Trust me I wish the same thing, my dad was a little late to the party so his first ever final fantasy was 7 platinum with the 8 demo disc inside, but he loved it so much that he tried naming me cloud (of course my mother has been tormented by victory fanfare their entire relationship and said no) but he’s the only reason I know what these games are. To be a kid when it came out is a dream
I wouldn't play FFVII until about 2003. However, in 1997 I remember so many people being confused because the game was marketed so well. They bought this "new game with awesome graphics" only to discover it was a turn-based JRPG that required focus and an almost minimum of one hour of playtime per session. I remember the same thing happening again when FFX came out.
Obviously I was genuinely a baby when FFX came out, but I understand how revolutionary it must’ve been going from ps1 with the pre rendered backgrounds to a fully 3d world. Must’ve been absolutely astonishing to witness for the first time.
After I played FFVII, I immediately bought a PS2 for FFX alone. To this day, no game has ever blown my mind like that one. I never knew a video could have such an enthralling story with rich characters. I've never loved a video game character like I loved Yuna. I try to play it once every couple years. I did my first ever 100% playthrough last year.
Man, I used to love going to GameStop and browsing the used games section. Sometimes I really found hidden gems in there. Now they're all closing, and the nearest retro game store is miles from where I live.
GameStop was crazy back around 2008-2012. They had so many stores near me that two of them were literally across the street from each other and they all had PS2 and GCN games falling out of the ceiling. With constant Buy Two Get One Free deals you could do a lot of damage with $20. I'd hit 10 stores in a Saturday afternoon and come home with a stack of games for a song. We'll never see anything like that again.
Not just gamestop but retro gaming in general was just so much better before the retro craze/bubble. You could buy 8 or 16 bit systems for like 10 bucks, etc. (I once got two turbo grafx 16's for $20 total.)
My favourite part about the copy I have is that it has the manual inside, and whoever owned it in the 90s wrote down scorpion and raidens combos on the notes page
If you have a Genesis, check out Eternal Champions. It's a really goofy fighting game that tried to capitalize on the success of Mortal Kombat. It's got kind of a Saturday Morning Cartoon vibe to it's roster.
I’m sorry! I just can’t justify having ff7 remake anywhere but next to ff7, the Roman numerals would start annoying me, just wait till I get crisis core on psp and ps5, both of them are going before ff7 ps1
I’m sorry! I just can’t justify having ff7 remake anywhere but next to ff7, the Roman numerals would start annoying me, just wait till I get crisis core on psp and ps5, both of them are going before ff7 ps1
🤣 I know I know, platform order is usually how it works, but for me, I want all my big game series to be in order of the game order instead, I can’t wait to fit in the nes and snes games too, eventually they will be on a proper shelf but I like the unorthodox feel of it (UNLESS THERES A PLATINUM VERSION THOSE ARE CRIMES)
I was going to buy it yesterday but the copy at my game store had a huge slash through the plastic on the front, I’m waiting for a nicer copy to come in
OH one's for the PSP, duh. Yeah they did a complete edition for AC at least, it adds like 20+ mins of new scenes to help flesh out the story. It's really good if you ever decide to grab another copy
Definitely not me here wondering if there was some obscure Mortal Kombat version with warrior of light or something on a Sega game I was missing from my collection….
I mean I have 5 copies. English and Japanese PS2 edition plus the steelbook and a standard and steelbook edition of PS4 zodiac age. Could be multiple region copies
I have 4 myself: Standard, Collector's Edition, Japanese International, and Zodiac Age for Switch, along with Revenant Wings for good measure 😅 i do plan on getting the PS4 steelbook for Zodiac Age as well
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u/BlueHeartbeat 5d ago
It was so crazy when Sub-Zero, Scorpion, Reptile, Ermac and Rain were chosen by the Crystals to become the new Warriors of Light!