The continuing speculation that there will be a Final Fantasy VII PS3 remake has taken over from the revive Aerith rumours to continue Final Fantasy VII's reputation as one of the most talked about games of all time.
It's become gaming's equivalent of tabloid chatter, like a long standing celebrity rumour - is Tom Cruise gay? - will Ashley Cole and Cheryl Cole get a divorce? - did Madonna illegally adopt an African baby? - and quite frankly, I'm tired of it. Really tired of it.
As much as I skip newspapers' gossip columns, I skip nearly all the games media articles surrounding the FFVII remake, this month it has been unavoidable though.
Major gaming websites, with writers who would be quick to pour scorn on these kinds of tabloid speculations are more guilty than anyone else of perpetuating these rumours and Square Enix continue to churn out ambiguous statements regarding the subject. Each news article, each quote from Kitase or Toriyama, each hopeful forum posting sends the gaming community into a frenzy.
Enough is enough. Square Enix, either announce it or keep stum. Gaming media, stop asking the questions. Fans, calm yourself and pre-order FFXIII, failing that, renew your valium prescription.
Testuya Nomura, character designer on FFVII said in an interview last month, "fans are looking forward to an oft rumoured remake of FFVII, but I don't believe this will happen for the time being."
Less than two weeks later, on February 5th, Motomu Toriyama, director of FFVII appeared to consildate this statement by admitting that "it is hard to make towns in the conventional style", alluding to the development difficulties surrounding the possibility of a hi-def remake.
"In the limited period of development time, to convey the great story that deserves the name of Final Fantasy and to convey the battles that entertain players enough, we condensed each element."
Such comments appeared to be yet another step to quash rumours surrounding a remake until Yoshinori Kitase, said last week in an interview that "I'm really interested to see this more complete form of a Final Fantasy VII portrayed more realistically with the voice and animation and all the subtle expressions there."
"I don't get tired of people asking that question," Kitase went on, in his Gametrailers interview, "so I will continue to answer my thoughts at that time as long as people keep asking."
Well do me a favour everyone: STOP BLOODY ASKING! Ask something constructive, ask something to provoke an in-depth response not the same question which everyone knows will produce an ambiguous PR driven response to generate a bit of publicity.
This continuing contradiction of denial and encouragement of perpetual rumours is just forum fodder, innocuous witterings on a slow news day and it's tiresome. I would love to see a PS3 remake and I'd go one step further in saying I'd love to see a remake where it would be possible to revive Aerith.
I will categorically state that right here and now.
However, this last month has been a hotbed of rumour-mongering - where it seems the games media are more interested in this angle than on concentrating on the imminent launch of FFXIII.
It's been 13 years since Final Fantasy VII launched in Europe and still people are asking the question: "can I revive Aerith"? People are still writing about it. Are we still going to be talking about a Final Fantasy VII remake in 2023? Only Square Enix can really provide a definitive answer to that question and something tells me that they never will.
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From the moment they release this trailer that shows how FFVII could be with PS3 graphics never stop to hope for a full remake of the game but something I read in an article few days ago make me lose all my hope, someone from SE I thing Kitase say that a full remake of FFVII with graphics equal/or better to FFXIII will take about 2.5 to 3 times more time to make compare to how much time they did to create FFXIII that means from 12 to 14 years... the NPC's in FFVII is over 200 and the towns is 15 in total if we add Gold Saucer that is huge and it's bigger than a town 16 all this places is full of NPC's and a 3d HD model need a lot of hard work to finish not to mention the hundreds of dialogues many of those must be with VO I guess that's the reason the new FF is so pure compare to how the old FF's was fewer models, less summons, less NPC's, less chat, 3-4 towns MAX, less of everything except cut scenes.. PS3 HD graphics make FF just look better but who cares about that when the series loose everything else... I am very disappointed to where the series go for me FF have die almost 10 years ago the series have no soul no depth no substance anymore FFvXIII is my last hope if this game dont be what I expect it to be then I will not bother anymore with FF's.
They knew full well from day 1 that the tech demo for the ps3 would spark interest and get them coverage and as usual people bought their games to show support.
Its no shock that they would once again say, oh we need to see this FF game release well etc etc etc before we can move onto such projects which we would like to do.
Same script everytime. Would I like a remake? Possibly, depending on how it is handled.
Am I holding my breath on one? Not a chance.
I wish they would just give a yes or no bluntly, but they wont because its working for their sales.
Its like teasing a baby with candy, then taking it away when they are all riled up. Then returning to do it all over again, just as theyve calmed down.
They know it is what people want. However, im pretty sure even when they get round to doing the remake, it wont please everyone and maybe thats why they tease so much. Will they just update the graphics? How would they go about doing it?