| CrazzyMan said: FFVI - FFVII - FFVIII - FFX FAVOURITE DEPENDS ONLY WHICH ONE YOU PLAYED FIRST in 90% cases. =) FFVII was first for me. =) |
It seems like most of the final fantasy fans who love 7 are final fantasy noobs who didn't play the best final fantasy games.
Final Fantasy 1 was a religious experience for me. The map, the monster chart, the story, the freedom, the setting. It was all amazing. At the time, it was one of my favorite gaming experiences. I played it for something like 17 hours straight, and when you are very young, that's a lot.
Final Fantasy 4 and Final Fantasy 6 were vastly improved in almost every way. They had better stories, better battles, better everything. Fantastic games.
And then Final Fantasy 7. Your character was a pussy sitting in the middle of some high school melodrama love triangle. I tried so hard to get behind it and enjoy the game. I played through the first two CDs, got to this shitty snowboarding minigame and quit. And when characters died, I'd laugh. It was over the top -- I was supposed to care about her? I don't.
To a large extent Final Fantasy games are about living an experience. And if your character is impossible to emphatize with, what do you have?
