You didn't get attatched the characters in FFVII?
Beleive me, I've been replaying FF7 this year so I can say in confidence that the characters are very well portrayed in this game, and the emotions felt are quite alot higher than in Crisis Core... Crisis Core was too full of running in a closed off map to have time for decent character development.

I did find it kool to play as Zack, and learn a bit more about what he was like / seeing in his personality elements that Cloud would take upon himself after the incident.

It doesnt take voice acting and graphics to bring the original characters to life though... They were full of life already.

I guess it must differ with each person then, unless you haven't played FF7 recently. It's a shame you didn't feel anything from FF7, as there were soem brillliant character developments in that game.

Thanks for reminding me! Will calculate and update now...


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Well I could cope with a remake if all it was was a graphics update and voice overs added.. I don't want any of the gameplay elements to change.. and that includes the world map, and an airship that CAN FLY!!!
And also, that means well designed maps, and not PATHS with set CIRCLES to fight predictable BATTLES!

Well, I believe they'll be doing a remake of this game sometime in the near future. FF7's been one of the top-selling series in the whole FF world and, since Square's been trying to gain as much money as possible from this series, I really don't see why they wouldn't want to do a remake which will bring them more money (and the gratitude of millions of fans!!!).

Besides.....Square's gotten into doing a lot of remakes nowadays! FF1,2,4 and 6 have been remaid (dunno if there are remakes of 3 and 5) and the next one on the list should be numba 7

Wasn't there an FF3 for the DS as well as the FFv advance game?! Anyway, I am going to try an acquire the original game for myself and get enthralled in the magic of the game but after seeing how fanatical FF7 fans can get, I am glad that I played to completion FFVIII and FFVI before I even conceived finishing that game because I would have turned out to be those fanboys. As for the remakes, I have mixed views for one thing the prospect of FF7 remake with AC and Crisis Core sound promising, I personally hope that they do not think of creating a remake if they are going to alter the story in anyway because the original game had a great story but it became convoluted after Advent Children and all the other games involved in the compilation. After all, I kind of enjoy the feel of the block graphics of the original version it "feels" kind of like I had this game all my life and that I was actually in the 1997 year playing the game.

Well I think the graphics of FF7 - FF9 actually suited the franchise better than top quality graphics. The maps drawn out were imaginative and inventive and realy stood out in these games... When top quality 3D graphics come out I've felt recently that they've become lazy, and the maps have looked quite bland and repetitive. Take Crisis Core for example!

Also... WHERE ARE THE WORLD MAPS? WHERE ARE THE FLYABLE AIRSHIPS?! Come on guys! A version of FF7 without these features would be terrible IMO!

The graphics of these games were also fitting for the more humourous scenes as well IMO. But then again, the lack of real humour in the recent installments could just be down to the loss of humour in Square-Enix, as they continue to go for a more emo look in the games.

Anyway thats another thing that worries me about a remake.. Will they drop Don Corneo? Bugenhagen? Will they make Don Corneo more serious and cut most of the scenes from Wall Market out? Will Bugenhagen be changed into a sad serious old man who mumbled about how doomed the world is?

If they keep these elements in, and only if they keep these elements in, will this remake truly please me, as a huge fan of not just FF7, but of the FF series in general... I don't want to see the whole franchise lose its touch...

But honestly, I think a remake will be a waste of time and money... It will be much easier just to re-release FF7 in a special package or something so that everybody who hasn't got it, and cant find it, can have it... That way the greatness of the original can't possiby be lost.

In short... An update in graphics only please Square.. And that does not mean, show us a few places in updated graphics, and drop other areas.. I mean SPOT BY SPOT update in graphics. With none of it lost.