Did you ever think what it be like to play as a shinra soldier and move your way up ranks and stuff. I think it be kinda cool but they would have to stick with that materia system because it is the BEST system they have ever thought of hands down..


just a thought.......

Shinra rocks. It'd be awesome to play as a soldier, go through a whole lot of cool missions, then meet Cloud's party and get killed in one hit. Woo!

the whole one hit kill thing from cloud and his posy would have to be alittle different i guess but still it is a concept square could run with.
.....but they wont....

that all sounds good, but i think it would be better if it took place before 7.... i mean back during that whole war against wutai... then you could probly come across sephiroth before his prime (yes i do believe he wasn't always all high and mighty), then if you did run across any of cloud's possy, they'd all still be kids, and i'm sure they wouldn't be that hard, lol! i don't know, but i agree with you, this really does sound like a good idea, but who knows if it would work or not...

yea i never thought of the whole war with wutai thing and that also gave me another idea if you could play as Sephiroth during that time, that would be a cool idea, plus then you could see the backround of shinra and all of Hojo and Gasts projects. i always wanted to know more about all of that like the jenova stuff and all. just gets you thinkin..

People talk of a FF7 sequel, when the best idea could possibly be a FF7 prequel, with you taking control of a young Sephiroth and work his way through the ranks of SOLDIER, etc, until you use him as the war hero at Wutai. If there isn't a game, there should at least be a book about it.

If I could play as anyone though, it would be the Turks. They're incredible. Equip materia on them and stuff, and you're laughing. :)

that would be so cool. then you could play as vincent! or fire the junon cannon at your enemies.

I don't think I'd ever want that job, at least not at as a standard-class Shinra soldier. OMG it's Cloud and co. - we're all going to die! Why is it that the soldiers always die anyway, while the Turks and others are able to hang around to fight another day? At least in some of the later games, when you fight the soldiers they don't actually die if you win.

Why just a normal soldier when you can play as the Turks =D xD
That would be so awesome, Reno stat maxed Elena stat maxed :D

YAY YAY YAY YAY no.

The Turk's would be the obvious choise of any Shinra worker. They also wear cool suits, and are respecred thorughout the Shinra soldiers and workers.

Though being in 1st class would also be sweet.

I say they skip that and make a game about the Ancients fighting Jenova when she landed...that way they wont have to "tweek" the FF7 story so you could kill Cloud...

Dude.. I think the idea for a prequel is an awesome idea. Frankly... I think it be awesome to see what Sephiroth was like well.. before he cracked. And as a Shin-Ra person? Hmmm... I'd want to be in SOLDIER.. don't know why..

i think being a turk would be the coolest..... especially being like reno. he's pretty awesome. but if not, then i'd work my way up to 1st class, and start a revolution against shinra

Yeah! I would like to play on the Shinra side...to see and get the feel of how they would battle.
:) But I would look forward more to playing as the Turks or as Vincent when he was a Turk:)

Yes play as Sephiroth would be cool but would never fit in FF VII so it would all mess up.

But play as a regular soldier in the wutai war and then moving to 1st class could make a game so great it could follow FFVII in its footsteps...

Yeah. Playing as a Solidier would be really cool. But, I would prefer to be a Turk. I mean, they come up with some of the coolest lines ever. Plus, they are like the elite fighters for Shinra and all have really cool suits.

Turks seem to be more freelancers than employees...yeah that may be just Reno's leadership characteristic but it makes sense too that Turks being so respected hate tying boring loose ends for Shinra and every now and then go on a decent mission....
but prequel is for you people that think the past needs some limelight which is alright but the past probably isn't as glorious as FFVII makes it seem with Sephiroth and Wutai...i mean any history is polished to motivate the next generation..yeah this is a fantasy game but whatever...you guys make it sound cool too to have extra role-play in the history of Shinra and the Cetra but history is history..it's background not meant to be relived..IMHO

yeah If i was with shinra i would try be in the Turk's yeah that would rock

u start off as a wee lil security guard and work ur way, during the course f it u can make career decisions, e.g., Turks route, SOLDIER etc.

They need to have it wear you can kinda customize the way your character looks(his/her hair,weapon,face,etc). Then decide what part of the Shinra forces you could work up to. I think that would make it really enjoyable.

yeah, and the higher ur rank, the more weapons u get to choose from (until ur in the high ranks such as SOLDIER or the Turks where u can have a custom weapon)

Yeah!!!!!! You get what I'm sayin. And, as you play along you can act certain ways to certain people and that would effect wheter they would battle with you a certain way or if they would even battle with you!!!!!

and at one point in the game, u'll hav to choose who ur allegiances r to, one commander (or general) or another in some hostile thing goin' on within Shinra

yeah thats a cool idea, or the Turks could just go off on their own

They could also have short "face-offs" between two characters. They could make it where your decisions would lead up to a big showdown with somebody(Cloud,Tifa,Barret,Reno,etc)to give the game a feeling that its your decisions that made this happen. That would also give the game lots of replay value.

This is getting to sound like FFV....with the multiple scenario deal..not a bad idea actually...a very good idea..really hope something like this does happen..would make a bitchin' bundle for Square-Enix..

So, what do you think of the idea about focusing the game on working your way up through the ranks of Solidier? Does it sound inivative?

Yes the idea of working your way through ranks and choosing special classes like continuing with Soldier or Turks is innovative..but does resemble the Job Skills of FFTactics..not a concern though seeing as there's just one character you're controlling..
So far there's the idea of ranks..scenarios..and the prequel theme..not bad. Now there's the concern for weapons/abilities..but easily set with the same style of FFVII..and then there's graphics..now FFVII was wholly enjoyable especially because the real-time characters weren't so real like in FFVIII..i dunno these are just toss-outs but keep it going..methinks there's a ton of fans thinking the same thing about another FFVII game but we can speculate too..

So,Arcanine78, what else do you think would make a game about the Shinra Corparation more innovative?Write me back as soon as possible,dude!!!

well..can't think of much right now..it's really hard for FF to be any more innovative than it has been..all that can be really done is refining the best parts of each game into one like this one..dunno man, will think about it and if anything comes up i will post again..thanks alot for starting this thread though.