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I was thinking more about “Death.” 😃

Man, I tell you, I have Aeris’s theme on my itunes and I have to weep every time the randomizer hits it…(it’s amazing in orchestral form).

An FF8? That came so close to greatness without ever grabbing hold. I loved Laguna though, and I’ve got The Man with the Machine Gun on the tunes list too.
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I have the Orchestral version on MP3. You think that’s good? For my graduation present, my friend arranged the entire piece for the piano (based off the full orchestral version.) Hearing her play that on her Grand… that’s gorgeous.

I agree with you on ff8. So so so so close! A love story for the ages, with great supporting characters in zack and a few others. Sadly, the plot just couldn’t keep up, and the overall gameplay and battle system just weren’t conducive to the capture-you-up magical-world that was in ff7.

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cynic:
Final fantasy 7 has to be the greatest game ever made.
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I think that FF start to move really slow after awhile. I mean, I can understand an RPG that takes about 40 hours, but one that takes more is just a bit too much.
 
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Oh the memories. I agree with you there. That game had more emotion than most. The only Final Fantasy that had anything remotely to do with the church was Final Fantasy Tactics which was the hardest game ever and also storywise comparable to FFVII.

However, I wasted so many hours of my life that I could have been doing so many other productive things. I am an extrovert but those RPG games made me way introverted since it would be either a choice of going out with frineds to play or play my rpg game by myself. Guess what I picked. There are so many more productive things than video games. When I one day have children I don’t know if I want them having video games like that or if they do I am going to make strict rules on the amount of time they are allowed to play them. My parents were at one time against them and didn’t want to get them for us. It wasn’t until they divorced and had to compete for our love that we got them. So just be careul that the games don’t consume you.
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It helps when your friends are geeks. We can spin RPGs in ways you wouldn’t imagine. Heck, I’ve consumed time lately writing a an FF pitch since I’m dissasitisfied with the direction of #12. Not that it’ll happen but I’m pitching it anyway.
 
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I have the Orchestral version on MP3. You think that’s good? For my graduation present, my friend arranged the entire piece for the piano (based off the full orchestral version.) Hearing her play that on her Grand… that’s gorgeous.

I agree with you on ff8. So so so so close! A love story for the ages, with great supporting characters in zack and a few others. Sadly, the plot just couldn’t keep up, and the overall gameplay and battle system just weren’t conducive to the capture-you-up magical-world that was in ff7.

Josh
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That’s an awesome present.

The main things holding back 8 were three-fold:
  1. Squall. If you’re going to center the story on the characters and not the end of the world plot, you need to have a main character players can care about. Unfortunately, Squall didn’t fill those shoes.
  2. The first two discs zoom along at a breakneck pace, keeping you excited, then on the third one the bottom just kind of drops out from under it and it get REALLY slow. The later hours of an RPG are typically not the best, but they usually at least make the cut. By the time I got to Esthar I had stopped caring about the story.
  3. Lazy revelation. The bit about the orphanage was just lazy story telling. A trained monkey could have given the mercs a better back story.
But be that as it may, it wasn’t bad. It just wasn’t at the level of greatness expected from FF.
 
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