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NEWS: Final Fantasy VII Remake Game Delayed to April 10

I donno.... I'd rather wait a month for a better game. I waited this long what is one more month?

Of course.

Unpopular opinion, but I don’t think it needs a remake. I’d have preferred a new game, but my guess is they are struggling to come up with fresh ideas and stories combined with a majority of the early fans having aged out of video games by now. It doesn’t help that JRPGs aren’t as popular as they once were, which is largely due to the proliferation of MMORPGs since the 00’s. IMHO, I also see less and less of the magic in the newer entries that made the early entries enjoyable. They need to find a way to breath new life into franchise. I don’t think the remake, no matter how pretty, is going to do that. Maybe it might serve as an entry point for a newer generation, but what then?

dragon695 wrote:

Of course. Unpopular opinion, but I don’t think it needs a remake. I’d have preferred a new game, but my guess is they are struggling to come up with fresh ideas and stories combined with a majority of the early fans having aged out of video games by now. It doesn’t help that JRPGs aren’t as popular as they once were, which is largely due to the proliferation of MMORPGs since the 00’s. IMHO, I also see less and less of the magic in the newer entries that made the early entries enjoyable. They need to find a way to breath new life into franchise. I don’t think the remake, no matter how pretty, is going to do that. Maybe it might serve as an entry point for a newer generation, but what then?

I think that an awful lot of the entertainment industry in general is leaning on sequels and remakes. It's not just video games, it's movies too. How many Hollywood superhero movies (aka remakes of comics) have we had in the last two decades? Anime and manga reboots? Established franchises sell well, and remakes of classics are especially safe bets. I'd rather see new content too but I think I can see where they're coming from.

I think that SE is making some pretty big mistakes with the FF franchise though. It seems that it's becoming less and less of a JRPG (and certainly not one in the classic sense) and more of an action game. And that's puzzling to me because SE already has a very successful action RPG franchise: Kingdom Hearts. Normally it's a poor business strategy to blur the distinctions between your different product lines like that.

I'd love to see SE kick out an old-school style JRPG. It doesn't even have to have AAA-graphics or voice acting, though those things would be nice. In my opinion SE's desire to have the best possible visuals has destroyed the focus on the core mechanics of the game.

I mean I'm pretty sure I've played a couple of Square Enix games recently that was more standard RPG but none of them are on a main console. Bravely Default the first one to come to mind.

It doesn’t help that JRPGs aren’t as popular as they once were, which is largely due to the proliferation of MMORPGs since the 00’s. IMHO, I also see less and less of the magic in the newer entries that made the early entries enjoyable.

April isn't the best time to delay it to.Between resident evil 3 remake and cyberpunk just to name a few games that come out in the same month it is already crowded.They had so much time to make this game that shouldn't be delaying it.Mind you it's not even a complete game.It's only the first part.