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Anyone here that knows me even the slightest know that I am a HUGE FF7 fan. Its my favourite in the series, and one of my favourites of all time. From the artstyle sprite backdrops and beautiful music, to the addictive materia battle system and wonderful story+characters. However, I do not feel that square owes me anything. I am gracious that they are going through with this remake, something at one point seemed like it would never happen. When I heard on our TFF skype combo that they showed it during the E3 event, I immediately thought they were deliberately pulling on my heart strings. But to my surprise, they actually did announce it along with a hype inducing trailer. I once said I would pay even $500 to play a remake of FF7, so a few little DLC here and there isn't going to bother me personally, I would think true fans of the game wouldn't mind either. It depends on how you view square because many games have DLC nowadays, why should we single out square as being moneygrubbers

Being the huge fan that I am, most people would assume I have a problem with the combat. I actually dont care. I figured from the start this wasnt going to be turn based and for good reason. There hasnt been a turn based FF for a long time, and they have been just as successful. I dont believe theres a way you could have a turnbased game seamlessly integrate with the enviornment and flow of the game without it taking away the realism; which is a huge factor in the FF7 remake. I dont have a problem with action combat as long as we have a great character development system in place in which we are able to customize and empower them (something I have yet to see a possbility from FF15).

I'm looking forward to the remake and I cant wait to see what the final product looks like.
I guess it's all down to what you want and expect from a game. If we're getting a FFVII Remake, then i expect the game i love... not cut to pieces and I'm not singling SE out as moneygrubbers, every studio does it and my gripe is with the direction of the business itself. I'm from a generation where you would buy a game and all the content within that game was there from the get go. If something was extra, it would be acquired by inputting a cheat code or progressing far enough and mastering a game to an extent where you had a new weapon or whatever to unlock. Nowadays, more and more of this content is added content that you have to purchase. I'm shocked it took so long for companies to figure it out tbh. Gamers love extra content. That Legendary sword that unlocks after you have X amount of magic gems it took forever to gather in game, well we can leave that out of the retail copy, and sell the added stuff they used to expect in a good game anyway. It just bothers me and it speaks volumes about the greedy society we live in as a whole.

When we first dreamed of a FFVII remake, it was vital that they changed as little as possible from the original. Why mess with it? Just update it for the modern pallet. If you can create vast worlds in games such as Fallout or Skyrim, with their huge maps, forests villages, towns and a huge population of NPC's to bring it to life and still be able to release it as one game not in Episodes "because it would be too vast otherwise", then surely SE with all there resources could remake a world that they are already familiar with and just keep it the same but with updated graphics?

Change the core workings of the game and it ceases to become FFVII. The battle system, the flow of the game, the various scenarios that you encounter throughout the story... change it too much and it becomes a mockery of greatness. As has been said in another comment, the more i hear on this remake, the more it worries me.