What impact did FF7 have on you the first time you played?

Well it wasnt life changing for me, but it did change the way I view video game characters, Before FF7 I pretty much didn't care much for back story or character development (was always a power gamer, having rushed through the previous FF titles, and other games ive played) Square did a great job of making even the most hard faced power-gamer gain empathy with the characters and feel attached to them in some way.

This has however in time impacted my gaming, as I always want more to my characters than some half-baked story and no real way to put across what there thinking or how there reacting to things (MMO titles are extremely guilty of this as the companies and other players are extremely lazy or fall into the power gamer loop when it comes to creating likeable characters)

So todays games usually leave me feeling like there should be more to them than go kill this guy cos we said so!
 
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Indeed, I always appreciated the effort put into the storyline of Square Games after the first time I played this instalment even earlier ones I rushed through in the past.
 
the first time i played through Final Fantsy 7, it totally changed my view on games. The character development was perfect and was revolutionary to me. the last time i had played a game with such a deep character development was Chrono Cross.

The way that they introduced Cloud as a mercenary for hire was so different from the way the main character is usually introduced. normally the main character of games is introduced through some half-baked psuedo-important event, but they introduced the character into a story line that was sprawling from the start.

the way that square made it so that you became attached to the characters through the decisions that you made throughout the first disk made you feel what the characters were feeling.

the game play was not that different from the past 8/16-bit games, but the introduction of multiple commands left me wanting more of it in the next games, which i was disappointed with in FF8.

the way that magic was re-invented was a great suprise to me. it was so easy to command and you didnt really have to buy duplicates for the others in your party if you played enough.

the way summons were portrayed was more than absolutley breath taking. the animations and the variety and power of some of them was great.

the introduction of special attacks that could end a major battle on a whim was very different. the attacks were massive and were just special because of how they could end an incrediably difficult battle with 2 of the party dead. it was just different.

that is all pretty much the impact that FF7 had on my gaming outlook.
 
It was one of the first games I played on a console I owned, and the first time I played an RPG. I was lost at first, I didn't know why I just couldn't make "Ex-SOLDIER" go over there and hit those guys:P but it showed me how games were for a lot more than just fun and they could tell a decent story too.
 
It wasn't as great for me b/c I played it 10 years later... so it wasn't as good to me as it should have been. And I also played it on an emulator which took away from the game in my opinion.

But none the less it was very good, just a tiny over-rated.
 
The impact FF7 Gave me was a releaved kind of sad feeling that i had finished it..
I bought the game a couple weeks my cousin got it thats how i found out about it...

I loved it and to this day is still m y favourite game.. the ending i cant relly remmember cause of it being so long since i last played it.. But yeah..
 
I had heard so much hype about the game before I played it, so most of the impact as weird as it sounds, was dumped on me by gamers who already played it and talked about how great the game was.

I played through FFVII, but it was not my first FF game. I think it was a good game, but not my favorite. A feeling of completion afterward and understanding of the plot sank in, but I really didn't have as emotional of a pull towards it as I did for FFX.
 
welll... i'd used to come home and watch my bro played it like everyday cause he never let me play, except for training, and i was soooo madd when sephiroth killed aeris that i'm still mad!!:eek:uttahere:
 
I think I was just like 'woooah' for the most part, playing a game with an actual story to it was just like so new too me, I was used to the likes of Sonic/mARIo, racing games shit like that. I was expecting it just to be blowing up the 8 reactors in Midgar, then it pwould be game over...... then I escaped Midgar, saw the World Map and I was like 'wooooah' again xD

It did have quite a strong impact on me, which I know is abit gay, but it started off the FF obession and everything else as they say is history :monster:
 
I was like woah

When i played FF7 for the first time it changed my perspective about what qualifies as a GOOD RPG.
Everything other RPG (not made by Square-Enix) i played after FF7 seemed kinda half-arsed.
 
I remember... The first Final Fantasy i Had was The one With Vaan in it. And Penelo.

( i Borrowed it )

Now i Own Final Fantasy XII.

Final Fantasy ( knowing it was just a game) Changed my mood entirely... you know that feeling, when you see other people being happy? and you feel free and your connected to the Television Shocked to hear that Seymor has Kidnapped Yuna! [lol]....I think Final fantasy is one of those games how it just...Sets your mind free into a Parralell Universe With Chocobo Knights and Dragons flying away!

It changed My life, Before that my Genre of game was just that typical BORING stuff ^^

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It was the first game that I ever owned and it was purchased at the same time time when I finished my last payment of a PSX on Layway... But I was 18 at the time (I grew up without a gaming system).

So obviously it had a major impact on me, and didn't realize on how it had a major impact on my friends that we all went into a major fandom phase which I've pretty much didn't grow out of...

I have been writing fanfiction during the time between that game and the release of Advent Children... then it picked up again like wild fire. :randompoke:
 
I never understood how good the game actually was until i played it really, and it kind of changed my outlook on ALL of the FF series. After that weekend of playing the game for the first time non-stop, i started to develope a sort of respect for it and the rest of the FF series. I don't exactly know why this happened, maybe i was just so amazed by the level of gameplay and story i recieved in such a short amount of time due to my binge, but in any case i made me want to play more of the games. So i beat FFVII, then moed on to FVVIII, FFIX, FFX,and most recently FFXII. All of which i now enjoy. While FFVIII is my favorite one to date, i still find much pleasure in playing through FFVII from time to time, just for the nostalgia.
 
This was my first RPG and we rented it when it first came out. I played it not really knowing what RPGs were or how they worked, and I absolutely hated it. "Why can't I see the enemies coming? Why can't I run around on the battle field? Why can I only attack once and then have to wait my turn again?" I found the game tedious and the random encounters/turn based battle drove me crazy because I couldn't figure out why any developer would limit the gameplay so much (remember, this was before I understood the concept of RPGs). So we returned the game when it was due and I went on with my gaming life.

About a year later, I got Pokemon Red and Blue, which were also RPGs (though more simplistic). I loved those games and they inspired me to give FFVII another chance, since I now had a better understanding of RPGs. I really loved the storyline, though I was never too fond of Cloud or Tifa. Cloud's dry personality tended to bore me, and something about Tifa just annoyed me. But I liked all the character's backgrounds.

At the time, I really liked the game. It was the second RPG I'd ever completed and it set the bar. Later though, after playing more RPGs, I found ones that were more to my taste (mostly being real-time strategy).

So it had a pretty positive impact on me.
 
the firsttime i had ever laid eyes on the game was when my uncle was playing it in his basement and i loved watching, that inspried me to play it and it was also my first rpg and i loved it, it led me to continue playing through the line of final fantasy (even though ff8 was a pretty good reason to stop)
 
FF7 impacted my life dramatically. I had a lot of emotional reactions to it.
Midgar - Urgency
Kalm - Calm
Cargo Ship at Junon - Terror
Costa Del Sol - Relief
Corel - Sadness
Cosmo Canyon - Comfort and warmth
Nibelheim - Terror and unease
Rocket Town - Longing
Wutai - Peace.
 
That this is the best FF in the series and one of the best games of all time.
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Midgar: Same as Materio, Urgency.
Nibelheim: Eerie calmness
Reactors: Urgency.
Shinra Building: Gave me a superior feel.
Junon Levels: Adrenaline rush, fight fight fight!
Slums: Creepy.
Costa del Sol: Calm, peace, fun.
Wutai: Made me feel strange...
Banora: Peace.
Depths of Judgement: Had an ancient feel to it, I can't really describe it.
 
When I started playing ff7 for the first time i was amazed since its the first 3d ff around jaja it is great and the storyline is awesome some people criticize clouds personality but i think they didnt take the time to find out why he is that way.
 
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