Chad Retrogamer
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...honestly, I remember ff7 coming out and everybody raving about how fantastic it looked...I also remember looking at ff4 on the SNES (2 at the time in the us) and wondering if I was the crazy one...
You weren't. People bought into the hype of the technology being inherently better for years while the graphics slowly improved. PS1 games are not as popular as PS2 games for a reason.
One of the best games of that era really was just Mario 64, and that was (again) from art direction.
agreed. the simplicity of the art made it look a lot better. it worked within the constraints of what it was capable of, instead of cramming as many pixels onto a polygon as possible...
Don't get me wrong some good games came out in that 3d era, resident evil, silent hill (don't ever play that game at night, alone in a house in the middle of nowhere, lmao. I did that for an hour, on a PSP for crying out loud, and I was paranoid the rest of the night), etc. but it wasn't the graphics that made them good, it was the gameplay and the story (and the sound design in the case of silent hill, lol).
That age where you go from "I need an adult" to "I need a gun because I'm the only adult left".
oh dude. I was in my late twenties/early thirties, and You couldn't have gotten me to look out a window that time night, because some creepy monster was gonna be looking back at me. it was surreal.🤣
...that being said, fuck the camera in that game. one of the reasons it took so long to play the game was because I kept getting lost in that one alleyway. I can ride in a car all day long without an issue, but the camera swinging back and forth and up and down when you go back and forth made me wanna upchuck...
ff7's appeal was never the graphics for me. Its strength is better exemplified by the scene where you find the Turks vacationing in Wutai. It was simply a compelling adventure to experience with a customizable combat system.
yeah, but that was pretty much par for the course with Final Fantasy at that point.
Don't get me wrong, if you liked VII, I wont hold it against you, but yeah... the hype about the graphics was strong when it came out...
Yeah, and I identified that hype as misplaced back then same as I do now.
The masses are easily impressed by shiny baubles and incapable of recognizing anything of substance without an authority figure telling them.
hope I didn't come off as antagonistic, i didn't hate ff7, I just wasn't particularly impressed by it, either.
...I really gotta go back and play ffiv the after years one of these days, though... the og was hard, but it was fun, and the story was epic...