WHY! Why God WHY!??

[Gregoriev]

Why do i love this game so freaken much!? The graphics are...terrible! THe backgrounds are great, and the FMV's are pretty good too, and hell, i can even stand hte battles though to a lesser degree than the first two. however, i cannot stand moving around these blocky disproportioned character...and yet there are so many other redeeming qualties to the game.

The plot...you could make a damn movie out of this plot. and i don't mean something ty like the crap that came out this year in thearters. I have absolutely no problems with the plot, in fact, if more games had a plot like this, i think video game novels would be created....think about it...a full length novel, but in video game form. Entertaining, and yet enlightening.

Sound....OMFG it ranges between okay and putting a man on the verge of impaling himself with the controller. I have heard a few good tunes here and there, nothing specatacular yet though. i am at the part where you go to the space city, recruit cid, steal the broken sea plane, and i have recruited Yuffie from that forest across the river just before Red XIII's village. One thing i wish they had done was put in some voices, and Yes, i understand that at the time this may have been infesible seeing as how this damn game is three disks long alreay, but hell, it would have been nice!!!

Gameplay is so so...it's nice how things can be mind numbingly boring in that at my level....i just ruin around the world and keep pressing O whenever i get into a battle. i win, wake up from my nap, and continue on. The boss battles can be pretty engaging, but smart people like me do not have a real problem with them, seeing as how i rule.

Conclusion?
I had many misgivings about this game when i first started playing it, but now i have come to enjoy it quite a bit. the MIDI music burrowing deeper and deeper into my brain is something i have to cope with....that and dealing with my newly reviived imagination...an imagination needed to make me see better graphics, and anti-aliasing of things to make them look pretty.

IN breif: could have used a MGO (Massive graphical overhall), some NON-MIDI music (or at least some kick ass techno), more of a real time battle engine? (best to leave the formula along i guess...they did get it right the first time.), and some voice acting, at least in the in game movies.

I still can't figure out why i mindlessly play this game for over three or four hours a day...subliminal messaging??? I guess it's the plot really...and the extreme easiness of this game that relaxes me.

why are you all so addicted to this game even though it has been like 7 years since it came out?

[UltimateSpamGrover]

You said you hated this game in another thread, and now you say you like it?
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[true-sephiroth]

The story of course.

[Sweet Beloved]

DUH! The story. Dude, it has to be the story. When I first played I was soooo sucked into it!

[TheAbominatrix]

Im not. Period.

[Del Murder]

It's fun. What makes it fun is a little of everything. Great story and characters, fun battles and sidequests. Plenty to keep me entertained over and over again.

[Azure Chrysanthemum]

If I had to say anything, I'd say the story, but FFVI is so much better.

[CloudVII]

The story, thats the reason anyone is ever addicted to a game, usually, because of the story. You think you rule now but three words u need to remember:Ruby and Emerald.

[bEoWuLfX]

finally, finally we have converted another. Listen brothers to his testimony. I play it because I like to screw around with materia combinations, seriously materia is the most fun to combine, the story was good too, but it was all about materia. Materia, Materia, Materia.

[FourShiningOrbs]

I've played through both VI and VII multiple times, and I'm torn as to which one is truly my favorite. VII was so great for so many reasons: first, the story and characters were very unique. Cloud is easily the best main character of any of the FF games, especially after being recently exposed to whiny Tidus and a giggly, teen-aged Yuna. It took me another play-through of VII to be reminded that it has the best soundtrack of all the FF's too, though VI is a VERY close second (unrelated sidenote: same goes for Chrono Trigger). All that being said, I think there are three things that really set VII apart from any other video game, period: materia, the Gold Saucer, and raising Chocobos. Materia allowed you to get REALLY creative with the capabilities of your characters, as well as put together outrageous combos with the right amount of building and planning. The Gold Saucer had so many activities (roller coaster/battle arena/chocobo racing/arcade) that added a whole new dimension to the game, you could almost make a video game out of the Gold Saucer alone. They tried to duplicate this idea in X-2 with the Calm Lands, but unfortunately it's terribly lame. Raising Chocobos was extremely time- and gil-consuming, but the rewards of using that Gold Chocobo make it all worthwhile. Not to mention the gigantic challenge of trying to destroy either Ruby and/or Emerald Weapon, both of which are much harder than Sephiroth. There was just so much to be done in this game, you can play it time and again and each time go in a completely different direction with your characters. For an RPG, it has an extremely high replay value, and that's saying a hell of a lot.

[Mirage]

The graphics!

[DJZen]

For me it's the fact that you have to make the lead character dress in drag in order to progress the plotline.

[Destai]

The graphics were groundbreaking. No other RPG had ever done anything like this in a game this big (not many RPG's were this big either)The graphics looked brilliant on the pc. The Music is great. Its not limited to one theme the way FFIX was medieval in most (or all) of its music. The fantasy was totally original. No other RPG had a city setting (not many anyway). The characters are brilliant too. They've all got there own little story in the game and they all seem to grow during the game. VIII's characters were detailed but except for Squall they all pretty much stayed the same.

[Trumpet Thief]

You said you hated this game in another thread, and now you say you like it?
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Rubedo: That is because he had barely played it when he gave his last review. After experiencing more, he probably became fond of the game.

[finalheaven]

ff7 was hte most amazing game of that time..and soo what if wree still addicted?it just proves that ff7 will live in our hearts forever as fans will always continue to play it....the music and storyline was amazing it all came at u at once..remember it was FOR ITS TIME..................se put their blood and sweat into 7 and the results wre rewarding..