Impetus: E3 announcement that Final Fantasy VII is being remade occurs, people lose their shit.
The most interesting thing about this whole thing is seeing just how much this is dividing up my friends list on Facebook. As usual, it’s a tale of extremes, because either people are rabidly excited for it, or they’re fiercely hostile towards the notion of this FF7 being remade. And then there’s the passive-aggressive bickering amongst the two factions, as well as people like me who are more fascinated with the social chaos of it all, rather than the actual news itself.
Frankly, put me in the camp that is less than lukewarm about this announcement. I feel that it’s more or less a copout by Squeenix to dust off a classic, pretty it up, and re-release it, rather than y’know, trying to come up with something new and innovative and make one more tick-mark closer to the inevitable Final Fantasy XX, which will basically mark the end of video games as a whole.