[ SECRET POST #1719 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1719 ⌋


Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 11 pages, 256 secrets from Secret Submission Post #246.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - hit/ship/spiration ], [ 0 - omgiknowthem ], [ 0 - take it to comments ], [ 0 - repeats ]
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

For many people, FFVII was their very first RPG. Their very first "big game".

This is a game that came out when developers were still struggling with 3D, especially on the PSone. Game stores were filled with clunky, awkward 3D games with dodgy controls, ugly textures and horrible bloopy soundtracks.

So naturally, people (especially those in the West) were VERY excited for FFVII. I still have my Playstation Magazines from back then, filled with speculation about the game's plot, and "teaser" screenshots that the editors tried to decipher and understand. Meanwhile us readers goggled over the graphics and the characters, wondering how ANY game could possibly be big enough to warrant three whole Playstation discs. Surely it couldn't be real! For months, we read about this ~magical~ game called Final Fantasy VII that was getting rave reviews in Japan for its incredible story, its deep characters, it creepy villain (though everyone got a laugh at Sephiroth's "Out of my way! I'm going to see my mother!" - Out of context, that screenshot was hilarious!), and it's amazing soundtrack. Nobody could believe the rumors or the screenshots. We had to see the game ourselves.

FFVII was to RPGs what Resident Evil was to survival-horror and what Super Mario 64 was to 3D platformers.

Whether you find FFVII a good game is all a matter of taste. But I think it's harsh to say it's overrated or doesn't deserve the hype. It is, after all, the game that brought JRPs into the Western mainstream. It opened up a whole new world of possibility to the RPG genre.

[polymorph80.livejournal.com]

So, it was IMPORTANT! and INFLUENTIAL! zOMG! fifteen years ago. I've seen these arguments a billion times and very rarely have I seen anybody take a step back from the context and answer the question that matters; was the game actually any good? Did it play well? Does it hold up as a work in its own right? I've gone through it and come up with "no" on all three questions. That's why I think it's overrated and overhyped; because after all the posturing and the speech and the epoch-making, there's not a lot of game underneath it all.

I dunno. Maybe I jumped on board too late (I started on FFIX, and I'd gone through I, II, IV and I think V on GBA before I ever finished VII), but... it's such a load of blah that it doesn't hold up. For me, great games last the test of time; it shouldn't matter that it broke the genre in the West or that it was so hotly anticipated, because they're nebulous and transitory considerations. Chrono Trigger still amazes me sixteen years after its release. FFVII never amazed me in the first place and still doesn't. Big game, important game, anticipated game? Still a shit game.