If this game had've been on the PS2

[G13]

I honestly would rather have it on on PSX than the PS2. I liked it's clunkiness. I DUNNO WHY.

This. I don't want what could have been, I'm extremely happy with how it is now.

It's funny that I come across this thread now though. I tried introducing my girlfriend to FF IX just the other day and noticed the graininess of the picture on my tv. It's a new tv to me but it's quite old so I just figured it was an issue with the tv. I've never really noticed how grainy it was before. I must be getting used to my streamlined Xbox graphics.

[Mirage]

Nah man, FF8 looks a lot cleaner on my fancy TV. It's the game. It has too much detail in the textures and trout and the low resolution of the game just can't display it correctly. The only way to do this game justice is to play it on an emulator. Then you'll see all the fantastic details put into the 3D models.

Furthermore, the PS3 play backs PS1 games worse than the PS2 did. PS2 added texture filtering to PS1 games, making textures smoother when close up, and avoided pixel-flickering at distances. The PS3 does no such thing, at most it'll interpolate the low resolution, a function that almost all TVs can do natively anyway.

It is really terrible how they can actually take a step back with a new console that (at the time) cost 600 dollars.

[black orb]

If this game had've been on the PS2

>>> We would be waiting for FF IX HD instead of X right now..

[Mirage]

Yes, as long as they didn't use pre-rendered backgrounds for it on PS2.

[silentenigma]

I don't know how IX would be itself, but I do know that if it was the first FF on the PS2, then RPGs would probably be quite different today...

[Rostum]

I honestly would rather have it on on PSX than the PS2. I liked it's clunkiness. I DUNNO WHY.

This. I don't want what could have been, I'm extremely happy with how it is now.

This!

[Loony BoB]

You could easily argue "it would have been better on the next generation console" about any game ever.

[Mirage]

Of course you could. The point is that some games would benefit more from it than others. FF9 is such a game.