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CGI scenes that used blow your mind and now look ugly compared to in-game graphics
- Thread starter Ethelwulf
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Starcraft 1's cinematics are definitely starting to show their age.
Wow, totally forgot about this one. I now want Pacific Rim 2 to take place in space.
This is from the XB1 version.
PC version, but don't forget, it is from a older build which was shown in E3, ComicCon & GamesCon.. now they have newer build & trzing to make the graphics even better & fixing things
Nothing is more true than this.
Edwards_Omatic
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Blackage
Member
No way, Warcraft 3's cinematics are still damn amazing.
Agreed. I can't believe I was scared by this intro. It looked so real back then.
dirtywhirlwind
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The intro to Sega Worldwide Soccer 97 blew me away. I used to think that this is how games will look in the future. Luckily I was wrong.
Commanche Raisin Toast
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Oh yeah, FFX, Diablo 2, and RE.
I remember the scene in RE1 where you drain the pool thing outside, and was like "ha! take that, Myst! these graphics are like real life!"
I remember the scene in RE1 where you drain the pool thing outside, and was like "ha! take that, Myst! these graphics are like real life!"
I also remember the Syndicate intro, altough it looks more like an animated gif, heh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_ocoFMYqVg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_ocoFMYqVg
rokkerkory
Member
Wow we have surely surpassed toy story 2 graphics!
Misterinenja
Member
Watching that Aeris death scene now it would have been kind of more effective if done fully in gameplay models.
haha
haha
Devilinthiscity
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I remember playing Driver 2 for the first time and being blown away by the CG intro.
It kind of still holds up a bit. http://youtu.be/QuftCkAdn70
It kind of still holds up a bit. http://youtu.be/QuftCkAdn70
This is amazing. Everything was so high-resolution and defined in my memory, from the textures to the actual video output, but this stuff has easily been eclipsed by real-time graphics even on consoles.
Skipped ahead in the video for a true WTF before realizing it goes on to show all of SC2's cutscenes as well.
FrostuTheNinja
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Cyberia
Game melted faces in '94. Man, time flies...
Game melted faces in '94. Man, time flies...
I'll never forget the first time I saw a FF9 CGI.
Completely blew me away.
Yep. This for me as well.
Basically this only works with video game CG from before 1997-8. The Sonic Adventure CG intro (youtube's compression really hurts it), and the Resident Evil Code Veronica intro from early 2000 still hold up alright, and despite scale and art style were likely originally rendered in a quality surpassing today's games in some ways, IMO.
The Dreamcast is about where I'd draw the line. The CG got more detailed and framerate became more tolerable, and that continued into the PS2's release in 2001.
The Dreamcast is about where I'd draw the line. The CG got more detailed and framerate became more tolerable, and that continued into the PS2's release in 2001.
I'll never forget the first time I saw a FF9 CGI.
Completely blew me away.
This one still holds up IMO
wanderingprostheyltite
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Yeah seeing this intro/game at a neighbors house when I was 12 turned me was what probably contributed the most towards turning me into a PC gamer for many years. The visuals stunned me and spooked the hell out of me, watching it now I'm like "why the hell did I think that imp was creepy?" lol.
This is from the XB1 version.
Nope, PC version.
jim2point0
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this is pretty cool. Tekken's intros + endings from 1 to 6, back to back. big jump from 2 to 3.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpOzDXxaboQ
just the intros (LQ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz5PSZr3KiM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpOzDXxaboQ
just the intros (LQ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz5PSZr3KiM
MikeGameDev
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aspiegamer
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This should be "Final Fantasy and Blizzard titles, the thread". I'm with the OP on thinking that of FFVII when I first played it. Nonetheless, I would have gladly accepted a gaming world of high-resolution cinder block hands. Then there were the insane scenes in VIII where it started in-engine stuff while CGI was still running for what, at the time, looked like incredible and seamless transitions.
Square had to go and ruin everything by making Advent Children and having us realize that games COULD actually look like that and they were holding out on us. FFXV is their chance to redeem themselves on that. Blizzard are still masters of CGI trailers.
Looking back I think a lot of what make a lot of things so instantly outdated is having a poor understanding on how to navigate up to (and occasionally beyond) the Uncanny Valley at the time.
Square had to go and ruin everything by making Advent Children and having us realize that games COULD actually look like that and they were holding out on us. FFXV is their chance to redeem themselves on that. Blizzard are still masters of CGI trailers.
Looking back I think a lot of what make a lot of things so instantly outdated is having a poor understanding on how to navigate up to (and occasionally beyond) the Uncanny Valley at the time.
CyberPunked
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Damn, why are Blizzard so good at animating?
nelsonroyale
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Wow! I remember this game. I think I at least must have played the demo...wow
The 90's tomb raider Lucozade ads really my mind. I used to dream that if they got a 'super computer' to run tomb raider it would look like this now. Clearly the Tomb Raider reboot is a million miles better looking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYnbodZQnuE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYnbodZQnuE
DonTedesco
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Kagoshima_Luke
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Few CGI movies ever matched the animation of the tip-toeing dragon in Vandal Hearts' Saturn opening:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJMqMlSTii8
Skip to 1:03 if you want to get straight to the good stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJMqMlSTii8
Skip to 1:03 if you want to get straight to the good stuff.
Night Angel
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Don't forget X. I'm paying the HD remaster, and man, we have come a long way since those CG cutscenes.
This one still holds up IMO
Yep, I still think it looks nice too.
Insane Metal
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Tekken 2. And 3.
http://a.pomf.se/olwhcj.webm
Total Annihilation's intro holds up pretty well considering it's from 1997
Total Annihilation's intro holds up pretty well considering it's from 1997
Just like Total Annihilation itself
http://youtu.be/tysvNGGFN3M
Some of the lip synching still gives me chills. The filters and direction in some of the scenes, are amazing. Some of the animations are still kinda clunky though.
Some of the lip synching still gives me chills. The filters and direction in some of the scenes, are amazing. Some of the animations are still kinda clunky though.
The animation on ReBoot improves quite a bit with each season. They employed some fairly novel and impressive techniques when they were just becoming available on a studio level IIRC. The 4th Season, which I rewatched sometime after 2010, holds up pretty well.
wanderingprostheyltite
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Twinsen's Odyssey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOTYRB6Pvhs&sns=em
Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijpT5gGcGZU&sns=em
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOTYRB6Pvhs&sns=em
Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijpT5gGcGZU&sns=em
Aside from the flawless IQ and the flame consuming the soldiers, I think this could be done today.
The narrator totally sounds like Roose Bolton
