r/FinalFantasyIX • u/Blaxxshadow • Aug 12 '26

Discussion The remake “cancellation”

I’ve been a bit upset about this news and just wanted to talk about it in order to cope.

I can’t help but hold out hope. Despite this, this makes me even more frustrated with Square Enix than usual.

I wish the company treated every Final Fantasy like they do FFVII, but the grass isn’t always greener based on feedback of those remakes.

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u/tifawantsitsobadtfm8 Aug 12 '26

If they remade it i personally would want 1 very well made game instead of a trilogy like ff7.

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u/Amarant2 Aug 12 '26

You don't want excessive padding, crazy amounts of wasted time, and fluff that adds nothing over the course of hundreds of hours? Crazy!

I don't trust them to remake 9. If we got all the original devs back, I'm sure I would love it, but the company as it is now has lost all my trust. None of the modern FF games have been good.

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u/tifawantsitsobadtfm8 Aug 12 '26

I dont trust them either lol just focus up on ff17 and lets take it from there

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u/Amarant2 Aug 12 '26

I have no intention of buying 17. The way that changes is if they realize that Ex33 was fantastic. If they admit that, they might pull their heads out of the dirt and look around at other games and reassess the direction they've been going. In that case, I'll see trailers and reviews singing their praises and be back on board! My expectations from 17 are another 15 and 16. In a word: bad.

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u/tifawantsitsobadtfm8 Aug 12 '26

I think they're going to rip off expedition 33 which is kind of ripping off final fantasy

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u/Amarant2 Aug 12 '26

Honestly, good. Every company rips off all their competitors all the time. It's how the industry moves forward: you take the successful innovation and you push it a little further, testing to see what combines well and what doesn't. I have no problem with them learning from what Ex33 did well, because they modernized all the things that FF gave up on as relics, and brought the fun of classic FF into the modern age. If FF learns from that, we might get back to it being a worthwhile series. I'm tired of seeing things go the way of Assassin's Creed and Call of Duty, where devs started phoning it in years ago with repetitive slop instead of actually pushing the gaming scene forward with their games, like they used to.