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Ronz · Aug 30, 2006, 10:51 AM

Originally Posted by DIMKYA

I hated Final Fantasy 7. There. I said it. Crucify me. The gameplay and materia system were pretty good, but the story and characters were just grade A flaming logs of crap. Speaking of flaming, Cloud and Sephiroth were crotch buddies. There is no denying it. Whenever they were both on screen at the same time, one of them was not wearing a shirt. Then, Cloud was "drawn" to Sephiroth at one point (I think it was the begining of the second disc, and thinking about it, Cloud was actually drawn to Sephiroth's body. That speaks for it's self). Then, Cloud forgot who he was, and for all intents and purposes, lied about his past to everyone, and the only person who knew the truth had to go through Cloud's soul before she realized it. (or something like that, it was pretty stupid.) Then there is Baret. The big black guy who yells and curses all the time, and beats on his chest like a monkey when he's angry. And he's got a gat. How racist is that? And can someone please show me any kind of evidence that Cloud even cared about Aeris (and yes, it is AERIS, with an S, they don't even say the th in Aerith in Japanese,so why do we do it in English?)? After she died, Cloud just dumped her body in a pool, and just kind of went on that whole "I need Sephiroth's body" rampage. Finally, there is Vincent. Vincent suffers the syndrome of alot of characters in FFVII. He looks 20x cooler than he actually is. He is a crappy character in battle, his limit breaks are crappy and uncontrolable, and he got his own crappy game. At least did some cool stuff in Advent Children (which wasn't a bad movie if all you want to see is pretty men do pretty sword fighting.). Thats all I can really say about FFVII right now, but I just want to point out one last thing. Lance Bass did the voice for Sephiroth.

I'd just like to nominate this for most hilarious FF7 criticism ever. Preach on my friend. People who call her Aerith need to tone down the wapism just a bit.

My entry to this thread would be pretty much any game Nippon Ichi makes. Disgaea being my first exposure to them, I found the game to be overly repetitive and pretty boring. The animu style did nothing to help me get into the game either. Granted, i'm not a huge fan of Strategy RPGs to begin with, but I do enjoy Final Fantasy Tactics and Front Mission so I don't hate ALL of them by any means.

I know i'm in the minority with this one. But I have these copies of Disgaea and La Pucelle and Phantom Brave on the shelf at home collecting dust because I just loathed them from the word go.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Ronz · Aug 30, 2006, 12:40 PM

Originally Posted by JackyBoy

No it's not. It stopped being cool to hate on FFVII years ago. Final Fantasy VII is crap. A priori. So it's a foregone conclusion nobody actually likes it. And people who still claim it to be the "best RPG ever" are retarded.

I just thought it was funny. It may not be cool to hate on FF7 anymore but that doesn't stop half the internet. Who even cares about what is cool on the internet anyway?

It made me chuckle. Simple as that.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Ronz · Sep 1, 2006, 09:24 AM

Originally Posted by surasshu

On the other hand, I totally second Kingdom Hearts as a game I just never "got". I like the setting, but that's about all. Dragon Quest VIII is another one I just didn't like. So generic, I just couldn't fathom why everybody was hailing it as a return to form for RPGs.

I have to agree with your Dragon Quest VIII assessment, but not so much for the generic feel of the game that you mentioned. My problem with Dragon Quest is that in order to really get through the game without incredible amounts of difficulty, you have to spend so much time leveling up that it just ruins the game for me. I really liked the atmosphere and the art style and the story of Dragon Quest VIII, but all the time I spent leveling up just ruined the game for me.

I realize that in essence, that IS the Dragon Quest style and I should have expected it before I even bought the game. I was just hoping that it wouldn't be as "overkillish" if that is even a word as previous DQ games have been.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.