When you can suck a series this dry without even considering a remake, you know you've done something right.

Well seeing as it had never been rereleased till last June, I don't think it's really fair to get upset over this :P

Cool, if you like to have that game for the 10th time or something. And when is FF VIII or IX coming to PSP? I know they are not as big as VII but they were very good final fantasy games too. Don't get me wrong, I love VII but I think we need some diversity.

Waquan's first comment is right. This PSN re-release is the only true re-release of FF7 since it came out. Yeah, its had spin offs made and those all came 9-10 years AFTER the original games release... FF7 has stayed popular by its fanbase alone pretty much... SquareEnix did very little to ever help that until recently.

Also, "Let the game die...or give it a full PS3 makeover."

This is the most truthful statement ever posted on Destructoid.

If you take off the Square branded kneepads long enough: Squenix has pointed out repeatedly that FFVII is done, over, finis and that fans should, quote: get over it.

Yet every 6 months or so there's a new FFVII release of some kind: movie, game based on FFVII characters, extended movie, rerelease, etc.

So who's staying too long at the FFVII party? The fans or Square marketing?

Personally, I think THEY ought to let the entire series die and get back to making games that don't suck at Last Remnant, Infinite Undiscovery proportions.

Watch how I troll, Bigmoose.

Chronic Logic, Monster Hunter's a piece of shit, and so are you.

Did you see that? I called Chronic Logic a a piece of shit by grouping him in with Monster Hunter. I bet yo' momma's never done anything like that befo'.

@bout Waquan

Wow listen to the cool guy..Look at him fit in.

Ah shit. I hate it when games get re-released, because there's this midget... err, "little person" living under my bed that holds a gun to my head every time a game is re-released and forces me to buy it. So I actually have a legitimate reason to be angry when a game is re-released. I don't understand why YOU guys are mad though.

LET IT GO FOR FUCKS SAKE.

I really doubt Squenix had to dump lots of resources into basically a direct port of the PSX version. At least it's not Infinite Undiscovery. They probably have lots of different teams working on different projects anyway, so this probably isn't affecting games like FFXIII at all.

It has a lot to do with Square's attitude towards FFVII fans, actually. That and the game is so dated graphically as to be (to me, at any rate) completely unplayable. I get that some people still play Pong, and that this is not a factor for everyone, but some people also eat lead paint chips and would vote for Sarah Palin.

@Braumeister

Are you seriously comparing playing old games to eating paint chips and voting republican? How old are you, twelve? FF7 is better than most, if not all games that come out today. If you refuse to play it just because of how it looks, then I guess you deserve to be deprived of such an awesome experience.

@Braumeister
You're an idiot. FFVII looks great in its native resolution on the PSP screen. Of course anything less than 480p is going to look like utter shit upscaled on a 720p/1080p HDTV. Also, anyone who places more value on the graphics is an idiot by default. So yeah, there's really no way to redeem yourself here.

Notice how the main discussion is on a PSP bundle anyway, not upscaling the damn thing on an HDTV. You're the last person that should be making the comments you're making, but feel free to keep making an ass of yourself.

Actually, I have played FF7 on a PS3 over HDMI. I play it pretty regularly, what's your point? The graphics aren't as good as current-gen, because the game came out twelve years ago. That doesn't make it a bad game. It does, however, make you an idiot for judging games on graphics alone. Seriously?

Anyway, I've also played Pong, and FF7 looks nothing like it. I'm sure you probably think it's cute or funny to post such an exaggeration, but it actually just makes you look really ignorant and stupid. You should probably work on that.

Aww, did I huwt sumwun's feewings?

AARRRGHH!! Why do screenshots of classic video games always look better on a computer monitor than it does on my HDTV?! NES games, and SNES are a given, but WHY does this look perfectly clear and sharp, where my HDTV makes FF7 look fuzzy?

I need a S-video to VGA convertor to play my classic consoles on my computer, I do.

It just occured to me how badass a FFVI remake for PSP would be instead of a FFIII and FFIV, Matrix Software-style remake for the DS would be. And make the characters look more like the FF7 3D models (in the battle mode) than 3D versions of the little pixelated, Chicken Mcnugget people.

Final Fantasy VII Director Yoshinori Kitase recently touched on the possibility of remaking the RPG classic for the PlayStation 3, stating that fans could “expect the probability of something spontaneous happening at some point.”

Kitase commented that if a remake were to transpire, it would have to include all of the core team members from the original 1997 PlayStation classic; something which isn’t possible right now due each individual’s commitments to other projects.

"My feelings are that if a remake were to work well then all the core members of the original team must be reassembled, all the artists and designers,” said Kitase.

“The problem is that, although all of us have an idea of what a remake should be and how to do it, organising such a thing right now is logistically very difficult. All the different members are now involved in very new, very large projects like Final Fantasy XIII and those projects are going to take a while.”

Despite this, he refused to completely rule out the chances of a remake on PS3, adding, “Maybe, when all those games are finished then we can look at doing something like that.”

”Of course, that said we came up with the idea for Crisis Core in just two days. It was a case of 'this is what we want to do, so let's do it'. So, you can definitely expect the probability of something spontaneous happening at some point, but it's hard to predict."

Stay tuned for further developments as they break.


here is the proof!