A few years down the road probably, given Nintendo's speed and efficiency in these matters...

You can, but you have to go into the wii emulator thingy to play.

The battle system is what's keeping me on the fence... I like my battle systems all action-y or all menu-based, not mixes of the two. Never really got into The Last Story for instance.

I think he's saying that it would cost extra to be able to play on the gamepad. Surely the GC games would/will cost a lot more than 10$.

He, thought that was Fidel Castro for a second. Not that I won't feel a little bummed out when he goes...

I find I tire of the battle music in FFIX after a while and wish I could just keep listening to whatever awesome music is playing in the dungeon.

I actually don't want to bag on SE too much on this because I thought FFXIII-2 was even worse and I'd hate for them to try to keep going in the sandbox-direction… but even FFX, the predecessor most like FFXIII, had little diversions along the admittedly Crash bandicoot-linear path; collecting al bhed primers, hidden…

"Sure, there's only one way to the top of the Shinra building"

Did not love this game and gave up on it about 20 hours in... it definitely wasn't bad though. I just prefer battles to be either turn-based or action-oriented, not some kind of mix.

I agree with everything you say; I don't think people realize how radically different a current gen interpretation of the game would be.