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General Discussion / A new look on the FF7 Projects.
« on: 2010-06-22 10:49:57 »
I have been keeping a close eye on everyone's work here on the FF7 projects aka music, graphics, etc. Basically everyone is taking something made for the PS1 and PC and trying to up it to today's capabilities. Problem I see is that the only way to make the only parts so far that haven't been updated (battle backgrounds, field backgrounds, room background pictures all from the resizing) would be to maybe think outside of the box and do this a bit differently.
Instead of spending 6 years remodeling every scene in the game (would be easier to remake the game in some sense) why not use the originals that we all know look godly sexy at a 320ish size. By that I don't mean Play it on your PC REALLY close up even though when I tried it was...tear inducting beautiful.
I mean this, The DS or 3DS..or psp even though im not a fan. I know it seems a bit stupid to say but the pixel ratio isn't that far off and if the font and user interface system was updated to say..FF IV DS standards I see no reason why it couldn't look gorgeous.
Of course I realize that means a lot of editing and work I could not even comprehend to make it even play at all on a DS but in the end everyone could keep nearly 80% of the original data without a need for all these model and background edits.
Basically, trim down the game files, optimize the camera angles and battle system, change the UI and font to DS standards, maybe degrade or remake the characters to take less data but still look fine (FF IV remake didn't look all that bad at all, a good comparison), and...the hard part, recoding the whole game to run on the DS..or psp type system..heh..not that easy after all..
yeah, just saying if someone were to put all their effort into recoding the game for a handheld type system instead of putting all that effort into remaking 75% of the games graphics it might actually be faster and more efficient. Just guessing here though.
Thought I would throw it out there, I know I just walked into a whole "Dude your wrong because" but I want it x3
Instead of spending 6 years remodeling every scene in the game (would be easier to remake the game in some sense) why not use the originals that we all know look godly sexy at a 320ish size. By that I don't mean Play it on your PC REALLY close up even though when I tried it was...tear inducting beautiful.
I mean this, The DS or 3DS..or psp even though im not a fan. I know it seems a bit stupid to say but the pixel ratio isn't that far off and if the font and user interface system was updated to say..FF IV DS standards I see no reason why it couldn't look gorgeous.
Of course I realize that means a lot of editing and work I could not even comprehend to make it even play at all on a DS but in the end everyone could keep nearly 80% of the original data without a need for all these model and background edits.
Basically, trim down the game files, optimize the camera angles and battle system, change the UI and font to DS standards, maybe degrade or remake the characters to take less data but still look fine (FF IV remake didn't look all that bad at all, a good comparison), and...the hard part, recoding the whole game to run on the DS..or psp type system..heh..not that easy after all..
yeah, just saying if someone were to put all their effort into recoding the game for a handheld type system instead of putting all that effort into remaking 75% of the games graphics it might actually be faster and more efficient. Just guessing here though.
Thought I would throw it out there, I know I just walked into a whole "Dude your wrong because" but I want it x3