If there was an official FF7 sequel...

[Arsen]

Where you you get to play as the original crew with the Turks (I forsee this as a possibility in the future) then where and how do you think the game should play out?

A. Time travel element. Go to Gaia before the Cetra were wiped out.
B. The "place" Jenova came from.

Those are the only two possibilities I can think of.

 

[willard3]

Wasn't Crisis Core an "official" prequel? That kind of defeats the whole "travel back in time" bit.

 

[this_was_a_mistake]

Wasn't Dirge of Cerberus an official sequel?

 

[Sir Ollie]

Isn't there before crisis where you play the turks i think its a phone game but still

 

[AgentNein]

Dirge of Cerberus was like a side story or some such. Definitely wasn't an RPG.

You know, I'd almost rather they not include most of the original cast (as party members).

Here's how I'd do it. Start the game about 15 years down the road. Enough time to really see the changes that would happen to a world that suddenly lost it's economic stability. Suddenly people have to live much differently than they did. You'd play as an older and wiser (and less assholey) Cloud.

I've really got no idea as to the specifics of the plot, but one could see a game being set on the same planet but a planet that has gone through a lot of change.

I would love to run into past FF7ers in unexpected ways, maybe without warning you'd run into Red in the mountains and have him join your party (one or two originally part members being optional/integral party members would be neat, just not everyone)? Or maybe you'd run into a thirty year old Yuffie, who's now the cutthroat head of a thieves guild? Maybe in a twist, someone like Reno would join your party (to avenge the death of his fellow turks)? Maybe we'd meet a middle aged Barett, living it up in retirement just south of the Midgar ruins?

One thing's for sure, the game would need to end where the first game started, and that's in Midgar. In this case, deep in it's ruins. I'm under the understanding that Cerberus went this route, and that's okay. Never can get too much Midgar.

 

[Arsen]

WHen I say "official sequel" I mean a worthy RPG.

 

[Librarian Mike]

Final Fantasy 7 was my first in the series, so it will always have a special place. I thought it was a phenomenal game for its time. That said, I'm disappointed with the endless 'sequelizing' of it, particularly since most of the stuff they've done with it is either nonsensical (Advent Children) or mediocre (the shooter with Vincent). I wish Square could just let it be and make new Final Fantasy games (like 13, which has been in development for what seems like decades).

 

[AgentNein]

WHen I say "official sequel" I mean a worthy RPG.

You know I thought that went without saying. Go figure.

 

[Willwillwritehiswill]

Wasn't advent children a sequel to the FFVII canon?

 

[Quaidis]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_Core_-Final_Fantasy_VII-

It's a direct prequel covering most of what you wanted in the first post, but without a ChronoTrigger element. You can get it for the PSP and, in the future, the PS2 since they like porting between the two systems. It's also an rpg. And it has Zack.

They sucked any plausible sequels or extra features out of the poor game already, and none stand a sniff against the original. So please let it rest.

Instead, let's plan a sequel to some other franchise in our own little fantasy universe. How about Dark Cloud 3?

 

[Theo Samaritan]

*facedesk* Why won't people leave it alone? Its not the best in the series everybody agrees that. Yet people keep suggesting things. It really should die already.

My $0.02

 

[Grimm91]

I think that FF7 has been over done. I think its time to move on guys. Also I like the Turks and all but no they don't need their own game.

 

[AgentNein]

WHen I say "official sequel" I mean a worthy RPG.

Then why are we talking about FF7.
Yeah, I just did that. No flaming please, I have my opinions, ya'll have yours.

We're talking about FF7 because (in case you hadn't noticed) the game has a pretty sizable fan base, and not everyone shares your opinion on the game (obviously). Capiche?

 

[Nothankyou]

I mean I love FF7 as much as the next person (which is a heck of a lot <3) but I really think they should leave it be! It's fine as it is!
Though seeing as its a 20 year project I doubt we've seen the last of it..*sigh*

 

[-Seraph-]

My guess is that they DO have another FF7 game on the way as they have a few things to clear up that were set in motion in Crisis Core and Dirge of Cerberus. Crisis Core briefly introduced us the "The Goddess" Minerva that Genesis kept blabbing about, and I doubt she was simply thrown in there for the hell of it, she WILL come back.

Dirge of Cerberus ends with Genesis awakening from his hibernation and flies off with Weiss I think it was and mentions that "there are some things to take care of". And the only reason Genesis would reawaken is if something bad was on the way as he became the planets volentary guardian between the end of Crisis core and DoC, so I guess something WORSE than JENOVA or OMEGA may appear.

Sufficed to say, any future sequel planned for FF7 will most definitely involve a return of Genesis and integrating him as an important part of the story. Minerva has a chance of returning, and maybe even a new threat that ISN'T Sephiroth (please god). Yea I love Sephiroth as much as the next fan, but he's run his course, time for another threat to step up to the plate.

 

[Snotnarok]

Where you you get to play as the original crew with the Turks (I forsee this as a possibility in the future) then where and how do you think the game should play out?

A. Time travel element. Go to Gaia before the Cetra were wiped out.
B. The "place" Jenova came from.

Those are the only two possibilities I can think of.

No offense I hope there's no time travel element ever in a FFVII related game, time travel is rarely pulled off well and I don't want to see FFVII more bastardized than it has been.