Poll of the Day > What aged better?

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Both games considered one of the best game (if not the best) of their generation for their respective console.
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My vote goes to FF7. N64 graphics are a little to blocky.
The pre-rendered backgrounds and soundtrack of FF7 are still pretty amazing.
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Do we have to like both games?
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Solid Sonic posted...

Do we have to like both games?

no
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Ocarina of Time.

Yes, it looks dated, but Final Fantasy 7 looks EXTREMELY dated. Plus the gameplay is pretty laughable compared to modern JRPGs (or even ones before it).
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Oot aged better for sure. I feel like if you have a 13 year old kid FF7 nowadays hed be like youre joking right

And Id be like YOU JUST DONT UNDERSTAND

Ogurisama posted...

Solid Sonic posted...

Do we have to like both games?

no

Then Ocarina of Time, as I never really got into FF7.
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OoT. yeah sure the background in 7 look great but they really highlight how terrible the character models are in comparison.

gameplay wise both still play pretty damn well imo, so unfortunately it came down to how it looked for me.
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does the 3ds remake of OoT count? if so, that. otherwise, ffvii by a huge margin, ok?
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OoT is still fun to play
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it just really kills me. FMVs aside 7 had worse graphics than other games that came out around the same time, and it really astounds me how much they improved from 7 to 8.
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Ocarina.

I still love them both. Both are great at creating an atmosphere.
Zelda has those blurry N64 textures but better character models that don't look as much like Lego people.
FF7 has better music to me.
I prefer Zelda's (mostly) full 3D environments, while FF7's cutscenes are much more epic.
FF7 had the annoyance of not being able to skip its long summon animations, while those 2 lovebirds in Zelda's castle town who just rotated in place always annoyed me too.

Overall, its close to me, but I'd give Zelda the edge because I feel the gameplay mechanics were much more of an improvement over its 2D predecessors than FF7's.

OoT aged better in at least a couple of ways. It still looks like a fully developed game rather than a punch of disproportioned polygons farting their way to the finish line, for one. It never shoves annoying sidegames in your face in order for you to proceed with the main story.
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Mover_of_Zigs posted...

Ocarina.

I still love them both. Both are great at creating an atmosphere.
Zelda has those blurry N64 textures but better character models that don't look as much like Lego people.
FF7 has better music to me.
I prefer Zelda's (mostly) full 3D environments, while FF7's cutscenes are much more epic.
FF7 had the annoyance of not being able to skip its long summon animations, while those 2 lovebirds in Zelda's castle town who just rotated in place always annoyed me too.

Overall, its close to me, but I'd give Zelda the edge because I feel the gameplay mechanics were much more of an improvement over its 2D predecessors than FF7's.

on the music I guess if we went by the rule of thumb of what i'd more likely put on my mp3 player, but OoT had more memorable tunes imo (mostly cause they are catchy I suppose), and I do actually have more OoT remixed songs on my mp3 player lol.
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I know it's not exactly relevant to the discussion, but just for the record: SM64 has aged HORRIBLY. I know some people out there have deluded themselves into believing otherwise, but they're just thinking with their nostalgia boners.

I knew the question before I even opened the topic. Ocarina of Time for sure, the game is still very playable and engaging. There's no tedium born from its aging that I can think of. Save game whenever, The controls are great, the art style is fine other than a pointy nose here or there. You can do some dungeons in different orders.
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Currant_Kaiser posted...

I know it's not exactly relevant to the discussion, but just for the record: SM64 has aged HORRIBLY. I know some people out there have deluded themselves into believing otherwise, but they're just thinking with their nostalgia boners.

I agree gameplay wise, then again I never really liked how 3D platformers played anyways. Especially that camera you have to spend 5 minutes readjusting just to make one jump.

Graphics wise, I think it actually looks pretty decent today. Yea, it is bad compared to Odyssey, but even compared to a lot of 3D games from the time it actually looks good.
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OoT

the Materia system in FF7 seemed cool a long time ago, but playing it recently it was embarassingly simplistic. in fact the whole combat system was pretty much dumbed down compared to previous FFs, (and those are already overrated as it is (specifically 6)).
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Dikitain posted...

it actually looks pretty decent today

https://r.mprd.se/media/images/40261-Super_Mario_64_(USA)-7.jpg

Mmmmmmm... I disagree.

OoT3D is video gamgames perfection tbh
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Currant_Kaiser posted...

Dikitain posted...

it actually looks pretty decent today

https://r.mprd.se/media/images/40261-Super_Mario_64_(USA)-7.jpg

Mmmmmmm... I disagree.

still looks better than 7's graphics amazingly at least mario's character model versus any of the character models in 7
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mooreandrew58 posted...

Currant_Kaiser posted...

Dikitain posted...

it actually looks pretty decent today

https://r.mprd.se/media/images/40261-Super_Mario_64_(USA)-7.jpg

Mmmmmmm... I disagree.

still looks better than 7's graphics amazingly at least mario's character model versus any of the character models in 7

The character models might look somewhat better but 7's environments are superior. I think 7 has aged better visually.

PaddysPub posted...

OoT3D is video gamgames perfection tbh

playing that right now actually, fortunately they only polished the graphics for the most part. the game itself is pretty much the same the remake of 7 however while i'm hoping is good, i'm pretty sure they've changed shit more than i'd like
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Currant_Kaiser posted...

Dikitain posted...

it actually looks pretty decent today

https://r.mprd.se/media/images/40261-Super_Mario_64_(USA)-7.jpg

Mmmmmmm... I disagree.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HnSOoaCCuys/VRwqzLtuBGI/AAAAAAAADH0/hDnn7Gbdid4/s1600/bubsy-3d-2.png

Well you would be wrong then.
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OoT aged better simply for the fact that its graphical shortcomings look more like a stylized choice.
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I played FF7 for the first time like four years ago and OoT at the same time. I got through FF7 and loved it, but I couldn't be bothered to play OoT after the first dungeon.
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