I'll ask again: Did you play the game or just watch the gametrailers review?
It shouldn't matter if I played it, you just keep jopding my points anyway. And if you want to see if I played it, just look up my gamer tag, it's Rahxephon91.
Because I'm not going to explain stuff for you you'd noticed if you had actually played the game.
Did you play the game? I sure noticed that the world was empty and a lot of it's content just was the same and reused things. I also did'nt care because thats what games do. Things have to be sacrificed to achieve the scale of something like Red Dead. World's no matter how detailed, can't have just one unique building that is never seen again. Side things are not going to be so special that it wont amount to doing something you've never done.
I'm not even going to talk about sidequests, poker and all the other minigames here.
Sidequests that are repetitive and the same thing? Yes I also believe FF has had tons of minigames as well.
Even the small details how little puddles form after rain, how marston actually gets drunk after a few drinks, how you can ring church bells by shooting at them, how characters that lay their legs on the table actually fall over when you shoot at them, how marston will silt characters throats if you hogtie them and kneel over them with a special animation, how vultures will eat dead animal (that can't be skinned after having been picked appart by vultures anymore) and npc, how you can actually track animals in the snow as they all have their distinctive footprings, how whistling will also attract animals other than your horse and will cause agressive npc in a gunfight to shoot in the general direction from where you whistled if they don't see you, then how your reputation influences the stuff marston says to other npc, how tumbleweed will react realistically if you shoot at it.
You realize that these things exist because this is new technology. Ok. So what your saying is that if something as big as FFVII is now remade in HD and follows current gaming standards it would have to have things like these right? Because that's what the quote regarding a FFVII remake is about. It's saying that if we made a remake up to current standards it wouldn't be easy. Why? Maybe because things like each town (and there are multiple towns in FFVII) would be hard to do. Why? Because each town is unique and has it's own style to it. So that make's re-using things more difficult, Red Dead dosen't have this problem because towns in real live can look the same. FFVII does because in fantasy land towns are supposed to have their own character. So doing that now is a bit more challenging. So you want all those details right? Well since it's an rpg there's going to be tons of party members and probably tons of unique and different enemies as well, and you want them all to have their own unique details and whatever all in hd. Ok yeah that dosen't sound super easy as well. Also since this remake has to be in current HD standards the towns and the like will probably have to be bigger and more detailed then they were because now things can be more detailed and if they aren't that's going to have points taken away on metacrtic. So now in this FFVII remake you have to have multiple towns that look very different then each other because they were in the original, they also need to be bigger and more detailed, because that's the standard, oh in keeping with the original you need to be able to go inside them, but probably to be imersreve the insides need to be a bit more interactive and detailed then they were before, but you can probably re-use items here so not a big deal. Also btw remember you need to have these areas be there on the players whim and not like idk LA Noire where you can only go into areas when the game allows you. Again this all sounds so easy. And that's the point here, making something like that is'nt easy. You use Red Dead as example and that game also took a very long time to make and was very costly. Add in the the problems with HD development in Japan and the quote makes sense and no it's not just because Sqaure sucks or is mismanaged, though that dosen't help. No it's because doing something like that is hard, like the fucking quote says.
I could go on all day, but I don't feel like making the effort because you're either going to ignore this or weasle your way out of the argument in some kind of form anyways.
You're describing yourself here. You throw Red Dead as example, a game that took very long to make, was costly, and had the scandal about Rockstar being slave drivers in order to finish it.
What are you trying to prove by the way? I don't see anything about FFVII that would be impossible to achive by a skilled team with good management in about 2 years.
Especially with the budget and manpower that squaresoft has.
Well two years would be fucking impossible. Red Dead did not take two years. FFXIII-2 is taking 2 years and it's re-using pretty much everything. The point is that the FFVII remake quote is true and that's true for anyone, not just Square, but everyone like you just want's to bash Square without actually thinking about what the quote really means.
Are you somehow in denial that squaresoft is too dumb and missmanaged to pull it off and now no other developer is allowed to be more effiecient or else your image of the game industry breaks appart?
No my view of the gaming industry is realistic. Hell you also used LA Noire as an example. A game that also took very long to come out, it's content also repetitive, and it's world incredibly detailed but seen as pretty pointless.
