Is FFVII Over-rated Follow

Yes.

Also, my first FF was FFX, and I still love that game despite the main character.

It's overrated in the sense that people beat it to death by talking about it nonstop, which kind of ruined the game for a lot of people. In terms of quality, it is not overrated. Is it worth such a following that there are 3,180,000 results on Google for "Sephiroth?" (not counting XSephirothX or other variations) No, not really. In terms of an RPG must-play it is excellent.

I completely agree, Doug.

The game isn't bad, but people are so hopped up on Cloud and Sephiroth that they dilute the game for so many people. It did wonders for the FF franchise by bringing into the next generation of consoles.

Yes.

I think it's one of the better ones in the series, but I'm more of a fan of the SNES games and FF9 myself. All in all, I think the Final Fantasy series in general is a little overrated. Many people out there consider themselves hardcore RPGers and won't even touch games not made by Square. Myself, I didn't know much outside of Square games until I stumbled across Lunar and later Fallout, Suikoden and Star Ocean. those opened up my eyes to the fact that there's a lot of great RPGs out there that weren't made by Square.

Caps for my favorites.

PS1:
Star Ocean (2): The Second Story (First game was on the Super Famicom only, but there's an English remake on the PSP now. You don't need to play them in order to know what's going on. There's also a good fan translation patch for the Super Famicom ROM out there. There was an anime series made out of the first half of Star Ocean 2.)
Wild Arms was alright...
Suikoden (You don't need to play this series in order either as it's not in chronological order, but I'd recommend playing 1, 2 and 3 in that order because you can import save info from your memory card after beating one and have the next one start with bonuses.)
SUIKODEN II (Best in the series IMO)
LUNAR: Silver Star Story Complete, and Eternal Blue Complete. (These are complete remakes of the old Sega CD games.)
Arc the Lad Collection (This comes with the first 3 games in the series. ARC THE LAD II is the best in the series and they even made an okay anime series out of it.)
Some people liked SaGa Frontier. I found it too unfocused to actually finish any character's storyline.
Front Mission 3 (another series that doesn't need you to pick up at the beginning (the first 2 games were on the Super Famicom.)
Parasite Eve
Vagrant Story
BREATH OF FIRE III (I'm guessing that you've played this since Dragon Quarter is on your list.)
Breath of Fire IV
BRAVE FENCER MUSASHI
XENOGEARS (If you haven't played Xenogears, but you've played Xenosaga all the way through, you'll be seeing familiar stuff that seems slightly strange all the way through. I played Xenogears first, and I swear I still thought that there was a chance that Namco might have secretly bought the rights to make it a Xenogears prequel up until about an hour before I beat episode 3. I figured I knew what would happen to KOS-MOS at the end of the series from the moment Shion entered her password at the beginning of episode 1 because I had played Xenogears first. I was wrong though. Anyway, if you play Xenogears, make sure to watch the opening video again after you beat it. There's a ton of stuff there that you will notice that you won't recognize until you've beaten it.)

PS2:
Suikoden III
Suikoden IV was not that great IMO, but it has its moments.
Suikoden V (Only slightly less awesome than 2 IMO. It incorporates pretty much all the best stuff from the previous games.)
Front Mission 4 was pretty good from the little bit I got to play of it, but they changed some things that I liked better in 3.
Star Ocean (3): Til the End of Time

Anyway, there's some stuff to look over. Now I have a question. I thought about picking up Rogue Galaxy before my PS2 went stupid on me. I like Skies of Arcadia and Baten Kaitos, and it looks kind of like those. My question is does it play like or feel like any other RPGs I have listed? I'm curious if it's worth picking up once I can play PS2 games again.

Edited, Mar 9th 2009 3:36pm by LadyOfHolyDarkness

Rogue Galaxy is unique, I'm having a hard time comparing it to anything I've played. I would say it's worth it, especially used, it's usually really cheap.

I can't believe I forgot Vagrant Story, love that game

I will say this about FFVII: It's the reason I bought a used PlayStation with the first paycheck I ever got. I remember the first time I saw the game was at MediaPlay, and they had it on a big display that was made up of 9 30ish inch TVs in a 3x3 pattern. I only got to play 5 minutes of it, but I was impressed by how the spells looked.

Anyway, I got the PC version for my 17th birthday and it locked up during cutscenes on my crappy old Win95 Packard Bell. I had to install it on a friend's computer to get past the scene where the Weapons all take off at the crater (it kept freezing on Ultimate Weapon's face), and then I couldn't get past the scene where everyone's standing on the ground talking for a moment either before or after (I can't remember) fighting Diamond Weapon. It didn't freeze there, but it wouldn't load the next scene, so all I could do was run around off-screen and open my menu.

So, I got a job and bought a PlayStation... and they were out of memory cards at the shop where I bought my PlayStation, so I figured I'd keep the PlayStation on until I could buy one the next day. The trouble was, I had never got Vincent before, and I decided to use him. Long story short, I didn't know that using Vincent's level 1 limit break on the boss at the Nibelheim reactor when the rest of your party is dead equals game over due to fire absorption... So I played all the way to Nibelheim without saving, only to get a game over and start over.


BTW, thanks for the response Wint.

Edited, Mar 9th 2009 10:51pm by LadyOfHolyDarkness

Overrated? Tell me what this username tells you:


On a serious note, it's the first game I bought for the PS1. The PS1 is bought second-handed from a "friend". I got them sometime around 2002 or so, not at its release (I sided with the N64 at the time). I asked a friend if it is any good, and he said it is. So when I got it and played it, I enjoyed it very much. When the game was new and I sided with Zelda 64, I've seen a bunch of avatars of Cloud, Aeris, and Sephiroth across forums that I felt curious about. I'm glad the curiosity is gotten over with, although late.

VII was good. It didn't deserve the hype it gets, but it was good.

VI and IV easily deserve the hype and I would kill someone for a movie(or anime series) based on either of them.

Definite possibilities for a FFIV/VI movie. They could flesh out more of the back story with some of the characters. There was a short FFV anime series too. It was a bit silly, but still worth watching.

I think I'm one of the few people who liked ff8 and it's draw system a lot. :>

I think a lot of people that bash 8 are just jumping on the bandwagon. I never found any real problems with the draw system outside of how abusable it was. I remember stacking 100 Deaths and with the GF's ability to add magic to attacks I went to the islands of heaven and hell and just one shot all the level 100s.

Leveling made that game 100 times harder than it needed to be. If you did it right, you could beat the game easily without passing level 25ish. And it made all the fights tons easier.