watching the gdq run of wild arms, learned that apparently the game was commissioned by Sony to show off the PS1's 3D graphics...
but it's a game with beautiful 2D overworld stuff and kinda ugly 3D battle graphics
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@Felthry it has some pretty nice 3D character models, compared to, say, FF VII
@noiob Yeah, "ugly" is probably an overstatement
but the sprite work is beautiful and the 3D art doesn't really hold up as well
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@Felthry to be fair, you can say that about everything on the PSX, it has very advanced 2D capabilities and very barebones 3D
@noiob That's true. I do think some of the later 3D games like FFIX look pretty great though--not anything special by modern standards but for the PSX, amazing
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@Felthry yeah, but FF IX works around the weak 3D by pre-rendering as much as it can, the PSX had a pretty capable video decoder chip
@Felthry yeah it's definitely an impressive game