Soldato
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Seeing Lionheart limit break for the first time. Wow.
Final Fantasy VII
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Got ff7 running on my android phone.
My god did I forget just how good this game was. AMAZING.
Already racked up a couple of hours, just got to Dons mansion, cloud dressing up as a woman style!
Particularly I forgot how incredible the music was.
Its such a good game, even now I love the visuals. I genuinely think if they released it now in this day and age (having not released it previously) it would still do very very well. its just too addictive!
My god did I forget just how good this game was. AMAZING.
Already racked up a couple of hours, just got to Dons mansion, cloud dressing up as a woman style!
Particularly I forgot how incredible the music was.
Its such a good game, even now I love the visuals. I genuinely think if they released it now in this day and age (having not released it previously) it would still do very very well. its just too addictive!
So?.. I never played it. It has nothing to do with my comment.
Admit it...who else had a tear in their eye when Aeris died? I admit it proudly, my saddest gaming moment
at the time i was like WTF??? you can't kill her off !! i've spent days/weeks/months training her up and you do that?? noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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You should have worded it better then.
I bought it on PS1 on release then on PC on release. It was a right glitchy PC affair before it got patched. Lost my PS1 discs so I bought it on PSN for PSP. Doing a 'complete' playthrough atm. Just got to disc 3 at around level 70 and still loving it 
Still got my FF8 PS1 discs but a bit scratched so couldn't get them onto PSP. Probably will buy that on PSN too =]
Still got my FF8 PS1 discs but a bit scratched so couldn't get them onto PSP. Probably will buy that on PSN too =]
Not really, from the relevant post it's pretty obvious that he was talking about games he'd played, not all games ever. Do you really need people to explain exactly what they mean every time they pass a comment?
I cried
First and only game I've ever cried to. I must have spent 500 + hours on that game doing different play through.
The most emotionally charged FF moment for me was Zidane's epic solo fight, with the music "You are not alone" from FF9. Real tear-jerker that one
The most emotionally charged FF moment for me was Zidane's epic solo fight, with the music "You are not alone" from FF9. Real tear-jerker that one
It was touching, but IX was probably my least favourite of that generation (being VII, VIII and IX). VIII's opening sequence gave me a few shivers, I'm happy to admit, and when you reached that moment later in the game...
As poor as the dialogue is when you go back to play it these days, and while the plot itself may be a little cliched, I'd still rank it as the best story ever told within a computer game. Even with the more mature, "Western-ised" efforts of games like Mass Effect and Half Life 2 around, the level at which this game plays with your emotions is unsurpassed.
What makes it special in my eyes is the sheer number of hugely memorable moments (in most good games you'll get maybe 4 or 5 of these, FF7 has dozens) - off the top of my head:
- the entire opening sequence with the bombing mission
- the whole Don Corneo affair in Wall Market
- the destruction of the sector 7 pillar
- infiltrating the Shinra building, where Sephiroth first appears, and you get your first glimpse of Jenova
- the escape from Midgar and out into the open world
- the first big flashback in Kalm
- Rufus' ceremony at Junon
- the battle with Jenova on the boat
- the first time at Gold Saucer with the Chocobo racing and the desert prison (where we learn of Barret's past)
- Cosmo Canyon where we meet Bugenhagen, get some philosophical enlightenment then that whole emotional sequence with Red XIII and his father
- the first time at Nibelheim in the mansion
- meeting Cid at Rocket town and escaping on the Tiny Bronco
- back to the Gold Saucer and that night with Aeris (great music - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Pi9xgOXvTs)
- the entire Temple of the Ancients
- Aeris leaving the group
- that moment in the City of the Ancients (again, music that invokes memories and tugs at the heart-strings http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBRAkpXTmCs / http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIqKWLkm2-g)
And that's just the first disc! It gets even better from there. I would say around the time of the Jenova reunion was the most I've ever been engrossed in any kind of story-telling medium other than The Wire.
The thing that most great games do to invoke memories are provide you with certain gameplay elements that stick in the mind (the great battle with Sniper Wolf in MGS, Ravenholm in HL2, the temples in Ocarina of Time). What Final Fantasy 7 does is give you fully fleshed out, great story moments on a consistent basis. On the whole, the gameplay doesn't change that much throughout the game - you level up, get newer abilities, encounter some bosses with different tactics, a few minigames - what makes you keep playing is the desire to find out what will happen next.
All of this backed up with easily the finest computer game score of all time from Nobuo Uematsu. Somebody said you couldn't listen to it on it's own - I say you can. Then again, I'm big into my classical music / film scores. But how can you not sit and enjoy this? Or this?
What makes it special in my eyes is the sheer number of hugely memorable moments (in most good games you'll get maybe 4 or 5 of these, FF7 has dozens) - off the top of my head:
- the entire opening sequence with the bombing mission
- the whole Don Corneo affair in Wall Market
- the destruction of the sector 7 pillar
- infiltrating the Shinra building, where Sephiroth first appears, and you get your first glimpse of Jenova
- the escape from Midgar and out into the open world
- the first big flashback in Kalm
- Rufus' ceremony at Junon
- the battle with Jenova on the boat
- the first time at Gold Saucer with the Chocobo racing and the desert prison (where we learn of Barret's past)
- Cosmo Canyon where we meet Bugenhagen, get some philosophical enlightenment then that whole emotional sequence with Red XIII and his father
- the first time at Nibelheim in the mansion
- meeting Cid at Rocket town and escaping on the Tiny Bronco
- back to the Gold Saucer and that night with Aeris (great music - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Pi9xgOXvTs)
- the entire Temple of the Ancients
- Aeris leaving the group
- that moment in the City of the Ancients (again, music that invokes memories and tugs at the heart-strings http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBRAkpXTmCs / http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIqKWLkm2-g)
And that's just the first disc! It gets even better from there. I would say around the time of the Jenova reunion was the most I've ever been engrossed in any kind of story-telling medium other than The Wire.
The thing that most great games do to invoke memories are provide you with certain gameplay elements that stick in the mind (the great battle with Sniper Wolf in MGS, Ravenholm in HL2, the temples in Ocarina of Time). What Final Fantasy 7 does is give you fully fleshed out, great story moments on a consistent basis. On the whole, the gameplay doesn't change that much throughout the game - you level up, get newer abilities, encounter some bosses with different tactics, a few minigames - what makes you keep playing is the desire to find out what will happen next.
All of this backed up with easily the finest computer game score of all time from Nobuo Uematsu. Somebody said you couldn't listen to it on it's own - I say you can. Then again, I'm big into my classical music / film scores. But how can you not sit and enjoy this? Or this?
Some of it was translated a little poorly, but I think the themes hold up well. Particularly Shinra's history as an arms dealer then becoming the defacto government; the puppet mayor and the game's equivalent of the CIA; genetic engineering\experimentation; modern technology vs tradition; industrial pollution; fate vs free will. You even get lessons in Eastern mysticism. That's what I can remember, probably a lot I've missed considering it's a ~40-60 hour game depending on how many sidequests you do.
I do love the music but yeah, i wouldn't really listen to it outside the game, but Crisis Core (the PSP prequel) i bought the soundtrack and would actually listen to that. It is excellent.
Best music of VII- The Turks theme
On a side note I still have a file called 'SAVE09.FF7' on my HDD dated 13/08/1998
Survived many hd deaths
Boot that sucker up!
I'm curious if the following happened with anyone else.
I played through the whole Midgar part and when you finally escape into the open world, I was expecting that to be the end of the game, I was stunned and shocked when the realization hit me that Midgar was just the first part of a very large game.
Before FF7 I hadn't played any game on the same scale and the sheer scope of the game blew me away.
I played through the whole Midgar part and when you finally escape into the open world, I was expecting that to be the end of the game, I was stunned and shocked when the realization hit me that Midgar was just the first part of a very large game.
Before FF7 I hadn't played any game on the same scale and the sheer scope of the game blew me away.
If you get the dialogue options right, you can spend the evening with virtually any character, even Barret
On a side note I still have a file called 'SAVE09.FF7' on my HDD dated 13/08/1998
Survived many hd deaths
My best is only 04/07/2004 but I've played it a few times since then.
Played it on my cousin's Playstation shortly after UK release over a single weekend without much sleep.
It's the reason I then bought a Playstation even though I couldn't actually afford it. Played it through again.
Got a PC and found out it was available for that, so got it for that too.
Played it a few times since but never all the way through, have always got bogged down getting all the Enemy Skills I can, getting Beta early (well as soon as you get the Buggy anyway) and generally doing non story quest stuff and eventually I drift away from it. Only to come back to it again and strat from scratch a year later.
PC version works nice with all the mods and patches and thank goodness for the PS1 music addon, that PC Midi is pretty awful.
Some of the orchestral renditions of FF7 are pretty nice too, especially Aeris' theme.
Yes, this happened to me! Didn't help that it took me 4 or 5 tries to beat that damn roller-ma-jigger, definitely had a 'last boss' feel about it