How did this ever become so popular?

>turn-based combat without anything to make it stick out or actually fun
>random encounters
>almost no level design or interactivity
>writing and worldbuilding is insulting:
>"These sectors ones had names, but the people forgot what they were" (literally impossible to happen)
>"Cloud, we need you to save the world!" "How is this my problem?"
>those graphics
Was it really just the CGI cutscenes?

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    the music and story is good. You didn't even beat the game since you're interpreting Cloud's personality off the first 2.5% of the game's runtime. ywnbaw moron

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >the music and story is good.
      What's so much better about the story than other JRPGs stories?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        because FF7 is about homiez. I don't just mean with an a, but with a z as well. It's one of the only JRPG's in existence that doesn't have a JRPG story; you don't play as some gay high schooler, you're not on a quest to kill God, it isn't moronic anime frickshit, and Cloud is an actual character unlike the useless blank slate chosen ones in every other JRPG.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          every Final Fantasy game released in English prior to that fits all those conditions as well

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        For many this was babbys first JRPG but it also skips a lot of gay ass JRPG tropes like aping shonen anime garbage where you're some kinda chosen one 16 year old who saves the world with friendship and love and shit.
        This is a game where bad shit happens. The intro sequence is a fricking terrorist attack. Cities get destroyed, natural disasters (weapons) happen, there is constant threat to the wellbeing of humanity and earth. Sprinkle in a main character death and a twist about who the main char is, and you have a solid adventure.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >it also skips a lot of gay ass JRPG tropes like aping shonen anime garbage where you're some kinda chosen one 16 year old who saves the world with friendship and love and shit.
          literally the exact plot of the game. Even down to a scene as soon as you leave Midgar where the entire party all talks about how they need to all band together to take down sephiroth. Absolutely nothing about this game was anything more than generic jrpg, it was just the first time most anyone has played one.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >literally the exact plot of the game
            Literally not. Cloud has to become a real homie, he isn't actually a le badass epic "heh nothing personnel kiddo" sigma anime edgelord, he's actually a loser moron hillbilly. He isn't the chosen one, if anything Sephiroth is, and he still loses

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Cloud being a brain damaged schizo isn't the plot of the game, it's a characterization and very badly done to the point it makes multiple other characters in the game act moronic.

              >A group of rebels and terrorists decide its best to work together to take down an organization trying to destroy earth
              >A band of teenage friends use the power of love and friendship to triumph over evil forces because love is what the villains lack
              There is a difference between these two things.

              Sephiroth has literally nothing to do with Shinra. The entire game after Midgar has nothing to do with saving the planet. It's a generic jrpg where half the cast abandons their motives and goals to kill the epic bad guy who personally wronged the main character.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >it's a characterization and very badly done to the point it makes multiple other characters in the game act moronic.
                Swear to GOD if this is a another "B-But why didn't Tifa just-" I'm going to say something nasty.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                I imagine it must be tiring to try to attempt to defend such shitty writing.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                A point could've been made, but you chose ot play dumb. Thanks for revealing your hand to us during this poker game.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                you couldve made an argument, instead you chose to act like a b***h

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >No U
                My point was already made, but you chose to remain vague which shows you're just here to shitpost. Again, you suck at this.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                He basically conceded he is the moron or at least moron-adjacent to the moron who kept making those Tifa threads

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >Cloud being a brain damaged schizo isn't the plot of the game
                Yes it is, or rather it's one part of the game. There's a lot to love in FF7's story and this is just one part (and the one that I appreciate the most)
                >makes multiple other characters in the game act moronic
                If you're that gay who used to keep spamming "why did she like?" threads, frick off idiot
                >Sephiroth has literally nothing to do with Shinra
                He's the consequence of Shinra's interest in the ancients and Promised Land...
                >The entire game after Midgar has nothing to do with saving the planet
                There's a fricking meteor about to destroy the planet, wrought on by (you guessed it) Shinra's own Sephiroth

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Why did she lie*

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                agreeable women dont question strong men they admire, especially in front of their peers

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >Yes it is
                No, it's literally not. Not a single thing in the game would change if Cloud actually was an elite army soldier. He acts, fights, and has the military knowledge of one anyway, and all of the mind control bullshit has nothing to do with it. It was a thrown in and badly done plot twist for the sake of one, which is common in anime storylines.
                >He's the consequence of Shinra's interest in the ancients and Promised Land...
                Awesome. Why should anyone in Avalanche besides Cloud or Tifa care? Why should Red? Why does Yuffie even exist? Aeries was such a shitty character that they couldn't even write her a motive to get caught up in everything in Midgar besides "I wanna go too." The most relevant plot character in the entire game is a vampire who's only in the game as an anime character homage.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                You have to be trolling. If you're not trolling you really should have a nice day for being this mushbrained. You are intensely analysing this shit and failing to grasp what any non-moron would automatically parse passively. Cloud's mental health affects his dealings with the other characters you fricking spastic c**t, holy shit. Cloud has chemistry with Aerith in the first place because he is LARP'ing as her dead boyfriend. Tifa is scared because Cloud has changed
                >Why should anyone in avalanche care
                Yeah why should anybody care that a psycho is let loose to kill the people they're trying to save. What a fricking moron, you really should have a nice day hey

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Your example for what Cloud not being in soldier adds to the game is a single plot point that makes no sense to begin with. Absolutely incredible justification.
                >Yeah why should anybody care that a psycho is let loose to kill the people they're trying to save
                Barrett was trying to save the head of Shinra? The man he started an underground terrorist ring to stop? Because that's the only person who actually got killed and apparently justified the band getting together to take down Sephiroth.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >a single plot point that makes no sense to begin with
                Why doesn't it line up?
                >Because that's the only person who actually got killed
                The staff? The guards? He covered the place red, he's a fricking psycho, and dangerous, and a product of Shinra

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >Why doesn't it line up?
                What? Do you mean why Tifa letting Cloud blatantly lie about everything is a bad plot device? Other than that everything does line up because Cloud does everything exactly like a top level army member, except whoops plot twist he isn't and this has no actual effect on anything prior or after.
                >The staff? The guards? He covered the place red, he's a fricking psycho
                Awesome! So now the evil environment destroying dystopian mega-corp is even more fricked. Remind me, why is Barett trying to kill this guy instead of getting him to join his cause?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >Do you mean why Tifa letting Cloud blatantly lie
                As far as Tifa knows, Cloud wasn't there during the Nibelheim incident, yet he remembers it. How can Tifa be sure Cloud is the crazy one and not her? Shinra did cover up the Nibelheim incident, so Cloud and Tifa are equally stumped when they revisit town. What the frick is Tifa meant to think? What right does she have to call Cloud crazy? How and why would she even bring it up? She has mediocre social skills (esp. compared to Aerith) and is content with Cloud being back
                >Cloud does everything exactly like a top level army member
                What level does Cloud start the game at?
                >Awesome! So now the evil environment destroying dystopian mega-corp is even more fricked
                Yeah the receptionists really deserves it. What a fricking moron
                >why is Barett trying to kill this guy instead of getting him to join him
                Cloud and Tifa know how dangerous Sephiroth is, Aerith (an ancient who knows the importance of the Lifestream better than Barret) knows Sephiroth is a bad dude who is up to sketchy shit with Jenova, and they all agreed that Sephiroth is a psycho who is an obstacle to saving the planet

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Fact is this moron has no empathy. It explains why every argument of his depends on his inability to read the room

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >How can Tifa be sure Cloud is the crazy one and not her?
                I dunno, maybe because she was actually fricking involved in it and remembers what happened? What kind of asspull is this?
                >What level does Cloud start the game at?
                lmao how much further can you reach? So Shinra keeps some of its worst guards at its main fricking headquarters, and a squirrel can beat Clouds ass? Does the plot not happen if Cloud never levels up?
                >Yeah the receptionists really deserves it. What a fricking moron
                Im sure the eco terrorist who blows up nuclear reactors with people inside them cares about the secretary of the company being sliced in half.
                >Cloud and Tifa know how dangerous Sephiroth is, Aerith (an ancient who knows the importance of the Lifestream better than Barret) knows Sephiroth is a bad dude who is up to sketchy shit with Jenova, and they all agreed that Sephiroth is a psycho who is an obstacle to saving the planet
                Aeris being an ancient or even explaining what that is isn't brought up for another 15 hours of gametime. Sephiorth is a great risk to the planet because he, uh... kills everyone involved in the company destroying it.

                >Not a single thing in the game would change if Cloud actually was an elite army soldier.
                >and all of the mind control bullshit has nothing to do with it.
                >Intentionally ignoring what sparked Cloud's off-topic crusade over Sephiroth's string of shitposting

                You're stretching it.
                Assuming the story follows the same beats, but he took Zack's place instead, he'd:
                >Have no reason to go to Midgar
                >Eventually be caught and murdered by Shinra
                >Never meets Aeris/thhhhh who'll remain Shinra's little GPS to the Promised Land and know nothing about Sephiroth or what his plans are
                >There wouldn't be this MIGHTY NEED!! to go after Sephiroth
                >Jenovaroth and the little robbed simps would possibly complete Sephi's shopping list
                >Sephi get the Black Materia
                >World explodes

                ~Alternate reality~
                >Jenovaroth and the simps manage fail to get the Black Materia
                >With no other fail safe, Sephi's forever entombed atop the North Crater
                tl;dr You suck at this.

                >Zach and Cloud were on his way to Midgar anyway this is literally how he got there to begin with
                >why would he not meet Aeris?
                >why would he not go after the person who almost killed him?
                Literally nothing in the game changes if Cloud actually is some super soldier because its a shitty twist that only exists to be a twist and blow the minds of the 12 year olds that are the games intended audience.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >because she was actually fricking involved in it
                So was Cloud, dickhead

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >Tifa knows what happened because she experienced it
                >she makes constant allusions to the fact nothing Cloud says makes sense or is wrong
                >somehow despite not knowing Cloud was there to begin with she decides everything he's saying is true and she's actually the insane one
                This is the level of moronic asspull you are willing to stoop to, to defend this shitty worthless terribly written plot twist that adds nothing to the game.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Low empathy

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Do you think this is Twitter and you can just randomly assign mental illnesses or negative personality traits to anyone you disagree with and they'll instantly be considered wrong because now they mean/bad?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                bipolar disorder post

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >Tifa
                >No, Cloud.
                >I've been hiding it for some time, afraid that if I told you... something terrible might happen.
                >But, I'm not going to hide anything anymore.

                >Tifa
                >You weren't here. Cloud did not come to Nibelheim five years ago

                While she doesn't specify what the terrible thing she's talking about was she does say that she kept her mouth shut out of fear that something awful would happen if she did spoke up. So there is a reason. Furthermore her initial assessment was that she wasn't sure if it was her Cloud or an imposter. Again quoted from the game

                "You told me a lot about what happened after you left Nibelheim...
                But...
                ...Something's wrong. I felt there was something strange about the things you talked about.
                All the things you didn't know that you should, And other things you shouldn't know that you did...
                I wanted to make sure...
                But then I heard... you were going far away...
                And I didn't want that...
                ...I didn't know what to do. So, I thought I needed more time.
                And that's why I told you about the AVALANCHE job. I wanted to be with you, watch you."

                Tifa wasn't certain until the second trip to Gold Saucer at which point she knew this was her Cloud only that something was wrong with him and he needed to be protected. Which goes into her character of being indecisive which yet again, quote

                "Tifa
                ......I didn't know what to do. I was always like that..."

                I mean her name is literally Lockhart. She locks her feelings away and just doesn't talk about them. That's why she will sit in a corner and silently listen as Cait Sith gushes about how perfect Aeris and Cloud are for each other.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >we've now reached "well what if Cloud was actually a fake Cloud, and she didn't want to tip him off" levels of asspulling
                Reminder that him not being in soldier literally changes nothing about the game because he effectively is anyway.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Yes it does. Because Cloud whole story is about learning to accept himself. In the memories Cloud talks about his inferiority and how he kept trying to act tougher than what he actually was. He keeps trying to pretend to be literally anyone other than who he is. He left town because he wanted to be like Sephiroth. He spends the majority of the game pretending to be Zack. By the end he admits that it was his own weakness of character that put him in the position he was in. Give me a minute and I'll pull the quote.

                The thing is though the way Cloud sees himself and the way he is are two different things. Because he did all of this wanting to impress Tifa but Tifa never needed any of that shit. All Tifa wanted was someone to be there for her when she needed him most. Which Cloud was the only one to chase her into the mountains in her grief. Granted it was a stupid thing to do and Cloud was blamed for her injury but he was there for her. And was there for her when she was injured at the reactor. And he avenged her father for her when she couldn't. CLOUD KILLED SEPHIROTH. He has the biggest dick in this game but the only person who doesn't believe in Cloud is Cloud himself. That's why the soldier thing is necessary for his story. The soldier thing is the biggest hill of bullshit that he needs to get over before he can be what he was always meant to be.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >we've now reached "well what if Cloud was actually a fake Cloud, and she didn't want to tip him off" levels of asspulling
                Reminder that him not being in soldier literally changes nothing about the game because he effectively is anyway.

                And to keep my promise

                >For better or worse, only the strong can enter SOLDIER.
                >It has nothing to do with the Jenova Reunion.
                >But weak people...... like me, get lost in the whole thing.
                >The combination of Jenova cells, Sephiroth's strong will, and my own weakness are what created me.
                >Everyone knew that. I'm...... Cloud.
                >......the master of my own illusionary world.
                >But I can't remain trapped in an illusion any more......
                >I'm going to live my life without pretending.

                There's the transition between Cloud acting strong and him just being strong. He doesn't have to pretend to be someone else anymore from this point onward.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                And you can replace all of that by him just actually being in soldier and believing in himself. but then you don't get a gay anime plot twist that makes no sense thematically or otherwise.
                What part of this do you not understand, he always acts like he's in fricking soldier. he's never weak, he's never wrong about military strategy, combat, anything like that, he's never self conscious, he never doubts his abilities, he's never not the perfect uber soldier he's made out to be. The plot twist adds NOTHING to the character.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                I don't know what you're talking about but that's not about Cloud. For starters the military strategy is entirely irrelevant. Barrett comes up with the strategies for the first quarter of the game. And for the rest of the game it's just tracking sephiroth across the world. Secondly, not self conscious? Doesn't doubt his abilities?

                >Barret
                >Hey! Why are you still sittin' around?

                >Tifa
                >Let's go, Cloud.

                >Cloud
                >No.
                >I might lose it again.
                >If Sephiroth comes near me
                >I might......

                >Barret
                >Yeah, godammit! It's 'cuz of you that Sephiroth got the Black Materia in the first place. It's your damn fault!

                >Cloud
                >My fault?

                >Barret
                >I know you got problems... hell, we all do. But you don't even understand yourself.

                At this point I need to question whether or not you played the game at all because this is a pretty gigantic part at the tail end of disc 1. Because right now it sounds like you're talking about a character that doesn't exist or a different character entirely.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                He's talking about mind controlled you disingenuous frick.
                >the military strategy is entirely irrelevant...the rest of the game it's just tracking sephiroth across the world
                You literally just admitted I'm right. If this is irrelevant THEN WHY THE FRICK DOES IT EVEN MATTER THAT HES NOT ACTUALLY IN SOLDIER

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >If this is irrelevant THEN WHY THE FRICK DOES IT EVEN MATTER THAT HES NOT ACTUALLY IN SOLDIER
                Yes it is well known that ever infantryman is a commissioned officer

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                What does that matter when his military knowledge, physical training, and self confidence are totally irrelevant by your own admission? He could be an irrelevant drunk from the slums

                Because that's not a strategy. That's going from a to b. Cloud says I want to change sephiroth. It's Barrett who says to reup at Kalm before pushing to Junon. At Junon it's Priscilla who broached the idea of using the wiring to get to the upper level without using the elevator. And it's Hojo that tells Cloud and co to go to Nibelheim to actually find Sephiroth. Cloud himself very rarely comes up with any ideas. The only one is to meet at Gold Saucer to regroup. And that's just before his mental breakdown. Unless you have an example of others.

                Also Jenova doesn't make you "self conscious" or "doubt your abilities." So I'm wondering how you connected that to the mind control?

                [...]
                Well you certainly can't spell "lost" without LT. Maybe Cloud has the spirit of an O-1

                He acts like a big shot soldier with expert military advice and knowledge from the opening of the fricking game. You are the most disingenuous frickwad I have seen in months.
                >So I'm wondering how you connected that to the mind control?
                Because the fricking line you're quoting as him being insecure is him not wanting to be mind controlled again you autistic frick.

                So you want another anime plot instead of a story about coping mechanisms?

                The entire fricking plot point IS a stupid stupid anime storyline. He overcomes his issues by giving up and being reduced by his lover and friends and realizing he was strong all along. It's token fricking anime bullshit. Cecil in the same series has a better told redemption/self realization arc

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Yep you really can't read the room. You missed my sarcasm (where the other anon didn't), so let me rephrase in a way that your autistic brain will understand: Cloud, Zack, Sephiroth and other members of SOLDIER are infantrymen; they're not generals. Their jurisdiction is to take orders and do it well.
                >He acts like a
                He acts like a hyperefficient badass soldier. Calling the shots isn't his business especially if he's not being paid for it
                >IS a stupid stupid anime storyline
                No, because Cloud has to drop the anime act. Cloud doesn't overcome his issues when he gives up lol, when he gives up he lets Sephiroth call on fricking Meteor. Cloud then wallows in his mental breakdown until Tifa shows him another perspective ie helps him find the truth

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                main character is defeated by overwhelmingly power entity, gives up, is eventually saved by loved ones and friends who tell him he was strong all along and to believe in himself. They then, with the power of love and friendship, overcome the evil.
                This is token anime storytelling 101. This is the exact type of sterotypical moronic anime bullshit to the point the original post I responded to was praising the game for not being like this. You are fricking moronic.

                You're kidding right? You mean to tell me someone acting with bravado that don't actually have is a foreign concept to you? Also if you're issue is the moment that kind is said let's do what Tifa does and go back further

                >Young Cloud
                >I used to think... they were all stupid.

                >Tifa
                >What!?

                >Young Cloud
                >You were all childish, laughing at every little stupid thing.

                >Tifa
                >But we were children, back then.

                >Young Cloud
                >...I know. I'm the one that was stupid.
                >I really wanted to play with everyone, but I was never allowed into the group.
                >Then later... I began to think I was different...
                >That I was different from those immature kids.
                >That then... maybe...

                >Just maybe, they would invite me in.
                >I thought that might happen, so I hung around...

                >Young Cloud
                >I was so prejudiced. And... weak.

                You are wrong. Completely and unequivocally wrong. Self doubt and coping was baked into his character from the jump and Chad Cloud needed to be established so it could be subverted later. Operating under the assumption that you have played this game before the only guess I can make is that you wanted Chad Cloud to be the real Cloud and got upset when it wasn't. I'm not going to point fingers at taste but what I will say is that your argument isn't supported by anything. Even Aeris says during the date scene that something was underneath the surface though she doesn't know what it is

                >Aeris
                >......first off, it bothered me how you looked exactly alike.
                >Two completely different people, but look exactly the same.
                >The way you walk, gesture...
                >I think I must have seen him again, in you...
                >But you're different.
                >Things are different.
                >Cloud...
                >I'm searching for you.

                >Cloud
                >............?

                >Aeris
                >I want to meet you.

                >Cloud
                >But I'm right here.

                >Aeris
                >(I know, I know...what I mean is...)
                >I want to meet...you.

                >You mean to tell me someone acting with bravado that don't actually have is a foreign concept to you?
                Not reading any of the rest of your bullshit after this. It's never hinted this isn't his real personality, never alluded to, never cast doubt on. You are desperately desperately trying to walk back on the fact you literally agreed with me and made my point for me that it's a worthless plot twist. Stop being a disingenuous homosexual and frantically searching through gamefaqs game scripts to take out of context. I simply disagree with the other anon but homosexuals like you actually piss me off.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >You are desperately desperately trying to walk back on the fact you literally agreed with me and made my point for me that it's a worthless plot twist.
                Where? And also what? Why would any character call bullshit on Cloud's story when no one knows him (Avalanche) or hasn't seen him in 7 years (Tifa)?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Main character is defeated by the realisation he isn't a le epic badass, has a mental breakdown afterwards. If course, you have consistently displayed a sociopathic lack of ability to read the room, so it is understandable that you cannot identify the story as being about Cloud's mental health
                >It's never hinted that this isn't his real personality
                He has a fricking voice of Chad in his head giving him guidance as early as the bombing missions the game opens up with. Throughout the game, Tifa comes off as sceptical of certain things Cloud says. Aerith knows during the date that Cloud is bullshitting. I could write more but you are just moronic

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                What's really funny is that Cloud's inner voice actually calls attention to the plothole in his own story

                >...That reminds me.

                >Cloud
                >You again?
                >...Who are you?

                >...You'll find out soon. ......But more importantly, 5 years ago...

                >Cloud
                >5 Years ago... Nibelheim?

                >When you went to Mt. Nibel then, Tifa was your guide, right?

                >Cloud
                >Yeah... I was surprised.

                >But where was Tifa other than that?

                >Cloud
                >...I dunno.

                >It was a great chance for you two to see each other again.

                >Cloud
                >...You're right.

                >Why couldn't you see each other alone?

                >Cloud
                >...I don't know. I can't remember clearly...

                >Why don't you try asking Tifa?

                >Cloud
                >...Yeah.

                This is why I don't think he's actually played this game. Or at best it's been a long time since he played. Either way I don't think he knows enough about it to comment on it

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                You're kidding right? You mean to tell me someone acting with bravado that don't actually have is a foreign concept to you? Also if you're issue is the moment that kind is said let's do what Tifa does and go back further

                >Young Cloud
                >I used to think... they were all stupid.

                >Tifa
                >What!?

                >Young Cloud
                >You were all childish, laughing at every little stupid thing.

                >Tifa
                >But we were children, back then.

                >Young Cloud
                >...I know. I'm the one that was stupid.
                >I really wanted to play with everyone, but I was never allowed into the group.
                >Then later... I began to think I was different...
                >That I was different from those immature kids.
                >That then... maybe...

                >Just maybe, they would invite me in.
                >I thought that might happen, so I hung around...

                >Young Cloud
                >I was so prejudiced. And... weak.

                You are wrong. Completely and unequivocally wrong. Self doubt and coping was baked into his character from the jump and Chad Cloud needed to be established so it could be subverted later. Operating under the assumption that you have played this game before the only guess I can make is that you wanted Chad Cloud to be the real Cloud and got upset when it wasn't. I'm not going to point fingers at taste but what I will say is that your argument isn't supported by anything. Even Aeris says during the date scene that something was underneath the surface though she doesn't know what it is

                >Aeris
                >......first off, it bothered me how you looked exactly alike.
                >Two completely different people, but look exactly the same.
                >The way you walk, gesture...
                >I think I must have seen him again, in you...
                >But you're different.
                >Things are different.
                >Cloud...
                >I'm searching for you.

                >Cloud
                >............?

                >Aeris
                >I want to meet you.

                >Cloud
                >But I'm right here.

                >Aeris
                >(I know, I know...what I mean is...)
                >I want to meet...you.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >the only guess I can make is that you wanted Chad Cloud to be the real Cloud and got upset when it wasn't
                I wonder what he thinks of Advent Children haha

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                I mean I can see why people called Cloud mopey but it's also the first exposure to peacetime in 7 years. Nearly a decade of trauma, mind control, death, monsters, and a literal apocalypse. And it's fine when you have something to focus on but it's different when you have to just sit with it in silence. You can't just bludgeon cancer to death with a sword either so I can see why Cloud would feel like shit even though I'm not really a fan of AC

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Because that's not a strategy. That's going from a to b. Cloud says I want to change sephiroth. It's Barrett who says to reup at Kalm before pushing to Junon. At Junon it's Priscilla who broached the idea of using the wiring to get to the upper level without using the elevator. And it's Hojo that tells Cloud and co to go to Nibelheim to actually find Sephiroth. Cloud himself very rarely comes up with any ideas. The only one is to meet at Gold Saucer to regroup. And that's just before his mental breakdown. Unless you have an example of others.

                Also Jenova doesn't make you "self conscious" or "doubt your abilities." So I'm wondering how you connected that to the mind control?

                >If this is irrelevant THEN WHY THE FRICK DOES IT EVEN MATTER THAT HES NOT ACTUALLY IN SOLDIER
                Yes it is well known that ever infantryman is a commissioned officer

                Well you certainly can't spell "lost" without LT. Maybe Cloud has the spirit of an O-1

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Oh and by the by, it's Barrett, Aeris, or Tifa depending on party comp who comes up with the idea to buy everyone cellphones to stay in contact. Not Cloud. So naturally I'm extraordinarily curious where this idea of Cloud being the team tactician came from

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >And you can replace all of that by him just actually being in soldier and believing in himself
                THEN YOU'RE NOT FRICKING TELLING A STORY
                >he's never weak
                What happened right before Cloud fell into the church?
                >he's never wrong about military strategy
                When is he ever right about military strategy?

                I don't know what you're talking about but that's not about Cloud. For starters the military strategy is entirely irrelevant. Barrett comes up with the strategies for the first quarter of the game. And for the rest of the game it's just tracking sephiroth across the world. Secondly, not self conscious? Doesn't doubt his abilities?

                >Barret
                >Hey! Why are you still sittin' around?

                >Tifa
                >Let's go, Cloud.

                >Cloud
                >No.
                >I might lose it again.
                >If Sephiroth comes near me
                >I might......

                >Barret
                >Yeah, godammit! It's 'cuz of you that Sephiroth got the Black Materia in the first place. It's your damn fault!

                >Cloud
                >My fault?

                >Barret
                >I know you got problems... hell, we all do. But you don't even understand yourself.

                At this point I need to question whether or not you played the game at all because this is a pretty gigantic part at the tail end of disc 1. Because right now it sounds like you're talking about a character that doesn't exist or a different character entirely.

                No he's played the game, he's just a moron who can't read the room. He's the same sort of frickwit who googles "ending explained" after watching a movie. You can't even say he's arguing in bad faith, his faith is just moronic

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >THEN YOU'RE NOT FRICKING TELLING A STORY
                No you'd be telling a perfectly fine story about someone overcoming childhood insecurities, and becoming a strong, and skilled fighter to protect and eventually due to circumstance avenge his friends and family. What would not get in this scenario, and the only reason this stupid plot twist is actually in the game is Cloud being rescued by his love interest, and overcoming his problems due to the power of love and friendship.
                Which in case you forgot is what the idiot I first responded to said never happens in the game

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                So you want another anime plot instead of a story about coping mechanisms?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Just to reinforce the level of uncertainty she was feeling throughout the game, here's her dialogue at Cosmo Canyon

                >Tifa
                >Cloud...
                >Bonfires are funny, aren't they?
                >They make you remember all sorts of things.
                >You know, Cloud. 5 Years ago...
                >......It's nothing.
                >No, forget it. I'm afraid to ask...

                >Cloud
                >What is it...?

                >Tifa
                >It feels like... it feels like you're going far away...
                >You really, really are...... you... right?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                kek watching weebs kvetch when their shit gets criticized is always funny. your game shit, dunce. deal with it.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                i think your problem is you are expecting too much from a dumb vidya game. go smell your own farts on Ganker or something.

                Not even him but the fact that most characters dont play heavily in the plot is probably the most relevant criticism of the games story. Dont see why you need to be so hostile. Even near release people were complaining about that on forums since its one of the biggest things FF6 handled much better: obviously not every character in FF6 is plot relevant but you could easily say that game has like 7-9 main playable characters. FF7 the entire story revolves around Cloud, with everyone else being a side subplot at best.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >most characters dont play heavily in the plot is probably the most relevant criticism of the games story
                Yes this is true, it's actually a genuine criticism and truthful, rather than a frickwit (most likely intentionally) failing to understand simple shit. Absolutely everything he says is in bad faith and blatantly false, even a moron could tell him he's being moronic

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                i think your problem is you are expecting too much from a dumb vidya game. go smell your own farts on Ganker or something.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                He doesn't even know what he wants, he's a blatant mental moron who can't pick up on simple shit that the millions of people who played this game had no trouble understanding. He's not looking for a beautiful metaphor about poststructutalist lesbianism or whatever the frick, he's just a moron plain and simple

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >Not a single thing in the game would change if Cloud actually was an elite army soldier.
                >and all of the mind control bullshit has nothing to do with it.
                >Intentionally ignoring what sparked Cloud's off-topic crusade over Sephiroth's string of shitposting

                You're stretching it.
                Assuming the story follows the same beats, but he took Zack's place instead, he'd:
                >Have no reason to go to Midgar
                >Eventually be caught and murdered by Shinra
                >Never meets Aeris/thhhhh who'll remain Shinra's little GPS to the Promised Land and know nothing about Sephiroth or what his plans are
                >There wouldn't be this MIGHTY NEED!! to go after Sephiroth
                >Jenovaroth and the little robbed simps would possibly complete Sephi's shopping list
                >Sephi get the Black Materia
                >World explodes

                ~Alternate reality~
                >Jenovaroth and the simps manage fail to get the Black Materia
                >With no other fail safe, Sephi's forever entombed atop the North Crater
                tl;dr You suck at this.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >A group of rebels and terrorists decide its best to work together to take down an organization trying to destroy earth
            >A band of teenage friends use the power of love and friendship to triumph over evil forces because love is what the villains lack
            There is a difference between these two things.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >where the entire party all talks about how they need to all band together to take down sephiroth
            Is it your generic gay anime speech about hope and protecting your memories of the ones you love etc, or is it "ok homies let's do this"

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >JRPG story
      >good
      You have no idea what constitutes good writing.
      Then again, most gamers are clueless in this regard.
      It's why Kojima is so popular.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >ywnbaw
      I was on your side until you turned into this hacky memespouting homosexual.
      Get some new material.
      All of you.
      And let me guess, dilate or something? I'm bored. I'm already bored. You're all flowchart-kens.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous
    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >story is good

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    bitta fun innit?

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >turn-based combat without anything to make it stick out or actually fun
    What are limit breaks?

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It has SOVL. Mentally challenged people can't grasp that.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Limit Breaks and Materia system are fun
    game was advertised to hell and back as a game for MATURE PLAYERS
    and no, that is not Cloud’s attitude later on in the game

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >How did this ever become so popular?
    90s print mags hyped this like no tomorrow. Thats how.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      This, and the commercials. FF7 was probably the most heavily marketed RPG in the US at that point. I had a friend who was big into sports and racing games who wouldn't even look at FF6. Imagine my surprise when I found he owned a copy of FF7, and was already working on getting a Gold Chocobo.
      I really think the strong sci-fi/modern era looks of FF7 helped it sell to people who usually avoided standard fantasy RPGs.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        3D graphics too. Dont forget that. At the time these CGI cutscenes were mind blowing as funny as it is to think of now. This was when Toy Story was the only Pixar movie released, while FF7's didn't look aa good as that there really was almost nothing else with fully rendered CGI around at the time. It was important enough to have that Square needed 3 discs just to fit them.

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    what Mozart is to Mario, Bach is to the RPG.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Fair. Both are great though. I'm guessing your making a filtration point?

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >I can’t appreciate fine art, so everyone else must be wrong.

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The storytelling is effective, and the general aesthetic is appealing.
    Otherwise, it's a JRPG. What do you expect, really?

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    This games popularity is mostly revisionism. 70% of it's sales were foreign market, and it was the most returned video game of all time because it was sold entirely on CGI cutscenes with 0 gameplay footage. It also had 0 cultural impact. It got far more popular in the late 90s and early 2000s when anime really took off.
    People now like to pretend it was a staple of the PS1, and something that shifted the tides, but that's only true in Japan.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >This games popularity is mostly revisionism
      what
      FF8, 9, and 10 were best-sellers in 7's wake

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        In Japan. In the US they sold as much as Croc or Frogger, neither of which are praised or remembered. The adulation the FF series and jrpgs as a whole during this era gets is almost entirely weeb revisionism.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          sold millions in the west, cope

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            I never said it didn't. I said the notion it was a landmark title or a flagship of the system is revisionism. FF titles sold incredibly well for jrpgs, but that's the only metric they were successful on.
            Tomb Raider, Tony Hawk, MGS, Tekken, Crash, Spyro, Medal of Honor, Driver, Twisted Metal, etc all much bigger series in the west at the time.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Did you know that you can just look up sales data online before saying something so you don't look extremely moronic?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Babies first major JRPG in the West that put JRPGs on the map in that country, cultivating more JRPGs
      >0 cultural impact.
      De-freakin-licious Chrono Trigger tears.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >It got far more popular in the late 90s
      It was released in the late 90's

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >t was the most returned video game of all time
      source: trust me bro

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >got popular in the late 90s
      This game came out in the late 90s moron

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It wasn't that popular, you make it out like it as big as Mario or some shit, it was still kinda niche, this shit didn't get popular till weeb stuff start to become normalized and people lie about it being apart of their childhood when in reality it was small amount of kids and fat nerds.

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    lol
    Sorry, I guess I’m the only person on earth who considers it one of the greatest games ever made. It’s not like they’re still trying to milk the love for the game to this very day or anything like that. Oh wait.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      noooo according to another anon people were gaslit in the 2000's into thinking FF7 was a well-respected game

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        [...]

        Doesn’t matter, sales numbers do. Frick, sales numbers on modern consoles are proof that the game was not only good then, but still good to this day. Your opinion is shit, seethe.

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    You had to be there.

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >turn-based combat without anything to make it stick out or actually fun
    Shut the frick up
    >random encounters
    Just run if they aren't fun, idiot
    >almost no level design or interactivity
    Huh?
    >writing and worldbuilding is insulting
    Skill issue
    >those graphics
    "I played a game that is 25 years old and now I'm angry"

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Shut the frick up
      moron
      >Just run if they aren't fun, idiot
      >just do thing that isn't fun if you don't have fun
      >Huh?
      Post a Youtube link to some good level design in the game
      >Skill issue
      >not liking SE tier writing is skill issue

      Final Fantasy ruined a generation of white boys

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >he

        Those are pretty ladies. Is this a game about a transman who becomes magically cloned, then?

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    Calm down fatlord, i was just stating obvious facts, FF7's OST already puts the title above 99% of the games that ever existed.

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Because it was Babys first JRPG just like Pokemon

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It wasn’t my first RPG, Phantasy Star 2 was. FFVII is still my favorite too. It did streamline things a lot compared to stuff like Phantasy Star 2 though, so you might have a point.

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Anon, don't be that guy. Don't embarrass yourself. You're better than this.

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It's a meme. FFVIII is and always was better.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Vat good will it do for ze sorceress to compress time? There may be many reasons, but it doesn't matter.
      My jaw dropped when I first read this line.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      They hated him bc he told the truth

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    game is great but cloud is a shit protag and the story sucks and is a convoluted mess. yes graphics aged badly but who cares because the backgrounds, colours and aesthetic are cool.

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    because it both looks like a good game and is one

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    imagine caring about moronic anime jrpg stories. like just imagine. ff7 is an amazingly fun game with a serviceable enough story. you guys are gays. go read literature or something. its a fricking anime game. just stop.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      kek watching weebs kvetch when their shit gets criticized is always funny. your game shit, dunce. deal with it.

      lurk moar idiot newhomosexuals

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >imagine caring about moronic anime jrpg stories. like just imagine. ff7 is an amazingly fun game with a serviceable enough story. you guys are gays. go read literature or something. its a fricking anime game. just stop.

      Posts like these are fricking pathetic. The "gameplay" in dogshit like FF7 is literally a joke and it couldnt possibly entertain anyone except a mentally moronic toddler who cant handle real videogames yet, the only thing that props up the "game" is the audiovisual side and the story, and the final fantasy pajeets always fold like wet shitty towels the second you start to actually pick the story apart by the standards of literally anything or anyone that isnt an illiterate preschooler

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Was it really just the CGI cutscenes?

    Yes. Nintendo Chad's back then knew this, laughed at continued to play the superior OoT.

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Top 5 soundtrack of all time
    Best female love interest cast of all time
    Everyone looks awesome
    Cool story about recovering your lost past and reconciling your shame
    Best final fantasy game beating ff6 by a hair

  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >turn-based combat without anything to make it stick out or actually fun
    >random encounters
    >almost no level design or interactivity
    A lot of people who played it probably hadn't played many RPGs before so the gameplay would've felt novel in spite of being pretty poorly thought out and tedious. I find most turn-based JRPGs really boring now but the gameplay never bothered me when I was a teenager. Also the materia system is still kinda cool. On top of that I think the designers knew the core gameplay was kinda shit because they don't actually subject you to it for extended periods too often. It gets broken up a lot by mini-games, puzzles and shifts in gameplay like wall market being basically a point-and-click adventure game. That's not ideal compared to just fixing the core gameplay but it definitely helps the game to feel like less of a slog. And then of course the music, aesthetics, story and cutscenes pick up the slack.

    >>"These sectors ones had names, but the people forgot what they were" (literally impossible to happen)
    It's such a throwaway line you've gotta be autistic for it to significantly affect your enjoyment of the game one way or the other.

    >>"Cloud, we need you to save the world!" "How is this my problem?"
    He doesn't even act like this for most of the Midgar section, he becomes a total simp for Aeris once he meets her and starts doing unambiguously heroic shit.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >a total simp for Aeris once he meets her and starts doing unambiguously heroic shit
      How is this different than before. The aloof Cloud was always an act and always antithetical to his true self. The only difference between how he behaved with Tifa and how he behaved with Aeris is the excuse given. But he never calls out Tifa for the 3000 Gil she and Barrett owed him for the second Reactor mission and he never calls it Aeris for the date she owed him for the escort. Because Cloud himself never actually cared

  25. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Contrarian pleb take

  26. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    bump

  27. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It was cool at its time but people still pretending it's somehow up there with games that had an important impact on game design is cringe

  28. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It had years of extreme hype surrounding it, nothing could live up to that moron tier hype but somehow FF7 did, and thus became one if the greatest games ever created by man. And still has replay value decades later

  29. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >nothing to make it stand out
    Materia was cool. This was also the first FF to have those 2 minutes summon animations

  30. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >>"These sectors ones had names, but the people forgot what they were" (literally impossible to happen)
    There's a town near here where the people who live there don't know its real name. The corrupted slang version has been in use for hundreds of years and it's become THE name so much that it's printed on the maps, in the address databases, etc. If you go digging in official records you'll find the original name so it's not lost, but forgotten? Yes, very much so when only weirdos like me with a penchant for trivia can name it.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It's like how only nerds call it the District of Columbia, everybody else calls it Washington

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It's like that everywhere. There are no named nations anywhere in the world. Nibelheim got memory holed into oblivion. No one besides two people know that the entire town burned down 5 years ago. Did you know that the the Northern Continent has a name? It's not fricking Icicle Area. It's called Knowlespole. Ifalna was the only one who knew because the voices of the planet told her. Speaking of the voices of the planet isn't it nice and convenient how the name Lifestream conveys the purpose of the river of life that flows throughout the planet. Well you'd be one of the very few who do because no one calls it that. It's Mako now and that corporate brand makes it easy to rationalize the fact that Shinra makes its money on the literal souls of the dead. Because the concept of culture and memory has been totally destroyed by Shinra.

      Yuffie is treated as a petulant child for her goal of wanting to free Wutai but you can bet your ass that Wutai will have lost its name too in 3 generations. Hell the war ended 7 years ago and the once proud nation is now a tourist trap. The leader sits in his Pagoda drunk off his ass nowadays. He's as castrated as Mayor Domino is now. Fricking Don Corneo had been spending his time kidnapping women so he can tie them to Wutai's mountain so he can frick then upside down on the face of Wutai's ancestors. History in FF7's world is fricked

  31. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Imagine not being able to afford an N64 so you're stuck running around in front of 2d backgrounds. I'd rather kill myself than be a playstationbaby

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Not my fault N64 games weren't easy to pirate and literally $100

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Not my fault I wasn't born until after the PS2 was released and am too moronic to educate myself about things that happened before then

  32. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Game is forever cemented as legendary and one of the greatest games of all time
    >"No actually its bad *autism spiel*
    You angry boomers are hilarious. I cant even tell where the rage comes from, did you not play at the time? Got stuck with an inferior 64?
    Like everything you said is entirely subjective OP and we could go in circles till the heath death of the universe and go nowhere.

    FF7 was simply one of a kind, the first real huge RPG of the 5th gen on top of it being the first real big RPG to get out there to the masses, thats why it got so huge and is so revered.

  33. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Best game ever made

    Seethe

  34. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I played it for a few hours years ago, took a break and ended up forgetting about it entirely and not playing it again.

    It's not that I didn't like it. I've done this before with other games that I liked such as Okami. I just get burned out if a game takes too many days to finish and I'm slow paced in these games because I try to pay attention to everything.

    I'm gonna play it again.

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