Current Events > In the 90s I hated FF7 fanboys because I felt they liked it for the graphics

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Lol... imagine telling someone today they like FF7 for the graphics
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The prerendered art backgrounds still look good.

The models yeah..not so much.
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The models in the battles look good too. It's just the ones on the field that look awful
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Well, when the game came out it was hyped for it's graphics. It's 3D, OMG!
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MasterGakke posted...

Well, when the game came out it was hyped for it's graphics. It's 3D, OMG!

One of the first instance of 3D cinema scenes as well?
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It was weird how they kept switching between the realistically proportioned models and the super deformed ones, which looked horrible
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How did they ever conceive of and execute a game as mind blowingly good as FF7
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SaltyWet posted...

How did they ever conceive of and execute a game as mind blowingly good as FF7

A question for the philosophers no doubt
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In high definition the backgrounds are amazing. Very pretty.

I liked the blocky character models, but can also understand how people couldn't. The battle ones are really good and I always wondered why they didn't just use those all the time, especially since they did the very next year with VIII.
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The models in 7 look fine, I really have no clue why people keep crying about them. They did the best with what they had to work with and made a stylized look that has a unique aesthetic that can be appreciated today. Compare to FF8 which tried to make the graphics and models for the character as realistic as possible and now they look like washed out doodles on the notebook of an epileptic kid.

Even back then, I thought the Popeye Arms Style character models looked awful compared to the character sprites they used in FF4 and FF6. I did think the character models in the cutscenes and battles looked good though.
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