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Final Fantasy VII 15th Anniversary

I actually got FFVII before I had a PS1 to play it on, and I used to listen to MIDI's of the soundtrack on a 56k modem so it took like 20 minutes to load them.

oh yeah, definitely something an old fogey would say. "we used to walk 3 miles through the snow to get to school!"
 
It was amazing back when it came out, but it has aged badly in a lot of ways due to the pre-rendered backgrounds that are hard to navigate.

I guess a remake would be nice, but not really needed if you can get past the problems.
 
boy do the replies here make me feel old
can still remember not being able to sleep the night before
rushing out at like 6am the next morning to pick up the game
and skipping work/school to play it


i've been pushing a friend, that LOVES crisi core and advent children, to play this
but she won't cuz of the graphics :<
 
Perfo said:
Getting out of Midgard and smell the freedom. That was my first real big jRPG :P
But I became Londa 2.0 much later than that, probably around 2006. Still, probably my favorite jRPG ever and the start of all.
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God I remember that feeling. It was my 1st JRPG too and leaving Midgar and stepping into the overworld was an incredible feeling. Looking at the size of the overworld map made me say

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Oh god are we all going to have to say how old we were when this game came out?

19

Shinra tower is high on everyone's memorable moments list. For me it was landing in Wutai and having all my Materia stolen. The dread of realizing that the game was about to make me crawl through a dungeon then fight a boss without any spells was a flashback to the magnetic caves in IV, but the experience of burning consumables was thrilling.
 
So many good memories......

-The HoneyBee Inn events
-Exploring dat world map
-Aeri
th's
death
-Fort Condor events
-The Weapons and their respective fights
-The Gold Saucer and the awesomeness within
-The hidden waterfall detailing some of Vincent's past
-Knights of the Round
-Red XIII's Cosmo Canyon back story
-J.E.N.O.V.A.
-Those damn Tonberries (nothing new but still)
-The ending theme and music in general
-And if it counts, the first US commercial. Was pretty epic.
 
I'm still surprised Sony haven't tried to foot the bill for a FF7 remake or put a joint team together, I can't see how it wouldn't sell millions and be worth it for them, from game or console sales.
Who knows though, maybe it is something they are saving for when they really need it.

Wonder what PS4 demo we will get from SE, we had a FF8 for PS2 and FF7 for PS3.
 
My first experience seeing this game was at a friends, and I have to confess that opening FMV with the train was pretty mindblowing to me at the time.

I played through the 4 disc PC version at a later date.

duckroll said:
OMG Loveless! I'm disappointed S-E never went ahead with a full Loveless stage production with Gackt in it. They should consider doing it this year. It would be a good way to drum up extra fan interest, and Nojima could write it! Mmmm...
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you are an evil person

Kagari said:
I was... 11.
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get off my lawn!
 
After having just finished Chrono Trigger & Suikoden back to back I remember being insanely hyped for this game. I think it was the first game I ever preordered, actually. Then I played it and was incredibly let down. I really didn't like it at all. I assume a lot of it had to do with how ugly the game was. I hate on the game a ton, but I'd probably give a remake a shot.
 
LiquidMetal14 said:
So many good memories......

-The HoneyBee Inn events
-Aeri
th's
death
-Fort Condor events
-The Weapons and their respective fights
-The Gold Saucer and the awesomeness within
-The hidden waterfall detailing some of Vincent's past
-Knights of the Round
-Red XIII's Cosmo Canyon back story
-J.E.N.O.V.A.
-Those damn Tonberries (nothing new but still)
-The ending theme and music in general
-And if it counts, the first US commercial. Was pretty epic.
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love them Tonberries. Scariest enemies in the game.
 
I was... 7 when this came out? Didn't actually play it until I was... 14. While its not my favorite, I have so many fond memories of it and can't wait to replay it sometime later this year.

It was one of those games that I had a bunch of friends talk about all the time, so I borrowed it and gave it a shot myself. Definitely one of my favorite RPGs growing up, even if it was eventually surpassed by VI and IX in terms of my favorites in the series.

Surprised how many people had this as their first RPG. Mine was Final Fantasy Legends 2 on the gameboy haha.
 
Most memorable moment for me was finding out that Cloud was actually that lowly soldier during the Nibelheim incident, which, for one of the few times in Square's history of writing scenarios, actually... made some sense and I thought wow, what a twist!
 
CorrisD said:
I'm still surprised Sony haven't tried to foot the bill for a FF7 remake or put a joint team together, I can't see how it wouldn't sell millions and be worth it for them, from game or console sales.
Who knows though, maybe it is something they are saving for when they really need it.

Wonder what PS4 demo we will get from SE, we had a FF8 for PS2 and FF7 for PS3.
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Perhaps they'll show a working FF14?
 
The whole sequence was too suspenseful for me at the time, I was scared, and the BGM is amazingly haunting.

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Also this, I was legitimately shocked at the brutality on that juncture of my youth.
 
Goddamn, I was in middle school when this came out. I had been enjoying the series since IV but for a lot of my friends, VII was the first one. I rememer we somehow managed to get a 40+ page guide printed out on one of the school computers and we would take turns reading it during lunch period. Awesome memories with this game.

I think my favourite moment is probably when you first get the Highwind.
 
hayguyz said:
Gotta love unskippable summons. Let's watch Knights of the Round for the hundredth time! woooo
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And I never remember bothering me during the game. I was more like, "here come da pain bitches" lol

In hindsight, of course it was ludicrous.
 
I was 6 when it came out.

Way to busy playing snes, Sega to care. Way before I knew about the great genre that was Role Playing Games.
I played it on the ps2 before KH1 came out, remember because Gamestop was still selling ps1 games.

BLOWN AWAY
 
Is and always will be my favorite game.

I'm pumping Underneath the Rotting Pizza all day.

Besides Honeybee Manor (obviously :D ), my favorite part was probably 14 year old me repeatedly hitting O on the computer in the turreted house in the Midgar Sector slums (where you get Tifa's ultimate weapon) during the early portion of the game (end of disc 1/start of 2?) thinking I had to dodge the bullets.
 
I for one was unphased by Aeries' death. I kinda knew that it was going to happen (didnt the commercial imply it?) and did't really use her that much. Even through multiple playthroughs of the game I would get mostly get dates with Tifa, and on one occasion Yuffie.

As soon as I get out of Midgar, I always go straight for a forest and level up all my characters' limit breaks to lvl 3.
 
actually I think I was about 10/11 when I first played it.
Rented it @ a video store near my god parents house and played the first disc all the way through until I had to go home.
 
g35twinturbo said:
actually I think I was about 10/11 when I first played it.
Rented it @ a video store near my god parents house and played the first disc all the way through until I had to go home.
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As soon as I get out of midgar, I learn a bunch of enemy skills, including chocobuckle and beta~!
 
The Mana Legend said:
I would replay it every year if every summon and cutscene was skippable.
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You could do a no summon playthrough like I do every time I go through it. In a lot of FFs, I don't like using summons because they take up too much time... plus if you play it right, you don't really need them.

Edit: I end up abusing Enemy Skill Materia like nobody's business, though!

h3ro said:
Besides Honeybee Manor (obviously :D ), my favorite part was probably 14 year old me repeatedly hitting O on the computer in the turreted house in the Midgar Sector slums (where you get Tifa's ultimate weapon) during the early portion of the game (end of disc 1/start of 2?) thinking I had to dodge the bullets.
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Heh.

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I was 13-14 when this came out.

I found out about FFVII from an old neighborhood friend who bought it for his PSX. After playing it at his house for a couple hours, I was completely amazed. I actually stopped playing games after the Sega Genesis, but it was FFVII that got me back into gaming. The irony here is that the old friend of mine who bought it barely got past Midgar, gave up on it, and completely stopped caring about FF and gaming in general.

I took what little savings I had at the time and bought a PSX, FFVII, and a memory card. To this day I look back on it as my most enjoyable and memorable moment in gaming. It was my first RPG; while a lot of FF veterans at the time dismissed it as easy, VII was a whole new kind of experience to me. Seriously. I had never experienced anything quite like it before. It took a little over 3 months for me to finish, playing constantly. I got totally lost in the world, music, gameplay, characters, you name it. While the graphics have not aged well at all, and while this may sound cliche, it's my favorite game of all time. Seriously. I have yet to play anything else that just had such an overwhelmingly astonishing and captivating feel to it. I've played a lot of games that come close, but nothing has quite matched the experience of FFVII, and I seriously doubt that will change.

My favorite memory, besides the whole game itself, would have to be beating the game at the end of the year while on break from school. I remember gazing at the stars on the screen after the credits, totally in awe of the entire game and how incredible it was.
 
ULTROS! said:
Best move ever: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTc9sLmOR0A

By the way, has anyone tried understanding the formulas in the video?
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Regarding the formulae in Seph's Super Nova summon:

15 seconds into the video:

Heliocentric grid ("map" of our solar system).

19 seconds in:

No idea, way too small to tell.


21 seconds into the video:

phi = WUgamma +RHrho +SUgammaUrho is an astronomical aperture (direction) equation
W = -SUgammaphi I'm not sure what this one is
AU = (GM k^-2)^1/3 is an astronomical constant used for determining heliocentric
distances:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_unit

pi r^2 is the circular area equation (obviously).

25 seconds into the video:

Those are all just change in linear distance and kinematics (velocity) equations. Basic stuff.

Source: A lot of schoolin'.

BTW, top five game all-time for me. My favorite in the series too, and my second favorite RPG, behind Chrono Trigger. I could definitely enjoy a remake!
 
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