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Kitase doesn’t know how many games FF7 Remake will be
- Thread starter JORMBO
- Start date
- E3 - Square Enix
Trogdor1123
Gold Member
I'm thinking it might make sense to wait for the edition that includes everything on this one.
off duty ninja
Member
Even the fact they are calling the episodes "games" now is just weird. Is this like taking a movie and remaking it as a 10 episode series or something? They're the George RR Martin of game development and we'll all probably be dead before this whole thing is done.
shark sandwich
tenuously links anime, pedophile and incels
Screw that, it’s going to be several years no matter what. I’m not going to deprive myself of this game just so I can save like $50 and get the complete collection.
danielberg
Neophyte
It will be 7 parts... go big or go home lol
brap
Banned
Yeah I'll just wait so I can play it at once instead of waiting until 2025 to finish it.
off duty ninja
Member
I just wouldn't want to finish each "game" and then have to wait 1-2 years for the next "game". What a crappy business model they're creating.
Pallas
Gold Member
Originally I thought the game would be split into two parts but apparently that’s just the first part, split between two blu-rays.
I’ll be ok with this if they really open up that world and make it more fleshed out, more quests, dungeons, characters, etc. I imagine they will add new content. They usually do with these remakes like with the early FF games.
I’ll be ok with this if they really open up that world and make it more fleshed out, more quests, dungeons, characters, etc. I imagine they will add new content. They usually do with these remakes like with the early FF games.
Orenji Neko
Member
Well....shit. That kind of deflated my newfound enthusiasm for this. I was planned on waiting to get a better idea of how this will ultimately shake out anyway, so no big deal I suppose.
Abriael_GN
RSI Employee of the Year
My Editor in Chief sat down in the same group interview and just sent me the recording for an article.
More than they don't know how many games they're gonna have, they don't know how far the second will reach in the story, which I guess amounts to the same thing, or almost.
They're currently working on deciding it.
More than they don't know how many games they're gonna have, they don't know how far the second will reach in the story, which I guess amounts to the same thing, or almost.
They're currently working on deciding it.
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Yautja_Warrior
Member
With this first part being just Midgar, my guess is 3 Parts, each with 2 blu-ray's each.
| Part 1 - Midgar and ends with escape from Midgar. Part 2 - Travel to Kalm, world exploration, ends with getting the Highwind Airship. Part 3 - Searching for Cloud and goes all the way to the end of the game. Seems like a decent way to split the game up. Each episode will be expanded and have new story elements compared to the original, going by the changes they have already shown. |
blackjon24
Member
Pretty big ff7 fanboy but I'm not buying more than two games for this
CyberPanda
Banned
They will look at the sales of the first part and if it will make a shit ton of money(which it obviously will), expect 20 parts. It’s all about 
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a multicultural team of v
Member
Call me crazy but I am going to buy and keep buying every single part until they stop being worth the money. Whether that is 1 game or 100 I don't really care.
Yautja_Warrior
Member
Me too but if they make each part into a full length game and do a great job with the gameplay and new story elements (looks fantastic so far) then I'll buy as many as they make lol
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Northeastmonk
Gold Member
I honestly want to play the last part of the game
Super Nova better be worth it.
AkirraKrylon
Member
I am not concerned about shelling out money for multiple games, I am moreso concerned that SE hasn't figured out how they are spliting up a plot that they have had in hand for 20+ years. How do you not know which major plot points each part is going to end on? That is unfathomable to me.
I think it's gonna end up being 3...it sure as shit ain't gonna be two. There is no way they can cram everything post-Midgar to the end of the game into part 2 if they are doing it on the scale they claim. The question is...is it gonna be 3 or 4 parts.
I think 4 is too much. 3 is a sweet spot, imo.
I think it's gonna end up being 3...it sure as shit ain't gonna be two. There is no way they can cram everything post-Midgar to the end of the game into part 2 if they are doing it on the scale they claim. The question is...is it gonna be 3 or 4 parts.
I think 4 is too much. 3 is a sweet spot, imo.
Abriael_GN
RSI Employee of the Year
Kitase said it shouldn't be dramatically different.
Boss Mog
Member
Don't worry, it'll look glorious on PS7.
I wouldn't be surprised if it is 4 as well. I'm pretty sure their will be a lot more content plus everything is massively larger than the original so it will take longer just to do things. It is more a matter of how do they plan on fleshing out this story, plus nowadays typical sidecontent.
Pejo
Member
Some of us don't have another 40-50 years to live
Joe T.
Member
While I appreciate the honesty, assuming Schrier's accurately representing what was said, Kitase should have been more careful with his words. This deflated much of the hype I had from the conference where I was pleasantly surprised by what I had seen. If he doesn't yet know how many games/episodes are part of the remake 4-5 years into development it only serves to reinforce my belief that they're still struggling to properly manage big projects.
Abriael_GN
RSI Employee of the Year
It's semi-accurate, as I mentioned above. Also, do remember that this is through a translator. It's the same translator who always did Tabata's interviews, and he tend to be on the blunt side with the wording.
Japanese always tend to become blunter when translated unless the interpreter is super-good.
What Kitase-san likely meant is that they're not ready to talk about the next games because they're still considering how far each is going in the story. Pretty sure they have a semi-clear idea already, but it's not 100% set in stone.
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ClanOfNone
Member
"However long we can milk it for."
Aggelos
Member
It's not shocking to me at all.
Nomura once said (in the FFF7AC making-of featurette) that the original game itself was like Pandora's box, sth that shouldn't be touched nor opened again.
Now with the FF7Remake, Pandora's box has been opened from all sides.
Hence anything is possible
The other issue is Square-Enix's development cycles and especially games directed by Tetsuya Nomura.
KH3 was unveiled in E3 2013 and was just released this year.
FF7Remake was unveiled in E3 2015 and disappeared thereafter, only to resurface now. But given the expectations and demand that this game has (upon it),
it's not surprising at all for producer Kitase to come out and say that they themselves don't know how many episodes the game should be.
But we all gotta have faith.... We'll get all the episodes by year 2040 or something.
Two decades is enough time for them to materialize their vision for this FF7Remake.
Nomura once said (in the FFF7AC making-of featurette) that the original game itself was like Pandora's box, sth that shouldn't be touched nor opened again.
Now with the FF7Remake, Pandora's box has been opened from all sides.
Hence anything is possible
The other issue is Square-Enix's development cycles and especially games directed by Tetsuya Nomura.
KH3 was unveiled in E3 2013 and was just released this year.
FF7Remake was unveiled in E3 2015 and disappeared thereafter, only to resurface now. But given the expectations and demand that this game has (upon it),
it's not surprising at all for producer Kitase to come out and say that they themselves don't know how many episodes the game should be.
But we all gotta have faith.... We'll get all the episodes by year 2040 or something.
Two decades is enough time for them to materialize their vision for this FF7Remake.
newtypepilot
Member
they don't know yet because they don't know how far they can milk this
lifa-cobex
Member
That was my thinking.
Werewolf Jones
Gold Member
Cross generation game that Xenosaga never was for a story we already know how it ends.
Bravo Nomura.
Bravo Nomura.
Its not just that we know how it ends. Its the whole story thats apparently going to get dragged out to hell and back.
Why?
shark sandwich
tenuously links anime, pedophile and incels
If they’re all substantial full-length games then it’s not a crappy business model at all. In that case I don’t care if there are 2 episodes or 5.
Werewolf Jones
Gold Member
FF VII prints money and the fans are prime for milking.
Dynasty8
Member
I might not be alive by then...and I'm in my thirties.
If these games are fully fledged games with Midgar alone being 30+ hours which means they are adding a lot of story and content. Then I am fine with it. It will be just like the Star Wars movies.
Just the scale of the first boss fight was just insane. Most video game endbosses of other games were not this intense. Giving the detail hey already put in Midgar and this being a open world game the scale and production costs will be insane
Also people saying that they are milking heir fans have no idea. Anthem and EA is milking their fans. SE puts a HUGE effort into these games and the retelling of this story.
Just the scale of the first boss fight was just insane. Most video game endbosses of other games were not this intense. Giving the detail hey already put in Midgar and this being a open world game the scale and production costs will be insane
Also people saying that they are milking heir fans have no idea. Anthem and EA is milking their fans. SE puts a HUGE effort into these games and the retelling of this story.
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mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
This kinda sucks.
Abriael_GN
RSI Employee of the Year
Square Enix just sent me a clarification of Kitase-san's words.
The gist is pretty much what I mentioned above, but obviously, taken out of context, Jason's tweet sounds much worse.
The gist is pretty much what I mentioned above, but obviously, taken out of context, Jason's tweet sounds much worse.
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shark sandwich
tenuously links anime, pedophile and incels
A game with the epic size and scope of FF VII, done to modern AAA standards, releasing as a single complete single-player game for $60 is IMPOSSIBLE. It will never happen.
Why do you think so many JRPG series have gone extinct, and most of the remaining ones are low-mid budget? You should really be thankful that this game exists at all.
And yeah just look at that first boss battle. That probably took orders of magnitude more man-hours to make it a reality compared to the same battle in the original.
If part 1 ends up as a 15 hour game crammed with filler and microtransactions then by all means complain. But just because it’s split up into parts is not by itself a knock against the game.
Why do you think so many JRPG series have gone extinct, and most of the remaining ones are low-mid budget? You should really be thankful that this game exists at all.
And yeah just look at that first boss battle. That probably took orders of magnitude more man-hours to make it a reality compared to the same battle in the original.
If part 1 ends up as a 15 hour game crammed with filler and microtransactions then by all means complain. But just because it’s split up into parts is not by itself a knock against the game.
sublimit
Banned
I wonder what will happen if the sales of the first or second part don't match SE's expectations. Will they rush the subsequent parts?Will they lower the production values? This is one aspect of this particular business model that scares me. Especially when it looks like they don't have a solid plan that extends from start to finish yet.
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Andrew Evenstar
Member
they don't even have a real, accurate road map for their biggest game LMAO
