Nintendo What-If? #4

[Ljink96]

Ljink96 said:

Nope, those were FMVs. Which consisted of on the off occasion, studio animation or pixel animation. Starfox simply had hardware that rendered untextured 3D polygons without lighting. FFVII used technology that was cutting edge at the time, Pixar was the only ones who outdid them at that time. It rendred thousands of polygons, with models that were textured, rigged and fully animated with particle effects, etc. Neither of the games you've listed use the tech that FFVII utilized.

There was Jurassic Park years before the Pixar animations. 

That was a film with some CGI in it the actors weren't computer generated, just some props and dinosaurs....pixar's toy story was the first FULL length fully 3D animated without any real world assets...Final Fantasy VII was the first video game to do something on that scale...ever. They were the first to make CGI cutscenes a thing in video games. We're talking about the impact that FFVII had on the gaming industry as a whole because of what Square introduced with it. I'm a 3D graphics major, most of my professors and colleagues note Final Fantasy VII-IX on the PSone and Toy Story for the reason they wanted to get into 3D. That game changed the gaming industry, we still see its effects today, and it would have make the 64 more popular than it was.

take a look at this, 

It really shows how new the tech was and for FFVII to be utilizing similar tech around the same time just for a videogame....that was groundbreaking.