I don't get it. I liked FF7, but it didn't really age particularly well. At one point I was part of the mob asking for it to return, but after some review it's not a reasonable request.
Before people start burning crosses on my front lawn, let's look back at the game.
1) PS release.
2) PC release.
3) PC re-release, with limited download window and quantity. Additional features were added, but none of them were fantastic.
4) PS re-release, with what appears to be an unknown remastering and no date.
The game was great on PS, ok on PC, the PC re-release was superfluous, and this new one doesn't even offer a date. Not a great trajectory when it comes to a game's life.
Beyond that, let's objectively look back at the game. Has anyone played it in the last few years? Enemies are poorly balanced, huge chunks of the game basically required you buy a strategy guide in order to access them (looking at you Vincent), the materia system might as well have been called "grinding for dummies," and that ending was absolutely face-palmingly terrible.
I'd like Squeenix to revisit FF7 with kid gloves. Improving graphics, I'll get behind that. Changing some of the mechanics to be less grindy, I'll get behind that. My fear is that they'll take this opportunity to add way more cut scenes and "modernize" the game. That'd be worse than never getting anything but a port.
Side note:
After playing FF7, Tactics, and FF9 I don't get the reverence for FF7. FF Tactics had some of the deepest and most rewarding game play. FF9 had a more complete story. Arguably, FF8 was bolder with its complete restructuring of the game play. The release of a FF Tactics sequel on the DS heralded the first time any of these games got a true successor. Meanwhile, we had multiple FFX games, and enough FF13 games that stitched together their monstrous corpses could make one decent game. Why there's soo much more love for 7 baffles me. FF7 isn't a bad game by any stretch of the imagination, but it isn't the absolute best game in the series. People seem to willfully ignore the failings, and come to the conclusion it was the best game ever.
