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Message: [QUOTE="Clippy, post: 8588, member: 8560"] This is gonna be a biggun: Final Fantasy VII. Let me set the stage: It was around 2004. As a PC guy I stumbled upon Breath of Fire 4 and Final Fantasy VIII. JRPGs were never big outside of consoles (well, until recently I suppose) so it was a pretty new experience for me at the time and I liked it a lot so I decided to ask papa Google for other games in the same vein. Ultimately that was my rabbit hole into emulating pretty much everything under the sun but before that I learned that there were a few native PC ports. There was one game in particular that everyone raved about - Final Fantasy VII. Pretty much every opinion out there was that it's a mind-blowing, life-changing experience. A 13/10 at least. So I grabbed myself a copy, installed it, launched it... And I hated it with a passion. I hated the character models, I hated how clunky it was, I hated how slow it was, I pretty much hated everything about it. It's been two decades since then and I can say that the game has grown on me somewhat. I beat it multiple times and I think it's a pretty good game. I can safely say that the hype train soured my initial experience moreso than anything else. Had I played it back when it first came out chances are I'd be singing its praises to high heaven just like the folks who recommended it to me back then. The way I feel about it now is pretty much the same way I feel about the entire series: Good games worth a playthrough (especially IX) but there are better JRPGs out there. Lunar games blow the 16-bit entries out of the water, Shadow Hearts series does the same to the PS2 era FF. [/QUOTE]

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