FF7 (Gaming)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Friday, December 11, 2015, 19:30 (3273 days ago) @ TheeChaos

Easily one of the best games ever made in my opinion. I went back a couple years ago and downloaded it on PS3 and played it. Just as awesome as I remember.

When I revisited it my response was less enthusiastic.

It has not aged well at all, both in terms of graphics and presentation, and in terms of game mechanics. It's a game about just attacking and healing. You can get all the way through that way, and there is very little complexity to the battle system. The materia are supposed to have tradeoffs, such as magical materia making your physical attack weaker, but this is such a small effect in practice as to not matter.

But as a game, I think it was great in terms of scale, scope, and story. Of any game ever, it's really the one that most deserves a remake to overcome the deficiencies of the original.