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  • Because playing them is not enough, we have to bitch about them daily, too. We had a Gameplay forum, but it got replaced by GameFAQs.
Because playing them is not enough, we have to bitch about them daily, too. We had a Gameplay forum, but it got replaced by GameFAQs.

 #33724  by Zeus
 Wed Mar 05, 2003 5:49 pm
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>It went very platinum here.....it broke the mold for RPGs in NA. NOthing since has even come close...</div>

 #33734  by Julius Seeker
 Thu Mar 06, 2003 9:48 am
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>I hardly noticed any hype for Final Fantasy 7 at all. In fact the only place I ever really heard of it was whenever I went to gaming sites on the Internet.</div>

 #33738  by Kupek
 Thu Mar 06, 2003 12:53 pm
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>That's where the hype would be. I saw it all over magazines and videogame sites.</div>

 #33741  by Zeus
 Thu Mar 06, 2003 4:17 pm
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>There were ads for that game like for no other PSX game before it. I couldn't get away from the hype.....not that I tried (I still thought the series was unbeatable before I bought it).. But I saw TV commercials, PoS displays, print ads, 'Net hype, and all sorts of stuff</div>

 #33742  by Eric
 Thu Mar 06, 2003 6:53 pm
<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>The commercials created alot of hype as well. All of my friends who usually play nothing but sports games were dying to get it, because of the FMV commercials, however once they realised they had to read, and discovered it was RPG gameplay they returned their copies....</div>

 #33761  by Julius Seeker
 Fri Mar 07, 2003 1:23 am
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>I don't even recall ever seeing a commercial for it, then again, I didn't really watch much TV around the time of its release. I do remember Resident Evil 2 though</div>