FFVII Re-make Would Take Decades
With Final Fantasy XIII released to the masses, Square Enix is finally able to put more focus on other projects, such as FF Versus XIII for PlayStation 3 and Agito XIII for PlayStation Portable which are still yet to be released, along with anything else the Japanese RPG giant may have up their sleeves. Today talking during a round-table interview session with the press at the launch of Final Fantasy XIII in Korea, game director Motomu Toriyama, producer Yoshinori Kitase and Square Enix’s Shinji Hashimoto responded to the question, Will FFVII be re-made for HD consoles.
Yoshinori Kitase had this to say:
“We’ve gotten this question a lot from many countries (laughs). To make FFXIII at this level of quality, it took us three to four years. If we were to make FFVII in the same style of FFXIII, it would take ten times as long, so it would be difficult to take it up immediately. However, we always keep in mind how often this is requested.”
Meanwhile on the topic of Final Fantasy Versus XIII:
“It’s taking some time, but development is progressing well. We plan on showing it at the appropriate time. We have the FFXIII localization and FFXIV, so I believe it will come after that.”
So there you have it, as far fetched as it may seem Final Fantasy 7 would take 30 years to make. Not much information has been put out by Square Enix about FF Versus 13 or Agito 13 but expect an announcement soon, but be sure to check out Playstation LifeStyle for the latest news at E3.
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15 Responses to “FFVII Re-make Would Take Decades”
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I don’t want a 7 remake. I love it the way it is, and the memories that it brought me as a kid. To remake it would still make it impossible to please the masses. I’m sure everyone would hate it because they would either be “too close” to the old game or “change too much” or whatever. As far as I’m concerned it’s loved as is and should be left alone. Thanks for the article.
I’m sick of them crying too hard about this. it doesnt have to be at the level of XIII visually, hell, nothing does, as time and time again, lots of games have proved u dont need that level of fidelity to have a great experience and interesting gameplay, which XIII doesn’t.
FF sucks very boring n lame but that’s my opinion
So basically what they’re saying is that Final Fantasy Games will never be to the level of quality that they used to be? That Final Fantasy games would take too long to make worlds as vast as they used to?
Is FF XIII linearity all that we’re to expect of the FF series from here on out? Cause Tri-Ace’s Star Ocean Last Hope was an amazing game. If I have to choose between the level of graphics on Star Ocean Last Hope, White Knight Chronicles, versus the graphics and linearity of FF XIII, please, give me Star Ocean and White Knight Chronicles. I want to be able to explore, and find those treasures and hunt them down, and feel a sense of urgency, that I might miss something permanently. Not have a set of cookie crumbs trailing me along and the only deviations are short and lead directly to a quest.
I don’t want to feel like the JRPG is on rails, that’s why I coudl never finish Xenosaga II and why I never picked up XIII
@MakaiOokami
couldn’t agree more my friend. it’s like they are basically saying…we’ve already got your trust in this company…so we know we can make subpar games and you will buy it just b/c it has FF on the box. they are theives.
i hate that there isn’t going to be any substantial Versus 13 news at E3…. Moar plz
@tootergray
and we are fools!
so why is it people b!tch and moan about their favorite movies being remade but when it comes to their favorite video game its always I want! I want!…….. personally I think if they remade FFVII with PS2 graphics in HD it would be just fine but people would want more and more so whatever. CryBabies!
I just wish they would shut it down so we could move on. Why even remotely hint or even say this crap if there is not real plausible way your going to make it. I mean seriously just let it die already. Most people just want an updated version of the same game. I mean seriously FF12 was great graphically, at least in my opinion, so I think we’d be just fine if it had that level of graphics but just keep the story the same…and yes that means kill aerith…hell that’s part of the reason people loved it so much.
Anyway if your not going to re-do it then just please stop bring it up. Seriously who runs this company anyway, this this is not the way to do business.
MakaiOokami has said it better than I can. On that note, I just got Demon’s Souls instead of FFXIII – and holy crap, they are not kidding when they say its hard. But hey! Its non-linear! yay!
@Graey – its not so much them bringing it up all the time, as it is the constant pestering of hard core nerd-fans that won’t drop the subject. I for one don’t mind reading about it, because I like to know where they stand on it – if ever it appears like they’ll do it, I wanna know. And then I’ll be one of those people EnvyEye is talking about, probably saying “they changed it too much”, because I know they’ll feel like they have to in order to make it worth while in the current market (primary reason it would take so long to develop).
I dont see how the figure it will take decades, thats just a ludicrious claim.
haha true that buddy.
so I guess that intro scene they made in HD new age PS3 took them about 3 to 5 years then? I mean if the whole thing is going to take 3 decades…I think that is a JOKE!
When I read the title my initial reaction was “HAHAHAHAHA” after reading it some more, I see just how ridiculous this statement really is. Like some of the above comments mentioned, bringing up FFXIII as a example as to how long it will take to make a remake of FFVII is stupid because not only was there an article before it that stated that after laying the groundwork for XIII all the other games should take less time to develop for, BUT what they’re indirectly doing is admitting how much larger in scale FFVII is (an over 10yr old game) compared to a game now, which is sad really.
if they had spent more time on a remake of FF7 then that garbage FF13 it would have sold more than it. They’re acting like FF13 was a milestone in gaming history but l believe all they did was focus 90% of the time on graphics then they did story & game play