Pierrot Le Fou wrote:I picked up a brand new copy last year for $20 CDN. It's one of the top selling video games of all time, and it's still very easy to get a copy. They're even still printing the strategy guide which has sold over a million copies.
Interesting. Did you buy it online? I'm not really sure what you mean by CDN. Anyway, the game was last re-released in 1999 as a "playstations greatest hits" title. I havent seen it in major software stores in well over a year, hell trying to find any PS1 game is hard now, most software places only have a handful of them). It figures that Square will re-release it again (and they should), seeing as it did sell very well over 7 years ago, and is generally considered a classic. Probably a person's best chance to find it is online or at a used game store.
Anyway, forgive me but I find this whole thing kind of stupid. I am a BIG opponent to spoilers. I do not watch AMV's to animes that I am in the process of watching. I like to learn as little as possible about games before I play them. I have used the spoiler courtesy at least a few times on this site already, and having played the game several times through amounting to several hundred hours of gameplay, I can assure you that the "offensive" information was completely irrelevant to the general plot of the game or to the characters. I did actually consider using spoiler courtesy, but then I realized how stupid that was, because talking about Advent Children would give away a lot more than to say "500 years in the future the world is still in one peice." I mean OF COURSE its still in one peice, thats only natural! A spoiler would be to say that its not (and why).
I'm amazed by how little support there is (in this thread) for a FF7 sequel.
How can you be sure it will be a terrible game? A lot of people think that Breath of fire 2 was better than Breath of Fire, same goes for Suikoden II and I, and some argue the same for Lunar II and I. I am personally a huge RPG fan, and have played (and beaten) essentially every major RPG, including Dragon Quests 5 and 6 which were never released in the U.S. (as well as the rest of the series). I consider myself a hardcore RPG fan, and yet FF7-2 seems like EXACTLY what RPG's need right now. Until FFX-2 was released a few days ago, the only major console RPG's to be released in the current 128 bit era of video games was FFX and Suikoden III. RPG's are in decline, and this is evidenced by Square-enix's willingness to break their 18 year rule of no sequels (to FF games), to bring some excitement back to the FF series, and hopefully make it the make-or-break powerhouse series it was for 2 console generations (SNES and PS1).