In my expert hipster opinion, FFVII is a fantastic game. I played it when it came out and loved it. I played it last year and loved it.
I'm playing FFVIII (I know that says 8 and not 7, but I decided to go on a tangent just for funsies) now for the first time again (for the 4th time) and am finally beginning to love it (wasn't clicking with me the second and consecutive times until now, but it did the first time. Too bad I only rented it then and then it fell off the map for me somehow. Hooray for digressions, by the way! [Yeah, I was, and am, being way too parenthetical.]).
Anyway... OoT didn't interest me at all when it came out and I can't really say why. I tried it very briefly a year or two after it came out and I did not like it. I just didn't think it was fun and I thought the graphics were not good even back then. Fast forward about 4 years. I finally decided to play it for more than 20 minutes. It was fun! The graphics didn't matter anymore since they were dated so I didn't have to try to enjoy it as cutting edge. I guess that mattered somehow.
I still don't think OoT is an exceptional game, but it is quite good.
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