[quote name='panzerfaust']First of all, it would cost tons of money, whether they re-used everything or not. And we all know they would have to revamp the battle system and other parts of the game considering the game is a decade old -- it has aged. A shiny new FFVII for PS3, battle for battle and line for line wouldn't be that impressive of an RPG. Spending years on something like that is a colossal waste of creative resource, not even just money.
Plus it would look bad, releasing an already made game with the full HD treatment when they could be pushing new ideas.[/QUOTE]
As our "discussion" isn't going anywhere here, I'm gonna have to agree to disagree with ya.
Lastly, please re-read your last sentence, then I'll kindly point to GoW collection, Sly Collection, PoP collection, Splinter Cell Collection, etc. I think that settles that part of the argument....so while those games aren't doing anything more than just doing a face lift, and this (FF7) arguably would require a lot more work, please don't tell me for one second the market is not there for exact remakes of games from the past with nothing added into them, that's just a foolish statement.
(Let's say if S-E spends $25-50 million on remaking the game, but makes $100 million or more (I'm using hypothetical numbers for examples) in profit, which is realistic, why is there is a loss? They made money, they are a business, so why is that a problem again? What other reason can you give than
you perceive it being a bad venture and don't want them to waste time dilly dallying with things from the past)
I did state it would be
NICE if they added some of the things I mentioned to make it stand apart from just a frame by frame remake, however, it wouldn't be necessary to do so.
If they make it, people will buy it, this has been proven time and again, with this HD "remakes/makeovers" craze as of late.
The only one I've been personally interested in is the Team Ico collection, because those two games are extremely beautiful games meant to be explored and enjoyed, but the point is they have major interest right now and sell very well regardless of additional content added to them.
We'll see how Kojima does the MSG collection (if indeed it is real) and how he deals with the problem of MGS 1. (remake it, use Twin Snakes, or don't do much of anything to it, we'll see)