The year 0000...?

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Okay so in the original Final Fantasy VII the year is apparently 0007 (lol it matches the number of the game) and Crisis Core is set in the year 0000 when Aerith is 15. First I ever seen the year mention was in the Final Fantasy wiki.

Now my question is, how on earth can "0000" be a year and if it then what the heck came before it? The year "-0001?" o.o
 
I think there must have been some even that either reset the date or the whole year 0000 thing is not true...Seems like there would be a valid explanation for it though...I'll try searching to see what comes up ^_^
 
Am just after looking at something on wiki about this and it goes from 1999 to 0000 I was thinking it would change after a large event like 10 BC and 10 AD so everything before the event would go back like -0001 but looking at the wiki thing it seem's to just reset's after 1999 to 0000
 
clerkin17 said:
Am just after looking at something on wiki about this and it goes from 1999 to 0000 I was thinking it would change after a large event like 10 BC and 10 AD so everything before the event would go back like -0001 but looking at the wiki thing it seem's to just reset's after 1999 to 0000
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Maybe they were afraid of the Y2K problem? :wacky:

Is the Final Fantasy Wiki the only place that mentions what year it is in the game? Because I don't remember there being any evidence of such a thing in the game itself, unless there was some easteregg-ish sort of thing. Maybe it was in one of the guide books?
 
This is interesting as I've heard other things about the timeline. I've heard that FFVII actually took place in 1997, as it was to have taken place at the same time that it came out on our planet. I don't believe that, as surely each planet would have its own timeline anyway. That said, there is nothing to say that FFVII's timeline did not just happen to be on its 1997th year (from a point) at the same time as us.

I don't recall the actual game shedding light on year dates, so I take it that all of these timeline attempts are just created by magazines and Ultimania additions to try and order everything. I therefore don't think that it is vital to follow it.
 
I always figured FF7 to take place in the past, just because they were just discovering mako as an energy source and the use of swords and Nanaki's tribe gave the impression as well. I always thought of it being around 1200 AD in our world, years after the Cetra and such. Like a 'medieval' era by definition of the FF7 world if you will.
 
this is weaid i through the year crisis core was in was 800 :/

errr i dn :) i'm not to keen on ffvii my self
 
Sum1sgruj said:
I always figured FF7 to take place in the past, just because they were just discovering mako as an energy source and the use of swords and Nanaki's tribe gave the impression as well. I always thought of it being around 1200 AD in our world, years after the Cetra and such. Like a 'medieval' era by definition of the FF7 world if you will.
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Thanks, now I really think our medieval times suck balls compared to FF7 version of medieval times.

Now back on topic, I don't really think the producers were considering stuff like the Y2K or any of these myths while making the game. Perhaps they didn't wanted to use large year date numbers to avoid people trying to make FF7 fit somehow in our timeline (believe me there are people who do that).

But seriously, I really recall reading somewhere that the game was taking place in 1997...or something among those lines...:gonk:
 
The Final Fantasy Wikipedia is the first and only place I've seen the year mentioned. Before that as far as I knew they never went into that much detailed. It could have been in the year 8527AD for all I knew. I don't think the manual said anything about the year either. If it does automatically reset to 0000 like that then it's weird =x You'd think it would reset to 0001.
 
Dean Winchester said:
But seriously, I really recall reading somewhere that the game was taking place in 1997...or something among those lines...:gonk:
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Hehe thts when the game was released. It has no relevance to the story itself.

And thanx for the emphasis on FF7 medieval vs Earth medieval. I'm glad someone shares my enthusiasm. It makes sense right? lol
 
I was looking at the Wiki timeline and I noticed Bugenhagen was born in 1867 and the game starts in 0007 so that make's him 140 years old even though in the game it say's he's 130 and it also say's Cid Highwind is born Rocket Town even though there was nothing there and people only started building around the rocket a few year's before the event's of FF VII there was a couple of other thing's like age's of some character's. I think that timeline is just giving you a basic idea of all the event's that happened but it's confusing having the date's go from 1999 to 0000.
 
I think the dates are bunk and have no real thought to them, to be honest. They never add up and they never make sense.

WHat the heck is 0007 anyway? :hmmm:
 
WRT to all this- The Era naming scheme is as old as the UO, and has appeared in all the subsequent Guidebooks. CC has, IIRC, a few mentions of the era year scheme, such as on the trains in the station.

There is a timeline, it is promoted by square, it is not made up by the FF wiki, it is included in several ultimanias.
0007 is the year after the 7th full year in the new calendar scheme which begins, rather logically, at year, day, and time 0.

http://thelifestream.net/final-fantasy-vii/107/complete-timeline-of-the-compilation-of-ffvii/

This is currently the official timeline of FF7 as collated from various Ultimanias. Discrepancies at the Wiki might be a result of guessing.
 
all this is just plain confusing :/

never trust wikis..... somebody on this forum might of have changed it just to annory you ;)

jokes but that could be possible got told that when i failed one of my assignments in college for a submission for using wikipedia :/

so yh never trust wikis... even a final fantasy one :P
 
Of course those are the official timelines, no one is saying otherwise. However, they're not adding up nor are they making sense.

What the fuck is 0007?
 
So HOW does the Official timeline fail to add up or make sense? Saying they don't does not give any information. Assertion does not make it so.


As for 0007. It's the the 7th year after year 0000. That's not difficult to understand at all. It's really no more arbitrary than the current calendar system. In fact, it IS our current calendar system. Imagine 0007 is 2007. Problem solved.
 
So what you're saying is that the years for VII's world had only been counted for 7 years? 0000 being the beginning of their known time, and 0007 being the time the world is up to? That right? 8(

So, 0000 is the creation time of the planet? Wait-- so the planets only 7 years old? Talk about creationism.
 
0007 is James Bond's evil twin, obv

And I dunno what was up with the 0007 thing tbh, it'd help if there was some... Whatever the word is with them (like BC/AD) to help make sense of it :hmph:
 
♥Beauty Queen Etna♥;825520 said:
0007 is James Bond's evil twin, obv

And I dunno what was up with the 0007 thing tbh, it'd help if there was some... Whatever the word is with them (like BC/AD) to help make sense of it :hmph:
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lmao I agree.

And I'm glad at least you can understand what I'm getting at. :rage: Is the planet/world of FFVII only 7 years old? If 0000 is the beginning, that is... well, basically, it's unexplainable.
 
If they're going to stick that in it should for one, be referenced more in the game since to my knowledge, nobody important ever says anything about it.

In fact... Remember the Sephy scene in Shinra Mansion basement? Year xxxx? considering Sephy is what? 30/40? and Jenova was found before his birth... It'd probably help if they specified years so we had a better understanding of the timeline pre-0000 :hmph:
 
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