WAAAHHHH~~~~!!! Well, thanks for all your help, kind moderators, they were all pretty much appreciated....

Hmm. FMV's are heart-stopping, and as what Raziel said, it would be no sense at all if after the FMV there was nothing to be said about THAT FMV that would help further the story in progress. They only add to much of the time spent playing. You were SUPPOSED to kill the silver-haired baddie, not watch those ribbons that entwine you around before you face him off.

On the other hand...it's boring if RPG's would have text instead of FMV's to deliver some of the game's finest moments. It's like choosing a moth-eaten book over a colorful comic book with all the gore and action and all the pretty visuals.

The point I'm making is that, yes, FMVs are nice, but not necessary to conveying plot at all. If General Leo's death scene in FF6 had been in FMV, it certainly would have been more cinematic and impressive. But, it wasn't in FMV. It was in old-school 16-bit in game graphics, and the emotion and weight of the scene was perfectly translated, regardless. FMV would have just made it look nicer.

Yes, exactly. But if there would be another FF game released without ANY FMV's, and since we were all used to the fact that FF games from VII to whatever have FMV's...would it be really boring? I mean, just plain, scrolling text, like you're reading a book. I've had my share of SRW headaches, so...

sometimes fmvs are bad like in final fantasy 9 when you want to rush through the game to get the excalibur 2.

You can always open your playstation to skip them.

one thing my friend did before is tap the top of the playstation to get it to skip the cinemas in final fantasy 7.

Won't the Playstation bog down or something?