This certainly won't be a day 1 purchase for me, that's for sure. I need to actually see footage of the full game and hear some average user reviews.(because gaming "journalists" are all paid off hacks)
This is just coming from my ass but I'd say it's like 60% they'll fuck this up royally and piss everyone off and 40% that this will actually be a cool remake. It's very difficult to be optimistic about modern day SE, especially since FF started going to shit after IX, although one could argue that X & XII were pretty good. I personally didn't like X though because it was the prototype they used to make 13 imo. I also thought the characters were ridiculous and I found the ending funny because I HATED Tidus+X-2 was a shit game with a good battle system. XII was a good game but not really FF. However, it was better than X imo.
IX was the last classic FF game and I agree with those that said the series has gone to shit ever since Sakaguchi left and formed Mistwalker. I'm afraid they're gonna change too much, censor the base game, and add in way too much nonsense from the side games and ruin the overall experience. I also disagree with those who want it to be an action game like XV. I don't see any problem with my suggestion about making it like Chrono Trigger, eliminating random battles/separate screens, adding combination attacks and generally speeding up & polishing the ATB system as much as possible. Turn based does not = archaic; it's simply another style of gameplay that a lot of people, namely old-school FF fans from the NES-PS1 days enjoy a great deal when it's done right. Yes I know ATB isn't full turn-based but you get my point.
I'm mostly suggesting CT-style because there's no need for random battles and the enemy should be visible on the field, but also because that game is FUN. CT's take on active time battle still hasn't been surpassed, imo. Take that, refine it, make it more elaborate and that should satisfy older people like me and I think newer fans would enjoy it quite a bit as well.
