Is it still good? About to play it for the first Time, i played ff6 and i liked it

it's great
>played ff6 and liked it
you'll like 7

>>715080361 (OP)
its the best one, that's why it has the most vitriolic haters

>>715082126
fpbp

>>715080361 (OP)
ya its one of the best

>>715080361 (OP)
ye. play the newer versions for QoL improvements

>>715080361 (OP)
they're far from perfect but all the ff from 4 to 10 are still good.

>>715080361 (OP)
It's the JRPG by which all others are judged.

>>715085164
I think this is my feelings towards FF7. I first played it in 1999. Somewhere in that neighborhood anyway. So yes I do have a lot of nostalgia for the game. However I'm not such a nostalgia fag that I'm incapable of turning a critical eye to the things I like to put into words why I like a thing. FF7 is a flawed game. Some of the flaws are glaring. But it's still my favorite game of all time. Because the things I love about the game far outweigh the things I dislike about the game

>>715080361 (OP)
I played it a couple years ago for the first time. No nostalgia, no prior knowledge other than a certain death. Went in with an open mind understanding there may be some PS1 jank. Ended up loving every minute of it. There is so much heart and soul in this game from characters to the humor, and the music is fantastic. There are flaws yes, but the game doesnt seem like it wants you to take it seriously as some hight art literature, it feels like it was made to let you take your mind off of life for a minute and just enjoy an endearing story, so in a way some of the flaws add to the goofiness.

>>715080361 (OP)
still best ff

>>715080361 (OP)
its still the greatest game ever made, so yeah its good. and if you play new thread mod 1.5 it becomes unironically perfect.

>>715087109
sorry bucko FF7 is peak but the title of greatest game ever made still belongs to Ocarina of Time

>>715080361 (OP)
yeah. make sure to play 8,9 and 10 too. 8 is quite controversial and junctioning will piss you off the first playthrough.
10 is the best final fantasy.

>>715087434
I miss the days of FFVII vs. OOT GOAT debate. better times. still the best games in their genre.

>>715085164
8 and 10 are dogshit and 9 is meh.

>>715085164
10 is garbage, you can always tell someones taste in jrps by asking about 10

>>715085583
what game isn't flawed you stupid faggot

>>715089732
As a fellow 10 hater, what are some of your favorite JRPGs?

>>715089823
Cory in the House

>>715089823
Bloodborne

>>715083165
agreed honestly. ff6 stans are just contrarians - put ff7 in 2d or ff6 in 3d and ff7 mogs both times

>>715089969
>rollslop

>>715089732
you're the kind of contrarian nigger who'll claim ff1 is a good game that didn't age like shit

>>715090147
>stans
>mogs
Fuck off.

>>715090870
Video games don't age.

>>715091309
so you're saying after playing super metroid, super castlevania, super mario world, the NES games didn't feel atrocious to play in comparison? Everything is relative to what you experienced prior. And I know it's difficult for disabled niggers like you to understand that you can acknowledge the great foundations a mediocre game laid out for fantastic sequels

babby's first JRPG, even Pokemon is more challenging

the materia system ruins any kind of gameplay or challenge because you just spam multitarget elemental spells that wipe out everything in one round

it's also generally a clunky game with some stupid forced minigames and it was when cutscenes started lasting like 10 minutes in JRPGs

outside of that it does have some interesting characters and plot but it really did usher in a lot of bullshit in JRPGs

>>715080361 (OP)
I enjoy the atmosphere a lot and the flexibility of the materia system.

>>715091949
you didn't play it reddit spacing faggot

>>715080361 (OP)
its a shit game for stupid casual people
it aged like milk it was carried by its graphics and cutscenes but today it has nothing that stands out.

ff7 was incredibly huge when it came out, everyone was playing it

>>715080361 (OP)
Pro tip: Don't play the port, it's trash. Emulate PS1 version. That's all.

Have fun, its still pretty good

>>715092297
I have, it's genuinely one of the dumbest and easiest JRPGs I've ever played and I've played a lot of them, Final Fantasy in general are babby games but 7 might be the easiest of them all

>>715091739
So you must always consoom the newest products?

>>715092651
you really want to live up to your reputation of being a mentally disabled nigger

>>715092739
>reputation
We're posting anonymously. You wouldn't call me a nigger otherwise.

>>715092963
then stop acting like one with your non sequitur arguments

>>715093179
Answer my question or suck my dick.

>>715080361 (OP)
You played squares worst RPG on the SNES and are about to play squares best RPG on the PS1. Buckle in for a whiplash.

>>715092494
hasn't the PS1 ver had a worse translation than the PC ver?

>>715093342
FF6 is better than 5. Deal with it.
>squares best RPG on the PS1
That's not Xenogears tho

>>715089732
FFX has the best story and cast in the franchise and it's not even close, cope harder about your world map

>>715093313
I fucking told you your argument is non sequitur. how you perceive something is relative to what you experienced afterward, that doesn't mean everything afterward is automatically good or everything prior is automatically bad.

>>715093342
Fuck yourself and die in hell forever faggot. Yes I'm taking your bait. I would shoot you in the chest for expressing that opinion in my presence.

>>715093496
>>715093720
5 mogs, sorry chuds

>>715092541
4chan? /v/? more like reddit.
You are absolutely correct.
Final Fantasy 7 is casual baby's first Jrpg game, braindead easy and generic game that aged poorly.
Can't believe how many retards here think this game is the greatest rpg of all time. this board is full of tasteless casuals.

>>715093872
how about you tell us your great and difficult jrpgs from that era

>>715093872
FF7 along with Chrono Trigger are JPRG's Handbook

>>715093937
nta but FF1, 3, 5 and 10 have the best gameplay. 6 and 7 are storyfag games

>>715094042
no that's Dragon Quest. FF7 and Chrono Trigger aren't even relevant anymore except for nostalgia pandering nobody uses ATB anymore, even Square Enix themselves abandoned it lol

>>715094045
Check out this retard, he couldn't even answer a simple question

its amazing

great with mods, get the 7th heaven launcher and these mods:
>60fps gameplay mod
>all the syw upscaler mods
>cosmos limit break (runs game in widescreen)
>the reunion psx ost files
>ninostyle models (battle and chibi)
>cosmos gaia (unlocks the draw distance on the world map and gives full camera control)
>qhimm catalog gameplay tweaks (quality of life stuff like auto run and save anywhere)
>shinra archaelogy cut (re-translation, not sure if this is finished)

>>715094045
>10 have the best gameplay
>put the cube in the square shaped hole
lol

Someone is samefagging really hard here lmao

>>715094651
10 is better than most of the classic games because it doesn't use ATB and you can actually build your characters

>>715091739
Retards that don't start from the first game in a franchise opinions don't count anyway

>>715092396
>it was carried by its graphics and cutscenes
FF7 was ugly even on release. Just compare it to SM64 and it's not even close

>>715094985
seriously, who are these posers who claim people though ff7 was praised for its graphics? the blocky character were ridiculed, even the cinematic cutscenes were weak. The good part was the prerendered backgrounds which got mogged by FF8 and 9 yet those game didn't sell as much.

>>715094869
We're literally arguing about the experience of playing a game then its sequels.

>>715090147
>ff7 mogs both times
But Mog is in ff6...

>>715080361 (OP)
it's ugly as fuck but if you can get over that then I'd say it's worth playing. I really like it.

>>715095209
Samefag

>>715094649
soulless

>>715080361 (OP)
Play the remakes instead, you can skip this game

>>715095708

>>715095209
>even the cinematic cutscenes were weak
now we're just making shit up

>>715087434
>>715089369
Um sweaty, OoT is crusty outdated garbage and Breath of the Wild is the new best game of all time, OoT isn't even in the top 100.

>>715095706
Most of the graphics mods aren't really necessary, but I'm never playing FF7 again without 60fps and analog controls.

>>715095951
I like the 60fps but I have yet to see a graphics mod that doesn't make the game look worse.

>>715095534
Explain this then, atheist.

>>715095209
The block graphics wasn't liked at all, but you're blatantly lying if you're saying the FMVs weren't praised to high heaven at release

ATB sucks, play Dragon Quest

>>715080361 (OP)
Its pretty good. The plotting gets wonky and the gameplay is on the easy side, but the rest is great.

It was always confusing to me that people shit on FF9 for having a "terrible" art style due to their chibi characters, yet characters in FF7 are legos.

>>715096578
From what I saw people did shit on them at the time, but it was more forgiveable because it was the beginning of the 3d era

>>715095865
Metacritic begs to differ

>>715095807
>>715096179
>prerendered cutscene
>link looked like that in real time
it was praised by normies who had never seen this kind of cutscene, plenty of ps1 game had better looking ones but nobody mention them.

>>715096578
FF7 chibis were a result of learning new hardware, FF8 showed you could make acceptable normally proportioned playable characters for a FF game on PS1 but in FF9's case it was entirely a design choice to go back to chibis

>>715089732
10 is like Mario Sunshine in that it's half a really good game and half dogshit garbagefire depending on how much you pursue 100%

>>715097393
>FF9's case it was entirely a design choice to go back to chibis
it was a great choice, fantastically well made and praised by anybody who has a soul

>>715097323
>its a tendie
n64 vs ps1 debate ended years ago man. I love OOT too. Both are great games. Fuck off.

>>715097621
where did I say FF7 or the ps1 was a bad you mentally disabled nigger? I just said there was nothing incredible about FF7's cutscenes in term of graphic fidelity which is factual.

https://youtu.be/a4FrYesnQKY

>>715093591
>FFX has the best story and cast
The story and cast are the game's weakest elements. Lulu and Khimari literally do nothing the entire game.

>>715080361 (OP)
The perfect game for someone with a large funko pop collection

>>715080361 (OP)
Reddit fucking loves it so I won't be playing it.

>>715097884
lulu is a hot mommy goth gf and kimari had one of the most memorable character arc in the game.

>>715097836
looks just as impressive as ff7

>>715097536
>no true scotsman fallacy
it's funny how I simply explained the reasoning behind the difference in FF7's forced design decision vs FF9's purposeful decision and you respond in a way that makes you sound threatened

>>715098091
looks unarguably better if you don't have shit in the eyes

>>715098134
i was just expanding on what you said, if anything sound threatened it's you

>>715083165
There's something I like in all the FF mainline games and eras pre 7th gen.

It's really good.

>>715098371
based, they're all soulful despite their individual flaws. I'd replay them for the end of time over any new slop that SE released for gen 7th and later.

>>715098340
>i was just expanding on what you said
which mentioned nothing about whether I thought FF9's aesthetics are good or bad
>if anything sound threatened it's you
I wasn't the one crying about "soul" in a discussion about the realities of game development and comparing what games look like at the beginning and end of the first 3D console cycle

>>715093591
FF7 has the best cast. Evidenced by the fact people are willing to overlook multiverse shenanigans simply because the remakes let them spend more time with the characters, get to see them talk to each other, see their reactions to plot points in 4k. I've never seen anyone talk about Tidus/Yuna the same way people are obsessed over Tifa/Cloud/Aerith, something thats literally spanned over two generations now

>>715080361 (OP)
yeah, after all this time it's still my GOAT (although people are correct in calling it easy)
that said I do still have a fuckton of classics left to play

>>715098672
>which mentioned nothing about whether I thought FF9's aesthetics are good or bad
you really are fucking retarded holy shit

>>715098696
>I've never seen anyone talk about Tidus/Yuna the same way people are obsessed over Tifa/Cloud/Aerith
That's true. But I would disagree that this means it has the best cast. People mainly care about those three, but nobody obsesses over Cait Sith, Red, Cid, or Vincent.

>>715098672
NTA but you're clearly unhinged sensing hostility where there isn't any. Maybe it's past medication time?

>>715098883
>can't refute anything
>"y-you're retarded!!"
every time

>>715098965
>you're clearly unhinged sensing hostility
Yes, crying that only people who enjoy (thing) have a soul isn't hostile at all

>>715098371
no there isnt

>>715098994
>me: hey this guy is mentioning FF9 chibi style, something that has very often been criticized. I'm going to piggyback on it to mention that it looks great and people who don't like it are mongoloids
>you: ahem i never said anything about whether it's good or what, why do you feel threatened?
are you done arguing with your strawmen?

>>715099142
that was literally just playful banter, is it your first day on this site?

>>715098910
i see people post about them all the time

>>715099327
>him: WOW WHY DON'T PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT FF7 HAVING CHIBIS BUT COMPLAIN ABOUT FF9 HAVING CHIBIS?
>me: because FF7 was forced to have chibis due to not knowing how to push new hardware to its limit, which they then advanced past with the next game. It then became a specific design choice in the game after that.
>him: YEAH WELL CHIBIS ARE GREAT IT'S PEOPLE WITH SOULS THAT LIKE THEM
are you done arguing yours?

>>715099413
>that was literally just playful banter
reads more like someone getting butthurt that other people disagree with their point of view that no one was even questioning at the time

>>715098696
Cloud hard carries FF7 tho
>>715097884
Right. Umaru, Gogo, Relm, Strago, Yuffie, Gau, Mog, Amarant, Eiko were all amazing characters with a huge role in the plot

>>715100003
>he is still arguing with his strawmen
what a boring existence

>>715100526
Yuffie was an optional character. Amarant was 100% meant to be either an optional character or not playable at all, just recurring. FF6 isn't fair cause there was too many and for a snes game it was quite heavy story wise. Eiko is one of the last two summoner and basically serves as device to learn more about the tribe.

>>715101113
at least I'm making an argument instead of just whining
>what a boring existence
If this conversation offends you so much you could simply stop replying to or acknowledging me but I'm betting you won't

>>715098910
There's actually a ton of Cait Sith posts I see for some reason, furry stuff probably but they are there

>>715101361

>>715101457
thanks for proving me right

>>715101435
probably because he is ridiculously odd and quirky, to this day I still don't get what it's supposed to be.

>>715098696
People obsess over cloud/aerith/tifa because shipping culture. Tidus and Yuna loved each other canonically so there's no debate for the fans.

>>715080361 (OP)
The remake is better, it rendered OG FFVII completely obsolete.

>>715080361 (OP)
I don't get what hooked people on this one the lego graphics are so shit they are legit worse than the sprite that came before it and the only thing that really differs between characters at this point are limit breaks anyone can do anything they are all just materia slots at the end of the day

>>715102016
where's my snowboard minigame? where's my golden chocobo? where are my weapon superbosses?

>>715102016
> it rendered OG FFVII completely obsolete
so how were the fights against the weapons? was bizzaro sephiroth a multi party fight? Does it have ruby and emerald?

>>715102168
The CG cutscenes displayed in the marketing
One of the best playable casts to this day
Arguably gaming's most iconic death
One of the best story twists in JRPG or possibly gaming history

>>715102290
maybe once its actually finished, square operating with constant losses so im expecting dlc out the fucking ass

>2025
>We have had the hardware to properly do justice to the Amano style
>Everyone just makes everything photorealistic
Cursed timeline

>>715103404
omega m/f and warrior of light in ffxiv is the closest we'll get

FF7 Remake was doomed
>Nojima brain rot, the guy who had Tidus mistakenly kicking a mine and dying
>Being forced to take into consideration all of that garbage that was produced since the release of the OG
>Unreal Engine which let them scramble for shitty outsourced assets and it shows
>Inconsistent art direction due to compilation shit
>Cowardice either from writers or wanting to meet pg13 such as goo blood, barely any real havoc when the plate falls down etc
Had it been produced 2009-2012 it would have most likely been better.

>>715102016
actually one of the cool things the remakes did that isnt talked about enough is that the og FF7 is still its own canonical tale that isnt retconned, rather the sequels have a similar sequence of events but have had some time and multiverse stuff influence the plot in a different way.

>>715104615
The remake is good though.

>>715083398
kys

>>715106854
Despite all the flaws I still enjoyed it but, the mistakes the game makes are mind boggling retardation.
For example most people could get behind the addition of SOLDIERs being dispatched to track down Cloud & CO.
And the end result, ends up being that fucking retard Roche.

sex sex sex with yuffie sex with tifa sex sex sex with aeris i need sex sex sex

>>715080361 (OP)
Only GameFaqs retards think this game is good

>>715080361 (OP)
I was one of the ones that tried it despite being old as fuck, and let me tell you that it's one of the best. Play the original on a PS1/CRT for maximum soul. The original retains the proper tone and atmosphere of what it was trying to convey, don't rush it and take your time, you're going to have a blast. Never subscribe to the faggot notion that just because it's old and has outdated graphics by today's garbage standards that it's somehow bad, a good game is a good game despite time.

>>715111736
Samefag

>>715104615
The game will be defended to the death by people who would have loved it no matter what. All they want is more time with the characters. It doesn't matter if it's tedious, boring, nonsensical, badly written, insulting to your intelligence, utter trash. You could make a 100 hour game set in Seventh Heaven and they'd like it, because they get more time with the characters. At some point they became obsessed with the characters, but don't actually care about the story or the game they're in.
Is AC good? No, but it gives us more time with the characters, so they like it.
Is BC good? No, but it gives us more time with the characters, so they like it.
Is CC good? No, but it gives us more time with the characters, so they like it.
Is DoC good? No, but it gives us more time with the characters, so they like it.
Is 7R good? No, but it gives us more time with the characters, so they like it.

>>715112282
You forgot First Soldier.

>>715103404
>2025
>Amano draws a mobile resident evil gacha

>>715080361 (OP)
Of course. Literally in the top 5 games of all time. That is why its still talked about almost 28 years later.

>>715080361 (OP)
No, Expedition33 effortlessly mogged it and all other chink JRPGs across the board. Only pathetic weeb pedophiles still like the latter.

>>715080361 (OP)
Yes it's still good. I just started playing Rebirth yesterday, which is also good, but okay the OG first.

does any version have the mdef issue fixed?

>>715080361 (OP)
Why would you even entertain the notion that age might have done it harm if you already played an even more dated game and liked it? Good excuse as any for an OG FFVII thread though I guess.

Someone is samefagging hard for this game, lol. its very obvious.

be careful not to weep too much

>>715104615
I remember an article that the devs hated the goo blood but depicting the scene accurately would've dipped into an M rating, or its equivalent in Japan anyway.

>>715112282
damn straight, idk why you're saying this like its an insult, I love the characters

Well I played 7 first and liked 6 so it might work in reverse. Some might consider them similar in style like a lot of the technology like FF6 Magitek could easily be in FF7 and the Mako-powered shit in FF7 could easily be in FF6.

>>715080361 (OP)
definitely needs a bit of mods from tsunamods or echo-s.
the main problem it needs fixed is the overly easy combat, or at least on bosses.
but all of the mods for difficulty have a problem with making enemies HP sponges. they do add mechanics for bosses, which is good, but they ruin everything else.
the base game lets u just 1 shot everything, will taking 1% of your HP. you can go through most of the game never touching a potion or cure spell, and thats with no grinding.

my suggestion, run away from most or all random encounters, it was a much better difficulty curve when i ran away from all dungeon mobs, and most world map mobs (only fought world map mobs for gil)

(for mods, use the updated chibi models. the larger models dont fit the world, nor do they match most of the NPCs)

sometimes u need to use the DPad to talk to NPCs behind counters.

>>715102016
Oh, did they make Cid fun to play?

>>715080361 (OP)
I played it around the time that it first came out, I actually have very fond memories of staying up on Christmas Eve night playing it up to the Train Graveyard. Also generated a bunch of monsters in Monster Rancher. I just started a replay on my RG Slide, still probably the most atmospheric Final Fantasy. FFVI is my favorite, but FFVII is a very close second.

>>715080361 (OP)
No. Dropped the game after the raid on Shinra, there's no hook if you heard about the twist, combat feels automated with no room for builds or strategy.

>>715082126
fpbp

>>715113212
>left Square to make a mobile game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91YNtENPL-Y

Not the first time several core members left the company for a mobile game. Hell granblue started out alright.

>>715115583
>3dpd remake whore
opinion discarded

>>715114329
take your fucking meds