Final Fantasy 7 Remake will be episodic
Slightly more information about Final Fantasy 7 Remake has been revealed, with Square Enix revealing that the game will be a multi-part series.
Final Fantasy VII Remake is looking to take an old story and modernize it for a new generation. But modernization is looking to be more than just remastering the game's graphics and offering an updated presentation. It looks like the distribution model will be updated for the new times... for better or worse.
According to a press release issued by Square Enix (via Kotaku), Final Fantasy VII Remake will actually be an episodic series. While the statement doesn't go into any further detail, it does appear that Remake will be told in multiple parts rather than the massive package that once contained multiple discs.
On its face, it's an unexpected and somewhat shocking announcement. However, upon further thought, it's consistent with the narrative that Square Enix has been pushing for years. Nearly two years ago, FF13 trilogy producer Yoshinori Kitase stated that a FF7 remake would take 'longer than ten years' to complete. If that's still the case today, then it makes sense that Square would want to help quell the demand by releasing the FF7 story, piece-by-piece.
Of course, that now leads to the question: Exactly how long will this project take to complete?
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replyOzzie Mejia posted a new article, Final Fantasy 7 Remake will be episodic
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I honestly expect people to be bored by the first episode and not buy the subsequent ones.
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We may be in for a very, very long wait.
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Well shit, if I can complete 1/4th the game and have to wait a year or more to get the next chunk this will suck. Which if they plan on releasing stuff quicker than that, why do this anyway? I get that it is a huge game but this seems like a really strange decision to me.
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"Each one a unique experience" quote in another article kind of freaks me out, too. Really makes it sound like they plan on cherry picking key events. Why even call it a remake?
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I am so done with episodes. Will wait for the full collection.
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They were very vague about this, so we are aiming to find out ASAP.
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Maybe, but if it drops off at all, they won't finish it, or they'll finish it cheap and it'll be even worse. There's no way this turns out well.
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It's worth noting that "episodic" is Kotaku's term, and not SE's.
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some more info from an interview here
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1152062
not sure how to interpret it, could be genuine, could be fluff. episodic does mitigate a ton of risk for square enix though, and they might even make more money in the end this way. blizzard knows how to make money and it worked damn well for them :/ -
Bahamut Zero is DLC.
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the question is not how long, but will they actually finish it then if sales are not up to projected amounts?
plus if it really takes 10 years... will the whole thing be released on a single generation of a console?
this makes sense on a business level maybe, but i definitely don't agree with it in the slightest... *sigh
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That's the view I'm taking, as well. As much as people wanted a full remake of the game in 4k with a Hollywood-caliber cast of voice actors and 200 hours of new, original content it's completely unrealistic to expect SE to do that. They've said themselves that a straight remake would take nearly a decade and be cost-prohibitive. If this model let's them take one of my favorite games of all time and present it in a way that is entertaining and fun, I'm fine with it.
Plus, I'm too old and busy to drop another 100+ hours playing an RPG.
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Neither of those options make me feel lucky:(. If the lucky option was the case, the game would have to be like 20 episodes long.
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Could be a while, Dontnod is currently working on a non-episodic RPG called Vampyr set during the 1918 flu pandemic. It is due out in (presumably late) 2017 and is with a different publisher.
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I love that this didn't get posted three times in a row.
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The Odd Gentlemen seem to be doing okay with King's Quest.
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I feel like this confirms worries that they may not have been putting the necessary serious resources behind this remake to do it justice.
They're doing episodic to either cash grab or to make the game pay for its own development, which will just make it that much less likely for people to jump in early, and that much less likely that the thing ever gets finished.
One of my friends was beyond hyped for this game and it's now convinced it's ruined and not worth thinking about any more. I find it hard to argue, other than "maybe they'll surprise us." :( -
This is fine by me. I have no time to put in to a full playthrough of that huge ass game. Give it to me in chunks for $40.
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I wish they'd come out with more detail than this. This could be anything from a minor annoyance to basically ruining it for me.
I honestly don't see how they could even come close to representing the original game if ti's all cut down into small chunks though. You can hop back and forth through the entire world by the end, so are the last few episodes going to contain all of the content from the previous ones? If they include chocobo breeding for example, how does that carry from one episode to the next? I'm worried they're just going to cut all of it out.
Maybe they should have called this Final Fantasy VII Retold rather than Remake
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Will be shipped with Episode 3 of Half-Life 2.
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You joke, but do you realize I've been waiting almost 10 years for Kingdom Hearts 3? How long do you think Square will keep people waiting for this?
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