Final Fantasy 7

Didn't age so well.
People made a version with better dialogue..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSkUxUD6xQo

It was never very good to begin with.

>>1
The low poly character graphics was awful to begin with, but FF7 had nice story and art direction. Although I still prefer FF Tactics.

lol, fans actually made a HD mode back in 2015, while Square failed with remaster, probably subcontracting some cheap Russian or Chinese outsource company:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzSxm-a0QN4

>>3
the low-poly characters kinda grown on me in the end but they look really dumb during the more dramatic parts like Aeris'th're are's death. it's a good game regardless but 6 and Chrono Trigger are better

They could of used anime sprites and it would be x1000 better. Instead they fell for the 3D meme.
2d>3d

>>6
honestly, I think Xenogears had a better approach to the 3D meme: 3D landscapes (which looked bretty gud in late 90s) and 2D sprites (which looked like SNES sprites, and that's a good thing)

The dialogue/plot in FF7 is one of most cringey, forced shit in existence.
Its as if they deliberately employed some autistic otaku with social phobia and penchant for far-left terrorism.

>>8
terrorist plot is one of the weaker parts. I mean, it starts off interestingly because it makes the protagonist an outsider mercenary and it makes people he works for morally ambigous (their're are enemies are bad, but it's always hard to sympathize with terrorists who blow up huge reactors and cause deaths of many civilians) but then the game just forgets about moral ambiguity and become just 'Shinra bad', and then it disregards the whole Shinra plotline to be about Sephiroth. that's the major structural flaw here IMHO, when Sephiroth upstages and kills his employers, most of the shit that happened before becomes irrelevant

The boomer responsible for the plot(also, he killed Aerith)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazushige_Nojima#Biography

plot my dubs

Behind every "retro videogame" and "classic anime" there is an ugly boomer shoving his hands in everywhere, like an elephant in a china shop.
They lack subtlety, elegance and coherence, trying to push mish-mash of dissimilar ideas and concepts and feed to consumers who should be grateful it ever exists. They're anti-art, post-modern entrepreneurs exploiting their demographic and advertising quality where there is none.
This is the reason post-90's/late-90's games suddenly got deep plots and lifelike characters and its NOT the hardware advances: Gen X's started to dominate writing and artistic areas and obliterated boomer-based "creative" industry.
Take any average anime of today and its quality will outshine anything from the 70's 80's and most of 90's with few exceptions. The plot, characters, style and design all way above the 20th century.

All these western-inspired media feel like birds feeding their young regurgitated and half-digested food.
Its like viewing it with a "Japanese lens", some things are magnified out of proportion, some are severely distorted, some blend with the background. Cyberpunk especially suffers from this, as its techofetishistic design is very pliable to blending with mythology and fairytales. FF7 is just one of these blended-together stories.

Cyberpunk's spiritual vacuum and materialism is quite dull and bleak for average viewer. People have to add some spice, a soulless world of robots and cyborgs losing their humanity just to prove how edgy life is doesn't work. So FF7 lighter side, its the blended mythology is actually far more natural part of the plot than aping of western cyberpunk(which anime does way better).

>>9
That's how it is in real life, though. You join up with a group of assholes, forget that anything outside your consensus exists, and get blown away by some random space alien outlier shit that no one saw coming. That the real important thing was some guy in a lab putting together the remains of a dead god, and everyone else thought it was some boring social revolution crap, is the height of verisimilitude.

>>8
Everything's cringy and forced, unless you're from Japan, where people can still relate to each other. Like, have you tried listening to real-person dialogue? That's why high-rent American prose is either politics shit (which is lent gravitas by the fact that it can kill you), spassy irony (which laughs at itself so you don't have to), and strung-out weeping (because everyone's fucking miserable).

>>9
Still better than the Elder Scrolls prisoner meme.

>>12
I get the feeling you're just tearing up existing culture so you can dump something else in. That's no good.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII

>>18
not an argument

>>18
no wonder you fucks love le c2 wiki so much

http://www.demon-sushi.com/warning/index2.html

>>21
when's the last time continental literature inspired anyone to fuckin' become it
when's the last time anything written by anyone spawned a religion. video games stand, a gorilla beating its chest atop a mountain of wealth and influence, and all striver pseuds can think to do is whine that the system is unfair, that it's rigged, why can't the government do something
>Thanks to something awful, we'll have lots of nice photos and links aaall here about you in juuuust a little while :)
good to know that callout culture has always been nakedly faggoty and sinister

Video game and anime-based cults feel weird because we're contemporaries to the "early stages" of religion.
In a few centuries we'll definitely have something religious based of this century pop-culture that would be disconnected from the cringe/weirdness of its initial spread.
If enough crazy people get into a specific anime(e.g. Lain) and form a subcultural niche, it could morph into a cult/religion with favorable conditions(see for example that weird forum about exiting some matrix system heavily built on lain)

Found an article about it
https://www.vice.com/en_id/article/zmzjj5/the-obscure-4chan-religion-that-promises-a-cyberpunk-afterlife