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Final Fantasy 7

Also known as: FF 7

The Top 7... games that don't deserve nostalgia

Honestly, they were never that great in the first place

Words: Brett Elston, GamesRadar US

 

The entire Super Star Wars trilogy is garbage. It is today, and it was back in the '90s. Just because tech had evolved to a point where we could have legit LucasFilm sound effects and MIDI representations of John Williams' legendary score doesn't mean the rest of the game was as impressive as the SNES architecture. Levels don't make any sense; "send a barrage of enemies flying from all angles while the platform Luke's standing on falls apart" isn't competent level design. Compare any of these platformers to even so-so games of the day and there's a clear difference.



Ooo look, a wampa! Doesn't that look fun, flipping in circles over and over while an uninspired attack pattern plays out? Hell no it doesn't. And despite this boss being stupidly easy, the rest of the game is infuriatingly difficult thanks to the aforementioned cascade of projectiles constantly assailing Luke, Han and Chewbacca. But, even though every aspect of the trilogy seems like it was designed by a friggin' cackling mad scientist, people look back and think "ah, what a great series of games."

Balderdash! Flimshaw! They're junk, and half-decent snow speeder level isn't enough to keep our fuzzy memories intact. We let nifty graphic and sound tricks cover up the fact the games themselves were both boring and amateurish.

Want to soak in some more awfulness? Take a gander at Empire, perhaps the most troublesome, confusing, "what the hell is going on?!?" game in the series.



 
43 Comments
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key0blade  - 1 year 3 months ago 
I wish I had FFVII...
tehperson123412  - 1 year 2 months ago 
and yet, gr wonders why there are 100 reasons to hate them...
Corsair89  - 1 year 2 months ago 
Whatever. I still love FFVII.
ryzuku  - 1 year 1 month ago 
I thought FFVII was alright, and I love good RPGs, especially ones with good stories. But, I never understood why so many people held it in such high regard. I just didn't really enjoy it that much.
tehperson123412  - 1 year 1 month ago 
never mind my comment. shoulda actually SEEN the 100 reasons to hate gr. but still it's pretty hard to get away with a list like this
Stinger911  - 1 year 19 days ago 
Final Fight?! And then the article writer continues to blaspheme against one of the greatest genres of all time: the beat 'em up! Repent! Repent, blasphemer!
mrbutlertron  - 1 year 18 days ago 
Some of those beat 'em ups were hella fun to play with a sibling or friend, but there's a reason Turtles in Time was 25 minutes long. There wasn't a whole lot of variety.
sepirothpk  - 1 year 10 days ago 
I'm playing FFVII now, and I'm finding it a great game. While the graphics haven't aged too well, I believe the story and characters are actually quite good. FFVI was good too, but they also had stereotyped characters and the story wasn't that "original" as people claim. I beleive them both to be good games
njdevils09  - 10 months 1 day ago 
Final Fantasy VII is WAAAAAAAAY better than you guys make it out to be. The story was great, the gameplay was incredibly deep (when you finally found some incredible combination of materia that worked well against Sephiroth, it was pretty freaking rewarding), AND Aerith is better understood after playing Crisis Core, but I did walk away from the game knowing that she was way more than just some face. Please note: I played and beat this in 2007 for the first time ever. I had an N64, not a PS1 (unfortunately) so I played it on my PS2. It's my second favorite game of all-time, only to FFX. It's truly a matter of preference, but if you're really into RPGs, you'd be a fool not to appreciate the sheer depth (visually and gameplay-wise) of this game. Perhaps you don't like it, but I don't like Zelda at all. I think Zelda should be number 1 on your list. Ocarina of time, actually. Why? Because I don't like it. At all. Oh wait, I don't like adventure games that much and that's a completely unfair assessment of a game I've barely even played. Maybe I should apply for a job here.
familiarrealms6  - 9 months 27 days ago 
FFvii is one of the single greatest games of all time. it was one of the first games i ever played on the ps1 and i stilled played it towards the end of the ps2 era even ocasionally nowadays.I'm now a 360 gamer to the core and i still find that alot of future gaming can learn alot from the deepness of the storylines used in ffvii. OK, the characters were a little stereotypical, and the gameplay was weak in some areas. But people, ffvii was revelutionary at its time,and 12 years onwards i would still say yes to it over anything.
Slaanash  - 9 months 22 days ago 
I think your sort of missing the point.

FF7 is better then GR is saying, but not nearly as good as your saying it is.
XNewAgeWarriorx  - 9 months 22 days ago 
im playing ff7 now.... for the first time (yes shock) beacuse of all the crap rpgs being released nowdays. its a great game so far and dusnt seem to be letting up the pace one bit
RedOutlive10  - 9 months 14 days ago 
Oh my,... jackpot with FFVII. Don't get me wrong, it's not a bad game. But have any of the people ready to defend FFVII all the times even played Final Fantasy VI ?

It's far more deep, the story is more involving, it doesn't revolve around some oddballs trying to figure what the hell he's supposed to be all the time. The combat is about the same as FFVII. The music is equal, even though the boss tune of FFVI was freaking epic. Even Kefka is more interesting than Sephiroth. FFVII is overrated compared to what Square has offered us before.
sepirothpk  - 8 months 15 days ago 
To RedOutlive 10:
Yes I played Final Fantasy VI. It was a great game. However, I find the stories both equal, though sometimes both annoy me slightly. And Celes is similar to Cloud in some aspects. However, I disagree with the Kefka thing. He was a good villain, but he was the type who was pathetic until he got the ultimate power. Sephiroth was always intimidating. It does deserve nolstagia, jut maybe not as much as everyone gives it. I don't have any for it, because I have only been playing it recently
jimsondanet  - 8 months 15 days ago 
hmm yes couldnt have said it better myself, sephiroth was an intimidating character. he actually inspired dread. kefka, however, was a clown. a freaking CLOWN!!!
IronicBob  - 8 months 15 days ago 
I... Shall... Not... Clown...
Gsindahouse  - 8 months 14 days ago 
I skipped the Love or Hate games article, cause I didn't feel like logging in, but maaan... I HAVE to comment this one
Sonic Adventure, ESPECIALLY DX WAS TIGHT!!! of course the second one crushed it, but that's no reason to demean the first!
And when the heck did 'Oregon Trail' get any nostalgia?
People LOVED the Final Fantasy 7!
and Ninja Turtles 4 for SNES was off the chain, see I aint feelin yall this time
killboo  - 8 months 14 days ago 
Just get over it fanboy. What GR said about FFVII is quite true.
DabilahroNinja  - 8 months 11 days ago 
Everyones commenting on FFVII, So shall I.
I actually preferred FFVI, as they said, but I still think FFIX is the best in the series. I don't care what people say, and I think that what GR said about Aeris is right. I actually started laughing when she died...actually, waitaminute, I laugh when ANYONE dies in ANY game. Maybe I need a psychiatrist.
vine1313  - 8 months 11 days ago 
While I love FF VII, I have to agree wIth some of the comments made by GR. To me it was no shock when Aeris died, I actually was surprised more when I talked to friends about it and they were devastated that they killed her. I didn't, and still don't, understand all the hype surrounding her, she is a good character, but disposable.
I also have to agree that FF VII has been put on such a high shelf, some 12 years after being released, that it is in the way of new and better games from being the standard by which all games strive to surpass. It was revolutionary for its time, but that was 12 years ago, let it go people. This game is the reason for a lot of the really bad games out there. For examples, just go to your local Video game stores, all the games that they have Used. If they have more then five copies of it Used in their store, it is a bad game, and probably because it used FF VII as a guide.
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