One of my five most overrated games of all time. I was none too kind to FFVII on my webpage, but I gave it an above average grade for its battle system and for kick starting the RPG genre.
Why do people say FFVII has better characters and music? Both those areas are below average in FFVII.
In regards to the conversation above about Skies:
Actually, Skies filled up the entire first disc and almost all of the second disc. It’s for that reason that it took hackers almost a year to pirate Skies. Whoever did it gets much credit (in a weird sort of way) because they actually wrote an on-the-fly decompression program for the DC. They compressed all the data to fit onto two CDs, and the game would decompress all the sound data and whatnot on the fly. Caused the sounds to skip every once in a while, but hey… that was an impressive feat of engineering. I just wish they would apply that to a real job, instead of pointless pirating.
The loss in audio quality was, actually, due in part to the fact that the DC had a very interesting (and very effective) way of handling sounds that made it very difficult to port. I’m sure the compression hurt it some as well, but it wasn’t just that.
anyone know how the different weapon colors affected attacks (in Skies)? I beat the game without ever figuring out how that system worked. I still love the game though.
Each color represents an element (red = fire, blue = water, purple = ice, etc). Many enemies had elemental weaknesses as well, and the color would slightly modify your physical attack damage.
(Of course, that’s aside from the fact that you learn magic, but I assume that’s not what you were asking.)
It’s a shame that the development team didn’t just record the music into a common media format (such as MP3 and Wav, or some other format that the Gamecube could play) from the DC version, and then loop the recorded tracks in background in the GC version. That way, the original quality of the music would have made it into the ported version, assuming that the GC could output music of the same quality or better (I don’t see why it couldn’t). It would have required a bit of extra coding, no doubt, but the least the quality would have been retained.
If the solution had been so easy, I’m sure they would have done so 