Quote (HaikenEdge @ Mon, Jan 19 2009, 02:03pm)

In my opinion, if they were to remake Final Fantasy VII, I think they should only keep the story and character designs, then overhaul the gameplay system completely. Considering that the player avatar, Cloud Strife, has a military background, the ATB system doesn't fully suit the tactical combat style military personnel favor; instead, the game would benefit from a combat system more similar to that of Chrono Trigger, where combination attacks are possible, thus bringing out an additional aspect of strategy and time management. Also, the designers can implement aspects of other Final Fantasy games, like the hot swapping of armor and weapons in Final Fantasy X, to further tactical options for players. Likewise, the designers can make a deeper the materia system by changing the way materia linked together; rather than using the linear system used in the original, they could easily explore a grid system, like the character growth system of Final Fantasy X, that allows additional combinations at the cost of the player having to expend more resources on procuring materia.

The Limit Breaks can gain more depth while retaining their names and functions.At the moment, aside from the damage adjustments and animations, the limit breaks are generally the same; however, by giving individual Limit Breaks certain attributes, such as more damage to fliers, inflicts certain blindless, etc, etc, the players actually have more options at their fingertips, and they can choose to use a Limit Break that deal less damage, but provide a useful secondary effect.

Just my thoughts on how I think SQUARE should remake Final Fantasy VII, if they decide to undertake such a project.

Quote (EcKoPaT @ Thu, Nov 6 2008, 08:29am)

ff7 - good storyline , best stats system(materia) , some great characters
ff10 - good storyline , awesome sidequests (blitzball) , sphere grid  wasnt too bad either
ff12 - in my personal opinion i prefer the new battle system to previous ones , ALOT of sidequests , the fact you can equip chars with different type weapons unlike previous games
where  your weapon choice was pre determined.

ff8 - i would probably place this after my 3 , but it had a decent enough storyline (up until esthar), some of the best ff characters , its just a shame the  bad system (junctioning) let it down , and the fact the game is far too short