What's your favorite in-game background image/art?
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Prism
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Many of my favorite ones have been posted, but this backdrop in the Northern Cave particularly struck me. The later in the game, generally, the more gorgeous the backdrops got - anything involving the Cetra is generally really gorgeous, too.
At the same time, I’ve always had a soft spot for this one as well:
The feeling it captures is just so warm.
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Erotic Materia
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I'm right there with you. When the Shinra folks first walk into the area, see the materia tree, and the Weapon eye pops open... WHEW. That whole scene was chock-full of suspense.
Many of my favorite ones have been posted, but this backdrop in the Northern Cave particularly struck me. The later in the game, generally, the more gorgeous the backdrops got - anything involving the Cetra is generally really gorgeous.
I have always heard about that one being unused (like, from back in the ff7citadel days), and that has always confused me, because isn't it used right after the FMV of Sephiroth dropping out of the tree formation and dropping rocks on either Barret or Red?
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Okay so the answer to that is "sort of." it is, but it's part of the FMV there. The actual map that uses that background is never visited.
Fair enough, but that feels like a technicality, especially given how enthusiastically all the old sites back in the day talked about it as this mysterious unused map they'd uncovered 
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- Ody
The only mysterious thing about it is that it randomly has Aerith's theme preloaded as the music for the map, which lead to rampant speculation that she was supposed to die later (see also: that one line she has after the snowboarding minigame) but all the map would have been is a transition into that FMV, which they decided not to go with.Fair enough, but that feels like a technicality, especially given how enthusiastically all the old sites back in the day talked about it as this mysterious unused map they'd uncovered
Prism
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Good catch! My memory did things that vague memories do, and that’s totally the one I was trying to remember. Its size on a CRT and in-game totally feels vast compared to when it’s just an image on a computer. Thanks for the correction, Ody my man
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lol I thought I was being a bit of a dick by correcting you. "Um, acktually..." and all. I've spent an unhealthy amount of time looking at ff7's unused content so I just recognize this stuff...
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Erotic Materia
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Ok, I never really thought about this until now, but what exactly is surrounding all that?
Cetra magic! °˖✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧˖°
Prism
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Anyone ever think about how stylistically inconsistent the cetra are? They're supposed to be nomadic, but they have a seashell themed city with an underground Disney castle of unknown purpose, and they have an Mayan temple with a room full of Egyptian hyrogliphs, and in the remake the shinra propoga version of them looks like stereotypical fantasy civilization. Square really threw it all at the wall with them.
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Ugh I knowwww, and now with Remake we have a Morrowind telumbe mushroom termite colony with FF9 airships and it’s like... whaaat???
Yes, they are "Ancients" because they are every ancient civilization 
That would make more sense than their contradictory and nonsensical canon.Yes, they are "Ancients" because they are every ancient civilization
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- TresDias
It might have somewhat of a basis in the canon, though, since it was mentioned that there were multiple tribes. I'll be surprised if the developers don't attempt elaboration on that.That would make more sense than their contradictory and nonsensical canon.
No, what is nonsensical is that Jenova attacked them and the Ancients were in the brink of extinction but they didn't even thought of mingling with humans. No wonder they died out.
"Ancient wisdom" my ass.
"Ancient wisdom" my ass.
Clement Rage
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Multiple cultures makes way more sense than anything else. No society is ever a monolith, it wouldn't make sense for them to be culturally identical across an entire planet over centuries.
Erm, I think they did, Cat?
Erm, I think they did, Cat?
Is they were so smart, why are they dead?
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- Ody
Isn't it that the humans were a splinter of the cetra that stopped practicing their customs and also lost their magic powers for some reason? Or is it that the humans are actually Spirans from FFX who migrated to the FFVII world and overtook the cetra as the dominant species?