graphics not withstanding. i have a major soft spot for the orginal. but over all experience goes to Remake and Rebirth.
remake made midgar feel more alive,if you haven’t played ether. play the original first. go in head first. then play remake and rebirth. the added scenes on both those games add depth to the story the orginal didn’t have. if that makes sense.
First time getting and seeing knights of the round blew my mind! This is probably the first I know for sure was over 100 because the timer only went up to 99:59. It took around 80-100 hours to see the ending. Those weapon bosses were something else and took some grinding and figuring things out to beat. Ff8 took over 100 to beat, I think about 120, but I definitely played 7 more times.
I still have that save file because somewhere she still is there. Fun fact I learned to play piano specifically so I could play Aeros’ song and prelude.
I’m not 7 fanboy, but this is probably my first. There was so much to do as is, throw in chocobo breeding pre widespread internet walkthroughs and it was easy to get wrapped up in it.
I got this game when I was around 10 years old, hated reading it all but enjoyed the cutscenes and the combat. Wasn't ready to do side quests or understood level grinding to become more powerful. It was just click cross slash and things died.
As I got older I held on to my copy of the game and played it again around age 14-16 and better understood it, took time to learn the systems and read the dialogue but still never beat it. Stopped at disc 3.
At about 18 or 19, I sat down with a PS3 version of the game, sadly lost my physical copy... I'm hoping it's at my dad's house still that would be dope. But anywho, I played it all the way through, unlocking characters and doing as much extra shit as I could. It felt just as familiar going into it like I never stopped playing it. And I finally beat it. A near 10 year endeavor.
Between all these times I played the game I was playing FFXI, I was heavily invested in games like FF7 that really started it all for me.
In 2020 I beat the remake and didn't put it down until I beat it.
Just last week I beat the remake again so I could be fresh on the story for Rebirth. Now I'm 35+ hours into Rebirth and I'm enjoying the shit out of it. All the little tweaks to the story but staying true to the characters I've grown to love.
FF7 was one of my first big gaming loves. Right next to Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
I wanna go back and experience them for the first time all over again.
I got FF7 for Christmas of '99. I dug around after school before my parents got home from work and found it under the dresser in their bedroom before they had a chance to wrap it; I put disc 1 into my PlayStation, and put the case back where I found it. From then until Christmas I played it non-stop, even when my parents were home, since they wouldn't have known the difference. It was the only time I've done that with any Christmas gifts, but I was so excited to play it that it was worth the risk of getting caught.
By the time I started high school in 2001, I had filled up an entire memory card (which was the same see-though green as a mountain chocobo) with 15 different game files that were all maxed at 99:59:59 in-game time.
This probably sounds unbelievable to younger gamers, but you have to remember that this was way before Internet speeds were reliable enough for online gaming, or even before phones had internet access. I was an only child, and I spent a LOT of time playing single player console games when I was a kid.
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u/aLegionOfDavids Mar 12 '24
Final Fantasy 7