Why is FINAL FANTASY VII overrated?

[nix]

Refusing not to play other Final Fantasy games and insisting that out of the few or one the player as has played is arrogant, foolish, and very subjective because you are only judging by iteslf or with a few other Final Fantasies. If Person A only played Final Fantasy X-2 and said that was the greatest Final Fantasy of all time and refuses to play the rest - that is stupid and their opinion does not matter or hold weight at all. How can Person A be so sure that Final Fantasy X-2 is the greatest when they have/will not play the rest of the series to validate their opinion? By not doing so that shows that Person A maybe scared that another Final Fantasy maybe better and that their old favourite was crappy and that they were foolish to think that Final Fantasy X-2 was the greatest.

The graphics of a game do not a game crappy, bad, horrible, etc (except for Constantine for PS2 that was very crappy that it is allowed to take a toll on an already bad game). The first Final Fantasy I beat was FF X, but I wanted to go back and play I-IX because they were Final Fantasies and my friends had said that they were good. Graphics should always be the least most important factor in grading an RPG. Lair looks better than Final Fantasy 16-bit era of Final Fantasy, but those games are better than it.

Show me where i said FF7 was the greatest in the series... Ok you cant, because i didnt...

FF7 is my fav FF ive played, nothing more.. i refuse to play the FF's before meerley because i dont enjoy playing dated games (Yes ive tried). It may not be a factor for you, but it is for me, in the end its own personnel taste, i enjoy good graphics aswell as the rest.

And to this day FF7 is still half decent to play, alot easier on the eye than FFVI and all FF's before, it raised the bar alot higher than the ones before did in terms of everything, and thats why it gets deemed over rated.

[Zargabaath]

Show me where i said FF7 was the greatest in the series... Ok you cant, because i didnt...

FF7 is my fav FF ive played, nothing more.. i refuse to play the FF's before meerley because i dont enjoy playing dated games (Yes ive tried). It may not be a factor for you, but it is for me, in the end its own personnel taste, i enjoy good graphics aswell as the rest.

And to this day FF7 is still half decent to play, alot easier on the eye than FFVI and all FF's before, it raised the bar alot higher than the ones before did in terms of everything, and thats why it gets deemed over rated.

First part I was going along with what Sasquatch said and so the "being very subjective because you are only..." was meant as the player, not specifically you; my error.

You are a sad part of the gaming community where graphics are such an important part of what games you play and like. Unfortunately it appears you cannot see that graphics don't make the game, especially with RPGs, so you will have this "poor" taste in video games till you mature in this aspect.

Let me know when Final Fantasy VII becomes dated because that's when you won't be able to play your favourite Final Fantasy. It would be interesting to know how much of a fan to the series you are and how great or how much you liked Final Fantasy VII. If Final Fantasy VII is one of your favourite games of all time it would be hilarious to hear you explain how you don't like playing one of your favourite games because you are a "graphics lady of the evening" (I'm not calling you a woman if you aren't either*).

[nix]

I can't argue with you, you clearly haven't read any of my posts or grasped my point to any extent.

Your also being very very ignorant yourself, as if your view on games is the be all and end all of how games should be rated. Wake the **** up mate, everybody has a preference and ive better things to be doing with my time than playing a game thats more than 15 years old and looks and sounds like complete poo.

FFVI looks like shit, FFVII doesnt..

[Zargabaath]

If the final fantasy games prior to 7 were released when everybody else got them i would have played them most likely. I didnt want to play them years after they were made as they look crap and boring to play by then.


Plus FF8 was out that year, and soul calibur, tiberian sun, system shock2, counter strike, i was knee deep in great games to play, oh wait hang on!!, let me whip out my snes and play a game thats over 5 years old instead! bah!

With your "irrationality" a game that is old is boring to play, but when it was new it would/could have been enjoyable. Do you see how flawed and irrational that is? How old a game is does not impact how fun the game is. If a game is fun then it is fun. Videogames do not age like milk. Also you seem to be worried about playing the latest "hip" games out because of some insecurity you may have in playing an old game and beeing seen as a "loser"; that's what I'm feeling here.

I can't argue with you, you clearly haven't read any of my posts or grasped my point to any extent.

Your also being very very ignorant yourself, as if your view on games is the be all and end all of how games should be rated. Wake the **** up mate, everybody has a preference and ive better things to be doing with my time than playing a game thats more than 15 years old and looks and sounds like complete poo.

FFVI looks like shit, FFVII doesnt..

I have read your posts. I do grasp your "points". Your "points" are irrational. Your "points" show how much of a fan of videogames you are which turns out you are mainly, excuse my bluntness everybody else as I held back last time, a graphics whore. That is a major part of why you game, forget about gameplay, story, characters, music, all which are more important in an RPG and for most other genres as well. Graphics are at the low end of the spectrum; realizing that or not is up to the individual and if they don't it makes them a fool.

Because all 15 year old games look and sould like poo and are horrible to play. Because graphics are the end all, be all of what games people should play. While Final Fantasy VI may not be my favourite, and I feel over-rated, the music from that game is tied, in my opinion, for first place in the entire series; tons of great sounding songs from a SNES game. There are tons of games that had great music back in the day, but to say that all old games are complete trash when you have not played them are don't give them a fair chance because you are ageist relating to games.

[nix]

I should as to this that apparently, with your "irrationality" a game that is old is boring to play, but when it was new it would/could have been enjoyable. Do you see how flawed and irrational that is? How old a game is does not impact how fun the game is. If a game is fun then it is fun. Videogames do not age like milk. Also you seem to be worried about playing the latest "hip" games out because of some insecurity you may have in playing an old game and beeing seen as a "loser"; that's what I'm feeling here..

Because when it was first released it would have been the best graphics available, i wouldnt have known any better. However only given the option years later to play it, it was extremely dated in comparison to what was available. And i was busy playing other better games than a side scroll 2d rpg which offered nothing new in terms of gameplay.

The only good point it could have had was a good story, but hey i have books for that

Heck FFXII's graphics were amazing, but it was the biggest pile of shit ever, i gave up on that too.

The game has to grip me and pull me in, im not easily amused, perhaps thats the problem here?

RPG's are easy, the only thing they can offer is story and graphics, nothing more, if it doesnt have both, im not gonna play it. I'll play something else, simple as that..