[News] The "I too liked Xenogears' second disc" Club

So Squeenix's Nomura mentions working on a highly anticipated and personally-requested, unannounced game, that he expects will yield a huge reaction from fans. He could very well be blowing smoke up our asses and hyping/hawking some craptastic spin-off money-maker, or it could genuinely be a game that fans want.

Some people are guessing KHIII, but it's kind of a given that this game will be eventually released, so personal requests for it seem kinda pointless.

Assuming it's not something way outta left-field, I'm gonna say it's a VII remake. Sure FFVII isn't the most amazing game ever, but it was damn fun, and we all know the demand for a remake is there. The graphics also haven't aged as well as the sprite, 2-D FF's so it could definitely use a visual overhaul.

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Jam it back in, in the dark.

True, but I just feel that with all these rumors getting reignited over and over, and this latest announcement being made, it all has to culminate into the game being remade. A fuckton of fans want it, they want to make money, something's gotta give.

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FFVI would definitely be nice. Seeing all those characters and the world in full-fledged HD current gen graphics, the soundtrack remade...it would be pretty amazing. As I said before though, aesthetically, VII could use the upgrade way more than VI. VI's sprites look cute and charming. VII's blocky graphics, while nostalgic, look like a mess.

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Originally Posted by dagget

The thing is though, VII pretty much already got a few updates. Not to the direct game in itself, but as way of Dierge of Ceberus, Crisis Core and Advent Children. (Sequels, Prequels, whatever same difference. The universe and characters were updated)

I would think most fans disregard those entries. I do at least. They're all pretty disappointing, blatant attempts at Squeenix acting like cock-slices and stringing remake-hungry fans along from one let-down release to another for a quick buck. After Advent Children, I didn't even bother with any of the other releases. My palate at least, isn't overloaded with all these spin-off releases.

I suppose one could argue that they could butcher the original material with a remake and churn out something along the lines of the stuff in the FFVII-compilation in terms of quality. But, seeing how the original material already has gameplay ideas and concepts in place, unless they royally fuck up the visuals and audio (Squeenix's forte) , they should do fine. Ideally it would be nice for them to expand on the gameplay but I'd be OK with a mere face-lift.

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VI pretty much hasn't been touched and the "remake" that was given to us was from a fucking Wonderswan port, if memory serves correct.

This is true, and if it was up to me, I'd love a full remake of both VI and VII, but (maybe this is just the VII fanboy in me) Nomura's cock-tease of a description seems more likely to be referring to VII as opposed to VI.

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But it doesn't matter, anytime this speculation comes up, so does FFVII remake and every time it has ended in "disappointment" as it was either a remake of FF1, or some other game. Plus the debates about what it could be and why it should be x or y are endless and only do nothing but cause shitstorms to happen.

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Sure, we've all done this song and dance before numerous times. And I guess it can feel like beating a dead horse, but even though I should know better at this point, I can't help but get excited over an FFVIIr whenever a vague announcement like this is made. As for the shitstorms, I would think we can all speculate for fun, without people acting like asshats.

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One of these days, nerds will quit getting lubricated over the thought of a FFVII remake/sequel. It will be a good day.

Yeah, I know. The game is overhyped and VII's fanatics are way too overzealous, so poking fun at the game and fans is hard to resist. Y'know what though? When it comes down to it, the game really was pretty great. It may not be the trendy thing to do, but I can proudly say that I like FFVII. I don't know of too many other games that experience a popularity backlash of this magnitude. But oh well, to each his/her own.

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Originally Posted by Dr. Uzuki

The safe bet would be the world collectively groaning at the announcement of FFX-3.

God that would suck so hard. FFX-2 was already one sequel too many.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Dark Nation

Could be that, but I'm gonna laugh my ass off if he announces The Bouncer 2

Y'know it can very well be. (insert obligatory joke about sequel being twice as long as the original). Or maybe they'll bring back Driving Emotion, who knows...

Thing is, even if they are not referring to an FFVII remake, I'm sure that they are aware of the fact that vague statements like these make many fans think of exactly that, thus, creating buzz and hype. Bastards.

Anyway, I would also love a proper and worthy Xenogears sequel or remake, but I have enough self control to keep such dreams in-check.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Yeah, what the fuck. "Hey so we're a gaming company, and we might announce an undisclosed game at an undisclosed time."

Assuming that's truly all that was said, this has to be one of the most pointless statement ever made.

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Originally Posted by Knighthawk

- Which console. It is nice having two consoles that are pretty much on the same level. If a remake is announced it would be incredibly stupid to just have it on one system. Sony fanboys will flip out if it comes to the x360, I mean they are still complaining that FFXIII is available on the 360...imagine how it will be if a game that is pretty much the most known PSX game had a remake that came out on the 360.

Please. People will bitch and scream bloody murder, then turn around and buy 5 copies each, just like they will do with FFXIII.

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