E3 2019: Final Fantasy VII Remake Release Date Is March 2020

So hyped ! Been waiting for this announcement all day.

is this The whole game or the 1st part of it?

You better not just be having a go at us. Not in my feed yet.

Edit: OK search helps.

So what are we expecting, disc 1? (For the younguns, game released on 3 discs.)

Super hyped. March 2020 here we come!

FF7 in March.
Cyberpunk in April.

Next year is already starting to fill out with some massive releases.

I'll be there at launch, of course. Even if it turns out not to be great, I wouldn't miss this for the world.

I'm genuinly at a loss for words. I'm just so happy right now.

I don't really play RPGs anymore these days, but for this I'll make an exception. I loved the original when I first played it on PS3 back in Summer 2016. Since then I've gotten it on PS4 and Switch also. Let's just hope this doesn't get delayed.

s-e needs to confirm the episodic nature of this game in more detail. hopefully tomorrow? if you purchase this game — which is listed as a full priced game — are you entitled to all the episodes? if you are expected to pay full price for each episode (let's say they are 15 hours in length each) and perhaps 3 episodes total, that sounds insane to me.

@Ralizah expect last of us 2 in q1 2020 as well... i would be surprised if they push it to summer, but you never know i guess.

@rjejr I'm expecting this is the entire Midgar arc of the story. Which is fine as long as they MASSIVELY fleshed Midgar out.

@Areus based on what s-e said last year, this is only episode 1. we have no idea how many episodes it will be. i find it strange how they are not making it more clear that this is an episodic series... it is very misleading, actually. they want people to pay full price, 3 separate times to get the entire story? that would be insane and unforgivable in my opinion.

@Ralizah "Which is fine as long as they..."

Which is fine, as long as they explain tomorrow how many games we'll be required to buy, when they'll release, and how much they'll cost - ie how much we'll have to pay for 1 game?

@rjejr It won't be one game, though. Which means they'll need to make some alterations to the story so that each entry is satisfying in and of itself.

I don't mind the episodic approach as long as the amount and quality of content justifies the approach.

This gives them plenty of time to brush up on that ropey voice acting. I hate the way characters make an exaggerated gasp noise every time they move in most of these FF games.

Anyway, Midgar in March then Night City in April sounds real good.

@Ralizah Better start making a schedule i cant even make a dent in my backlog. 😭

Hmmm.............. next year long time coming worth the wait ........Hmmmm

Didn't SE already confirm it was episodic after the last State of Play?

Really? Nicee, 1 month before cyberpunk 2077 too, man 2020 will be great . I want to play both on ps5 though, just like gta v and tlou remastered back then (I bought it on ps4 instead of ps3).

And in other news, a massive cold front has developed in Hell and frost is starting to form....

Fantastic news! The new trailer looks great, you can already see why they've had to break the game up into separate releases when you conside rhow much more detail there's going to be in the opening bombing mission alone.

Never thought I'd say it but I'm actually looking forward to this game the more we learn about it. The battle system doesn't seem too off-putting.

now give me ghost of tshushima in May word up son

I don’t believe that at all

@rjejr (3 discs)

@rjejr
3 discs (unless you're talking about the Japanese international version), the soundtrack album oddly came in at 4 discs though.

@feral1975 Man, your gonna make me go to the basement and check aren't you, oh well, guess it's the least I can do. Maybe I'll post a pic to twitter while I'm at it for all the young kids who don't know what multi-disc sets were.

Yup, 3 discs, says so right on the cover, and I can't even blame it on a soundtrack disc as 4. Must have been Legend of Dragoon that had 4, I know Xenogears had 2, but I traded both of those in cause I'm an idiot. I basically only kept the FF games and MGS.

@Ralizah But the game already exists. I know this isn't a remake, it looks like it's just slapping an FF7 skin on FFXV to me, but there's really only so much they can do and still call it FF7, even with an R at the end.

I more worried about stuff they'll cut, like chocobo racing.

@rjejr I think it's probably best to accept FF7R as its own entity and judge it on its own merits, as it's clearly not trying to be a prettier version of the 1997 classic.

The Midgar arc of the original FF7 flies by quickly and takes... what, 10 - 15 hours to complete? There's not a lot to do there other than main story stuff. If SE manages to flesh out the environment, including worldbuilding, side-quests, additional characters, etc. it might end up feeling like a fuller elaboration of this part of the story in the original game.

I'm not convinced this won't be terrible, but I want to be open to it being good.

@Ralizah I don't think I've replayed it since 2005, I remember being damn sure to get the code on Cid's rocket correct that time. Still think I screwed it up anyway. I'm just kinda worried about how all of this pans out. I remember when Xenosaga was supposed to be 9 games. The first was great, 2nd was lame, 3rd felt rushed. Squenix is lost to me after the way they handled FFXV w/ it's Royale Edition and canceled DLC episodes.

I'd like for it to be good, but I'd also like for it to finish within my gaming lifetime or I don't want to start it. I waited 10 years for The Last Guardian. Beyond Good & Evil 2 was leaked in 2009 ten years ago. Duke Nukem Forever took forever, still haven't played it. Dreams was revealed alongside the PS4 6 years ago. I'm still a huge fan of gaming and the industry but the list of letdowns is growing. Especially being a Wii U owner, shafted over and over again. Scalebound. Half-Life 3. My list of disappointments is growing. Squenix leads the way. Ever since The Bouncer on PS2 they've been all about the graphics and everything else has suffered.

Also, the longer it seems like companies are keeping things from me, the more I turn towards the dark side. Hopefully tonight they'll shed some light.

It has a release date...

FOR NOW.

I still think they've got one restart left in 'em, and I won't believe this game exists until I'm actually playing it. Even then I will doubt. Can't wait to play the second installment in 10 years!

@rjejr @Porco Square have stated before that they plan to release it as multiple, full-length RPGs. "Full-length" should imply 40+ hours of RPG per "episode." It sounds like it's more going to be "sequels" instead of what we traditionally know as "episodes."

In a way, it sounds like it'd be similar to stating that we're entitled to every sequel that releases after a game for free, since it's all part of the same story.

@Cloud7794 there are a lot of assumptions made on your part. for one, i would be shocked if each "episode" is 40+ hours... that does not sound realistic to me at all seeing as the original game has an average completion time in the 40 hour range. i expect that each "episode" will clock in at around 15-20 hours tops. to call each game a sequel rather than an episode is a big stretch indeed. we are going to get 3 separate chunks broken up of the same story — not 3 separate sequels continuing a story. there is a big difference there. this is not a business model people should be celebrating. also, the only reason s-e is releasing it in this manner, other than to exploit the community, is because we would be waiting until 2024 for the completed game as intended and s-e needs a steady revenue stream now with nothing else in the pipeline.

@Cloud7794 The problem is, the gaem already exists as 1 game, it was, adn is, called FF7. It was 1 game.

FFXIII could get away being 3 games b/c we didn't know. Pretty much every gamer alive knows FF7 was 1 game. No season pass. No DLC. No microtransactions. If they are going to call this FF7R - not FF7-2, then they are going to have to take the heat for whatever it is they feel they need to do. And this being the internet, heat is all we have.

But whatever it is they are going to do, they should tell us tonight.

@rjejr agreed! their conference tonight should be very interesting

@Porco @rjejr They may prove me wrong, but I believe I'm far from making "a lot of assumptions," in fact I'm using specific wording from the interview. "It will essentially be a full scale game for each part of the multi-part series [...] if we're just looking at each of these parts, one part should be on par with the scale of one Final Fantasy XIII game," - producer Yoshinori Kitase.

It's been a few years but here's an article from this website on the matter: https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2016/04/final_fantasy_viis_ps4_episodes_will_be_full_games

Will Square Enix disappoint us? Honestly, probably. But I'm just taking them at their word.

This isn't the same game - sure, it's a retelling, but also a reimagining altogether. It seems they want to give it a much higher scale. I apologize though as I probably should have just led with my source.

@rjejr
Ah hate being a pedant. But I it felt you were getting so much more in the old days having multiple discs to a game. Last time I had that that vibe was Lost Odyssey (assuming the last disc worked, which it didn't for a lot of people). Never caught Dragoon first time around, but it looked like it was made almost as an FF homage. But the pal version I got is worth so much I barely finished the first disc before vacuum sealing it.

@Cloud7794 no need to apologize. we are all speculating and throwing in our predictions. nobody knows the real truth yet. all we can do is weigh in based on what we know and expect. i recall the source you linked to from a few years back, but honestly, that was a long time ago and s-e was likely still trying to figure it out. a lot could have changed since then. i also think kitase was being a bit hyperbolic. i just don't see each episode being 40 hours long in content... that would be quite the undertaking and unnecessarily long for a game that only needs 40-50 hours total time tops. hopefully it will be broken into two parts at 25 hours each. that would be a bit more reasonable to me but that is just my opinion of course. i just wish they could have found a way to be respectful to the fans and not force us to double or triple dip.

@feral1975 "But I it felt you were getting so much more in the old days having multiple discs to a game."

Do you mean it felt like more b/c there were more discs rather than just 1 blu-ray? I coudl understand that logic, but FF7 I think took me 100 hours. I know FF12 took me 150. I think games felt like more complete games back then b/c they were more compalte games back then. And they didn't try to sell you DLC or season passes either. And it can still be done today, DQXI was basically 2 games in 1, the main story then the after story, which could have easily been sold as a sequel or a $20 DLC it was so big. And Squenix put that out, so I know they can. But the former Enix half seems much better at this stuff than the former Squaresoft half. Hence waiting 10 years for FFXIII in the first place, before waiting another 2 years for them to finish it.

So while on the surface I coudl see why somebody might think more discs = more game, I honeslty think the games were just longer back then. Not just FF but Grandia and Chrono Cross/Trigger as well. And Lunar. And Star Ocean. Full complete games, no digital parts later. Xenosaga was 3 games, and they did mostly feel like 3 games. Except 2, 2 wasn't good.

But most importantly, they should have announced the structure before the release date. I mean really announce it, like one of those DLC season pass diagrams for Tomb Raider or Spiderman, every piece with every date. Hopefully tonight.

@Cloud7794 Thanks for the source. But really, what would you want them to say - "Sorry, these graphics are really hard, so we're breaking it up into smaller pieces that will feel incomplete but we need to charge you $60 per section anyway b/c MOAR POWR!" The guy said all the right things, which to me means he's lying.

@Porco Has to be better than Ubisoft, which luckily I didn't watch yet I was still bored by it.