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

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There are only a few games that I've ever played that had a strong impact on me as a gamer. FF7 was one of those games...Obviously it's just a video game, but I was used to going level to level with games and not ever being surprised by anything, and then this game came out and changed everything for me...what about you guys?
 
I honestly can't remember the first time I played it, I was quite young (around 9 or 10) and didn't fully understand the game.

Also, I got horrificly and helplessly stuck on Dyne. I just couldn't handle the solo battle and my terrible patience at that age stopped me from attempting it more than 3 times. These days when I play the game my 10 year old self is channeled through me in the form of an adrenaline rush when fighting Dyne even though I can deal with him no problem now.
 
It made me feel amazed, confused, emotional and...
strange.

after I played it, it changed the way that I thought, felt, acted and took life. It changed me. That effect has lasted my whole life. I did get stuck fighting the Weapons when I was 6-ish, formed a rivalry with them, and only recently managed to beat them. I feel great because of the end of the rivalry, but I still have a save from before Ruby so that I can fight that arsehole again, this time automated. Got to get magic counter first though. But yeah, it affected me, big time.
 
Didnt realise some people are so emotionally affected by this....

Yeah, I really enjoyed it first time. In fact, for a few years, I really loved the game, defended it's arse off...now I just can't stand it.

It didn't have much of an impact on me..like...WOAH IT CHANGED MAH LAIF...it just made me feel..happy to have played it.
 
It can only change before completely forming your personality.It had some impact on me the first month I played it but then it was gone.It didn't make more mature or less.But I do have good memories of it.That's all.
 
FF7 first time....It was actually the first time I ever played a RPG that was really "in depth" in my opinion. The graphics at that time for me was amazing, I was so used to 2d characters walking around the screen. The music especially stuck in my mind, I would even hum it when I played with toys and pretend imaginary fights.
 
I played FFVIII first, and it was the first RPG I'd ever played. After liking VIII so much, I got ahold of VII. VII was amazing, much like VIII, and VII ended up being what made me decide that the RPG genre was for me. VII ended up being a turning point in the kind of games I played - Before VII, it was mostly stuff like Mario, Sonic, and Crash Bandicoot that I played. It turned my whole gaming career around.
 
I first bought FFVII either in late 97 or early 98. I got stuck in the Train Graveyard and just gave up. I remember just leaving it in my cupboard for a few years then selling it to the local Games Exchange.

However, when I was about 12 or 13 I re-bought the game and ended up getting stuck at the Gi-Caves in Cosmo Canyon. I still didn't understand the full depth of the game, therefore I wasn't mesmoriesd by it. I just saw it as very good game.
It wasn't til I was 15 that I actually started to take a major interest in it. I started to notice things such as the Plot, Character Development, Materia-Link system, Limit Breaks. I think I first completed it at 15/16.

Now after not playing it for a few years, I randomly got the urge to start a new file. At the age of 19, I can honestly say I appreciate this game so much more than I did 3 years ago, let alone 10. I would go into detail with how good everything is but there's many of posts that do that. In my eyes, it as close to perfection as a game can get. I aim to perfect it with this new file. FFVII was the game that opened up my eyes to other FF games. I almost love FFIX as much as VII... well sorta. VII also opened up my eyes that graphics aren't everything. Jeez, Ive completed FFVI... there's no way in hell I would have ever even attempted to play that game if I have never played VII.

VII opened my eyes to the gaming world :)

It pwns.
 
My dad bought me a PS at the age of 11 and I didn't play with it. He bought FF7 and played with it for a while. When he stopped (right before the explosion of the very first mako reactor) I continued. I enjoyed the hours I spent playing it.
It made me want to play the other FF games. And I was fascinated for a while over Cloud's good looks and I marveled at the wonderful plot.

But it was nothing deep, really. It was a game.
 
I remember when I saw commercials for Final Fantasy VII on cable TV back in late 1997, and I really wanted that game...

I got it for my 14th birthday in early 1998, and probably finished it around early summer 1998 (around the time I got Internet), although it wasn't the game that introduced me to the Final Fantasy series (Final Fantasy VI was, in 1994).

I still replay it occasionally, too, along with other Final Fantasy games (except FF8, I didn't like that one...)

I also kept trying to find a way to revive Aeris after she died, but I found out that it was impossible without using a cheat device (unlike how it's possible to revive Chrono in CT with an item, lol) once I got Internet and browsed around on Usenet...
 
Something like zombification. I was stuck on it like a brain dead, decayed, rotting, infant-like undead being to a nice skull-full of juicy brains. =\ If that makes any sense.
 
The first time was kinda annoying because I had never played a rpg before and I didn´t know what was going on, like I didn´t understood anything that the characters were talking about. Of course nowadays it is different but it´s not the first time...
 
That's a little weird. You didn't understand what the characters were talking about? Like what? I only ask because, I don't think that I've ever had that problem with any game at all, let alone RPGs, which are long windedly self explanatory.
 
Considering it was the first true RPG I have ever played... Need I really say more? I loved the whole idea of everything. I have now back tracked and played the previous ones and kept wondering why the hell had I never played these games before. VII will always be my favorite because for the simple fact that it introduced me to RPG's in general.
 
FFVII was my first FF game and really set the tone for my gaming style, before i played it i was into beat 'em up games such as Tekken and street fighter but when i played FFVII something clicked and i fell in love with the style of game that FFVII was. granted when i first played it i wasn't that much of a tactical thinker so i ended up not being able to get past the second disk and i also didn't take the time to read all the text so i didn't know wat the hell to do next.
 
It wasn't that big of a deal for me really, maybe if it had been my first Final Fantasy I would have appreciated it a lot more than I do. It was a good game, it had a fairly good story with good characters and all but it didn't leave me in awe or anything.
 
To paraphrase myself "These Graphics are awesome!.. wait why did everyone turn into legos, how is Wedge still alive (back then I rather naively thought VII and VI [then III] existed in the same timeline/universe), what happend in IV, V, and VI?" (again my naivety, in fact I had already played VI)
 
I was impressed with FFVII, but that was about it. I didn't have high expectations for what I thought would be a horribly dated RPG, so I was pleasantly surprised when I became addicted to it for a few weeks. I played FFVII after having played games like Kingdom Hearts and Tales of Symphonia, so it wasn't a revolutionary experience by the time I picked it up. Still, if I hadn't played FFVII, I wouldn't have bothered playing any of the other Final Fantasy titles...which would have been a shame.
 
after beating ff7, i was like... wow... such a good game v.v same with crisis core.. <3 ff7 series
 
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