{"id":1775,"date":"2015-06-17T01:30:35","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T01:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/?p=1775"},"modified":"2015-06-17T01:30:35","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T01:30:35","slug":"final-fantasy-vii-remake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/archives\/1775","title":{"rendered":"Final Fantasy VII: Remake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ffvii-remake-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ffvii-remake-logo-300x210.png\" alt=\"ffvii-remake-logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ffvii-remake-logo-300x210.png 300w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ffvii-remake-logo.png 494w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>September 7th, 1997.  My senior year in college had just begun and I had classes and work in the computer lab after school.  I snuck out to the local <b>Electronics Boutique<\/b> at the mall.  I bought <b>Final Fantasy VII<\/b>.  I hadn&#8217;t played RPGs much, barely any JRPGs and never touched a <b>FF<\/b> game.  For anyone too young, it&#8217;s impossible to understand the potency of this game.  I remember the ads.  &#8220;If it were available on cartridge, it would retail for $1,200.&#8221;  CD games were new.  CG in games was new.  Symphonic scores were new.  And <b>FFVII<\/b> blew the doors open on all of it.  Holy shit.  This was unlike anything we&#8217;d ever seen.  <\/p>\n<p>So, now while <b>FFVII<\/b> has been on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamefaqs.com\/\">GameFAQs&#8217;<\/a> top-100 list for&#8230;wait for this&#8230;6,099 days, I marvel at the endurance.  SIX THOUSAND DAYS.  My entire life has changed, the entire gaming industry has changed.  The madness and dedication to <b>FFVII<\/b> has not.  And while there&#8217;s simply NO WAY the remake can ever live up to our memories of 6,000 days ago&#8230;I have no choice but to return to Midgard.  Back before there were spoilers (well, there were but you probably weren&#8217;t online back then.  I was already running sites for two years) all you had to say was Aerith (Aeris).  That shit changed the way I looked at videogames.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 7th, 1997. My senior year in college had just begun and I had classes and work in the computer lab after school. I snuck out to the local Electronics Boutique at the mall. I bought Final Fantasy VII. I hadn&#8217;t played RPGs much, barely any JRPGs and never touched a FF game. For anyone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15,4],"tags":[119],"class_list":["post-1775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-worst","category-blog","category-games","tag-final-fantasy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1777,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775\/revisions\/1777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}