But when they are developing shovel-ware I don’t really see the benefit of having hardware in house. What they are making isn’t game changing. It had been—but it hasn’t been recently.

To give you something more to think about than “head to next dungeon, use dungeon item on boss, repeat”, to add some variety to the formula. Execution will determine whether it’s a worthwhile addition or unneeded fluff.

The fighting looks similar enough, but VII has a great story and interesting characters. XV on the other hand, just doesn’t look good to me. I don’t care about a bunch of bros on a road trip. None of the characters make me want to learn more about them. In fact, I find a couple of XV’s bros highly punchable. Even the…

Why? As far as I can tell, FFVII remake will pretty much have the same fighting mechanics as XV

Janky as hell.

I'm sad to see FF turn into this.