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The game ruled, the plot ruled, but when I saw the ending, I felt something like...




== It was so.. nonconclusive!

This post has been edited by Neal on 18th June 2004 17:13

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Uwao. aooh! I'm Gau!
I'm your friend!
Let's travel together!

I must admit that I was a little disappointed with the ending. I figured that Square would try to top FF VI in this respect, but they fell well short of the mark.

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Don't worry, I'm not going to garrote you.

The ending to most FFs are mediocre. FFVII was a good example of this mediocrity. The only especially good thing about it was the fact that I like open endings.

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"I had to write four novels before they let me write comic books."
-Brad Meltzer

FF7's ending was bleh. OhOh Look guys- Omnislash! yeah.... How bout.....No.

IT was sort of interesting, but If a movie sequal is coming out.... once again- No. THe Red13 thing was sort of Inaccurate to be sure. Seeing as how

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If his species is supposed to be at an accelerated age at 500- why is he looking like hes just full grown? Not to mention leading his children. The old Dog oughta be gray and stuff...

But i may just be ranting.

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If you've been mod-o-fied,
It's an illusion, and you're in-between.
Don't you be tarot-fied,
It's just alot of nothing, so what can it mean?
~Frank Zappa

Sins exist only for people who are on the Way or approaching the Way

different creatures age differently

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THE LIZARDSSS SHALL EATSSS YOU

I did not like the game that much to begin with, I thought it was overrated but the ending was pathetic, probably the second worst one other then FFVIII,

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they should have let Squall die, along with the rest of the cast.

This post has been edited by SSJ_Cloud on 22nd June 2004 14:10

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War is for the participants a test of character; it makes bad men worse and good men better. - Joshua Chamberlain

U sir R a n00b >:-( - Cactuar

I voted yes but I wouldn't say that it was great... I thought they last battle with Sephiroth was a little stupid

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you know, the one where you win no matter what.

and it just left to much open for me... I personally didn't think it was great but I wouldn't rate it as horrible or anything... and like DP said

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The ending to most FFs are mediocre.

Yeah... I agree.

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Climhazzard is the timeless evil robot who runs some of the cool stuff at CoN (mostly logging chat, since there are no quizzes at the moment), all the while watching and waiting for his moment to take over the world. -Tiddles

Yeah the ending to VII was really lacking. At least the music in the credits was good!

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Midsummer dreamer,
Fantasy weaver,
Wild thing,
Noble king,
Spell caster,
Muggle Master
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maybe they were setting up for a sequel or a movie or sumthin, but they just never got around to it until now. of course, i lost a game of chess against myself so my opinion may not be that reliable.

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moé in the streets, senpai in the sheets

i thought it was ok but it could have been better.

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the part were the highwind comes crashin in thats the first time i ever seen that cigarrette leave Cids mouth lol

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maybe they were setting up for a sequel or a movie or sumthin, but they just never got around to it until now.

Yeah.. they oviously were setting up for a sequel but I don't think it was a matter of not getting around to it. I think they waited 7 years to make one because they knew that most people loved the game, so they were just leaving us wishing for a sequel and just when everyone thought they wouldn't do it because it had been so many years, we hear news of the sequel... I don't know about where you live, but where I live everyone is going crazy over it. I think in the end Square just set the whole thing up knowung that it would be better to wait years instead of making a sequel so soon( like they did with X and X-2).

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Climhazzard is the timeless evil robot who runs some of the cool stuff at CoN (mostly logging chat, since there are no quizzes at the moment), all the while watching and waiting for his moment to take over the world. -Tiddles

I was disappointed with the ending. It failed to conclude the story, but even that in itself isn't necessarily a death blow. The thing that bugged me the most was:

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So, the ending centers around Red XIII and his puppies? WTF? Who'd he have puppies with? Wasn't he supposed to be the last of his kind? And even then, the only thing the ending told you was that the planet still existed. Any of the people on it? Pfft. Who cares about them? Wait, that's a new rant.

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Veni, vidi, dormivi.

'Did Humans Survive' is an argument that, on GameFAQS, has caused more flame wars than ANYTHING else.
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Uwao. aooh! I'm Gau!
I'm your friend!
Let's travel together!

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maybe they were setting up for a sequel or a movie or sumthin, but they just never got around to it until now.

Yeah.. they oviously were setting up for a sequel but I don't think it was a matter of not getting around to it. I think they waited 7 years to make one because they knew that most people loved the game, so they were just leaving us wishing for a sequel and just when everyone thought they wouldn't do it because it had been so many years, we hear news of the sequel... I don't know about where you live, but where I live everyone is going crazy over it. I think in the end Square just set the whole thing up knowung that it would be better to wait years instead of making a sequel so soon( like they did with X and X-2).

rest assured Seph. when Square realeases a game, time stops here too. alot of people here love the games, even the ones you wouldn't expect. in fact, alot of the biggest fans are thugs from the ghetto, or the Ville as we call it. so yeah, we've been holding our breathe ever since AC was announced. in the end, this is sorta startin to look like Square is seeing just how far they can push their fanbase before it snaps.

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moé in the streets, senpai in the sheets

The ending must have been lame because I can hardly remember it. I recall the...

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...one on one fight with Cloud and Sephiroth which turned out to not be a fight at all. That was dissapointing. Then I remember something about Cloud escaping in some dramatic movie and at the end the appearance of Aeris. The lameness of the Cloud vs Sephiroth battle is my biggest complaint. Cloud would have looked a lot cooler beating Sephiroth after a long hard fight.

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Tauu the Windurstian Tarutaru!
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'Did Humans Survive' is an argument that, on GameFAQS, has caused more flame wars than ANYTHING else.
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Well we will all see if any humans other than the characters on the High Wind survived when the movie is released. That will be satisfactory for me anyway.

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Climhazzard is the timeless evil robot who runs some of the cool stuff at CoN (mostly logging chat, since there are no quizzes at the moment), all the while watching and waiting for his moment to take over the world. -Tiddles

Depends on how you look at it.
As an ending itself, it's.....okay.
As a setup for Advent Children's story, it's pretty good.

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Yeah humans survived Meteor, but they suffered from something called "star scar syndrome" or something like that.
That's what I read on an advent children site anyway. ^^

This post has been edited by bratkitty on 19th June 2004 04:25

I din't like the ending very much, cool pic WGG.

the point isn't about seeing RedXIII and his children(which the kids looked cute)
the point is what Midgar looks like now a jungle...no more Shinra... actually I was wrong RedXIII was showing his children what he and his friends did to save the world you know site-seeing story.

but the sephiroth point I did not get...
maybe he was trying to forget the ol' rip-off...

and I don't like the star thing...

but, still I was a little disappointed by the ending...
I did not like it as much...

This post has been edited by Dragon Lancer on 9th July 2004 02:33

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I was really confused by the ending to FF7. Did holy stop meteor, did it help it? I'm not sure if I understand, but I think holy acctually helped meteor and the life stream came out to stop them both. I dunno, due to confusion, I vote no.

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<Nealio> Seymour sounds like evil Winnie the Pooh

I personally loved it. Except for the part where the music went all weird. The fact that the endig was open was the best part. I loved the last screenshot

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with aeris lifting her head.

That really left me hangin'. The ending was so inconclusive it made me as anxious as WGG. But I liked that part.

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And, I don't think that that thing that they thought was holy WAS holy. The lifestream itself and the spirit of the dead was holy. That's why you saw Aeris' face.

That, or that holy itself wasn't strong enough to destroy meteor. It needed the will power of all the dead, the whole lifestream to destroy it.

The part with RedXIII was one of the best. What it meant was, as dragon Lancer said, was it was showing that holy saved the people from Meteor AND the horrors of Midgar and the Shinra.

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"We're not tools of the government or anyone else. Fighting... fighting was the only thing I was ever good at, but at least I always fought for what I believed in." - Frank Yeager (a.k.a. Grey Fox)

Well this is the reason why I thank God for Advent Children. All the 16-bit FF's had brilliant endings. Best you could ever get for that time. They certainly weren't mediocre.

Once we entered the 3d polygon generation yes endings were very short, brief and often a dissapointing reward for playing the game. For the duration of FF7 you would expect a what happened to "ALL" the characters at the end. I don't see Vincent and Yuffie in the ending FMV. Square did reveal that FF7 was actually rushed and several multiple endings were cut. Including FMV's of Vincent and Yuffie.

Give Square it's credit for making a quality game and plot and not cutting most of that and only the endings. So many other games cut so much material you'd wonder how much percent of the game you were actually playing.

But to me FF7AC is SquareEnix saying "Sorry for the borish ending how about a 80 min movie sequal". Yep that'll work. So while the ending for FF7 was unbelieveably bad. You really can't say we are getting ripped off.

I just beat the game, about two minutes ago, so it's fresh in my mind.

I must say that it really sucked. FFVII is overrated as a whole, for one thing. The plot bit, as did some of the characters, but the ending was the worst part of the game. Every other Square game that I've beaten had a better ending, even Mario RPG.

But, it will probably help in understanding FF7:AC's plot.

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Wow. 1,000 posts.

I miss you all now that I'm in boarding school! ;_;

Wow, people actually have similar gripes about FF7's ending now? Psh, took a couple years.


Wow, so for starters FF7 is my favorite FF game, and was the first I played. But the ending was so....what?? Ok, 500 years later and you see Red and his kids. Okay, fine. They'll probably show that he found a female hidden somewhere. Just wait for it....Ok maybe not. Alright, so he's taking them somewhere. Alright, he's probably gonna take them to a statue of Cloud or other characters and tell them the story of how he fought alongside the legendary humans that fought off Sephiroth and saved the world. This is gonna be awesome..Hum...Uh. Ok. Midgar..Jungle. Right. The End. &$^#!!!! Oh wait, after the credits there's all these stars and the FF theme is playing. I bet there's still more....hmm...wait...wait...nope. Nothing.


Seriously now, just because Midgar is gone doesnt mean anything else happened. You have no idea. Going by facts here, not by insinuations. So I really hope that sequel clears everything up.

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The clouds ran away, opened up the sky
And one by one I watched every constellation die
And there I was frozen, standing in my backyard
Face to face, eye to eye, staring at the last star
I should've known, walked all the way home
To find that she wasn't here, I'm still all alone

-Atmosphere "Always Coming Back Home to You"

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I was really confused by the ending to FF7. Did holy stop meteor, did it help it? I'm not sure if I understand, but I think holy acctually helped meteor and the life stream came out to stop them both. I dunno, due to confu7ion, I vote no. -/div>

Holy didn't help meteor, it just couldn't stop it...

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remember when Aeris said "let me handle Sephiroth&qu~t;? Well, it was Aeris bringing the life stream to back up Holy. Aeris had already prayed for Holy and it would have stopped it before but Sephiroth was blocking Holy and Lifestream. After you kill Sqphiroth he's dead (obviously) and can no longer block Holy and Lifestream from stopping meteor (since Aeris had died then she returned to the lifestream that's probably how she was able to use it...that's what I think anyway.)

This post has been edited by Sephiroth on 27th June 2004 17:32

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Climhazzard is the timeless evil robot who runs some of the cool stuff at CoN (mostly logging chat, since there are no quizzes at the moment), all the while watching and waiting for his moment to take over the world. -Tiddles

I enjoyed FF7, but the ending leaves much to be desired. Although the ending was visually impressive, it doesn’t tie up any loose endings. (I like endings like that of FF4, in which you learn what happens to the party.)

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The world before the fall...
Delightful is the light of dawn...
Noble is the heart of man...