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General Discussion / Re: Final Fantasy VII Remake is HAPPENING!!!
« on: 2015-06-23 05:04:45 »I'm still not getting the hate.
No game will ever be the original FF7. Because it is literally impossible for any other game to have the exact same dialogue, characters, and art style without it being the original. What SE is doing is remaking (see re-imagining) the original. For everyone already complaining about it before we know anything, you're not going to like it. Not because it won't be a good game, but because it won't be frame for frame and line for line the same as the 1997 one. There is literally nothing they can put out that will make you happy.
It's basically the same reason DLPB's Beacause retranslation gets hate. It's not EXACTLY what we played a decade ago so it's terrible and blasphemous. Thing is, REimaginings and REtranslations aren't horrible if you approach them with an open mind and see them as a chance to revisit old friends. Will it be exactly like what you played a decade ago? Nope. What would the point of that be if not a lazy cash grab. But that also doesn't mean it can't be good in its own right. Sort of like the whole compilation. By no means am I praising it, because at least one of the games seems to me to be a ridiculous cash grab, but by not expecting the same old FF7 with a new bow on it allows them to be enjoyable..... Like i said about catching up with friends you haven't seen in years, you can't expect the relationship to not have changed. It's been over 15 years. You've changed. They've changed. The dynamic is going to be different, but that doesn't mean you have to hate them or be upset that they aren't the same person they were a decade ago. They're going to be a little different, and that's ok.
If you could only buy and play one: A remake with only updated backgrounds and models OR whatever the current remake becomes, I think you'd be a fool to choose the former. We've already played it. Some of us dozens of times. Why on earth would you pay for the same game you already own?
I feel very much the same way. I remain very curious about how they're going to handle all the various aspects of the remake. There's also much which can be expanded on.
Quote from: Wade from Dragon Age Origins
Think of the possibilities!!!