/vr/ - Retro Games

Final Fantasy VII succeeded where other games had before in moving towards a mainstream audience. It did so for a number of reasons. First, it was accessible, and action-packed story that threw you right into the plot from square one. Second, it starred a singular protagonist, a strong man with a brooding past, which is immediately relatable and interesting for most male audiences. Third, the game was marketed well. Even as a young child, I remember a number of commercials that had my friends and I talking about it. And finally, and perhaps most strongly, Final Fantasy VII was perhaps the largest example of Square moving towards cutting-edge graphics CG to draw audiences into the story. One of the reasons that people were going nuts about the PSX over the N64 was because of the crazy big games with FMV and CG, and FFVII was all of that.