What's your standard for a "good" FF graphics?

I just want to know what is your standard for you to say, in your opinion, that the graphics of a particular Final Fantasy is something which is "good"? For instance, I particularly appreciate the lego-style presentation of FFVII characters, while others despise it. People say that FFVIII's graphics is superior to FFVII's by a mile, but i see otherwise. Same thing goes to FFX vs. FFXII graphics. FFX focused on sharpness of the graphics while FFXII is more of, well, I don't know how to describe it... So, I'll just say, it's very similar to Vagrant Story's.

I don't really have a standard. If the enviroments and setting look beautiful are able to catch my attention, that's all I care about.

I would agree that X's graphics were more appealing than XII's.

The art design and environments in FFX were leaps and bounds ahead of FFXII, but FFXII's character model graphics were way better than the ones in FFX. FFXII also didn't have very good level design either, a lot of the areas were quite generic, and just a bunch of hallways strung together.

On a technicaly level FFVIII IS leaps and bounds ahead of FFVII, but art design is debatable. Personally I thought they were both great and unique in their own way.

As far as standards go, I generally expect Final Fantasy games to have high production values so the technical aspect of the graphics should always be top of the line, and the art design is generally always amazing. Although I like the art design of the 'normal' Final Fantasy games, rather than the Final Fantasy games based in the FFT Ivalice world. That world is not very colorful and gets a little boring to me after a while.

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I think the character models of FFVII and FVIII weren't very appealing, they didn't match the crisp, sleek backgrounds and so they felt very out of place. The older games had a cute, colourfulness about them that was lost, but the better quality graphics of FFX onwards have made up for it.southy787

I would say that aswell. i dont think the PS1 had the capability to display characters in FFVII or VIII even though the backrounds were amazing. I think it was still a problem in FFX to lesser effect. hopefully it will be soughted for the PS3 Releases(Which look immense).

I got FFVIII pretty soon after getting my PS1 and i played a few games but i remember being blown away by FFVIII's graphics(seriously i fell off my chair):)anyway FFVII was quite good for it's time(i played them in this order VIII, VII, IX) and IX was ok, actually i didn't think the world was very good compared with VIII(but that"s just me). and then came FFX which i thought was just Amazing, Character models and cut scenes were beautiful. so FFX set the standard for me( didn't like XII so much, the world wasn't as....pretty:roll:

but i have always been more interested in a good (long)story, so if graphics had to take a SLIGHT back seat i wouldn't have any problems.

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Heres what I think.

7 did have good graphics (of course I mean for its time) and even though I though that the "graphics" in 8 were superior I still loved the look of 7. Its not so much "what has the best graphics" but "how are the graphics stylized/ what is the art direction"

You see... 10 had beautiful scenery and everything on screen just blew me away visually. I think 12 probably had better graphics to a point but the style of 10 was just so superior . Dont get me wrong now... I LOVED 12... and 10 obviously.

But I guess it comes down the the feeling you get when you look at the imagery.

See even though Crysis has dominated every other game in the graphics department... I still think other games like bioshock (which still has great graphics) or FFX look better.

"eye of the beholder" for sure

Thats just my take

i agree with you dude, and now we have XIII which looks to have a more futuristic looking world. and with the PS3's power it'll be interesting to see what people think of it. it seems to me that people are divided over FFXII a lot didn't like it, i couldn't get into it like i did with X and i think it was just the look of it.

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I don't like Nomura's artistry. He's the one that did FFIX and FFCC, right? His "unique" visions of characters always look childish and stupid to me. I like the realistic-looking graphics and SNES character sprites, I just don't think he should amalgamate the two.

I don't like Nomura's artistry. He's the one that did FFIX and FFCC, right? His "unique" visions of characters always look childish and stupid to me. I like the realistic-looking graphics and SNES character sprites, I just don't think he should amalgamate the two.

BladeCUBED

No. Tetsuya Nomura, iirc, did not work for the graphics of FF9 (or for FF9 itself, iirc). Y. Amano did the image illustration and hideo minaba is the art director. Well, we can say it is Amano who designed the characters of FF9. As for FFCC (the frist one), meh, Nomura won't make characters like those in the game.

Nomura did FF7, FF8, FFX, FFX-2, FF12. FF13, FFVs13. (i'm not sure about Agito 13).

Heres what I think.

7 did have good graphics (of course I mean for its time) and even though I though that the "graphics" in 8 were superior I still loved the look of 7. Its not so much "what has the best graphics" but "how are the graphics stylized/ what is the art direction"

You see... 10 had beautiful scenery and everything on screen just blew me away visually. I think 12 probably had better graphics to a point but the style of 10 was just so superior . Dont get me wrong now... I LOVED 12... and 10 obviously.

But I guess it comes down the the feeling you get when you look at the imagery.

See even though Crysis has dominated every other game in the graphics department... I still think other games like bioshock (which still has great graphics) or FFX look better.

"eye of the beholder" for sure

Thats just my take

snipasr

I agree with you. FFX looked better than XII to me. X's was more appealing to my sight, and the enviroments and atmosphere just felt more nicer and pleasurable.

To me FFVII had the best graphics even better than FFXII! I just love its classic look. Also FFVII is the best Final Fantasy game ever made anyone can tell you that!!! :D Course I Am the Biggest FFVII Fan you can find go ahead ask me any question! 8)xXLostCaptainXx

With no disrespect really, you are not the only one.. plenty of us here have delved deep into ff7s nooks and cranies, i sure have, back in 1997-98. But none of us gloat about ff7.. its final fantasy nothing more, nothing less...

ok then.. although this is the internet and anyone can just search online reletivley quick... but i trust youl know the answer to this regardless, its an easy one..... how does one obtain the "usable" masamune blade wepon for cloud? or.. wich particlurly farmable monsters morph into all the neccesary items to max all the players stats?

anyways, i dont have standards for graphics when it comes to video games or at least rpgs that is, i have recently replayed crono trigger and ff 8 and i play ff 5 on my psp when im on the go, so graphics have no say in the matter, this question imo is unfair to ask because graphics are constantly evolving so its difficult to answer.

how did you get ff5 on psp?johngebreadman

Actually, I'm wondering that myself...

[QUOTE="johngebreadman"]how did you get ff5 on psp?DJ-Lafleur

Actually, I'm wondering that myself...

We call it, "emulator". My friend is also doing it. Funny, he does not play his PSP games... He always plays his emulator games. :P

[QUOTE="DJ-Lafleur"]

[QUOTE="johngebreadman"]how did you get ff5 on psp?Fantasy_Gamer

Actually, I'm wondering that myself...

We call it, "emulator". My friend is also doing it. Funny, he does not play his PSP games... He always plays his emulator games. :P

[QUOTE="Fantasy_Gamer"][QUOTE="DJ-Lafleur"]

[QUOTE="johngebreadman"]how did you get ff5 on psp?ThreeVo

Actually, I'm wondering that myself...

We call it, "emulator". My friend is also doing it. Funny, he does not play his PSP games... He always plays his emulator games. :P

Oh! I see! I never knew emulators could be on PSPs. :?

tbh when it comes to RPG's im not fussed with graphics (especially FF) obviously if it does have great graphics then yeah bonus, but anyway 'good' FF graphics, i thought 10 was beautiful, i much prefered it to XII.

IX had very nice graphics, i usually dont like the cartoony look but i thought it looked excellent in IX.

tbh when it comes to RPG's im not fussed with graphics (especially FF) obviously if it does have great graphics then yeah bonus, but anyway 'good' FF graphics, i thought 10 was beautiful, i much prefered it to XII.

IX had very nice graphics, i usually dont like the cartoony look but i thought it looked excellent in IX.

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This is more of a discussion of wich final fantasy provided the most attractive enviorment or atmosphere and theme, wich unfortunatley can usually only start with ff7 and up, being as they were the first offical 3d rendered final fantasies,so its much easier to immerse yourslef, not that ff1-6 were not imersive in there own right, but imo thats on another degree.

in this case i can say that its a straight tie between ff7, for its steem punk industrial feel, ff8 for its semi classic style mixed with Advanced technology, idk.... somthing about deling city and its song gets me every time, just like dollet and timber, they had to have gotten some artistic inspiration from the 50s, wich is definetley unique, and lastly, ff10, and i think it goes without saying but ill say it anyways in one word - Besaid.

12 was also appealing to me but it reminded of starwars more often than not, especialy ogre yensing sand sea area lol.

9 as well was nice but for the most part there werent too many unusual atmospheres in it, it pretty much stuck to the tried and true formula of setting, wich threw me off after experiencing 7 & 8 and there flip mode in direction

Personally i thought the imagery of FF12 was gorgeous.MiracleMir

It was nice, but it didn't "wow" me.

[QUOTE="MiracleMir"]Personally i thought the imagery of FF12 was gorgeous.DJ-Lafleur

It was nice, but it didn't "wow" me.

They were gorgeous. However, FFXII didn't put a lot of their cutscenes in good places. I don't really care how awesome you make an area... i.e. a desert look... it's still a desert.