27th February 2007, 8:02 PM
I finally found a video of that really old SGI graphical demo of what the N64 could do to FF6.
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Keep in mind that this is OLD so this was pretty impressive at the time, which is to say flat lighting and a near total lack of textures was impressive, and that was FF7! Anyway, it kinda makes me wonder what would have happened if Square had decided to delay FF7 for a year and release a 3D remake of FF6 on the PS1 instead... Maybe we'd be seeing this huge focus on new stuff for FF6 instead of FF7 due to that game being the system's first killer app.
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Keep in mind that this is OLD so this was pretty impressive at the time, which is to say flat lighting and a near total lack of textures was impressive, and that was FF7! Anyway, it kinda makes me wonder what would have happened if Square had decided to delay FF7 for a year and release a 3D remake of FF6 on the PS1 instead... Maybe we'd be seeing this huge focus on new stuff for FF6 instead of FF7 due to that game being the system's first killer app.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)