The one game in the entire Final Fantasy series that, it’s safe to say, every fan of the franchise wants to see given the HD treatment to is Final Fantasy VII. But according to Final Fantasy XIII Producer Yoshinori Kitase, that is all but an impossibility. When OXM asked about to possibility of when or if we will ever see a remake to the infamous game, he responded with:
“In the transition between XIII to XIII-2, it was quite easy because obviously we kept all the data and the engine – we had just finished using them so it was almost like they hadn’t gone cold. The technology was already warm and ready to use, so it was quite good. Also within the team, we still had a feel for the game, it was still new to us, still lingering with us, so we were ready to move on to the sequel.
“But if we were to take one of the past Final Fantasy titles and make a sequel to it, I think that would be a lot more challenging because when they were on PlayStation and PlayStation 2 their actual game volume was a lot bigger, kind of.
“Graphically they weren’t as advanced as they are now, but there were lots of towns and worlds and cities and whatever. So if we were to recreate the same kind of game – sequel or not – with the same volume, but give it a much higher level of graphical quality, it would us take three times, four times, even ten times longer to make such a game. So making a sequel for an old game would be a lot more challenging.”
Personally, I wouldn’t mind just getting the exact same game just with enhanced graphics. I recently tried going back and playing Final Fantasy VII and simply couldn’t deal with how bad the graphics were and I think a lot of fans are in the same boat. Hopefully the guys over at Square will hear our cries.
Andrew
November 30, 2011 at 12:33 AMBut surely a full-fledged remake of FF7 would be cheaper to make than a brand-new FF game, ‘cuz you’ve at least got the story and such all nailed down. All you’d need to do is the graphics, some voice acting (or probably not even that, actually), and you’d have a game that I expect a lot more people would buy, compared to the amount that would buy a brand new FF.
Phillip Price
November 30, 2011 at 2:22 PMWell Andrew, according to what Yoshinori Kitase is saying here Final Fantasy VII had such a robust world that in order to do a remake that would do the game justice you would be looking at making a game with twice the content of Skyrim.
Think about it FF7 had so many locations they would have to flesh out. Midgar, Shinra Electric Power Company, Junon, Fort Condor, the chocobo ranch, Kalm, Gold Saucer, Corel Prison, Costa Del Sol, Gongaga, Nibelheim, Mt. Nibel, Rocket Town, Cosmo Canyon, Wutai, “City of Ancients”, the Crater, and don’t forget all the underwater areas as well.
If they were to properly do a remake of FF7 to meet today’s standards, it would easily take years to make and they simply don’t see the return on investment being worth it for a project like that.
I’m sorry but from a business standpoint, it makes perfect sense to never make this game.
tom power
November 30, 2011 at 11:30 PMThat’s bullshit they could easily remake ff7 if they wanted to. You don’t need to make it full 3d just 2.5d like the original.