Final Fantasy VII: Really the best?

**Destai** · 02-11-2005, 08:36 PM

that doesnt help me much

**Dreddz** · 02-11-2005, 08:44 PM

To finish this Topic Yes Final Fantasy VII was the best

**Shoden** · 02-11-2005, 08:46 PM

get your PS2 upgraded or use action replay max and itll be fine as long as the game isnt copied and has default language english

**Nova Briar** · 02-12-2005, 04:37 AM

Okay, I know this thread is winding down to a close (or at least, that’s how it seems), but I can’t pass over without leaving my opinion behind.

Firstly, let me say that the first FF-related game I played was KH, followed by VIII, so hopefully that will help me not have so much “first FF bias” in the debate between VI and VII. And, after having played through VI through X (as well as FFT), I’d have to say my favorite is VII. (*dodges rocks*) Hear me out! I’m not a “better-graphics whore” or anything like that, I promise. (If that were true, I’d be drooling on my X case, wouldn’t I?) I really liked VII because I thought the story was original (*horrified gasp!*), the game play was fun (I liked the Gold Saucer, darn it...and I laughed my head off when I found out Cloud had to dress up like a woman), the soundtrack was superb...a lot of reasons, really.

And I know a lot of you are saying that VII is just a revamped VI (a notion that hadn't crossed my mind until I read it here, actually). Well...so what if it is? I will admit that there are a few marked similarites between the storylines. Even so, they're different enough (in my opinion at least) that my experience of playing through VII for the first time wasn't ruined by observations like "Hmm, this is a lot like VI, which I beat last month..." And you can call me an ignorant fangirl not worthy of her memory card if it makes you feel better; at least I got to enjoy VI and VII for their own merits without being suspicious of Squeenix.

Also, there have been some comments about how the characters are stereotypical. Know what? I really don't see that it matters much. I love the theiving little snipe, and the beautiful woman with mystical abilities, and the moody hero with the troubled past, and the demented villian who has some evil scheme for gaining mad power while destroying most wholesome things in the process. Even if you could convince me that, underneath a few superficial details about appearance and history, they're all the same (which isn't likely)--well, I don't care. A lot of people adore the characters, and that's why you see them over and over again in RPGs. So stick your voodoo dolls of Cloud and Sephiroth to death with verbal barbs like "He's so clichè!" until you feel better, because I love both of them anyway, and so do lots of other VII fans, regardless of any sterotypicalness that may or may not exist (depending on your outlook).

As for the at-your-throat-ness of some of these posts...yeesh, guys. Even if you didn't mean for your reply to come out making you sound like a grouchy evil bishy...well, guess what? To this woman, at least, they did. I mean, you can spend the rest of your life flinging flat-out insults at each other like mudballs (kind of immature to my mind), or picking apart someone's reasons for liking/disliking a particular RPG with a dissection kit (a bit more adult, but still with the same mean-spirited inner child behind it). If most of you are anything like me, it would take something along the lines of Meteor falling on your head for you to remove your treasured favorite RPG from its favorite spot. And believe me, not all of us VII fans adore the plot because we've never played any RPGs with "better" plots (ie, Xenogears)...maybe that's just our opinion. Don't assume we're ignorant, it makes you look rude.

Besides, instead of jabbing at other people's likes/dislikes, it's so much more fun to sit back with a glass of iced tea, read people's "clearly wrong" opinions, smirk as you think "The poor little cretins--they have no idea of good taste", then hurry off to go congregate with the people who adore your fave RPG as much as you. See? No feelings hurt there. (Have I done that? Well...you guess.

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And that, I suppose, is that. Cookies to you if you read all that, twice as many if you're not a huge fan of FFVII and kept reading after the second paragraph.

*gathers up VII plushies with as much dignity as is possible for a university student who still sleeps with stuffed animals* Ta!

Nova Briar

**ShunNakamura** · 02-12-2005, 04:59 AM

VI vs. VII

Basically both are great games. both have cool characters(overall I like VII's character's more... overall more developed). Both plots are thick and entertwining, however I think they longwinded VII's too much... that or my cold is really getting to me, cause I have actually zonked while going through the plot. VII had great sidequests and mini-games. Whereas VI didn't have many mini-games.

However dispite all this VI had that special feel that in my mind makes a game a good game. VIII didn't have it V didn't have much of it... VII had some but not as much as VI. Parasite Eve had as much as VI if not more. And what I've played of Xenogears shows it to be above VI and PE in that scale.

And these feelings are quite frankly undescribable, it is just a special feel I get when I play the game, and it is what tells me whether I will play it again.

**Trumpet Thief** · 02-12-2005, 06:15 AM

chaos: Xenogears > FFVI > FFIV > Xenosaga > FFVII

**§håd0w** · 02-12-2005, 10:16 PM

Katamari Damacacy > Everything

**Talon** · 02-12-2005, 10:25 PM

FFVII if it was rated(like it was)it was given a 6 out of 10.I say that's perfect for it.

**Destai** · 02-12-2005, 10:45 PM

Whos rating was that? Most rate it above 8/10 and 10/10 isnt uncommon.

**Shoden** · 02-12-2005, 11:31 PM

i give it a well deserved 7/10 not the perfect game but still my favorite out of all FF games then 2nd 6 then 8 then 4 then 10

**§håd0w** · 02-13-2005, 12:05 AM

When FFVII came out: 10/10

Now: 7/10

Times change. It was the "best" then, but not anymore.

**Nova Briar** · 02-13-2005, 12:07 AM

I don't think it's really fair to lower a game's rating b/c of improved graphics...because graphics, while a plus, aren't all there is to a game. Know what I mean? But that's just me.

**Destai** · 02-13-2005, 01:07 AM

I think so too, The battles, FMV's, definitely the Storyline, and the music itself (not the quality though) are all impressive in this day and age.