I can only speak for myself but I found FF7 to be a mediocre RPG at best. I am an "old school" RPGer. I played Dragon Warrior 1-4 and Phantasy Star 1-4 as far as big name RPGs go long before FF7. So I have something to base my opinion against. Now as for your statement about the graphics being poor, I am also a PC gamer as well. I also grew up playing Sierra On-Line adventure games and the like. They liked to push the edge as to what your sytem to hand, god I still have the boot disks to prove that!
Now, your whole arguement hinges on whether or not us old schoolers hate FF7 cause of the graphics being better than 16 bit sprites. Well, you're heading in the right direction but still way off. For myself, the first FF game I played was FFT and in comparison to that, FF7's story was a major let down. Beyond that... and this is the major problem I have with FF7 is that it changed the gaming industry into an interactive movie industry. You have to get to nearly the end of FF7 before you can finally explore and by then there's nothing much left to do but kill some weapons and farm chocobos. I hate, hate, hate being led by the hand from one cut scene to another. Good god let me figure out what I'm supposed to do next and where I'm supposed to go. If I wander off too far and a lvl 50 monster bites my level 10 head right off then I better have saved instead of being forced to the next movie!
There is way too much watching of games than actual playing of them and I blame it on FF7 and its damn FMVs. Not because they don't look great, they do, but they are used way too much. Give me that level of graphics and stop holdling my hand every two minutes to point me in the right direction and let me play the damn game like the older games used to do!
I am glad to have quit WoW. I now have the time to play such games as Dragon Quest VIII, the Mega Man and Mega Man X series, various DS games, my old school Sierra games, Metroid Prime 2. All the games I've been putting off for the same mindless shit of:
Send pet to attack/hunter's mark.
Sting.
Stare at the screen.
Arcane shot.
Stare.
Sting.
Arcane shot.
Loot.
Repeat.
God I'm glad I quit that shit.
Buy your $50 game. Play it for a month. Sell it on ebay for $40. You just got to enjoy a $50 game for $10.
Now, when you think about that and that $180 figure, that means you can buy and play 18 games a year instead of one long tedious one in which heaven forbid you don't play one day and all your "friends" outlevel your ass and you never play with them again.
Oh, yeah. I recently quit WoW. To keep myself from reinstalling the monster I snapped all four installation discs then did the same thing to FFXI so I wouldn't be tempted to play that again as well.
Why is it that because I like Mario or Zelda still I'm not a real gamer? I play just as many video games as the l33t h4rdk0r3 gamer playing the most flashiest FPS of the moment but somehow my opinion doesn't count.
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I can only speak for myself but I found FF7 to be a mediocre RPG at best. I am an "old school" RPGer. I played Dragon Warrior 1-4 and Phantasy Star 1-4 as far as big name RPGs go long before FF7. So I have something to base my opinion against. Now as for your statement about the graphics being poor, I am also a PC gamer as well. I also grew up playing Sierra On-Line adventure games and the like. They liked to push the edge as to what your sytem to hand, god I still have the boot disks to prove that!
Now, your whole arguement hinges on whether or not us old schoolers hate FF7 cause of the graphics being better than 16 bit sprites. Well, you're heading in the right direction but still way off. For myself, the first FF game I played was FFT and in comparison to that, FF7's story was a major let down. Beyond that... and this is the major problem I have with FF7 is that it changed the gaming industry into an interactive movie industry. You have to get to nearly the end of FF7 before you can finally explore and by then there's nothing much left to do but kill some weapons and farm chocobos. I hate, hate, hate being led by the hand from one cut scene to another. Good god let me figure out what I'm supposed to do next and where I'm supposed to go. If I wander off too far and a lvl 50 monster bites my level 10 head right off then I better have saved instead of being forced to the next movie!
There is way too much watching of games than actual playing of them and I blame it on FF7 and its damn FMVs. Not because they don't look great, they do, but they are used way too much. Give me that level of graphics and stop holdling my hand every two minutes to point me in the right direction and let me play the damn game like the older games used to do!
Bah, go play any old EGA Sierra adventure game and you'll have more interaction than in FF7.
Another two words:
Dark Force.
I am glad to have quit WoW. I now have the time to play such games as Dragon Quest VIII, the Mega Man and Mega Man X series, various DS games, my old school Sierra games, Metroid Prime 2. All the games I've been putting off for the same mindless shit of: Send pet to attack/hunter's mark. Sting. Stare at the screen. Arcane shot. Stare. Sting. Arcane shot. Loot. Repeat. God I'm glad I quit that shit.
Try this on for size.
Buy your $50 game. Play it for a month. Sell it on ebay for $40. You just got to enjoy a $50 game for $10.
Now, when you think about that and that $180 figure, that means you can buy and play 18 games a year instead of one long tedious one in which heaven forbid you don't play one day and all your "friends" outlevel your ass and you never play with them again.
Oh, yeah. I recently quit WoW. To keep myself from reinstalling the monster I snapped all four installation discs then did the same thing to FFXI so I wouldn't be tempted to play that again as well.
Why is it that because I like Mario or Zelda still I'm not a real gamer? I play just as many video games as the l33t h4rdk0r3 gamer playing the most flashiest FPS of the moment but somehow my opinion doesn't count.