After FFVII and FFVIII both came out with less features, they find reason to complain. Like there was evidence to suggest the release would be otherwise.
FFVII and VIII were also just re-releases of existing ports from the 90s. And not good ones at that.
http://q-gears.sourceforge.net/index.phtml?content=4
This is brand new. Excuse us for expecting a company to care enough about it's most highly recognized brand to do a good job.
But really, we should expect them to do a good job. But realistically expect a mediocre job. It's been the same story with ports since the 90s.
Asking for high quality new backgrounds, likewise is not impossible at all. Not even in the slightest. It's work. And work worthwhile. (Again, look at RE Zero HD. The game might not have as many backgrounds as a PS1 FF game in numbers, but that shows it's possible none the less even with Animations.)
That alone would've been enough for me to be OK with the FFVII Remake not being the remake I wanted personally. If they had done that for FFVII on PS4. Then everyone could've had their cake and eaten it too.
We could have a high resolution version with definitively better graphics. And the Reboot.
Instead we are stuck with the same old low res garbage.
(Because unlike IX here, they didn't even bother to do anything with VII's backgrounds on PS4.They slapped a bilinear filter on it and called it a day.)
Likewise with Star Ocean 2 for PS4/Vita they literally did nothing. They point scale everything and leave it as is. At least it's not distorted I guess.
It seems like some people put this shit up on a pedestal "That's impossible, that's not feasible,it's not realistic" It might be more of a risk to put the extra money and time into it to allocate resources. But that's it and that's nothing compared to the risk they took putting all their eggs in one basket with the FFXIII series or the original XIV (Which was a huge endeavor that failed massively)or even XV. Which pale in comparison to something like this.
But once again, for the Nth time. All they have to do is fix this issue with the scaling. Why is that so unreasonable to expect when the amount of effort and work to upscale these is extremely small?
It will take it from IMO looking like garbage to "OK".