I'll wait for the 'whole' game to be released before I buy any part. I feel they'll not bother releasing it in parts, I hope I'm correct, it's a rediculous idea. Sure there's plenty to do FF7 was a big world but the fact is it's a remake, there's so much they don't need to do, it really should be done quite quickly I believe. Im looking forward to it, but playing through part one then waiting even 12 months for part 2 is crazy. Considering how useless they are with keeping release dates, they probably should have farmed out the remake to be done by some other company
If its about money, I'd happily pay twice a regular rrp for this if it released as a whole and this remake is done right.
Wrong on so many levels.
They have to basically build the game in full, in a new engine on a much grander scale, you think the modern gamer would accept a 35 hour game like original FF VII was for an RPG, games nowadays are so much more, just from what they've said Midgar alone is going to be longer than that, they are fleshing out the world, not doing it like for like with how it was 20 years ago.
I expect everything will be expanded on, whether that is Turks moments and story, Avalanche members getting more screen time and dialogue/participation, Fort Condor being bigger/having more going on...etc etc... everything will be much bigger, it's not a remaster after all, as you said, it is a remake of a game, so just like some movies that get rebooted, it's not a carbon copy.