's is a little tricky to get), but others are basically just talking to the right NPC or looking in the right spot at the right time. I'd like to see bigger sidequests for these items to put in some more story for each character.

Same thing with the Materia caves. I guess the point is you do all the work to breed a Chocobo to get those Materia, but even as a kid I thought, "A one-screen cave? I did all that breeding for a 2-second thing?" It wouldn't necessarily need to be a crazy/huge thing, just something more than a tiny cave.

 

[trash panda]

^^^ I haven't played FFX in a while but I remember enjoying the difficulty involved in acquiring final weapons in that game. I'd enjoy a similar challenge in the VII remake.

I second Octo's NPC post. I really want more of the Chocobo Sage. ^.^

 

[Mangakamary]

Gongaga should have some form of expansion I feel, to do with Zack's backstory, particularly when Aerith finds out that Gongaga is Zack's hometown or at least have Cloud go back and tell Zack's parents their son is dead once Cloud gets his memories back it always bugged me that even when Cloud got his memory back if you went back to Gongaga and talked to Zack's parents there'd be no change in the dialogue, you'd think he want to at least give his parents some closure or tell them their son was a hero or something.

Speaking off actually I wonder if they'd change any of the original dialogue that Aerith has in regards to Zack in the original game she makes it seem like she wasn't that close to him, Crisis Core obviously changes that and whereas original Aerith doesn't seem to know what happened to Zack, Crisis Core implies she senses he's dying or seriously injured.

Edit: one more thing I forgot to mention, which I think was mentioned but expansion on Gast and Ifalna. In my opinion that part of Icicle Inn should never have been optional it's got backstory of Aerith, it's got information about WEAPON and Jenova you could so easily bypass in the original game it should always have been integrated as Canon

I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU ON THE ZACH ISSUE. I know he wasn't suppose to be important..but I grew to like Zach more than the main characters. .and I always wanted to tell his parents what happened. This was like the first thing I thought of when I heard remake lol

 

[Dravin]

Lots of good ideas here, such as expanding Gongaga and all. Another thing I hope they explain is why Cloud couldn't just revive Aerith with a phoenix down or Revive materia like everyone else. Maybe he could try it after the battle with Jenova Life and it not work for whatever reason. Dunno, just sharing my thoughts.

I also hope for a post-Meteorfall scene with Cloud and the gang to wrap things up at the end of the game, something we didn't have in the OG. The 500 years later scene with Red could still be at the end of the credits same as before, too.

 

[Starling]

I'd say Revive and Phoenix Downs can't work on certain injuries like was demonstrated in an earlier FF game. There's also the possibility that they only work if you're only almost dead since there's always some level of gameplay and story segregation regarding items like that within RPGs. I don't think there's a way to fit the attempted revival thing into Aerith's death scene without breaking up the pacing.

 

[Channy]

Who else wants to see Bugenhagen floating on his ball thing? I always thought he just sort of.. bounced around.

 

[Flintlock]

Phoenix Down cures the K.O. status, which isn't the same as actually dying, though it doesn't help that the game has attacks like Lvl. 5 Death that cause K.O.

 

[Starling]

You mean like how defeated pokemon faint and can be healed with revives?

 

[trash panda]

Who else wants to see Bugenhagen floating on his ball thing? I always thought he just sort of.. bounced around.

Lol. I just had this conversation with someone on facebook. I never realized he was sitting on something. XD

 

[Flintlock]

You mean like how defeated pokemon faint and can be healed with revives?

Basically, yeah.

 

[Dravin]

I thought so, Flint, about how the items worked, it just didn't seem overly clear to me in the OG what the difference between KO status and death was.

Also, another comedic moment I hope they keep is when they're in Lower Junon and Priscilla tells them about the high voltage tower, the gang all volunteers Cloud to jump up it, and he's like "Huh?"

 

[trash panda]

^^^ On a dolphin, no less.

 

[Wolf_]

I'd like to see some deathbed dialog between cloud and aeris. Would make the scene even sadder. I've never got over the anger when I first played it that a character I levelled up was gone. No it's a case of "hurry up and kill the bitch so I can put Tifa back in the party"

 

[55-]

Deathbed dialogue's too melodramatic. Completely flies in the face of what they were trying to do with her death.

 

[Sprites]

Yeah I like the shock factor of how Aerith's death was done. If there's one thing I don't want them to touch it's her death, everything about that scene just works, lack of dialogue apart from Sephiroth and Cloud, how nobody actually says anything, there's just actions from the group and this is gonna sound so corny but it really was one of those actions speak louder than words scenarios where you could feel every character's grief by them not actually speaking.

 

[55-]

I hope the slap fight becomes Scarlet slapping Tifa, and Tifa knocking Scarlet the F out.

 

[Almighty Vincent]

I would like to have Vincent's flashback where you play as Vincent while he was in the Turks. Or have it as you watch the flashback in game and then there could be DLC where you play as Vincent in that flashback.

 

[LicoriceAllsorts]

I hope they make the Turks' suits fit properly and not be all boxy and flappy and badly cut the way they are in ACC, like sometimes it didn't even seem as if there was a body inside the suit. And I hope they get rid of the zips!!!!!!! Not stylish or cool.

 

[Wolf_]

I always hated it to the point where after 100+ playthroughs it has become a chore. The one thing that always gets my right in the feels is Nanaki and Seto. It made me sad when i was 8 and at 24 it still brings a tear to my eye. I thought I'd be desensitized to it by now.