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    Quote Originally Posted by SonicBlue View Post
    That's one of the game that I never played, but thanks to YouTube, it looks that they used various layers, for example the ventilation fans can be part of a layer and the animated stuff is only a little portion the screen is 16:9 (with the HUD that covers the pixels that make it 4:3), so the background is smaller than usual, unfortunately they didn't look as good as Resident Evil 2, but I did noticed that there is no pause between camera angle changes, or it's because of the emulator? If no, it's very well programmed, for example Koudelka is that slow loading the backgrounds that is disorienting.
    Fear Effect loads fast 'cause it doesn't pre-load anything background related. The backgrounds are entirely streamed FMV videos. The only thing that's pre-loaded are character models, basic audio samples, sequenced music, etc.. This heavy reliance on streamed FMV backgrounds is also why the two Fear Effect games both utilize 4 CD-ROMs each, rather than just being tinzy winzy single CD-ROM games.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Carnivol View Post
    Fear Effect loads fast 'cause it doesn't pre-load anything background related. The backgrounds are entirely streamed FMV videos. The only thing that's pre-loaded are character models, basic audio samples, sequenced music, etc.. This heavy reliance on streamed FMV backgrounds is also why the two Fear Effect games both utilize 4 CD-ROMs each, rather than just being tinzy winzy single CD-ROM games.
    I thought was better to read Wikipedia first lol.

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    I missed Fear Effect during PS1 era and played it on emulator for the first time a few years ago, and oh my god I fell in love with that game. Art direction is so strong and stylish I can only hope there will be projects with similar premise. Dark humor and a little bit of survival horror elements - a great atmosphere, but I don't want to spoil it to anyone who hasn't tried yet, you gotta experience it yourself.

    As a PSX game, Fear Effect is the definition of 'cool' for me.

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