So... why do we all agree Final Fantasy 7 is one of the greatest games ever?

[GotMalkAvian]

Let me preface this by saying that I don't find FFVII to be a particularly great game. Sure, it's good, but I don't think it's anything special. Then again, I'm not really a big fan of JRPGs in general, so there's that.
As for being an "important" game, I'd have to agree. FFVII may have been one of the first games to truly mark the end of cartridge days. By jumping from Nintendo to Sony, Square set a precedent for what would become the new technological standard for games.

 

[Reaperman64]

I think we've all come to the realization that FF7 is a great game, but is still flawed, and not the best thing evars...that award goes to half life...

 

[DevilWolf47]

Not good, but it's important. Final Fantasy VII is the point where Square Enix jumped the shark. They made a few games, but after that...
...god and when i think that they now own the rights to Hitman, Thief, and Deus Ex i just want to curl up into a ball and die...

 

[masticina]

Ever heard of timeframe?

Yeah well let me tell you there is a reason why FF VII opened the floodgates for JRPG's into the western realm. Because for that time it has excellent writing, excellent story, excellent everything. Revolutionary indeed!

Of course nowadays JRPG is in a whole different ballgame! But if you go back in the time and find yourself right there as FF VII rolls in you begin to understand why it did what it did.

It is 14 years later and you try to make a joke. Well.. sure go ahead. In many ways what we now call "bad" about JRPG indeed is what makes FF VII so good! But then in that time there was nothing like FF VII. The western rpg's we're stuck in a much older time. This JRPG kicked WRPG's ass and forced WRPG makers to make better games. So that nowadays JRPG's are "Stuck in the past" and "not as good as" WRPG's is. Well a reason for JRPG makers to do the game back! Let the battles begin AGAIN

Is nostalgia a big factor in this game? Yeah.. it isn't a game for everybody! Self I like FF 9 a bit better.. you know going back to the old job system. The lighter feel to it all yup.