Just to start a debate I'll disagree with the above post. First off don't talk so much as if an opinion is fact. I found the sequence in midgar a fun easy way to get into FF7, while xenogears did not catch me early making it much harder to get into the game. The opening stuff with the town getting destroyed didn't matter to me because I didn't have any connection with any of the characters. Then with the scenes where you meet bart I didn't get interested due to at that point there wasn't a lot of depth to the characters imo. FFVII caught me faster, I loves the customizable materia system, so while I liked the xenogears system it wasn't as enjoyable for me. The story to xenogears is more in depth but starts slower and never caught me like FFVII's imo. I liked the character's to FFVII more. I liked the backgrounds to VII and loved the feel of the cutscenes making it for me better in that category to.

I like both games but VII worked for me in such a wonderful way that I prefer it by a decent amount.