and they made sure that the footage looked just as blurry and low res as the actual game running on a PS2 to make it fit seamlessly
That is until you play the game 20 years later on an emulator and you go from lovely upscaled gameplay to sub-DVD quality videos with tons of in-built aliasing
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For a non-emulator example, fire up the DMC HD Collection and check out most of the cutscenes in DMC3, they look like absolute ass next to the few cutscenes that weren't pre-recorded
That is until you play the game 20 years later on an emulator and you go from lovely upscaled gameplay to sub-DVD quality videos with tons of in-built aliasing
Lol even funnier is the ps3 era FFXIII, game runs in 4k on X1X or PC, but the ui is still 720p and the upscale does an awful job with text. You get crisp and detailed characters and the ugliest menu you've ever seen.
the ugliest menu you've ever seen
Sounds like it's fully consistent with the original release
Not PS2 but I love Mortal Kombat 4's endings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsvfP5BQxaw
Almost all of those endings suck, lmao. I remember this game being very difficult and broken, but the positive side was that it introduced Shinnok, Quan Chi and Tanya to the main Mortal Kombat series.
They fall into the "so bad it's good" for me which is why I mentioned them. Quality wise, yeah compared to other games they are doodoo.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Yeah it's always funny that people think that games from that era looked as good as they do unscaled in HD on an emulator. Nah, they were blurry as hell.
