I STILL love prerendered backgrounds. I played Final Fantasy VII recently and still really dig how the environments look. And they blended the gameplay into a cutscene really well so the backgrounds don't feel lifeless.
That game also still has a fantastic sense of scale and color.
I hate prerendered backgrounds...
Re: I hate prerendered backgrounds...
That makes me have to say, there's something really weird and special I love about FFVII's style... unlike FFVIII-IX, the camera in VII was often really zoomed out. So the area's just looked way bigger and everything. I don't remember the other games being quite like that, especially FFVIII with it's way bigger character models, and I remember a lot of the maps were much smaller in size, divided up into more sections if that makes sense.
Just a weird nostalgic thing I like about FFVII's look.
Just a weird nostalgic thing I like about FFVII's look.
