FF VII hate?

I never understood why people hate FF VII, honestly. It seems that the majority of people who have some unfathomable dislike for the game just hate it for the fact that it's so popular, which makes no sense to me. I wasn't trying to start an argument or anything; the limited edition system looks cool, and I'm a fan of the game so I thought I'd share it with the board.

I don't understand it either. Even if you think the game is overrated, or you don't like it, you should at least be able to see that it's a good game(production, music, gameplay) in general, and to people who enjoy turn based RPGs. If people disklike it because it is popular, then something about the way people determine how a game can be good or bad is seriously wrong.

Everybody hates it but I've never seen anyone on 4chan who actually understood the whole story.

While its fine to hate the game because its long and the battle system is boring, it did have some likable characters, the materia system was cool, and back when it first came out and all of you were younger it was the first RPG to have a serious kinda dark storyline.

It might just be me but when I was a kid I loved it, I don't play it anymore and have no will to do so but I won't say I don't still like it mostly for nostalgia reasons.