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On May 16, 2005 Square Enix released the "PS3 Tech Demo" featuring the opening sequence of Final Fantasy VII as it would look if it were remade to run on the then-upcoming Playstation 3 system. Rumors circulated for months that a remake of Final Fantasy VII was in the works.
This was almost 10 years ago.
This was before Final Fantasy XII (12) was released in the US.
Later that year in 2005 we got Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, a full length (and available in high definition) movie which took place in the world of Final Fantasy VII. This movie was longer than all of the cutscenes in Final Fantasy VII put together.
The original Final Fantasy VII was released for the Playstation in 1997, 17 years ago, and has become a cultural mainstay that's widely regarded as the birth of modern jRPG games. The original game was rendered at 320 x 224 resolution, or approximately 1/6th of 1080p or what is generally considered nowadays to be "high definition".
The typical excuse we get is "a remake like this would be too hard and / or take too much manpower" but here is a list of other Final Fantasy remakes that Square Enix has released since showing the tech demo at E3 in 2005:
Final Fantasy is obviously a huge franchise, and fans around the world are hungry for a high definition version of Final Fantasy VII. Obviously releasing a remastered version of Final Fantasy VII would generate a lot of money, so what's the hold up?
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I want to point out that I'm a *huge* fan of Final Fantasy VII. I even played the PC re-release last year on Steam for 65 hours.
I'm not trying to shit in anyone's cereal and this isn't some sort of port begging, I'm just legitimately wondering why this hasn't happened yet.
This was almost 10 years ago.
This was before Final Fantasy XII (12) was released in the US.
Later that year in 2005 we got Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, a full length (and available in high definition) movie which took place in the world of Final Fantasy VII. This movie was longer than all of the cutscenes in Final Fantasy VII put together.
The original Final Fantasy VII was released for the Playstation in 1997, 17 years ago, and has become a cultural mainstay that's widely regarded as the birth of modern jRPG games. The original game was rendered at 320 x 224 resolution, or approximately 1/6th of 1080p or what is generally considered nowadays to be "high definition".
The typical excuse we get is "a remake like this would be too hard and / or take too much manpower" but here is a list of other Final Fantasy remakes that Square Enix has released since showing the tech demo at E3 in 2005:
- Final Fantasy III (DS)
- Final Fantasy III (PC)
- Final Fantasy IV (DS)
- Final Fantasy IV (PC)
- Final Fantasy IV - The After Years (iOS / Android)
- Final Fantasy IV: The Complete Collection (PSP)
- Final Fantasy V (GBA)
- Final Fantasy V (iOS / Android)
- Final Fantasy VI (GBA)
- Final Fantasy VI (iOS / Android)
- Final Fantasy VII (PC)
- Final Fantasy VIII (PC)
- Final Fantasy X (PS3 / Vita)
- Final Fantasy X-2 (PS3 / Vita)
- Final Fantasy XI (Xbox 360)
- Final Fantasy Tactics - The War of the Lions (PSP)
- Final Fantasy Tactics (iOS)
Final Fantasy is obviously a huge franchise, and fans around the world are hungry for a high definition version of Final Fantasy VII. Obviously releasing a remastered version of Final Fantasy VII would generate a lot of money, so what's the hold up?
-------
I want to point out that I'm a *huge* fan of Final Fantasy VII. I even played the PC re-release last year on Steam for 65 hours.
I'm not trying to shit in anyone's cereal and this isn't some sort of port begging, I'm just legitimately wondering why this hasn't happened yet.