Pioneer Project: Replaying Final Fantasy VII is in many ways like returning to an old flame. Upon reflection it was my first gaming love, the experience which didn't just set me on the gaming path, but set the tone of all other games I would come to enjoy.
I was no longer a child who enjoyed playing games, but a young adult who identified as a gamer. It was for me (and many others) my gaming coming of age story.
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
FF7=Best JRPG Ever
You want to know the sad fact about FF7, it's not even the best one. Sure you can say it changed the way we look at JPRG games but FF8 and FF9 did most things better. To say it's the best because it's the first one that changed our out look on JRPGs is stupid, fair enough if it was a "Top 5 games that changed the way we think about games" but it's always considered the best because of that main reason.
It's like when you were at school at a young age and someone did something really cool which made people respect him, even if you did something better it wouldn't matter because you wern't the first person to gain peoples respect like that. People would always compare what you did to what he did first....yet if it was the other way and you did your thing first you would be the respected one instead.
Point is if FF8 or FF9 came was the first FF game to come out for the PS1 (terms of story, characters, gameplay...basicaly everything) then that would be the "best FF game ever".
It's such a shame to see how most, and I said most, people can't think for themselfs and how to go by what other people have said.
I remember some of my friends talking about this game when it came out saying that it was awesome but it never got me interested because even for the time the graphics were awful, the box-art looked really cool but that was it. My first FF game was FFVIII when I was like 14-15 years old and then FFIX, X, VI and XII. <---{in that order
It wasn't until I played FFXIII that I was so utterly disappointed by it that I thought, what else is there to play? And I remembered about FFVII and I said to myself: "if I was able to finish such a terrible game (FFXIII) then I could play a bit of FFVII to try and understand the hype" and so I did.
I was really misled by the haters, I really thought the game was an overrated piece of crap but after playing it myself I was like: "are these people insane?". FFVII is one of the best FF games ever, only second to VI and not by much.
still to this day when i hear the soundtrack to this game, i get lost in trying to save aeris from sephiroth, running around on a breeded chocobo, the final fight with jenova/sephiroth, and spending hours and hours playing through this game as a kid. this game for a lot of us, reminds us of some of the best memories of being a kid all over again and getting drawn into another fantasy world.
man, i love this game.