/vr/ - Retro Games

>>10189306
>People were used to loading screen
Loading screens, true. Loading screens that take half-a-minute every single battle? Not true. And they were expecting SHORTER loads in 1999.
>cool long ass animations
True enough... when they're cool! Not when they're a monster and your characters fading into the pre-set floating stage at the beginning of the battle without any "animation" occurring beyond a "monster roar" and teammates' basic stance. Also with freeze-framed swirling black screens pre-emptive to that, then an identical (an lame) "victory pose" animation that lasts 5 seconds after every battle, too.
FFIX's battles were enormously slowly loading, slowly acted, and its endings were lamented. And they were very frequent, even more so in forests and dungeons. They were NOT "cool long ass animations."
>[battles from FFIX] were all the rage
Oh. I didn't mean to respond to an ignorant liar and/or troll. I won't anymore.

Just a reminder that you'll never get a TRUE HD remaster since they destroyed all the OG assets.
Pic related.
It's an original render from final fantasy 9 (notice how much detail was lost when it was ported).

FFIX for the character designs and environment art. I really wish I could mod it and improve the graphics, a lot of old renders are available at higher resolutions.

>>1730578
This is what the art looked like before being compressed down for ps1.

Squaresoft has since lost all the art assets I believe.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=551612