How can you enjoy this game?

[Umatbru]

I bought Final Fantasy VII yesterday, and the game is horrible.

Firstly the name makes less sense the Medal Of Honor Warfighter. It can't be Final fantasy if it has a number at the end. Secondly the pre-rendered cinematics are unskippable. thirdly the gameplay is a horrific mangling of real-time and turn based combat. Fourthly the graphics are all mashed up: The over world features characters that were rendered on an atari jaguar amongst beautiful environments. In battle the graphics on both the characters and environments are prim and proper (yay something positive to say about FFVII!) and finally the music sounds like it was composed for the SNES instead of the PlayStation.

There is supposed to be a storyline but since i'm trapped in the starting area due to some legendarily thick map design, I cant get any.

 

[Gym Leader Devil]

Username? Is that you?

 

[Octo]

Did you copypasta that from gamefaqs 10 years ago?

 

[Ⓐaron]

 

[Ghost X]

I thought enjoying the game was a natural consequence of playing it, but I guess not . Thanks for breaking that echo chamber.

 

[Lex]

The answer to all of your concerns is the following statement:

Final Fantasy VII is seventeen years old.

 

[Umatbru]

The answer to all of your concerns is the following statement:

Final Fantasy VII is seventeen years old.

By 1997, Music should have been CD quality, Not MIDI.

And the overworld character models look horrendous

Compared to Need for speed

WHICH CAME OUT 2 YEARS BEFORE ON THE SAME SYSTEM (the playstation, if you don't know)

and a year before that on the marginally weaker 3DO.

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

Your boxy vehicular models make for quite the damning indictment of equally boxy people models.

 

[Ⓐaron]

By 1997, Music should have been CD quality, Not MIDI.

Yes I'm quite sure people would have been willing to shell out for the seven discs it would have required to get that to happen. FFX didn't even have CD-quality music and that was released in 2002.

 

[Tetsujin]

By 1997, Music should have been CD quality, Not MIDI.

Midi-like formats have been used even in the following generations, just with improved sound chips/better soundfonts mostly because of limited space.

Any data that isn't real-time generated in a way just eats loads of space. Even with a compressed format like mp3 the entire soundtrack with its 100+ songs would probably take half the space on a CD.

Unfortunately the FMVs were already busy taking that up.

 

[LicoriceAllsorts]

You can't be a very good gamer if you're unable to get out of the starting area. I was a complete amateur when I first played FFVII and I didn't find it difficult.

 

[Lex]

You can't compare a racing game with a grand total of 7 tracks to a JRPG with over 400 hand drawn backgrounds, a hundred different character models, an entirely 3D world map and 50 pre-rendered movies.

Racing games are always going to look really good compared to everything else, because other than driving around in circles constantly graphics is all they have. Or am I about to hear about the grand deep overarching story in Need for Speed?

 

[Umatbru]

You can't be a very good gamer if you're unable to get out of the starting area. I was a complete amateur when I first played FFVII and I didn't find it difficult.

Actually i attempted to play the game again and managed to get out of the starting area.

 

[Novus]

You don't think it has an engaging atmosphere?

 

[Fangu]

Your boxy vehicular models make for quite the damning indictment of equally boxy people models.

I don't think I've ever laughed as much when reading a TLS post as I did reading this one. Trufax.

 

[LicoriceAllsorts]

Actually i attempted to play the game again and managed to get out of the starting area.

Then why did you say you're trapped there? What's the starting area called, anyway?

 

[Skan]

The train platform?

 

[Cthulhu]

oh gawd the train platform .

Re: music, for a while it was common to have CD quality music on game discs (for some PC games, IIRC the C&C series was famous for that), but in those cases the music took up the most part of the disk itself (the game itself only 100MB or so), since MP3 hadn't been invented yet and/or wasn't available / licensed yet by game developers.

 

[Flintlock]

I bought Final Fantasy VII yesterday, and the game is horrible.

Firstly the name makes less sense the Medal Of Honor Warfighter. It can't be Final fantasy if it has a number at the end. Secondly the pre-rendered cinematics are unskippable. thirdly the gameplay is a horrific mangling of real-time and turn based combat. Fourthly the graphics are all mashed up: The over world features characters that were rendered on an atari jaguar amongst beautiful environments. In battle the graphics on both the characters and environments are prim and proper (yay something positive to say about FFVII!) and finally the music sounds like it was composed for the SNES instead of the PlayStation.

There is supposed to be a storyline but since i'm trapped in the starting area due to some legendarily thick map design, I cant get any.

You're free to dislike the game, but why sign up here just to tell us that you do? You know this is a Final Fantasy VII site. You haven't introduced yourself and you haven't posted in any other threads. It seems like you're just trying to get a rise out of people. If you'd like to seriously debate the merits of the game - and I'd back you up on many problems that the game has - then at least play to the end of the first disc. Until then, see ya.

 

[RedFFWolf]

It can't be Final fantasy if it has a number at the end.

Why, sure it can! You just got'sa use that there imagination of yours, sonny!

On another note, all credibility lost at that statement - blatant trolling, or somebody on the greater hierarchy scale of the site merely testing us - just what kind of sick conspiracy are you?!
And on another tri-polaring note, welcome to the forums!

 

[Joe]

Troll or no troll, nobody has actually answered his/her opening question just yet. Come on people!

 

[Octo]

I was 14/15, I liked cyberpunk type stuff. I liked anime stuff. I'd liked Secret of Mana and this was made by the same people. This was right up my street. My brain made up for the crappy bits in the graphics (as it did for many games of that era) I liked most of the characters.

But it doesn't surprise me that you didn't like it. I don't like FF6. I tried to, I really did and I have to say that the main problem I had with that game was the controls - super clunky - even when compared with Secret of Mana.

Sometimes you just have to come to this stuff first time round, to discover it for yourself, instead of having so many excpectations that no game or film or work of art could live up to.

 

[Umatbru]

You don't think it has an engaging atmosphere?

I dunno, but it sure as hell is unplayable.

 

[Umatbru]

Then why did you say you're trapped there? What's the starting area called, anyway?

I did a second attempt, i got as far as the first save point, but i forgot to save.

 

[Fangu]

Troll or no troll, nobody has actually answered his/her opening question just yet. Come on people!

There was a question?