No spoilers for me neither, since I’m still playing Rebirth… I just felt the urge to talk about how much this little prick gets on my nerves…

Anyone else? Or is it just me?

Having a blast with the game either way… But fuck Chadley.

  • prole@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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    7 months ago

    While I don’t think you’re wrong, necessarily, but my first thought was that you may view FFX as the starting point, because that’s when they finally had powerful enough hardware with the PS2 to make those things actually workable and believable. Full voice acting also played a big role.

    The tropes were always there (well I can’t say “always”, I haven’t played all of the old ones), they were just very limited in what options they had to work with that convey those motions

    Go play FFXI again, it’s filled to the brim with goofy tropes. You just can’t see their exact facial expression using such small (albeit detailed) sprites.

    • ChocoboRocket@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Fully agree, the limited graphics really muted the effects and they became more prominent/ubiquitous as systems improved

      But I also felt more connected and immersed with the muted effects stories despite the limited graphics and detail