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Kitase on FFVII Remake:"You must believe me when I say it would take a lot to happen"

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DarkLordMalik

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Last week, to coincide with the release of Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy 13, Eurogamer asked Final Fantasy series producer Yoshinori Kitase - the person who directed Final Fantasy 7 - if it was, finally, time to say put the possibility of a remake to bed.

"I can honestly tell you I would love to do that," he replied. "If you simply ask me if I personally would like to do that, yes I would. Definitely. There's no lie about it. But you must believe me when I say it would take a lot to happen."

Kitase mentioned "staff availability and budget" as two major barriers to the project being greenlit. This tallies with comments Kitase made in 2010, when he said in order to remake Final Fantasy 7 to the quality of Final Fantasy 13 it would take three or four times longer than it took to develop the divisive PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 game.

But there's another major barrier to the project being greenlit: Kitase's personal motivation to create it.

"Even if I casually say I would like to do that, because it would be a huge project I would have to motivate myself to the level that I really am prepared to take on this huge responsibility," he said.

"I don't know if those three things will happen simultaneously. It has to tick lots of very big boxes. I won't rule out the possibility, but it would take a lot to make it happen.

"But should I ever take it on, it would have to be the biggest project I've done. My life work. So I would have to be as highly motivated as that to end up with something I'm very happy with. It's a huge thing for me."
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Remake me if old.
 
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DarkLordMalik

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I have no idea why Verendus started the rumor of the remake being in pipeline or consideration stage. These comments definitely kill any talk of a FF VII remake ever happening.
 
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Forkball

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I don't even want it anymore out of fear that they would mess it up. I think it's definitely getting an iOS release eventually though.
 
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DemonNite

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Eusis

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This tallies with comments Kitase made in 2010, when he said in order to remake Final Fantasy 7 to the quality of Final Fantasy 13 it would take three or four times longer than it took to develop the divisive PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 game.
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I'VE BEEN TELLING YOU GUYS THIS WAS A TERRIBLE FUCKING IDEA.

Wait, three or four times longer for that? That actually is more damning for SE's priorities than anything else, if it takes that long to build a game like FFVII up to their idea of a "modern" title then maybe they should just scale it back and accept possibly being kind of ugly. Or probably better yet just focus more on a good visual style even if undermined high end fidelity, save that stuff for the movie scenes.
Make a fully 3D game as big as you can with FFVII battle graphics quality.
 
Lynd7

Lynd7

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Why would it take longer to develop than a brand new game from scratch? I find it hard to believe they can't remake it in some form.

As for budget, wouldn't this game bring in a ton of cash? Surely enough to justify green-lighting it.
 
Go_Ly_Dow

Go_Ly_Dow

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Feel XV will have something close to scope seen in FFVII on modern hardware.

The huge modern city (Lucis) = midgar

Worldmap

And several other large citys and towns we have seen glimpses/heard of.
 
Arren

Arren

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The sheer volume of assets, backgrounds, systems and dialogue showcased by the three PS1 Final Fantasies remains very hard to reproduce faithfully in an hypothetical HD remake.

Even by keeping the format and technical solutions of the originals, such as the use of updated prerendered backgrounds, it would require a tremendous amount of work. I can definitely understand why it's not likely to happen any time soon, given today's development standards and also economic pressure.
 
Go_Ly_Dow

Go_Ly_Dow

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Lynd7 said:
Why would it take longer to develop than a brand new game from scratch? I find it hard to believe they can't remake it in some form.

As for budget, wouldn't this game bring in a ton of cash? Surely enough to justify green-lighting it.
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Imagine every single thing in VII. And then imagine that all recreated for next gen.

Would be an enormous project.

Anything less and fans would lose their shit.
 
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Eusis

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blitzcloud said:
The problem about ff7 remake: cartoon jokes on realistic characters. Won't work as well as some people believe.
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I have to admit, if we went in an entirely different direction (look at Ni No Kuni. Imagine that being applied to Toriyama's ORIGINAL artwork) I imagine it might be affordable AND work out better with the game's actual style. Frankly they'd be better off adapting Advent Children as a game than remaking FFVII with those visuals.
 
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Hyunashi

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Plinko said:
Because that's working so well for everyone.
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Please, re-hashing old games will only help a company for so long as they have likeable things to remake. The guy is right, they need to stick to making new games, which now pretty much means actual new games that will hopefully not be related to Lightning.
 
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2San

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Eusis said:
I'VE BEEN TELLING YOU GUYS THIS WAS A TERRIBLE FUCKING IDEA.

Wait, three or four times longer for that? That actually is more damning for SE's priorities than anything else, if it takes that long to build a game like FFVII up to their idea of a "modern" title then maybe they should just scale it back and accept possibly being kind of ugly. Or probably better yet just focus more on a good visual style even if undermined high end fidelity, save that stuff for the movie scenes.
Make a fully 3D game as big as you can with FFVII battle graphics quality.
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Why make it full 3D at all? Keep it with 2D backgrounds. I know they have talented artists working there, with a bit of luck they can use rerender the original background assets and improve on them. Use the FFXIII graphics engine for the battles (while applying FF7's mechanics and expanding them) and 3D character models.
 
Jawmuncher

Jawmuncher

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I still say the biggest issue is deciding on how to do it. I'm on the boat that says all they need to do is fix up all the graphics and release it. Game holds up plenty well personally. But i'm sure Square would rather take the base and rework it. Such as adding new things such as more plot threads to relate to Crisis Core and what not.
 
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DiipuSurotu

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At least it sounds like he would get very involved if it were to happen, right? He may want to direct it personally which would be better than letting Toriyama destroy the game.
 
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Eusis

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2San said:
Why make it full 3D at all? Keep it with 2D backgrounds. I know they have talented artists working there (Bravely Defaults 2D backgrounds look amazing). Use the FFXIII graphics engine for the battles (while applying FF7's mechanics and expanding them) and 3D character models.
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That probably is the most sensible compromise between tech demo dreams and actually making something affordable: remake the movies Advent Children-style, redraw all the backgrounds for 1080p displays, and use better models whether they're Advent Children quality or not for exploration. It'd probably still be expensive but probably relatively reasonable under those conditions, as much as I'd like to go completely against the direction of the original FFVII and embrace an animated visual style.
 
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2San

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Eusis said:
That probably is the most sensible compromise between tech demo dreams and actually making something affordable: remake the movies Advent Children-style, redraw all the backgrounds for 1080p displays, and use better models whether they're Advent Children quality or not for exploration. It'd probably still be expensive but probably relatively reasonable under those conditions, as much as I'd like to go completely against the direction of the original FFVII and embrace an animated visual style.
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Yeah, no matter the route, going full remake just seems like a bad idea. A budget remake makes way more sense.
 
Ein Bear

Ein Bear

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I always imagine Square are holding off on an FF7 remake until they really need it. Like, it's their emergency plan for if they get into some serious financial trouble. There's a design document kept in a case somewhere in Square HQ with 'In case of bankruptcy, break glass' written on it.
 
Go_Ly_Dow

Go_Ly_Dow

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Ein Bear said:
I always imagine Square are holding off on an FF7 remake until they really need it. Like, it's their emergency plan for if they get into some serious financial trouble. There's a design document kept in a case somewhere in Square HQ with 'In case of bankruptcy, break glass' written on it.
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I imagine a design document of a Lightning body pillow.

"In case of emergency - send to printers"
 
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liquidtmd

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How about a decent up-rezzed port then with some nice bells and whistles. The basic PC port recently was still short of the mark.

No Lightening patched in and no-change of the art style though.
 
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