Good god this game is SLOW

[Harmacist]

First playthrough ever. I REALLY wanna love this game, every one will probably shame me outta existence, but ♥♥♥♥ is this game a snooze fest for me. The only real pick me ups i get come in the form of comedy (how wildly stacked tifa is or the cloud wearing a dress thing) and it doesnt last very long before its back to the same old irritatingly frequent combat (which inversely moves at a snails pace). Honestly i think the only thing that's been quick so far was how fast Cloud went from not giving a ♥♥♥♥ to being seemingly all in.

Looking at this i don't even know why Im writing it -_-
Back to trudging I guess.

[Myztkl©-Kev]

the first 3-5 hours of the game is a slog, especially if you've played it multiple times, but once you get out of midgar it picks up. You can also try changing the battle type to active in settings, and crank the battle speeds. I always crank battle speeds, but having the battles set to active can make some bosses and enemies hard to deal with if you're new.

[Cloud Strife]

7th heaven mod lauchner Download and 60 fps patch

[WhateverWorks]

Honestly, I played it then and still revisit it every few years now. I might this morning actually. But I gotta agree with OP, 7 is incredibly slow paced until around the end of "Disc 1". It's not some egregious attack on the game. The game is great for everything that it is, but the pacing of the story isn't that great. And the combat is indeed slow. The combat in all of them prior to XII is slow. It's an observation more than anything. You don't have to viciously defend every perceived negative view on something just because you like it.

[SpaceHammy]

The game is only about 30-40 hours depending on your pace and your desire to do side quests at the mid/end game. The first little bit does take a while to get through, and there isn't much progression in powerscale for the characters either until most of the way through 'disc 1'. I just beat the game today. I think the game really picks up in the mid area, but I also enjoy the early section for it's setup, so maybe i'm weird. Play the game with a modlist from 7th Heaven, 60 FPS mod, Echo, + battle textures, other texture enhancements, this massively helps the general feel of the game to be a bit less clunky/old, unless you're into that (I am sometimes).

[HimeAria]

Originally posted by SpaceHammy:

The game is only about 30-40 hours depending on your pace and your desire to do side quests at the mid/end game. The first little bit does take a while to get through, and there isn't much progression in powerscale for the characters either until most of the way through 'disc 1'. I just beat the game today. I think the game really picks up in the mid area, but I also enjoy the early section for it's setup, so maybe i'm weird. Play the game with a modlist from 7th Heaven, 60 FPS mod, Echo, + battle textures, other texture enhancements, this massively helps the general feel of the game to be a bit less clunky/old, unless you're into that (I am sometimes).

I think most people would agree that the beginning, while slow, **does** also do pretty good at setting the story up, especially in regards to building up the mystery surrounding Sephiroth before you really start learning who he is during the flashback sequence in Kalm.

[MantaOrlando]

Originally posted by Awesomer:

i feel like you have a smooth brain and should probably avoid classic games. pre internet games are abit different. just in case your not old enough to understand, these game saves used to be saved on memory cards (kinda like a flash drive today(that you had to take to your friends house to play)) games were meant to take time, you couldn't download 1000 games a week(1 game could take u a week to download)(and this game released on a console without internet). you maybe bought 1 game every 3-6 or more months when the commercials hyped it up. you didn't get updates or dlc. games like this were meant to be slow and played thoroughly(games were a finished product upon release), with a well documented game guide that was 500 pages long and cost half as much as the game did(on release day)

new people live in a world of fast paced screens and information. i can see why a classic is slow.

Ok, this is funny! Games used to be faster too! You're too young for the NES/SNES times I assume. I say this as Gen Z! I've played DQVIII. It is slow, it doesn't even feel slow. I didn't want it to end. Street Fighter, Dragon Quest, EVERY FF before VII, nearly all of them were fast paced. Even other PS1 games felt faster since it's not unnecessarily huge with too many animations.

[Harmacist]

Originally posted by WhateverWorks:

Honestly, I played it then and still revisit it every few years now. I might this morning actually. But I gotta agree with OP, 7 is incredibly slow paced until around the end of "Disc 1". It's not some egregious attack on the game. The game is great for everything that it is, but the pacing of the story isn't that great. And the combat is indeed slow. The combat in all of them prior to XII is slow. It's an observation more than anything. You don't have to viciously defend every perceived negative view on something just because you like it.

I still loved the game. It being slow was just something that I, as an adult with not a whole lot of time to play, made note of.

[drae_perin]

Brain-off gaming is killing the Art of Gaming, and discussions like this are the absolute proof of that.

[Doomsayer]

tl;dr: Guy with ADHD needed a mod to satisfy his attention deficit.

[WhateverWorks]

It's not necessarily ADHD. Sometimes it's just age and time management. I grew up playing these games, but there is zero chance I would ever sit down and play them at the original speed and without any sort of gameplay boosts/cheats. The reason is simple, my time is limited. Time spent on one thing is time not spent on another thing. So sitting down for 10 hours of a childhood classic is always preferable to investing 50+ hours into a childhood classic. Doesn't mean I have ADHD, just that I'm conscious of the fact that time is finite.

[ItsRay]

Whenever I re-visit FF7 (and ive completed it like at least 10+times) I just grab a save-file that starts after escaping midgar.

First time it was really nice, but all in all its just a 5hour tutorial that doesnt give you anything else if you already know the story. They shouldve had a skip midgar option when re-playing the game imo.

[MantaOrlando]

Originally posted by ItsRay:

Whenever I re-visit FF7 (and ive completed it like at least 10+times) I just grab a save-file that starts after escaping midgar.

First time it was really nice, but all in all its just a 5hour tutorial that doesnt give you anything else if you already know the story. They shouldve had a skip midgar option when re-playing the game imo.

That would've made the game a bit more enjoyable. Its slowness issue wouldn't have been solved on my side though. Cloud and the vehicles move too slow in comparison to how big the map is.