Quote Originally Posted by Avin00 View Post
all animations were simplified to partly because the game lagged terribly on anything but the best pcs of the day and even then only just.
Yeah, too many people watching videos of people playing then, not quite realizing that those videos were likely made on PCs that cost a fortune. My laptop, an Asus g53sx, was only a few months old at the time and couldn't handle much more than medium settings, and that was in the field. In town the draw distance was terrible. 1.# was made using a 'game' engine that was designed for making cutscenes, and what beautiful cutscenes they were. But such an engine a game does not play well with average PCs, even today.