Final Fantasy VII Remake was announced three years ago, but there’s good news for fans of the PSone Classic: the PlayStation 4 version is "actually in development". We’re being facetious, but Tetsuya Nomura’s update to The Verge deserves it – he had the brass neck to tell the tech site that the title’s “not just in the early concept stages”. We should bloody well hope so!
He added: “Right now, it’s like I’ve been putting in 100 per cent into Kingdom Hearts, 100 per cent into Final Fantasy VII, 100 per cent into Kingdom Hearts […] just going back and forth.” Of course, Kingdom Hearts III is almost finished now, so Nomura will be able to turn his attention entirely to Cloud Strife’s comeback. Maybe we’ll get to play this game one day, eh?
[source theverge.com]
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Woohoo, who'd have thought that the games I'm looking forward to most on PS4 would be Final Fantsy VII and Resident Evil 2? It's like the mid 90's all over again. Though this time Resi 2 will come first
knowing Nomura we won't see this game for another decade.
good to hear!
must be a relief for the devs themselves!
Surely when Kingdom Hearts III launches it'll be time to talk about and show FFVII Remake?
@ShogunRok I mean, they gotta focus on 'Kingdom Hearts 3X' first, then 'Kingdom Hearts Royal Edition', and the Kingdom Hearts PSVR fishing game, followed by 'Kingdom Hearts 3+17 Banana Party Mix', 'Kingdom Hearts 3 More Years Till FF7', and 'Kingdom Heart Just Kidding: We Are Working On FF16'.
I wonder if its still coming to the ps vita
@ShogunRok Give them a few years first.
Good news everyone!
@Octane This guy knows what he's talking about!
Yes, I read something recently suggesting the same - I think the game is further along than people would imagine, although perhaps not necessarily ready to show off.
I think there was a change in plans on how they would approach the development of the game. After all, Cyberconnect2 was working in the game, and then there was the plan to release the game in multiple parts.
Square Enix clearly didn't have the resources to work in the game as planed initially.
I love Square Enix's games but they really need to rethink their development process. It's so annoying to hear about a game and then wait a decade to play it. If they need more R&D before working on a game, do so instead of announcing anything; if they need more resources, I guess it's time to hire new talents; and if they just take to long to make bigger games, maybe they should make episodic releases...
This won’t be a PS4 game then at this point, absolutely no way.
I'm unironically happy to read this, because I really want to see what they'll do to remake it.
It's a PS5 game for god's sake now
"actually in development"
On the PS7 or PS8?
“not just in the early concept stages”
The “early concept stages” for this game were started in the early 90's and finished in the mid 90's over 20 years ago. smh
@Octane " 'Kingdom Heart Just Kidding: We Are Working On FF16'.
Coming in 2077
I don't understand how Square Enix can be such a large, successful company, and yet not have the resources to divide up labor and make two big games at once
2027 can't come soon enough!
Yes at least it's coming to PS4 still or less Sqaure could lie to us lol
After what happened with Nomura and FFXV, I have my doubts about how this will turn out. At the end stuff might get scrapped again, a new director onboarded and the project rushed through?
Nowadays, anything Nomura touches, I have trouble trusting. If I was SE, I wouldn't let him do any more projects unless they are ready to spend crazy amounts of money or time.
I just got a new gaming PC last year, so I figure by the time I have to get another in 5 years... FF VII remake will be coming out within soon there after.
I hope it's a cross-gen game, I want to play it on ps5
so they were helping to finish Kingdom Hearts 3, well now i understand why we haven't heard much from the FFVII Remake
still wont stop people moaning though
I'm still kind of excited for this even though it's been like three years and it sounds like they've restarted development and also everything they've ever shown for it apart from the first trailer looked rubbish but hey I just like Final Fantasy VII.
@RenanKJ With the way everything leaks, whether they announce it or not, gamers will find out it's in development, so you have to wait 10 years anyway (i.e. the announcement is not the problem, the development cycle is).
I don't mind that they take so long to make games. For me FF games are on a whole different level. I'll take a delayed game over a rushed one.
@wiiware
Might as well just make it a PS5/Xbox 2 game at this point. It won't be out until at least 4 years into next generation.
make this game into full game instead stupid episodic format
@naruball Except 10 years isn't delay, it's awful project management, you know? I do agree that games must take their time, but there's a limit... For example, I was losing my interest on KH3 until they announced it for 2018, simply because it's been too long (and I'm a huge fan of the series). Square Enix really need to rethink their development cycle as you said.
@RenanKJ It can be a delay and an awful project management at the same time.
My point is, they saw it wasn't working and they started over. That's better than seeing something doesn't work and keep working on it ending up with a bad game. If they need to start from scratch, so be it. I applaud them for doing so. Plenty of companies don't want to take the financial hit and just release it anyway.
I still don't have my hopes raised much, except this to be a PS5 launch game.
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