So yea. FF7 was the first RPG I have ever played. I note this bias. However, I do acknowledge that it was a very influential game; to say otherwise is folly. Yea, the game has flaws, but what game doesn't?

And as for the compilation hate- it appears to be that it's the slight changes that people are getting their panties in a bunch over. Case in point (and I forget who said this):

...The biggest thing that pissed me off was in Last Order. When Cloud attacked Sephiroth in the reactor he stabbed him in the Jenova room in the back. That was accurate. But when he followed Sephiroth out onto the catwalk above the Mako core Sephiroth stabbed Cloud and then willingly jumped into the core.

In the game the same thing happned, except on the catwalk Sephiroth stabbed Cloud and then in an amazing show of willpower, Cloud lifted Sephiroth off the ground from the end of the sword that was still inside of him, and THREW Sephiroth over the edge.

That's a huge change as far as im concerned. That is my single most favorite scene in the entire game. It showed that Cloud really wasn't as weak and useless as he thought. He actually stood up to the greatest soldier ever to live, and won. In LO it was just like he got a cheap shot and ended up getting his ass stabbed.

Jus' sayin'.