That's a lot of hours. I don't exactly count the time spent. But I did took a lot of time to beat the characters some of the time. It worked out to some extent. But yeah it's kind of drag some of the time for playing it for hours.Almost 100 hours of grinding. I at least tried to maximize all the levels of my characters.
I was a Highschool when I played it. With all the homeworks I have, It took me 2 months to finish it because I was very busy. I played the remaster recently I finished it in 2 days because I was streaming it in Twitch.
I think it depends largely on whether the FF7 remake will be financially successful or not. Resident Evil HD remaster sold pretty well so we are now getting the Resident Evil 2 remake. Not sure why it would go any different for the potential FF8 remake, especially since remakes are easier to do and cost less money than making entirely new games.I was able to finish 9 and 10 because I was on summer vacaction when I played them. I am planning to play it again. After having an HD mod for the PC version, I hope there will be a voice acting mod someday. I want to see a FF8 remake someday but it doesnt have the demand 7 have.
Is it that I'm slow? Most people say they took from 90 hours to 200 hours. Well, it took me more than 200 hours; 25o hours to be precise.