Of those choices, remake all the way. I agree with Octo in not being crazy about reboots. Good things can come of them, sure, but 9 times out of 10 I will be happier with continuity rather than just someone throwing their hands up and saying "FORGET ALL THAT, STARTIN' OVER!"
And as I have said on the issue of finishing the Compilation - I would have mroe respect for SE if they finished what they started rather than just giving up on it.
I dont really want a remake as I dont trust them not to fuck it up. Crisis Core gave an indication of what theyd do and it was fucking bland as hell, I still dont get how they managed to give the slums 0 personality in 3D.
This was a result of 2 factors, in my opinion.
#1 - the PSP's limited rendering power really did away with all the little details. Obviously the PS1 had even less power, but VII's backgrounds were pre-rendered, allowing for all that great detail in the trash piles and graffiti and stuff like that.
#2 - The lack of a restrictive, top-down camera angle. A free roaming camera is pretty much going to be inherently less oppressive.
I think both of those things are pretty easily fixed. A console will have more than enough power to render lots of little details in real time (See: Uncharted series). And don't be afraid to use a fixed or uncontrollable camera once in awhile. It worked pretty well for FFX.
I thought Cid was allowed to let loose in DoC. Something tells me I'm remembering that game wrong.
Yes and no. There were plenty of 'hell's and 'damn's and 'ass's to protray him as suitably curmudgeonly and he didn't seem very out of character. But there wasn't really anything worthy of the "*#^%"s either.
They have to introduce elements of the Compilation. Given its existence, they can't just remake a game they've changed the storyline to and keep it the same, otherwise it's a completely wasted effort. I already own FFVII. Better graphics is going to do nothing for me.
Yeah, if it wasn't for the compilation theyd have a shot, but now theyd be obliged to include a load of the stupid shit they came up with.
I don't understand this mentality. Why would they have to change anything about that? The whole point of the Compilation was to extend the story of the original game, not the other way around. And while they messed stuff up, I don't see how that would have to affect the main story.
i.e. Deepground and the Genesis Army - they were both way too big, especially too big to be completely covered up. But we've been clearly told that they WERE completely covered up somehow. So neither of them would be in the main quest.
Indeed, we're told Genesis' ENTIRE EXISTENCE was completely covered up and erased from the history books. So he would have no impact at all.
The biggie is of course Genesis at Nibelheim. But I think it was pretty obvious that it was inserted there with the idea that Cloud wouldn't really have any knowledge of the man anyway, therefore it would not be in his memory which is why we never saw it in the main game. Regardless of whether you feel that was plausible or not, I have to think that was the intent. So, again, the original scenes should be unaffected.
Before Crisis does add some problems, but Crisis Core proved they don't have any problem screwing what happened in BC in the interest of the way things were originally portrayed (and they shouldn't have any problems with that as BC is dumb).
As I have frequently petitioned - by all means, stick in all the optional content you want that ties to the Compilation. Optional dungeons in places like Banora or Modeoheim, find even more info on the original Avalanche than you could already by really picking Elders' brains in Cosmo Canyon, et cetera. But don't touch the original quest. It was fine, by and large, and the Compilation is supposed to conform to it, not vice versa.
So, again, questioning SE's current pedigree with game development is one thing, and probably legitimate. But this idea that Square would HAVE TO CHANGE the main quest to conform with the Compilation and would therefore ruin the game, I just don't see it.
And jazzflower, the VII-X connection was just "something to chew on," it never seems to have been intended as anything with an explicit link. Especially not one like Jenova.
