yeah its really funny cause i have played FF7 FF8 FF10 and X-2 of them all i liked the FF10 battle system the most followed but FF7 and FF8. X-2 was just a wait of time, it was easily the worst game i have ever played, story wise, battle systemwise, and even the graphics, we saw all that in FFX they didnt improve on anything so even in that sense it got a bad rating from me. My only problem with FF7 story line was that it was too long and complex, if u want to play a prefect game the first run through, as i often like to do, the game takes forever, FF10 had a solid story line with minimal side tracks as you go on, and if there was a size track it wouldnt take too long to finish it, and finding stuff wasnt so hard, i can remember countless times when i was playin FF7 and i would just strait up not be able to find the town i was looking for, or the sit i needed to find, just cause it was hidden, it wastes so much time and is jsut useless. that and the 3D graphics were the 2 things that detracted from the game. Your right though the game had real messages and talked about the issues, FFX did that aswell when they talked about sin and the use of technology and so on, it was very key in the way people look at things in the world today.