Advent Children Director Wants To Redo FFVII
1up.com has an interview with director Tetsuya Nomura, one of the men behind Advent Children and Kingdom Hearts. In it, he talks about several aspects of Square-Enixs' gaming library, and admits he'd like to expand the PS3 tech demo into a full revamp of Final Fantasy VII. From the article: "The PS3 tech demo was actually not the perfect forum that he wanted to have. It was just timing that we had to submit something in time for E3, for the press conference. So, again, it was not perfect forum. And the 7 remake idea was always, always in conversation, just because it's so popular. And then just because of that tech demo here in the PS3 conference, that probably based more expectations of fans, obviously."
The only one I've ver played was FF 8 on the PC. It sucked. I've never bothered to play any older or newer Final Fantasies. Completely unimpressed. It seemed like an RPG for those who didn't actually want to do any RPGing. Who had a pre-determined set path along which to play and no way to deviate from it. And the monster killing and leveling was sort of silly and superficial.
Of course, I'm judging based on one game out of what.. ten? twenty? Oh well.