WHY! Why God WHY!??

[Ultima Shadow]

*votes everything*

Everything is good with this game... oh, well... everything but the fact that Ultima Weapon is way too weak and that you can't controll Vincent when he's in limmitbreak-mode. But that's all there is to it. Everything else is simply awesome.

Oh, well... I guess I have to agree with this:

Trowa: The thing that gets to most is: Sephiroth. "The perfect villan- oooh" and "He's evil, and has pretty boy hair ". He isn't even present most of the time, and him "going evil" was nothing big. "OMFG him and Cloud wer friends b4 but now their not and their gonna fight OMFG" got annoying too.

I've never looked at Sephiroth as a "very evil" villian. Compared to Kefka he's a very nice boy.
He's far from being a "perfect villian" in my opinion. He's a good villian... but not perfect...
And he's simply not evil enough.

[Weimar Pluto Knight VII]

No, the story is still interesting after you've beaten it, though not as interesting. It is still fascinating b/c it is so unusual. It's not quite as simple as "everything will be okay as long as you defeat Sephiroth."

[DJZen]

can't wait for the PS2 release as it will have stunning graphics and cleaned up MIDI music as the PS2 can handle alot more than its predecessor the PS one

AND THEY'LL ALSO LET YOU REVIVE AERTIH IF YOU HAVE 35 1/35 SOLDIERS IN AN ORIGINAL FFVII SAVE!!!!! (SPOILER) This is about as true as Santa Claus, and so is the PS2 remake. Please, leave the vicious lies to me.

[Gregoriev]

Santa...not...real?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

Speaking of those soldier things...are they even useful?

[MistaCloudStrife]

You really shouldnt be complaining about the graphics..... They were THE BEST graphics for its time.... *nods*

And yes, the story is great... and theres some other small things that get you addicted too... mini games, chocobo breeding, finding materia and leveling it up, etc etc... yep...


EDIT:

About the 1/35 Soldier things... the more you get the more soldier choices you have in the fort condor mini quest...

[johncullum]

We love the game because the whole entire thing is like a way of life not a game. rember when its at the beginnin g and cloud is a stranger shinra are all the evil then think how much it has changed by the end of the game. Its eight yers old now EIGHT!! thatsd amazing its magic thats why i like it the storyline is great especially when they fall into the lifestream. i need some of that.

Hi im new here too, this site is great.

[Narcissus Reborn]

For me it was the story definatly.
I started playing it the same night I started playing 8 and first was leaning massively into 8 because of the opening compared to 7 which I started playing for 1hr before. But when I got bored of 8 (about 2hrs later) I picked up my controler again and inserted 7 once more. I played until dawn (about another 5hrs and my mom had you open the door to the game room hold me at preverbial knife point as she watched me find a save point and turn it off (then I got to do 4hrs of chores while letting my motor functions power my half-sleeping body). I could wait to play more and more, the plot *drool* was so motivating, the graphics couldn't compare to 8, but 8 just didn't have the same plot. Even after I've beaten them both I still like 7 better in that department.

[DJZen]

You really shouldnt be complaining about the graphics..... They were THE BEST graphics for its time.... *nods*

On what planet?

About the 1/35 Soldier things... the more you get the more soldier choices you have in the fort condor mini quest...

You know, lies make baby Jesus cry.

[Del Murder]

I thought the graphics were pretty good when it first came out.

[Weimar Pluto Knight VII]

The graphics were pretty good in battle. Field graphics were mediocre, until you get to a nice background.

[Gregoriev]

I am happy to report to you all:
I BEAT DISK ONE!!!!

The ending was supposed to be really sad...am i a bad person for not carring? i guess i would have been really sad if she left for good with all the awsome materia i kept putting on her, i mean really, the physical attacks she disked out were 500-575 at BEST! At least now i can definatly feel good, because i recorded the entire FMV using a video capture card on my computer.

That particular FMV was really really good! hell, it was equivalent to something you would have seen as a really good looking cell shaded 3D game like...uh...um...Viewtiful Joe or Cowboy beebop (when it comes it...unless it already did?)

my cloud is a level 52 leaving disk one, tifa is 47, Cid is 48, and Yuffie is 46. These being the only four character I plan on using the rest of the game, i suppose they are well suited for the job. Red XIII, Barret, and Cat sith can kiss my arse. Barret is just weak, and the others look gay in battle. stats and specialties be damned! Yuffies little victory dance is really cute, and cid is just bad ass. One of his limits is to take out a stick of dynamite and light it with the cigarette he is perpectually smoking. how badass is that!? The only think that could make that more badass would be to have him in a higher resolution with more detail, alas...halo 2 it is not.

I have two enemy skill materia as well, and i guess whenever i pick up the game again i will be sending Cid with his E. Skill materia to fight the Zolem to get beta, and i will also pawn off the elemental summon monsters shiva, titan, (lightning dude), and Irift because i can replace them all with three really neat ones i got. Is there a chart somewhere that shows how good all the summons are in relation to each other? i really want to know, i mean they do all kick arse in their own way, but i want to really dish a beat down ya know? I can't remember who i have off the top of my head, but yeah, they're good.

and i can't beleive that i almost let aeris leave with Two of the three awsome summon monsters i got! I reset the game back to just before the big wall fight before leaving the temple of the ancients just because of that!

But yeah, disk one completed...now i can *finally* set the game down for two or three weeks, i have to get some REAL work done for my life and school etc.

what do you all think of my progress so far? i completed the yuffie side quest, and beat wutai tower, i also got vincent from the mansion and stuff.

[lord shishio]

And I congratulate you, disk one takes forever to complete, but disc 3 is only about an hour long, so consiter yourself halfway through the game.

[GhandiOwnsYou]

um.... just so you know? when she gets knocked you get all your materia back anyway. the only thing you lose out on is the armor she's wearing if i remember right.

And for the question? It's the whole atmosphere. storyline and everything isd great (and to whoever made that "video game novel" post, explain to me how this ISN'T a video game novel. this is Videogame war and peace if you ask me.) The thing with square is the attitude of all the characters and the way they interact. they have DEPTH, which is rare really, in a video game. you either have a bad ass character or a token girl character or whatever, you don't get DEPTH. thats my vote

[Gregoriev]

yeah, bad ass or flirty ditz who kicks ass. the newest breed are characters that let you define what they are, KOTOR is a good start, though hopefully they will expand upon that. Fable was alright, but it still wasn't nearly as good as KOTOR in that area, just different.

[ninja-yuffie]

anybody who hates a game becuz of its graphics is clearly one of those poeple who just...dont crae *shrugs* ff7, IS a ps1 game, a very early one at that, so you cant blame it for their graphics, infact the graphics are cute ^___^ and they make some of the bits in the game quite funny (like the play in disc one), final fantays seven is my fave game, the story line absorbed me straight away, and im almost on the last disc.