While at the time I loved FF7 in retrospect you realise a huge amount of the love for it was purely based on the graphics and cutscenes. I actually really dislike what FF7 did to rpgs as it was a huge step backwards, yet because it was so successful most games copied it.

Playing chrono trigger then ff7 is strange because it feels like you are going back in time. CT has a better battle system and no random encounters. Not only that but funnily CT now looks better than FF7. Ct is beautiful 2d whereas FF7 is really really awful 3d, I always dislike that the character designs out of battle are so different to the battle/cutscene character designs. The reason of course being they couldn't get the characters more detailed than just blocks out of battle.

Still I will always like FF7 just because of the nostalgia and the characters, but it does not age well and many many rpgs are far far better. Skies of arcadia immediately springs to mind (althrough unfortunately that too has random battles).

Really looking back at ff7 you can't say that for today there is much good about it. Graphically bad, incredibly simple gameplay etc. In fact I think most people even remember the characters different to how they actually are. Try replaying the game, Aerith dies and it's like erm so what? She has had like 20lines of dialogue, why should I care? There actually isn't a huge amount of character development at all.

Oh and no there is no good argument for random encounters, they are awful. The only game it vaguely makes sense in is pokemon because the whole point is they hide in grass, even then it would be nice if you at least saw grass move so you knew there was a battle, just not what with.

Okay

Who wants me to answer him? I bet nobody can guess the kind of thing I am going to say.

I do.  Why not.

i want you to answer him lol

Will we ever see a JRPG like FF7?
I hope not. That game was trash.

Is there no love for Phantasy Star? =P

You guys bashing VII back and forth like this...then explain to me this...

Why is VII the only one to get the most spin-off's pre-quels and sequels!

VII is also the only NUMBERED Final Fantasy to have its own movie.

It even has its own official Anime film.

And its quite obvious its fanbase is largest among the rest...

Then again you guys are entitled to your opinions, although the clarity of it all is that VII is infact the Final Fantasy game that put Square were they are today.

So in my personal Opinion... Final Fantasy VII > Everyother...

Of course.... Untill Versus XIII comes out...

Then...

Versus XIII > Every other Final Fantasy.

All in my "honest" opinion. ~_^

Advertising.

FF7, had the biggest advertising budget for an RPG to this date... and was the first RPG many many people played due to being at the forefront of a 100 million dollar ad campaign run by Sony.

That's why FF7 was so big.

@Kasz216- What does Sony have to do with Final Fantasy VII? i mean... i know they own some part of the series but other then that at the time till now what else? O_o

They don't own part of the series.

Sony marketed FF7 however.

It was the spearhead of their advertising campaign in the US and UK... the US campaign somewhere over 100 million, and a seperate UK campaign over 100 Million pounds.

Sony made FF7 big.  Not SE.