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Message: [QUOTE="ATenderLad, post: 8742, member: 3864"] I can remember an awful lot of disappointing returns to Blockbuster in the 90's, but I'm not sure whats what the thread was asking for. If it's an older game that I'd heard about and had to go back to play later in life....Wasteland, probably? I'd beaten Fallout a few times, and was dying to try out the game my friends had said inspired it, but I bounced off that one completely. I think I enjoyed reading the manual more than the game. (Not the only game that was true of, though. I had...I believe it's Might and Magic II: Gates to Another World on the Sega Genesis, and I adored that manual, with it's map and descriptions of spells, locations, and hints about the world. This might be a different topic though.) I can honestly say, you had to be there. There's elements of other games of course, like Jenova being a re-skinned Lavos (my head theory growing up was that FF7 was a sequel to Chrono Trigger originally, just set in the new slightly better future they'd managed to create), and the dynamic with Aeris having been done in Phantasy Star. ....that being said, back then it felt completely new. Like a bright sign of where games were going, FF7's pre-rendered backgrounds and cutscenes showed you a world you simply had to imagine before. (Thre's probably something more to say about how important graphics used to be, it sounds shallow but seeing the imagination rendered like never before was impactful, back when that sort of thing mattered. It's a shallow concern nowadays, I'll admit.) It was a bit more adult, really ushering in a new adolescent era of games for folks at the time. The whole Don Corneo sequence is crazy juvenile as an adult, but a gender-bending brothel infiltration to fight a pimp? Teenagers and younger kids whose parents had no idea were losing their minds over it. As a game, it isn't the best in the series, though the characters are still some of the most fleshed out and interesting Squaresoft ever came up with, and the soundtrack still has some all-time video game standards. My biggest complaint back then was that the characters lost their unique mechanical qualities, FF6 and it's array of Tools, Magic, and freaking Street Fighter style inputs to throw kamehameha's had been a lot more fun. This bit stuck out to me, it's maybe another thread but isn't that most games? Does anyone have life changing experiences with video games? Closest I can think of was Metal Gear Solid, it taught me more about nuclear policy and Mutually Assured Destruction than my school did at the time, and really made me wonder if the adults around me had any idea what they were doing. [/QUOTE]

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