If this game was released today graphics aside it would be dismissed as average to below average
this game does not hold up, it's shit in both the gameplay and story department, and if you don't have either of those, you don't have a good game
frogposters with nostalgia goggles will defend this
Let me guess: you are below the age of 24 which means basically a child. Possibly even under 20.
Y/N?
In fact it is totally misremembered and underrated by people who are polluted by the compilation
It was average even for its time.
But the power of marketing can make miracles.
This, I'm 35 here so I can confirm this is accurate. FF7 IS decent but holy fuck it literally is one of the most overrated games of all time.
inb4 someone thinks this means it's bad.
35 and a half here and can confirm you're wrong
You must have not played a lot of videogames if you think FFVII is anything but mediocre even for its own time.
23 here, and you're wrong.
Yeah, that must be it
incorrect motherfucker. played 6 and liked it, played chrono trigger and liked it, but this game is so fucking braindead (why is it a step down from 6) both in gameplay and story, it's pathetic
6's story isn't special but 7's is so bad it's something else
That's pretty much it though, no matter how witty you try to sound.
There's SNES games with better gameplay and story than that, let alone music or characters.
6 is better than seven and it's on an "inferior" console. fucking pathetic.
bunch of faggots trying to look interesting with their """unique""" opinion
Loved how this game created a whole fanbase of bitter FFVI fanboys that shit on FFVII on a daily basis instead of focusing on praising their own game instead.
FFVII is that good. :)
>FF7 is shit bait thread
There definitely hasn't been enough of these over the past 20 years of the internet
This. You hardly ever see threads for VI. It's hilarious.
No, story and characters are good
The combat is basic FF, but each character gimmick are fun and materia is cool
People like a mediocre shit like FFXV, of course FFVII could be a success today.
How old are you? I mean, you don't articulate yourself in a mature manner in general.
>maturity
where do you think you ARE?
The thing is I didn't play it when it came out (nor was I a child, since I was already 11 when VII was released), I played it a couple years after X came out in 2003, and X was my first FF. Personally I think VII is a much better game than X and it's the only FF I play the whole way through every year.
>disliking a game is bait
>saying a bad game is bad is bait
typical retard frogposter
Industry strandards shifting to more streamlined and casualized gameplay doesn't mean it is bad. It means that the majority of people have bad taste.
>VII
>not casual
lol
Gameplay is shit but the story and characters are decent. 15 is better :^)
i think he was saying that 7 DID shift toward casual
Didn't say that.
Ff7 > everquest
>this game does not hold up, it's shit in both the gameplay and story department
All I'm seeing is some reddit kid spewing his garbage opinion without any argument to back it up.
What a shit thread.
Played this game when I was 8ish and loved it, it completely blew me away and changed my whole worldview on how seriously a video game can take itself, or how involved you can get in a video game.
I thought replaying it would probably destroy my memories of it since the main impression it left on me was its ambition, which has become par for the course nowadays. But I olayed it again at 25 (for the first time since my initial playthroughs) and it's still great. Materia is very creative and complex, there's good variety of gameplay, good music, good pacing, lots of secrets, and I don't think it slogs. The storytelling is good and the characters are charming.
Almost everyone I talk to about FF7 misremembers large chunks of the story, because of the compilation changing things and crucial facts are often only implied. I didn't realize until my adult playthrough that Shin-ra is just a power company, they're the richest company on the planet and they're the de-facto world government half because of their vast wealth and half because they had to form a military force to protect them against groups like avalanche. Turns out you make a lot of enemies when you put a bunch of coal miners out of business and when you literally make electricity out of dead human souls.
A lot of the theming of the game (technology and automation putting blue collar workers out of business, the gap between the rich and the poor, destruction of the environment in pursuit of money) is pretty relevant and pretty well done, I think.
what the fuck user I can't play video games and think at the same time what the fuck do you think I am
>20 years and faggots are still butthurt over how good FFVII
Exceptional, it truly is the best game ever.
this 2bh
wdhmbt?
Speak English you fucking weeaboo
>played 6 and liked it
opinion completely disregarded
ff6fags are insufferable
I didn't really realize FF7 was my favorite FF game until I replayed.
Like you mentioned, I appreciate the variety in the gameplay and I actually enjoy the characters a lot. It's actually a very silly game with dark elements. The setting also feels very "lived in" and believable despite being populated by lego people.
(You)
Can anyone at least make an open argument that its a good ff title?
Telling it has good gameplay, musics story etc doesnt work, try to explain it in depth.
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>Materia is very creative and complex, there's good variety of gameplay, good music, good pacing, lots of secrets, and I don't think it slogs. The storytelling is good and the characters are charming.
This doesnt explain anything, any game can be told in the same way. Its so vague
3rd and 4th paragraph do well at explains the theme and i do agree but imo is not executed well, because the story is more focused on Cloud, and all the other characters felt empty and i hate it. Its like if you can remove anyone in your party out of the game, it doesnt affect the story at all.
I don't know what you want man, we all know nothing is going to change your mind if you've decided you personally don't like it
No, it's still a great game. People are People, our tastes by generation don't magically change 20 years in the future. FF7 is universal and timeless, this goes with any piece of media. It doesn't suddenly stop being good once so many years have passed.
>FFVIIfags are old enough to pull the underage card now
Let me tell you why the materia system sucks compared to other FF title ( which you probably didnt play yet to compare)
>equipping and removing to character anyway you want. Yes, it make more versatility but what make its different from equipment? Its a hand-down version of relics in FF6, but now everything spell, summon, command is through equip which is the most basic way of customization.
It removes the uniqueness of each character. Everyone feel like some sort of medium to put you collection of materia into a fight. So it doesnt matter who you use, the materia that wins you the boss fight not the character. Tell me, what make you use Cait Sith over Barret for example?
>inb4 stats
Google. There not much of difference in stat between characters, you can make Cloud a magic user and he still can kill enemy with it.
>inb4 limit break
This thing doesnt affect the gameplay much except some extra bonus attack. Its really unfair to some character, because some of them are pretty much useless
>Inb4 similar to FFV
Hell no, in FFV you have sets of jobs, and theres a limit, pros and cons of every job you chose to use in battle. Its not just dumping everything in a character like materias.
Do argue
I think FVII represents a rare well-executed marriage of cinematics and gameplay.
It's no wonder it proved to be such a winning formula as it's a pretty natural fit for a RPG due to the nature of the gameplay.
Midgar is so tightly scripted, paced and well-designed, it's a shame the game ever leaves and turns into wandering a barren open world from locale to locale looking for Sephiroth.
Junon is quite fun too though, infiltrating the Shinra parade and shit.
I seriously think if the entire FF7 were on par with the beginning couple hours and Midgar it would easily be a 10/10.
I can't really think of another RPG that's managed to make me feel like it's moving at a frantic breakneck pace where you can never turn back
all while giving you ways to customize how you build your characters and assemble your team except maybe Fire Emblem 7.
yeah they all become pretty much interchangeable.
it's a pretty minor gripe to be honest.
coolest thing about materia to me are abilities like counter and final attack that allow you to set actions to be performed
when certain conditions are met and also choose what action to take.
it's those kind of if-then mechanics that make materia so fun and give it such extensive options.
t. buttblasted OOToddler
But it will be released today... well in the next few years. You dumbass.
>coolest thing about materia to me are abilities like counter and final attack that allow you to set actions to be performed
when certain conditions are met and also choose what action to take
This pretty much in every FF game, its nothing special.
The point is it doesnt change the fact that this game is just
>Materia combination vs evil : VII
>played 6 and liked it
Sadly it's true.
The story would be considered minimalistic.
The localization would be considered ass.
The character interactions would be considered junior high level quality writing.
Half the characters would be considered useless.
Having two characters made "hidden" characters would be called asinine (especially as Yuffie & Vincent would be DLC).
The music composition would be praised, but the sample quality would be shredded, as would the 8/16-bit level sound effects.
The battle system would be call slow and retarded.
The Materia system would be called broken and complete shit for averaging all the characters out outside base stats.
The final dungeon would be called one of the worst in the history of JRPG's.
Even though delayed, it would be labeled a rushed product for having so many game-breaking bugs.
The game would be called misogynistic at best and hopelessly sexist at worst, and people who like Tifa's design would be publically ridiculed as pedophiles.
It would be given an 8/10 Would Not Recommend by IGN.
FFVII was actually one of the first games to not have FMV be a dirty word.
That's what you get for playing the "remastered" version on your phone, you retard.
No, I played it on the SNES and it's fucking trash. It's barely better than 13 and 2, I'll never understand how FF6fags came into existence unless it's just contrarians
>The battle system would be call slow and retarded.
The Materia system would be called broken and complete shit for averaging all the characters out outside base stats
This what im trying to explain but couldnt put into better words. Glad someone agree with me. Its one of the worst customization in RPG
autism
>He likes FF13
stop bitching about turn based you baby
No, it's called being an old fag and being able to put ideas and conceptualizations into perspective.
>FF6fag can't read
Figures
Both those games have the exact same gameplay as FF7 so it makes no sense for you to hate one game but like the other two.
>The battle system would be call slow and retarded.
FF9 was way worse in this regard yet it's constantly praised as the best of the series.
>The game would be called misogynistic at best and hopelessly sexist at worst, and people who like Tifa's design would be publically ridiculed as pedophiles.
Fuck off back to tumblr
I said "would be called", not "I call", you fucking trilobite.
And you're still wrong you fucking mongoloid. In fact literally every point you were wrong except for the localization being ass.
There are plenty of other JRPGs (FF included) that do the same thing yet people are totally fine with it.
Even your insults are grade school tumblr trash you fucking cum chugging shit stain of a human being. End your life and do the world a favor.
It would be the next Undertale
FF6 what makes FF big, and it still considered one of the RPG to date, 7 is just a dissapointment child but some good marketing make plebs-who-never-played-rpg-before considered 7 a good game.
never thought i'd see the day
>both in gameplay and story
Nigga please, FF6's gameplay was so buggy and broken it makes the junction system look masterful.
thats Sup Forums in general
Oh please. I head more inventive insults back in 1st grade. I'm also 100% correct. For it's time FFVII was good. But if it were released today with only the graphics being updated to modern standards? It would get shitted on by the press, and Sup Forums (among other sites) would only discuss Tifa's tits, Aeris's ass, and Yuffie's flat.
>In 1st grade I was called a cum chugging shit stain
Uh huh, end yourself.
>Both those games have the exact same gameplay as FF7
>calls reddit
>posts egoraptor
opinion disregarded
>The story would be considered minimalistic.
I hope this is b8
>The localization would be considered ass.
Okay that's true.
>The character interactions would be considered junior high level quality writing.
You mean like every other JRPG ever?
>Half the characters would be considered useless.
If you're a retard who doesn't know how to use them properly sure.
>Having two characters made "hidden" characters would be called asinine (especially as Yuffie & Vincent would be DLC).
Yeah fuck having secrets in games why can't they just spoonfeed us everything?
>The music composition would be praised, but the sample quality would be shredded, as would the 8/16-bit level sound effects.
If it was released today it would obviously be higher quality
>The battle system would be call slow and retarded.
It was actually the fastest of the PS1 FFs barring Tactics
>The Materia system would be called broken and complete shit for averaging all the characters out outside base stats.
If you don't know how to use it properly that's your own fault..
>The final dungeon would be called one of the worst in the history of JRPG's.
And why is that?
>Even though delayed, it would be labeled a rushed product for having so many game-breaking bugs.
Which if delayed would be fixed.
>The game would be called misogynistic at best and hopelessly sexist at worst, and people who like Tifa's design would be publically ridiculed as pedophiles.
By who? SJW cucks on neofag and tumblr?
>It would be given an 8/10 Would Not Recommend by IGN.
IGN is and always has been a joke of a site anyway.
Care to give an example, no example no arguments
GREATEST GAME OF ALL TIME
get rekt fags
Skies of Arcadia
FF8
FF12
Golden Sun
It's still considered bellow 7. Just accept it already you diehard.
Also forgot FF10. Yeah everyone starts out different but with enough grinding and levelling up you can make everyone the same character before the final dungeon.
Yeah FF6 enjoy your hipster choice, where your only memorable moment is a opera scene, meme train and a joker ripoff
>All released after VII
are you really this retardo?
is Tactics really considered fast
>RPG
>gameplay
kek
>moving goalposts
I never played it so I wouldn't know.
29 here
8 is better
>FF7fag
>old
all of my keks
(You)
Skies of Arcadia
>people love it because of the story, and its one of the few JRPGs on DC/GC
FF8/FF12
>shittier even compared to 7. You havent kept up much with FF arent you
Golden Sun
>havent played yet
FF10
>are you serius? Try hitting those wasps with anyone other than Wakka. Try killing those Jelly Flan without using Lulu. Can you do normal attack as high as Auron using Lulu's doll?
>you can make everyone the same character before the final dungeon
Who the fuck grinds until everyone is the same before finishing the game on first blind playthrough? The furthest i can think of is like character get into one other characters grid like Tidus to Auron's but even that us overgrinding
>better cast
>better story
>better soundtrack
>better graphics
>better gameplay
The list goes on
>people love it because of the story, and its one of the few JRPGs on DC/GC
That's irrelevant, because in terms of gameplay it's no less flawed than FF7. And the story wasn't that great either, at least from what I've played, and even something like Grandia 1 had more compelling characters.
>shittier even compared to 7. You havent kept up much with FF arent you
Well yes but I've still heard people say they're better than 7, why that is is beyond me.
Also yeah, you're right about 10 and I take that part back.
It came out three years after six. They've been able to pull the underage card longer than they haven't by decades.
>better gameplay
The moment when enemy levels scaled to Squall and your party member are underleved. The only way to solve this is to kill Squall and grind while he's laying dead on the ground.
GG
>pic unrelated
>>better cast
It's actually the worst cast of any FF. The main character manages to out-emo Cloud, something I never thought possiblle, and everyone else is an annoying retard who can't do their job properly so they have to push everything onto Squall. Rinoa is arguably the single worst love interest in the entire franchise.
>>better story
For the first disc, after which it plummets off a cliff.
>>better soundtrack
Okay this I can understand.
>>better graphics
Also this.
>>better gameplay
Fuck no, it's even more stupidly broken and tedious than that of FF7, and that's saying a lot.
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or junction your party better. Levels contribute a lot more on enemies than on your party members.
Look at your game which fall hard on quality after the first CD. At least FF6 has its moment and great character.
I dont hate FF7, but i feel like it wasted a lot of potential. Also, i pity those characters who are greatly design but being forgotten and overahadowed by Cloud. Removed them all from the game and it doesnt affect the story much.
>better cast
I cant even remember the cast name other than Rinoa and Squall.
Its the guy with tattoo on face, teacher, generic happy-go-lucky girl. Is there more? The casts are not unique.