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Why is Final Fantasy 7 a great game? What makes it really good? Is it because of its visuals, its style of game play, and its story? Maybe all of it. If you played FF7, you remember how Aeris dies and the talk of Cloud and Tifa under the stars.
The game was not all full of action but had a very good sense of direction in a game, leading you to the climax, to the history of the characters and finally to the sense of the story. Why do people love Final Fantasy 7? It’s simple; it made them attached to the characters, made them attached to the game itself. It made people forget about their lives even for a moment and be part of the experience in the Midgar world.
It created something different in a video game; it came close to an alternative entertainment in Movies and Books not by its technicality, but providing an escape for the reader, the audience, or the player. It's the story.
F.E.A.R., Half Life 2, Far Cry, Halo 2 or Call of Duty all have great graphics, good game play but it all comes down to the same thing. You battle monsters, aliens, and mercenaries – whatever. There are stories in the game but it didn’t make me attached. It was full of battle, you feel the war in the game but you don’t feel the conflict, you don’t know the reason why they are there and the climax leaves you wondering. You finished the game and feel that you became part of it but not enough. It didn’t make you feel excited or the urge to know what’s next.
They create the same games, better graphics, new weapons, new setting yet the story feels quite far from being attached to it, and can be synonymous to cheesy Hollywood stories.
Developers still continue to do it because it already sells a lot, why make an effort to deliver a whole package, something that stands out unique; something that is a combination of a love story, a drama, a complicated character, or a conflict in the hero. These things lack and too bad we never wonder why.

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