Here's a link:  

http://www.gamespy.com/articles/107/1079115p1.html

My take: You win the award for longest thread title of the month. 
 
On a more related note, it depends on what they do it it. If it's done right, I would certainly get it.

Yeah, I goofed on the thread title, my bad.  It's early.

im not going to get my hopes up again 

I think it may be better left alone.    

Depends a lot on what they do. As long as the core story, game-play, and original mini-games are left exactly as they are (solely a graphical update) I'd love it, and buy it in a heartbeat. Although, I wouldn't be the slightest bit annoyed if they decided to throw in some extra mini-games, bonus dungeons, or the like.

I thought FFXIII was going to suck and i was pleasantly surprised. I played FF7 for psp not too long ago and it doesn't really strike me as an amazing game...but if they retranslate it with the quality of the FFT: war of the lions retranslation then why not?
 
Haters are going to hate but it could be a good remake.

Let's try this logically, since a lot of people seem to get really really excited whenever this is brought up 
 
- SE likes to remake FF games 
- Up to this point, SE has only remade up to FF IV  
- SE will almost certainly remake FF VII, however first they will remake FF V and FF VI 
- The remakes will probably be for handhelds 
- You should be excited for the FF VI remake, but honestly, the PSX release of the game had these CG scenes that made the characters look like shit, and honestly with the way they've retconned Kefka into a homosexual clown, I'd rather not see it done at all

Hooray! Let's go back to old fashioned, outdated RPG mechanics and a plotline that EVERYONE knows already! You know what's fun? Stagnation!
 
Oh, but what if they change it a lot? Then the FFVII fans will have a strop. I love these lose lose scenarios, either a great deal of time and money is spent on something that will, at best, do nothing to spur the industry forward (at worst, regress it) or have to put up with cloud-ophiles complaining that they changed too much.
 
I gotta tell you, I'm excited.

a remake by the XIII guys will not make FF7 any less dumb then it was when ti came out

I'll believe it when I see it. A graphical upgrade alone may make me play the game. As Final Fantasy 7 is right now, it's REALLY hard for me to play that game because it looks so outdated, and I already missed the boat when it was new. So I hold no nostalgia for that game. 
But I respect it!

thats the biggest topic title ive ever seen

don't do it! leave that poor game alone.

RPG (even JRPGs) have changed a lot since FFVII first dropped.  Except for the nostalgia factor, I don't see a reason to backtrack to this game unless substantial improvements are made in the core mechanics and presentation.  At that point, why not just make a brand new game? 

Where's my FFIX remake?

They're going to do it, regardless of what the fans have to say.
I'd be interested in playing a remake, I won't lie, but I think the game should be left well-enough alone.
Mind you, the compiliation has already raped it plenty of times now, a remake can't really hurt it's credentials any more.

" thats the biggest topic title ive ever seen "

make it 8 and you've got my attention 
 
or 9 i never played that and lots of people seem to like it

" thats the biggest topic title ive ever seen "

That is one long thread title.

I've never played a Final Fantasy game, would this come to DS? I might consider checking it out if it would. 

I'm sorry the only reason why I am posting is because your thread title took up my whole screen.

None of the options really express my indifference.

Ive only just had a chance to properly play FF7 so a remake isnt all that interesting to me. There is nothing fundamentally wrong with the PS1 version at this point (As I wrote about in this blog post).  If they make it and release it for full price then I wont be interested really since ill have seen most of what it has to offer (assuming they add new extra content) so I would wait until it gets really cheap and I im far enough away from my original complete playthrough (which I havent done yet) to be interested at all.

Leave VII alone. Its perfectly fine as it is. 
 
 
And if there was a remake, the XIII team would be the last I would want to make it.

I remember Toriyama talking about wanting to remake it, if he's going to be the director and writer, no. Keep this guy away from those games on the HD consoles.

I'm not even a big fan of FF7 (don't kill me), but seriously I think it's better to be left alone, and they should just shut up about it if they can't do it, Toriyama is also the person who thinks it was a good idea to focus on "human drama" in ff13 and shove all the rest of the stuff into datalog according to one interview, also the guy who says HD towns are too hard to make this generation. If FF13 is an indication, they'll probably dumb down FF7 and focus on cinematics instead of giving you the full experience leaving all the dialogues intact. It may as well be an advent children where you fight your way through with CGI inbetween areas.

If they could remake FF7 with everything presented in a better way (the entire world, all the towns and NPCs, enhanced script, voice acting), I'm all for it, but I wouldn't count on it. Leave the old games alone until they have the ability to bring a proper FF experience on the high definition consoles.

The dudes who made FF13 are gonna do it?
 
Leave it alone. Don't take towns + overworld out of FF7 kplx.

I'm also only here because of the massive thread title. 
 
...But I have been playing the original FF7 on my PsP some, very infrequently though. 
I think it would be cool if they just took the story and then remade both the graphics and gameplay, the gameplay of what I've played so far could definetly benefit from some expanding upon its ideas.

They should leave it. If word got out that it's actually a pretty meh game, FFVII fanboys around the world would systematically ragequit life.

I liked FF7 when I could project my own upbeat dumbass attitude onto it. Now that they've developed the characters to bein all moody and serious and gay, I probably won't like it.

Wow I didn't even realize you could make the titles that big.
 
Oh FF stuff, umm....no I don't want any of it.

" Where's my FFIX remake? "

I can't even begin to express how happy I would be if they remade FFVII... Assuming they don't change any of the core game play. Leave the world map, leave random battles, keep the game play EXACTLY the same as the original, just update the graphics and add some VO work.
 
Just think about how amazing FFVII in the FFXIII engine would look..... oh man.

Actually I think I'd really prefer FF7 with text. If they put voices in it, then it'd sound so anime and everyone'd be talking all weird. That'd be a real shame. It'd ruin the characters for me.

" Just think about how amazing FFVII in the FFXIII engine would look..... oh man. "

"

Let's try this logically, since a lot of people seem to get really really excited whenever this is brought up 
 
- SE likes to remake FF games 
- Up to this point, SE has only remade up to FF IV  
- SE will almost certainly remake FF VII, however first they will remake FF V and FF VI 
- You should be excited for the FF VI remake, 

"- Up to this point, SE has only remade up to FF IV  

- SE will almost certainly remake FF VII, however first they will remake FF V and FF VI "

" They should leave it. If word got out that it's actually a pretty meh game, FFVII fanboys around the world would systematically ragequit life. "

" @Huey2k2 said:

" Just think about how amazing FFVII in the FFXIII engine would look..... oh man. "

...orgasmic? "

Epic title.

Where did you hear that the XIII people want to take on the project?

That's a considerably sized topic title you've got there. 

" @makari said:

" They should leave it. If word got out that it's actually a pretty meh game, FFVII fanboys around the world would systematically ragequit life. "

The last five years have shown that the angry, ignorant Final Fantasy VII fanboy is a myth.   There are people who dislike VII and always conjur up this figure when they express their opinion, but it never appears; in their mind the only reason anyone could have for considering VII to be the best final fantasy / game ever created is that they're completely crazy. Then there are those who have become cynical about VII because of this mythical creature - those are the saddest bunch.   On the rare occasion that someone defends VII, this is mostly done with good and reasonable arguments without talking down on the other games. Not so the other way around.   It has become very trendy and cool (and easy!) to ridicule those who hold Final Fantasy VII in very high regard - that is where the aggression in any VII debate comes from. Not from the "fanboys". "

Weren't the Square Enix bosses really pissed off at the FF13 team? 
 
I'll be surprised if they allow that team to handle this big of a project.

The people who made XIII? Well expect it in late 2019.

I'd be interested. I never played FFVII when it originally came out. I've tried playing it a few times but that game has not aged very well.

As long as they don't let their character artist anywhere near the remake of the characters... YAY!