[kupoartist]

hehe.. once again i'm just about the only one who just dosen't get why FFVII is so damned popular. True it's a great game, but it never really seems to excell at all... In the end I felt that the Storyline was only semi-gripping, only with the few decent side stories and cloud's past did it really hold on... (the basis ended up in FF:TSW, which has a hyper-average storyline...)Characters were a mix of great (Cloud, Cid, Aeris, Barret) the Ok-ish (Tifa - Breasts do not make a heroine, a decent back-story and scenes with the love intrest do. Her relationship with Cloud was SO weak...) and the just down right terrible (Cait-Sith - most hated FF character ever, and Yuffie - pointless, un-amusing and just plain crap...).
I often feel the gameplay is lacking as well: there seems so much left out of there and at times its suprisingly buggy. Worst thing was the summons, which are several thousand times to long, when you DON'T use Quadra Magic and/or W-Summon...
Oh and they killed Wedge Biggs and Jessie

On the plus side, it had a set of decent villans (Shinra and the turks particuarly. Sephy aint that great IMO)

I actually like FFVII a fair bit. Like all FF's its great; but It seems too flawed to be the best.

Ah well, perhaps its just because I ddn't play it close to release and had the privaliege of playing the rest before it. Either that ot i'm just Dumb.