Oh you have got to be joking! Seriously you have to be!
First point to make out is...
Quote: "And be happy that English isn't my native language, otherwise i would tell you a little bit more about those FF-love-stories"
Niether is Final Fantasy, it's Japanese and looses quite a few things in the translation.
That said you've already mentioned you've not even played FF7 only 8 and 9... quite frankly FF8 was boring, and FF9 has a story that even a kindergarden kid could follow!
Secondly your comparing this to Silent Hill 2, but SH2 actually has a perfectly stupid storyline. Which quite frankly the original was far better, it created more tension because you never really knew if what was going on was natural or supernatural... and just because some 'experts' sit on thier lorals and say, well SH2 is scarey because of such'n'such.
Well it was designed by people just to be scarey and not actually have a story. If you want a game that creates atmosphere and has a story play Resident Evil and Resident Evil Zero.
But no doubt to you the stupid puzzle solving is what breaks the game down and makes it stupid.
Final Fantasy VII doesn't actually really have a love interest in it. Although it is hinted at throughout the game, it isn't a case of:
Cloud loves tifa and she loves him back and there is a whole pussy footing around for like 20hrs. No, Cloud obviously loves no one; he cares for Tifa like a sister and Aerion as a niave friend.
Aerion loves no one, and Tifa obviously love Cloud; but the feelings aren't mutal.
Cloud seems to have blocked out his memories about a day when his hometown was destroyed, and believes he is someone else who he looked upto as he didn't want to appear a failiar to Tifa when he joined the rebellion. (though it is never explained why he can't really remember how he got to the rebellion)
The plot revolves around Sephiroth who is a clone of a thing (Jenova) which was considered to be an ancient was was actually an alien or rather the spirit of an alien world that was slowly infecting thier world from a meteor that fell several millennia ago.
Cloud is slowly retaught his memories to reconstruct them as they try to follow Sephiroth on his path of destruction which he is on trying to collect the Materia collected in powerstations.
The Materia is concentrated forms of the planets Gya which allow people to take on supernatural powers.
Eventually Cloud trys to fight Sephiroth and is thrown into a stream of pure Materia; where he is trapped within his own mind at the exposure, with a hallucination of his friend Tifa he must reconstruct his memories of the day his town was destroyed in order for him self to find the strength to wake from the comba.
Once that is gone the heros then must fight and destroy the 'weapons' which are being created by Gya to defeat Sephiroth who has taken all the materia to transform himself into a being powerful enough to destroy the planet because the alien Gya is angry and hurt and wishes to claim the world for itself; without realising it is actually about to destroy the very thing it is trying to take.
The story far from has an ending, particularly when you learn that Sephiroth that you face is Clone B the failiar; and there is another one out there. (however if you watch Advent Children you'll notice it has a different goal entirely)
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now it is funny you mention William Shakespear, but his plots are deathly complex whist having a basic overview. He created stories which would appeal to all levels of people, from scholars to common folk who just wanted jerry springer in a 90minute play.
I'm sorry if Final Fantasy VII's story was totally over your head, but that hardly calls for you to calls it lame!
Same goes for the Matrix. The main story is interesting, but there is so much damn subtext that quite frankly most people who see it won't understand the symbolism of alot of the film, same goes for the 2 that follow.
You might think the Zion being destoryed bit made no sense; but it was in there simply for the adverage joe, so they could give the film a cliff-hanger note a bit like films like MI have a bomb at the end... they were in a war for thier very lives and that is what the ending showed; but it wasn't that they saved themselves through thier actions of killing each other, but that one man would give his life to save the world to make both worlds of heaven and hell better for all.
The entire Matrix series questions life itself and the christian religion well beyond what they could've got away with if the story was plain as day infront of your face.
What is amusing is you quote Gothe, but really that guy writes for the nitche market... or well pompus twats. Don't get me wrong he writes great material, but those who sit there and discuss do so just to sound intelligent; when really they're trying to find meaning in a story which is as plain as day. Just because something is written descriptive doesn't necessarily mean that it needs to be analysed for a meaning.
At the end of the day it is a story.
There is NO questioning that Final Fantasy VII has
THE most epic computer game story ever conceived.
And to be honest, the only story that could've topped it was the Tomb Raider : Angel Saga... just a pitty Eidos had to f**k it up.
If you ever have the time, goto www.tombraiderchronicles.com and read up on the story for TR 6,7&8... that story is beyond inspirational.
Sorry but Silent Hill 2 is the only computer game reference here you've made; and beside it's psychological effects; it is a really crap story and even worse game.
And really if you need some expert to sit there analyse something for you and say 'yeah, this is very good because [insert medical jargon and/or philosphical BS]' then really why do you even bother playing games that require thought?
