Explain to me like I'm a 3-year old boy...

Aside from the FMVs, I cannot see how can people say that the graphics of Final Fantasy VIII is far superior than Final Fantasy VII. By just looking at the towns, world map and battles, everything is choppy. I can neve rforget how annoying the looks of Ultimecia (just before the final battle... while seating in her throne). Really ugly!

It seems to me that they tried too hard to make it a more visual game.

I agree completely that the overworld and the character models themselves are just too blury to make out. I think Square was more focused on the character attitudes, storyline and FMV's to actually try to upgrade the overworld and battle system visuals. From what I remember reading about in reviews, Square was trying to get away from the anime/cartoony character/world models of VII and make the characters more "human" to make it easier to believe the storylines and places in the world. To that affect they did a good job but it would have looked nicer if they didn't rush the process. I'm glad they learned their lesson and applied it to IX. IMO IX was beautiful and visuall superior to anything on the PSOne.

I agree with you FG, Square just tried to do the impossible by making a realistic looking game actually look good on the PS1, as you can see the result was not very realistic at all...

Aside from the FMVs, I cannot see how can people say that the graphics of Final Fantasy VIII is far superior than Final Fantasy VII. By just looking at the towns, world map and battles, everything is choppy. I can neve rforget how annoying the looks of Ultimecia (just before the final battle... while seating in her throne). Really ugly!

Fantasy_Gamer

Guys, we're not talking, here, about the art style (anime block vs. realistic). It's more on how it was presented. They say FF8 has better grapics, but when you compare the quality (excluding FMVs), FF8 is more pixelated especially during battles... Same goes with FF9. While in FF7, especially in battles, the graphics is smoother.Fantasy_Gamer

I know what you mean, FFVII is easier on the eyes :)

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Aside from the FMVs, I cannot see how can people say that the graphics of Final Fantasy VIII is far superior than Final Fantasy VII. By just looking at the towns, world map and battles, everything is choppy. I can neve rforget how annoying the looks of Ultimecia (just before the final battle... while seating in her throne). Really ugly!

fs_metal

I can definitely appreciate what people are saying about how VIII sometimes looks pixilated. VIII was the first FF I ever played. When I played VII after VIII I just felt like I was controlling some bizarre mouthless figures made out of lego blocks. I appreciate the atempt at the realistic look more rather than the cartoony one. VIII has better looking water and scenery and at certain points in the story allows you to move the character through FMV's. I know we're not talking about the FMV's, but it's amazing that you can move in the middle of them. VIII also had better looking environments that actually interact with you more. Also there's more realistic movement whether it's leaves rustling in the breeze or light coming through some windows. I know there are complaints about how pixilated the characters looked, but at least they had hands with digits instead of weird stumps. I still think that VII is the most monumental FF ever created, but VIII really took the graphics to the next level. Progress just isn't always smooth.danmccarthy2

Aside from the FMVs, I cannot see how can people say that the graphics of Final Fantasy VIII is far superior than Final Fantasy VII. By just looking at the towns, world map and battles, everything is choppy. I can neve rforget how annoying the looks of Ultimecia (just before the final battle... while seating in her throne). Really ugly!

Fantasy_Gamer

Maybe you should play FFVIII more than 20 times first before saying this again :D

[QUOTE="danmccarthy2"]I can definitely appreciate what people are saying about how VIII sometimes looks pixilated. VIII was the first FF I ever played. When I played VII after VIII I just felt like I was controlling some bizarre mouthless figures made out of lego blocks. I appreciate the atempt at the realistic look more rather than the cartoony one. VIII has better looking water and scenery and at certain points in the story allows you to move the character through FMV's. I know we're not talking about the FMV's, but it's amazing that you can move in the middle of them. VIII also had better looking environments that actually interact with you more. Also there's more realistic movement whether it's leaves rustling in the breeze or light coming through some windows. I know there are complaints about how pixilated the characters looked, but at least they had hands with digits instead of weird stumps. I still think that VII is the most monumental FF ever created, but VIII really took the graphics to the next level. Progress just isn't always smooth.WhiteFlame-XIII

Yeah X's graphics were really great for its time on the PS2

Hmm well i kinda go both ways on this one..  ff 8 sqaure did trie to attemp at making a more realistic  presentaion and it did end up severely pixelated, however, and keep in mind ive played all of my ff games in chronological order.  i never stoped and said to myself " hmm these graophics are choppy and are hard on my eyes" i just tol;d myself that it was a difffrent aproach to the graphics design, and i liked it. the only extreme difference between 7 and 8 was the character designm. i found that 8 had a much more attractive setting. If u stop and think back, the majority of 7 had the camera rather distance to the characters, and the times that it was very close up we all saw that it as well wasent to impressive.. i personally would prefer a character that looks human like over a character that is 100% polygonal even if its pixelated

But its apparent to all of us that with every new ff title taht comes out, square usually improves themsleves.  So i think that every ff game that came out since 1 has stepped up one at a time in graphical quality. But hey if ya really hate the pixels in 8 just set ur ps2s visual options to smooth.. poof   LOL

ps: Actually now that i think about it 4 had a rather crisper look than ff5 did,,,, hmm? 

Hmm well i kinda go both ways on this one.. ff 8 sqaure did trie to attemp at making a more realistic presentaion and it did end up severely pixelated, however, and keep in mind ive played all of my ff games in chronological order. i never stoped and said to myself " hmm these graophics are choppy and are hard on my eyes" i just tol;d myself that it was a difffrent aproach to the graphics design, and i liked it. the only extreme difference between 7 and 8 was the character designm. i found that 8 had a much more attractive setting. If u stop and think back, the majority of 7 had the camera rather distance to the characters, and the times that it was very close up we all saw that it as well wasent to impressive.. i personally would prefer a character that looks human like over a character that is 100% polygonal even if its pixelated

But its apparent to all of us that with every new ff title taht comes out, square usually improves themsleves. So i think that every ff game that came out since 1 has stepped up one at a time in graphical quality. But hey if ya really hate the pixels in 8 just set ur ps2s visual options to smooth.. poof LOL

ps: Actually now that i think about it 4 had a rather crisper look than ff5 did,,,, hmm?

ThreeVo

I'll agree that X was far more monumental for it's time than VIII, but I still don't buy that VII's graphics are better than VIII's. VIII has anatomically correct characters and a more interactive environment. Enough said.danmccarthy2