Squeenix Final Fantasy VII Remake Integrade - now on Steam

[Max Stats]

how do you even control a party in real time?

Badly.

 

[Hyperion]

Hey look, only 2 years since they announced the game and they're almost done with the Mako Reactor.

 

[Duraframe300]

From the official twitter:

Cover mechanics????

 

[Morality Games]

I don't think I could deal with ATB again at my age. But why do they have to make new FF games? Can't they design a new franchise?

They basically are. They just call them Final Fantasy.

 

[vonAchdorf]

From the official twitter:

Looks generic.

 

[insukk]

Up to this point i never knew that it was possible to with swords and kung-fu.

 

[Wayward Son]

They basically are. They just call them Final Fantasy.

True. Final Fantasies after 6 stopped being in the same series as the ones before (and the ones before could be split into some distinctive series too)

 

[Sigourn]

I loved Final Fantasy XII. Sure, 33% of the main cast was shit (unsurprisingly both are teenagers), but Fran's and Ashe's asses make up for it. The gameplay was entertaining, and I really appreciated being done with fucking random encounters that got us nowhere. The Mark sidequests were fairly fun in how they required the player to think in order to spawn the monsters, whereas in a new RPG it would say "kill all the monsters in the area and return", or worse, spawn it right there without any enemies in the area.

My first FF was IX, which is probably the one that's dearest to me, not to mention it is the truest Final Fantasy of the last 9 games that were released. Everything in that game contributed to its magic, from the artstyle, to the locations, to the characters and their colorful portrayals (my favorite was the relationship between Vivi and Steiner), and the story too.

For the record, I played, in order: Final Fantasy IX, Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy XII (had such a massive hard on for this game that when I got a PS2, it was my day one piracy purchase), Final Fantasy X, Final Fantasy VI, bits and pieces of Final Fantasy VIII, Final Fantasy V, and Final Fantasy.

 

[Max Stats]

Hey look, only 2 years since they announced the game and they're almost done with the Mako Reactor.

That's where part one will end. Part two will be just up to and including the bar.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

For the record, I played, in order: Final Fantasy IX, Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy XII (had such a massive hard on for this game that when I got a PS2, it was my day one piracy purchase), Final Fantasy X, Final Fantasy VI, bits and pieces of Final Fantasy VIII, Final Fantasy V, and Final Fantasy.

Try Final Fantasy IV, and realize just how much FF IX owes to this particular predecessor.

 

[yes plz]

For the record, I played, in order: Final Fantasy IX, Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy XII (had such a massive hard on for this game that when I got a PS2, it was my day one piracy purchase), Final Fantasy X, Final Fantasy VI, bits and pieces of Final Fantasy VIII, Final Fantasy V, and Final Fantasy.

Try Final Fantasy IV, and realize just how much FF IX owes to this particular predecessor.

Well, yeah. I mean, Hironobu Sakaguchi was the lead on both of them (and was involved with nearly every good RPG SquareSoft put out).

 

[Sigourn]

Today I learned that FFXII is getting a remaster. And it's pretty much the type of remaster FFVII fans wanted. And FFXII is a very disliked Final Fantasy title.

If only it came to PC too... my life would be complete. Until then I will have to make do with IZJS patched.

 

[Infinitron]

https://www.pcgamesn.com/final-fantasy-vii-remake/ff7-remake-square-enix

Square Enix just assumed full control of the FF7 Remake

The twists and turns in the creation of the Final Fantasy 7 remake continue, as Square Enix move development entirely in-house. This runs contrary to what has been happening for the past couple of years, with Japanese studio CyberConnect2 having worked on the title up until this point.

Naoki Hamaguchi, the guy who has been heading up the development for Mobius Final Fantasy, has now been assigned to run the project. In a recent YouTube broadcast, the Final Fantasy 13 veteran explained that “so far, development has been carried out mainly with the support of external partners. However, in view of factors such as improving quality when the product goes into mass production in the future, the company has decided to shift the developmental system back to within the company, so as to maintain a stable schedule and have control over factors such as quality. We will be forming a robust system within the company to properly carry out the development.”

This is in-line with Square Enix's previous announcement that the success of Nier: Automata had persuaded them to outsource mid-level titles and focus their own team on bigger releases. It also follows a heavy recruitment drive by the Japanese publisher, which saw them urgently hiring staff for the FF7 project.

Hopefully this means we’ll be getting the remake sooner than we’d previously expected, with current estimates putting it at some time around 2020. We’ve still got no word on whether or not this will be coming to PC, but we’d be delighted if it did!

In the meantime, you can whet your appetite with Final Fantasy XIII for $15.99/£10.99 or check out the original translation over at Nova Crystallis.

 

[vonAchdorf]

Hopefully this means we’ll be getting the remake sooner than we’d previously expected, with current estimates putting it at some time around 2020. We’ve still got no word on whether or not this will be coming to PC, but we’d be delighted if it did!

For the complete game or chapter one (do they still plan chapters?). FFXV-like delays incoming.

 

[Hobo Elf]

I think the most interesting information here is that Square outsourced the FF7 remake in the first place. Anyway, I predict that the first part will be released, it'll be shit and everyone will hate it and then Square will abandon the Remake project by working on the later parts "indefinitely".

 

[buru5]

https://www.pcgamesn.com/final-fantasy-vii-remake/ff7-remake-square-enix

Square Enix just assumed full control of the FF7 Remake

The twists and turns in the creation of the Final Fantasy 7 remake continue, as Square Enix move development entirely in-house. This runs contrary to what has been happening for the past couple of years, with Japanese studio CyberConnect2 having worked on the title up until this point.

Naoki Hamaguchi, the guy who has been heading up the development for Mobius Final Fantasy, has now been assigned to run the project. In a recent YouTube broadcast, the Final Fantasy 13 veteran explained that “so far, development has been carried out mainly with the support of external partners. However, in view of factors such as improving quality when the product goes into mass production in the future, the company has decided to shift the developmental system back to within the company, so as to maintain a stable schedule and have control over factors such as quality. We will be forming a robust system within the company to properly carry out the development.”

This is in-line with Square Enix's previous announcement that the success of Nier: Automata had persuaded them to outsource mid-level titles and focus their own team on bigger releases. It also follows a heavy recruitment drive by the Japanese publisher, which saw them urgently hiring staff for the FF7 project.

Hopefully this means we’ll be getting the remake sooner than we’d previously expected, with current estimates putting it at some time around 2020. We’ve still got no word on whether or not this will be coming to PC, but we’d be delighted if it did!

In the meantime, you can whet your appetite with Final Fantasy XIII for $15.99/£10.99 or check out the original translation over at Nova Crystallis.

Final Fantasy VII Remaster official title will now change 4 times before finally settling on "Final Fantasy Magnificum Septem Rursus Saga"

 

[Blaine]

There's literally 0 chance this is going to be any good.

 

[Hobo Elf]

There's literally 0 chance this is going to be any good.

The butthurt will be good.

 

[vonAchdorf]

Yes, I didn't follow the project closely and I was surprised that they outsourced a project like this which is quite important to the brand. In Mobius, there was a FFVII remake even recently - somehow the "...", "not interested" Cloud hasn't aged particularly well.

 

[Blaine]

At this point, Squeenix might as well be outsourcing to itself.

 

[Hyperion]

It's hilarious they think a tentative 2020 release for a remake that started in like 2014 or 15 is an improved milestone.

 

[Hobo Elf]

It's hilarious they think a tentative 2020 release for a remake that started in like 2014 or 15 is an improved milestone.

And only the first episode of the remake and not the whole game. Really makes you think.

 

[Major_Blackhart]

I didn't know they outsourced. Why would they do that?

 

[Hyperion]

Probably because their inhouse development teams suck. Or they put everything and everyone on FFXV to get it out the door in some semi-functional state, then scramble to finish the game in the 6 months after release. In which case, they suck.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Squaresoft, since merging into SquareEnix in 2002, has proven itself incapable of successfully developing an in-house AAA Final Fantasy on anything approaching schedule. First, FF XII had significant delays before its release in 2006, with its original director resigning due to management issues. Second, FF XIII experienced much more troubles in development, likely delayed more than two years from when it was intended for release when development began. Third, FF XIV, the successor to Squaresoft's earlier MMORPG FF XI, might have been released on time in 2010, but the game proved such a disaster that it was quickly shut down and re-tooled for three years before its successful relaunch in 2013. Fourth, FF XV was originally intended as a non-numbered spin-off of FF XIII, but its development proved such a trainwreck that the development team's leadership was eventually replaced, and even though it was finally ushered onto the market in a woefully unfinished state, it was still delayed five or six years relative to FF XIII (or seven to eight years overall). Considering their demonstrated incompetence over the last dozen years, its not surprising they would consider outsourcing development.