i hear ff7 is like one of the best games ever, and also the best of the final fantasy series. i've never played it before. what's it like 0o. is it really that awesome???? i am excited to be able to play it for the first time remade/remastered. going to be epic, or at least i hope XD
The outdated battle system (
ATB) and the goddamn random encounters might put you off (some people love it to this day, but I never liked that kind of gameplay personally) but literally everything else in this game is amazing. The characters, the story, the environments, even the music that I rarely care for in video games, they're all top tier. Well there's these LEGO player models, but it's one of the first 3D games.
What I like so much about it is the in-universe logic. You don't simply turn FFVII on and see characters use magic and whatnot as if it's a completely common thing (just like in other FF games), there's explanation to mostly everything. I do have some gripe about how normal (perhaps trained, but still) humans in your party and other major human characters appear superhuman compared to the usual human being (even in FFVII world) and don't seem to be too far behind special characters/beings. In the game it could be explained as "they're using magic/summons to beat shit up and are still normal humans" but human feats displayed in Advent Children disagree with that.
The story is complicated and if you wish to understand it fully you may need to go through the game a few times AND do some research about officially confirmed information that is unavailable in the game. It's worth it. I'm pretty picky for such things and yet I deem FFVII's story to be one of if not the best video game story ever (I haven't played FFVI...).
But to each their own. You may not like the game. I know a few people that don't (even if for invalid reasons). People suggested KOTOR to me the way I'm suggesting FFVII to you now and I only beat KOTOR after giving it a try and uninstalling twice. I now consider KOTOR and KOTOR2 to be among the greatest games. But then people suggested me the Mass Effect series and it was complete garbage as far as I'm concerned.
Anyway, people have been wanting for HD FFVII remake for a long time. Surely that suggests something.