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Forums - Gaming Discussion - Ocarina of Time vs Final Fantasy 7

 

I prefer...

Ocarina of Time 105 58.33%
 
Final Fantasy 7 75 41.67%
 
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Wyrdness on 16 February 2020
rapsuperstar31 said:
For me its Ocarina hands down, but its not quite fair since I was 100% Nintendo fanboy at the time. The PS2 was my first PlayStation console so by the time I played Final Fantasy VII the graphics looked awful and dated. I tried playing it a few years into the PS2 life cycle and couldn't get into it, until I tried again years later on the PS3. When I played it on the PS3 I really enjoyed it, I just needed to get over the dated graphics and controls. Final Fantasy IX was my preference on the PS1 but VII was a great game as well.

IX imo is the best of the PS1 games I rate it as the second best in the series after VI, I feel those two are the most complete of the classic FF games.



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Shiken on 16 February 2020
JRPGfan said:
derpysquirtle64 said:

First of all, this doesn't look better than OoT and those attached screens prove it. Second, you are comparing a game which used 2D sprites as background with the game made completely in 3D. OoT was more technologically advanced. Yes, it was released almost 2 years later but still.

P.S. I think that it was a bad idea to compare two completely different games.

I dont make excuses to say "one game looks better than another".
I dont care how they went about makeing FF7 look so good for its time, I just think it looks better than Zelda OoT.

Useing techniques to get a beautifull looking game, such as a 2D backgrounds, is just smart.
no one said, it had to be 3D models vs 3D models.

Overall FF7 is a better looking game.

I disagree, having loved both games and having both consoles, Ocarina was always the more impressive game visually overall.

No matter how good the 2D backdrops looked, the blocky NPCs and characters looked out of place.  It takes more than a pretty pic in the background to make the game look good as a whole.



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Landale_Star on 16 February 2020

FFVII. Both are fantastic, had huge impacts at the time and I've replayed them both plenty of times. They are both within my top 20 games of all time. I've heard a lot of arguments that they didn't age well, but I don't agree. I think they play as well today as they did when they released.

Ocarina of Time is my second favourite Zelda game, FFVII is my second favourite Final Fantasy game. I give it to FFVII, because I slightly prefer the story, music, characters, world and materia system over Zelda.



dharh on 16 February 2020
COKTOE said:

I never pass up a chance to mention that I didn't like FF VII.

How I quit playing before that girl died.

How I sold it at a pawn shop and used the money to buy weed.

It's all in my book: Raw, Red, and Beyond

I loved ZOOT at the time, but struggled to enjoy it when I played it briefly again in 2004. I don't think it's held up well. A common sentiment for me as it pertains to games from that gen.


Zelda, because I did really enjoy it at the time.

I also won't pass up this chance to mention how awful a game ocarina of time is compared to its predecessors.

How I started to question why it is that I bought nintendo consoles.

How I bought the gamecube to try WW and yet again came away disappointed.

It's all in my book: Zelda peaked at lttp

FFVII is an iconic example of where RPGs were heading to at the time.  Graphically its aged kinda sour, but gameplay wise it's still a game I play once a year.



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SammyGiireal on 16 February 2020
JRPGfan said:
derpysquirtle64 said:

First of all, this doesn't look better than OoT and those attached screens prove it. Second, you are comparing a game which used 2D sprites as background with the game made completely in 3D. OoT was more technologically advanced. Yes, it was released almost 2 years later but still.

P.S. I think that it was a bad idea to compare two completely different games.

I dont make excuses to say "one game looks better than another".
I dont care how they went about makeing FF7 look so good for its time, I just think it looks better than Zelda OoT.

Useing techniques to get a beautifull looking game, such as a 2D backgrounds, is just smart.
no one said, it had to be 3D models vs 3D models.

Overall FF7 is a better looking game.

But it is not, it wasn't even close back in the late nineties. Zelda felt like you were playing in a real  virtual world, in part because of its outstanding visuals. The same couldn't be said of FFVII, which had the greater story and in 1997 it did a good job of drawing you in visually but it didn't reach the heights of Ocarina. Ocarina was one of the earliest games to feature real light sources, watch Link go into a cave and the lighting realistically affect the character model. Watch him light a torch and the lighting realistically illuminate him. Go out on the field and watch the sun rise and the sun set ...the changes in lighting all over every element in the world remains pleasing to this day, in 1998 there was nothing that like it.

Running around in 2-D photos isn't nearly as engaging as exploring a 3-D world. This is coming from someone who loved FFVII, but Ocarina was a revelation, not only in graphics but in actual game design. 



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derpysquirtle64 on 16 February 2020
JRPGfan said:
derpysquirtle64 said:

First of all, this doesn't look better than OoT and those attached screens prove it. Second, you are comparing a game which used 2D sprites as background with the game made completely in 3D. OoT was more technologically advanced. Yes, it was released almost 2 years later but still.

P.S. I think that it was a bad idea to compare two completely different games.

I dont make excuses to say "one game looks better than another".
I dont care how they went about makeing FF7 look so good for its time, I just think it looks better than Zelda OoT.

Useing techniques to get a beautifull looking game, such as a 2D backgrounds, is just smart.
no one said, it had to be 3D models vs 3D models.

Overall FF7 is a better looking game.

You keep repeating this "FF7 looks better than OoT" mantra when basically everyone here says the opposite. Because OoT OBJECTIVELY is a better looking game. Don't know why you decided to choose "visuals" as the main argument that FF7 is a better game. Should have chosen something else instead.



 

Paperboy_J on 16 February 2020

I think they are both great for different reasons.
FF7 was cool and edgy, while Ocarina was gentle and heartwarming.
FF7 had a better story, Ocarina had better gameplay.
FF7 had a modern political story thhat made you think, while Ocarina was more like a classical fairy tale.
They are both good in their own way.



SammyGiireal on 16 February 2020
derpysquirtle64 said:
JRPGfan said:

I dont make excuses to say "one game looks better than another".
I dont care how they went about makeing FF7 look so good for its time, I just think it looks better than Zelda OoT.

Useing techniques to get a beautifull looking game, such as a 2D backgrounds, is just smart.
no one said, it had to be 3D models vs 3D models.

Overall FF7 is a better looking game.

You keep repeating this "FF7 looks better than OoT" mantra when basically everyone here says the opposite. Because OoT OBJECTIVELY is a better looking game. Don't know why you decided to choose "visuals" as the main argument that FF7 is a better game. Should have chosen something else instead.

This. If I was him, I would have been gone the Story and Music route. Especially on how the story remains relevantly good in the JRPG scene, and how it sort of predicted the current global political scene with Business men leading empires and ecological dangers caused by men (global warming, pollution, etc.). The graphics aspect, isn't a battle FFVII will win over OoT.



Immersiveunreality on 16 February 2020
derpysquirtle64 said:
JRPGfan said:

I dont make excuses to say "one game looks better than another".
I dont care how they went about makeing FF7 look so good for its time, I just think it looks better than Zelda OoT.

Useing techniques to get a beautifull looking game, such as a 2D backgrounds, is just smart.
no one said, it had to be 3D models vs 3D models.

Overall FF7 is a better looking game.

You keep repeating this "FF7 looks better than OoT" mantra when basically everyone here says the opposite. Because OoT OBJECTIVELY is a better looking game. Don't know why you decided to choose "visuals" as the main argument that FF7 is a better game. Should have chosen something else instead.

Well you can call ff7 partual better looking while OOT was the overall most good looking game,OBJECTIVELY speaking  :p

Spoiler!
yeah i lied about being objective,too big of a fanboy :(


JWeinCom on 16 February 2020
SammyGiireal said:
derpysquirtle64 said:

You keep repeating this "FF7 looks better than OoT" mantra when basically everyone here says the opposite. Because OoT OBJECTIVELY is a better looking game. Don't know why you decided to choose "visuals" as the main argument that FF7 is a better game. Should have chosen something else instead.

This. If I was him, I would have been gone the Story and Music route. Especially on how the story remains relevantly good in the JRPG scene, and how it sort of predicted the current global political scene with Business men leading empires and ecological dangers caused by men (global warming, pollution, etc.). The graphics aspect, isn't a battle FFVII will win over OoT.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder... but the prerendered backgrounds are literally the only aspect of FF7 that are better that OOT's visuals on a technical level.  And even that I'd say is debatable because it creates a sort of weird "cartoon characters in the real world" aesthetic.