Square Enix Staff Discusses Versus XIII and FFVII Remake

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Our latest update on things that begin with "Final Fantasy" comes from Korean game site Gameshot by way of Japanese Square Enix fan site FF Reunion.

To commemorate the launch of Final Fantasy XIII in Korea, Square Enix held a roundtable interview session with FFXIII director Motomu Toriyama, FFXIII producer Yoshinori Kitase, and Square Enix chief Twitter person Shinji Hashimoto on the 28th. FF Reunion translated just a couple of pertinent bits and pieces from the Korean language transcript that was posted at Gameshot.

Regarding FFXIII sister project Final Fantasy Versus XIII, the staff said "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."

The staff was asked its usual question about a Final Fantasy VII remake. Kitase responded: "We've gotten this question a lot from many countries (laughs). To make FFXIII at this level of quality, it took us 3 to 4 years. If we were to make FFVII in the same style of FFXIII, it would take 10 times as long, so it would be difficult to take it up immediately. However, we always keep in mind how often this is requested."
There seems to be quite a bit more in the original interview so those with Korean ability should check it out.


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I hope "appropriate time" to show some Versus stuff means E3 ^^

I know some info was revealed in interviews in such, but visuals would be so awesome!
 
Hmm, I actually didn't think they'd show some info for it that soon. :hmmm: But it's cool that there's the possibility.
 
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I'll leave this be for the Versus news, but if the remake topic gets too out of hand (like most FFVII remake threads do) then I'll have to close it. :)

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I don't have any problem with people discussing it- none at all in fact- just sometimes the topic gets heated and things get out of hand. Just a warning.
 
Oh, okay. That's true. I actually almost completely forgot about the VII part.

On a note for that, I'd like to call BS on SE claiming it'd take 10 times longer than XIII. :mokken:
 
If it is gonna take that long, they may as well not do it. They could make 4-7 great games in such a time span and I am not sure FFVII is worth millions of dollars to make and also I am not sure it is worth all that time.
 
All this Remake of Final Fantasy VII is gonna do for fans is Give Tifa bigger boobs so they can fap to her in next gen graphics. But 10 times longer? They might do alot for it then :hmmm:
 
I don't know, they might make her breasts smaller. For me, I know it will be the coolest thing. And not because of Tifa, more because of Cloud.

I'd love to see all of the epic scenes(Cloud fighting, Aerith's death)all in better graphics. It'd be insane.
 
Well, there isn't much to say from me regarding this. I'm just glad to hear that development for Versus is going smoothly with the bit of hope in me that Versus will have more to praise about than FFXIII.

Of course, E3 would be the "appropriate time" to show it. It's about time that something good is shown from Versus seeing as I've seen very little of it in these past 4 years. :mokken:

And as for the FFVII remake talk, I'm not getting into it. I think I've voiced my opinion towards it more than enough.
 
I'm with Olivia. The remake won't happen, particularly since it's been stated that it would take ten times longer to do it. Besides, should be looking more to the future than the past.

Now I haven't been following the news about Versus, but I'm interested to see what it has in store for us since it should be released in the foreseeable future.
 
Hearing that it is possible that there will be FF XIII characters in Versus XIII it seems exciting. Im not gonna get my hopes up just yet. But I think Versus will be my new game just like FF XIII was when it came out. Now really excited for Versus. and I hope to see it at E3. Remeber It his higly unlikeyl that Cid raines and Maqui will appear just cause IMDB said it. Infact I think The whole new cast of Versus so far is epic. But I can see Lots of the Fal Cie back from FF XIII. Maybe even a bit of the maker. It is in the same universe so it should happen. And I think we will have a litlle bit of cameos from FF XIII. Just cameos. Btw I think we will see more of
Barthandelus. I do not think he is dead at all. Probably free from Galenth but not dead.
 
Frankly I think it's utter BS for SE to say it'll take em 30-40 years to make VII. Yeah I understand it's an overstatement and blah blah blah, but they have so much done from the other games that they can bring over to the remake. They have pre-existing character models from AC/C for CG moments, and the models used in CC were plenty good for cutscenes or short scenarios.

They want to do it, but they don't want to do it. And I think if they would just give us an explicit reason as to why they don't instead of all this (over 9000 years to make bs) we'd probably respect them more, and just take it at face value.

Instead they have to be all wishy washy over it for the next 7 years until the end of the VII Compilation.
 
Princess Bubblegum said:
On a note for that, I'd like to call BS on SE claiming it'd take 10 times longer than XIII. :mokken:
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I'd call bullshit on it too, there are huge differences between FFVII and FFXIII which would affect a remake:

a) Final Fantasy XIII was an entirely new game that had to be created from scratch, the core of Final Fantasy VII would already be in place, it would just be a case of "upgrading" it to this gen.

b) I'll take the presumption for arguments sake that a remake would be Playstation 3 exclusive, Final Fantasy XIII got horribly delayed because of the loss of exclusivity. This would not happen with a remake.

c) They changed both the game engine and the console a third of the way through, losing about a year and a half of development. Again, this would not happen with a remake.

d) Final Fantasy VII's marketing scheme is essentially already there. The game is the highest selling Final Fantasy title going and there are an awful lot of people crying out for a remake, Final Fantasy XIII didn't have this and a lot of time and money would have been poured into research and marketing.

e) Square-Enix developers are now used to the game engine for this gen consoles with the production of Final Fantasy XIII, which is pretty much the biggest hurdle they would have faced. Final Fantasy VII would not have this problem now.

To be honest, I don't particularly want a remake. I like to see new games with fresh ideas - although, at the moment Square-Enix have the inability to do this. If they don't want to create a remake then fair enough, but I don't see the need to say "Oh, by the way it'll x10 longer to create than FFXIII" when it seriously won't by any stretch of the imagination. Of course, Square-Enix being Square-Enix it will be a dreadful announcement yet they have games like the Chrono Series which is a waiting goldmine.
 
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I'd call bullshit on it too, there are huge differences between FFVII and FFXIII which would affect a remake:

a) Final Fantasy XIII was an entirely new game that had to be created from scratch, the core of Final Fantasy VII would already be in place, it would just be a case of "upgrading" it to this gen.

b) I'll take the presumption for arguments sake that a remake would be Playstation 3 exclusive, Final Fantasy XIII got horribly delayed because of the loss of exclusivity. This would not happen with a remake.

c) They changed both the game engine and the console a third of the way through, losing about a year and a half of development. Again, this would not happen with a remake.

d) Final Fantasy VII's marketing scheme is essentially already there. The game is the highest selling Final Fantasy title going and there are an awful lot of people crying out for a remake, Final Fantasy XIII didn't have this and a lot of time and money would have been poured into research and marketing.

e) Square-Enix developers are now used to the game engine for this gen consoles with the production of Final Fantasy XIII, which is pretty much the biggest hurdle they would have faced. Final Fantasy VII would not have this problem now.

To be honest, I don't particularly want a remake. I like to see new games with fresh ideas - although, at the moment Square-Enix have the inability to do this. If they don't want to create a remake then fair enough, but I don't see the need to say "Oh, by the way it'll x10 longer to create than FFXIII" when it seriously won't by any stretch of the imagination. Of course, Square-Enix being Square-Enix it will be a dreadful announcement yet they have games like the Chrono Series which is a waiting goldmine.
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Glad we agree. You did a pretty good job in putting together the facts that prove it wouldn't take longer. :mokken:

You hear that SE, we know you're BSing us. To be honest, though. I know some FF fans dread the thought of an FFVII remake but I kinda think they've already started it. But that's for an other thread. All I'm trying to say, is it wouldn't take long at all especially if they already started it.:mokken:
 
I understand why things get out of hand discussing an FFVII remake.
People got mad at me on another forum when I told them I wasn't in favor of a remake.That the original game was good enough. A decent sequel perhaps but not a remake.Boy did I ever get grief for saying that.Oh well.

I've since changed my views.If the fans want a remake and Square makes one then that's fine.Not worth arguing about.

As for Versus it had better be good. I think we might see something on E3 about it.A video perhaps.

I don't agree with the claim that Square is use to the game engine.The fact FFXIII didn't have towns , didn't have much npc interaction or minigames means they still have a ways to go to max the engines capabilities.
 
I'd really like to see an FFVII remake but I have no idea if they'll actually do it at some point. I think it would be awesome to see it all shined up and polished but I'm one-hundred percent positive that even though I'd love the re-make I'd still prefer the original. For all the sprucing up and fancy graphics and voicing there's a lot they'd also lose. There's something really charming about all the blocky characters and animations and the text-boxes with their sometimes strange phrases. Plus there's some content that they would probably either cut...or just wouldn't be nearly as funny in nifty graphics....like the scenes in honeybee manor for instance? Half of the reason things like that are so funny are that the animations are so ambiguous. Anyway, yeah...it's good to know that they're keeping it in mind and i'm sure it would be a lot of fun but I think I'll just focus on new games for a while. Versus, for instance. It's good to hear a kind-of update on that! I can't wait!
 
Yea, with over 3,000 employees and 309 million dollars in operating income posted just two weeks ago, I'm sure it would totally take SE over 40 years to reskin FFVII. After all, it's not like XBLA isn't flooded with old games doing the exact same thing SE claims it can't do in less than half a decade. I'm pretty sure if 18 guys at 4J Studios can reskin Perfect Dark in less than a year, somewhere in SE's 3k+ employees... they can find a couple fuckers looking for overtime enough to rework FFVII.

The worst part is there's money to be made here. Forget that it's the most anticipated remake of all time. I mean NBA Jam was just remade by one of EA's bitch divisions in bumble-fuck nowhere Canada... and they're expecting a great profit. Motherfucker! What a great idea... at a very low cost, rework someone's beloved memory of a game, and then sell it to them at triple what it's worth... why would SE ever want to do that? It's not like company's like money or anything...
 
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