Final Fantasy VII new TGS trailer

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haxxiy said:

The Fury said:

I mean, I don't fully believe the 'wanted to fit a lot of things' else they would have made FF7 3 games originally. I think FF7 was made to exactly what the originally wanted. Like do they claim that about FF6? FF6 by many fans is well considered the better game and story but the developers of it never talk about it being incomplete.

That said, yeah, I expect a lot of filler. As long as it isn't just 'hunts' FF13 and 12 were filled with that.

Well, of course, when content is good enough, neither fans nor developers are going to claim they are having enough of it. Good books, series or movies merit sequels. Bad ones get edited and trimmed down to more palatable sizes, or have sudden endings slapped to them. A lot of folks moan and say, artistic vision this and that... but in fact most of people involved in these areas just want to be good and entertaining storytellers.

Also, despite the rampant internet narrative, games like FFVI or FFIX have never sold gangbusters, nor were seen as particularly rising above the tide of other similarly good RPGs. In fact, specially concerning FFVI, I've found no evidence in old magazine scans, sites etc. that this narrative is any older than the early to mid 2000s when some criticism was being leveled at the FF formula after the release of FFX and FFXI and these past titles were oportunistically "rediscovered".

No other FF game but VII has the cultural impact to ever merit this sort of expansion.

I want to say that FF7 is my favorite Final Fantasy game.  Having said that, what you are claiming about FF6 is not really true.

FF6 was the best selling RPG in the 16-bit era.  It sold about double what FF4 sold.  It also sold more than Chrono Trigger.  It sold more than Super Mario RPG.  Technically it even outsold Dragon Quest 6, because the DQ game was never released outside of Japan.  For it's time, Final Fantasy 6 was a huge deal.  It did "rise above the tide" of every other RPG of its era.  It was also authentically considered a masterpiece of it's time, with only Chrono Trigger really sometimes argued as the better game.  FF6 was a very big deal.

Now, I don't want to take away from FF7, because that is when RPGs actually became a huge deal outside of Japan.  But FF6 was a key stepping stone to that.  FF6 was the biggest console RPG ever before FF7 came along.