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Final Fantasy VII: Just Kidding

Posted on Tuesday 9th December 2014 at 01:17 by Death Penalty
Final Fantasy VII
That's right, another great moment (read: not so much) in Final Fantasy VII Compilation history. At Sony's Playstation Experience event this Saturday, Square Enix big-man Shinji Hashimoto (corporate executive of the company's Production Department #1) announced that the PS4 would be seeing Final Fantasy VII, in re-release - not, repeat, not remake - form.

This prompted lots of people to all sorts of grumbling, probably because it was announced with the worst delivery possible. Hashimoto announced the title ambiguously enough that it can easily be mistaken mistaken for the announcement of an actual remake; that is, just before showing a trailer that made evident the fact that we would only be getting those same old beloved, clunky polygons ported over to a new box.

The company, understandably, is getting some (largely good-humored... maybe) flack for the move. We've certainly had a tendency here at CoN to be critical of Square Enix's money-grabbing tendencies when it comes to re-(re-re-re-re-re-)releases, but it stands to fact that these ports remain an important part of the company's profits - if they weren't, we wouldn't continue seeing them. And while some of these purchases are likely old fans re-buying, I'd be willing to bet they're reaching a lot of new audiences this way as well. To further play devil's advocate, Hashimoto is clearly not in perfect command of his English. All the same - let's rehearse that delivery a bit more next time. For the sake of my heart. My achy breaky heart.
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SpooniestComment 1: 2014-12-09 06:38
Spooniest They couldn't have made people angrier if he had just shouted "SQUARE ENIX" into a microphone, dropped it, and walked off the stage with his middle fingers up his nose.

On the bright side, this displays one important fact: SE knows that people want them to remake FFVII, and they are shilling to it. They won't get away with this trick forever, you see.

Still...just...who in their right mind thought that such a style of presentation would be a good idea? It boggles the brains it does.
ElPanachinoComment 2: 2014-12-09 11:44
ElPanachino The audience is visibly less excited after the trailer than in the lead-up.
Death PenaltyComment 3: 2014-12-09 20:29
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Quote (Spooniest @ 9th December 2014 02:38)
On the bright side, this displays one important fact: SE knows that people want them to remake FFVII, and they are shilling to it. They won't get away with this trick forever, you see.

That's not new though. They've known that since the PS2. They can get away with it as long as they like, really, because it's inexpensive to port the thing and people will keep buying it. The amount of work involved to do a remake, on the other hand, is very high and would involve taking a team away from doing the kind of creative new projects they want to be doing. And at the end of the day a remake may, as we've somewhat talked about in the thread on fast airships, not even work.
SpooniestComment 4: 2014-12-10 01:44
Spooniest Perhaps I should recount the old story of "The Boy Who Cried Sephiroth." biggrin.gif
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