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Final Fantasy VII was/is such an influential game. It was this game that sparkled my interest in programming because of its big, very helpful modding community
by M4v3R 5y ago
Final Fantasy VII was/is such an influential game. It was this game that sparkled my interest in programming because of its big, very helpful modding community that I stumbled upon. It started over 20 years ago and is still very active to this day: https://forums.qhimm.com https://forums.qhimm.com . Inspired by this back then I wrote a couple of tools that were used for FF7 translation projects and created my first website, learning the craft along the way, and that's how I became a web developer.
What's more, new things are discovered almost every month - new game glitches, mechanics, new tools are being created to either lower the speedrun times or create mods to the game. I recommend anyone even remotely interested in this game to check it out.
- BiteCode_dev 5y agoI was surprised to learn that even earlier titles had an active modding community! Final Fantasy 6, which is an equally awesome game, although for very different reasons, had a complete makeover and one can download it with new quests, gears, translation, balance, etc. It's crazy what people will do by passion.
- drchickensalad 5y agoFFT 1.3 is absolutely incredible too
- BiteCode_dev 5y agoDamn, how many gems exist out there?
- AtlasBarfed 5y agoSquare's library is loaded with gems. Xenogears and Vagrant Story are my favorites from the PSX. I've never played the Secret of Mana type games, or Mario RPG, or any of a host of other ones. I think the PSX was an interesting high point for 3D creativity vs graphics. The PS2 started pushing polygon counts such that the creative/artist teams started to blow out and budgets shot up, but then the PS3 and "modern AAA" budgets took over. Large budgets, low risk, more priority on splash graphics than depth.
- qbasic_forever 5y agoThere's a FF7 'demake' in the style of FF1 for NES that's really kinda cool and amazing they made it run on NES hardware: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_VII_(NES_video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_VII_(NES_video_g...
- moron4hire 5y agoI still have my original PlayStation discs. Is there some way to get this?
- toto444 5y agoI have been learning Japanese to play this game in its original language and am planning to learn the piano to be able to play its soundtrack. I know I am not the only one doing this. I can't think of any video game / movie that has been so inspiring to so many people.
- Falell 5y agoNobuo Uematsu's music sounds great when arranged for piano! The Piano Collections are fantastic, if you can play them. Uematsu was a big part of my childhood and it was a bummer when he stepped back from composing so much, but Masayoshi Soken has done amazing work on FFXIV, he's a worthy successor. I really like this piano arrangement of the Endwalker soundtrack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRmXuN53ggw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRmXuN53ggw
- dSebastien 5y agoYes. Uematsu's music is part of my soul forever
- willmw101 5y ago>I know I am not the only one doing this. I can't think of any video game / movie that has been so inspiring to so many people. I think the Zelda franchise has similar if not greater cultural impact in some of the ways you're talking about.
- echohack5 5y agoBack in 2000 when I was originally learning Japanese, I played through Final Fantasy 7 and stopped every time I didn't recognize something and looked it up in my Denshi Jisho. It was tough but I made it through the whole game! Good luck from a fellow player who's already walked the path you're walking.
- tomhunters 5y agoThere's a lot of FF7 that made my childhood. Reading the article seems like a blast from the past.
- xamuel 5y ago>new things are discovered almost every month - new game glitches, mechanics Is there a good place to follow these discoveries? The site you linked seems to mainly just be mods, and when I search for glitch discussion I mostly just find generic wiki's listing the same old glitches known for decades.
- ismellcomment 5y agoThere is always speedrun.com (https://www.speedrun.com/ff7 https://www.speedrun.com/ff7)
- M4v3R 5y agoJust recently a Chocobo glitch was found that allows speedrunners to skip Kalm flashback sequence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiO9ixPicHU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiO9ixPicHU . There's also the materia smuggle glitch found not too long ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hosDrlVF6e4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hosDrlVF6e4 I recommend this whole channel as it's a great resource for FF7 in general and covers the newest developments: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyotyCGt7oYAKM1mCwsHTQzcEVjc21-J8 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyotyCGt7oYAKM1mCwsHT...
- xamuel 5y agoThanks, that's amazing! I wish there was more of a central forum for this stuff. Do you know of any similar channels for FF6, Chrono Trigger, and other golden-age JRPGs?