Ragdoll Blaster 2, which was released 2 years later in 2012 (App Store, iTunes), featured a complete design overhaul with the designers opting for a 'steampunk' look. The Original Ragdoll Blaster had a simple, 2D design. A physics game, Ragdoll Blaster featured a basic visual design:
Ragdoll Blaster is an arcade game that first appeared on the iPhone in 2010. Modern technology has allowed new games to look extremely realistic, with exquisite detailed and real-life effects (like wind, rain, shadows etc.). You can see a sneak peak Final Fantasy 15 (not yet released) gameplay in it’s new trailers, and it’s quite obvious how far the graphics in the series has come. This smoother appearance (and improved game mechanics) brought FF9 characters to life, and was a huge leap from the jagged edges and high polygon count from FF7. A common opinion is that FF7 popularised 3D FMV cut scenes.Ģ000’s Final Fantasy 9, also released on the PlayStation, saw detailed and advanced visual cut scenes, and broke away from polygonal edges. Already, the progression is evident, although the human aspects of the characters (like hands) remained unrefined, chunky and basic.įF7 also used rendered hand painted backgrounds, combining the art styles of hand drawn and 3D rendered graphics.
The Final Fantasy Seriesįinal Fantasy started in 1987, and since then numerous titles have been released until as recently as 2013.Īs you can see, the first Final Fantasy was very basic, and in the usual style of NES 2D graphics.įinal Fantasy 7 was released in 1997 on the PlayStation, moving away from 2D graphics to 3D computer graphics instead.
I think we’d all admit that, on the whole, games look crisper, sexier and more realistic, with visual elements equalling those of mechanics, if not becoming more important in some aspects. True, some may argue that today’s games are ‘too easy’ and are lacking the characteristics and story-telling that older games provided, but that is a different argument altogether. Modern games have advanced both mechanically and in design, and both these advances have led to an era of well refined, highly detailed and absolutely stunning and realistic gameplay. Now think about the most recent game you played – I bet it looks totally different, right? (Unless, of course, you just went all nostalgic on us and played the first Super Mario Bros, in which case you’ve ruined the whole point I was trying to make). Either way, think back to the graphics and the visual details…can you remember? It may have been an Atari, SNES, PS1 or even (for the young’uns) an arcade game on your TV or PC. Think back to the first game you ever played.
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