What makes these two so popular?
No better games have been made in almost 30 years.
>OOTCool game>FF7Cool gameThey're cool games. I fucking love cool games.
>>747603749The highest marketing budgets up to their time (until Pokemon surpassed them a year later). And also the proximity of when they came out. The perfect spot between when everyone was being wowed by 3D graphics and when the internet was first starting to become used by the mainstream.Also helped that most of the games that came after weren't as good. So people kept looking back at them with nostalgia goggles.
>>747603826Pretty sure lots of people can name many games which they would consider as good or better. The thing is, later games had a lot more competition. These games came out with barely any. Their competition was medium to low budget games. Like I'd say Suikoden, SotN and Chrono Cross were way better than FF7. But they didn't get anywhere near as much marketing as FF7 did. later PS2/GC games had a lot more competition.
Both are great
>>747603749Sword on the cover with the blade pointing southwest. That’s actually all it takes.
>>747603749They were aggressively advertised.
>>747603749They are probably the ultimate White Man's Games, no other games come close to capturing the adventurous, curious, faustian spirit of the white man. The fact of these two games enduring popularity is evidence of modern games inability to capture this essence.
>>747603749it turns out the secret to making good games is just a blonde guy with a sword. think about it, how many bad games can you think of with blonde guy with a sword mcs?
>>747603749They are bretty good.
>>747603826FF7 is xenogears (released 1 year later) for toddlers
>>747603749>oot>ff7they were the first 3d games for both series, so the devs actually tried, knowing that if they failed it would kill both series and maybe even companies.oot was good because feature creep and used lttp as a base. devs constantly thought how to use 3d creatively.ff7 was good because the devs weren't restricted on what they wanted to do in a jrpg. ff7 was bizarrely adult.
as someone that was born after both came out and only ever played them as an adult recently, these games both have a magic to them. they make you feel something really special. and i say this as someone that wouldnt even put either in my top ten favorite games. they just are both kino experiences
>>747603749In the case of ff7 for me personally it was the unbelievable soundtrack Just one banger after the another
playing them as children. the point of consoles is t scam kids and parents that dont know better
>>747603749oot is the straight boy's fantasy - saria/malon/ruto/zelda/etc.with ff7 they included lots and lots of male romance fantasy for the faggots and the bbc loversso between the two games everyone was covered
>>747605489To be fair, every FF game before it also had an amazing OST. Just not everyone outside Japan knew about the earlier games.
>>7476054897 is third (arguably fourth) place as far as ps1 FF osts goes (8 and 9 are better, tactics arguably so)
>>747605489It's genuinely insane how One Winged Angel could fit on the PSX sound chip.OoT also had incredible sound design for an N64 game. To this day no Pokemon game sounds as complex as this 30 year old N64 game.
>>747604591They were both made by the Japanese
>>747603749add mario 64 to the list and you have the 3 best games of their genre releasing all around the same time. Its honestly crazy no one has tried making anything better.
>>747603749One is a smelly pile of shit burdened with trash characters, simplistic and boring gameplay, terrible graphics and visual style, and a garbage soundtrack that's lauded by tin-ear'd retards desperate to validate their childhoods against others' who spent theirs better.The other is a final fantasy game.
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>>747604952That's true if your understanding of game design is nothing but fawning over cerebral tryhard concepts Not that I hate xenogears but c'mon pal
