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Dec 21, 2018 @ 11:14am

Why does a PS2 game have pre rendered backgrounds

I knew something looked off

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Silamon Dec 21, 2018 @ 11:31am

2 reasons. first, a style choice. The pre-rendered backgrounds were quite popular back then, and frankly aged a lot better than other games of the era.
Second, the game was originally going to be a ps1 game, converted to ps2 at the last minute and rushed out so it could be a ps2 launch title. This is why there are a lot of features that did not come out until Genma Onimusha re-released on the Xbox, they were not ready in time for the ps2 release.

(and it does not seem we are getting the Genma features in this version, so there's that.)

Last edited by Silamon; Dec 21, 2018 @ 11:33am

p R o X y m o R o N has Onimusha: Warlords

Dec 21, 2018 @ 11:35am

Originally posted by Silamon:
2 reasons. first, a style choice. The pre-rendered backgrounds were quite popular back then, and frankly aged a lot better than other games of the era.
Second, the game was originally going to be a ps1 game, converted to ps2 at the last minute and rushed out so it could be a ps2 launch title. This is why there are a lot of features that did not come out until Genma Onimusha re-released on the Xbox, they were not ready in time for ps2 launch.

(and it does not seem we are getting the Genma features in this version, so there's that.)

Well, I thought it looked stylistically better than Nioh, but with this realization, maybe it'll be a bit clunky to play...it's just that a fighting game with static bgs sounds so...backwards.

Silamon Dec 21, 2018 @ 11:36am

Originally posted by gideo vames:
Originally posted by Silamon:
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Well, I thought it looked stylistically better than Nioh, but with this realization, maybe it'll be a bit clunky to play...it's just that a fighting game with static bgs sounds so...backwards.

If you remember the tank controls from the older RE games, that is how this game plays. Some people have said they updated the controls like they did for the RE remaster that came out on steam, so it might be a lot better with that.

RAWRmonger Dec 21, 2018 @ 3:52pm

Originally posted by Silamon:
Originally posted by gideo vames:

Well, I thought it looked stylistically better than Nioh, but with this realization, maybe it'll be a bit clunky to play...it's just that a fighting game with static bgs sounds so...backwards.
If you remember the tank controls from the older RE games, that is how this game plays. Some people have said they updated the controls like they did for the RE remaster that came out on steam, so it might be a lot better with that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS_jwJnYhaw
Around the 1:18 mark.

Silamon Dec 21, 2018 @ 4:32pm

Originally posted by RAWRmonger:
Originally posted by Silamon:
If you remember the tank controls from the older RE games, that is how this game plays. Some people have said they updated the controls like they did for the RE remaster that came out on steam, so it might be a lot better with that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS_jwJnYhaw
Around the 1:18 mark.

Wow that comparison at 1:00 is misleading. It didn't look anything like that bad, maybe it would now if you were running a ps2 on a 1440p tv, but then any game would look bad.... At least they did fix the controls so it wont be as bad.

Edit: hah I think I found their source video... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfgyDfmpg8I
Of course a 240p video is going to look bad....
Second edit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDqCl9TKVPM @2:15 is what that scene should look like on the ps2 version.

Last edited by Silamon; Dec 21, 2018 @ 4:48pm