Damn if you do, damned if you don't.

Or

Your wife asking you if you think her sister is hot.

Don't matter what you do or say, you're boned. `

Not really. That's just what public perception and idiot fanboys reduced it to over the years. Kind of like how lots of people nowadays think that classic FPS games like Doom or Duke Nukem 3D were exactly like Serious Sam or Painkiller.
It was the countless shoddy imitators of Final Fantasy VII's storytelling that cranked up that aspect, because they didn't understand why that story worked; and at some point it started to creep into FFVII canon through ancillary stuff like Advent Children. You can bet that they'll put the brooding emo crap into overdrive for this remake, though.

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4 ( 2)
and 6 ( 2)

were released ont he nes and snes in the usa respectively then when square jumped ship to sony the series got its actual numbering back with 7

7 was the first final fantasy to be released world wide and in europe ( nintendo had this strange idea that europe doesnt like rpg's )
since then 5 of the first 6 final fantasies have been re released in enhanced ports on sony platforms either the ps1 or the psp

the only one that never made it was the original 3 untill it got a DS remake in 2006
which is a bit ass to be honest cause before hand you could have the whole series with just a ps2 and a ps3
but for 3 you have to make a swerve to the DS

After Square Enix's E3 press conference I felt important to say that Tetsuya Nomura is directing the game.

Know what other game with no release date in sight he's directing? Kingdom Hearts 3.

So, realistically development of this remake won't even begin in earnest before KH3's release.

If there's one game I always wanted to see a remake of, after all these years, I guess it would be FF VII.

As for what they could do with it, aside from updating character models, textures etc., there's various gameplay mechanics which could be refined, perhaps taking inspiration from a few of the later games in the series, such as FF X.

But frankly, as much as I'd like to see a proper update for this game, chances are they'll screw it up. I doubt the fans of the original will be happy with the results. But hey, maybe they'll positively surprise their fans for once... ? Personally, I'll just wait and see, but I'm not particularly optimistic about it.

I only hope that they release it with a proper translation this time instead of the assy old one. Some people say the English translation is bad, but that is nothing compared to the Spanish one. It's terrible! I can't take FF7 seriously because of that.

It had a silent protagonist. That's borderline dealbreaker for me.
Well, I don't recall them that boring. I remember quite clearly running out of MP towards the end of several dungeons, so I must have been doing something other than spamming the basic attack. That was before I knew about the magic hammer, frog punch and other enemy skills that were so overpowered they made the game a joke, so now I would probably have a much easier time.
I played both. The Spanish one is indeed worse, but not by much.

There are no words to express the feelings I feel now.

Nope, I know nothing about bands or arcades in general. Even less about US commercials. I don't frequent youtube very much either.

And I probably didn't experience that "RPG without a soap opera", I guess. I had no RPG for my amstrad or my pentium 486, so I only had the chance of trying them when I got my first up to date computer; and even then it was after I had my fill of Carmaggedon and Commandos. But I have tried older games year later, and honestly, I'm not impressed. They're a lot like dungeon crawlers, and I don't like dungeon crawlers. But if you do like dungeon crawlers, then I can see why you wouldn't like FF 7, as it wasn't much of a dungeon crawler.

Honestly, when I first tried FF7, it was a rental for a rainy day. I installed it, played for half an hour, and found it really stupid. The rental had an exchange service if the game failed to work, so I was about to return it and get another one, but it was raining a lot and decided I was too lazy to walk back to the store. After a couple hours, I started thinking that it wasn't that bad after all. After four or so hours, I was in love.

Yes, it was my first RPG. But after that, I tried several more, trying to find something that would grip me as hard. And I never found it. Maybe there were some, published in other countries or in consoles I didn't have, but I never got exposed to them. Today, after years of playing games, I still hold FF 7 in very high regard. I think that while it owes a lot of its fame and success to the circumstances, it was still a really good game; and disregarding that and saying timing was the only good thing about the game is not something I'd agree with. I've tried many things for the first time and I don't hold as good a impression about them these days as I do for this game.

I will try it if:
there is a computer version.

I will try it with smile on my face if:
there is a computer cross-platform (mac and linux) drm-free version.

I will love it if it's not a crap version.

i think i've seen at least 2 steamfans from another forum post about how much they like HOMM3 HD more than the original HOMM3 with hi-res patch. which was unexpected , given that most steam-users actually hated Ubisoft for their marketing lies and boycotted the game. i guess a sucker is born every second?

Great news. I didn't played FF7 yet.

Agreed. The re-release from a couple of years back was reportedly terrible, a DRM sandwich riddled with loads of new bugs.

Then you missed out, because that commercial summerizes how arcade cabinets were EVERY SINGLE DAY

Weird, you have that version too? do you have any DIMM memory cards? not fucking around, I still even have mine from 1996 and it can run Vice City. But anyway I am gonna also take a guess and didn't know of Orc Battle, Dragon Quest, Ultima or ES: Daggerfall? Kinda sad, I am just taking a guess again so I am gonna be sad you missed out so much shit in you land and I am from Venezuela! We don't even get to enjoy HAVING toilet paper.

I had played it and completed it, somehow, even though that may have to do with me abusing Ribbons and Resistance concentrated materia while being level 80....it was rather a borefest really, story progression was really out of place in the game, it tried to be FF 6 with 3D graphics while still bein pixelated as fuck and the game was quirky as fuck and a brood fest when every story stop came with Barret, Cid and Cloud being bitchy as all hell for a chick they hardly knew (even though I get Barret, he was of course a fucking family man) but I think that holds no excuse when the game tried after this to be quirky and funny, it seemed like a miss direction.

Remember when I wrote that if this was most of that generation's first RPG (at the beginnning of the 3 or was it 4th era?) this would mean it would change the genre's entire direction? yeah, I fucking nailed that just when you admitted it and you don't need to, but go over FF 4 to 6 a little more, fighting you own representation of a demon as a way to admiit fear you might fuck up in trying to save the world just to change you own perspective on it and man up and deal with the responsability of yor job was a clear point the game fucking exceled and also, weird you are complaining of a possible abusable system considering in half the instances, FF 6 and 7 are fucking broken.

But you are in GOG, so I am gonna wait for you to take perspective of the game's faults and still like above all else, because really, the game is flawed, but that doesn't mean I am the one to make your experience shit with it, see for yourself with this old games and get what made RPGs besides recommending you NES and SNES emulators.

Also Breath of Fire isn't only a Dungeon Crawler, and FF 7 really has that genre due to the amount of levels you transicion with in-between every story stop. (Look at me, comparing Pedigree with Milk that outlived's usefulness)

Kinda on the fence with FF7 remake.
I liked the game, but always felt it was a tad overrated and never really felt it needed an HD remake. There are other Final Fantasy games I prefer.

With that being said, I know that fans have wanted this for years though, and I guess it would be pretty fun to replay the game. I'll wait and see how this turns out...