Question: Is FF7 the most overrated FF7
Answer: Yes

Of course I'm going to go into detail here.
First my story: When the playstation came out i didn't want it. I was a teenaged Nintendo loyalist at the time. Nothing could convince me to buy that thing.. I heard FF7 was coming out only on playstation and i cringed. My stupid nintendo loyalty was playing against me. It wasn't until I went over a friends house to actually play the playstation that i realized an important thing: system loyalty is for retards. Only fun matters (and price. I damn well can't afford a PS3!!!!). I still did'nt buy a PS1 because of all the glitch problems the first generation of playstations were having, and I really didn't want to own any of the games that were out. A year or two later I went over a co-workers house who actually owned FF7. He showed me a couple of summons and a few fights and I was convinced: I would buy a playstation JUST for this game alone.

Now you see how I set myself up for dissapointment. But not without reason. I hoped that FF3 would be better than FF2 (FF4 and 6 in the original US. releases) and It was.Considering how much I loved final fantasy 2, I could not fathom that FF3 was even better! Amazing!

Final Fantasy 7 was.......average....just there....no big deal.

A lot of people thought otherwise.

It was then that I came to another realization: people like "shiny and pretty". The FACT that the story, gameplay, play control are average, suck, or downright make you want to kill your momma can all be overlooked by many if the game is "shiny and pretty". For a lot of people THIS was their first FF game. Polygon graphics were the new sensation. And It had a blitzing ad campaign like no other FF before it. The game though was just alright-the graphics were great for the time. I thoroughly believe that if FF6 were released at the same time, with a similar graphics engine, it would have been considered much better by comparison(also with more memory I'm sure ff6's story would have been expanded also and other things expanded).

Anyway...that's the story. Heres what that game had that were thought of as VIRTUES, that I thought were OVERRATED.

1. Sephiroth
WTF is sooooo appealing about this guy. TELL ME IF I'M WRONG, pretty much every scene he's in, he magically appears, kills a couple people , says some crap that makes no sense to anybody and disappears. Am I right? YEP.Yet people loved this villian.HE DIDN'T DO ANYTHING! Actually he was a generic archetype that had been used in videogames, books, or what -have- you before. It's as if everybody who boasts about this characters originality and coolness has never read FICTION before.

2. Cloud
*sigh* guy with a mysterious past who thinks we doesn't have enough power to protect the people he cares about most, so he shuts everyone out as not to hurt them.. BORRRRRRINNGGGGGG. See the Sephiroth comment above to see how cookie-cutter this character is. The only way they could have made it more generic is if he was an orphan from a small village...oh wait, they did.

Pretty much every character was a generic archetype. Now, not that archetypes are bad. This just plays into the "overrated" theme. These guys are toated as the "best" insome circles, when in fact they're the "norm".

3. Challenge
If you die fighting a regular team of enemies, tell me how. As soon as you get summon monsters, game over. You destroy everything in your path no problem.Just push a button and wait twenty minutes while your moster takes out all the guess work. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Oh... and The reward for beating the toughest "X-tra" boss in the game? A GOLD CHOCOBO! umm....to get the item you need to defeat that boss, so need a gold chocobo in the first place. Stupid.

4. Story
I just found it boring. That's personal. But nothing excited me. Couple things of note: Why was AVALANCHE so sure that SHINRA'S Mako reactors were killing the world? Nothing was ever said as to evidence that the world was about to die, just they way all of SHINRA treated people seemed to be the problem. I didn't get the hurray ECO-Terroist theme. They all just seemed to know Mako energy was the world's life blood, but HOW they knew was never answered.


Now reading all this remember, I don't hate ff7. If I could afford a PS3, I'd get that remake that's coming out. But by far, in my opinion, it is without a doubt the most overrated ff if not the most overrated game of all time.

And as much as I think FF7 is "overrated" I think Advent Children was "Suck ass". All my comments on fanboys and how this movie bit ass can be seen here. http://flyingomelettespalace.yuku.com/topic/706/t/FFVII-Advent-Children-Hunk-Of-Junk.html