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Old 03-24-2011, 08:04 PM   #1
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Essentially, it made what was a niche genre into a wide ranging success. People who never played RPGs picked up FFVII, and THATS why its regarded in the light it has been.
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Old 03-24-2011, 09:22 PM   #2
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Essentially, it made what was a niche genre into a wide ranging success. People who never played RPGs picked up FFVII, and THATS why its regarded in the light it has been.
Except that's not why it's regarded in the light it has been.

Otherwise, a great point.
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Old 03-24-2011, 10:19 PM   #3
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Except that's not why it's regarded in the light it has been.

Otherwise, a great point.
Oh great, you are lying again.
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Old 03-25-2011, 03:38 AM   #4
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Except that's not why it's regarded in the light it has been.

Otherwise, a great point.
Really? Because I think implicitly it is. For a lot of people, FFVII was their "first love" of RPGs, so of course its going to be romanticized. Now, they may not be actively saying "Well it paved the way for a genre to make headway, so that's why I love it," but a lot of the people who hold the game in such high esteem are the people that the game had such a large effect on, and are the people who became the marketplace for RPGs.

So yeah, I know what you're saying in that most people hold it up as a bastion of gaming goodness in and of itself, but why they're doing so is because of its lasting impact on their gaming habits, whether they know it or not.
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Really? Because I think implicitly it is.
Except most people hype it for its story (crap), characters (crap), graphics/visual presentation (which was mostly pretty strong with only a few issues for its time), etc. Whether it was "Baby's first RPG" is rarely seems to be an issue. It was a best-selling title for a generation that had finally broadened gaming in general, but to say that's the same thing is really playing fast and loose, since it was an expansion of the platform and not the genre itself.

Also, I'm totally sticking by my "Twilight for nerds" comparison.
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