I had a class today and was talking games with another classmate Tom. Tom was a console gamer to start with, but now is pretty full-fledged PC gamer. Loves the online Diablo 2. We were talking older games and a favortie topic of mine came up. Final Fantasy. However, Tom is one of the many folks who swear by Final Fantasy 7 and declare it the best one in the series. *ACHOO!!* *sniff* I'm sorry about that, I'm allergic to BULL. This is a long debated topic amongst many die-hard FF7 fans and myself, arguing mainly over which FF is better, 7 or 8. I prefer 8 over 7. Hell, I prefer ANY of the Final Fantasy's over 7. I don't know why but having since had this conversation with Tom I feel as if it;s my need to inform the small general public who read this blog to understand why I think FF7 is crap. That, and it's my blog so I can write about whatever I want, so there. :P *nyahh*
1. Graphics. I understand the PS1 was still fairly new at the time and polygons had yet to be perfected, but when someone claims that the graphics on 8 were worse than 7, I have to disagree. The characters had blocks for hands, no facial expressions and no mouths. All they could really do to express emotion is blink and wave thier little blocky arms/hands around. Even the FMV's didn't show any emotion. FF8 had characters who could show any emotion they wanted to, and even had individual fingers! Imagine that!
2. Story. Maybe its just me, but FF7's story made absolutly no sense. I mean, one minute you're a spiky haired blond guy named Cloud, next you're a clone with the memory of this spiky-haird black guy named Zach? It doesn't even explain the transistion. FF8 had me glued the entire time. Dramatic storyline, great love story, plot twists, etc.
3. Villan has an Oedipus complex. What is the deal with Sephiroth and his mother? He goes crazy and then devotes his life to finding, liberating, and protecting his mother Jenova who by the way is half-dead and horribly mutated. FF8 has a good old evil sorceress trying to take over the world. I say go with what works rather than give the villan a creepy complex.
4. Materia. This I just plain don't get. You either know magic or you don't. If you have MP, you know magic. Thats how it should be. With the Materia system, you know whatever magic is applied to that Materia, and you have to be holding the Materia to know that spell. Remove the Materia? No more spells. To access higher level spells, you have to work with the Materia for about a decade. Then you might get to Fire2. No. Not acceptable. You either know the spell or you don't.
5. Unfair Character Loss. 3/4 the way thru the game the villan kills off your best healer. Thats right. You lose Aeris after Sephrioth impales her with his gigantoid sword. All the while I might add, with no emotion or expressions. There is NO way to bring Aeris back. So after you spent the better part of your youth getting Aeris to an acceptable level to stay in the party, they go and kill her. I don't care if the developers want to kill off a character for dramatics, but at least give us the option of trying to get them back.
There are my problems with FF7. Agree with me? Great. No? Don't care. Oh yeah, if you're upset that I basically gave away important parts about the game and spoiled it, save it. I'm trying to prevent any more unfortunate mind twists of young gamers by this one mistake of a great legacy.
1. Graphics. I understand the PS1 was still fairly new at the time and polygons had yet to be perfected, but when someone claims that the graphics on 8 were worse than 7, I have to disagree. The characters had blocks for hands, no facial expressions and no mouths. All they could really do to express emotion is blink and wave thier little blocky arms/hands around. Even the FMV's didn't show any emotion. FF8 had characters who could show any emotion they wanted to, and even had individual fingers! Imagine that!
2. Story. Maybe its just me, but FF7's story made absolutly no sense. I mean, one minute you're a spiky haired blond guy named Cloud, next you're a clone with the memory of this spiky-haird black guy named Zach? It doesn't even explain the transistion. FF8 had me glued the entire time. Dramatic storyline, great love story, plot twists, etc.
3. Villan has an Oedipus complex. What is the deal with Sephiroth and his mother? He goes crazy and then devotes his life to finding, liberating, and protecting his mother Jenova who by the way is half-dead and horribly mutated. FF8 has a good old evil sorceress trying to take over the world. I say go with what works rather than give the villan a creepy complex.
4. Materia. This I just plain don't get. You either know magic or you don't. If you have MP, you know magic. Thats how it should be. With the Materia system, you know whatever magic is applied to that Materia, and you have to be holding the Materia to know that spell. Remove the Materia? No more spells. To access higher level spells, you have to work with the Materia for about a decade. Then you might get to Fire2. No. Not acceptable. You either know the spell or you don't.
5. Unfair Character Loss. 3/4 the way thru the game the villan kills off your best healer. Thats right. You lose Aeris after Sephrioth impales her with his gigantoid sword. All the while I might add, with no emotion or expressions. There is NO way to bring Aeris back. So after you spent the better part of your youth getting Aeris to an acceptable level to stay in the party, they go and kill her. I don't care if the developers want to kill off a character for dramatics, but at least give us the option of trying to get them back.
There are my problems with FF7. Agree with me? Great. No? Don't care. Oh yeah, if you're upset that I basically gave away important parts about the game and spoiled it, save it. I'm trying to prevent any more unfortunate mind twists of young gamers by this one mistake of a great legacy.
