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Yobe
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FF7 is probably has one of the best most random strylines
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Thu May 22, 2003 9:40 pm |
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Kiwi Boy
High Emperor
Joined: 03 Jan 2003
Posts: 1086
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Originally posted by Yobe
... best most random strylines
Why "random storylines"? It's not like RPGs with randomized plot like Darkstone. |
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Sun May 25, 2003 5:18 am |
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Lord_Brownie
High Emperor
Joined: 16 Feb 2003
Posts: 575
Location: Unfashionable arm of the spiral galaxy |
I played FF7 on both the PS and later the PC. The port to the PC was poorly done, it had many graphics glitches-some monsters that would disappear while you where fighting them, or they where just white blocks foating in the air. I seemed to recall the summon Odin movie was flawed, too. It either locked up, or parts of Odin disappeared or flickered. A sad poot for a great title. I esp. loved the mixing of the materia (spelling?) which kept the game interesting, and the very few and very short FMVs where very sharp on the PS version.
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Sun May 25, 2003 5:33 pm |
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Silvayn
Village Dweller
Joined: 30 Jan 2003
Posts: 24
Location: Slovakia |
None of the gfx glitches described above EVER happened to me. Never forget the rule #1 of PC gaming: Thou shalt not play without latest gfx drivers. I really liked FF7 and I hope I'll find time to replay it some day. |
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Sun May 25, 2003 10:35 pm |
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piln
High Emperor
Joined: 22 May 2003
Posts: 906
Location: Leeds, UK |
I didn't have any graphics glitches either. Those problems are definitely down to your system, Lord_Brownie.
The pre-rendered backgrounds were obviously taken straight from the PS1 version, because the low resolution was noticeable compared to the sharpness of the little polygon characters... and speaking of polygon characters... did anyone else notice they used 3 or 4 different sets of models & rendering styles for different parts of the game? The exploration scenes had those little flat-shaded squat guys with massive heads, the battle scenes had characters with totally different proportions (more typical manga-style) and more detail, most of the movie scenes had realistic(ish) proportions and rendering... and I'm sure there were one or two movie scenes that used the realistic rendering with the short, big-head proportions (like the one where Cloud jumps onto the train).  Totally bizarre and inconsistent, I can't figure out why they decided to do this, but it didn't harm the game for me. In fact, i thought it was pretty funny. But I have heard one or two people complaining about it.
I loved the game overall, even though it features some of the conventions of Japanese RPGs that I hate (random battles are a totally weak and lazy way of prolonging gameplay - FF7 had enough "real" content that it didn't need random battles; it could have just restricted them to certain parts of the world-map for levelling up purposes), and there was absolutely no reason to make you watch those 5-minute summoning animations every single time - that was just ludicrous. But despite my complaints, it's still one of the most memorable games I've ever played... Sephiroth is an excellent villain (with a great personal theme tune  ), the storytelling and direction are fantastic, and the magic system is pretty clever.
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Tue May 27, 2003 1:41 pm |
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Lord_Brownie
High Emperor
Joined: 16 Feb 2003
Posts: 575
Location: Unfashionable arm of the spiral galaxy |
Dispite the graphics problems I still played throught the game on the PC. I can agree with Piln more, dispite this game haveing all the elements I normaly dislike in Japanese RPGs I still loved this title. I tried this title on different machines all drivers updated, which is my pet peive with computers, and was unable to get rid of the many graphics glitchs it contained. I have 5 computers now, all with different configs, including the two I played that game on, and its is still messup graphicly.
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Wed May 28, 2003 5:05 am |
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Odin1985
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Joined: 25 May 2003
Posts: 4
Location: Were times meet |
well i just love ff7 i have played som many times that i tend to forget, i have completed all 100% game sonly left are a few lvl4 limit breaks and last weapons, but i did got teh last materia the knigth of the round material, and destroyed all the weapons 
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Wed May 28, 2003 6:00 am |
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Jaz
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Joined: 20 Jan 2002
Posts: 9708
Location: RPGDot |
quote:
Originally posted by piln
I can't figure out why they decided to do this
They do it in regular mangas quite often as well, changing from 'normal' to SD (super deformed) and back. Or the slapstick, sometimes there are pretty unexpected slapstick humor scenes in an otherwise serious manga, often rendered in SD... hmmm, I take it only a Japanese comic book artist will be able to tell us the reason behind this issue.
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Wed May 28, 2003 6:10 am |
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Cold Flail
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Joined: 26 Jun 2003
Posts: 19
Location: The Stoney Pits |
I really enjoyed the game on both ports, plus had no problems.
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Sat Jun 28, 2003 12:52 pm |
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Titus_Kisari
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Joined: 07 Jun 2005
Posts: 1
Location: Kisari Manor, The Realms |
Still the best role playing game available on most formats. An extremely popular title with a huge following. So ingrained into the psyche of avid gamers quotes can often be found in rewiews of other games.
[quote]personally, I like it.
[i]A lot of debate on the most popular cast member. Cloud is obviously the favorite. Tifa and Aeris (but...why?) and close seconds.
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Yuffie owns them all though...
Heh, heh...
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Tue Jun 07, 2005 9:56 am |
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Sir Markus
Counselor of the King
Joined: 11 Jan 2002
Posts: 369
Location: Columbus, Ohio USA |
I'm not a big Japanese RPG guy, but FF7 was a very very good game. I had some problems running because my computer wasn't that great, but I finished and loved it. Another game of the same type that I really enjoyed was Anachronox, which I thought was underrated at the time. |
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