Why FFVII Is So Important To So Many People
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FF7 Actually taught me how to read. My mother played it with me on her lap, and she started showing me the words, telling me what they said, etc.
🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 WOW!
That's cool!
Damn
I did this with my son... except I changed some of the words and explained what was going on in different ways during some spots.
Top Tier Mom right there.
I self learned English to Play FF7. It's was not my first RPG, but it was still amazing for me and it is still my favorite game of all time.
FFVII has one of the greatest soundtracks of all time - hands down.
You can literally say the same about ANY FF game, though...
FF8 I give the upper-hand too.
Major major props to Uematsu. He is the man.
This!
@@Blizz3112 Any FF game pre-Uematsu and the original creators leaving. (1-10)
"The reunion at hand may bring joy. It may bring fear. But let us embrace whatever it brings, for they are coming back."
Joy, " they're finally doing it after so long. The younger generation can now experience what changed my life.
Fear, "will it be good enough. What will they cut or change. Will I still love it."
I hope people take that in as more than prose and give it a chance.
I'm 39 years old, and I'm literally losing my shit about this remake!! I preordered it soon as it was available, and can't wait to live through the pure nostalgia again!!
Me too!!
Man I get you. I'm 38 and I'm so pumped and excited that I'm shocked. As you get older less things make you excited but this definitely does and I love it :)
@@sieq82 for sure, liked an aged wine, it does nothing but get better with time! 😁 can't contain my excitement honestly!!
I preordered Deluxe Edition ;)
@@nishblaze right on man, the countdown is on, and I so can't wait for this epic game!!
Imagine for a second you had a best friend. You did everything with them, and loved every second. Then one day that friend disappeared. You grieved for a very long time, and after years and years you finally accepted that they were gone. A part of you was gone with them.
Then one day in 2015, you got a letter in the mail. It was handwritten, and you recognized the handwriting. You read each word with baited breath. It couldn’t be. You wished it would be many times, and you don’t think you have it in you anymore to have your heart broken again.
And then you get to the end of the letter. It said: “Sorry I took so long to come back. But I’m on my way now. Be patient, cause it might take a bit of time before I can see you again. But I can’t wait to relive our adventures together.” With tears in your eyes, you see the last line, and the weight you’ve shouldered for years suddenly melts away, leaving nothing but pure elation.
“Can’t wait for our reunion.”
I get excited for remakes of beloved classics too, but uh...this is a little to hyperbolic for my liking.
If that friend's name is Shenmue, he eventually comes to visit after 20 years and he talks your ear off about the most boring things, blows up your toilet and leaves unexpectedly before sending a text saying he'll come visit again someday.
You wonder not only if that's possible due to him not having a steady financial lifestyle but also if you really care to see him again.
Amen
And then you get your friend one limb at a time
AdversaryOne then he teaches u HORSE 🐴 STANCE
Nice to meet you, I'm Japanese.
I use Google Translate because I can't speak English well.
I'm really happy that so many people around the world love Final Fantasy VII.
I wasn't even born in 1997 when Final Fantasy VII was released.
However, I am really touched that it is still loved all over the world.
I also watched the video you are describing.
When I first saw it, I was so happy that I couldn't stop crying.
I am proud of SQUARE ENIX for making Final Fantasy.
Those of us who grew up in the West playing this game, we are so grateful Japan gave us this precious gift. Bless you!
It is nice to meet you too! I love that something like a video game can touch so many different hearts from so many different places and we all share that bond.
Eigo Jyouzu desune
Since I am a non-native English speaker FF7 (aside from other games) taught me how to read and write the language. Greetings from Mexico!
It was literally the game that got me into RPGs and really gaming in general.
It's not my favorite game or even my favorite JRPG, but it's always gonna be special
This. FF7 got me into Final Fantasy in the first place.
only weebs like ff7
FF4 on SNES pulled me in. I was delighted to see this game on display at Ebgames in 98. I preordered it and recieved a ff7 tshirt and demo then promptly purchased the playstation 1.
@@eldenring9448 I hope you're joking
@@eldenring9448 fuck you caught me. Cause tbh, FF7 did kinda make me a weeb. That, and Evangelion showing a bunch of almost titty.
FF7 really made me more of a Sword Guy than a weeb tho
After the remake I started the playing the original FF7 and I’m in the middle of it now and now I get it even thinking about the original gets me emotional because the game is so incredibly powerful with storytelling music etc. I’ve played games my whole life and I’ve never experienced strong emotions like this
Much respect that you took the time out to play the original, I'm sure you were not disappointed, i feel bad for the younger generations who never got to experience those times and the games of that era, it really was the golden age of gaming in many ways, I'm curious as to how you felt about it once you reached the end, personally I felt strongly against the remake because no matter how much love they give the game, its a very slippery slope, they could very easily end up butchering what many consider the GOAT game including myself, if they change the narrative too much for example or tamper with a main character too much just to name a couple, there's just so many things that could go wrong, it would have been a perfectly safe bet to make absolute minute changes and just make it look amazing
Since I am a non-native English speaker FF7 (aside from other games) taught me how to read and write the language. Greetings from Mexico!
The game is great. I honestly don’t like aerith but her demise and the way the characters reacted made sad even tho i dislike her. The characters are just written very well
Yeah imagine how we felt playing it in '97 when it came out. I was 13 years old. It was the first 3d video game I saw and may have been the first overall. Also having such in depth story and character development. Seeing it being remade is hitting in the feels for sure.
I'm playing it rn and it's not completely blowing my mind (because I knew all of the big spoilers beforehand, tragically) but I am really enjoying it.
I get emotional just listening to the FFVII background music in this video.
You're not the only one, I have chills everytime a new trailers comes out. :)
Same here, man. Every time the piano section starts, I'm instantly flooded with so many emotions and memories. It's genuinely powerful.
Exactly, I'm just closing my eyes and remembering traveling the world map 😊
what song is playing i can't find it.
Dude when I watched the remake intro for the first time and the camera zooms out to Midgar with the comet slamming down into the logo with that epic track. Like I just saw water in my eyes. I couldn't even see the screen anymore.
FF7 came out shortly after my parents split when I was 6 or 7. My dad was raising me by himself. I recall him bringing the game home with the strategy guide in hand. I watched him play it from beginning to end with the guide in my lap and feeding him information which amounted to me pointing at pictures because I was too young to fully understand what was going on.
I would periodically come back to the game to play it just to remind myself of Dads play through and to listen to the music.
Obviously its a fantastic game but it has extreme personal value to me.
It’s amazing all these comments remembering the significance of the time period they were playing this game.
@@dfdfdgggjhjjh5081 Yeah it sure is. Some of these stories though hit hard
That sounds like a wonderful memory
Max I'm 55 years old and I've been looking forward to this game for years. Been a FF fans since it came out on the NES back in the 80's. (Still have the system and games). Can't wait to get my hands on this one.
Hey brother ! ;)
Do you know they did remake the NES? I'm telling you since mine doesn't function anymore because of too much humidity...
Take care !
You are wesome man
Im 30 but my first ff game was final fantasy mystic quest lol and that ended up getting me into all the games. I've played them all multiple times
@@TheNewThrone what's up Sean, I'm 30 too and I love FF games, but I didn't played them all.
Can you tell me which ones do you prefer, like a top 5?... I'm curious.
I've played the first one, the seventh and eighth, and always wonder if I could choose to play another one, which one is the best to try.
The fifteenth looks good, and thirteenth gets my attention quite a bit. Which one (s) do you advice me?
@@yan3066 idk if you have Xbox or gamepass but final fantasy 7 through 15 are all coming out on gamepass in February. Anyways I absolutely love FF9 and FF6. FF10 is great too and if you want something a little more action oriented FF15 is great 😁.
"I will never be a memory." - Sephiroth
Are you all ready for our reunion?
I only played FF7 once. But man it's been 23 years, and the experience still hasn't left my memory.
Final fantasy 6 through 10 are absolute masterpieces those games changed everything and god bless lord nobou uemastu for the God tier music.
Space__Burrito 4 is great too
5 and 12 are genuinely underrated. I'd say that the mainline entries really only started to weaken when 13 came out. My favorite is 9, if we're excluding spin-off titles and side games, otherwise it's Chrystal Chronicles on the Gamecube lol hbu guys?
@@Stephenguitar93 9 is probably the most wholesome and charming game I've ever played.
I couldn't get into VIII. I HATED the "draw" system. The ost and the fact that you had to fight your summons before you could use them in battle were the ONLY aspects that appealed to me besides the look of the main protagonist and his Gunblade. Seifer can go suck it, but I loved Squall. As for Rinoa, she was basically a combination of Aerith and Tifa from VII. Not saying that's a bad thing. I'm just calling her out. Fisherman's Horizon was my favorite track from VIII. The combination of piano, flute, oboe and panpipe were a true treat to the ears :)
@@Stephenguitar93 Can agree. 12 Don't get enough love. Basch was pretty awesome IMO.
That and Balthier.
Tifa is also the fans when she says "im really glad youre back cloud" in the TGA trailer
I never got into Final Fantasy myself but I fully understand getting attached to a game. I have a couple of games that do that for me.
Ff7 is way before my time I was 2 when it came out and played it when I was about 16 and it is amazing to see the reaction. I almost wish I could have played it at its peak.
Same dude. MGS, MGS2 and KOTOR are 'those' games for me.
Skyrim is _THAT_ game for me
I think we all do. The PS1 and PS2 are full of those games for me.
Nobody can take SoTN from me.
I remember when I first saw it too. My older brother had always been into all types of games and he had been playing FFVII as soon as it was available. At 6 years old I fell in love, and the next year when I was 7 (1998) I took it on and butchered the game worse than I could ever replicate. It was such a challenge and it took me forever. I will never forget the first time I made it to the bottom of the northern crater to the final boss fight, I cried. It took me months and months to get there. I never give up on anything now, and despite this not having been my first RPG, or game, it was the first I cared about, and inspired me to become a novelist to tell grand stories. I've never stopped gaming since, returning to my roots yearly. I am so familiar with the original game i'm sure my first play through of the remake will be too emotional, and i'll have to replay it to be as methodical as I am.
Max: “... you felt like you were there with them...”
I remember being at a Wallmart or K Mart in the 90’s I came across a strategy guide for FFVII, the picture was epic. Here’s was some hero holding an giant sword confronting a futuristic tower, hidden within the white mystic, it was probably the most epic thing I ever saw. So I bought the guide and then the game, I thought the majority of it was going to be in the city, and realizing it was only a tiny fracture of the adventure. With a cast of misfits of various intent and aspirations, you experience their struggles, laughter, frustrations, hope, loss and ultimately redemption through lore that your mundane mind somehow could comprehend. No game has given me such awe in scale, and no game since then has. I don’t like RPG’s, I was more into games like Megaman and Doom... FFVII was neither of these things. I’m excited for Doom Eternal, but not as excited as playing FFVII again, even if it was a moment of it.
Max to me embodies our kind of love for FFVII, because like many of us, we are no fans of RPG’s, the idea of patiently waiting for your enemy to hurt you is silly even to this day, but he’s like that friend you know who played with you, grinded with you and fought with you. When a game creates a fan base of people who are not even interested in the genre... now that’s something, but when a game creates a bond between strangers...the fans themselves, well that’s something else.
Is this game gonna be great? I don’t know and don’t care, all I want is to relive the adventure we all had when it came out, now that thought is something we can all embrace whatever it brings.
Amen lol
I remember the first time I saw ffvii my older brother bought it and I was immediately attached as I watched him play it, then in beginning of 2002 I began playing vii and it became my most favorite ff game ever! I love xiii vi and xv but vii was the first it was the game that got me into the series officially I played the original, II IV and V also tactics and x and xii but vii was the start it was the game I put the most hours and time on either playing it or intense and extensive research of it and now I know the whole lore! I know everything thing about it that is how much vii has impacted me
@@danielcook7975 did you try FF8 ? It's kinda similar to FF7.
There's no chocobos, no materias (they used a different style than materia for magic) but summons still there, and the atmosphere, cutscenes, music, combats. I think it's a good FF game, and if you haven't played yet, and you love FF series, you may love that one as well.
Take care buddy, God bless ! ;)
Well said bro I had no idea what this game was about either as a kid I thought it was a full on action game until I played it for the first time on a brand new ps1 in 98 I was on the fence with it at first but by the time I got to the world map I was hooked, iv always taken flak for this game in my circles lol but I've always said that this is the best game ever made and ever will be for me
@@yan3066 Slight correction. There are Chocobos in FF8.
This game is like an interwoven part of my life for the last 20 years.. I still think about it nearly every day. I hear the music in my head constantly in various situations in my life. I listen to the music while cleaning my house and working, or just relaxing. It's crazy. I'm 30 now. I don't think it will ever go away. It's just a permanent part of me and I'm so excited to watch the playthroughs of the remake.
watch? why are you watching it? play it!
I have been listening to the music since 97 and now the remake has made it even better. It's like as amazing as it ever was and fresh at the same time with its renditions that build up brilliantly into the re-orchestrations of the OG tracks.
I still remember the 3 cd's, and the emotional cliffhanger moment at the end of disc 1. 😢👍👍
God, my brother and me went speechless for a while with the insert cd 2 message in the screen. We could just not beleive it!
I remember going to the store with a friend when FF7 dropped. He brought that and I brought Abes odyssey. He had booked two weeks off work to play it and when he came back to work we swapped games and I remember playing up to just before you get on the world map and then giving it back, a few years later I picked it up myself and fell head over heels in love. I’ve lost count now how many times I’ve played through it. It’s hands down my fave game I’ve ever played. It will always hold a special place in my heart
All I know is that I'll die of old age before a Xenogears Remake happen.
Dielvei0 have you played any of the other Xeno games? I too hope that Gears does get a remake because I want to see what inspired the Blade games.
Best RPG to me next to FF7 and Mario RPG. Good ole times.
You don't die of "old age." You die of inevitable organ failure!
This I need. I go back to beat it at least once a year. STAND TALL & SHAKE THE HEAVENS. 1 more time..... please.
@@michaelpoole1053 Xenogears didn't inspire the Xenoblade games they're all from the same creators they moved from Square Soft when it was bought by Enix then made MonolithSoft with financial help from Namco then released Xenosaga series and then got bought out by Nintendo, think of the Xeno games the same as you do with Zelda, Mario, God of War etc
I was 12 when I got FF7 in 1997, and it was an instrumental part of my childhood. This game should hold the gold trophy of greatest of all time.
*I remember when RUclips cared about the creators*
We all do, and it’s sad when someone says that
Pepperidge Farm remembers too.
@@nathanrodriguez914nr take off too and do it right punk...
@@mutsuhanma7807 That was very rude, and I am disappointed. The point was not to make the quote exact, but to reference it. I will consider your request, if you consider apologizing.
@@nathanrodriguez914nr So many people are rude nowadays, especially on the internet. Haters, trolls, it is their pleasure to mock and write silly things. More we react to it, more they enjoy it (believe it or not, I've seen a program on tv about trolls, and it is a real thing. Some even earn money from being jerks on the net, it's crazy)
But my point is, don't wait for their apologies, because you may never have it. Some will, most won't. You know what, forgive them, even if they don't ask it from you.
Some people react to trolls by telling them even worst insults. Reacting to hate by hate, it will create even more hate. Love, forgiveness, it might sound stupid, but answering with kind words at the right moment may break them... really.
I know it, I've experienced it ! ;)
Take care buddy !
Why does NO ONE introduce me about final fantasy 7 game when i was a kid because i wanna feel what they feel
The magic of the FFseries
Same
I first played 7 as an adult and tbh, it stuck with me a lot. I replayed it again just a couple weeks ago and, God damn, must have teared up on 8 separate occasions. its probably my favorite game ever at this point. please give it a shot! you just might feel it
@@jknkjnkjnkj8967 SAME. I played the remake first and decided to play the original once I saw it on the PS store. I NEVER thought I could cry so much for pixelated little square people.
FF7 came out the same year my brother died so I really used it to get away from what I was dealing with. It really kinda helped me move on I think.
Really?? Even with... That scene?
@@Ukaran Yup. If anything I was able to sympathize with the characters more.
Allot of people died when your bro died just saying
@@benjaminvalencia1017 yeah dick... but not all of those played ffvii and were able to sympathize with the characters and feelings they were supposed to have.
Cherry Dragon lol ok imma sympathize withs mario, because reasons?
"That's dumb. I'm gonna play Virtua Fighter."
Lol
@Weston Meyer Same!
Weston Meyer For me, it was Tekken. Soul Calibur came second place.
@@galaxy_kitten95 Fool.
Uhh that's dumb I'm gonna play fortnite
3:24
I felt the same exact way about Final Fantasy X
I never knew about Final Fantasy until I was 10 years old (2001) so I definitely would’ve played FFVII had I known, but I’m so glad to have such a love for Remake now!!
But how Max feels about FFVII is how I feel about FFX.
Man the same!
I remember playing Final Fantasy 10 in a Sears (and at the time I was also 12) and I couldn't remember the name of the game!! But I remembered Guadosalam, the music to the Thuder Plains, and for some odd reason, a side room in the Kikila Temple(?!?)!!😂
I found that game a year later and it was the only game my dad bought me before he passed, and it really did help me get through it so much.
Hell, X-2 made me my first friends when I moved out to Georgia because one of the girls had the strategy guide and was looking at it during a biology class and we got on like fire!!!
I can admit, I did get a little emotional when watching the trailer of FF7 Remake, I spent so much of my high school life playing FF7 on my PS1, my heart was racing when the final battle came down and was beyond satisfied when I finished the game. I’ve recently bought a PS4 console just for the Remake and can’t wait to start playing and reliving those wonderful memories of the FF7 story again
I straight up wept when it was announced. I was in TS3 with my friend when it happened and she got concerned, but I made it clear they were tears of joy. I think that's the only time in my life I've ever cried from happiness.
Someone asked me, "how did you like the remake?"
I said,
The value of buying a console to play a game: expensive.
The value of playing my childhood and lifelong favorite in such detail and depth: priceless.
Max, you re 100% correct. I've said this before when asked why FF7 is my favorite game of all time. I won't argue that it's the best game ever made or even the best FF game. But FF7 was the game that changed me on a personal level. Before it, I played games like Sonic, Mario, Earthworm Jim, and other games (all good games). But FF7 wasn't just a game where you ran left and shot or jumped on enemies. No, FF7 had characters that were actual people that changed as they went through the story. And that story wasn't just "beat the bad guy and save the world" it straight up ripped out your heart. The gameplay was a whole new experience for me. The graphics were revolutionary at the time. And my God the music. The music is so Goddamn good that I am as excited for the Remake versions of the music as I am for the actual game.
FF7 wasn't just a game. It was an event. It was something truly special. A case of everything going right. The right game, on the right platform, at the right time. And I can't wait to relive it with the Remake.
Those are my thoughts exactly 💯💯
Right!!! Couldn’t of said it any better myself. It’s literally a dream come true.
The game is responsible for my lifelong love of gaming. When I got a playstation I wanted tomb raider 2, but it was sold out so I bought ff7 instead, such a fortunate event in retrospect.
Destiny.
Dude, you lucked out there in my opinion
I've grown up playing FF and have fallen in love with it. 7, 8, 9 and 10 were among the best pieces of entertainment I ever enjoyed. Each time I started a FF I was certain that I was about to enjoy something really special. I have been to the distant worlds concert 3 times, even going abroad for it. Next month I'm going to a FF convention in Scotland and then a celebration of the FF7 remake release in March. I don't think there is another franchise that has touched me so much, or ever will.
Blackmagic What event are you going to in Scotland? I’d like to check it out too
Me too I grew up with the series but vii was the defining moment for me and 2002 was the day I died lol when I started playing it and spent days and hours playing it when I could
@@sampascoe4387 Its called "Kupocon" it's a fan convention that's become successful.
Blackmagic thx
I'm 16. and the Final Fantasy series mean so much to me, I grew up lonely and an only child so i didn't really have anything to do.
I got into final fantasy when I was about 11 when I saw my uncle play FF13 Lightning returns. I remember being so blown away by the graphics and music and I wanted to know more about it, so I would go to my uncle's room and dig around, looking through his final fantasy games and I'd look at the covers and ask him questions. He showed me almost every final fantasy and the plot till he started letting me play for myself, we had a PS2 so I was able to play the older classics, and I loved them so much, I played final fantasy 24/7, Final Fantasy VII was my favorite.
I'm always happy to find others who love FF. Soon after the PS2 and the games were passed down to me and I TREASURE them, everything about FF makes me so emotional, The soundtrack, Plot, characters and gameplay. To this day I'm very happy to discover final fantasy and I'm still keeping up with the series and trying to collect anything from the series and it makes me happy to see others who love the games as much as I do
(Dang this was long)
I was 7 when I played it. I loved it so much that I wanted to be Cloud so bad growing up. I got in trouble using brooms and mops as the Buster Sword swinging at people. Did not know how to play the game properly but I still loved it. I am 30 now and still one of my favorite games to play. My wife is not much of a gamer but she loves to sit with me and watch my play because of the music. She loves the battle theme and the overworld theme. She hums both sometimes.
Got a janitorial job. I still at 28 get in trouble for twirling my broom between my fingers like cloud when they win a fight.
Blizzard: We know how to do remakes!
Square: Step aside.
Blizzard: We know how to do remakes!
Literally every other game company in history: Step aside.
@@trevorturner9733 literally every other game company in history : step side
literally every other game company in history: step side
@@melz2195 Literally a horse: Trot aside.
Um after Warcraft 3 Refunded, absolutely not.
Ff7 is so important to me on a personal level because my parents were in the middle of a divorce and I was living with my dad. We had a neighbor I went to because he was my age and we were like brothers and we bonded highly with video games. One of those games we bonded with was ff7 and it got me through a tough time in my life. Fast forward to today and we reconnected because FF7R was coming out and he was excited to get a PS4. We reconnected because of FF7R,we bonded with ff7 when I needed it to escape from mental strife and I have it to thank personally
Well, ff7 was my first RPG. I was just a 5 years old brat that didnt know english at the time and learned all by myself just to enjoy the plot of the game. Good old times dude. And yea, that's Tifa also, she was everyone waifu back in the 90s, the first one.
Ah man, just remembering the good old stuff about ff7 makes me cry.
Dang 5! You youngins are impressive to figure how to understand and play a game like that at 5!
I got the game when I was 5 as well. My dad bought it for himself in 1997. I used to watch him play it and he got kind of far and then put it down and didn't play it anymore. I rarely got past the guard scorpion and did not read well enough to get the dialogue. Even so, I was initially engrossed by the music, the environments, and the characters and even then it was my favorite game. I used to be so jealous of cloud as a kid. The game got even better when I was able to read well enough to get the gravity of the plot. I ended up getting to shinra at the age of 10 and then got stuck on another boss. I also wasn't able to get past that part until I was 14 because the disc was too scratched so I got it buffed and got to the second disc and the same thing happened. I beat it for the first time in 2015 on the psp version. It's been a journey.
I was about 8/9 at the time, but I can definitely relate to this, I learned english all by myself to enjoy the plot. Since then I just kept digesting RPGs, and even though I received english clases during highschool I can honestly say video games and music were my best teachers, and FF7 still to this day has a very warm spot in my heart (regardless of some poor translation that I wasn't able to understand until the internet became broadly accessible around the world). So I'm fucking hyped for this shit!
I’m gonna be honest, I was introduced to final fantasy with XV. From that statement, it’s fairly obvious that I’m on the younger side. I was around thirteen when I played XV, I wasn’t into role playing games at the time, I knew they were cool, but I wasn’t into them. I saw that XV was being marketed as “A Final Fantasy For Fans And First Timers.” I was interested, simply in the name, Final Fantasy. I got the game, and played through all of it. Looking back at it now that I’ve gone back and played the other games, I realize it’s not that great. But, nonetheless, the game left such a lasting impact on me. It got me hooked into Final Fantasy. It was the first game to ever incite emotional reaction from me, I cried at so many different points in that game. When I caught wind of the Final Fantasy VII remake, I started to look deeper into it. When I did that, I saw just how much VII meant to so. . . so many people. So, I planned to get it. Pre ordered it when I could, and waited. The game came out exactly a week after my seventeenth birthday. VII Remake is the only thing I’ve ever stayed up for a midnight release of. When I started the game up, and heard Prelude play in the title screen, I started to tear up. I genuinely don’t know why, but I did, I felt such fond memories flood back into my mind, even though I never played the original VII. Even when playing through the game, at times I got so emotional, and just cried looking at things, and listening to the music. I don’t know what it is, but. . . I felt a connection to the game playing through it. I know, it sounds incredibly stupid to say, but, I feel such a strong connection to it. I know that it’s not the full game, and that it’s being split up into pieces, and I genuinely don’t care, I just want to put my money down on the other parts already. I don’t know where I was going with this. But, I feel like the remake of this game can, and will have the same effect on the younger generation now that it did to people when it originally released.
I'm with ya! I'm 20 now but I've been playing these games since I was 10. I happened across FFX when I was younger and didn't know what I was getting myself into. I beat Remake in 3 days and it seriously felt like I was 10 years old all over again. I cried multiple times. Not ashamed of it :)
@@xxdreams5 Yall are making me feel old LOL
Do yourself a solid and buy and finish the original. Its on PS4 and the switch you will appreciate the remake so much more. I played the original when I was a kid, of course I have the remake and it's dope to see that they are introducing a new timeline!
heh. It’s funny how my first final fantasy game was the remake, when I was thirteen and it’s nice to see that other people found the series when they were younger as well ( granted I still am on the younger side)
I literally beat FF7 only a week ago and its crazy how after two decades of playing JRPGs, it took me playing a game from the '90s to feel like I had met the most human characters I've ever seen in a game. Cloud is such an amazing characters and I didn't expect to relate so much to him. In short, it's a game that's becoming a favorite to many people to this day I'm sure!
I’m 20 I didn’t grow up with FF7. I played FF7 for the first time last year. It’s one of the best games I’ve ever played. This game is amazing and remember not only because of nostalgia
Tell the idiots that think people like it only because of nostalgia 😂
@@Killer_Kris7 Yeah, no doubt, eh?
I don’t think that many people even remember or played the original game
@@bryanc7094 bryan c How can you think that not many people played the game, when its sales are above 10 millions copy (For that time, it is pretty high, considering it sold more copies than Tomb Raider at that time, which was a popular game's franchise and still is today).
I don't know if you just didn't have the info or you are trolling but, it's one, if not the most anticipated game I've witness...
Take care dude !
@@bryanc7094 I might have been wrong the way I spoke to you, and for that reason I apologize.
Have a great day, take care !
Ocarina of Time was "That Game" for me. Thinking about OoT never fails to bring me back to a good place after a hard day, I must've played it 100 times, lol. Anyway I'm so happy for all the FFVII fans out there.
I've actually been playing through FF7 for the first time recently, and while I'll obviously never have the connection that long time fans will, I completely get the hype and love for it now. It's been a blast to play, to customize my party with materia, to follow this really fun well paced narrative with these characters...I totally see why its so important to so many now. I almost feel jealous and wish I could feel that too
I've been thinking about getting the PS4 re-release since I've never played it before, but didn't know if it would be worth it or not. This comment has made me decide to give it a shot!
I'm playing it for the fist time as well. And even though it's not living up to the hype in my experience, I still enjoy the game. While I'm somewhat sad I missed out on it when I was younger, I'm happy that long-time fans will finally get their remake. Everyone knows what it's like to have that one game that really speaks to them ^^
@@nehpetsretserrof7352 I hope you enjoy it! Glad I could convince you :)
I came a few years too late for it. At that time, I wasn't even born. What got me into FF was FFX. I played it in like around 2010. I just turned 11 and my parents got me a PS2, since we weren't that wealthy. I got it together with FFX. The story, the setting, characters, music, combat, EVERYTHING was so crazy good. It took me 2 years (I sucked) to beat it, this was the first game to make me cry with its ending. I can imagine how the earlier generation resonated like this with FFVII. It is still a crazy good game, even more so back then. Final Fantasy in general is just absolutely amazing. It brings non-gamers to games. It brings people who don't like JRPGs to these kinda games.
Ff7 to me teach me one lesson that we all need to know. Life is worth living even through all the hardships all the problem you need to endure that to get the good stuff at the end. This game really means a lot to me I played it at a time when I lose a friend to his depression.
came back to watch this vid after spending hours in the Remake, not quite done yet but i'm 25 hours in and omg, i absolutely love it. it's amazing and i'm so happy with how Square Enix handled this and all of the extra things they put in to the enhance the story is just
I was the same way. Not big on RPGS but went all in on FFVII. What an amazing experience.
My first experience with FF7 was playing it when I was young on my cousin's PS1.
He'd load up his end game save file and pull out the memory card and just let me do WHATEVER I wanted.
I'm convinced that's why I fell in love with it.
Took the words from my fingertips. I hope Final Fantasy VII reaches a whole new audience.
I love the part 'DONT BE A MOVIE' and the REMAKE logo turned. Rewatching the moment gives me goosebumps every fucking time :)
I have a hard time even watching this without crying. That type of impact is insane. I experienced it very similarly to you, Max. It wasn't my first JRPG, but it was the first to literally smack me in the face and got me to really listen to the story.
I still regard the FF7 tv commercials as probably the greatest marketing ever for a video game, let alone television.
On a practical viewpoint, when you as a child got a hold of FF7 for the playstation and saw how Fn huge the case was, and that it was several discs ( still the most discs for a video game ) ...you just had this astonishment and awe for what you were about to get yourself into. Going from a normal 8-10 hour video game experience to 80+ hours ... even for RPGs that was monumental and impactful.
I was an athlete but also a nerd in high school and college. I played tabletop D&D in college. Then I was away from both tabletop rpgs and video games throughout the 90's(while I was married). After I got divorced in 2002 and was in a bit of a funk, I bought a PS1 and it came packaged with FF7. It helped me get through one of the toughest times in my life. I will forever love it for this reason.
I hope The Legend of Dragoon gets a remake as well. That was the equivalent of FFVII to a lot of people. I was never into RPGs until I played that game, it's amazing.
The Legend of Dragoon was my FF7, it was my gateway into the world of JRPG and ever since, been hooked into the genre.
LoD is need of a remake.
LOD REMAKE YEAH! FF7 and LOD were just my jams as a younger kid
still praying square teams up with monolith for a Xenogears remake.
My first "playthrough" of FFVII was me watching my older brother play the game back in 1997, and even though FFIV was actually my first FF game, FFVII was what made me truly fall in love with the franchise. Ever since then, my brother and I have spent every FF mainline release sitting in front of the TV together, passing the controller back and forth and experiencing the story together, or in the case of FFXIV, playing online together. Even when I had severe covid on the release day of Remake in 2020, I pulled myself out of bed and we sat on opposite sides of the room - only he played while I watched to prevent spreading through the controller so we could still safely enjoy the game together.
(I'm post-Rebirth, so please don't read any further if you haven't finished yet.) In 2024 I'm coming back to this video because as a diehard fan of the original story, the ending of Rebirth left me feeling incredibly heartbroken, defeated, and betrayed and I was looking for something to soften the blow. I don't usually put much stock in the opinions of online personalities, but Max really just nailed why this game means so much to people like me and why it hurts so badly that this "remake" went so insanely hard, only to completely shit the bed on the final stretch and stomp on everything the original game stood for. I'm sure I'm going to be lambasted for being a "boomer OG FFVII fan who doesn't like change" because it makes it easier to dismiss any valid criticism I may have despite how much I enjoyed everything but the final chapter, but I'm anxiously awaiting Max's reactions to later chapters as he seems to share a lot of my feelings for FFVII.
I'm not crying YOU'RE crying.
We are all crying my friend.
AJM_The Black-Fenrir 2/3 of those are correct.
@Adrian Steven Din strange way to spell ff8.
I'll be as tear-invoking excited for Part 2 when it launches. It's soooo close!
I went through a very difficult break up, my mom told me everyone goes through difficult things. I’d never met anyone that had gone through bad stuff and talked about it, until I played ff7 where all the characters are on a journey to heal their trauma. I found comfort in characters that were also going through bad things, it felt like I wasn’t alone. This game healed me through things with their characters healing alongside me!
Honestly, I was one of those guys who was brought up on the D&D and RPGs and 'nerdy bulls**t' as you called it (which is pretty much spot-on). I've played pretty much the entire FF series, from the first one on the NES, and while FF7 is nowhere close to my favourite JRPG or even my favourite FF game (FF6 is my jam), I can understand where others grew up with this game and connect so deeply with it, and can absolutely acknowledge its impact on the gaming world as a whole.
The one thing I love about FF7 is the steampunk aesthetic. That pleases me deeply, and there were very few RPGs that incorporated that mix of magic and technology, which has (in my opinion) become kind of a Square staple.
I am absolutely crossing my fingers for an FF6 remake of this caliber. If that happens, then I will extol its virtues as you have with FF7.
Thank you for your wisdom and passion.
It'll never happen. Square and fans alike seem to only care about ff7
As Someone who grew up FFX I can fully understand the importance of FFVII and his big of an impact of the gaming world.
While I personally think Final Fantasy 7 has aged in a lot of ways, I’ll never argue that to a lot of people, it’s a fantastic game on all fronts that stands the test of time.
I feel like the remake(s) will bring out that appreciation/love for me that I’ve seen people show the game all these years, and I’m extremely hyped for it.
You already know this isnt the last remake especially with the sales as is. Upon release its gonna do even better number than the pre orders.
If they remake 10 and 10-2 im gonna cry. The remaster alone hit me hard man.
People using FF7 and aged in the same sentence
I suppose it was a game I needed at the time. I feel it also helped me to understand relationships a little better. And to be kind
FF9 as well “you don’t need a reason to be kind”
ff7 was the first game that I would loose all concept of time playing and I'm pretty sure I've only 100 percentage a couple of games and ff7 is one of them same with ff8 love both of them
Reason why FFVII was such an experience for me was that as a 10 year old boy, the game managed to put me into some sort of trance that for some reason kept me obsessed, practically infatuated with it. Looking back, I say it's a combination of the music [the sound engine combined with Uetmatu's choice of synthetic instrumentation] which fits PERFECTLY into this dystopian world that's a fantastically strange blend of cyber and dieselpunk. There has been no game like it since and to this day I look at any game that shows steel industrial buildings and rusty, imposing pipes with glee. The setting and the music produces a melancholy so intense that you practically end up being emotionally zombified from it. The journey only becomes more mesmerizing as world expands and becomes increasingly diverse as you progress.
Then there's the pacing of the entire thing. You spend 5 - 10 hours getting immersed in a city fighting against an enemy, only to realize there is a far more serious, common threat that has violently emerged from the grave. Suddenly you're thrown into a vast world map that tells you the adventure has just started and that you're no longer in a bottleneck, extremely curious yet terrified that you and the party are embarking on a wild goose chase over someone so powerful that it seems ludicrous to even go near him; for goodness sake, you spend the first few hours finding out just how shit in various ways you are compared to him. But as the world just endlessly chucks in more depth which fleshes out the characters you know, if not for making you excited with the possibility of meeting new ones. Reaching each town always brings a huge sense of reward especially as the game always throws you an obstacle that stops you from getting there until you crack the puzzle and progress. There is always an incentive to keep pushing on regardless of the challenges, and every run in with Sephiroth and his intimidating presence just makes you want to find out more. The party grows larger, but even they begin to share an empathy on who they're facing and what must be done.
That is what makes FFVII better than the rest.
This bond with FF7 is something incredible, each time i hear music from this game it brings a tears to my eyes. That's why i cried a lot watching Advent Children couple of years ago. Seeing this characters after all this time, hearing these songs...
I was at the Playstation Experience where that happened. I screamed "no" so loud I scared a woman in front of me.
I never play FF7 but I'm looking forward to the remake. The Orcarina of time was the game that gave me all the feelings that you guys feel about this game
I always thought Nintendo fans never wanted that game remade?
@Aaron9 Ocarina owns FF7 one of the best games of all time
I was born in 99 and ffvii came out in 97 my dad got my sister and i a PS1 when we were about 7-8 yrs old and ffvii was one of the first games i ever played. And that started it all. My brother has a psp and i borrowed it to play crisis core and i broke down at the ending of that game and I played Dirge too. When i saw the remake trailer i was so overwhelmed and the narration in the trailer was really reflecting wtf I was feeling.
Max when I was 6 I seen my dad played ffvii. I was like this game is so cool. That was in 2006 but now I'm 18 almost 19. I completed this game in 2017 Because this game has a very special place in my heart
Basically the same thing as FF7 was my one of my First RPGs and is one of my favorite Video games of all time Rivaling Super Metroid
34 year old from the Netherlands here -
Very similar story to urs, i never played story heavy games before and also didnt have anymore to play alot of games so when i got a playstation i just played Tekken and Crash.
For my 11th birthday mom bought me ace combat and i finished the game on the morning of my birthday, i was sad.. cause chrismas would be the next time i would get a new game.
Mom returned it and asked the clerk for a game that her son could play for a long time. that guy gave my mom FF7 and i am so goddamn greatfull to that unknown storeclerk for making my life so much better.
I pressed all the buttons when Cloud engaged those first gaurds, i had never seen turn based combat. i would run downstairs and ask my dad what words like "Knowledge" meant.
during my years ive played it countless times, i cry when i hear the music cause it reminds me of better times. also it reminds me of that amazing adventure i had with my friends.. Cloud, Barret, Aeris, Tifa, Red, Cid, Vincent, Yuffie and Cait Sith..
Chrono Trigger was the game that got that feeling out of me. Still, I bought FF VII even before my PS1... Because I was looking for a somewhat similar experience, and magazines of that time put my hype metter in the clouds.
Yeah man, I wish they'd make a new chrono trigger or remake the old one like ff7 haha. That game made me the nerd I am today.
FF7 was my milestone game.
My mother bought it and played it, my best friend at the time, her little sister and 2 other family friends, and my sisters all came over to watch my Mum play. We all had characters we voiced. We all got attached, we all loved it. We screamed at every FMV, we cried together, my best friend and I pulled an all nighter to breed a gold chocobo.
Then I played it myself, it was the first rpg game I had finished completely, and I played it more then 20+ times, to the point that I was a walking walkthrough, I knew what item was in every chest, and knew every code and puzzle that needed to be known.
We loved it so much, that before there were downloads and good internet, I recorded the soundtrack through tape and mic. I still have it, during the chocobo ranch song you can hear my mum and sisters screaming in the background as she killed a spider in another room.
And lastly, the love of the game led me to my husband... He in the early years of livejournal had Cloud as his avatar, and like me the game was everything to him. We have been together now for 16yrs.
I tell you what no other game has impacted me as hard.
How Max describes FFVI and CT going from SNES to PS1. Is EXACTLY what my childhood was. I played FFVI first, on a total whim, rented from a game store, and I fell IN LOVE with that game by the Whelk fight in the first 5 mins of that game. And when FFVII was released, I was like 14, and I BEGGED BEGGED my parents to get me a PS1 just for FFVII. I didn't care about anything else in the world at that moment. And I'll never forget what that game did to me back then. It was truly the OG of games that made you feel something about it's characters and story. And it couldn't have been possible without FFVI and CT.
Hit the nail right on the head with this description. The zoomers just won't understand what FFVII was for us boomers back in the 90s. It was EVERYTHING.
I've never played Final Fantasy 7, but this is the year I finally will. I need to experience it before the remake comes out.
@David Baron: You've got sometime til' Good Friday (:knocks on wood:). Enjoy!! (^_^)
If you wanna try the original, do it fast.
To complete all the stories (I mean the main story, plus kill the 2 legendary boss, getting the gold chocobo and get the best limit breaks) may take around 100 hours. It is a pretty big game, especially for the playstation 1 (that's why there is 3 CD).
Have fun ! ;)
David Baron I’m sure you’re going to love it.
Let us know what you think! I wish I could play it for the first time all over again :)
Go for it but the remake is episodic and only tells a small bit of the original. No real need to rush the entire game since I’m pretty sure you’ll go through the entire portion the remake takes place in relatively quickly.
God, you are so on point with this, Max. And there are so many similarities between our experiences. I was 14 in 1999. I vaguely remembered seeing the commercials for it several years prior, but I was still in my Zelda phase. Ocarina of Time was about as good as I thought games could get. Then I went over to my friend's house one Summer day and he was in the middle of fighting the Guard Scorpion. I was immediately entranced. It took another few weeks of watching him get through a bit more of Disc 1 before I finally broke down and came up with 40 bucks to buy a used PS1 from an acquaintance at school. I forget how much I paid for the game, but the combined cost was a hell of a lot of money at the time for a 14 year old!
I fell in love with EVERYTHING about it. The boss music was the most epic thing I'd ever heard. I legitimately fell hard for Aeris. I cried myself to sleep the night that I had to say goodbye to her. I sat in school every day doodling terrible fan art. I was a wreck for weeks after finishing it. I've never been so thoroughly shaped by any story, and that holds true today (though some games and films have come close). Then a mere two or three months after finishing it, Square dropped FF8 in front of the fan base and I lost my mind at the thought of getting to go on another adventure like that.
There's no way to replicate those pure teenage emotions directly now that we're in our 30's, but I'll be damned if it doesn't feel like Square is putting together an experience that is going to come very close. I'm staying up past my bedtime again, poring over the internet for new screens, trailers and info. I'm tearing up every time I watch that intro. Square has somehow captured the collective imaginations of every 14 year old in the late 90's (the way we THOUGHT we saw the game back then) and made it a reality. And what really warms my heart is the knowledge that I'll get to share those same emotions and sense of wonder with my daughter. She's not nearly old enough to play yet, but in a few years I'm going to sit her down and show her all of Dad's old FF7 friends.
That we've had to wait 15 years (since that dastardly PS3 tech demo) makes it all the sweeter. I'm so fucking excited, man.
Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete was this for me. But nobody cares about that one, no sir.
Actually lunar 2 is one of my favorite jrpgs ever and I love the first one also
You are not alone sir.
I love SSC and Eternal Blue. I first played SS on sega cd. When it came out on PS1 i was elated. Of course i had both the limited editions with the cloth map and making of. Great jprgs to me.
I owned lunar sss 1 and 2. The music in lunar was amazing. Just wish I could remember what I did with those dam games
for me is so special, my first PSone game, my late father gave me
he even played with me trying to explain the gameplay but failing miserably x,D
now, seeing FFVII being remade makes so nostalgic, this game is part of me and thats why is so damn special to most people, just see the reactions in that E3
Never have I clicked so quickly on a Max notification.
me too and i never played ff ever lol
FF 7 is one of the first storytelling game that garnered worldwide attention. Now we have all kinds of great storytelling games like LOU, Uncharted, Horizon, GOW4, etc.
Kyle is the best, check out Easy Allies cuz he's still doing his thing there.
The pod with his parents was brilliant
It was my first rpg. From a childhood of playing Mario, MegaMan, Donkey Kong Country. I got my ps1 as a early teen and it blew my mind. I remember playing and playing and reaching the end of midgar section and thinking: 'Yes, this is so badass, this game was pretty good! No.. wait... It is not over yet??? What is this huge world map!" From there on I loved every second of it till the end. That was it. Favorite game ever! But as you said, this opened the door. Many great RPGs I played , so many gems. I started to look down on FF7. It wasn't that great, what was fun was the materia system and that's it... Then I replayed it a few months ago... And no. This game still made me love it to bits, the same wonder still shook my body. The vast amount of new things to experiment with. Every scene made me giddy with how they would be remade. FF7 isn't my favorite game anymore. It has many flaws and broken systems. Story was better in other games too. But I still love it... And I wanna rediscover ff7 remake with the same wonder I had when I was a teen. I wanna it to blow my mind. It may not, but I just hope it ends up being at least just a good game. After all there years the story will end when I leave midgar...
Sorry for the long rant. FF7 HYPE!!!
I was introduced to FF7 by my parents, I still remember My Dad trying to kill the Zolom instead of catching a Chocobo with My Mum, Sister and I all watching him for litterally hours, I fell in love with this game right then and there.
I'm so excited for the remake but at the same time I dont want to get it becuase even though the trailers have been nothing but amazing I can't help but feel that Square will find a way to screw it up.
@@gamerd8709 Tell me about it, I've played it several times now and my fears have very much washed away at this point. I'm sure Remake will have its negatives but so did the original and that just added to the charm in my opinion.
Since Rebirth is just on the horizon, just wanted wanted to add that this hits the nail on the head. Up to this point, the games I had played mostly involved saving the princess, or fighting the bad guy to save the world. In all those games, the hero always came out on top. This game not only got me attached to the characters, it was also the first time I had ever seen the hero fail in many ways. Failure to save someone, failure to live up to his expectations, etc. As I got older, it stuck with me more than many other games, as I (and many others) went through their own failures and redemption's.
Max:"My friend was grinding to get Gold Chocobo."
Me: Ah..... Knight of the Round. which is hopefully will be super badass in the remake.
Me: summons knights of the round.
*Standing here in awe watching the 13 knights fight in real time.*
We might need a new console to be able to handle this combat sequence in such detail. 13 knights just going all in for a couple minutes. Probably like in the OG there was a sequence of their attacks. We might get one at a time fighting with us and they gradually cycle through and the final one has the ultimate attack before the summon ends.
Edit: I speculate that with the current changes to summons. This may be a one time experience for a specific fight. But hopefully not. Either way if they manage to implement it in this engine of the new game, I will be content.
Mid 30s. Got this game on launch day in September 1997 at Software Etc at Northlake Mall just outside Atlanta. Not a month has gone by since I beat the game in October 97 that I dont think about FF7 nor randomly a song from the game starts playing in my head. The overworld theme plays in my head constantly every early Spring for the last 23 years.
I remember not liking rpgs when I was 6 or 7 years old, but then I got Super Mario Rpg for my 10th bday and I had to have more. Then FF7 opened the flood gates
This video got me into Final Fantasy VII.
During 2020, when the world went to hell and back, i was watching a few Top 10 watch mojo list videos and i kept noticing FF7 involved in so many lists. I wanted to see why people really liked this (or even love) this game.
I found this clip and i grew to understand its importance for the time it came out but was still holding back whether or not to actually try and play the game. Im also a wrestling/ fighting game player and i knew i didnt wanna give any rpg a chance cause it seemed slow and too complicated to understand, let alone care for.
I then found out that FF7 Remake had a Demo and that was gonna be the decider for me on whether or not i was gonna go all in on this.
4 years later and after going down sooooo many wormholes related to ff7 and it is personally one of the best and personal favorites of mine. I purchased the Remake and was confused by ALOT and then realised, what i was playing was actually a prequel, not a full remake. So i then decided if i wanted to understand the base story i needed to play the ps1 game. Played that and loved it.
The thing FF7 has taught me is that there are certain things in life that even with a good short understanding, its better to experience it for your self.
FF7 is not to be told, it is to be experienced.
I didn't record my reaction for when FFVII Remake was announced. I was too busy crying my eyes out.
It might be a good thing you didn't recorded yourself crying... some people enjoy mocking those who cry openly.
Personnally, I think it makes you human haha, and I totally understand why, because the more you are touched by something/someone, the deeper the emotions you feel and more sensitive you are of being emotional over it again.
I hope you will enjoy every seconds of that remake when it comes out. Take care brother !
@xLttPx Nah true fans don't give a fuck about that.... seeing how every part is drastically expanded.
I was 9 when i played this game.
I remember so clearly the first time i saw it: i was in the living room of some friends of my parents, while they were talking i was just left there on the couch and started playing their PS2 games, until i got to the FFVII discs and started, and i was blown immediately, went through the entire Bombing Run immediately.
These friends saw me so passionate to it that they gave it to me.
It took me probably a year to go through it, as i am not English and at the time i was probably going through colors and numbers in grade school. Had to play it with a dictionary at hand and often with my neighbor to understand better, and i still am pretty surprised i got most of it. Could say that i learned English with VII.
FFVII got me into Final Fantasy, which got me into JRPGs, which got me more into Japanese Pop Culture, which eventually led me to study Japanese in college and make a career out of languages, and possibly later this year to move to Japan to work on videogames.
In short, FFVII probably changed the direction of my life.
I was a Nintendo kid for most of my childhood and teens. What you described as the first RPG that had a story that gripped you and brought you into its world... That was Chrono Trigger for me. I did not play FFVII until I downloaded it on the PS store sometime in my early twenties. Sadly, by that point I already knew a bunch of the key points like character deaths and other iconic scenes through osmosis. I came to understand why so many people love it. It is with no amount of sarcasm or irony to say that it is a classic and a cornerstone of video game history. Now gonna be honest, my feelings towards FFVII cannot match those of people to whom it is *that one game*... But good god did I feel sheer joy when watching that trailer. Seeing people's reactions to it, their elation... and hearing all these stories, really got to me. Having finished the remake just today, I'm filled with a rather sweet feeling of melancholy. That was a truly special experience...
The soundtrack was fucking fantastic. I looked up the main theme on YT and, reading through the comments I noticed one that stuck with me. It went something along the lines of "this game could not have come out at a better time. It is a story about hope and defiance of fate." I'm currently in my last year of medical school. Will be graduating soon and, if I match, will be going out to fight this goddamn pandemic along my peers. Being stuck in my house while I played FFVIIR, I feel like I will forever associate this game with these times. It might sound a tad cheesy, but playing it really helped me get out of the slump I was in... seeing the number of cases and deaths mount up can be really disheartening, especially for people in the frontlines... But I felt reinvigorated coming out of it.
The Unknown Journey *will* continue.
I’m a little bit younger than you, so my first RPG was Pokemon Yellow. My parents didn’t let me have video games as a little kid, so I got a Gameboy Color on my 10th birthday and my brother and I split a PS1 (the tiny version) for Christmas later that year. I remember going to a friend’s house and watching him play FF8 and using Ifrit, which made me think “oh this looks a lot like Pokemon, you catch monsters then use them in battle.” So our first PS1 game was FF8 and my brother and I played the hell out of it.
I got FF7 used a few months later, and at the time it looked a lot “older” than FF8 (and it’s the reason why we got FF9 and not the Final Fantasy Chronicles with Chrono Trigger in it). I played it until the second disc, and it turned out the disc was scratched and couldn’t read. My parents didn’t know gaming and were like “just play the other two discs” so I never beat 7. FF8 was the same game you’re describing here for me. But even then, FF7 is *STILL* a game that chokes me up when I hear the music because of how great it is.
As someone in the younger 20’s category, I see what Max means. I grew up with a PS1 but since it was a pretty old system by the time I was born, I never got to experience any of the great games of it in its heyday (except for TEKKEN 3 because a friend owned it). Shit, I still haven’t played through all of FFVII. I can still respect the love people have for the game since I believe anyone that’s truly interested in video games has a game that did something to them like FFVII did to Max, Huber, and all the people in the video. For me, that was chrono trigger and FFVI (which I didn’t even play until a few years ago). Chrono Trigger won me over with its fun and creative battle system that actually made it rewarding to wait in the game for your turn (last I remember since the enemies can move to spots that allow you to do team attacks if I’m remembering right). It also had some of the best music that to this day is some of the best I’ve ever heard in a game. FFVI also did it for me by having an engaging and unconventional story (which I still need to finish) along with amazing cinematic experiences like the opera scene that I’d personally love to see done in a remake. So even though I don’t understand the hype specifically for FFVII, I can still understand in general. Because we all have that one game or two that just changed how we see or play games.
I played with my friend the summer of 98. We didn’t have a memory card at first, and had no idea what we were getting into. Must have played through the first reactor 3 or 4 times (so annoying) until we finally picked up an after market memory card.
One day, At the end of that summer, after using the last tent right before the final battle, I turned on the ps and got the error. Then - poof - everything - all the save files - gone. It was a disaster.
I’ll never forget looking up the 1-800 number to Sony , calling , nearly in tears with their technical support. I remember saying But we had the Gold Chocobo do you even understand what that means?! to the poor soul on the other line.
Since then I’ve played through ff7 more than eight times - sometimes I stop playing around cosmo canyon, one time I got all the way up to that final cave.
But I never beat it.
And then, life happened, work, job, money, wife. I always followed the news , in particular after 2005, hoping - waiting , for one last battle.
The reason I look forward to this remake, it may be the last time I ever play final fantasy 7. And I will leave nothing behind , and I will once and for all face the final foe that has been taunting me for 20 years .
I was in a department store the year it came out, in France. I was 10, the « big dudes » were playing through the bombing mission, my friend and I had never seen OR HEARD anything like it... I will always remember my first hearing the Mako reactor’s theme. Nothing sounded so deep to me back then. My friend and I then spent all our Wednesday afternoons together making progress, while week ends were dedicated to grinding. We used to keep the save file of the guy who made the biggest progress. Anyway, fond memories from 23 years ago...
This is my exact feeling, but for Chrono Trigger
except i think CT is a way better game and i would love to see it remade but christ i wouldn't be making videos acting like i won the lottery lol
@@ScribbleNuts LOL that's probably true. I watched my son being born I still didn't act like a total jackass the way some of these people do over the announcement of a damn video game
Chrono trigger is definitely in my top 2 games of all time but like max said FF7 was different. It was the first game that modernized RPGs and pushed them into the mainstream. I just wish they would make a 3rd Chrono game and finally finish off the Schala and Janus story.
@@thebanfflocal2366 which is true for some people but as others said people who already were into rpgs played better games.
If 7 was released back on N64 i don't believe it would have sold as well. The commercials and hype was all about how good the game looked and gamers weren't used to discs.
I don't think 7 is a bad game but the hype behind it i felt was greater than the actual game.
It dam sure has the member berries feel lol. People love nostalgia. Look at the crappy lion king remake.
Still did a billion despite being a bad movie because of name recognition.
The older films Didn't rely on cgi or pixar style animation to be classics. They had to be good films.
7 for many people had a very weak story and with remake i can honestly care less about Cloud.
Out of the final fantasy series as a franchise he's known for a big anime sword and spikey hair.
But pretty dull as a hero lol
@@thebanfflocal2366 No, it's a myth that RPGs weren't mainstream until FF VII. Super Mario RPG was the most rented game in American for the summer of 1996. There had never been an RPG mega-hit like that, but there really hasn't been one since. Maybe Elder Scrolls or the Witcher or something, but Final Fantasy has never sold that well again.
I grew up with a PS1 at home when I was a kid but I was very late to the FF7 party and it was my first RPG too. The thing that drew me in the most with this game is that it is set in a world that we can relate to (evil corporation polluting and destroying the world) instead of the usual fantasy, Lord of the Rings-esque setting that RPG's typically followed at the time and you are instantly thrown in to the action by blowing up a reactor before you really know what is even happening. The part that I always remember the most is Aeris' final scene, playing through that section a few months after losing my dad completely broke me as a kid and still hits me hard every time I play the game.
9:40 Legendary Moment of Game Trailer Reaction.
The music... So iconic. .. Arieth's theme, there is nothing like it. It's up there with the greatest classical pieces for me. Or the main theme when you first leave Midgar... My gf only vaguely remembers her brother playing it in the 90s but when she heard the battle music again 'oh yeah I remember it now'.
I'm 18. When I was 8 years old, my brother got this game called dirge of cerberus FFVII and I remember watching him play the game and me falling in love with it. Kinda weird considering DOC is considered a terrible spin-off to the amazing FFVII franchise. Anyways, after playing that game endlessly myself I needed to find out more about FFVII, I got my brothers to get Crisis Core for the PSP which became my favorite game at that point and zack became my most beloved protagonist for a game. I loved the music, the characters and the surreal feeling I got from FFVII. It was truly a fantasy. I really didn't understand most of it though cuz I was a kid. I watched Advent Children, the crisis core anime and consumed pretty much all content that came with FFVII, except the original game. I never played the original FFVII and honestly I didn't know why. It's probably because at the time I didn't have a PS1 nor a good PC to play it. With time, I played other FF games and Final Fantasy became my all time favorite game franchise. In 2015, I realized that something didn't want me to play the original game. The FFVII remake reveal brought me to tears, a guy who hadn't even played the original game. That is why FFVII is so important. It is a game with such rich lore and a beautiful story that anyone would love it.
I hope you haven't seen too much spoilers. You can always play the og if you want to.
Lol same.
I... Never played FF7. My parents never wanted to buy me and my brother consoles, because "we'll just play and study". We did get DS and gameboy, but that was as far as it got. I came to know of it as I grew up. I did watch Advent Children and the Last Order anime, but that was as far as it goes. But when that E3 2015 trailer came out, and learning about how important this game is, after all that, I can't help but be moved to tears when people talk so passionately about the game and how happy they are that it's getting remade.
FF7 was my first big RPG in 6th grade, I remember it was all in english (i am tahitian btw we speak french) and oh boy, i learn english thanks to that i didnt know what to do so i played it to the bone, BUT i understood the story and the feelings and omg what a time to be alive rn