>>3829572
>I directly blame FF7 for things like FF9 and Grandia 3
Is Grandia 3 actually good? It's on my radar because I played and loved 1 and 2, but 3 is the one I've openly heard the most bad shit about. But, like you said, sometimes a very small pool of opinions from a specific point in time can shape the discourse for an entire game for years to come. Heck, it's one of the biggest reasons I slept on FF5 for so long, because dolts kept parroting the "jobs good; story bad" idiocy from folks who emulated or played the PS1 version after having played FF7 in the late 90s. Then I tried it and it had one of the most charming, heartfelt, and effectively-communicated stories I've ever played. But it's the kind of thing that an American teenager in 1999 would have been literally incapable of grasping.

>>3829576
Look, I'm a stickler for original hardware and play pretty much everything on an old CRT just for that comfy nostalgia aesthetic, but the issue with the image on the left isn't that it's emulated or has no filter—it's that it's been blown up 1000 times bigger than it's supposed to ever be displayed.