Current Events > We are lucky FF7 was massively successful despite how bad the graphics looked.

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Ricemills posted...

The fuck?
FF7 was visually impressive by the time it was released.
Compare it to the likes of Suikoden & Wild arms, FFVII was much better looking. And Suikoden & Wild Arms weren't bad either.

The prerendered stuff maybe. The models and animation were shit even for PS1 standards. This is the same system that had Metal Gear Solid.

The graphics had and still have a ton of charm.

PenultmateGohan posted...

It all goes back to your bad reading comprehension. This is what you understood from what was said. However, what you can understand isn't the height of reality but rather it's a lot closer to the floor, for example.

'Even' for its time, refers to the fact that while, yes, it did have "good" graphics for its time, the word "even" is there because, objectively, it still looks like shit to me (character models only, not including battle models or environments) due to the art direction/graphic design for those particular models being bad. The hooves for hands wasn't a technical limitation but rather it was chosen on purpose.

And why am I saying the art direction specifically? Because even if this game came out on the PS2, they had every intention of making Cloud look like a deformed Popeye Smurf person as visible in one of the concept sketches for the game. Like another user said, it was done to maintain the 2D style that FF was known for, but to make it 3D.

And it looks horrible.

Ok, yeah, it's Scotty

AI_TechGam3FAQS posted...

The graphics had and still have a ton of charm.

Hooves for hands isn't very charming. The environments have charm. Battle character models do also. World map character models? Not at all.

FF6 is better than FF7.