I do not know where to begin.
You jump off a train and a big Mr. T looking mothersmurfer says "Come on, follow me"
So you follow the guy, naturally. Little do you know that your entire identity of "Badass Mercenary" is about to be destroyed and reconstructed in the image of a simple man from the mountain town of Nibelheim.
Final Fantasy VII kicks the trout out of any other JRPG. The only problem with it is that every time you enter the temple of the Ancients...
(SPOILER)You get to look forward to Aerith dying.
That aside, the Materia system, the Fort Condor battles, the G Bike minigame, the tv commercials, the joy of hearing One Winged Angel as you pound Sephiroth into the pavement...
Final Fantasy VII is THE video game.
Perhaps the most quintessential video game ever made.