haha thanks. I've waited for so long for an FF7 remake that I'm not gonna instantly get mad about it when some unfinished information comes by. Everyone is kinda just ruining the game for themselves. This could turn out to be the best thing for the game. Oh well. I'll let everyone cry foul with their false information and I'll carry on in my happiness that so far the game looks great :)

Well that's what I'm saying. There's no point throwing a hissy fit until we have all the info. Currently I'm happy to be getting a remake and so far it looks great!

Do you also refer to the individual LOTR movies as episodes?

Do we refer to the individual Star Wars movies as episodes?

They are multiple parts, each being its own fully featured, all-out RPG. Each one supposedly offers a unique experience. Did NO ONE read the actual interviews with the devs?

No.

The matter is, them being called "episodes" makes people think they are chapters along the lines of Telltale Games, where you play 2 hours and then that chapter is done and you wait months for the next one, but that's not the case. With each chapter of this supposedly being its own game, I don't see what all the fuzz is about. It could even be that the first part is Final Fantasy VII in its entirety and the later parts are sequels that add onto the story, like Crisis Core, or Advent Children. I could be wrong, but so could everyone else. No one will know anything for sure until we get more info.

And just like that, I have been proven wrong by the developers, haha. Here's a message from Yoshinori Kitase:

"One thing that we wanted to be clear about during this weekend to accompany the new trailer was the scale of this project. We wanted to tell you this now and not in the future so that you’d share our vision for what we want to deliver. The biggest reason why we haven’t done a remake until now is because it’s a massive undertaking to reconstruct FINAL FANTASY VII from the ground up with the current technology. Producing a proper HD remake of FINAL FANTASY VII that maintains the same feeling of density of the original would result in a volume of content that couldn’t possibly fit into one instalment.

We’ve seen everyone’s comments and reactions to the news that FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE will be a multi-part series and many have speculated correctly as to the reason why we have made this decision. If we were to try to fit everything from the original into one remake instalment, we would have to cut various parts and create a condensed version of FINAL FANTASY VII. We knew none of you would have wanted that."

I don't assume it and I see you don't either, but the majority of people seem to see it that way. The word itself is not really the problem, it's just that article writers are using it in a negative way to create bad publicity for the game.

Anyway, I have no problem with it either. I know the first part is going to be a day one purchase for me :)

In short, the term episodic conjures up certain connotations because it's used in very specific ways in our community.

More shortly, it's about context.

Otherwise, I agree with you, episodic isn't inherently bad, nor does it have to be defined to a specific thing. And it doesn't matter to me for the time being due to not knowing enough, and understanding just how massive the game is, and how much content there already is to fill multiple games.