| MrMarc said: 1)Ok, so I've posted here a little while now but I thought I'd finally actually make my first topic here heh. I've been thinking about this topic a while now and it's just something I gotta pickle you people with. I regard FF7 as quite possibly my all-time favourite videogame, I think it was the game that introduced me to the concept of real storytelling in videogames, it was amongst the first RPG's I'd ever played, and a totally new experience to me when I first played it aged... trying to think heh, around 12 or 13. 2)Whilst I love this videogame so closely to my heart, and still visit it from time to time despite playing the thing to death, I know all too well there's alot of heated debate over FF7. It was the game that introduced alot of new players to the Final Fantasy series, myself included, and I have the impression that the FF players from previous NES and SNES generation titles have feel a bit of hatred towards FF7 for the direction it took the series in. By that I mean the whole Sci-Fi oriented theme, and putting alot more empaphis on growing love stories in the game (come on admit it, you all loved Aeris no matter how annoying the bitch actually got!).
3)Over the last year or so though, especially with the milking of FF7 with the likes of Advent Children (an exception I'd say cos it is wicked), Dirge of Cerberus, Crisis Core etc etc, I've noticed a more consistent hatred towards the title growing from many people, some of which I've seen on these forums too. 4)I guess the question I'm ultimately getting to is this: Is it now cool to hate FF7? I dunno, maybe I'm aiming at this in the wrong way but it almost seems to me now that it's a popular thing to do to diss FF7 becaus everyone else is doing it too. 5)What's everyone think? I'm not a mega-hardcore FF fan, I thoroughly love 7 and 10, really enjoyed 8 and 9, but I've next to no experience with the pre-7 titles, apart from playing through all of... I think FF4 on the PS1 collections (FF4 was the one with the final boss fight on the moon wasn't it? Heh) so maybe my appreciation of the series as a whole could be very different... |
1) I have this feeling with FFVI.
2) Well I agree, I don't hate the game but the SCI-FI theme made me feel so sad at that time + I also hated the fact that I bought a N64 for that game and see the game release on a console I had never heard about.
3) Well, I hate it that they always do something special about FFVII why not about the other games? People loves the other games too and some really love other FF's.
4) Nah not really hating but it is always FFVII some FF fans who don't like FFVII want to see other FF's movies/ sequels/Preguels/ spin off game etc...
5) Well I played all FF's and finished them all except the FFVII spin offs + FF tactics..
I am not a Die hard fan but I can't miss FF....It is a part of my life serious...And you can find me in the store when a new FF release.
