Poor FFXIV

[Xeno]

I believe I read somewhere that if they were to try to remake FFVII properly, it would take 40 years.

Twas a blatant lie to shut the fanbase up about making an HD FFVII.

[Chezen]

Twas a blatant lie to shut the fanbase up about making an HD FFVII.

That wouldn't make sense. An HD FFVII would make them money.

[Xeno]

That wouldn't make sense. An HD FFVII would make them money.

Yeah, this Tech Demo probably took them years to make.
http://www.gamespot.com/ps3/rpg/fina...l-demo-for-ps3
Truth is they were twisting words, just like they always do. Remaking FFVII and making it able to play on the ps3 would probably take 40 years. But they made FFXIV in 2 years and they're telling me it would take 40 years to remake FFVII? Please... (Taking in for account that most people say the first 3 years were used to build engine)

[Kirith]

Twas a blatant lie to shut the fanbase up about making an HD FFVII.

More like it was an embarrassing display of incompetency. If a giant company with hundreds of employees which specializes in making videogames can't remake one of *their own* videogames... well, there is clearly something wrong with it.

Making HD graphics shouldn't be more important than actually completing a story. I can't help but think they are massively out of track because of that.

40 years? It's like saying "Nowadays we can only develop games that have a tenth or a twentieth of FF7's content!"
How do they expect to make better games when they can't even put nearly the same amount of content in because of graphics?

EDIT: Since everyone is saying which FF is their favorite... mine is FF8. I loved 6, 7 and 9 as well, but the atmosphere, story and scenario of 8 were and still are the most stimulating for me.

[Chezen]

40 years? It's like saying "Nowadays we can only develop games that have a tenth or a twentieth of FF7's content!"
How do they expect to make better games when they can't even put nearly the same amount of content in because of graphics?

That right there is exactly the problem. Advent Children took them 5 years to make, and it wasn't even a game. Top notch CGI is not made overnight, and takes a lot of space. Add that to world design, character design, battle design, etc.

I would imagine they are working on solutions for faster output though. It's their bread and butter afterall.

[Xeno]

That right there is exactly the problem. Advent Children took them 5 years to make, and it wasn't even a game. Top notch CGI is not made overnight, and takes a lot of space. Add that to world design, character design, battle design, etc.

I would imagine they are working on solutions for faster output though. It's their bread and butter afterall.

CGI movies are harder to make than games. How long did it take them to make FFXIII? The game took about 24 hours to beat, FFVII took about 40-50.

[Chezen]

CGI movies are harder to make than games. How long did it take them to make FFXIII? The game took about 24 hours to beat, FFVII took about 40-50.

Not that I agree with your stance, but if FFXIII took about 24 hours to beat, and 5 years to make, just how long do you think it would take to make a game that takes 40-50 hours to beat using the same or better quality of graphics and same technology? Add in another 5 or more hours of new content?

[zaviermhigo]

Not that I agree with your stance, but if FFXIII took about 24 hours to beat, and 5 years to make, just how long do you think it would take to make a game that takes 40-50 hours to beat using the same or better quality of graphics and same technology? Add in another 5 or more hours of new content?

I think the development time for FFVII and FFXIII were the same since at the time both were using cutting edge graphics at the time of prodcution. My problem was this 24hour beat time is just due to no exploration at all of any kind (so what FF's didn't have exploration like WRPGs, FFXIII had none at all) until the last 20% of the game.

[Xeno]

Not that I agree with your stance, but if FFXIII took about 24 hours to beat, and 5 years to make, just how long do you think it would take to make a game that takes 40-50 hours to beat using the same or better quality of graphics and same technology? Add in another 5 or more hours of new content?

I'm talking just a straight up re-texture. I would pay $50 for a re-texture of FFVII. It would honestly take like a year or two to do a re-texture.

[Zenaku]

I'm talking just a straight up re-texture. I would pay $50 for a re-texture of FFVII. It would honestly take like a year or two to do a re-texture.

Make a re-textrue and add a few more stuff and i pay 50$ for sure. Make a CE version and i pay 80 for it