>>712930846
this is true and something ive thought about going back a pretty long time

real-time environments, which was one of the marketing points of ffx's tech, serve a great purpose for dynamic camera movement where the area is benefitted by having the perspective follow the player
but for static areas, pre-rendered backgrounds offer much more in terms of detail, saturation, presentation, etc like dioramas from i-spy books
full of small secrets and designed to invoke curiosity and certain moods and thoughts

its not an unknown aspect or phenomena of graphic design, but definitely lost in our current age of video games