Final Fantasy VII on Steam!
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Apparently the PC version's music is less than desirable. Download this pack and place the files in the Data/ogg_music folder.
http://www.icksmehl.de/downloads/ff7/ogg_music.zip
http://www.icksmehl.de/downloads/ff7/ogg_music.zip
Thrawn
Emperor
Well now I own 2 copies of FF7. I'm ok with this. 
SouthernKing
crickety cricket
Alternatively, you could do what I do for fifth and sixth gen games and use an emulator.
Maniacal
the green Napoleon
Oh my god I cannot believe how absolutely hideous that looks.
I thought it looked hideous back then, too.
(FF6 was always my favorite - FF2j and FF3j for the NES seemed interesting, too.).
Luckymoose
The World is Mine
I've heard nothing but bad things about the PC port of this, buyer beware. Also, FF7 is one of the worst games in the series and that is saying something.
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FF Tactics 1.3 is the only FF game I really play anymore. I enjoyed 13 but haven't checked out any of it's sequels. I actually don't like FF7 that much, I'd rather play 6 or 8.
Thrawn
Emperor
So far it's completely fine. I haven't noticed anything terribly bad about it.
I don't know about the Steam release. I also (obviously) can't speak for all players. That said... I played the PC release back in '98, and never noticed any problems. Except for a bizarre upside-down-cutscene glitch that someone had an easy-to-load unofficial patch for that fixed it.
Thrawn
Emperor
It actually let me select 1920x1080 as a resolution setting, which got my hopes up that they'd changed it to be widescreen!
They haven't.
Just got black bars on both sides.
Also has cloud saves, which is nice I guess. Requires you to create a SquareEnix account which is annoying, never understand why devs put games on steam and then also require you to login to something else. I can put up with that to play one of my all time favourite games on pc though, especially when I don't have a TV to connect my ps2 too so I can play the original.
They haven't.
Just got black bars on both sides.Also has cloud saves, which is nice I guess. Requires you to create a SquareEnix account which is annoying, never understand why devs put games on steam and then also require you to login to something else. I can put up with that to play one of my all time favourite games on pc though, especially when I don't have a TV to connect my ps2 too so I can play the original.
Maniacal
the green Napoleon
You can disable the cloud bullcrap so you don't have to be always online.
Thrawn
Emperor
It still brings up a login screen requiring you to login to square though.
Maniacal
the green Napoleon
Well that is all the reason you need to not buy this game.
I thought it looked hideous back then, too.
(FF6 was always my favorite - FF2j and FF3j for the NES seemed interesting, too.).
I was always a big fan of the 6-8 and Tactics era. Don't know if it's nostalgia for the gaming time I spent as a kid or on the quality of the games, though, since I haven't played any of them in years.
It is kind of strange they are requiring both Steam and a SquareEnix account login.
It was released on the Playstation anthology collection, and of course there were more shady options around via the internet.
I thought it played very different from 6 and more like the earlier releases in the series--there was a job class system in 3, I think. It was less serious in tone from what I remember, and while I would have enjoyed that at the right point by the time I got the game I was looking for something more serious.
I thought it played very different from 6 and more like the earlier releases in the series--there was a job class system in 3, I think. It was less serious in tone from what I remember, and while I would have enjoyed that at the right point by the time I got the game I was looking for something more serious.
Yeah, 5 is more like "4 with a job system". 5-6-7 is my favorite streak, I can't quite decide which one is my favorite. Mostly, I have a hard time picking between 5 and 6. 5 for the gameplay and character building, 6 for the story and game world.
Akka
Moody old mage.
I bought both FF7 and FF8 on PC at the time, and they were both atrocious - that's the main reason why Squaresoft stopped doing ports, actually.
Graphics were uglier than the PS1 ones, despite having higher resolution, and the game was horribly slow and laggy. Of course, computers of today are about one hundred times more powerful, so you don't notice the sluggishness anymore. But the horrible textures and video are still here.
I ended up playing on Bloom instead - you can save anywhere with the "snapshot save" fonction, you can increase the resolution much higher, and despite it, it's actually smoother and more fluid. This alone (an emulated version with a display about sixteen times more demanding in resources which ran better than the native port) should tell you everything you need about the quality of the PC version.
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