Final Fantasy vs. Oblivion

An anonymous reader writes "bit-tech has up a short comparison between Final Fantasy VII and Oblivion. While Oblivion is touted as the latest and greatest PC-based RPG, Final Fantasy VII is held in the minds of many gamers as the best RPG of all time. From the article: 'At the time of its release, nearly ten years ago, FFVII received rave reviews from the press and the public, and it has a claim to being the best loved Final Fantasy game ... In a Top 100 Games of all time, it would be up there in the single digits. It is, by all accounts, Sergeant Pepper-Citizen Kane great. If something is great, it should be great whenever you pick it up -- buy a fresh copy of Pepper or Kane now and they'll still blow you away: they were great in '67 and '41, and they're great now. Is the same true of FFVII?'"

Resurfacing?!

[TekReggard]

4 Copies? Get the bad copies resurfaced at a used music store, and sell 'em on ebay or something. They just stopped taking trades on them at GStop / EB, so know in advance that wont work. But seriously, you're sitting on some possible value there.

Re:FFVII the greatest? Please.

[Sparr0]

If you think Oblivion and Morrowind (and BG and BG2 and all the other great non-linear RPGs) have too little story then you are playing them too linearly. Yes, if you play the main quest of Morrowind and finish the game in 20 hours then you will encounter less story than in an equivalent 20 hours of FF play. But that isnt how the game is supposed to work. I have spent THOUSANDS of hours on Morrowind, and never even beaten the game. There are *BOOKS* of backstory in the game. Entire villages full of vocal and interactive characters that you never encounterd if you played the linear way. Hundreds of quests, thousands of lines of dialog.