One of the PlayStation’s most beloved titles is rumored to finally be getting the rerelease gamers have been hoping for, but it might not be in the form we expected. While a Final Fantasy VII HD remake has long been in the cards for developer Square Enix (who shipped the game way back when they were Squaresoft) that idea seems to rank pretty low on Square’s list of priorities.
A rerelease of the game for today’s platforms, however, seems much more likely, and is actually rumored for Steam. Obviously Square Enix isn’t going to comment on Final Fantasy VII‘s release for Steam, like price point or release date-wise, but our money is on this being very real.
Code for the game was discovered briefly on Steam’s backend before it was put where prying eyes could no longer see it, and a domain was registered for Final Fantasy VII on the PC, both pretty substantial indicators that this rerelease is coming very soon. Along with the existence of the game being outed, a few new features are reportedly coming to this Steam release, including a new option called ‘Character Booster’ that helps players get out of sticky situations.
With any RPG, especially ones from the older generations, if a player didn’t level their party appropriately they oftentimes would find themselves up against more difficult enemies with no way out. There are obviously ways around this type of situation, but just in case this Character Booster would allow any gamer to max out their party’s level to get past a particularly difficult boss encounter (and Final Fantasy VII has plenty of them).
And for those gamers who would prefer a Final Fantasy VII experience a little closer to the original, there’s the Vita release that was teased during Sony’s E3 Press Conference. The franchise itself might be in a bit of a slump, but at least gamers can relive its heyday.
Are you going to be picking up Final Fantasy VII when it becomes available for PC or Vita? Do you think that a ‘Character Booster’ feature is a good idea for RPGs or sacrilege?
Source: Shacknews
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It would be very interesting to play the old classic on PC today. I wouldn’t want to pay more than ten dollars for it though, given that it’s so old. If it’s jam-packed with tons, and I mean TONS of new stuff, then maybe I’d go over 10 bucks.
Still want that HD remake though.
Character booster!?! WTF. This will take out the need to grind to level up. Why make the game easier? Just give us the same game with HD makeover and audio updated.
It’s only bad if you choose to use it. You have to appeal to casual gamers nowadays. If they don’t want to play hard-core and spend the many many many hours required to get to max level then they choose to lose that sense of accomplishment.
screw that dude, then the pu55ies can play fable and win all day long! don’t dumb down the most epic Fing RPG ever for casual D bags!