Square Enix Thinking About Ideas Regarding Final Fantasy VII Remake's Release

They revealed this game WAY too soon.

They're thinking about whether it should be a PS6 or PS7 launch title, or just wait until they can stream it straight into our dreams so we can play it while we sleep.

I'd rather they just get this out and work on the next main entry, if possible. Or a new project. The remake is enough for the FF7 world.

At least now that KH3 is about done, this will definitely be their next focus.

I think this has always been a case of terrible project management from Square Enix, rather than the game being announced too early. Final Fantasy XV's situation was a little more complicated, but roughly the same result.

As much as I would have preferred to have gotten FF VI in DQ XI’s style, I have to say that i’m hyped for the 22nd century when this finally releases.

I was so hoping I'd get to play this on PS4, but that definitely doesn't look to be the case anymore IMO.

Nomura needs to take a backseat on things, he's clearly not up to snuff anymore with being a director. Let someone else take the reigns again before it goes way too far and people complain about it being in development for a decade and hate it due to being over hyped.

A remaster of Crisis Core would be welcomed, since the game only exists for PSP.

I would love a port of Crisis Core, one of my favourite games ever. Now that Sony has a PSP emulator for PS4 maybe it is time for it to return.

Forget about the remake. They should make a dlc with the costumes of FF VII on FF XV.

I can't wait for next week's rumor dump from "trusted sources" that state the FF7 remake is now being turned into FFXV DLC

Square Enix appears to be unable to get proper people work on the FF franchise. It is just a huge mess. FFXV had so much potential to become a great sequel, but nope, development hell.
FFXIV development hell was rescued. Now FF7 is in development hell.

Since I live in Japan though, I do have some ideas how it could be related to the traditional Japanese mentality messing things up here.

@tatsumi your profile says Australia.

@Badboyfx86 Probably because I moved over 2 years ago and didn't care to update my profile yet.

I’d rather have Crisis Core than FFVIIRemake. So I hope they do something with it.

This will be a PS5 / PS6 cross-gen release if it ever happens to begin with.

I'm happy to wait for quality. But FF15 was seriously lacking so I wonder how much I should care about the remake at this point.

Meanwhile resident evil 2 was announced a couple of months later and will be out in January. Come on Square - this is silly. What is happening to this franchise. Back in the ps1 era you released ff7 in 1997, ff8 in 1999 and ff9 in 2001. All of which were incredible games

I get that games are more complex to build but you seem to be losing your way a little with the franchise. I mean when will we see final fantasy 16 at this rate?

@Rob_230 They're not just "more complex". The difference is so massive, it comes as no surprise that games take around 5 years to be made. And that's not just SE.

Noone who's played the original wants a fantastic remake, just same game updated with today's graphics. To be honest actually I don't really care for this anymore.

@PabsTheGeek wut?? I've played the original on the PS1 and no way I want the same game with just today's graphics. What a waste of a remake. People want the original, play the original, simple as that.

@Rob_230 difference with Resi 2 is that was already well into development when it was announced but FFVII:ReMake wasn't

Square have already said they announced it far to early but they probably did to try and shut up everyone who was asking for it on EVERYTHING they ever posted

PS5 confirmed guys

It was announced far to early and it's a bit of joke towards Sony because he says it's exclusively for PS4 not the case now it they should redub that bit in the E3 2015 conference with PS5 or 6 lol

They're victims of their own success. I seem to remember some interview from the FFXV purgatory days where someone said that the development team all has very different ideas about what makes a game final fantasy. Not surprising since every single one has been different. But with no centralized vision on these projects, they're doomed to running in circles, restarting, taking new directions, and never reaching the finish line.

Nomura barely counts as centralized vision. He turned FFXV into Kingdom Hearts, and my bet is he does the same to FFVII. I really hate that battle system in all of its incarnations. If FFVII isn't using some form of ATB, then it isn't being true to its source materia.

i would be seriously OK with some ports of the Compilation of FFVII games, Crisis Core was awesome and i even liked Dirge of Cerberus

@NintendoFan4Lyf well Square and Mistwalker are good terms right now after all they even had Terra stuff in FFXV so i think they should buy them and use them for future FF titles or spin offs

@LieutenantFatman Im sorry but Square Enix is a joke they take so long. Final Fantasy 15 was ok nothing more they should have updated the engine with FF7 updated the movies put in some extra summons and 5th weapons and be done.

Why not a 2,5D Final Fantasy 6 with the help of Vanillaware. 😁

Only another 5 plus years to go before we receive FFVII Remake pt 1 of 3!Please be excited.

"...please wait for VII's turn to come."

Does anyone else getting tired of hearing this line or something similar from Nomura? He must have said "please wait" or "thank you for waiting" for more information about 100+ times during FFXV's development, and it's rarely attached to any meaningful information or update.

I guess he is probably as tired of saying it as I am of hearing it. Just... put out a damn game on a timely schedule. I was 16 when FFXV was announced. I played it when I was 26... A solid portion of my life elapsed in the meantime and it turned out to be just okay by FF standards. 10 years... Jesus.

This just in: Vagrant Story remake out in 2032. But please wait for more information.

Not trying to be a downer here but I lost interest in this quite a while ago. It didn’t help that I was very unimpressed with XV and XIII. Must be ten years worth of hype for what? It’s not like square Enix has proved recently that their games are worth waiting for. I understand that it’s a delicate thing to remake something so beloved but seriously they need to get a shifty on. FfVII came with my original psx bundle and I still play through it every year (pretty much) coz I’m a sad bastard and that’s just me but this is taking the biscuit. Hopefully I’ll be wrong and it’ll be great but I’m not hopeful. This remake are very sick, it seems.

@Turismo4GT agreed. Remember when we were all hyped about it coming to ps3? Now if it comes out at all I’ll be surprised.

@NoxAeturnus yeah I hate that stupid, semi-real time/semi-automated, single button bashing nonsense as well. Many people hate on ff12 but at least they tried to incorporate the original battle system with a bit more freedom. Personally I liked ff12 and would of preferred 13 and 15 if they’d just expanded on 12’s systems.