It’s a dangerous time. Walking outside of your home town means inviting the wilds to test you with vicious competition. You won’t have enough equipment, and your gear is mostly homespun. But your heart is pure. Your mission righteous. You will overcome.
This was the world of the videogame RPG in the mid 1980′s.
Final Fantasy VII 1997 exceeds 15.5 million units sold worldwide as of February 2026, reinforcing its legacy as the series best selling title.
I’d love to know how many units have been sold of all the Final Fantasy VII franchise games, including the original, the remakes, spin offs such as Crisis Core, and mobile games Ever Crisis. I bet a fair few copies.
Modern day publisher be like: "Failed to meet sales expectations. Pivoting to live service."
It's an absolute legend of a game. And I honestly really love how the remake trilogy is shaping up so far.
Final Fantasy 7 is one of the most iconic video games of all time, with it helping to changed the RPG landscape when it was released in 1997.
If you already own it... There, I saved you the click on a deliberately misleading article.
I bought the game yesterday on steam for $4 because Square Enix is trying to replace it with a version that has no mod support.
Prior to yesterday, I had no idea the game had so many great mods until people started making a fuss out of it.
u get the switch 1 version of the og ff7 for free if you own 7 remake for the switch 2.
lol.
But BG2 didn't emerge in a vacuum, and in a recent chat with Slandered Gaming it emerged that—while we can thank BG2 for a lot of our favourite RPGs since—we have a whole other game to thank for BG2. That'd be Final Fantasy 7, which lit a fire under BG2 director James Ohlen to go all out with the game's structure and companions, per Trent Oster—who worked on the original Baldur's Gate and has since become CEO of Beamdog, the studio behind the BG1 and BG2 Enhanced Editions.
Baldurs Gate 1&2 were my games back in the day on PC. Icewindale and Neverwinter Nights as well
Agree'd on breaking up with square. FFXIII hurt me too much, and FFversusXIII/XV may be too little too late if it doesn't have the following; Airships, World Map, Towns.
Seems we grew up with JRPG's in the same manner, was a very nostalgic and enjoyable read. The other day I was clearing out the attic and came across two odl instruction manuals in a box, one for Squaresofts FFVII and the other for Enix's Star Ocean Second Story... was like finding an old photograph with an old flame, heart breaking stuff haha.
I forgot all about shadow hearts, really enjoyed that game! I can't remember the last time I played a truly good RPG (Lost Odyssey hit close to the mark)and the sad thing is I dunno if I'll ever play another truly great JRPG again. Unless Ni No Kuni gets a rerelease on ps4 (I had sold my ps3 to pay off debt before it was released :( )
I've been playing the FF series lately ( first time for most) and I've got to say it makes new RPG's look bad.
I miss the days when i could just look at the square logo and know that i'll be getting a amazing game. It's nothing like the way it used to be.
I would like Square to do a game similar to Child of Light tho
Now doesn't compare to then.