Hey, I admit that FFVII wasn't that bad. I particularily enjoyed Disk 1, it's just as soon as Sephiroth came in I started to not like it.
Another thing about FFVII I dislike is that Descent, a game that came out 3 years prior, has superior graphics than FFVII, dsicounting FMV's. At least on Descent you can see that the faces on the enemy robots are more than lines drawn on a cheap polygon. [though the music in FFVII I liked, but the balance of characters is bleh, I dun like it. They're all the freaking same, even FFVI had balance of characters, but not THAT badly.]
And let's not get FFVIII into this discussion. Ugh, I hated that one even WORSE........ [though I enjoyed FFIX, to a degree.... I liked the difference between characters immensly]
I haven't played PSX FF1, so I don't know if it's the same as Dawn of Souls or not. The battles on the NES were slow, yes, but oh well, I'm sure most of us are patient enough to put up with it.