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I am not so sure a remake is a good idea. I absolutely adore pre-rendered (and eagle-eye like Shadows of Amn ) graphics, because they don't say what a location would look like in reality, they suggest and everyone can take the suggestion and work on it in their own mind. Full 3d kind of ruins that, don't you think? I have nothing against an improved soundtrack (though there's a charming simplicity to MIDI) and an improved translation, but I just think a re-make would become a "look at the processing power in our freaking computers!" kind of thing. Most importantly, Sakaguchi is no longer in Square and only he knew how to make VII work.
I do agree about pre-rendered rpg's being awesome, if I had my own way all rpg's would still be made in the style of PS1 greats. Indeed my own preference would be to simply redraw all the locations from game as they are, keeping the original art style and feel, in high definition in glorious detail, and in widescreen of course. Characters and battles would simply be brought up to date and kept the same as they once were, the same applying to the CGI cut scenes. The world map would remain the same concept but it'd be vaster in scope and size i.e. Cloud wouldn't be the same size as a town.
In my head the remake would go on sale with the original game as a separate disc and the remake would also have an option to switch back to the original musical score, as I do agree nostalgia is just as important a factor. Furthermore, any additional extras to the game would be available through a new-game plus facility. I personally wouldn't have voice acting, though an option to turn it off could be made available. The only one thing I would consider changing would be the random battles. No one really likes random battles so the theory would be to maybe implement on screen enemies like on Chrono Cross etc.
Still though, the thought of being able to wander Midgar in fully rotatable 3D does have an appeal and if a remake is ever realised (it would be financially idiotic not to), then that's what will happen, as developers haven't yet learned that a game doesn't have to be cutting edge graphically to be great. To render the whole game in 3D would probably one of the biggest undertakings in gaming history which is why I suspect they haven't done it.
The important thing would be to not fuck around with what's there, don,t go giving Sephiroth a beard or anything like that, or more importantly not to try and user-friendly it up by making it simpler and more appealing to a wider audience which was Square's agenda with 13 (even though the result was a punishingly hard game at times). In fact given Square's track record for the current generation of games they shouldn't be allowed to touch it with a barge pole, they should let another company who knows what they're doing sort it out. Square can't be trusted anymore.
