Maybe its an unpopular opinion, but I think FF7 looks fine even today. I consider the look of it just a type of style, not a technical limitation for the time. I've never looked at it and thought "Wow, this aged poorly" because I considered it to be that game's personal style
Cole Hundley I'm replaying the game for my third time, finding things I've never found, maxing out my levels, materia, and finding every secret and by far this is the most enjoyable run I've had. I agree, the game looks fine and the music injects so much nostalgia in me it makes me remember things when I was 5 that I had forgotten. that's a good game if you ask me.
also replaying it atm and I keep shouting at my boyfriend. " Just look at this it still looks amazing, look at this look at that how can somebody complain about these grafics look at that background!"
I totally agree. It's chibi cartoonish style, it's puzzle like RPG and utterly astonishing world building leaves this game on the mantel like the og mario or street fighter 2. I don't see the game being improved by graphic updates. It's flawless for what it is.
To anyone who says this game is only great because of nostalgia: joke's on you. I'm 16 and I'm playing it for the first time right now and it's one of the best games ever made!
Final Fantasy VII blew my mind. It's hard to believe it came out in 1997. I got it with Madden 97 for Christmas I remember playing it and being like, "what's a memory card?" I would play till you fought the Turks on top of the plate and Reno would cast that stupid triangle, I died... then I got a memory card and saved the planet!
I know this comment is like 8 months old when I made this reply but I couldn't help but laugh out loud because the exact same thing happened to me. Safe to say, I got a memory card the very next day.
I liked FF7 for a bunch of these reasons; but also because Cloud was flawed, and weak. He was a mentally weak character. And Because of the events that took place before the start of FF7, he had misplaced confidence, which ultimately led to his downfall later on. His recovery was due to his team mates (or one, depending on how you look at it.) I get all gushy about the power of friendship is magic shit, so it really spoke to me that this guy found the basement of rock bottom, and crawled into it, and then was pulled out by those he fought with.
This made me almost tearful. Now, I just hope that they HUGELY EXPAND Gold Saucer in the FF7 Remake, I want it 10-20x bigger! More games! More diversity! More prizes! More fun! I want to get lost in that place and think "The planet can wait. I have arcades and high scores I gotta beat!"
I dont care if it will be episodic or not, if it will be done good. ONLY? Take any game now on PC most of them are relesed "episodic" it is just called DLC, yeah I dont see any problem here.
Worawat Srisawasdi yeah I know, but I’m pretty sure mfm M was talking about the gameplay and story of it. If we are talking about the impact if the game then yes 9 doesn’t even hold a candle to 7 without a doubt.
FF7 helped shape my young life. I remember being 14 and crying when Aeris died. Gamefan's review still holds true: "Quite possibly the greatest game ever made."
Back in 2008 i was 6 years old and i am from a country that doesn't speak english, my uncle gave me most of his ps1 collection (crash, spyro, mgs, ff7, etc) and ff7 got me motivated to learn english so i could understand what is being said through out the game, and few years later i managed to beat it and my opinion of the game was i loved it so much and thought it was ahead of it's time. Played 6 & 8 & 9 and didn't gave me the same impression, the only game i could compare it with 7 was 10 and those 2 are still my favourites to this day.
Thank you for making this. My favorite Final Fantasy has always been Final Fantasy 6. It's my favorite RPG of all time and the one that truly made me take notice not only of the series but of the genre. I've always found Final Fantasy 7 to be a decent game but never fully understood the passion that so many seem to have for the game, so it's good to hear a true fan explain from his perspective what makes Final Fantasy 7 so great. Whatever our game of choice, it's always great when we find one that resonates with us and makes us look at things in a way we hadn't before.
people who are saying ff7 is only viewed as good because of nostalgia, do you know what nostalgia means? Remembering something foundly. that means it had to be good in the first place, otherwise you wouldnt remember it that way.
it doesn't mean the thing was great, plenty of things are seen through nostalgia stained eyes that in the end are really poo, i love ff7 and have went back to it a few times and enjoyed myself, it isn't JUST nostalgia that makes this game great, it's the fact that it was new, what it presented was never done before and hasn't been done again, i was young when i played this game, and i had to deal with losing money gambling, losing a char i had invested a ton of time in lvling (well since they were an op healer i assume a lot of people did), and felt the first emotional tug on my person from a video game, ff7 had literally everything you could want... it cant and shouldn't be simple marked as nostalgia
Nostalgia is used as an argument here but it means nothing. Game must give fun to someone to born nostalgia, it may happen even if game is bad, but if the same 'nostalgia' share milions of people all ower the world there is no room for mistake. This game is considered by milions as their favorite game of all. This game has status of 'best game ever' for more people then any other game there is. So any 'nostalgia' argument is just invalid. Anyone who tie to use it just make fun of himself. Deal with it.
Here we are; the game is now some two decades old, and still one of the all time favorites of millions. I bought an original Playstation when it first came out. What prompted me to buy it was this game my neighbor played incessantly. FF7 was the first game I bought for the Playstation. I played it on the PS1 until I bought my first PS2 (pre-ordered, then stood in line to get it on first day of US release). To my delight, it played FF7 just fine; and looked better than it did on the PS1. Fast forward to the PS3: same scenario: pre-ordered, stood in line, got it home and to my delight again; it played on the PS3 without a hitch; and it wasn't even the compatible version. I also have the PC version... not that I'm an FF7 fanatic, or anything... I still play it. The ability to wander freely and explore, the endless materia combos, and all around gameplay, make this an enduring artifact that still entertains; and, for me, never gets old.
I have told people that train station guy was one of my favorite characters before. I still find him to a great example of why games as a medium of storytelling is so unique. Because you don’t need to talk to train-station guy. You don’t even really know him, outside of a few text boxes about his job. You don’t know his name. You’ll never know his fate because he isn’t important enough to establish. But the fact he was recommended so many times shows you how even strangers in videogames makes an impact. That a face in the crowd has a story, even told in barely a paragraph, can make Midgar and the people around it fully realized is something only video games can do, and this guy proves it. And like, when I was younger I kept wondering, did he make it out alive? If he did, did he ever find happiness? And I think it’s great that we never get an answer, because that’s what happens in real life too.”
Takanashi my thoughts exactly, they created a world that you felt connected too. and looking back now, it really makes me think about other ppl I walk past and meet. I can't wait to play this game again. I just have to find my ps1 memory card lol.
That would be a good one. I personally would like a remake of Xenogears over FF7 myself, FF7 didn't get shoved out the door with the last disk getting summarized...damn that still pisses me off!
The battle system, the story and characters, the huge twists, the fact that Midgar seemed enormous then you set foot out in the full world and realize how much bigger everything actually is. The music and darkness has a lot of nostalgia everyone can relate to and Tifa's boobs.
I replay this game every summer. It is one if the best games ever. Beautiful story and world and OST. This game made me a gamer. It gives me such a nostalgic feeling. This video describes exactly what this game means to me.
This is my most favorite video game of all time! It wasn't perfect, it didn't look the best, it was in every sense a perfect game to me. It reminds me of life, also not perfect or the best looking. It has character and soul. To me, it's about the struggle, the determination even against impossible odds. You can win. This is my opinion about the whole game. Shinra represents a corrupt government, Sephiroth represents the worlds problems, Cloud and company represents us. Despite everyone's differences, views and stances on life. You band together against a common enemy and save the world!
It's perfect to me, this game in is so much ways talks about our reality to me. How we're killing this living planet by a select few who have all the power, we're forced to live this way unless we fight back. That's the tip of the iceberg why this game is fantastic imo, the way it opened so many doors of ideas and possibilities.
this is hands dpwn one of my favorite youtube videos ever. the aristic rework of the game itself really captures how a gamer sees a game he played in the past, with a combination of imagination and nostalgia that takes what we actually experienced in a physical stand point and then shows how we experienced it.
My perfect RPG, that I can imagine as "being on the horizon" and within reach, within my life-time, would be a middle ground between the JRPG style of FF7 and Western RPGs like Fallout and Elder Scrolls. What I mean is this: You know how, in FF7, you'd arrive at a hotel, and then all your characters would spread out and then you'd talk to them and stuff would happen... And that first night staying in a new place was like an event. It was part of the story. Compare that with arriving at a hotel first time in Fallout or Elder Scrolls. You walk in. You click a guy. You click sleep. You click on the bed and that's it. There's no event. The first stay is pretty much no different from the thousandth stay. I'm also not a fan of the game-like style of character interaction. You click on a companion and go through some chat options. Then they eventually say some shit like "Ask me later".. Then you level up some more and can talk to them some more and get more information. It just feels too gamey. Western RPGs rely too much on imagination, and the mechanics behind the game are too obvious to me (but maybe this is just a result of being older). The quest hub/quest npc shit of Western RPGs annoys me too. Like seriously... Do you remember picking up a quest in FF7, going to do the quest and then returning to "hand in" and get your reward? No, you don't. FF7 just all felt like this on-going adventure. I want my side-quests to feel part of the main-story. I don't want to even be aware they are side-quests. I want to feel like I'm playing through 50 hours of Main Story. And no... Just having your side-quests access the same lore as the main-quest draws from.. Isn't enough to properly integrate your side-quests (as most modern western RPGs think).
I get it though. Modern Western RPGs are trying to be less linear, and sadly, with current technology, being less linear also makes the game slightly more shallow. There's usually lots and lots of breadth in modern western RPGs, but there's little depth.
I agree with almost everything you said except for this little line, "Western RPGs rely too much on imagination". Very much strongly disagree with that. The way I see it, Western RPGs actually lack imagination and wish they can be imaginative as Japanese RPGs..
@@jonn_mace_80_95_ I think he meant they rely in imagination from the players to make it a fulfilling experience. Hence why western RPGs tend to focus on exploration and open worlds with little to no linearity. They give you freedom of choice and direction. But the main issue is that there isn't much depth beyond the surface. In a Bethesda game for example, I could choose to go to the other end of the map and join faction x, but in the grand scheme of things it really doesn't do fuck all. Hence why the game requires the players' imagination of how cool it all is to make it work, enabling them the power to make decisions that affect the NPCs, and sort of finding value of it from there. But again, I personally feel it's empty. And samey. I've tried time and time again, but can't bring myself to boost my imagination on a game whose main story does little to make me want to be there. That is also the reason I hate sidequests, which western RPGs can't get enough of. Side quests are predictable, formulaic and basically fillers to compensate for the typically shite and short main plot. More 'content' is then added to the experience when you get told you had to travel half way across the map to progress the story, which you ardously travel away to a location that's already highlighted on your map like a sat nav destination. Then you get there and there will be a massive arrow floating over the next soulless NPC's head, if the suspense wasn't already taken away. But that's what FF games didn't do. Instead, they harnessed the right balance of pacing, linearity and exploration. Like solving pieces of a puzzle, you went from one town to the next through genuine interest of the plot, and each town not only had its own struggle, but was part of the main struggle. And when you needed to go somewhere or find someone, there was none of this bullshit hand holding "he's over here, just use your sat nav" bollocks. You didn't know how you were going to progress or what the next step was, which is WHY you wanted to enter that town you saw in the horizon. And because those little towns were scattered unrealistically across an entire globe, you got to see a world's worth of diversity, which made you much more curious and interested in the game's lore. To me that is far more interesting that going to towns that are all clones of themselves.
FF7 is unique & different from all other FF series because it has both the brains & the heart/emotions. what i mean by 'the brains' is the smart, deep, & complex story. no other FF series could even come close to this masterpiece.
George Johnston ff6 is so ordinary jrpg, i played ff3-ffxv. For me there still no game story can reach level of ff7 and ff10. Those both games are perfection. I still dont think ff13 and ff15 are final fantasy tho.
X is just unreal, when tidus finds out he aint real and has to lie its just fucking devastating and finding out auron was also a farplane spirit only there cos of a promise, he went all that time thinking he was pulled to another world and at one point the future then finding out his dad wasn't dead but sin and he was also a memory that shit was insane and just a constant sad mindfuck
Ff9 and ff10 have the same emotions and ff10 more then ff7. But ff7 is awesome in 1997 there was no game that was so good like ff7 and yea zelda was nothing to ff7
Hana Lalala and what is with ff9 ? I played ff7 when it was released when i was a little child but ff9 was better in my mind and ff10 was awesome ff7/9/10 are the best funal fantasy games final fantasy 15 was a joke i did platin in like 3 - 4 days 😑 and i was not watching a guide how to get it so there was no content and i feel like i have to use the car when i has to travel between anything but a friend told me there was any patches that changed alot in the game i test it anyday
I think this game opened my eyes to what games could be even though I found it more than 10 years after its release. Not many games nowadays have the same depth to them.
I was 2 years old when ff7 released. I kept hearing it’s the best ff7 game ever. I was just said it was one of those over praised games. I’m 23 and playing it for myself for the first time and I have to say that all those people were right... this game IS THE BEST ff game ever made. Man I was missing out....
for me ff7 had a lot to say about the planet we live on. the decisions made by corrupt/powerful people, and how they effect the powerless, and the planet(a living being). I love turnbased combat, and im really sad about squares decision to remake it as a mix of 12 13 and 15:(, as if changing dialog and character personality wasnt bad enough...
I remember the first time my brother booted up Final Fantasy VII on the original playstation. I was 7 years old and my whole life changed. I had never see anything like it before. And since Ive played FF7 countless times as well as other Final Fantasy games. My brother would let me watch him play FF7 and would do voices for each character and named each of the main characters after his friends. My brother passed away March 15th of 2016. Things havent and will never be the same. FF7 will always hold a special place in my heart. Thanks for this video.
This was so wonderfully put together. Any time somebody asks me, 'Hey! Why are you so obsessed with Final Fantasy 7?' I just show them this video and then they fully understand
4:33 "not a whole lot of us saw that coming either"... I did. In the TV-trailer and on the back of the PS1 cover back in 97... But anyway, yeah, this is a good game. Sure it's dated in some ways, but that happens to all video games. But it holds up in so many other ways I don't really care.
before ff7, I played elders scrolls arena, daggerfall and diablo 1 on my pc. Magazines like gamepro and egm praised the game so highly so i purchased a psone and ff7 then started playing it. I goofed around that the presentation was so imbalanced blocky character models accompanied by great cgi cutscenes. However, the more I played the game, the characters and story struck me. Also, this was the first time I could see very cool looking summons. The limit breaks the materia system, chocobo breeding, complex story (life stream, end of the world, love triangle, loss, revenge, saving the planet, and the very reason to finish the game to kill sephiroth). I could go on and on of how I was blown away by ff7. This game deserves a remake with ff15 graphics level. Now adays, there is Horizon Zero Dawn which I played first before the witcher 3 GOTY on my PS4. after playing these games, I still wanted FF7 remake.
This video was beautiful. I am trying to hold back the tears, and there are too many reasons as to why my eyes are watering to begin with. Spot on, gameranx. Spot on.
I hadn't played Final Fantasy before I decided to pick up the original games on my old consoles. Wow, I was really missing out. Does anyone recommend one in particular for me to pick next and/or ones to avoid? I believe VII is the best in the series?
A milestone to be sure. This game is my perfect moment. It came into my life at the right time, the time I needed it and didn't even know. I was an angry teenager, depressed, closed off, cold. I was Cloud. I lied constantly about who I was, no one could get through because I didn't want them to. Those that I did want to get through, wanted nothing to do with me. Even then I didn't understand how this game affected me. I played it 5 times back to back, completely; and I mean completely. All five times I did the chocobo breeding to get Knights of the Round summon and I level farmed mimic in order to copy that summon two more times so I could beat all the secret weapons, Emerald, Ruby, Diamond, etc. The story was amazing. I finally found something in life, that reach millions, and saw the world as I did. Protection of the planet, greedy corporations, poverty. Not only did I not feel alone anymore, I learned there was a entire company (Square), possibly even an entire country or even a world of people that felt the same. I invited people that were sort of my friends over to watch me play a speed run so they could see the story. I explained it ad nauseum to them. Up to that point, no one had ever seen me more excited or communicative. FFVII changed the direction of my life. Its only today, in my 30's, that I realize the impact fully. I definitely teared up when the soundtrack to this video changed and that image of Aerith in the water popped up. I believed every rumor that there was code to bring her back because I wanted it to be true. I am very excited for the remake and also very nervous. Hype and nostalgia are too easily to get swept up into over such an impacting game and story.
I haven't really been gaming all that much, despite getting a new case, and a 1070. I guess I just needed a break from it. However I play this on my 6p. No matter how much I get bored of games. I always come back to this one at some point regardless of how much I've played it. This game touches you in ways that no other ever could. I can quite honestly say that I don't think I will ever play a game as well thought out and designed as this one. Until the remake comes out. *KNOCKS ON WOOD!* Wonderful video.
FF7 was a game that promised little, but delivered immeasurable rewards. From Bolt 1 and a few potions to Knights Of The Round, Qudra-Magic & Omnislash. From climbing out of the slums trying to defeat President Shinra to escaping Midgar, being launched on to the world map & embarking on an epic quest to kill Sephiroth and save the planet. From catching a Chocobo so you could run across a swamp to breeding a Golden Chocobo that could scale mountains and cross oceans. This game took your expectations and blew them out of the water over and over again.
I sort of grew up in the aftermath of FFVII. It was the shining standard by the time I picked up my first rpg. I didn't realize how much of it was atypical for the time and how much of that I took for granted. Beautiful video.
This was actually a really good video. I enjoyed seeing the nostalgia as it went by on the screen and hearing a voice say what was in my head was great. Thanks gameranx.
Those who call it boring, just don't like rpgs or are simply spoiled by better graphics and just cannot give it a chance (a minimum 40 hr game, easily 100+) and those who say it's "only" nostalgia that generates the hype are so far from making a point or argument it makes me cringe (what do you think created that nostalgia, oh mighty RUclips critic?). It is massively difficult to to appreciate this game without somehow buying in to and experiencing it on its own terms through and through. You cannot play it on a recommendation, or based on the hype, or for the "gameplay" or because you "heard the story was amazing." You just have to take it at face value and let yourself be surprised. Just like any other game or entertainment for that matter. This just happens to have one of the greatest payouts, for its time, of all but the greatest art. This game is the only reason i even still seek out RPGs and really try to find something on its scale or close to having its impact. To this day, I have only found like 3. In order, shadow hearts 2, ffx, shadow hearts 1. I've tried every other final fantasy and countless jrpgs. But none have tied together all the elements of storytelling and gameplay as these three, imho. Ff6 is awesome, but stories about kings in any way, and very simple magic backstories, irk me, and I'm also a sucker for a main protagonist whose emotions drive the plot. I'm still in awe of how many publications and fans try to put ff6 above the rest, esp ff7, which improves the rpg elements in every way and tells a much more complex story and has much greater diversity from every angle a game could offer. Btw, I'm currently giving chrono trigger it's due chance but have much more to go. It very well may get on my mt Rushmore of rpgs. Jrpgs mostly. Because a lot of other stuff could fall into the category if you aren't careful, including experiences like gta, etc
michael scoggins i love turnbased rpgs, chrono trigger is my #1 of all time, 2 is secret of mana which is an arpg, 3rd is ff7. i prefer older rpgs because square only cares about the modern crowd. for me action rpgs just arent my favorite. doesnt help that im visually impaired. only one i can recall that i love and didnt get stuck on was dragons dogma, but i love dragons. ff6 is far more emotional than 7 but i love grinding ap in 7, and the whole experience (not counting the sephiroth boss fight which was annoying.) chrono trigger had som very emotional moments too. graphics are nice, and i wanted a modernized version with nice graohics, voice acting, but the same exact game. i hope you enjoyed chrono trigger. the music is wonderful, but hiroki kokuta (secret of mana composer) is a legend imho, the music was truely magical which ive never heard better rpg music.:)
Let me say this first that I played Final Fantasy 7 first and I absolutely love it to death and 6 I don't entirely understand because everything is just all over the place to me but that's not to say I don't get it. 6 was the first Final Fantasy game to come out to the states and back then just like in the playstation 1 era when FF7 came out, there wasn't a lot of games out there that involved story and the concept of a game where the world was ending, the feeling of oppression, the feeling of loss and finding new people to come together with their own reasons joining you without ever even knowing you and end up close friends at the end of the game even more so after saving the world from a maniacal douchebag...all that wasn't really found in other games, it's something only Square has ever brought to the table. So in my opinion I agree, they should do one with FF6 too. Hell i'd love to have a remake with FF6 (if only because then they'd have more room in their storage to actually explain things better but that's just my opposing FF7 pseudo fanboyism chatting >.
Anyone know what the piano music starting at 3:17 and near the end (5:18) of the video is called? Very nostalgic and beautiful. Would love to discover the music in its entirety.
I think because Final Fantasy VII is not a very serious game. Very funny things happen and has many mini games , my favourite is when Cloud has to wear women clothes. The story was very good and the artwork of the game is very amazing. The best thing was the music... Whenever I listen to it, it's like I go back in time and remembers everything. FF7 is not just a game it is a master piece... that's why I love ff7 so much than anyother game.
It is the first RPG I have ever played. If I had played a different RPG, l may not considered playing them at all. This left a strong impression on me about this genre of games.
Great job on the video! I was a junior in high school when FFVII came out, this was the first and finest turn based RPG I've ever played. It's all true, when this game came out, it rocked my world. When I was at school or at work all I wanted to do was play FFVII. Almost 20 years later and the feels are still there.
I dont write comments usually and im not going to write a massive paragraph right now but i just wanted to say that this video is beautiful. You took the words right out of my mouth and reminded me of a brilliant time in my life when things were much easier...thank you.
I can deff say I liked video games ALOT before this game. But THIS GAME is wat made me a TRUE HARDCORE GAMER FOR LIFE!!! And will forever be thankful to this game n its makers. BUT the person I will thank the MOST is my best friend who showed me this game JohnBoy. Dude ur like a brother to me and always will be you showed me for real the love I had for video games and we been thru hell n back in life wit ea other. And Ill always be thankful to u for that and for being in my life and being the best friend anyone could ever have. Love u bro u will always be family no matter what happen JohnBoy
I don't believe it is overrated. that last sentence in this video "it opened my eyes to what games could be" that's exactly what FF 7 did. it's one of the best selling and most beloved games ever made. its rated that because it was so well made and put together. and this is coming from someone who never got to play it but I do understand why it is there at the top and I can't wait for the PS4 remake
The remake is changing enough that it's not gonna be the same game. As Falcon mentions, the gameplay itself is part of the experience, and there's gonna be tweaks to the story in the remake. My suggestion is to play it. Just get the HD mods if the look is too bad for you. It's on PSN.
FFVII is a big part of my childhood. No matter it's flaws, it will always be my favorite most memorable game ever. I grew up with Crohn's disease so I was always home sick from school so I never really got to experience a lot what the world had to offer. FFVII taught me pretty much what this video describes! People struggling in poverty, desparately trying to survive each day living in slums, powerful organizations killing the world for it's resources just to make more and more money and to maintain control, etc. The characters are probably the biggest influence. As sad and typical as this sounds, Aeris/Aerith always seemed like the sweet, loving perfect girlfriend to me as a kid but when you had to bury her after not being able to protect her, you have to learn to live life powerless and just cope with your losses. You learn that even though the actions they took were extreme and cynical, the bad guy had good intentions and doesn't seem as bad as he appears. I grew up behind closed walls and stuck in hospitals a majority of my childhood not much different from those who lived in Midgar trapped behind the towering walls of the corrupt system of the Shinra Inc. and FFVII taught me how big the world really is past the bleak, incarcerating walls. That's why it will always be one of the greatest games ever to me.
I can remember having to leave my PlayStation on 24/7 while playing this cuz I didn't have a save card. Mmm, nostalgia. I hope they don't fuck up the reboot.
Satanas Luciferi I don’t think so, I mean some people are upset it’s only a part of the story (just the Midgard storyline) but I still got around 25-30 hours playtime out of it and am excited for what’s next. The graphics are amazing the characters are as lovable as before... all around id give it an 8/10 honestly. My only gripe is the little random battles got kinda annoying when you’re running around the map looking for a quest item, having to fight the same little enemies every five minutes but I still stand by my score even with that ✌️
What made Final Fantasy VII great? You had to be there. It was lightning captured in a bottle. If you came to it after the fact, your experience of it is inescapably diluted by the internet being as ubiquitous as it now is; and it's arguably not the same gaming experience as we had back in the '90s. If you'd played any other notable rpgs (Final Fantasy or otherwise) before it, your experience of VII is likely clouded by the shadow it casts over your preferred game/s, and you'll therefore likely be dismissive of it, out of loyalty to what you like. Personally, after a strong start, VI bored the arse off me. VIII had comparatively little replay value. IX started strong and had a compelling world but petered out. X is your most accessible entry into FF if the age of earlier titles bothers you. Balthier's design aside, XII is generic and bland as fuck for a FF. XIII... well, good luck with that shit-show.
So true. Back then I never beat the Ruby or Emerald weapon. I just recently picked up the game again on ps4 and there are soo many youtubes vids that show you how to beat them, and how you can easily make broken materia combos to beat them without having to do anything. However, back then the internet was not as big and finding information about games on it was rather hard, and I only had to rely on word of mouth from my other friends who could never beat them either.
The world needs more flash animation, and that was really awesome, thank you! While my friends all owned a PS2 and were playing DMC (it was new) I had a job delivering papers. I remember buying my tiny PS one for $120 and FF7 in the bargain bin at Wal-Mart for $20. One of the most memorable gaming summers of my life! While is wasn't my first FF, or even my favorite, it still has a special place in my psyche. Amazing time in gaming history.
Great video FF7 is my favourite game of all time and is one of the key moments of my childhood I must of been about 10 years old when I first played it and if I'm being honest it was the first RPG I had ever played. I remember all my friends buying it while I chose to get Tomb raider 2 after a few weeks of hearing my mates talking non stop about it I begged my mum to order it for me, when it finally arrived I remember loading it up and from the very first moment of gameplay I was blown away I had literally never experienced anything like it before and it opened my mind to the potential of games and fantasy stories alike. It was the golden age of gaming it is sad to see the state of games nowadays it's all about pretty graphics and how many trophies you can get for blowing away eleventeen year old's on call of duty, imagination and experimentation have given way to profit projections and big business. Squaresoft has never been the same since it joined up with Enix and I have had to watch my favourite series of all time slowly deteriorate into nothing but an action game on rails after FF13 my love for the series died but I have recently purchased FF15 and I hope it will restore some of my faith into this once amazing series of games!
Isaias well, in my case i have played this game since the 90's so aint no spoilers for me XD im a single god damn wonderful chocobo away from having my Golden FINALLY like 6 mil-Gil in greens later lol
I wanted to know when disc 1 ended so I googled it. And from that point on I learned to just play the fucking game and never google anything story related ever again.
Yeah they're just representations I think he was asking about the style because ff doesn't look handrawn and ff7 had the graphics of its time whereas this is crisp and tbh has better geometry.
For me what made the FF games great is how they managed to create such a deep impression in myself, right at the time I was enjoying such a good moment of my life. Back then I did not have to spend most of my energy working or dealing with serious problems, did not know how awful the world is, and my dreams were still pretty much intact. Every memory I have from these games - the music, the story, the characters - brings joyful feelings from that much simpler and happier time.
The story and setting were what made the game. The battle system was good, not fantastic. The story and setting has always been the defining part of final fantasy 7
The Materia system allowed you to fully customize your party. The Gold Saucer was more of a game in itself than most modern games are in their entirety. The soundtrack is still one of the best. The pre rendered backgrounds offer more variety and quality than most modern games. That's kind of the FF7-concept as a whole, a lot of the things FF7 did 20 years ago, are still better than a lot of the things being done by games today. Sadly, I don't think that will be true for the remake.
+Straiz the battle system is dated as shit man.and the graphics are so incredibly ugly. Music is pretty good. Remake looks amazing. I like the kingdom hearts style gameplay, much more skill based and deep than tap highest damage attack available, wait, repeat. Can beat it? Grind, tap, repeat. It's a very simply turn based battle system.
The battle system is indeed dated, and needs modernizing, but not a complete overhaul. It also doesn't look much like Kingdom Hearts, more like Crisis Core's, which was awful. And while the character models are dated, most of the locations look better than modern games, because they were pre-rendered pieces of art, allowing for better quality and variety 20 years ago than is possible today. Its also sad that the remake is shooting for ugly photo realism, instead of the appealing anime style of the original. vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/finalfantasy/images/0/0f/Ancient_City_FFVII-3.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20080913154355 or vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/finalfantasy/images/e/ea/Ancient_City_FFVII.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20080913154134 from a 20 year old game that looks higher quality and more unique than anything made since.
+Straiz it's exactly like kingdom hearts and final fantasy 15 actually. Crisis cores menus and little lock on circles look very similar to kingdom hearts as well but if you look closely you can clearly see free movement and the menus are almost identical to kingdom hearts. With magic, potions, attack, ect on the menus to the left.
Idk. FFVI had a pokemon feel to it for me. I guess because towards the end i was just grinding out every character so they weren't the same level i found them as.
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Maybe its an unpopular opinion, but I think FF7 looks fine even today. I consider the look of it just a type of style, not a technical limitation for the time. I've never looked at it and thought "Wow, this aged poorly" because I considered it to be that game's personal style
replaying it right now and I agree man the battle models are still great looking and the blocky ass characters arent even that bad
Cole Hundley I'm replaying the game for my third time, finding things I've never found, maxing out my levels, materia, and finding every secret and by far this is the most enjoyable run I've had. I agree, the game looks fine and the music injects so much nostalgia in me it makes me remember things when I was 5 that I had forgotten. that's a good game if you ask me.
I totally agree, whenever I play it i think about modding the character models but then I realise it just wouldnt be the same. Man I LOVE this game!
also replaying it atm and I keep shouting at my boyfriend. " Just look at this it still looks amazing, look at this look at that how can somebody complain about these grafics look at that background!"
I totally agree. It's chibi cartoonish style, it's puzzle like RPG and utterly astonishing world building leaves this game on the mantel like the og mario or street fighter 2. I don't see the game being improved by graphic updates. It's flawless for what it is.
To anyone who says this game is only great because of nostalgia: joke's on you. I'm 16 and I'm playing it for the first time right now and it's one of the best games ever made!
@Jiyu : I mean if these 16yo are playing FIFA instead, then I'm not mad because they don't matter.
When i was a child i thought the game is boring to be honest..xD
@Jiyu Ironic, since you seem to be a member of a community of the mentally inferior.
yeah, that was with me too.
SAME
Final Fantasy VII blew my mind. It's hard to believe it came out in 1997. I got it with Madden 97 for Christmas I remember playing it and being like, "what's a memory card?" I would play till you fought the Turks on top of the plate and Reno would cast that stupid triangle, I died... then I got a memory card and saved the planet!
I know this comment is like 8 months old when I made this reply but I couldn't help but laugh out loud because the exact same thing happened to me. Safe to say, I got a memory card the very next day.
"saved" the planet; no pun intended?
nice! I did the same thing but died at the midgar worm :)
you mean midgar zolom? 😉
Hell yeah Dude.Sephiroth was a bad mamajama
I liked FF7 for a bunch of these reasons; but also because Cloud was flawed, and weak. He was a mentally weak character. And Because of the events that took place before the start of FF7, he had misplaced confidence, which ultimately led to his downfall later on. His recovery was due to his team mates (or one, depending on how you look at it.) I get all gushy about the power of friendship is magic shit, so it really spoke to me that this guy found the basement of rock bottom, and crawled into it, and then was pulled out by those he fought with.
Never thought about clouds character like that in that scale but i think thats what has always made him one of my favorites.
This made me almost tearful. Now, I just hope that they HUGELY EXPAND Gold Saucer in the FF7 Remake, I want it 10-20x bigger! More games! More diversity! More prizes! More fun! I want to get lost in that place and think "The planet can wait. I have arcades and high scores I gotta beat!"
Another collaboration with the talented LaughterCraft. Enjoy!
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this was pretty awesome
Bro make one of these for kingdom hearts possibly
Had a great time putting this one together! Hope everybody digs it :D
it was amazing!
God please don't fuck up the remake
They already have screwed it up.
+drinkyourtea don't judge now. Wait for the release. What they're trying might work.
Nami Jbaily I don't want it to be episodic the ONLY time that works is in those Telltale games and square enix aren't telltale.
I dont care if it will be episodic or not, if it will be done good. ONLY? Take any game now on PC most of them are relesed "episodic" it is just called DLC, yeah I dont see any problem here.
+LakrimaProject 👍
It's not a FFVII video without a bunch of VI fanboys crying in the comments...
Devils Isle Gaming LMAO AMEN TO THAT BROTHER
Yeah that's good and all but have you heard of final fantasy mystic quest the best rpg ever it is so hard
@wespozo many would say VI is king I don't know much about the game so not sure why
@@Jdudec367 i am so confused about why you commented
@@psilocybemusashi what do you mean? im just saying
Ff7 appealed to non rpg players at the time. That's why it did so well.
Still to this day best RPG I have ever played.
This is the best RPG, HISTORY HAS EVER HAD.
@@prelude357 ngl that's true it's also historically the most important one
You must live a pretty boring life if you think FF7 is the best RPG ever. Please don't insult the genre...or the FF series for that matter.
You are the hater i see
@@badmeetsevil6163 Did your parents ever teach you to respect the opinions of others?
Greatest Final fantasy game ever! One of the most unique concepts
Ya im playing 9 now. Never played it but People say thats the best one. Doesn't hold a candle to 7
DJ M no clue what you are talking about. Although it’s not better than 7, it definitely holds a candle to it.
Lord of PeN 9 is good, but 7 is considered the most significant game of all time. Think about that.
Worawat Srisawasdi yeah I know, but I’m pretty sure mfm M was talking about the gameplay and story of it. If we are talking about the impact if the game then yes 9 doesn’t even hold a candle to 7 without a doubt.
The level of detail put into this animation is very impressive, you even have the characters in the correct battle formation against the buster bot.
Honey Bee Inn is what made FFVII Great.
I still have no clue what I saw whilst peeping through that key hole...
I don't think having the thing elucidated would help. Some things are best left where they are :))
+Svarthofde elucidated?
Elucidated: Made clear, explained.
I believe the person was referring to having it revealed what you saw through the keyhole.
***** So your a girl? or gay?
FF7 helped shape my young life. I remember being 14 and crying when Aeris died.
Gamefan's review still holds true: "Quite possibly the greatest game ever made."
Back in 2008 i was 6 years old and i am from a country that doesn't speak english, my uncle gave me most of his ps1 collection (crash, spyro, mgs, ff7, etc) and ff7 got me motivated to learn english so i could understand what is being said through out the game, and few years later i managed to beat it and my opinion of the game was i loved it so much and thought it was ahead of it's time.
Played 6 & 8 & 9 and didn't gave me the same impression, the only game i could compare it with 7 was 10 and those 2 are still my favourites to this day.
Thank you for making this. My favorite Final Fantasy has always been Final Fantasy 6. It's my favorite RPG of all time and the one that truly made me take notice not only of the series but of the genre. I've always found Final Fantasy 7 to be a decent game but never fully understood the passion that so many seem to have for the game, so it's good to hear a true fan explain from his perspective what makes Final Fantasy 7 so great. Whatever our game of choice, it's always great when we find one that resonates with us and makes us look at things in a way we hadn't before.
people who are saying ff7 is only viewed as good because of nostalgia, do you know what nostalgia means? Remembering something foundly. that means it had to be good in the first place, otherwise you wouldnt remember it that way.
it doesn't mean the thing was great, plenty of things are seen through nostalgia stained eyes that in the end are really poo, i love ff7 and have went back to it a few times and enjoyed myself, it isn't JUST nostalgia that makes this game great, it's the fact that it was new, what it presented was never done before and hasn't been done again, i was young when i played this game, and i had to deal with losing money gambling, losing a char i had invested a ton of time in lvling (well since they were an op healer i assume a lot of people did), and felt the first emotional tug on my person from a video game, ff7 had literally everything you could want... it cant and shouldn't be simple marked as nostalgia
You could have fond memories of a shitty game though.
Nostalgia is used as an argument here but it means nothing. Game must give fun to someone to born nostalgia, it may happen even if game is bad, but if the same 'nostalgia' share milions of people all ower the world there is no room for mistake. This game is considered by milions as their favorite game of all. This game has status of 'best game ever' for more people then any other game there is. So any 'nostalgia' argument is just invalid. Anyone who tie to use it just make fun of himself. Deal with it.
I got it three months ago, and it has turned into my second favorite game.
And yes i have played 6,8,& 9, I just didn`t enjoy them as much as 7.
Same, except i`m15 as i write this comment.
Here we are; the game is now some two decades old, and still one of the all time favorites of millions. I bought an original Playstation when it first came out. What prompted me to buy it was this game my neighbor played incessantly. FF7 was the first game I bought for the Playstation. I played it on the PS1 until I bought my first PS2 (pre-ordered, then stood in line to get it on first day of US release). To my delight, it played FF7 just fine; and looked better than it did on the PS1.
Fast forward to the PS3: same scenario: pre-ordered, stood in line, got it home and to my delight again; it played on the PS3 without a hitch; and it wasn't even the compatible version.
I also have the PC version... not that I'm an FF7 fanatic, or anything...
I still play it. The ability to wander freely and explore, the endless materia combos, and all around gameplay, make this an enduring artifact that still entertains; and, for me, never gets old.
a game make you cry
First one that did...
because you have played every single game released before Final Fantasy VII?
+Andrew McCaughey he was saying the one that made him
Word.
yeah i would cry if i spent $60 on this game too
I have told people that train station guy was one of my favorite characters before. I still find him to a great example of why games as a medium of storytelling is so unique. Because you don’t need to talk to train-station guy. You don’t even really know him, outside of a few text boxes about his job. You don’t know his name. You’ll never know his fate because he isn’t important enough to establish. But the fact he was recommended so many times shows you how even strangers in videogames makes an impact. That a face in the crowd has a story, even told in barely a paragraph, can make Midgar and the people around it fully realized is something only video games can do, and this guy proves it. And like, when I was younger I kept wondering, did he make it out alive? If he did, did he ever find happiness? And I think it’s great that we never get an answer, because that’s what happens in real life too.”
Takanashi my thoughts exactly, they created a world that you felt connected too. and looking back now, it really makes me think about other ppl I walk past and meet. I can't wait to play this game again. I just have to find my ps1 memory card lol.
Intersella 5555 what train guy? did i miss something? o.o
An NPC who wears a red uniform (if I recall correctly), he's standing next to the train at the station between Sector 7 and the Train Graveyard.
ThatTastedPurple he's a random guy you can talk to in sector 7!!! You did miss something cool
mid-gurr?
Think of the name Edgar. It’s the same thing. You don’t emphasize the “ahh” in Midgar or Edgar. You’d sound like a pirate.
@@denimchicken104 well documented that it's pronounced like "mid-gahr" but to each their own.
GuthrieTheBoy I understand. But it’s not like he’s saying it all that wrong. It’s a slight difference and nothing to be a dick about.
What made xenogears great please
the first disc
Xenogears was the only game where after A cut sceen Id wonder what the next episode would be.
That would be a good one. I personally would like a remake of Xenogears over FF7 myself, FF7 didn't get shoved out the door with the last disk getting summarized...damn that still pisses me off!
+xevious21 yea xenogears would benefit from a remake, especially disc two.
Are you sure it is? ;P Never heard of it, here! Everyone's heard of FF, though.
Final Fantasy 7 is one of the best PS1 exclusives
+Malsanity It was only released on ps1 now its on Android / iOS
It had a release on PC 1 year later tho
Nice quite profile pic
Indiana Jones And the Crystal Meth thanks
Exclusives don't exist.
My father literally named me after this game, a character named Sabin.
That was VI. Also another great game
Did he name your brother Edgar?
CAN YOU OR CAN YOU NOT SUPLEX A GODDAMN TRAIN?
After this game? Sabin was in FF VI
Gabba Hitta XD YES, I SUplex TRAINS EVERY DAY
The battle system, the story and characters, the huge twists, the fact that Midgar seemed enormous then you set foot out in the full world and realize how much bigger everything actually is. The music and darkness has a lot of nostalgia everyone can relate to and Tifa's boobs.
I replay this game every summer. It is one if the best games ever. Beautiful story and world and OST. This game made me a gamer. It gives me such a nostalgic feeling. This video describes exactly what this game means to me.
Everything about this video is just perfection!
This is my most favorite video game of all time! It wasn't perfect, it didn't look the best, it was in every sense a perfect game to me. It reminds me of life, also not perfect or the best looking. It has character and soul. To me, it's about the struggle, the determination even against impossible odds. You can win. This is my opinion about the whole game. Shinra represents a corrupt government, Sephiroth represents the worlds problems, Cloud and company represents us. Despite everyone's differences, views and stances on life. You band together against a common enemy and save the world!
It's perfect to me, this game in is so much ways talks about our reality to me. How we're killing this living planet by a select few who have all the power, we're forced to live this way unless we fight back. That's the tip of the iceberg why this game is fantastic imo, the way it opened so many doors of ideas and possibilities.
this is hands dpwn one of my favorite youtube videos ever. the aristic rework of the game itself really captures how a gamer sees a game he played in the past, with a combination of imagination and nostalgia that takes what we actually experienced in a physical stand point and then shows how we experienced it.
This video was visually powerful with a well informed message to match. Excellent work.
Aerith dying was the moment I died.
is where all dreams and hopes died too.
+Crossman Olivares What a baby.
:^D
It was when i hugged Yuffie.
SPOILERS!!!!!!!
My perfect RPG, that I can imagine as "being on the horizon" and within reach, within my life-time, would be a middle ground between the JRPG style of FF7 and Western RPGs like Fallout and Elder Scrolls.
What I mean is this: You know how, in FF7, you'd arrive at a hotel, and then all your characters would spread out and then you'd talk to them and stuff would happen... And that first night staying in a new place was like an event. It was part of the story.
Compare that with arriving at a hotel first time in Fallout or Elder Scrolls. You walk in. You click a guy. You click sleep. You click on the bed and that's it. There's no event. The first stay is pretty much no different from the thousandth stay.
I'm also not a fan of the game-like style of character interaction. You click on a companion and go through some chat options. Then they eventually say some shit like "Ask me later".. Then you level up some more and can talk to them some more and get more information. It just feels too gamey. Western RPGs rely too much on imagination, and the mechanics behind the game are too obvious to me (but maybe this is just a result of being older).
The quest hub/quest npc shit of Western RPGs annoys me too. Like seriously... Do you remember picking up a quest in FF7, going to do the quest and then returning to "hand in" and get your reward? No, you don't. FF7 just all felt like this on-going adventure.
I want my side-quests to feel part of the main-story. I don't want to even be aware they are side-quests. I want to feel like I'm playing through 50 hours of Main Story.
And no... Just having your side-quests access the same lore as the main-quest draws from.. Isn't enough to properly integrate your side-quests (as most modern western RPGs think).
I get it though. Modern Western RPGs are trying to be less linear, and sadly, with current technology, being less linear also makes the game slightly more shallow. There's usually lots and lots of breadth in modern western RPGs, but there's little depth.
I agree with almost everything you said except for this little line, "Western RPGs rely too much on imagination". Very much strongly disagree with that. The way I see it, Western RPGs actually lack imagination and wish they can be imaginative as Japanese RPGs..
@@jonn_mace_80_95_ I think he meant they rely in imagination from the players to make it a fulfilling experience. Hence why western RPGs tend to focus on exploration and open worlds with little to no linearity. They give you freedom of choice and direction.
But the main issue is that there isn't much depth beyond the surface. In a Bethesda game for example, I could choose to go to the other end of the map and join faction x, but in the grand scheme of things it really doesn't do fuck all. Hence why the game requires the players' imagination of how cool it all is to make it work, enabling them the power to make decisions that affect the NPCs, and sort of finding value of it from there. But again, I personally feel it's empty. And samey. I've tried time and time again, but can't bring myself to boost my imagination on a game whose main story does little to make me want to be there.
That is also the reason I hate sidequests, which western RPGs can't get enough of. Side quests are predictable, formulaic and basically fillers to compensate for the typically shite and short main plot. More 'content' is then added to the experience when you get told you had to travel half way across the map to progress the story, which you ardously travel away to a location that's already highlighted on your map like a sat nav destination. Then you get there and there will be a massive arrow floating over the next soulless NPC's head, if the suspense wasn't already taken away.
But that's what FF games didn't do. Instead, they harnessed the right balance of pacing, linearity and exploration. Like solving pieces of a puzzle, you went from one town to the next through genuine interest of the plot, and each town not only had its own struggle, but was part of the main struggle. And when you needed to go somewhere or find someone, there was none of this bullshit hand holding "he's over here, just use your sat nav" bollocks. You didn't know how you were going to progress or what the next step was, which is WHY you wanted to enter that town you saw in the horizon. And because those little towns were scattered unrealistically across an entire globe, you got to see a world's worth of diversity, which made you much more curious and interested in the game's lore. To me that is far more interesting that going to towns that are all clones of themselves.
@@Nazareeni Thank you for sharing your thoughts.
That's an aspect I never thought about before. Thank you.
Fantastic video man! You hit all the notes that just made this game such a great experience! :D Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
This.....this is just perfect. 11/10, amazing job on this one!
FF7 is unique & different from all other FF series because it has both the brains & the heart/emotions. what i mean by 'the brains' is the smart, deep, & complex story. no other FF series could even come close to this masterpiece.
Niki Wonoto has clearly never played 6 (US 3)
George Johnston ff6 is so ordinary jrpg, i played ff3-ffxv. For me there still no game story can reach level of ff7 and ff10. Those both games are perfection. I still dont think ff13 and ff15 are final fantasy tho.
X is just unreal, when tidus finds out he aint real and has to lie its just fucking devastating and finding out auron was also a farplane spirit only there cos of a promise, he went all that time thinking he was pulled to another world and at one point the future then finding out his dad wasn't dead but sin and he was also a memory that shit was insane and just a constant sad mindfuck
Ff9 and ff10 have the same emotions and ff10 more then ff7.
But ff7 is awesome in 1997 there was no game that was so good like ff7 and yea zelda was nothing to ff7
Hana Lalala and what is with ff9 ? I played ff7 when it was released when i was a little child but ff9 was better in my mind and ff10 was awesome ff7/9/10 are the best funal fantasy games final fantasy 15 was a joke i did platin in like 3 - 4 days 😑 and i was not watching a guide how to get it so there was no content and i feel like i have to use the car when i has to travel between anything but a friend told me there was any patches that changed alot in the game i test it anyday
I think this game opened my eyes to what games could be even though I found it more than 10 years after its release. Not many games nowadays have the same depth to them.
I was 2 years old when ff7 released. I kept hearing it’s the best ff7 game ever. I was just said it was one of those over praised games. I’m 23 and playing it for myself for the first time and I have to say that all those people were right... this game IS THE BEST ff game ever made. Man I was missing out....
It, FF9, and FF6 are best!
9 is a close second, 10 was really good, 6 was good, but 7 is The Best.
@@HeavyRollin 10 had a good story, but that voice acting nearly gave me cancer.
FF6 and FF9 are levels ahead of FF7...
for me ff7 had a lot to say about the planet we live on. the decisions made by corrupt/powerful people, and how they effect the powerless, and the planet(a living being).
I love turnbased combat, and im really sad about squares decision to remake it as a mix of 12 13 and 15:(, as if changing dialog and character personality wasnt bad enough...
I remember the first time my brother booted up Final Fantasy VII on the original playstation. I was 7 years old and my whole life changed. I had never see anything like it before. And since Ive played FF7 countless times as well as other Final Fantasy games. My brother would let me watch him play FF7 and would do voices for each character and named each of the main characters after his friends. My brother passed away March 15th of 2016. Things havent and will never be the same. FF7 will always hold a special place in my heart. Thanks for this video.
This was so wonderfully put together. Any time somebody asks me, 'Hey! Why are you so obsessed with Final Fantasy 7?' I just show them this video and then they fully understand
4:33 "not a whole lot of us saw that coming either"... I did. In the TV-trailer and on the back of the PS1 cover back in 97...
But anyway, yeah, this is a good game. Sure it's dated in some ways, but that happens to all video games. But it holds up in so many other ways I don't really care.
before ff7, I played elders scrolls arena, daggerfall and diablo 1 on my pc. Magazines like gamepro and egm praised the game so highly so i purchased a psone and ff7 then started playing it. I goofed around that the presentation was so imbalanced blocky character models accompanied by great cgi cutscenes. However, the more I played the game, the characters and story struck me. Also, this was the first time I could see very cool looking summons. The limit breaks the materia system, chocobo breeding, complex story (life stream, end of the world, love triangle, loss, revenge, saving the planet, and the very reason to finish the game to kill sephiroth). I could go on and on of how I was blown away by ff7. This game deserves a remake with ff15 graphics level.
Now adays, there is Horizon Zero Dawn which I played first before the witcher 3 GOTY on my PS4. after playing these games, I still wanted FF7 remake.
what do you think now after u got your FFVII remake ?
One of the best FFVII tribute videos I've seen! Almost 20 years and still affecting :)
Still play it frequently to this very day for a break from the modern world of games and stories.
Awesome video once again!
This video was beautiful. I am trying to hold back the tears, and there are too many reasons as to why my eyes are watering to begin with.
Spot on, gameranx. Spot on.
I hadn't played Final Fantasy before I decided to pick up the original games on my old consoles. Wow, I was really missing out. Does anyone recommend one in particular for me to pick next and/or ones to avoid? I believe VII is the best in the series?
Seven is literally the best but if you can, play them in order. Why not, after all.
vii is not the best in the series. Dont listen to the mindless fanboys.
Try VI, it's also amazing, though quite different to VII
everyone has there favorite. VIII to me will always be the best. all except for X2 and i forget which others 1 had a sequel are good.
Play 1,6,9,10 ,13.
15 comes out next month.
Sephiroth was savage, i loved when his music plays..
Best game I ever played.
A milestone to be sure. This game is my perfect moment. It came into my life at the right time, the time I needed it and didn't even know. I was an angry teenager, depressed, closed off, cold. I was Cloud. I lied constantly about who I was, no one could get through because I didn't want them to. Those that I did want to get through, wanted nothing to do with me. Even then I didn't understand how this game affected me. I played it 5 times back to back, completely; and I mean completely. All five times I did the chocobo breeding to get Knights of the Round summon and I level farmed mimic in order to copy that summon two more times so I could beat all the secret weapons, Emerald, Ruby, Diamond, etc. The story was amazing. I finally found something in life, that reach millions, and saw the world as I did. Protection of the planet, greedy corporations, poverty. Not only did I not feel alone anymore, I learned there was a entire company (Square), possibly even an entire country or even a world of people that felt the same. I invited people that were sort of my friends over to watch me play a speed run so they could see the story. I explained it ad nauseum to them. Up to that point, no one had ever seen me more excited or communicative. FFVII changed the direction of my life. Its only today, in my 30's, that I realize the impact fully. I definitely teared up when the soundtrack to this video changed and that image of Aerith in the water popped up. I believed every rumor that there was code to bring her back because I wanted it to be true. I am very excited for the remake and also very nervous. Hype and nostalgia are too easily to get swept up into over such an impacting game and story.
I haven't really been gaming all that much, despite getting a new case, and a 1070. I guess I just needed a break from it. However I play this on my 6p. No matter how much I get bored of games. I always come back to this one at some point regardless of how much I've played it. This game touches you in ways that no other ever could. I can quite honestly say that I don't think I will ever play a game as well thought out and designed as this one. Until the remake comes out. *KNOCKS ON WOOD!* Wonderful video.
FF7 was a game that promised little, but delivered immeasurable rewards.
From Bolt 1 and a few potions to Knights Of The Round, Qudra-Magic & Omnislash.
From climbing out of the slums trying to defeat President Shinra to escaping Midgar, being launched on to the world map & embarking on an epic quest to kill Sephiroth and save the planet.
From catching a Chocobo so you could run across a swamp to breeding a Golden Chocobo that could scale mountains and cross oceans.
This game took your expectations and blew them out of the water over and over again.
Final Fantasy 7 was my first RPG that i have played . best game ever ^_^
This animation.. Man, it's all there, all the feeling. And make me want to look to remake, to see this "feeling" in other angle.
I sort of grew up in the aftermath of FFVII. It was the shining standard by the time I picked up my first rpg. I didn't realize how much of it was atypical for the time and how much of that I took for granted. Beautiful video.
This was actually a really good video. I enjoyed seeing the nostalgia as it went by on the screen and hearing a voice say what was in my head was great. Thanks gameranx.
Those who call it boring, just don't like rpgs or are simply spoiled by better graphics and just cannot give it a chance (a minimum 40 hr game, easily 100+) and those who say it's "only" nostalgia that generates the hype are so far from making a point or argument it makes me cringe (what do you think created that nostalgia, oh mighty RUclips critic?). It is massively difficult to to appreciate this game without somehow buying in to and experiencing it on its own terms through and through. You cannot play it on a recommendation, or based on the hype, or for the "gameplay" or because you "heard the story was amazing." You just have to take it at face value and let yourself be surprised. Just like any other game or entertainment for that matter. This just happens to have one of the greatest payouts, for its time, of all but the greatest art. This game is the only reason i even still seek out RPGs and really try to find something on its scale or close to having its impact. To this day, I have only found like 3. In order, shadow hearts 2, ffx, shadow hearts 1. I've tried every other final fantasy and countless jrpgs. But none have tied together all the elements of storytelling and gameplay as these three, imho. Ff6 is awesome, but stories about kings in any way, and very simple magic backstories, irk me, and I'm also a sucker for a main protagonist whose emotions drive the plot. I'm still in awe of how many publications and fans try to put ff6 above the rest, esp ff7, which improves the rpg elements in every way and tells a much more complex story and has much greater diversity from every angle a game could offer. Btw, I'm currently giving chrono trigger it's due chance but have much more to go. It very well may get on my mt Rushmore of rpgs. Jrpgs mostly. Because a lot of other stuff could fall into the category if you aren't careful, including experiences like gta, etc
DarkSonic180 nah. You're blinded by thousands of newer games influenced by it. Or you hate jrpgs
DarkSonic180 your opinion is shit. Uh oh I sense a stalemate
DarkSonic180 controll yourself
michael scoggins i love turnbased rpgs, chrono trigger is my #1 of all time, 2 is secret of mana which is an arpg, 3rd is ff7. i prefer older rpgs because square only cares about the modern crowd. for me action rpgs just arent my favorite. doesnt help that im visually impaired. only one i can recall that i love and didnt get stuck on was dragons dogma, but i love dragons.
ff6 is far more emotional than 7 but i love grinding ap in 7, and the whole experience (not counting the sephiroth boss fight which was annoying.) chrono trigger had som very emotional moments too. graphics are nice, and i wanted a modernized version with nice graohics, voice acting, but the same exact game.
i hope you enjoyed chrono trigger. the music is wonderful, but hiroki kokuta (secret of mana composer) is a legend imho, the music was truely magical which ive never heard better rpg music.:)
DarkSonic180 "Yourself" you say
what made ff6 great pretty pls with a cherry on top.
You. Shortest video ever but still.
LMAO.
+Kefka Palazzo More of a Sephiroth type of guy... but that's me.
***** i love her 😍
Let me say this first that I played Final Fantasy 7 first and I absolutely love it to death and 6 I don't entirely understand because everything is just all over the place to me but that's not to say I don't get it. 6 was the first Final Fantasy game to come out to the states and back then just like in the playstation 1 era when FF7 came out, there wasn't a lot of games out there that involved story and the concept of a game where the world was ending, the feeling of oppression, the feeling of loss and finding new people to come together with their own reasons joining you without ever even knowing you and end up close friends at the end of the game even more so after saving the world from a maniacal douchebag...all that wasn't really found in other games, it's something only Square has ever brought to the table. So in my opinion I agree, they should do one with FF6 too. Hell i'd love to have a remake with FF6 (if only because then they'd have more room in their storage to actually explain things better but that's just my opposing FF7 pseudo fanboyism chatting >.
Because it is fuckING FINAL *FANTASY VII!!!!*
RIght
agreed.
preeeeetyyy muuuuuuch
Easily one of the greatest videos I have seen on RUclips. How does this not have more views??
Anyone know what the piano music starting at 3:17 and near the end (5:18) of the video is called? Very nostalgic and beautiful. Would love to discover the music in its entirety.
Any luck? Been looking for this song for years…
This is SO GOOD. Your content is the best!
Awesome!!!!
I think because Final Fantasy VII is not a very serious game. Very funny things happen and has many mini games , my favourite is when Cloud has to wear women clothes. The story was very good and the artwork of the game is very amazing. The best thing was the music... Whenever I listen to it, it's like I go back in time and remembers everything. FF7 is not just a game it is a master piece... that's why I love ff7 so much than anyother game.
final fantasy vii is a very serious game with serious implications, that doesn't take itself too seriously...and keeps the pace...well...perfect!
It is the first RPG I have ever played. If I had played a different RPG, l may not considered playing them at all. This left a strong impression on me about this genre of games.
I played 7 as a kid, borrowed it from my neighbor. It to me felt like something truly beyond my age.
Am I the only one who liked FF VII Crisis Core?
6500+ hours and counting. It's easily my favorite game
Crisis Core is freaking amazing
it wa my first rpg i ever played and convinced me to get ff7 ps1 classic on psn
Not for long, we gonna get you soon.
Its so damn good. Especially if you are familiar with the world from playing VII. I love CC. Awesome music, story, and gameplay imo.
really good job on the animation guys. like it.
Music at the end..???
Super late, but any luck? I still think about that music from time to time, yet can’t find it.
Great job on the video! I was a junior in high school when FFVII came out, this was the first and finest turn based RPG I've ever played. It's all true, when this game came out, it rocked my world. When I was at school or at work all I wanted to do was play FFVII. Almost 20 years later and the feels are still there.
I dont write comments usually and im not going to write a massive paragraph right now but i just wanted to say that this video is beautiful. You took the words right out of my mouth and reminded me of a brilliant time in my life when things were much easier...thank you.
I can deff say I liked video games ALOT before this game. But THIS GAME is wat made me a TRUE HARDCORE GAMER FOR LIFE!!! And will forever be thankful to this game n its makers. BUT the person I will thank the MOST is my best friend who showed me this game JohnBoy. Dude ur like a brother to me and always will be you showed me for real the love I had for video games and we been thru hell n back in life wit ea other. And Ill always be thankful to u for that and for being in my life and being the best friend anyone could ever have. Love u bro u will always be family no matter what happen JohnBoy
bring harambe back
even as a troll, this is shit. just stop.
bring midgurr back.
harambe was an inside job
Jet fuel can't melt Harambe beams!
Guys don't get worked over Harambe, he was killed, because otherwise, he could've killed, or injured a young child.
ive never played ff vii i wonder if its actually good
It not a bad game but it is overrated
It's an ok game, but it has NOT aged well.
I don't believe it is overrated. that last sentence in this video "it opened my eyes to what games could be" that's exactly what FF 7 did. it's one of the best selling and most beloved games ever made. its rated that because it was so well made and put together. and this is coming from someone who never got to play it but I do understand why it is there at the top and I can't wait for the PS4 remake
+KnightShade X u should play it then
The remake is changing enough that it's not gonna be the same game. As Falcon mentions, the gameplay itself is part of the experience, and there's gonna be tweaks to the story in the remake.
My suggestion is to play it. Just get the HD mods if the look is too bad for you. It's on PSN.
FFVII is a big part of my childhood. No matter it's flaws, it will always be my favorite most memorable game ever. I grew up with Crohn's disease so I was always home sick from school so I never really got to experience a lot what the world had to offer. FFVII taught me pretty much what this video describes! People struggling in poverty, desparately trying to survive each day living in slums, powerful organizations killing the world for it's resources just to make more and more money and to maintain control, etc. The characters are probably the biggest influence. As sad and typical as this sounds, Aeris/Aerith always seemed like the sweet, loving perfect girlfriend to me as a kid but when you had to bury her after not being able to protect her, you have to learn to live life powerless and just cope with your losses. You learn that even though the actions they took were extreme and cynical, the bad guy had good intentions and doesn't seem as bad as he appears.
I grew up behind closed walls and stuck in hospitals a majority of my childhood not much different from those who lived in Midgar trapped behind the towering walls of the corrupt system of the Shinra Inc. and FFVII taught me how big the world really is past the bleak, incarcerating walls. That's why it will always be one of the greatest games ever to me.
Getting that Gold Chocobo & subsequently Knights of the Round is still one of my greatest video game accomplishments.
I can remember having to leave my PlayStation on 24/7 while playing this cuz I didn't have a save card. Mmm, nostalgia.
I hope they don't fuck up the reboot.
I'm interested in your opinion, did they fuck up the remake?
Satanas Luciferi I don’t think so, I mean some people are upset it’s only a part of the story (just the Midgard storyline) but I still got around 25-30 hours playtime out of it and am excited for what’s next. The graphics are amazing the characters are as lovable as before... all around id give it an 8/10 honestly. My only gripe is the little random battles got kinda annoying when you’re running around the map looking for a quest item, having to fight the same little enemies every five minutes but I still stand by my score even with that ✌️
What made Final Fantasy VII great? You had to be there. It was lightning captured in a bottle. If you came to it after the fact, your experience of it is inescapably diluted by the internet being as ubiquitous as it now is; and it's arguably not the same gaming experience as we had back in the '90s. If you'd played any other notable rpgs (Final Fantasy or otherwise) before it, your experience of VII is likely clouded by the shadow it casts over your preferred game/s, and you'll therefore likely be dismissive of it, out of loyalty to what you like. Personally, after a strong start, VI bored the arse off me. VIII had comparatively little replay value. IX started strong and had a compelling world but petered out. X is your most accessible entry into FF if the age of earlier titles bothers you. Balthier's design aside, XII is generic and bland as fuck for a FF. XIII... well, good luck with that shit-show.
So true. Back then I never beat the Ruby or Emerald weapon. I just recently picked up the game again on ps4 and there are soo many youtubes vids that show you how to beat them, and how you can easily make broken materia combos to beat them without having to do anything. However, back then the internet was not as big and finding information about games on it was rather hard, and I only had to rely on word of mouth from my other friends who could never beat them either.
are you me?
pretty much what i think, 12 was still fun tho, even when no one remember that main character, Vaans was it? no one cares haha.
You can't rate it if you've never played it.
The world needs more flash animation, and that was really awesome, thank you! While my friends all owned a PS2 and were playing DMC (it was new) I had a job delivering papers. I remember buying my tiny PS one for $120 and FF7 in the bargain bin at Wal-Mart for $20. One of the most memorable gaming summers of my life!
While is wasn't my first FF, or even my favorite, it still has a special place in my psyche. Amazing time in gaming history.
Great video FF7 is my favourite game of all time and is one of the key moments of my childhood I must of been about 10 years old when I first played it and if I'm being honest it was the first RPG I had ever played. I remember all my friends buying it while I chose to get Tomb raider 2 after a few weeks of hearing my mates talking non stop about it I begged my mum to order it for me, when it finally arrived I remember loading it up and from the very first moment of gameplay I was blown away I had literally never experienced anything like it before and it opened my mind to the potential of games and fantasy stories alike. It was the golden age of gaming it is sad to see the state of games nowadays it's all about pretty graphics and how many trophies you can get for blowing away eleventeen year old's on call of duty, imagination and experimentation have given way to profit projections and big business. Squaresoft has never been the same since it joined up with Enix and I have had to watch my favourite series of all time slowly deteriorate into nothing but an action game on rails after FF13 my love for the series died but I have recently purchased FF15 and I hope it will restore some of my faith into this once amazing series of games!
COD is better tho
XD
hmm...nah
if you are a casual, then yes, when you are a normal/older gamers then no
Im just kiding guys XD cod is fucking cancer
Leave the internet and never return.
k im currently on disk 3 so Gameranx, you need to stop fuckin watching me XD
Lol
Holy shit
Me too
I just got the dark materia
WHATEVER YOU DO STOP BROWSING THIS GAME THERE ARE HUGE SPOILERS ONLINE
Isaias well, in my case i have played this game since the 90's so aint no spoilers for me XD
im a single god damn wonderful chocobo away from having my Golden FINALLY
like 6 mil-Gil in greens later lol
I wanted to know when disc 1 ended so I googled it. And from that point on I learned to just play the fucking game and never google anything story related ever again.
Final Fantasy VII was awesome because Cloud was sexy
Everyone in the game was sexy
Cloud, Tifa, Vincent, Yuffi, Areith, Barret
All sexy
Even Cait Sith?
+Alexandro345: Especially Cait Sith. ;)
I wasn't expecting a deep and worked video, you surprised me :) good job!
Your ending message was perfection.
Man nestelga only will sell this game, if by CHANCE it comes out
I bought this game a month ago and it's one of my favorite games, it holds up well and will sell easily without nostalgia.
Nestelga is the bestest.
only? How about if FF7R will be a like a good game?
wtf? wasnt expecting much from this but it was really good!
"Midger" lol
Who beside me that cry when we for the first time see Aerith die?
my fav video on this channel!! you should do more of these!!
What's the piano music coming in at 5:20?
Link or exact title, please!
What made Skyrim great plz
It was an elder scrolls game that looked amazing at the time. There's still things in the game being found today, even.
They already did it, look it up (I'm on mobile so i can't post link
I liked Oblivion more. Skyrim was too grey and the mountains made traveling by foot tedious.
What made skyrim great??? It was watered down for mainstream appeal, thats why.
And they already did it.
+Rotted Rabbid When I played skyrim was about 11 I had no hype I thought it was great and I still do
Is this really what FF7 looks like? I never really got into FF only thing I played that was close to it was kingdom Hearts.
No ff7 and ff in general is nothing like the backgrounds I'm pretty sure this is fanimations and the like. But if it looked like this...woowee
+The Dankest Jesus The backgrounds are pretty good representations of FFVII. Not sure what you mean.
Yeah they're just representations I think he was asking about the style because ff doesn't look handrawn and ff7 had the graphics of its time whereas this is crisp and tbh has better geometry.
Only thing i played that came close to FR was dragon quest
+The Dankest Jesus so the graphics in FF7 look nothing like the new one coming out right?
He forgets to mention this is also the single most epic game ever created by people, epicness seeps out of its pores.
For me what made the FF games great is how they managed to create such a deep impression in myself, right at the time I was enjoying such a good moment of my life. Back then I did not have to spend most of my energy working or dealing with serious problems, did not know how awful the world is, and my dreams were still pretty much intact. Every memory I have from these games - the music, the story, the characters - brings joyful feelings from that much simpler and happier time.
That was awesome. Thank you so much for that little walk I just took.
No way, that game was perfect
This is just a story/setting recap, and while those were great parts of the game, they're far from the only thing that made it great.
The story and setting were what made the game. The battle system was good, not fantastic. The story and setting has always been the defining part of final fantasy 7
The Materia system allowed you to fully customize your party. The Gold Saucer was more of a game in itself than most modern games are in their entirety. The soundtrack is still one of the best. The pre rendered backgrounds offer more variety and quality than most modern games. That's kind of the FF7-concept as a whole, a lot of the things FF7 did 20 years ago, are still better than a lot of the things being done by games today. Sadly, I don't think that will be true for the remake.
+Straiz the battle system is dated as shit man.and the graphics are so incredibly ugly. Music is pretty good. Remake looks amazing. I like the kingdom hearts style gameplay, much more skill based and deep than tap highest damage attack available, wait, repeat. Can beat it? Grind, tap, repeat. It's a very simply turn based battle system.
The battle system is indeed dated, and needs modernizing, but not a complete overhaul. It also doesn't look much like Kingdom Hearts, more like Crisis Core's, which was awful. And while the character models are dated, most of the locations look better than modern games, because they were pre-rendered pieces of art, allowing for better quality and variety 20 years ago than is possible today. Its also sad that the remake is shooting for ugly photo realism, instead of the appealing anime style of the original. vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/finalfantasy/images/0/0f/Ancient_City_FFVII-3.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20080913154355
or vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/finalfantasy/images/e/ea/Ancient_City_FFVII.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20080913154134 from a 20 year old game that looks higher quality and more unique than anything made since.
+Straiz it's exactly like kingdom hearts and final fantasy 15 actually. Crisis cores menus and little lock on circles look very similar to kingdom hearts as well but if you look closely you can clearly see free movement and the menus are almost identical to kingdom hearts. With magic, potions, attack, ect on the menus to the left.
Er... have you played FF VI? Is the same thing, but better oO
The soundtrack was fricking awesome!
Idk. FFVI had a pokemon feel to it for me. I guess because towards the end i was just grinding out every character so they weren't the same level i found them as.
I think I like VII better than VI. Neither even makes my top 3 final fantasies.
+Patrick Murphy Then what makes your top 3!?
Final Fantasy VI is way better.Better plot,better characters and better villain.
I love how you described so much of what I considered while recently playing the game again. This is a great video! Thanks for the analysis!
I like that falcon doesn't just play games, some games have something to learn and explore, you take the time to dive into that world