/vr/ - Retro Games

Does not even have triple triad

>>9111565
The games up until that point hadn't been as blatantly "Japanese" as FF7 was. Up until that point Japanese developers often used westernized box art to market their games in the west. But that became more difficult with the fifth gen, since graphics were getting more detailed and explicit. They couldn't hide it as easily anymore.

But thanks to FF7 they discovered they didn't need to. I had a friend who smugly informed me that the smaller cutesy models in FF7 was something called "chi-bi" and that it was a common occurence in Japanese manga and anime and that it was a deliberate choice by the developers to use these "chi-bi" models as a contrast to the serious deep adult themes of the story. I thought he was full of shit. But that didn't stop me from smugly repeating what he had told me, to other friends.

>>9045850
PS1 was the first console I ever owned. I never owned an SNES (parents wouldn't allow it) and I've only played Chrono Trigger and DQ on emulators, but that is irrelevant. They are good comfy games. I experienced FF7 as a 10 year old kid who hadn't played an RPG outside of Zelda and a 30 year old man who has played a fuckton of RPGs and has a pretty good idea of 90s RPGs in general and in both of those contexts, it fucking sucks.

>>9045857
>It just came out at the right time, and won over 90’s 10 year olds with Sephiroth’s reeeeeally long sword.

Pretty much this, but I will dig into some nostolgia to give it some credit
1.The jewel case looked really good. I mean really good. If you were walking by in a Blockbuster your eyes were snapping right to it
2.The soundtrack was pretty killer
3.Aerith, dat bitch can get dis DICK
4.I'm sure the story is good. I have no idea. I haven't been able to stomach the game enough to know.

The more RPGs i play on the PS1, the more it makes me mad that nobody talks about them and it makes me realize just how truely shallow and godawful FF7 is. Now it's truely nostalgia when i play it but that's due to the music which is all it really has going for it, i feel most people never replayed this game or branched out to other RPGs on the PS1 and instead stuck with FF which skewed their perspective. Don't even think this is a top 20 Square Enix game