Why do people (gaming nerds on forums) say FFXII graphics were better than FFX?

[Tom]

I'm playing through FFX for the first time (40 hours in...just crashed Yuna's wedding) and the game visually shyts on FFXII. FFXII on the other hand just looks terrible IMO, its not really pleasing to the eye at all. The only thing that game does better visually is the cutscenes.


So why do people say things that are simply not true?


Best graphics from last gen had to have been Halo and FFX imo.

 

[winb83]

I'm playing through FFX for the first time (40 hours in...just crashed Luna's wedding) and the game visually shyts on FFXII. FFXII on the other hand just looks terrible IMO, its not really pleasing to the eye at all. The only thing that game does better visually is the cutscenes.


So why do people say things that are simply not true?


Best graphics from last gen had to have been Halo and FFX imo.

FXII takes place in a lot of detailed cities where FX is more open spaces or at least that's how i remember it being.

 

[Tom]

I think it has alot to do with FFX's prerendered backgrounds and fixed camera (ala Resident Evil series) it just makes everything look much better, vibrant and cleaner IMO. As apposed to everything in FFXII being done with the in game engine.

Reading these old post on some of these gaming forums makes me feel like I'm in the twilight zone tho, how can anyone with 2 working sets of eyes say FFXII looks better? I guess it was just people trying to justify their purchase of the new game (at the time)

FFXII looks like a jaggeded mess on HDTVS. (and on SDTVs also to be honest)


FFX on the other hand almost looks like a current gen game

 

[King Sun]

I think it has alot to do with FFX's prerendered backgrounds and fixed camera (ala Resident Evil series) it just makes everything look much better, vibrant and cleaner IMO. As apposed to everything in FFXII being done with the in game engine.

Reading these old post on some of these gaming forums makes me feel like I'm in the twilight zone tho, how can anyone with 2 working sets of eyes say FFXII looks better? I guess it was just people trying to justify their purchase of the new game (at the time)

FFXII looks like a jaggeded mess on HDTVS. (and on SDTVs also to be honest)


FFX on the other hand almost looks like a current gen game

disillusioned stans. FFX>>>>>

 

[Return of the Jedi]

FFXII was such trash. That game forreal might be the biggest disappointment this gen.

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

all FF's have been absolute trash after FFX

 

[Black Magisterialness]

FFXII was the worst story in all of FF imo...however that shyt was flat out fun to play my friends.

And FFXII graphics were great because everything was real time with no pre-renders and very small load times. Zone's like the Salikawood, Giruvegan would have been impossible for Square to do at the time of FFX....however the artstyle of FFX shyts on the ps2 gen. which is why most people like it more....FFXII was very muted and grey.

i think the sound track to FFXII is hella underrated though

 

[Spatial Paradox]

I figured a topic similar to this probably came up on GameFAQs: Am I the only one who thinks Final Fantasy X had better graphics than XII? - Final Fantasy XII Message Board for PlayStation 2 - GameFAQs

From one of the posts in that thread:
FFX:

FFXII:

I'd like to take my own screenshots of both games in PCSX2 so they're running at the same settings. To me, X has a more vibrant color palette, but XII clearly has the better graphics (textures, character model details, lighting, etc.). XII also had better animation as well, though you can't really tell from those screenshots.

 

[Blaze007]

I haven't played FFX I'll probably cop the HD re-release

I just came in here to say that FFXII is underrated as hell.

 

[Black Thunder]

anything after 7 sucked ass

 

[Mowgli]

FF12 had more spells and more summons there fore it is a better game.

 

[Tom]

FFXII was the worst story in all of FF imo...however that shyt was flat out fun to play my friends.

And FFXII graphics were great because everything was real time with no pre-renders and very small load times. Zone's like the Salikawood, Giruvegan would have been impossible for Square to do at the time of FFX....however the artstyle of FFX shyts on the ps2 gen. which is why most people like it more....FFXII was very muted and grey.

i think the sound track to FFXII is hella underrated though

Just because its cool that it uses real time ish doesn't mean that its more visually pleasing.

Pre rendered >>>>