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I also played it on PC, but remember even at the time the low resolution backgrounds looking horrendous and taking a lot away from the experience. You had insan
by aikinai 5y ago
I also played it on PC, but remember even at the time the low resolution backgrounds looking horrendous and taking a lot away from the experience. You had insanely low polygon, untextured characters rendered at full monitor resolution, composited on backgrounds pre-rendered at 320x240 for TVs. So the graphics were made up of two drastically different elements each with distinct, critical issues.
- jerf 5y agoThe first 3D console that I thought was actually worthy of the name was the Dreamcast. Everything before that was just atrocious looking, even at the time, in my opinion. I'd had some exposure to computer gaming but I was in college and always bottom-feeding on hardware, so it's not like I was always cutting edge on computer gaming graphics. I remember watching an ad for some Playstation game that was clearly trying to have awesome graphics at all costs, even if it meant that their TV ad was playing at something like 5 fps. Awful. Honestly looked unplayable.
- Firmwarrior 5y agoYeah, man, I was a kid in high school at the time, and saved a lot of money to get this game. It was running at 4 FPS, but even worse was that the characters went from beautifully-drawn sprites in FF6 to hideous sets of cubes and pyramids in FF7. I'd heard so many good things about the game that I assumed it must just be completely broken on my computer, and returned it to the store for a refund I gave the game another try on the PSX later, and I have to admit that it was a lot of fun once I got past the terrible graphics