Aeris's *SPOILER* isn't all that.

[Antidrall]

...How the hell can you compare Final Fantasy VII with The Darkness? There's a whole decade between the release dates for crying out loud! The main differences are that there's actual voice acting in The Darkness as opposed to FFVII, and The Darkness has better graphics.

Two completely different games from different ages, my friend.

Pick another game from '97 or pre-'97, compare, and then I'll probably take you a little seriously. Because back in the day when Rocky was a youngin' and not a grandpa, that scene was really sad.

EDIT: It sounds like you've only just played FFVII. Which isn't a big deal, but ten plus years later it's not going to have the same effect, is it?

No, I'm not comparing the two games, I'm just talking about character death in general. Killing off a character when it would do very little to the story is a lazy way of adding shock value to a narrative. as for the comparison of character death, I put up a spoiler for final fantasy tactics at the top post.

I played FF7 twice in my life. once when I first got it when I was like 14 or something and thought it's story and characters were strong if a little silly at times. When I was playing I was surprised that the game was trying to tell me that the two loved each other because I didn't really see anything that counted as flirtatious or affectionate between the two. Other than that I thought it was a good game. Then I played it recently and I was even less impressed. Whenever I say something like that, people assume I want shiny graphics or voice acting. No. I love those old crappy polygon graphics. I love the text boxes. It all seems a bit more tasty to me. the music is memorable and all that crap, but the story and characters were just so cliched, and the character design either stupid, pointless, or impractical. To me, FF7 is adequate. nothing more nothing less. But Believe me, I would rather play FF7 than FFX. I still have flashbacks from that atrocity.

Edit: Also, time has no bearing on the quality of a story. by that logic, Transformers 2 is better than Citizen Kane.

Edit 2: Also, it most likely wouldn't have been to difficult for a first person view of Cloud and Aeris making out in a n FMV. Or even an implication that they've gone on a brief date or something while they're saving the world (I call bullshit on the gold saucer, that was not sweet, endearing or romantic, it was more like siblings going on a theme park tour.