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*checks OF for threads about remaking XI now...*

My earlier post was more a jab at those who think SE should just update/remake XI despite their current plans and the reality of the current MMO scene on the whole, in particular XIV being their present flagship. I just got done going through a "classic server" thread over there with some people riding hard on the nostalgia goggles with a side of not understanding how the current private scene works. tl;dr of 20+ some pages is that you have some people who think it'd be easy and cheap to do, others who realize it would probably hurt the current game overall. There are a couple points I would bring up over there if still subbed that no one covered, but it's honestly kind of pointless with Maintenance Mode looming.

The copyright kinda sounds like a Dragon Quest title, maybe even an expansion to the JP only MMO they have going. The SE panel may touch on the XI mobile, but I wouldn't expect anything about the current version. Time to XIV and XV is kind of a given. Anything on KH would probably be the only real surprise, but at the same time, people are wanting it.

To be honest, it's a good time to fix the lacking parts of the story and, in some parts, get around the translation issues of yesteryear. Sure, some purists will *****, but whatcha gonna do? Figure there'll be enough rage of they choose Aerith over Aeris for her name as is.

From SE today
Just Cause 3
Dragon Quest Heroes (seems like an action brawler where you mix it up with famous dragon quest folks?)
Kingdom Hearts 3
Some Kingdom Hearts Mobile Game (this actually might be what i think Dragon Quest Heroes is, IDR but i think DQ was for PS4/XBONE)
FF7 teaser (ps4 first)
PC Version of FF7 available for PS4/Xbox this winter, Also being made for mobile this summer I think.
World of Final Fantasy
New Tomb Raider (looks really freaking nice)
Tomb Raider Go (mobile)
New Dues EX(never played them so dunno if its cool or not)
New Hitman (actually sounds kind of cool)
FF14 Expack teaser
FF15 Teaser
Bunch of other Teasers
New Star Ocean
New Game Series produced by new studio "Tokyo RPG" a division of SE committed to JRPG development. (game looks nice)
Something was coming to NA, dont remember not rewatching to find out.
Nothing on FFXI, or the spinoff mobile game.

In short, a lot of stuff, worth reading about i think if you are a fan of any of those series titles. I think the new game was called Nier, or that could just be the project title. I dunno, they didn't say to much about it, just a little teaser vid, World of Final Fantasy seems meh, very cartoonish and gameplay was hard to get a feel of from the teaser.

Thats all i remember.

I'd err toward FF7r being closer to a totally new game than one simply spruced up. It's a similar reason to why I have said such wouldn't happen for XI, really. In XI's case, the best we could hope for is higher resolution textures to fit over the wire meshes we have now. Some, however, assert that things should be taken further and that basically all zones can be redone, cutscenes, etc.. What they don't understand is that involves fiddling with the meshes/skeletons to increase polygon counts, crudely translating to more potential fluidity or a "higher definition" feel. That, in effect, is remaking the whole game. It only seems more "viable" to do this from the mistaken perspective for XI because it's more modern than VII. Higher resolution textures on the blocky, low polygon models wouldn't really make things better. There's also the fact that most backgrounds in VII were seriously just flat pictures we ran over, only with a bit of layering magic here and there. So, while I wouldn't be surprised to see fixed camera positioning in the remake, the odds of assets being 2D seems highly unlikely... which also leaves room for a free-roaming camera for a mix of sightseeing/item-hunting purposes.

From the creative standpoint, it's best to look at the PSX version as a storyboard for the remake. For those unfamiliar with the term, think of it as breaking up a 24 minute TV show into still images every 10 seconds. The goal is to then connect the dots between those images, only in this case, fleshing out the game. Realistically, we could break the game down into scenes/acts/discs, which is just a broader form of storyboarding. Depending on how faithful they are to some of the lesser important mini-games, this could mean something like the bike chase just being an FMV instead of playable since, in large part, creating all the assets to be workable in play form is a lot more expensive now than it was then. Things like this are probably what the purists will dread most. But we'll see. The total lack of any hinted release tells me we're still 2-3 years off.