Why is FF7's shocking moment considered the most shocking *spoilers*

[Crazymann]

d21lewis said:

d21lewis said:
Nei's death (I won't say which game, but it was a pretty big deal in the RPG world) was pretty impactful, too. People were using glitches and everything to bring that character back. Final Fantasy 7 didn't do it first. It just did it to a bigger audience (like Michael Jackson and the Moonwalk).

Damn, but my comment was late!  I guess I should've read the thread.  My point was made already.

I was beginning to think that nobody agreed with me.  I will say that I had never played a game before that where a character in your party died, so it made quite the impact.  By the time FF7 rolled around, death in the party was no big thing.  I wonder what game was "first" with the death angle.