Xenogears V FFVII

[nik0tine]

Due to the length of Xenogears it has the replayability of building multiple Sears Towers. If you play as many games as I do it just takes too much time to do again. FFVII on the other hand only takes like 15 hours to beat again. Much more replayable.

I disagree. Since I first played Xenogears less than a year ago, I've already played through it three times. I don't think it's that long. Hell, I completed the entire second disk in one sitting the last time I played it. Because of it's awesome story I think that Xenogears has great replay value.

[black orb]

>>> Random battles were annoying in both games, I have yet to beat Xenogears (Im playing disc 2) but from what i have seen the plot/story is by far more impressive than FF7.

[Fuzakeru]

I happen to believe Xenogears has a more impressive storyline than FF VII. All the talk of faith and belief and whether or not it held relavance to anything struck me hard and after playing it I had a lot to think about.

I prefered the graphics in Xenogears to the ones in FF VII as well. While VII looked wonderful for its time and was cracking in to more realistic graphics I enjoyed the more cell shaded ( is that what it is? I'm not sure what to call it exactly ) look. Plus, the anime cutscenes . . . oh how I love thee.

The villians in Xenogears . . . just wow. There are some incredibly wicked people in that game. Sephiroth is up there with some nasty characters but I don't think he compares.

Those are just my opinions though.

[Dreddz]

You all smell, FFVII is a squillion times better, Im on the second disc on Xenogears at this moment, I think Im near the end now, but I think FFVII is still a far superior game. I even started a new game file on it cause I was missing it while loading Xenogears....

[raskerino]

Dreddz speaks the truth :riiight:

[Azure Chrysanthemum]

I've still yet to see any convincing argument towards FFVII's story being superior to Xenogears beyond "well... it starts off with more action!" which isn't how Xenogears is meant to start off at all, given that it is supposed to establish a peaceful scenario just before all hell breaks loose.

[raskerino]

It's not better, it's different, cause this is all opinion except (SPOILER)FF7's better (hehehehehe)

I enjoy FF7 a lot more, that's not saying it's better but it was a lot more enjoyable for me, I've said why I prefer it and it comes down to opinion, I picked up Xenogears recently again and couldn't get past the thames cause I got bored, the game doesn't interest me a ton. FF7 on the other hand I love... but my preference is based on me a lot more than the different games, they're both excellently made games, it who I am that makes me love FF7 so much more.

OK, for me (I favor FFVII in case anyone didn't read above posts) the storyline isn't everything it's the sum of what a game turns out to be. FFVII's storyline was very strong imo and it had strong characters to back it up, they were both characters I could like and connect too (all of them even Cait Sith fit the story and had interesting motives, except aeris who I dislike), and good characters make the story so, so much better imo. However what I liked by far the most about VII's storyline was something I didn't like near as much about xenogears. The timing of the story, when you learned what- how much you learned after beating jenova at the crater in early disk 2 and many other scenes that for me came at the perfect time. How the story developed so that you always knew enough to be satisfied, but there was also much more to know (a feel definitely not in xenogears for me). Also the feel of the game was somewhere I loved to be, and that wasn't only created by the storyline- the characters were very important for that, as was the timing of the story. Another part of the feel was the graphics (no I'm not a graphic whore) I like graphics based on how nicely they're done, not on how powerful the graphic engine they're using is. And I loves the backgrounds in FFVII, from the industrial midgar, to cosmo canyon, to wutai and the north crater. It was well done backgrounds that gave nicely different feels to th different places you were at. There are some side topics that come up between the characters (not that their weren't in xenogears, I'm saying why I love FFVII) for example an early, short talk between Cloud and Barret that made me think a bunch about how midgar worked that was about people living in the slums vs the plate. There were a few times like this where the game just brought up really interesting topics. And I care about the gameplay, I really enjoyed VII's gameplay. As I've said before I found the materia system amazing and I enjoy the FF type in battle fights. It all worked for me and it was truly a wonderful game. It's probably tied for my second favorite after FFVIII and tied with Shadow Hearts:Covenant.

That's why I love FF7, Xenogears doesn't have this for me, but we went through this already. FF7 is not better than Xenogears because there is no way to say preference is anything more than opinion, it's not fact, however I found FF7 to be stronger in many ways.

Edit: About how it starts off, Xenogears starts off with destuction as does FF7, it's hard to say one immediately starts off with more action. However FF7 continued to introduce characters I liked and stayed fun. The characters that showed up at that point in Xenogears seemed OK but it wasn't as fun to get into.

[Dignified Pauper]

Opinions don't matter. Gamer fact concludes that Xenogears is, in fact, better than FFVII

[Dreddz]

Opinions don't matter. Gamer fact concludes that Xenogears is, in fact, better than FFVII

FFVII, even though lots disagree, is always known as the best or one of the best RPG's, why do you think it got all these sequels...

[Destai]

Opinions don't matter. Gamer fact concludes that Xenogears is, in fact, better than FFVII

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