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May. 9th, 2009 11:05 pmGod, I'm actually feeling somewhat nostalgic for Final Fantasy VII. You know, the one with Cloud and Sephiroth. Nostalgic as in, "I really want to play through this game again for old time's sake." (MAYBE I WILL.) Also, that game is twelve years old and they have made five more proper Final Fantasy games (not counting spinoffs) since then.
At the time, I was mad at FF7 for being such a radical new departure from what I considered to be the norm and the gold standard (and, admittedly, still my favorite FF even today,) FF6. Maybe it just took the utter abominations that were 8, 9, and 10 for me to realize how good 7 was in retrospect. Or maybe Final Fantasy VII is twelve years old now, how the hell did that happen? D:
I remember how mad I was at the time, because the PSX itself was such a new departure from the in-game cartridge saves of the SNES that we weren't aware that there was a such thing as memory cards or that you needed them, and I had to replay the first hour or so (the opening Mako reactor bit, mostly) and just fantasize about how cool it would be if I could actually save my progress and be able to see what happens next for almost a week after getting that game but before we were able to get a memory card. Now, all the sudden, I realize that that's the sort of thing I would say when reminiscing about old games and consoles on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
videogame_tales. Because FF7 is an old game for an old console.
Damn.
At the time, I was mad at FF7 for being such a radical new departure from what I considered to be the norm and the gold standard (and, admittedly, still my favorite FF even today,) FF6. Maybe it just took the utter abominations that were 8, 9, and 10 for me to realize how good 7 was in retrospect. Or maybe Final Fantasy VII is twelve years old now, how the hell did that happen? D:
I remember how mad I was at the time, because the PSX itself was such a new departure from the in-game cartridge saves of the SNES that we weren't aware that there was a such thing as memory cards or that you needed them, and I had to replay the first hour or so (the opening Mako reactor bit, mostly) and just fantasize about how cool it would be if I could actually save my progress and be able to see what happens next for almost a week after getting that game but before we were able to get a memory card. Now, all the sudden, I realize that that's the sort of thing I would say when reminiscing about old games and consoles on
videogame_tales. Because FF7 is an old game for an old console.Damn.