True enough.  The PS1 did greatly expand the videogame market.  I wonder how FF7 would rank for me if I hadn't played the SNES FF games.

Hard to say.  Can't help but feel the game might have had inflated expectations because of how good 4 and 6 were.  

I still don't see myself liking the game.  Though I don't think i'd dislike it.  It'd still be below just about every SNES RPG i'd played though i'd imagine.  The SNES was king of the Turn Based RPG.

Eh it'd be above 7th Saga. I love that game but it's not great. 

Here is the thing.  Everyone in this thread who is talking about how they disliked FF7 seems to have played it.

This would indicate that they had Playstation 1's.  So why would anyone care? 

I don't really think FFVII is a bad game, I just think there are much *much* better RPG's and FF games out there.

As for the comment of me saying I think I would put FFVII a lot higher on my list if I hadn't played any of the previous better FF games, it's like saying I think Pokemon is the greatest CCG ever yet I had never played M:tG.

The Pokemon CCG isn't a terrible game and even has some good points, but it isn't anything compared to some of the better CCG's like Magic: the Gathering.  I could just see someone thinking that Pokemon is the best card game ever and then someone says here, play this as they hand them a Magic deck.  It's like the same thing with someone saying FFVII is the best RPG ever and then letting them play FFVI. 

 It has been proclaimed as the saviour of the console nearly every day, and it is by far my most anticipated game on the system except for GTA IV

Fail.

Final Fantasy 7 and 8 were released on the PC.

In fact, I stated in an above posted that I never played the PSX versions--only PC.

Well I mean it more in terms of branding.

My expectations for a Final Fantasy game are just naturally going to be higher then for a new IP like Blue Dragon because i expect (or did back then anyway) an RPG of the highest quality. I wonder if FF7 might of jumped some of the more generic RPGs i've played had I never played a Final Fantasy game.

Most people branding effects them positivly but i'm not a brand loyal type person, often changing products i use on a whim and roatating between different games, genres, soda's, clothes... you name it pretty much.

Therefore the positive effects of branding are somewhat lost on me while the higher expectations still remain.

It certainly would move up.  I just wonder if it would jump any "Non FF" games. 

Fair enough. I missed that. Personally i was told FF7 CPU version was an abomination against god. From people who liked the PS1 version. (Which is why i bought FF7 3 times for PS1 instead of the PC version.)

But I mean if you had a computer capable of playing games then that was an even better reason not to care.

Eh, then again it was a stupid comment. I mean there are plenty of people on this site who have multiple or even all 3(or even 5) game systems and seem to have bias'.

Its just something i don't understand... probably due to the above mentioned lack of brand loyalty.

I remember I tried the PC version of FFVII and all it did was break my computer. ;_;

It broke your computer?  O.o

Are you sure that when you say "it" you don't mean "you?"

 Broke might be a little extreme.  I might have meant to say it didn't fucking work and I threw it in a corner after tryign several days to get it to work.  Several days later, my computer mysteriously stopped working (though they could be because of many many things >_>).