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[Kasz216]

forevercloud3000 said:

Kasz216 said:

It's probably because you were 8.

The SNES FF games are much more complicated game then FF7.

That finally fantasy 7 was the first to catch your eye at a young age and that you hadn't played any of them  but saw them before you were old enough to appreciate them very definition of a preconception.

The fact that you think FF4 has a poorly written story is just... scary.

FF4 argueably has the most consitsent and most well written story of pretty much any Final Fantasy game because it ties them themes of redemption so well in regards to basically every main character in the game.

I'd really suggest playing it again, because it does so much on basic themes and levels it's practically literary in it's symbolism and story.

Also the "FF7 hate wagon" began as soon as it was released.  Most Final Fantasy enthusiasts from the previous generation didn't seem to like it.   Though like you said you were probably too young to notice.

 

Final Fantasy games before 7 were more like books or plays.  While FF7 and on, have been more like movies in terms of storytelling and how they convey things.

(With the exception of FF Tactics.)

Which is why FF7 was so popular by the way...

not because it was in the right place at the right time (though that did help).

It's because most people prefer movies to books or plays.

I may  have been 8 when I started playin VII but like I said, I realize i did not fully understand it then. I was a few FF games in and wiser once I got to VI. At the time of playing VI for the first time I had no favorite in the series, so I see my interpretations of each title as fair as possible. I mean do you cling to VI simply because it was the swan song before the death of the FF-SNES era? I doubt you do so Why is it fair to say FFVII is only liked because it was many's "first"? Persona 3 was my first in the series, but I like P4 more than it. Mind you I was blind to all the supposed marketing hype around VII as well because I never saw the commercials. I got a front row demonstration of all of them and assessed from there.

about FFIV...

The ORGININAL text(not the updated more fleshed out dialogue from the many updates) was pretty horrendous to me. I would have to play the games again to find some of the utterly cringe worthy things the characters would say, plus there is the famous Spoony bard thing. Now the updated versions do wonders for the story to me, especially the DS version with the chibi FFVII like graphics. Even SE admits that the original game had truncated dialogue mostly due to the cartridge limitations. This was only corrected in later remakes.

VI's script was much better written but not on par with what I fell in love with with FFVII later on. I find the previous FF games before PS1 to be far more simplistic in story than the ones after(until XIII that is) .You might be right about the formating of the way everything is done, movie vs play. Yet I see it more like a well written Soap Opera rather than a Movie. The movie feeling doesn't register for me till X and on.

I specifically said that wasn't why people liked it best.

I said specifically you liked 7 best because you were too young to appreciate FF games when they were younger.

It was the first that caught your eye, which you yourself mentioned, and it was the first of the "new style" final fantasy games.

As such, what a "final fantasy game should be" is based around FF7.

For Persona games, 4 is like 3... just better.

7 and 6 are very different in terms of exuction, plot detail, and writing focus.  The SNES ones are just more cerebral.

Also, no... the SNES version FF2 is still better written then most final fantasy games from a technical and narrative perspective.  They couldn't fit everything in there... but they still fit in plenty, and tended to do so well.

 

As for me by the way.   My first Final Fantasy was the first.