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    Final Fantasy is Square Enix's most famous and successful franchise and has been going for more than 35 years. With the impending release of Final Fantasy XVI, there are sixteen numbered mainline games, with dozens of spin-offs.

    Final Fantasy VI is being remade, SE interested in FFVII.

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    Verendus

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    ...FOR iOS AND ANDROID. WHOOO! I'm sorry for the title, I just couldn't resist.

    Square Enix will be releasing a modified version of the beloved Final Fantasy VI, originally released in North America in 1994 as Final Fantasy III, this winter for iOS and Android, long-time Square director and producer Takashi Tokita told Kotaku today. The game won't be a straight port.

    "It is basically like a remake of the original VI," Tokita said as he proudly revealed his surprise at the end of a presentation about the recent smartphone release of FFV and the upcoming mobile release of FFIV: The After Years. "But there have been some enhancements."

    "The battle systems have been altered for the other [mobile remakes] for Final Fantasy and VI will be the same. For instance grinding was an issue and people had to spend a lot of time leveling up. Now on the mobile devices the battle systems have been adjusted so you don't have to fight as much and can enjoy the game for what it is."

    The graphics, he said, will be refined for cellphones. They'll still be 2D but sharpened, a la the recent mobile release of V.

    The next release in the Legacy series will be a mobile port of Final Fantasy: The After Years, which was originally released on phones in Japan and as a downloadable game for the Wii in the U.S. The mobile release is a 3D remake of the original release.

    The Legacy series won't necessarily end with VI, Tokita said, when we asked him if it could include VII, VIII, IX, X and beyond. "We are aware that we have tons of VII fans," he noted. "We have VII fans in our own company. If this Legacy project works out well, we would like to one day be able to work with VII."

    http://kotaku.com/final-fantasy-vi-is-coming-to-ios-and-android-vii-coul-1443087791

    That FFVII remake everyone has been wishing for is about to come true. I wonder what on earth will Square do once they run out of old FF games to milk on?

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    #2  Edited By JasonR86

    lol

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    The idea of playing a 60 hour rpg on a tablet makes me want to cry.

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    I don't see how that's a bad thing, really. Those Square RPGs on phones fit pretty well. Turn based menu-based combat is a good fit for touchscreens. Granred, that one time they ruined the graphics of FFV, but the other ports they've done, mostly up from DS versions, have been perfectly fine.

    Plus, you can already play most old FFs on SNES, PS1, PSP, PS Vita, PS3, DS, 3DS, Wii, Wii U and PC. I genuinely don't see how it matters that they're porting them again.

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    #6  Edited By Verendus

    @noelveiga said:

    Granred, that one time they ruined the graphics of FFV

    "The graphics, he said, will be refined for cellphones. They'll still be 2D but sharpened, a la the recent mobile release of V."


    Edit: Now watch them add Lightning to the game.

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    I was trying to find FF6 on the play store just yesterday

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    The idea of playing a 60 hour rpg on a tablet makes me want to cry.

    same goes for handhelds. I will never understand people who play these long games ona handheld or phone. But yeah so much for Mobile are no threat for handhelds this is no the second RPG series after Dragon Quest 1-8 which comes to mobiles in like a week.

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    @grantheaslip: Saying that they are already thinking about VII is a huge deal. VII is a holy grail for this series. last time they said they will not remake FVII until they surpassed this game. FFVII will be a huge step towards a mobil only future for this series.

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    @darji: This is just SE trying to squeeze more revenue out of their old games. I don't really think it really think it's any sign of SE releasing any big new entries in their franchises first on phones. DQ and FF are going to continue to be primarily console/handheld franchises for the foreseeable future.

    Also, if/when FFVII comes to iOS, don't expect it to be a major remake. It'll probably largely just be the same as the PSX/PC version.

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    Yeah, this is just Square in "OH MY GOD WE NEED MONEY OR WE'RE FUCKED WHAT CAN WE RELEASE AND WHERE" mode. This alone doesn't really mean much to me, but I do think there's reason to worry about this company's overall direction. A year from now will tell the tale, I think.

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    #13  Edited By Petiew

    Fuck this shit! Where is my dragon's crownesque sprite style PS3 remake?

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    #14  Edited By BoOzak

    @darji said:

    @grantheaslip: Saying that they are already thinking about VII is a huge deal. VII is a holy grail for this series. last time they said they will not remake FVII until they surpassed this game. FFVII will be a huge step towards a mobil only future for this series.

    Technicly they did remake FF7 for PC. All they added was steam achievements and DRM. ;p

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    All they said regarding FFVII is "yeah, maybe we'll do it someday," which has been the company line for the last decade. But implying more is a good way to get people to click through, I guess.

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    #16  Edited By LiquidPrince

    I was gonna come in here and say I'll believe it when I see it, but if it's for mobile devices then I already believe it.

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    Square doing the Square thing of continuing to re-release old games on modern platforms. Gamers apparently shocked?

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    #18  Edited By abendlaender

    @verendus said:

    That FFVII remake everyone has been wishing for is about to come true. I wonder what on earth will Square do once they run out of old FF games to milk on?

    What do you mean? They already put out FF 6 a number of times. They will just continue to put the games on everything that can possibly run it.

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    #19  Edited By RoarImaDinosaur

    They seem to be running out of ideas but fear no more Square Enix for I have a grand idea that will print money!

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    Make a fully fleshed out open world rpg set in Neo Tokyo within the Ghost in the Shell universe. Make it in the same visual style currently used in FF XV. I want it and I'll buy it for every platform. They can't survive on Final Fantasy and ports forever and they shouldn't be full time publishers for Eidos and Crystal Dynamics.

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    I say that kind of snarkily but I'd probably buy 6 and 9 if they were to put them on Steam, but since I don't think 9 ever got a PC release they'd never put in the effort.

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    It would be cool if they would release this, or a Final Fantasy 4-9 anthology, on 3DS or PC.

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    #22  Edited By TruthTellah

    @verendus said:

    Final Fantasy VI is being remade, SE interested in FFVII.

    ...FOR iOS AND ANDROID.

    http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcxm5oWAj31r4gwd2.gif

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    #23  Edited By GreggD

    And the FFVII remake will be 50 dollars on iOS and Android.

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    I hate you so much.

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    Less a remake and more a modified port.

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    @greggd said:

    And the FFVII remake will be 50 dollars on iOS and Android.

    They should the people who want a FF7 remake would give their first unborn child to see Aerith die in HD, Spoilers. (Seriously if you get mad at that your 16 years to late)

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    #27  Edited By Sinusoidal

    Performing blitzes ought to be fun on a touch screen d-pad...

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    #28  Edited By wmoyer83

    For Android and iOS?

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    You got my hopes up. And I feel like you're kicking me when I'm down.

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    Just in case you've never seen it, this is how 5 for mobiles looked:

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    Sooo kind of awful looking. I woulda been somewhat interested in a 3d remake but whatever the hell this is, no thanks.

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    They can't survive on Final Fantasy and ports forever

    SE could survive on Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest forever.

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    @petiew said:

    @roarimadinosaur said:
    They can't survive on Final Fantasy and ports forever

    SE could survive on Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest forever.

    According to their recent earnings reports, ehhh...

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    Im really excited. I've never played VI, but hear it's a strong contender for best FF of all time. FF on my iPhone is great because I travel between Maryland and Long Island every holiday, which is a 6 hour commute each way, and it is much more socially acceptable to play games on your phone in public than it is to bring a 3DS/Vita with you as a 20 year old guy. Generally, I find the ports of DS/GB games to phones to be fine, especially menu-based games like RPGs. Good on Square for taking advantage of this market with some really great games (with the obvious exception of ATB, man do I feel sorry for anyone who bought that piece of shit)

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    #34  Edited By Brendan

    Meh, I like playing games on my phone. That screenshot of 5 looks pretty terrible but I'd play 6 and 7.

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    Doesn't sound like it's being any more remade than the previous 5 were for IOS and Android, hell the release of 3 and 4 on those platforms have 3D models.

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