Quote Originally Posted by ShinGundam View Post
It's true that we seem to be losing a lot to modern graphics and realism. I say what we need is a mini computing apocalypse to send us back to the SNES era
Not really, It is all about creating the game engine and technical limitations not the visuals, the pre-PS1 Final Fantasy games share a lot of their assets and FF13 designers have to create everything from scratch which is the real difference.
Graphics are exactly the reason XIII suffered from lack of towns, minigames and sidequests and the developers said so. It isn't impossible to downgrade graphics somewhat in order to add these things and half production time, but they choose not to because they want to entice the casual gamer, which is a bad idea imho.