Bro, you aren't a Playstation gamer. Just stop.

You sound like trump lmao

Just because they can change the story does not mean that they will. They will almost certainly change a few negative things from the OG (which fans have been trying to reverse since the original btw) but don't pretend that the original story isn't still going to play out much the same otherwise.

It will be done by 2035 at this pace

That's my plan if i'm still around.

Ditto

I remember, I predicted what would happen.

"If it goes on past that, then it is what it is."
They are changing the story so it won't follow the original despite the makers saying otherwise. They are deviating the story so it fixes what they say is the bad ending of the original FF7. They will visit the same places but the context and objective will be different.
In previous articles, I did a plan showing how the event will pan out. And if they stay true the quality of ff7 remake, it will take at least 2 more games to get to the end of disk 1. That's if they want to expand the story as they did with FF7. And if they don't then they doing fans will be a grave injustice and will be sending mixed messages. Why expand Midgard and not other parts of the story.
There are now stuck in a catch 22 situation.

if they go forward and do that without going back and doing crisis core i might have to murder someone over @ square haha

It's naive to think that the game will cover the original story in just 2-3 games. It's impossible unless they cut content.

Massive disappointment with side quest padding, main mission padding, and draggy, tedious tiresome traversal. Climb, squeeze, duck, climb, squeeze, duck, tightrope walk, repeat, repeat, repeat.

If this were a new IP, and you were running around as Butch and Jane instead of Cloud and Tifa, do you think this game would be getting the pass it is? Of course not. The name is what sells this. Do you think people would have bought this game if the demo instead featured that lame section where you're turning off lamps, and not the intro of the original, beat for beat? Hell no. SE led people to believe this would be much more faithful to the original than it was by strategically releasing a beat for beat opening demo of the original - modernized of course.

The sidequests: The side quests and their respective NPCs are dull. They're inane filler with nothing to add to the overarching plot. There's nothing to gain from doing them besides the very basic rewards, and there's no payoff to them. It's filler, pure and simple. It's designed to waste your time. Instead of well-crafted, interesting, or thought provoking stories (a la Witcher 3), you're handed a checklist of monsters to kill, cats and kids to find, and throwaway NPCs to talk to. The dichotomy of Ms Folia, the wholesome orphanage owner by day and Honey Bee dancer with a dream by night. Interesting? You bet it isn't.

Every story beat - every single one is separated by a massive amount of meaningless filler that adds nothing to the game.

The first indication of this is the Air Buster section, where you run between identical looking rooms through empty rampways, fighting identical looking grunts to find identical keycards to go to identical terminals, just to do it again. You do that four times, when the whole thing could be simplified down to a ten minute section. It's stupid and unnecessary, and it adds nothing to the game. The payoff for all that should be fighting Air Buster, and finally doing so utterly fails to be that payoff. The idea with this section is that you're trying to sabotage Air Buster by rescinding part orders, but it doesn't feel like the fight changes, and it feels like trickery to make it seem as though your actions have impact when they don't.

This game is full of that. It's full of mindless, tedious filler intercut with a story that stays to the original in some regards, but generally goes off the rails.

I’d love to know how many units have been sold of all the Final Fantasy VII franchise games, including the original, the remakes, spin offs such as Crisis Core, and mobile games Ever Crisis. I bet a fair few copies.

is the remake good if you didn't play ff7