Tetsuya Nomura: “Final Fantasy VII Won’t Be Remade”

cmon, he's just being tsundere, just show him more love and he'l turn around

ahahaha i can hear it now, "i-it's not like i made the remake for you, idiot!"

FFXII was ok? No it fucking wasn't
It was trash, just like (unfortunately) XIII looks like it will be
Hopefully Versus will have something nice

Woops, ignore that

I actually kinda liked FFXII. The graphics and gameplay were great, the English voice acting was amazing, even if the story was crap. The game was actually fun.

Besides the story towards the second half of the game along with forgettable music, FFXII was awesome in every level. Amazing graphics, great gameplay (especially for MMO grinding fans), and great setting, and awesome AI partner customization.

Taking the team to battle groups of mobs +10 level higher than your characters is where the gambit does its best while the player apply their own inputs to their need. People that just went from point A to B does not know what they missed out on with the gameplay.

Nah, XII was okay. XIII I'm not going to touch.

I hate them for this, whether they remake FF7 or not, even if they didn't do it on principle of it being a classic, they could at least do it for this generation to appreciate such an awesome story at least... It would sell well, everyone wants it, and i find it hard to believe that they could be so retarded as to NOT remake it even on money standards, it would probably outsell most of this generation of games, so i have no idea what they are thinking at all. And...

"they should count themselves lucky if Cloud is recycled as a guest character in future titles".

Fucking insult, not to mention this moronic statement is true, lightning is essentially a female Cloud, which they admitted to themseleves, even her name is tastament to this fact, so he can eat his fucking speech of bullshit.

Why would they want to invest $20-40 million in remaking FF7 when they can just rerelease the PSOne game on Playstation Network and still have the top selling game on it? They don't even have to spend a penny. Just upload it on the servers and watch the cash flow in.

Also, there's really no point in remaking anything from the PSOne/N64 era onward just yet. They're not even "retro" by this point. Just old titles we played only a few years ago. That's like saying, "Man, that GTA3 game sure was great and totally revolutionized the way we play sandbox adventure games! They should totally remake it!".

You'd think to yourself, "Uhhhh, why? Just buy it on the PS2. Besides, they're still making GTA games. Pick up the newest one." Granted, the FF series shakes things up with every title so it's not quite the same, but the point still remains.

There's really no *need* for them to remake FF7 when the original is widely available and still holds up by today's standards. Polished graphics and voice acting isn't going to make a huge impact on how we play and experience it. Sure it'd probably make tons of money and be pretty fun to play, but it's not *needed*.

While Square Enix hasn't had the best business sense lately and has been churning out rather underwhelming titles, that's reason for them to remake games that are barely released 10 years ago.

FF7 was an ok game and all but personly I felt ff9 was a lot better. I played them both one after the other when ff9 was released.

"they should count themselves lucky if Cloud is recycled as a guest character in future titles."

read the quotes, not Artefact's words. The way I see it, Nomura politely rebuked the rumors.

Still, I can't read the Japanese site, so meh.

I'm currently playing it on my ps3 :) I was well chuffed when I found that they had it on PSN.

Also, the fact that there's not gonna be a remake isn't exactly news. The FFVII Tech-Demo is like 3 y/o and SE officially denied any remake-intentions at the time it was released.

Meh, hoping the remake of Final Fantasy VII is like hoping for the sequel of Chrono series...it will never happen.

see Chrono series? SNES and PS version they had (Trigger and Cross respectively). PS2 version? noooo they don't, only because of office politics. the same will happen in FF 7 since both sakaguchi and uematsu already out of Square Enix, and it would be like why there were no chara from FF 6 and 9 in Kingdom Hearts.

i have an original first edition of the NTSC release of final fantasy 7 in mint condition(still has the playstation underground application inside). i have no intention of buying a psn version. but i would break down and buy a full ps3 version. just so i could see all the same sights in 3d.

"were no chara from FF 6 and 9 in Kingdom Hearts."

Yes there were

Cloud was already a guest character in Tactics, was he not?

An FF7 remake would be too linear anyway.....

They need to remake 5 and 6 for the ds, i mean come on, they made 3 and 4 so why not 5 and 6? And plus, 6 was awesome. Kefka. Nuff said.

FFXII was ok? No it fucking wasn't
It was trash, just like (unfortunately) XIII looks like it will be
Hopefully Versus will have something nice
X was the best by far (in my opinion, though I haven't played them all)
They need to go back to some old turn based goodness instead of trying to revolutionise the battle system, do that with a new series not a popular one they're now murdering

if ff10 is your favorite you must be gayer than everyone else that likes 7

You obviously can't even see the reality in front of you, submerged by your one-track logic. They made dozens of spin offs without making a remake of FF7, which is what that phrase refers to.

Actually, everything except of the storyline would have be redesigned, and even the script would probably need to be slightly altered. Certain things would have to be cut, and as they said once before, if they would do this they would need the entire crew gathered to work on this.
Also, materia system was horribly broken, and taken to certain degrees which I very much doubt was intended.

You would have to redesign every area, but care to do it for the same feel and idea, because you have this product you care for, and the fans care for, and recreating an experience is more difficult than creating it the first time.

You have all these expectations, and often it's better put to the side than to create it and ruin a product.

but overall it'll be a great gamble on SE's part why not try to remake FF7 and overall just have to clean up the designs and add voice off dubs for the cast. besides that the remake is basically a Cut and Paste job

It's kind of imossible for a Japaneese person to be a weeaboo Geerie.
Kind of how you don't get black wiggers, it doesn't actually makes sense.

I think that was his point, DeathCrunch.