Ninjamedic said:
Chibz said:
Ninjamedic said:
Could I be so rude as to ask for a explanation of your frustration? (or a link to said explanation).
You see, I can accept that people enjoy games that I don't. However, the biggest reason I've ever seen for enjoying FF7 is nostalgia. Most FF7 fanboys never look earlier than that, and because of this they discredit entire fantastic games for very fallible reasons.
A big factor in that would be FF7 being the first game in the series to be released in europe before the updated re-releases. I only started playing Tactics in the past few weeks.
Final Fantasy 7 was where they started shoving (pretty much) movies into the final fantasy game. It's the point where the story started actually intruding in on the gameplay, something I have almost no patience for.
I actually liked the cutscenes, could that reason be subjective?
Everytime I see the "FF VII is popular because is the game everyone started with" it makes me doing a MASSIVE Facepalm.
However, you obviously don't mean ill, so I will overlook it. I will use sarcasm for everyone else, though (don't take it personally).
NO, FF VII IS NOT THE MOST POPULAR FF GAME BECAUSE OF THAT!!!
Remember what "VII" means? It means 7.
That means there were 6 games before it.
You could argue that 7 was the first post-PSX FF game, and hence, most people didn't know of the series before. FF VI was only known by a group of niche players.
NO, IT WASN'T BECAUSE OF THAT EITHER!!!
Geez, Louise! You know how difficult was for a franchise to reach its seventh freaking game, even in the SNES era? The FF series was a massive success in Japan STARTING FROM GAME 1, for crying out loud! It saved a entire company from bankruptcy and turned it in arguably THE most important third party company of the 90s.
The franchise was a pop culture classic in Japan way before it reached its seventh game, or even the sixth, for that matter.
They sure as hell knew the franchise well enough when the game was released and had enough fans to have some fandom wars.
And yet, in Japan the seventh game is still the most praised game in the series. And the only game which could almost take that spot from it was FF X. Oh, the irony!
Deal with it already.