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If you could have Square Enix remake any single Final Fantasy which would you choose?

For me, it’s one of two choices:

Final Fantasy VIII - It’s one of my favourite entries in the series and think they’ve ignored it far too much over the years. There’s a lot they could do with it, not just visually, but with the story and mechanics too.

Final Fantasy Tactics - This game is just fantastic all round, and I can’t say any more than that.

What would you choose?

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6, hopefully 4 also though I love the gba 3d version.
Also, obviously, chrono trigger. 6 needs it the most though.
- Good choices, what would you like to see them do with those? Full visual overhaul, à la FF7R or something else? Keep turn based combat?
  
  I would love for them to represent the whole story like they did with 7.
  
  FF6? Could take either, I'd prefer something a bit more true to the source material though, FF7R went a bit further afield than they probably should have.
  FF4, yeah, whatever, I have the 3d remake so go nuts.
- I have been listening a lot to Fight 1 and 2 themes for FF IV dude, I'd like a remake of IV just to have those tracks again.

FFT. You can play a remastered FF7 on modern consoles and on Steam. FFT can only be played on PSX, PSP, and Android. Also strategy RPGs are making a comeback with games like Triangle Strategy. Tactics Ogre Reborn did well. Let's get FFT out there.
- Excellent choice ;) It’s another in the franchise that needs some love, I think. Maybe the success of other SRPGs will give SE something to think about, and put it under consideration.
  FWIW Tactics is also on iOS/iPadOS.
  
  Yeah I didn't know because I don't have Apple products. I think SE could make bank by just re-releasing these games so players who have portable systems like the Steam Deck can play.
- The same Nvidia leak where we initially learned about Reborn and other games that have since been revealed also mentioned a Final Fantasy Tactics remake/remaster/something of the sort, so I’m expecting an announcement in the next year or so!
- Technically FFT Advance was available on the GBA, but it's only the same game mechanically. IIRC the story is different.
  
  FFTA is a completely different game with different mechanics. The job system, skill system, battle mechanics (judges), world building, playable characters. It really only kept the common theme between games like item and spell names. Oh and Cid.

FFXI, but a new game in the same world, specifically covering the stories of some of the events the game hinted at but never dug into.
However keeping the skillchain/magic burst system, but using a FF12 style gambit system. Offline, single player.
I want to see more story.
- Just put Vana’diel in XIV and I’d be the happiest Hume ever.
  If you want an offline single player story mode for XI, there’s always the GB remake: https://kazy.itch.io/ffxi-adventure
  
  What! This is incredible. I never knew it existed. I need to get an emulator for this set up now to give it a go. Thanks for sharing it.
  I would love to see an offline version of XI mind, even if everything about it was the same.

FFX-2 had a great style of game built into it with the unique job system, but the tone of the game was totally fucked and why did they forget that Brother was Yuna's cousin, and make him bizarrely and weebily pine after her?
- [banjo music intensifies]

I would say VIII & IX would be good choices. I'd like to play those in the vein of VIIR
- Agree on IX, it often feels a little bit like it gets forgotten next to VII & VIII of the PS1 FF games

FF5 I think would be a fun one.

I'll second Final Fantasy VIII for a remake. It's the my favorite of the Final Fantasies I have played and I have commented on it so often that my phone auto completes "Final Fantasy" by adding "VIII".

Final Fantasy Tactics; not much needs to be done except making the graphics sharper, upping the resolution, improving the framerate, and making the motion smoother.

The models in the original is ugly as hell. They need to update every model in the game. It doesn't have to be super high definition. Just use 9 as a template. But it does need to be ALL of the models so it doesn't look weird against the NPCs.
- I've got good news for you
  
  I'm talking about a recreation of the original without the blocky characters. Not the action remake sequel or the gacha game.
- Huh? I’m guessing you give it the remaster and polish treatment that IX and VIII got rather than remake it?
  
  Essentially. Except for better models for NPCs too. There are a couple odd moments in VIII where it looks REALLY weird. Like talking to CID in one scene, and he doesn't even have the same lighting,so he looks like he's part of the background.

I would not want Square Enix touching any of their old games again. They would split it up into three releases and let Tetsuya Nomura write the thing for some reason, making it even more of a disjointed ridiculous mess than the original. They would probably turn it into a would be Devil May Cry while they're at it. No thanks.
- Outside of the splitting up FF7R into 3 parts, do you think they did a bad job of the game?
  
  I did. I really disliked the oh so self aware plot ghosts, I felt a lot of the new characters and situations felt really shoehorned in and disrupted the flow of things. I disliked them dangling Sephiroth in front of the player like keys in front of a baby. The whole thing felt super unsubtle. The whole time I played, I could feel them just trying to squeeze more time out of everything.
  I didn't love the combat either but at least it was better than FFXV, which was somehow more sluggish and predictable than the turn based combat they keep trying and failing to fix.
  
  Personally, I don’t love FF7R. FF7 is at the top of my all time greatest list of games. It is one of my favorites.
  The remake, while really graphically pretty, just didn’t hit the mark for me. The changes to combat and gear didn’t work for me. I want turn based combat with materia socketed in items, just with modern graphics and the story updates.
- They would only stand to lose content at this stage anyway. Cut sidequests, making another subtitle-Remake instead of a remake, drastic dialogue cuts, etc.

Remake 7 again, but properly, without a bunch of dumb story changes and not in 3 installments. I don't mind how the combat is set up, but the way the game has been done is a clear money grab.
- When you say “properly” what do you mean? Like, what were the “dumb story changes” and other changes that makes it not proper? And how would you keep a game like Remake down to a single instalment without losing parts of the game?
  
  You don't have to cut put parts of the game. There are plenty of games that have massive expansive stories, and worlds that are one disc. A good example is the horizon games.
  As for the story changes, I didn't like the introduction of the whispers, or how sephiroth was introduced with no explanation. The rest of the things in the game felt like they were only there to extend the play time.
  Funny enough, the things that were added like a visit to Jessie's parents, didn't bother me.

If it was Squaresoft. Everything from I - XXIII. Square Enix? Meh, give them ii, iii, viii, and TT because its fun no matter what. Hell, give them a shot at FFI and see if square Enix can redeem themselves and recreate the whole series.
- And FFI has already been made convoluted by Dissidia, so maybe they'd be less tempted to add further timespace fuckery. I'd be down to see if they could present the original story in a way that isn't a NES game (has a story beside the opening and ending cutscenes).

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