Ocarina of Time vs Final Fantasy 7

[Shiken]

SammyGiireal said:

Shiken said:

I just timed them.  FFVI took 5 sec total on SNES to transition from screen distortion to the ATB meter starting.  FFVII on the PS1 took 11 seconds to do the same thing.  That is just over twice as long.  It is even longer than the load times in Chrono Trigger on PS1, which many consider atrocious.  The difference is that FFVII masked them, where CT did not and therefore it seemed like CT had horrid load times even though FFVII was longer.

Is it blown a bit out of proportion?  Yeah, because FFVII masks them well enough.  But in a discussion that takes load times into consideration when it comes to a form of media, yeah it is very valid to bring up the fact that PS1 battle transitions took more than twice as long as their SNES counterparts.  There is no grasping straws when it comes to that.

To be fair just like OoTs 24 fps gameplay felt good then, I didn't mind the PS1 load times in FFVII. That said, Games like Mario 64, OoT, MM etc. Weren't possible with the same speed and seamless transitions between areas on CD format at the time.

Nintendo went cartridge mostly to keep control of third parties (a minimum of 100,000 cartridges needed to be ordered for a game to see release and it cost 1 million for third parties to do so), and piracy. However just as there were draw backs in storage, there were also benefits in fast loads, and battery saves (which saved you precious money on memory paks). 

They don't bother me either when done right.  I just got done beating Chrono Cross again and getting all new game plus endings, and the transitions did not bother me one bit.  I just find it hard to believe that bringing up load times being twice as long on PS1 than SNES could be considered, "grasping for straws."

To me personally, they only really bothered me in the case of games like CT where there was no masking to help with it.  It was painful to watch everything just stop right there in front of you for up to 10 seconds everytime a battle would take place lol.

Last edited by Shiken - on 24 February 2020