Okay - I see one thing wrong already, many people criticising FF and where it had a downfall. If you were all true fans you would realise that not one of the games is a downfall, purely because they have been developed to be different, not to 'match' your style of play, or else that would be boring. I appreciate some games don't have the same feel as others, but there is no downfall, just a difference in opinion, I have a favourite, but I certainly don't hate or have hated playing any of the ff titles.
As for a remake, I would love to see the game exactly the same with improved graphics as I thought the general idea of it was great and for its time was a great game to play - If anything should be looked at from ff8 is making a spin off game of Triple triad with all the FF series monsters, avatars etc as cards to collect with a mini rpg story surrounding it in typical FF fashion and musical performance.
--#1 FF Fan--