SOLDIER Class/Items

[Enkidoh]

The reason why the Buster Sword became a Limit Break and was not added to the game as an actual weapon is because that Limit Break animation was from ARR's launch in 2013, when great swords as a weapon in the game did not exist (DRK wasn't added til at least two years later with the first expansion Heavensward.). And SE have just never decided to go back and change it (this is the same reason why Lightning's gunblade the Blazefire Sabre is a GLA/PLD weapon rather than for GNB as you would otherwise expect - GNB didn't exist as a Job in this game at the time the FFXIII event was run either).

There has been a lot of rumours about a FFVII themed crossover event but nothing sadly was ever confirmed or came of it (I suspect the pandemic probably didn't help - we lost year's Halloween event due to it throwing the development schedule of the game out of sync so they probably just abandoned any ideas of running a new FFVII one to tie-in with the Remake), but players did get Cloud's Advent Children attire rather than his old SOLDIER outfit from the original game as a Veteran Reward (and before you pass judgement on that, Squall's outfit here in FFXIV wasn't based on his original game appearence either - it was based on his Kingdom Hearts and Dissidia attire instead), and also his Fenrir motorcycle from the same film was added to the Mogstation (we also got Cloud, Aeris and Tifa minions to boot).

The current Weapon trial battles that are part of SHB's patch story are based on the WEAPONs from FFVII too, so we sort of have a FFVII themed (or at least ideas based on) event in the game. It's not the same as the special FFXI, XIII or XV events, but it is better than nothing.

Also it should be worth mentioning that Yoshi is on record as saying his personal favourite FF game is FFVII, so make of that what you will.

[CKNovel]

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I'll also add the following:
-Guardian Scorpion as a boss
-Costa Del Sol
-Gold Saucer
-King Thordan, the Knights of the round.
-Vauthry birth could be a reference to Sephiroth
-Hades using Black Cauldron
-The Beehive from Eulmore
-Pulse of Life also show Aerith poses and weapon.
-Materias.

There might be no jobs around VII (mainly because Ninja, Machinist, Monk and Dragoon takes some spot), but VII doesn't get the short end of the stick. There is 2 whole areas coming from VII. And the Gold Saucer is quite a big one.
II, XIII and XV don't have much in comparison.

I understand you're quite the VII fanboy, but this FF got a lot of references, there is currently 4 Trials about VII summons/ennemis, soon 5.
FF II got nothing beyond talking beavers and in the future, the Pandemonium. How many bosses are from FF X? Yojimbo and I don't have anything else at the moment.

[wereotter]

I'll also add the following:
-Guardian Scorpion as a boss
-Costa Del Sol
-Gold Saucer
-King Thordan, the Knights of the round.
-Vauthry birth could be a reference to Sephiroth
-Hades using Black Cauldron
-The Beehive from Eulmore
-Pulse of Life also show Aerith poses and weapon.
-Materias.

There might be no jobs around VII (mainly because Ninja, Machinist, Monk and Dragoon takes some spot), but VII doesn't get the short end of the stick. There is 2 whole areas coming from VII. And the Gold Saucer is quite a big one.
II, XIII and XV don't have much in comparison.

I understand you're quite the VII fanboy, but this FF got a lot of references, there is currently 4 Trials about VII summons/ennemis, soon 5.
FF II got nothing beyond talking beavers and in the future, the Pandemonium. How many bosses are from FF X? Yojimbo and I don't have anything else at the moment.

Also monk uses Final Heaven as their LB3, another FF7 reference.

Most of the games have some amount of reference in the game for sure. But 7 has been incorporated pretty heavily into the general gameplay we see every day... while other titles tend to just a dungeon or with the past two expansions, some references in the raids.

Also it's not much, but there is a II reference, since you listed it, in the password used by the Scions in ARR, but that's dropped almost as quickly as you're forced to use it "wild rose" which is so minor and easily forgotten, it just as much reinforces your claim that its been largely overlooked in comparison to the things we see in the game every day from other titles.

[Sam_Strife_163]

And don't tell me you wouldn't do that because I've already seen so many toxic fans hate on us FF7 fans for even breathing.

[Sam_Strife_163]

The reason why the Buster Sword became a Limit Break and was not added to the game as an actual weapon is because that Limit Break animation was from ARR's launch in 2013, when great swords as a weapon in the game did not exist (DRK wasn't added til at least two years later with the first expansion Heavensward.). And SE have just never decided to go back and change it (this is the same reason why Lightning's gunblade the Blazefire Sabre is a GLA/PLD weapon rather than for GNB as you would otherwise expect - GNB didn't exist as a Job in this game at the time the FFXIII event was run either).

There has been a lot of rumours about a FFVII themed crossover event but nothing sadly was ever confirmed or came of it (I suspect the pandemic probably didn't help - we lost year's Halloween event due to it throwing the development schedule of the game out of sync so they probably just abandoned any ideas of running a new FFVII one to tie-in with the Remake), but players did get Cloud's Advent Children attire rather than his old SOLDIER outfit from the original game as a Veteran Reward (and before you pass judgement on that, Squall's outfit here in FFXIV wasn't based on his original game appearence either - it was based on his Kingdom Hearts and Dissidia attire instead), and also his Fenrir motorcycle from the same film was added to the Mogstation (we also got Cloud, Aeris and Tifa minions to boot).

The current Weapon trial battles that are part of SHB's patch story are based on the WEAPONs from FFVII too, so we sort of have a FFVII themed (or at least ideas based on) event in the game. It's not the same as the special FFXI, XIII or XV events, but it is better than nothing.

Also it should be worth mentioning that Yoshi is on record as saying his personal favourite FF game is FFVII, so make of that what you will.

Yea but honestly his Advent Children outfit is cool and all but it was never my style. I've always loved his SOLDIER outfit from Final Fantasy 7 the game. And while it's great and all that there's weapons and gear in Storm blood that kinda look like stuff from 7, I'd actually like to have Ff7 weapons/attire if possible. They have stuff for Squall, and stuff for Lightning, Snow, and Fang, including their weapons. If they they can do it for those characters, surely they can do it for us FF7 fans, and tbf, the rest of the Final Fantasy gang like Tidus, Yuna, Firion, Zidane, etc. It only seems right to ask for it since it IS Final Fantasy here. Even if not a job, we could get glam items since they've already started on the for multiple FF characters.