Yoshinori Kitase: FF7 remake would take 40 years to do.

Mark Hamill

From escapist.com:

Square Enix's Final Fantasy XIII producer Yoshinori Kitase wants to make it clear that a remake of Final Fantasy VII would take a really, really long time. Remember back when he said it would take fourteen years of development time? Now, he's more than doubled that figure.

Speaking at a roundtable discussion held for the launch of Final Fantasy XIII in Korea, Kitase wasn't surprised at all by the topic of Final Fantasy VII. "We've gotten this question a lot from many countries," he said while laughing. He seems to be a little sick of it.

On the Final Fantasy VII remake this time, Kitase said: "To make FFXIII at this level of quality, it took us 3 to 4 years. If we were to make FFVII in the same style of FFXIII, it would take 10 times as long." Forget fourteen years, a current generation Final Fantasy VII would take forty years to put together! That's older than someone's dad.

Does Square Enix just want to stop the questions about the possibility for a Final Fantasy VII remake, or do these comments make sense? You're got to figure the company can reuse some assets from Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children to help the process along or something. I get that Final Fantasy VII was a monumental RPG, especially due to all the cursing, but a forty-year development time is wacky beans.

Lol, so 7,a game that already has a story, settings, characters, creatures, battle system and concept art done and would only need a graphics facelift, would take 10 times longer to do than 13, which was made from scratch? Shows how much effort was put into 13 :rolleyes:

Retr0gamer

I wish people would put this to rest already and Square stop spouting rubbish.

_Godot_

Maybe they just don't want to do it.

Kiith

They are gonna do it eventually. Its just a matter of when.

Raze_them_all

Kiith wrote: »

They are gonna do it eventually. Its just a matter of when.

When the company is on the verge of bankruptsy. It is the one FF game they know will sell in the millions after the disgraceful drivel that was FF13.

carbonkid

Yea i get the feeling as well that a remake of FFVII is their final trump card if all else fails.

Fact is though if they do remake it...you will hate it. One important part that went into the old FF PSone games was your own imagination. You build up the characters and their personalities. FFVII wouldn't be the same with all voice acting and crystal clear face expressions.

Only people i see enjoying it is those who thought advent children was the best movie ever or who never played the original.

OxfordComma

SE are really starting to annoy me with their refusal to either confirm or deny that they're going to remake FFVII. It's really getting old now. And I seriously doubt that it'd take them 40 years to remake FFVII. :rolleyes: I'd much prefer them to remake FFVI for the PS3, but that's a whole other issue...

Noxin

Raze_them_all wrote: »

When the company is on the verge of bankruptsy. It is the one FF game they know will sell in the millions after the disgraceful drivel that was FF13.

QFT over and over again!

Fringe

40 years? What a load of BS.

Mark Hamill

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carbonkid

ROTFLOL...niiice ^_^

Xinkai

Haha gotta love the escapist!