Note to readers: WTFriday is a weekly feature where I find something stupid about video games and get you to laugh until it goes away. Please try to forget this is what I normally do every day of the week.
On the inaugural edition of WTFriday, I bring you a video I uncovered while doing research for an article about the worst-dressed video game characters. Behold, King's ending from the original Tekken:
There's something nightmarish about early CGI that really gets under my skin--and here, I think we have all the elements necessary for a high-octane dose of nightmare fuel: semi-surreal, fuzzy settings, oddly-proportioned, shiny characters, and that unnecessary dash of live-action to
really make things unsettling. In the mid-90s, CGI had somehow progressed from bright, geometric shapes floating in gridspace to scenes that could be placed in
Silent Hill without raising an eyebrow. It's like every digital artist of that era was obsessed with accurately recreating that place unbaptized babies go when they die.
(Delaware)
I'm not sure how we ever tolerated stuff that looked like the video above, but such abominations undoubtedly inspired many excited preteen cries of, "Dude, what if the actual games looked like that in the future!?" Add this to the list of many reasons we should never listen to children.
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