Chas Guidry writes: History tells us that Final Fantasy 7 is one of the most overrated games of all time while EarthBound is an overlooked work of art, but time makes fools of us all. The haters of FF7 and the fans of EB have unintentionally turned the tables on the games they love and hate with a little help from their creators.
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
I'm glad someone wrote about how this tends to happen.
Are more and more people finally acknowledging FF7 is overrated? About time!
Earthbound is one of my fav games of all time, ff7 is also one of my fav games of all time, earthbound2 should be out now!
Earthbound = Greatest RPG yet. Truly a classic.
Ah, another generic pseudo-intellectual waste of space article.
FF7 is highly overrated. Earthbound might not be the greatest rpg ever made, but when you look at Chrono Trigger, old Suikodens, Xenogears and about a dozen of similar games it 's quite obvious. Unfortunately, folks fail to see how my favourite game =/= best game ever made.