Why did this style die out? It was peacefully coexisting with full-3D games all the way up to the PS3 era, so it’s not like the rise of polygonal graphics edged it out. Not only are the pre-rendered backgrounds great for creating an unparalleled, rich and embellished atmosphere, but the developers and narrators also get to TELL a really interesting story with how the shots are staged, camera placement, etc.Games like Gamecube’s REmake and RE0 showed just how cool games with high quality pre-rendered backgrounds can look. The more processing power/storage becomes available with time, the more layers and effects you can add, creating a truly unique visual presentation running with only a fraction of the computing power required of modern AAA releases. Imagine 4k pre-rendered backgrounds with ray tracing and complex parallax scrolling and whatnot; we could have had so many amazing looking games.
This and fixed camera 3d games
>>729370414yeah
>>729370324Video games got streamlined why do you think half the genres died.It's not just the stupid consumers that are to blame its one big combination of retarded game reviewers and surprisingly thick headed game developers.
>>729370324jews and greed
>>729370324Obviously because pre-rendered backgrounds take a ton of time to make and have a fixed resolution
>>729372137dumb zoomer
>>729372137Didn't prevent Square from pumping 3 FFs on PS1 in little time while it takes them like 5+ years to do anything these days.
>>729372137Way less time than modelling every 3-D + optimization.
I don't think they look good when you have a 3D model navigating in them. A full 3D world, even if it looks worse, is simply superior, especially for exploration and finding things.
>>729370324>Why did this style die outIt just looks dated unless you want to go for a throw back style but then you cant charge people 60 bucks for that, so only indies do it.Personally, i thought it always looked like shit and i stayed away from any game that did it.
>>729373132Dumb zoomer.
It really only looks good if you have autism for having thingd be 2d / look the way they did when you were a kid. Thankfully retards like you are a tiny tiny infintesimally small minority.
>>729370324It filters braindead zoomers and dents so they stopped doing it. Also too much work and artistry required. All games must be generic and ugly now.
The perception of what a high budget game looks like has changed, regardless of the artistic or technical specifics.It took good artists and lots of money to make those backgrounds in the 90s, and those publishers will only devote those resources to what the current market considers AAA
>>729373102>>729373102>I don't think they look good when you have a 3D model navigating in themThis look bad for you?
>>729373216Looks better than 99% of the games released after 2009. Cope, you grew up with shitty games, talent left before the 7th gen.
>>729370324yeagh
>>729370414>>729370324I always disliked this even back in the day. I'd rather have a third person camera
>>729372978honorary whites vs indians and corpos
Nu-gamers can't understand navigating a character in 3D space, it has to be first person
>>729370324I know of at least 5 people who never beat FF7 or other similar games with pre rendered background simply because they couldn’t figure out where to go. The average gamer is stupid and that’s why every game that comes out now holds your hand every step of the way. Granted, on those older TV’s it was pretty hard to see some of those caves but still.
>>729370324not a problem in nortubel
>>729374220dumb zoomoid
>>729373357It looked good and worked for that game because it was remaking a tank-control game. People usually don't like that control scheme nowadays and there's no doubt in my mind a free camera with 3D world works better, again for exploration purposes. I suppose for Final Fantasy where exploration in those non-overworld areas is basically nonexistent and you just walk from point A to B with constant random encounters, it doesn't matter as much
ff7 remake had this but no one cared.
because good pre-rendered scenes like what you posted take skilled artists and can't simply be handed to some codemonkey to shit out on an assembly lineAnything that takes hard work and effort is absent from everything other than passion projects, because those things can't be put into a spreadsheet to make line go upand Line Must Always Go Up
>>729373375>7th genNo one mentioned 7th gen though? 7th gen is just 8th gen but with lower fps and lower fidelity + brown and bloom.
hmm
>>729373375i see your point
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>>729373005Optimization?
The same reason almost every other genre died out. Asset stores and Unity/Unreal.Now you get Ass Creed clones, horror walking sims, cartoony shooters, or survival/crafting. That's it. Anything else would need new code or assets.
A while ago I learned Sakaguchi wanted FF games to look like maquettes and dioramas, and thats why he was against the more realistic proportions of characters in 7 and 8.Replaying older FFs now is just a joy, the scenery is spot on, I love it. I'm so grateful for 9.
mako v3 > mako v6 > mako v5
>>729370324Filters retards so it makes for worse salesAlso it takes more effort than just having the camera strapped to the character's shoulder 24/7 and devs are lazy
