No, The Final Fantasy VII Remake Won't Be Released Episodically
Think more along the lines of Final Fantasy XIII's release schedule.
Remember when Square Enix made the announcement that any Final Fantasy VII media related to the remake would be "episodic" and the internet went crazy? Not me. It didn't make sense then, and it doesn't make sense now. According to an interview with producer Yoshinori Kitase out of the latest Game Informer, it shouldn't, since the games won't be episodic at all. The Final Fantasy VII Remake project will actually be comprised of multiple full-sized games. Talk about some great news for Final Fantasy fans.
According to Kitase, "It will essentially be a full scale game for each part of the multipart series. In XIII, each installment told the story from a different angle. It was kind of like approaching an unknown territory in a sense."
"Whereas with Final Fantasy VII Remake, we already have a preexisting story, so it wouldn't really make sense if that isn't encompassed in a multipart series... So if we're just looking at each of these parts, one part should be on par with the scale of one Final Fantasy XIII game."
It's all refreshing to hear that such a massive undertaking is being worked on for a game that's near and dear to so many hearts, but I'm ready to get my hands on some actual gameplay. It's been far too long, and it's time to see how things have evolved. Given that the Game Informer article has mentioned that the game is being altered with some modernization and whatnot, I'm interested in seeing what's going to be improved or updated to get the game in line with the times.
There's no release date just yet, but seeing how long it took to hear about Final Fantasy XV launching September 30, that could be months away.
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replyBrittany Vincent posted a new article, No, The Final Fantasy VII Remake Won't Be Released Episodically
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shit. now i have to get a ps4 for the wife. thanks a lot, brittany :|
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I'm trying to figure out how each part of the game will be full game sized. Do they mean that each part will give the average player 40 - 50 hours? Is the first disk the entire story and then the remaining parts are side stories?
I haven't played XIII, and I'm going through X right now and it's god awful. I'm just trying to get close enough to the end so I can say I beat it.-
Full Game doesn't necessarily mean "40-50 hours" Especially since this is an actiony RPG.
As for how it is broken up, while I confess I haven't played it myself, I have seen many people say that there are various points that could be used as stopping points. Using examples based on stuff I knoww off hand, you could potentially stop the first game shortly after the fight against Shinra President's son and you get the air ship like TeamFourStar did for their abridged series' first season (second season is called "Midgard") Another stopping point could potentially be the death of Aerith/the events shortly after that.-
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No. It's basically that they're making a trilogy out of a game that already had a *ton* of locations and story in a time before big immersive dungeons/areas and fully-voiced cutscenes.
A sequence that spanned a couple screens and some dialogue you speed through in 1997 could easily be a much longer part of a game today.
Like, moving from location to location in FF7, on the world map, is basically trivial and in most cases, is a couple minutes journey tops. Undoubtedly, going from say, Midgar to Kalm will not be nearly so simple in the modern version.
That, and they have made reference to utilizing stuff from the entire FF7 saga, which means they could pull in stuff from the movie, the anime, Crisis Core, etc.-
Had a long reply to this but shack ads broke the browser. Anyways
- Nothing from what you said makes the game not episodic
- Trails from the sky have chapters (episodes) that are all fully fledged games each with ~40 gameplay and an amazing amount of text. If the parts of FF7 is to be considered Fully fledged, then I expect lots of gameplay ( my soft requirement of 40 - 50 hours ).
- FF7 being episodic isn't inherently bad. The messaging is confusing.
- That last part about pulling from all FF7 is something I didn't know about and is cool.-
To me, episodic (in gaming) has a specific meaning related to releasing a set number of episodes in a pretty short time, and each episode being not even close to the length of a full game.
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I'm pretty sure their going to inject the Remake with quite a bit of the new fluff they added with all the Compilation of 7 stuff. seeing G and Deepground in the Remake would be awesome!!!
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I love Final Fantasy as a whole. It's easily my favorite game series ever.
But FFX is probably my least favorite FF title outside the NES games we didn't originally get in the US.-
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Fuck no, I love X-2. Some of my favorite gameplay in the series, and their first real experiment with non-linearity in any meaningful sense.
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It holds up pretty well. It's got a great implementation of the job system, and at least on PS4, still looks nice enough. The biggest issue with it is the early parts of the story, and some of the villains are kind of terrible. But man do I enjoy the simple act of playing it. It helps that you can skip the cutscenes (unlike X).
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For me FFX aligned perfectly when I got a ps2 and LOTS of time. First FF game I had that perfect storm of time + latest FF game.
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This doesn't make any sense. So - Final Fantasy 7 remake is going to be a new series with 2 sequels ala 13? Or Final fantasy 7 remake will be given in chunks with new content on scale with a final fantasy 13 level of content?
How can they do that? Each FF13 game is 40 gigs or so. FF7 originally came on 3 CDs, so 1.8 gigs max.
Hate all you want about 13 - there was a TON of shit to do 13-2 and Lightning returns. I'm not sure how you can possibly stretch a game that was originally as narrow in scope as 7 to justify this markup. This sounds like a poorly translated interview.-
It's not a translation error.
The FF7 remake will likely be three full-length games, and if I had to guess, largely cover the same story as the original, albeit with each ports of the story more fleshed out, and including stuff from the "Compilation of Final Fantasy 7" stuff that's been done over the years.-
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Maybe, but if the underlying engine was the same (ATB, limit break, materia etc) and the character progression was the same, it doesn't matter how modern-ed up it looked, it would still take you 30 hours.
Unless they make Chocobo breeding a real time activity - then they could extend it ;)-
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Maybe, if they think their fan base is now 30 somethings that grew up with the game in a time when time was more readily available.
I'd gladly sink 80 hours into the full game in one part. It sounds like they have other plans though. If one of them is to market to a new audience, then yeah, I agree entirely, it has to be broken up.-
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But that's the thing, all the dungeon stuff, and every conversation as well, will all take much longer in a modern engine with full VA and dungeons that aren't just a few static screens.
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Sounds like a personal problem.
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I feel like they're in the perfect place right now to say to the world "Fuck you, this is how it's done". They've got what's effectively their longest project ever with the director shooting for making the series big again, both in terms of sales and its pedigree, and a remake of what is often thought of as the most important JRPG in history.
If both of these projects turn out great, and I think they *can* (whether they will remains to be seen), then Square Enix will have restored the series name. No matter what they do, there's certainly lapsed fans who are going to hate it no matter what. And there's jackasses like me liable to love it no matter what. But I do think they can pull this off if last week's FFXV Uncovered conference was any indication.
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Because he's a dusty fucking misanthrope
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I'm hoping it succeeds so just maybe we can get the absolutely superior US FF6 remade which makes FF7 looks like crusty nut hairs on a urinal.
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Queue's the fanfare.
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