Agreed VIII is very underrated and deserves a remake as well. 9 I think I understand though as it has a more cartoony style and should be easier to remake. As VIII has that realism look, it'd take eons for square to remake the game as long as VII.
I would say no matter the art style any complete remake is going to take the same type of effort.
I just don't see them randomly skipping a game either way, I think they had planned to remake all the PS1/PS2 games when they decided to make FF7 Remake. They are banking on nostalgia because their newer games aren't doing well.
I think it takes so long because they are far too ambitious with it
The overworld map dosent have to be exactly like VII Rebirth but more like an expanded detailed version of Ni No Kuni where you lord into a hub area. Add new locations, points of interests, secrets and they’d be good to go.
Also VIII had a lot of story elements cut from the original version, apparently there was a lot more Laguna and Disc 4 had way more to do when time compression happened.
I agree, I love FFVII rebirth, but honestly, FFVII: Remake was I feel more focused, Rebirth is too open and too many things to do that at times takes you out of the story elements, add a few quests here and there, but no need (at least for me) to make it another Ubisoft open world game.
ff8 story is too much of a mess for them to remake it I think. Like out of nowhere you go to space and in the last disc there's the biggest exposition dump ever that there's an evil time travelling sorcerer in a castle you need to defeat. It's way less of a coherent story than let's say 7 or 9. Oh yeah and conveniently all the orphans lost their memory.
Regardless of that it's still one of my fav games of all time, I just don't see it happening.
I’d personally rather see an VIII Remake l, but IX is great to have, too. I’d just rather see the VIII world get the Remake treatment and it be more intense like when the Gardens collide for war.
Just let me walk around Fisherman's Horizon and Esthar. And the Garden battle was cool, but I also really like the scramble to stop the missiles from launching across the world then getting the Garden airborne to avoid them.
I think Nomura couldn't find a way to ruin VIII's plot with bad timetravel and convoluted Kingdom-Hearts-esque cryptic stuff, since FFVIII's plot is already convoluted with cryptic stuff and bad timetravel, so he decided to go ruin another game's plot.
X getting a remake would be pretty cool actually. The original does have a lot of grand scale stuff which definitely wasn't possible on the ps2 so you could really tell it's outdated if you were to replay it.
And boy oh boy...a modern take on blitzball...
Square would unfortunately rid of the turn based though lol.
Just do remakes for 8.9 and 10. But 1 game each no more trilogies. A lot of people missed playing these games on ps2 and could garner a lot of attention for being in newer consoles
Please, don't mess around with story, Square. Or maybe build up the last boss a little, so he won't come out of nowhere like in the original. But that's it. The dialogues ... They are perfect and timeless ...
I would love a remake of FFX and hope there will be one of FF8. I know there are fans who would be stoked for an FF9 remake. But I hope Square shows some other games the same treatment like Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, Xenogears, Brave Fencer Musashi, Vagrant Stories. Even the older FF games need to be show the same treatment as well. There are just so many old great games that need the remake treatment.
id rather have 10 lol but i think if the team for remake/rebirth stays the same for the next remake or watever, id absolutely get it. they are amazing at what they do
but these are al just rumours. like ok, lets just wait until we get an announcment ha.
I really hope IX Remake won't be open world. FF 7 Rebirth's open world sucks and nearly all the side content are bland pure time wasters. And not to mention all the fetch side quests.
I can't wait, honestly any remake of the older FF games would be amazing. The nostalgia hit has been amazing with FFVII Remakes, wonder what direction they'll go with gameplay - keep it action RPG or try out turn based.
Why would they skip VIII with a chance to improve it? All hearsay.
X getting a remake would be pretty cool actually. The original does have a lot of grand scale stuff which definitely wasn't possible on the ps2 so you could really tell it's outdated if you were to replay it.
And boy oh boy...a modern take on blitzball...
Square would unfortunately rid of the turn based though lol.
6 DESERVE A REMAKE
Memoria project on YouTube. That is literally what you need to do for FF9. It's beautiful
Final Fantasy 6, and 8 deserves a remake.
Square should also bring back Parasite Eve as well.