I'll start out by saying I'm probably considered an FF7 fanboy by definition. It started six years ago; every time I visited my friend's house, he or his brother would be playing FF7. I soon learned just how long the game is. I had never encountered a game that required so many hours of play to complete, even though it took me 3 years to finish Super Mario World. (Hey, I was really young then...) Well, a lot of things got me immediately hooked on FF7. The futuristic theme, the music!!, the smooth gameplay, the hairstyles, Tifa, the Turks, the fact that it was my first RPG... It was my new favorite game of all time. And that was before I played it all the way through.
But I'm officially crazy. I started a project to maximize everyone's stats to 255 with their worst weapon equipped and no materia, get the maximum number of every item, plus all the standards like breeding a gold chocobo, etc. I had to start over at least four times for various reasons like missing the HP Shout, not preserving the final Battery, not receiving the Vagyrisk Claw from Fort Condor... In August I took a break from that to play all the other Final Fantasy games as well as other classics I had missed like Earthbound and Chrono Trigger. Well, I've beaten all Final Fantasy games except FFT, FF3, and FFX-2 since then. Probably because I started with it, FF7 is still my favorite.
Maybe there's a whole subcategory of fanboy that wastes thousands of hours of his time on insane Final Fantasy projects with no meaning. Well, this post was long and pointless too. The point is I like most of the FF games a lot, but only waste incredibly massive amounts of time on 7 because it's my favorite.
Is the debate everyone's talking about FF6 vs FF7 now when it used to be FF7 vs FF8?
