Forum Overview :: Final Fantasy X :: Re: The problem with FF7 fans is that they want more of a game that is already

[quote name="fabio"][quote name="Eurotrash"] I popped it in, and was blown flat on my ass. For someone who hadn't played the older FF games or any JRPG for that matter, FF7 was, at the time, an unrivaled, mindblowing experience. I used to play pen&paper D&D since my early teens, and always found the western computer RPGs to be sad excuses for proper roleplay where the imagination is the limit, and the characters are much more than just stats. FF7 had characters that were mcuh more real than anything I had played before, and an epic, engaging plot. When FF8 came out, it created the bitterly enraged FF7 fans. They foolishly expected more of the same, instead they got shit. People that were spoiled by FF7, which kicks off with the main characters thrown into a terrorist mission and crazy shit happening, now got an unlikable kid sitting in school with the other unlikable schoolkid characters, and a card game. Oh how exciting. WTF Square? The rest is history. The FF7 game doesn't hold up well today, but neither does it need a remake,[/quote] Pretty much. It introduced so many aspects that you just take for granted today. This was a full year before Metal Gear Solid and the simple idea of camera angles and shots in games was still new. It featured the most explosive intro at the time (even if it does seem like a Rob Liefeld cliche now). Battles were no longer swinging a sword at air to damage an enemy 50 feet away. The idea of blending in-game graphics with rendered cutscenes was mind blowing at a time when there was a huge divide between the two. Every console RPG before had been reskinned Dragon Warrior. Every one since has been reskinned FF7. I'll never understand the fanatical following though. The story was completely incomprehensible (even by jRPG standards) once Sephiroth entered the pictures. The whole game should have just been Shadowrun eco-terrorism.[/quote]