• Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I’m not a fan of ff7. I actually love 8, and a few of the older ones but 7 never pulled me in. So to me it’s kinda crazy to see like a dozen games released based on ff7 alone, when there are a dozen+ other final Fantasy worlds out there to explore.

    I tried the ff7 remake and didn’t like it either, so I wish they’d move on from ff7 already and work on expanding on the rest of the series.

    I’m very happy they’re finally moving on to an ff8 remake.

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      4 months ago

      I think the one of the biggest reasons was FF7 just came first and helped to bridge common themes in the FF universe to a more novel (at the time) style of gameplay which included 3D graphics and a significantly larger story with a more expansive world.

      IMO FF8 took a lot of what made FF7 critically acclaimed and fine-tuned it while giving a more modern and realistic story/world.

      I see FF7/8 as a sort of renaissance to the FF universe; FF9 and beyond owing a bit of themselves to what 7/8 accomplished.