Why is FINAL FANTASY VII overrated?

[Rocky]

I wouldn't say that FF7 is overrated by any means. FF7 is a solid all-around great game, and believe it or not I'm not even an Cloud/Sephy fanboy, so you can take it for what it's worth. On the other hand, Final Fantasy 7 is by no means underrated either. A lot of people live and die by this game, and because of it's enormous Twilight-ish following, there has been plenty of spinoffs and tidbits thrown in various games from the FF7 game.

I think a big thing that bothers me with this game most of all is just how it seems to be half-ass at times. Like starting up the game, I'm just like "aw yeah hot flower girl oh shi- focus on the mission gotta blow this shizzle up ok right in the action." It had a good pace. Some terrorists are trying to make the world go green, so they hire some BA with a huge sword (thats you) to help blow shit up. It's all fine and dandy, you do a couple missions, then you get seperated, left for dead, etc. You get saved by some lady, reunite with your team, infiltrate the biggest corporation in the world, and so on. I'd say that most of the first disc is pretty good. After you realize your true goal, you set out to find and stop this madman that wants to destroy the world. Sure, you get a few fruity characters like Red XIII and Cait Sith, but hey what game doesn't have those people? (Take Peco from BoF3 or Chu-Chu from Xenogears for example).

Anywho, once the game gets to the second disk, FF7 has been having me go "lolwut?" on several different occasions. A lot of plot twists happen and things get really complicated, and don't make sense a lot of the time even after the game is finished. I had to replay the game at least twice just to figure most of the plot out. So yeah, that's probably why people say the story is very confusing.

Anyways, the game does a lot of things right, like having good pace, a sweet materia system, fun minigames, and all kinds of other hidden things. I encourage you to play it. Once again though, I don't believe it's overrated or underrated by any means. It does a lot of things right and has a large fanbase because of it.

[Gilgamesh2000]

...Anyways, the game does a lot of things right, like having good pace, a sweet materia system, fun minigames, and all kinds of other hidden things. I encourage you to play it. Once again though, I don't believe it's overrated or underrated by any means. It does a lot of things right and has a large fanbase because of it.

You are right it does have its fine points and everything, but I feel that FF VII is overrated due to how far the story goes. For example, FF Crisis Core tells before the game while FF: AC tells what happens after the main game. Not to mention that Sephiroth has appeared on countless occasions but don't get me wrong he is an excellent character, but they shed to much of a focus on him.

[Xanatos]

I've played FF VII not too long ago and to be honest I don't see what's all the fuss about, I don't say that the game is bad just the contrary it's good but nothing more and nothing less. The game is overrated only because there are too many obsessed fans that worship this game more than anything in their life and exactly because of them SquareSoft saw it's big chance to make some serious cash by milking this franchise for such long time.