I find it hilarious that already some people are saying the remake of FFVII is 'ruined' by Square redoing the battle system when they haven't even seen it or played it yet. I wasn't too happy about Dirge Of Cerberus battle system but that was really the only spinoff that i didn't like. I don't think the FFVII will be like that and it'll be interesting what Square does here. Long as the remake is playable that is my only concern. I really think people are overreacting here and i think FFVII remake will turn out great.
For those who say they are not going to bother with the remake based on this article.. well all i can say is it's their loss. Square is putting the faith that fans and those unfamiliar with the FF series will enjoy the remake and i am really hoping it does well because i really would like to see a remake of V and especially VI which should get a major overhaul, not like the poor treatment IV got.. i was hoping that was better polished and not on limited hardware, but well that remake wasn't that bad and i thought they did pretty well with it all things considered.
Again i have faith that Square will pull through with this remake and i think people are overreacting and taking things too literal, if anything fans should have known that this would happen and instead of going on a ragequit rampage maybe these fans shouldn't hold onto the idea that FFVII's battle system would automatically be transferred over to the remake and expect some changes. This is exactly what fans were wanting, a remake and now they are going 'this is a disaster, changing the battle system'. As i said before, wait and see what they come out with and see how it would work out. Even if they used XIII's system i think it would be ok.. maybe not exactly that system because Square seems to change it around. The only battle system that really was bad was XII's.. IMO anyway. I thought it had improved with XIII. Whatever Square comes up with i think i'll be ok with it.. but it seems you can never please fans with no matter what you do and really it would be nice if FFVII fans could be a bit more reasonable here.. some of the comments on the IGN article is just ridiculous...