{"id":27739,"date":"2011-11-29T10:19:23","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T08:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=27739"},"modified":"2011-11-29T17:37:09","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T15:37:09","slug":"final-fantasy-7-remake-kitase-keeps-the-dream-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/27739-final-fantasy-7-remake-kitase-keeps-the-dream-alive","title":{"rendered":"Final Fantasy 7 Remake: Kitase keeps the dream alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not a single year goes by that this doesn&#8217;t come up in some way &#8211; and 2011 is no different. Even if it&#8217;s late in the year, here&#8217;s the latest tease regarding a Final Fantasy 7 remake.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for confirmation that a\u00a0 remake is actually in the works, then I&#8217;m afraid to tell you that, no, this is not confirmation of that &#8211; but when Final Fantasy XIII-2 producer Yoshinori Kitase sat down to talk to OXM, he had a bit to say with enough coy allusion to reignite the bit of hope FF7 fans have &#8211; to keep the dream alive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know that the hundreds of fans would like to see a hi-def version of Final Fantasy VII.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And then he dashes them in the very next breath.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But if we were to achieve the modern graphical quality at the same time putting in exactly the same world and everything, I think it would take ten times longer as compared to the time we took to produce XIII, for example.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Tifa-HD.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27743\" title=\"Tifa HD\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Tifa-HD.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Tifa-HD.jpg 688w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Tifa-HD-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Tifa-HD-250x157.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kitase didn&#8217;t reveal anything really new about <a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/11891-Square-Enix\">Square-Enix<\/a>&#8216;s position on a remake &#8211; in order to create the level of detail and quality we expect from a hi-def game, on the same scale of old, everything would have to be created from the ground-up &#8211; something which would take a lot of time and a lot of money to do.<\/p>\n<p>And even so, according to the interview, should that ever happen, Kitase would change a few things while he&#8217;s at it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we were to produce a remake of VII, for example, I would be really tempted to delete things and add new elements, new systems or whatever because if we were to make exactly the same thing now, it&#8217;d be like a repeat,&#8221; he told OXM.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;d be really interested in rearranging games or reshaping games into something slightly different even though it&#8217;s supposed to be the same game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Disappointed? Well Kitase went on to acknowledge that fans would probably hate that idea, and would prefer the game as it is and so he thinks in that regard &#8220;it&#8217;s better to let memory be memory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Aerith-HD.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27745\" title=\"Aerith HD\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Aerith-HD.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Aerith-HD.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Aerith-HD-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Aerith-HD-250x135.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When we play the games we made years ago, sometimes we think &#8220;oh, that is not really cool&#8221; or &#8220;that probably should have been a bit better than that&#8221; and that sort of thing,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But on the other hand, those slightly negative features and bits, some of the fans &#8211; really enthusiastic fans of these titles &#8211; that gives them an extra flavour or personality or whatever, so maybe they would rather we didn&#8217;t do anything about it and we just leave it in as it is&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s the kicker: &#8220;so it&#8217;s very difficult to decide what we should we keep in and what we should take out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm. &#8220;Should&#8221;. Interesting choice of words, no?<\/p>\n<p>So there you have it &#8211; easily-misinterpreted meaning, making it sound like Square-Enix may very well have a FF7 remake on the cards\u00a0 &#8211; just to keep you gagging for another year; while the logistics and facts of the matter sitting in the background there to remind you that it&#8217;s not exactly an easy task, and may be unlikely.<\/p>\n<p>Square-Enix are neither confirming nor denying anything.<\/p>\n<p>Merry Chirstmas!<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a title=\"OXM\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oxm.co.uk\/36521\/interviews\/final-fantasy-xiii-2-remaking-ff7-kinect-rpgs-and-killing-the-girly-feel\/?page=1\">OXM<\/a><\/h5>\n<div id=\"attachment_27741\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ff7_ps3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27741\" class=\"size-large wp-image-27741\" title=\"ff7_ps3\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ff7_ps3-1024x537.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ff7_ps3-1024x537.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ff7_ps3-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ff7_ps3-250x131.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-27741\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Final Fantasy VII Remake - the new Duke Nukem Forever<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If I were to remake Final Fantasy VII, I&#8217;d be tempted to delete things and add new elements&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":27747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1089,21,413,351,1091,211],"class_list":["post-27739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-final-fantasy-7","tag-headline","tag-kitase","tag-remake","tag-speculation","tag-square-enix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27749,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27739\/revisions\/27749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}