Releasing FFVII for the 30th anniversary in 2018,
"Should have been an easily accomplishable task" says someone who seemingly knows very little about game development. If the company had ANY confidence in what their release window for the game would be based on what they've completed thus far – *gasp*
they'd've announced a release window for the game. One really big and successful game that came out this year was,
God of War and that game took their team
5 years to complete. Also, since that game is also a part of a story that they want to tell, you could go off calling it 1/3, 1/4, 1/5 of a reboot/sequel, depending on how you think that they're splitting that story up.
But if they ran into something on
THAT game –
they could just make up something different to fit what they were able to achieve. The dude clearly doesn't understand that making a REMAKE of something is actually developmentally FAR more difficult than making something new, because you're constrained by the original in a lot of ways that you're not if you're just creating something fresh. The whole audience essentially already has an outline that you HAVE to follow for your final product, and they'll be bothered if you don't do that, so making changes and alterations on something THAT well known is vastly more difficult.
Yes, Nomura takes a long time to put out games – that's a surprise to absolutely nobody and something we ALL knew as soon as we saw his name on it. The question is whether the final product will be worth the wait we all ALWAYS knew it was gonna take. There's no reason to lose faith in what the game's gonna be just because it's following their pattern of being slow as hell about it. Yeah, it's frustrating but I also suspect that when KHIII releases in January, we'll start getting more information about the Remake since that'll be off their plate and out of the way.
Hell, even FFXV's been mostly radio-silent all year when it comes to the updates that we know we're getting for that, and that also means that there's that additional marketing and release to be cognizant of when it comes to ensuring that the marketing doesn't get overshadowed or eclipsed by FFVII, and we know that game's DLC chapters aren't gonna be done until Spring of 2019, which means that there's no way anyone should've been expecting it to've been a 2018 thing, even if there WERE some internal development plans around it.
Hell, nobody even knows WHAT Uematsu was referring to when he said, "this year" either. There's a possibility that they might still be planning on some sort of reveal still, which is why they censored him. Assuming that ANYthing this new involves their composer accidentally referring to what would have been a
long-since-abandoned internal-only release date is fooling themselves.
(Edit: Ryuman and I are clearly on the exact same page)
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