OoT for me. FF7 is great, but I play OoT at least once a year. 7 I’ve only finished once.
OoT. It’s not even a competition
I’d have a much harder time if the questions was A Link to the Past or Final Fantasy VI
I think it’s a matter of taste. I prefer JRPGs, so FFVII is the best one for me. But both are great games in their own right.
Ocarina is more innovative and its formula was copied for many years. Z Targetting especially (I know some other game used something very similar before OOT), set an example for everyone to follow.
And FFVII, while not that innovative, also set its own legacy: if not for FFVII the West would have missed many great JRPGs from then on. It opened the floodgates and publishers started thinking of US and Europe as viable markets for JRPGs. So we have FFVII to thank for that.
OoT isn’t even the best Zelda… Link to the past ftw
FF7 isn’t the best FF
Mechanics: FF7
Atmosphere: Ocarina
Storyline: FF7
Aged well: Ocarina
Agree. And now for a room splitter:
Music: FF7
I love the music for both and both games were part of my teen life, and I replayed Ocarina of Time a lot more… but I agree with FF7. Nobuo Uematsu is incomparable.
This one gets it
FF7 has 0 bullshit water temples
There is a bullshit under water superboss though.
At least he’s optional! And easier than Ruby…
I guess they’re tied on that front.
… and so is thus inferior.
Water Temple itself was not bad. What was bad was having to pause to switch boots. There are mods nowadays to allow equipping boots to the d-pad and it makes the temple much more fun.
I’m a huge Final Fantasy fan. Ocarina of Time is the better game.
It’s really gameplay vs story. Ott heavy on game play where ff7 can be like reading a book. nothing really revolutionary about its game play some beautiful backgrounds and a deep storyline. Ott has some seriously revolutionary 3d interactions.
Agreed, as a game, as in fun, ff7 wasn’t very good. That music, those visual designs (the pre rendered stuff), and the story (though it suffered from bad localization) were compelling. But random encounters, fights filled with mostly waiting to be able to do things, the best attacks doing too much spectacle which was nice the first time, but pretty boring on repetition… The materia management became frustrating as you got more party members and no way to arrange or search, even with in game dialog mentioning how it was a pain…
Chrono Cross actually had significantly better game design, with enemies on screen and no standing around waiting for some characters turn to come up before anything would happen. Wish ff7 had clipped the “no action allowed by either side” time and that would have helped immensely. Then it just becomes a matter of if the player prefers real time adventure to menu driven play.
I didn’t love 7’s story. There’s a bunch of fluff with every side-character having their own mini-story. The amnesia plot line in particular was annoying.
I generally like the whole lifestream stuff. But I think the whole story is pretty mid compared to the storylines of other Final Fantasy games.
For some reason, I just can’t get into FF7. I mean, I’ve beaten, 4, 5, 6, and 8, but 7 puts me to sleep.
So that’s a vote for Zelda from me.
It’s close, but I give it to Ocarina of Time. Both were genre-advancing technological achievements of 3D and cinematics. Neither of them are the best in their series, with better games before and after these. But Ocarina of Time is more fun in combat and in glitches, so it’s better.
The better debate is what’s better: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past or Super Metroid. Both, of course!
I’ve only played oot, but it’s a wonderful game. My first Zelda game that completely pulled me into the series.
Zelda.
You already know which one is better. You know. Everybody knows…and those that disagree with me are trying to start a civil war!!!
(Guys, I’m doing this new thing where I cause so much division, and threats of civil war that the concept of division loses all meaning, and nobody has any more hate in their hearts. That way we can go back to having nightly anal orgy surprise parties!)
It’s a Mario Party!
One of them I’ve started 4 times but never finished and the other made me scared of chickens.
Looks like someone clucked around and found out!
looking back its a weird thing to even have in the game
It goes back at least to A Link to the Past. Not sure if there’s precedent before that.
I think it started in that one, still wonder how the revenge squad idea came about though.
