Oh boy , IGN is doing another TOP 100 list - TOP 100 RPGS ALL TIME

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I somehow doubt the advert budgets were all that different.

I said both are possibilities but how about we subtract them both and just look at the opinions for what they are and without assuming underlining bias.No one can disprove bias but they can't prove it either. Now take the general consensus of those vs what Critics have been saying the last few years and you will notice a disconnect. This is not to confuse the Critic's need to denounce FFVII at every turn as bias, rather than unobjective.

I didn't bring up the Esper/Materia, you did. We were never talking full on FF to Star Ocean type transformation of combat system here. All the final fantasy's suttle and not so suttle similarities in battle, Yet they all are distinctive enough to stand on their own. FFVII's system is no copy of VI's so no one can try and take from the Materia system's popularity(frequently ripped off completely in other games, Dragoneer's Aria for one). That is my only point with this.

FFVII invented the fleshed out cutscene. Without it you would not see stories conveyed the way Mass Effect and many other RPGs after FFVII do. Cinematic cut-scenes for many gamers was like a treat for making it to a certain point in the game(that's how I felt about them). N64 couldn't handle that. If FF never jumped shipped with VII, Aerith's death would have never been as impactful, nor would Sephiroth's burning down of Nibelheim. Hence why it would have been a tragedy to have made the game without the cut-scenes.