What is it about FF7 that people love so much?
Tell me what about the game makes it so special to you.
Tell me what about the game makes it so special to you.
Why do people love Final Fantasy VII so much?
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Would say in General:
It's a pretty good game and for many on of the first big JRPG ever.
And something like this will leave an impression on you
It's a pretty good game and for many on of the first big JRPG ever.
And something like this will leave an impression on you
It mixed technology and fantasy in a way we still generally don't see.
When you have a team that dang talented and you let them break all the rules, it tends to be pretty special.
When you have a team that dang talented and you let them break all the rules, it tends to be pretty special.
A great advertising campaign, amazing graphics, the insane popularity of the PS1, and a lot of people's first FF. It was the perfect storm.
Honest truth, a lot of people played it as their first big jrpg in their formative years. As someone who loves the genre with no such attachment, it's a genuinely charming and well-made game on many fronts, but not the timeless masterpiece that people would have you believe.
For me, it's one of the first games I bonded with my cousin over. I watched him play it one summer and it's been a talking point ever since. He's actually thinking of getting a PS4 just for it since the PC release date is unknown still
It wasn't my first RPG, but it was my first 3D RPG. It felt like something completely new to me.
Presentation is nuts. Most of the pre-rendered backgrounds hold up well artistically, and they stuff they do with transitioning in and out of FMVs was crazy at the time. Sephiroth's introduction in the flashback is very memorable, and the twists with Aeris's fate and Cloud's past are pretty audacious. Great soundtrack too, and the game just screams along through setpieces and memorable locations. Still one of the best paced JRPGs ever. It's also goofy as shit, which is something I think a lot of people forget about. The combat may be pretty basic, but as an overall experience I still enjoy the game quite a lot.
In addition to echoing the previous posts...
Leaving Midgar and realizing the game was just getting started was mind blowing. It's one of the most satisfying experiences I've ever had in gaming.
On top of all that, FF7 is cool AF. You get summons with long ass animations, Sephiroth's insane SuperNova attack, and not one, but THREE Bahamuts!
Leaving Midgar and realizing the game was just getting started was mind blowing. It's one of the most satisfying experiences I've ever had in gaming.
On top of all that, FF7 is cool AF. You get summons with long ass animations, Sephiroth's insane SuperNova attack, and not one, but THREE Bahamuts!
It's was many people's first time playing a game that attempted to tell a much bigger story than what they had played before. Anecdotally, it was the first JRPG I'd ever beaten. I had rented FFVI when I was little but didn't have the patience to get far in it or the life experience to grasp what it was trying to do. I was a little older when VII came out and was in the prime age demographic to have the kind of story it was trying to tell hit hard.
Because the Gold Saucer is the happiest fuckin place on earth, that's why. Gonna have a heart attack when we see it in the next game.
I mean the story starts out pretty good even if it gets a bit weird and loses its main appeal basically as soon as Midgar is over for me but the characters are still fun and interesting which definitely draw people into the game. Sephiroth also seems to be a pretty well liked villain, even though I didn't personally like where they went with him but his design was pretty cool to my teen self. The music is great, the graphics are pretty damn good for the time, and it was many people's first JRPG which always leads to a lot of love attached to a title
It wasn't my first JRPG, not even my first Final Fantasy, and I played it in college in the early 2010s.
I loved the setting, characters, and themes. The mix of science-fiction, contemporary settings and technology, and magic/fantasy just works really well for me and is something I wish more games did. Amazing soundtrack. Story is dense with all sorts of twists and turns. It's one of my all time favorite games even if the gameplay can be pretty rough around the edges.
I loved the setting, characters, and themes. The mix of science-fiction, contemporary settings and technology, and magic/fantasy just works really well for me and is something I wish more games did. Amazing soundtrack. Story is dense with all sorts of twists and turns. It's one of my all time favorite games even if the gameplay can be pretty rough around the edges.
The atmosphere was unlikely anything I had played at that time. I had never seen a world like Midgar in a video game before. It was unique and mature and the first time I felt like I was playing an epic story in a video game. Having some of the most memorable characters ever created helps too.
It wasn't my first RPG -- that title belongs to Super Mario RPG and I had also played a little of Beyond the Beyond -- but everything surrounding it felt fresh.
And there was little like that feeling of leaving Midgar for the first time and realizing that the game actually just started.
It wasn't my first RPG -- that title belongs to Super Mario RPG and I had also played a little of Beyond the Beyond -- but everything surrounding it felt fresh.
And there was little like that feeling of leaving Midgar for the first time and realizing that the game actually just started.
This is probably the actual answer. Plus it looked next gen and was a really huge game, and had a classic soundtrack.
It's a good game but a lot of it comes down to exposure. I remember FFVII having billboards at train stations, something I had never seen before. The marketing was way above any other JRPG before it in the West.
Great game, great soundtrack, really good story. I didn't play the game all the way through until a few years ago, and my wife played it just last year. We both love it.
Its a really good game, at least in my opinion.
The beginning of the game is especially amazing. That was peak Square for presentation and storytelling. You are drawn into that mofo right away.
The moment you left Midgar was very epic and memorable when it came out. At that point it felt more like a standard rpg and it was a hell of an adventure.
Honestly what is not to like?
It took JRPGs to a completely new place.
I know some people love it because it was their first, but for me, playing the series since the beginning, it was just a *HUGE* shift in graphics and overall feel, especially since when it released, I hadn't gotten much time with VI.
In hindsight, VII is pretty obviously an evolution of VI, albeit 3D and with fancy new ways of doing cutscenes. But for whatever reason, the story and music and everything else just resonated perfectly. It's not my favorite in the series today (XII), but it's still high up there for me, and the remake is a pretty exciting thing.
I know some people love it because it was their first, but for me, playing the series since the beginning, it was just a *HUGE* shift in graphics and overall feel, especially since when it released, I hadn't gotten much time with VI.
In hindsight, VII is pretty obviously an evolution of VI, albeit 3D and with fancy new ways of doing cutscenes. But for whatever reason, the story and music and everything else just resonated perfectly. It's not my favorite in the series today (XII), but it's still high up there for me, and the remake is a pretty exciting thing.
A really cool steam-punk esthaetic. A super-fun and flexible materia system. Lots and lots and lots of secrets. A great soundtrack. Fantastic production values for its time. A dark tone, with a sincere sense of humor. Awesome characters that were neither overdesigned nor underwritten (at the time) A cool antagonist (at the time), and the sense of an endless adventure. There is so much to love here!
Like many, it was the first big RPG I finished. Yeah, I played stuff before it (NES/SNES stuff growing up), but only ever finished anything from that era many years later.
So a lot of it is nostalgia. I'm interested in the Remake to see how it holds up today.
So a lot of it is nostalgia. I'm interested in the Remake to see how it holds up today.
You always remember your first.
I had friends who played RPG's on SNES, but FF7 was my first RPG.
I had friends who played RPG's on SNES, but FF7 was my first RPG.
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