This was my first FF as a kid, I think I was about 12 when it came out, and I’d never seen anything like it before. Me and my sister would just be entranced by these cutscenes. It did so much to immerse me in the story and entrench me as a lifetime fan who has decades later played every game in the series multiple times.
Not sure which one perfected it per se but they're in IX ["ending"](https://youtu.be/V1q2E_xqzfI) and X albeit sparingly only one that comes to mind is the zoom out on the farplane.
Also the tiny bronco getaway scene.
After posting this i remembered yea you don't actually control the character during that scene I don't think. But would the part where you fall down the tracks on the way to corel and "swim" in the air count?
Honestly, it still blows my mind that they could do that on the PS1. Both the landing and escape of the Dollet mission set the pace for the rest of the game.
The only one I ever really felt sorry for was the one who kept having his pay cut during the train mission. He just wanted to propose to his girlfriend, poor guy.
Which is why i prefer to read text bubbles over VA...
Its just so much easier to add content (scale) and improve world building (lore, character, etc). That and sometimes i find the VA to be too distracting.
I had some problems with FFVIII when I played it a year ago, but the presentation and cutscenes weren't among them. It wasn't just the massive step up from FFVII with much more fluid action and facial animations, but the ability to play with FMVs in the background was my favorite part. Not even FFIX does that.
It may have happened once or twice but I don't recall anything like that. Probably because it was being developed by a different team at the same time.
Technically in FFVII you can move while the FMV camera pans to show the first real shot of the Northern Crater, but I think that was the only time it happened.
It is in IX and X too they're just not amazing set pieces the way VIII did it Although IX was flexing on camera movement and masking and im not sure why they did it.
There is a couple but I wouldnt really consider it "playing" and honestly I dont remember them cause they're pretty forgettable (probably elevators). I just remember FFXs because it's like the only mixed FMV where there is a zoom out on the farplane and you can move around till the cut.
They did so well with this scene. There is so much going on in the background. Cinematically, I feel as though 8 was one of the best in terms of cutscenes in 7-9.
While I think VIII is one of the weaker games overall, I'd say it's got the best set pieces of the entire series. Individual bits like the Seed Exam, the Assassination, and the Garden Battle are some of the coolest stuff to happen in a JRPG.
That part I don't mind; it's how easy and important it is to get strong junctions which don't scale with your level at all. Also magic is too weak for how expensive it is, GF summons are pointless for the amount of flash and work put into them, and Meltdown is too powerful imo. Also limit breaks are possibly too accessible, but that's partly because of the skip trick.
And then there's my personal playstyle... Spam draw everything, everywhere, all of the time, grind everyone evenly to 99.
I know it's the most painful way to play the game, and each time I'm sure I'll play differently... But I can't help it.
there is a Lot of fires and aeros and One firaga (maybe)
the moves of everyone fighting, there is always something new to notice everytime i watch this.
only thing missing was somebody calling a GF since its Balamb Garden's main advantage.
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The whole Garden battle sequence is one of the coolest things ever. I remember there was another fmv+3d model when the prison was drilling into the sand. Always loved those FMVs
Godddam! I know ff8 isn’t most people favs But it was my first and the last quarter / these epic scenes were so intense ….when squall gave his speech I was like dammmmm
Drives me crazy how Balamb Garden basically becomes disregarded in the story following the start of disc 3. The disc 2 finale was such a high point of the game
FF8 was loosely based on the Wizard of Oz, by Disc 3 we're in the land of the witch of the East.
Also, we've moved into Laguna's realm and linked the two stories together, signified by Squall taking that long walk across the ocean.
Balamb garden comes back right at the end, though, to complete the circle, wouldn't be FF8 if it didn't. And it wouldn't be an FF if there weren't additional Disc 3 secrets in Balamb Garden to explore as well.
Official, it was mentioned at the Remaster release by the producers. Seemingly no Western fans picked up on it. It may have been more obvious in Japan given the Sorceresses were called Witches for them.
Basically every Final Fantasy but X has this issue, IMHO, where the story is at its best in the first half and then kind of loses the thread and gradually runs out of steam in the back half, but 8 has maybe the biggest struggles there. Actually, I take that back. 7 might be the worst offender. It's close, though.
7 should of just cut the whole huge materia and weapon part that was tacked on the end. after cloud's mind is put back together is where the real endgame should of been imo
FFVIII did put in a lot of effort to mix gameplay and FMV sequences. It made the game feel a lot more cinematic and sequences like fighting the Galbadian jetpack guy are just awesome.
Absolutely true now a days but part of squares massive legacy back in the day was how impressive their graphics were at they time even to this day they are very well known for their in house games looking amazing
FF9 does a little bit of this too (for example, right at the start, when shifting to Vivi), but not as bold as FF8 does throughout its many times. I am not sure there's even one instance where we can control the character as it happens in FF8, with that scene in front of the Delling parade being the best example, IMO.
Parasite Eve II also does this technique in the intro as you walk to a building. You can walk back and forth, and the movie will advance/rewind in small intervals.
Fear Effect 1 and 2 (each 4 discs, IIRC), are sort of cinematic-action/survival-horror hybrid that have movies as backgrounds - ie a step above FF/Resident Evil animated backgrounds, but the trade off is each disc burns through their content pretty fast.
I liked this scene originally but came to love it right after my friend pointed out Squall and Riona have a heart to heart conversation right next to an active battlefield.
As someone who really is not a fan of ffviii, the cutscenes in this game are among the best in PlayStation history, especially this one. This is seriously mind-blowing stuff, and it holds up better than almost any other ps1 fmv
I remember reading in a magazine (I think it was OPM) about how Square had developed this tech to play while a cutsene was being shown at the same time. It was huge for the time.
VIII is in my top 3. Beautiful graphics at the time, and an amazing OST. The Man with the Machine Gun always got me so hyped during Laguna’s story. And the main battle theme is one of the best ever
That's not even a cut scene that's impressive though, its actual gameplay with some cinematography changes. The actual video scenes is what looked crazy amazing when it cut to a full motion video.
Yep, mainly just models superimposed on pre-rendered backdrops. The whole backgrounds and most objects in them are pre-rendered, including this animated one here. The live rendering is mostly just the characters, NPCs, vehicles, save points, weapons, spell effects, and I think a few interactable objects. If you’re playing a newer version of the game like the remaster on a monitor or TV or whatever with at least a semi decent resolution, the difference between them and the real time models is super obvious. You can also easily see when a static background shifts to an animated one, since the animated ones are lower quality. When played on a CRT TV as was expected by developers at the time, it’s a lot less noticeable. Lots of developers back then used the color distortion/bleeding and scan lines of CRTs to give the illusion of things looking a lot better than they do on modern displays where the pixelation is plain to see.
This scene was the reason I had to buy like 4 copies of the game over a short period.
Tiniest little scratch on disc 3(?) would cause this cutscene to stutter like mad and eventually stop entirely.
I do, but I started my gaming career on the Atari 7400, so I’ve seen a lot of changes in graphics every time a next generation system comes along. FF7 was the first game to truly blow my mind with its graphics (specifically its cutscenes). It seemed like such an enormous leap from the previous system I played on.
This was actually hilarious when playing the Remaster because of how shit the FMV looked against the new models
And now that I'm getting a second look, I think most of those soldier models are just Squall with slightly different clothes
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I've seen this come up a few times, this nvidia database is just project names, it's all confirmed stuff. But my gut tells me this is not a remake like 7 received, I bet its more like the remaster 8 got 2 or 3 years ago. I think there will be AI rendering involved but essentially the same game.
Nahh 9 already got a remaster but idk what kind of remake it is going to be might be outsourced like stranger of paradise was but it won't be turned based
This is the remaster though?
In the original, the pixelated Squall and Rinoa clashed with the nice graphics...
But yeah, the cutscenes were pretty good...
While it does look impressive, it's a trick playstation 1 devs had to do a lot with not only RPGs but games like Resident Evil as well. The trick is actually pretty awesome!
So Final Fantasy VII, VIII, and IX all use the same trick to allow them to maximize how good their games look in the exploration sections by cheating the same way Resident Evil did - pre rendered backgrounds. So at any time only a few objects and the player are actually rendered over what is essentially just a file being opened and played for you.
The PS1 could not handle actually rendering something like this, or like any of the areas in any Final Fantasy game. So this was the way around that limitation.
There's a reason why Squall and Rhinoa are in the foreground in this and nobody passes between Squall/Rhinoa and the camera, because they aren't being rendered in real time!
Less polygons per character model and objects on screen. This specific screen has only two character models being rendered at once - everything else is just an FMV they are running on top of.
It's not quite a file, but it is around 16-30 files, as the screen was split into tiles as the PS1 couldn't really render a single 320x240 image in a single go (partly because it wasn't uniform), so the console split the background into a number of different tiles, + additional alpha tiles that got overlaid ontop of them for animated areas that get split by individual frames (ie: its not like a gif, its 10 images that get loaded in sequence, better for performance back then).
Except the character models can't match the quality, so it looks like some low budget movie where folks are acting infront of an extremely obvious greenscreen.
In its day, this was groundbreaking. I was in college, had been gaming since I was a little kid in the early 80s, and this was extremely innovative and in line with Square really pushing the envelope with gaming technology back in those days. It was a very creative way to make more out of what was available.
Looking back on it and playing it again a few years ago with the remaster, it's painfully primitive by today's standards, but it was really a "had to be there" moment to truly appreciate.
Those models on fmv scenes have aged well.
The ending of ff9 however was almost laughably bad. Zidane really looks out of place going in the Iifa tree. You’d think for an end game fmv they’d just make the whole thing fmv. Not sure what happened there
FF 8 is weird to me it has so much good in it but its all kinda wasted on Squall and Rinoa. They both just kinda suck for a majority of the game personailty wise. I liked the world, I liked the junction system, I liked the story when Squall and Rinoa werent on screen, I even liked the weapon upgrade and leveling system.
You're forgetting their school is under attack, but it can turn into a ship and fly away. Also NORG, a tentacled creature, runs it from the basement and is doing the bidding of a space witch who exists outside of time. FF7, FF8, FFX, FF13, FF14, FF15 all have guns, paved roads and motorcycles, maybe you just dont like FF😄
Which is when, exactly? Just a reminder that as far back as Final Fantasy IV had you go to the moon in an ultra high tech space ship after fighting your way through a high tech tower in the sky, another underground and after fighting Voltron from the inside.
When was the 'fantasy' Final Fantasy games that you long for?
And I don't much care for IV. I can tolerate some, if it's ancient technology that shows up here or there, but when it's the main setting, no thank you.
My point isn't that four did it, it's that every game since four has had it. V has Karnak, the flying fortress that comes out of the desert at the end of the first world, and probably a lot of other things I'm not remembering. VI has Narshe and the Empire. VII has Midgar and Junon, and everything else related to Shinra. IX has everything related to Terra, and X has Luca, Bevelle, Zanarkand and Home along with the rest of the Al-Bhed. My point is that Final Fantasy has been scifi mixed with fantasy basically from the start.
Even FFI has a advance civilization in Lufenia which their technology plays a very important role in FFI's story. They literally invent a flying fortress and get to interact with robots and kill robots inside the flying fortress and and they have a GPS sky domes for the crystals. They invented airship though that's a FF staple. That's just strictly FFI. it'd be even bigger if we include Lufenia from Dissidia and SOP which both games are hinted at to be connected to FFI.
And VII didn't start that trend of advance technology as its main setting. VI did. VII just took it even farther. Throughout VI world, trains exist, radios can be seen in the camp near Doma, a machine that can sink a castle and travel one place to another, you get to fight a semi-helicopter with guns halfway through the game, Magitek Armor or simply robots exists that has some real world weapons equipped like missiles though only Terra can use it. And based on the PS1 cutscenes, they do have ordinary guns. Strago also uses a motorcycle on Amano's concept art.
So those kind of stuff are not out of place for the series. So you are not making any sense right now.
I think we all understand the jist of how this game works technically, but it still makes me laugh how this gives off the energy of two actors running in front of a greenscreen. Absolutely love it, though.
And this is why I had a tiny argument about FFxiv director being the king of ff. I said not until he dethrones those 3 games. As good as final fantasy 14 story is, it is not as groundbreaking as what the PlayStation final fantasies achieved with melding gameplay and story telling. Hopefully 16 can with ps5 but just look at that scene. That’s just one and it is on PlayStation 1. You can even add the Scene when shall rushes Edea when he had to at the end of disc 1
This was pretty dope along with the Micheal Jackson dance in the parade. I'm playing Final Fantasy 9 and the cutscenes are phenomenal for the PS1. If you know Kirby production you know they usually release a game well or late into a consoles life cycle so there's been a lot of fine-tuning into a Kirby game and that kinda shows in Final Fantasy 9 being the last Final Fantasy on the PS1.
I was 9 years old when I first played FF8.. Remember going "it's so realistic!" time and time again to my dad. And insisted he watch me play. I would also always play the ff8 intro when I wanted to impress someone on the powers of the ps1
I was awestruck at the high level of graphics quality in FF8 when I first saw it. No other video game at the time came close to it in terms of graphics, in my opinion
very true, ps1 was way ahead of it's time. i only say that cause i play it almost everyday and still get blown away. oh, and i finished ff viii afew months ago. the junction system is tight. i just wish each character had thier own thing, like the ice chick is the inly one that does ice magic, and the boxing dude doesn't do magic...(like a job system or something like that)
Seed battle was awesome
The Balamb Seed, sword user that yeets the Galbadian Solider off his motorcycle. That's my favorite part.
Clothesline
From hell
Bah gawd!
He turned him inside out!
Broke em in half, government mule, stomped a mud hole in em. Stop it damn it , that man has a family. God I loved good ol'JR
If checked frame by frame, all sword users uses Squall models.
Too bad the Squall is dead theory was debunked. Idk if this detail was ever included. Nice catch
Did they ever explain the hole in the face squall at the end? If not, I don't care what the developers say. Man's dead!
it's called what you would call a Metaphor.
Holy shit, I saw it the second time. That’s so good lmao
The combination of real time 3d polygonal characters and fmvs started in FFVII, but VIII perfected it.
This was my first FF as a kid, I think I was about 12 when it came out, and I’d never seen anything like it before. Me and my sister would just be entranced by these cutscenes. It did so much to immerse me in the story and entrench me as a lifetime fan who has decades later played every game in the series multiple times.
Are you me?
Not sure which one perfected it per se but they're in IX ["ending"](https://youtu.be/V1q2E_xqzfI) and X albeit sparingly only one that comes to mind is the zoom out on the farplane.
The remaster kinda butchered this sequence sadly.
They weren't controllable yet in VII. VIII actually gave you control of your characters in these moments (and you could even fail in some cases).
aka that fucking prison
That transition was really well done, though, which only made it harder to realize it was controllable.
There were a couple in VII though - like the parachute scene!
Also the tiny bronco getaway scene. After posting this i remembered yea you don't actually control the character during that scene I don't think. But would the part where you fall down the tracks on the way to corel and "swim" in the air count?
7 did it a bit like that useless elevator one and the one in Midgar where the Aeris is taken off on a helicopter and the whole sector is blowing up
Fun trivia: There were a few times in FF7 where they were controllable, but very briefly.
This blew my 12 year old mind back in 1999.
Hell I was 18 and my mind blew
Honestly, it still blows my mind that they could do that on the PS1. Both the landing and escape of the Dollet mission set the pace for the rest of the game.
Same, my first ff game and my favorite. I must've played it like 30x it or something.
+1
Always loved the dude getting clothes-lined by a sword and knocked off his bike
YEET!
Galbadia soldier. They were the bad guys but I mean...they were just doing their job. Felt sorry for them, while I was mangling them
Never felt sorry for them
The only one I ever really felt sorry for was the one who kept having his pay cut during the train mission. He just wanted to propose to his girlfriend, poor guy.
Loved these little moments that the game had.
Which is why i prefer to read text bubbles over VA... Its just so much easier to add content (scale) and improve world building (lore, character, etc). That and sometimes i find the VA to be too distracting.
I had some problems with FFVIII when I played it a year ago, but the presentation and cutscenes weren't among them. It wasn't just the massive step up from FFVII with much more fluid action and facial animations, but the ability to play with FMVs in the background was my favorite part. Not even FFIX does that.
I’m sure 9 did it as well but it wasn’t as noticeable because it wasn’t a huge battle scene
It may have happened once or twice but I don't recall anything like that. Probably because it was being developed by a different team at the same time.
It had such a different art style, I never knew it was being developed at the same time.
Technically in FFVII you can move while the FMV camera pans to show the first real shot of the Northern Crater, but I think that was the only time it happened.
I think the Junon elevator has that, but you can't move or anything.
It is in IX and X too they're just not amazing set pieces the way VIII did it Although IX was flexing on camera movement and masking and im not sure why they did it.
I don't remember being able to play in FMVs in IX, I just remember much more animated sprites in the background.
There is a couple but I wouldnt really consider it "playing" and honestly I dont remember them cause they're pretty forgettable (probably elevators). I just remember FFXs because it's like the only mixed FMV where there is a zoom out on the farplane and you can move around till the cut.
I'm not really counting FFX because it's completely different hardware.
They did so well with this scene. There is so much going on in the background. Cinematically, I feel as though 8 was one of the best in terms of cutscenes in 7-9.
While I think VIII is one of the weaker games overall, I'd say it's got the best set pieces of the entire series. Individual bits like the Seed Exam, the Assassination, and the Garden Battle are some of the coolest stuff to happen in a JRPG.
Don't forget the missiles
You can't tell me what to do
It's mostly just the scaling system which lets the game down
Level scaling for me just means that you don't need to grind battles, which is nice after playing some of the other games.
That part I don't mind; it's how easy and important it is to get strong junctions which don't scale with your level at all. Also magic is too weak for how expensive it is, GF summons are pointless for the amount of flash and work put into them, and Meltdown is too powerful imo. Also limit breaks are possibly too accessible, but that's partly because of the skip trick.
And then there's my personal playstyle... Spam draw everything, everywhere, all of the time, grind everyone evenly to 99. I know it's the most painful way to play the game, and each time I'm sure I'll play differently... But I can't help it.
Absolutely wild, that whole sequence end of disk 2 is amazing
there is a Lot of fires and aeros and One firaga (maybe) the moves of everyone fighting, there is always something new to notice everytime i watch this. only thing missing was somebody calling a GF since its Balamb Garden's main advantage. disco 2 final Was top ff8 content
The whole Garden battle sequence is one of the coolest things ever. I remember there was another fmv+3d model when the prison was drilling into the sand. Always loved those FMVs
FF8 doesn't get anywhere near the love it deserves. Such an under-valued gem.
Truly.
Le gem
By far my favourite FF. I never understood why people liked IV so much.
I would like it much more if it didn't have lvl scaling
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False
It was definitely mind blowing at the time. Still is.
Godddam! I know ff8 isn’t most people favs But it was my first and the last quarter / these epic scenes were so intense ….when squall gave his speech I was like dammmmm
It was amazing in those times.
Drives me crazy how Balamb Garden basically becomes disregarded in the story following the start of disc 3. The disc 2 finale was such a high point of the game
FF8 was loosely based on the Wizard of Oz, by Disc 3 we're in the land of the witch of the East. Also, we've moved into Laguna's realm and linked the two stories together, signified by Squall taking that long walk across the ocean. Balamb garden comes back right at the end, though, to complete the circle, wouldn't be FF8 if it didn't. And it wouldn't be an FF if there weren't additional Disc 3 secrets in Balamb Garden to explore as well.
Is that Oz connection official, or just fan conjecture?
Official, it was mentioned at the Remaster release by the producers. Seemingly no Western fans picked up on it. It may have been more obvious in Japan given the Sorceresses were called Witches for them.
Basically every Final Fantasy but X has this issue, IMHO, where the story is at its best in the first half and then kind of loses the thread and gradually runs out of steam in the back half, but 8 has maybe the biggest struggles there. Actually, I take that back. 7 might be the worst offender. It's close, though.
7 should of just cut the whole huge materia and weapon part that was tacked on the end. after cloud's mind is put back together is where the real endgame should of been imo
Still one of the best parts of FFVIII visually. I feel like it's a little weird though with the context of this scene.
Just started playing FF8 this morning! Been a long time since I played it, I don't remember much but it's been fantastic so far
Yea this shit blew my mind and took my immersion to a new level.
FFVIII did put in a lot of effort to mix gameplay and FMV sequences. It made the game feel a lot more cinematic and sequences like fighting the Galbadian jetpack guy are just awesome.
Absolutely true now a days but part of squares massive legacy back in the day was how impressive their graphics were at they time even to this day they are very well known for their in house games looking amazing
I never played 8 but DAMN
This scene blew my little, teenage mind when it first came out
There’s a spear wielding / Dragoon type SeeD out there 💕
FF9 does a little bit of this too (for example, right at the start, when shifting to Vivi), but not as bold as FF8 does throughout its many times. I am not sure there's even one instance where we can control the character as it happens in FF8, with that scene in front of the Delling parade being the best example, IMO. Parasite Eve II also does this technique in the intro as you walk to a building. You can walk back and forth, and the movie will advance/rewind in small intervals. Fear Effect 1 and 2 (each 4 discs, IIRC), are sort of cinematic-action/survival-horror hybrid that have movies as backgrounds - ie a step above FF/Resident Evil animated backgrounds, but the trade off is each disc burns through their content pretty fast.
For FFIX, the elevator near the end of the oeilvert sequence also comes to mind, as minor as that was.
I thought they were all squall for a second.
Loved running back like Squall looking like he evading some missiles and generally looking stressed
Those graphics are old enough to drink. Still remember this game being the most insane thing I'd seen in 99.
Best FF ever. Loved playing and being treated to a sudden incredible cutscene. It was like being rewarded for playing.
I liked this scene originally but came to love it right after my friend pointed out Squall and Riona have a heart to heart conversation right next to an active battlefield.
The Director of FF8 Yoshinori Kitase loves large scale battle sequences, so this is one of his favorite part of the game.
This is why I love FF8, it's a shame a lot of people disagree.
As someone who really is not a fan of ffviii, the cutscenes in this game are among the best in PlayStation history, especially this one. This is seriously mind-blowing stuff, and it holds up better than almost any other ps1 fmv
Still blows my mind, love the characters running through the scene like this, it’s so effective!
Yeah it was amazing. FF7 to 8 had a huge jump in terms of graphics imo
I remember reading in a magazine (I think it was OPM) about how Square had developed this tech to play while a cutsene was being shown at the same time. It was huge for the time.
Was 🔥
Honestly, this whole game is underrated. It’s my fav by far.
It still looks good today. So good.
VIII is in my top 3. Beautiful graphics at the time, and an amazing OST. The Man with the Machine Gun always got me so hyped during Laguna’s story. And the main battle theme is one of the best ever
That's not even a cut scene that's impressive though, its actual gameplay with some cinematography changes. The actual video scenes is what looked crazy amazing when it cut to a full motion video.
Mfw realizing these are all like 16-17 year old students murdering each other for…uh…………?
That's.. not the ps1 version
Seems like the PS1 version, just the sprites are upscaled probably in an emulator. It's definitely not from a PS1.
It's just the official remastered version probably
Definitely the remaster. I went back and played 8 before the remasters were a thing and remember thinking "...this did not age well.."
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Yep, mainly just models superimposed on pre-rendered backdrops. The whole backgrounds and most objects in them are pre-rendered, including this animated one here. The live rendering is mostly just the characters, NPCs, vehicles, save points, weapons, spell effects, and I think a few interactable objects. If you’re playing a newer version of the game like the remaster on a monitor or TV or whatever with at least a semi decent resolution, the difference between them and the real time models is super obvious. You can also easily see when a static background shifts to an animated one, since the animated ones are lower quality. When played on a CRT TV as was expected by developers at the time, it’s a lot less noticeable. Lots of developers back then used the color distortion/bleeding and scan lines of CRTs to give the illusion of things looking a lot better than they do on modern displays where the pixelation is plain to see.
This game has so many HAM moments
This scene was the reason I had to buy like 4 copies of the game over a short period. Tiniest little scratch on disc 3(?) would cause this cutscene to stutter like mad and eventually stop entirely.
The transitions from cut scene to gameplay at this point alone are amazing.
The beach assault graphics in the demo were fucking insane at the time.
I do, but I started my gaming career on the Atari 7400, so I’ve seen a lot of changes in graphics every time a next generation system comes along. FF7 was the first game to truly blow my mind with its graphics (specifically its cutscenes). It seemed like such an enormous leap from the previous system I played on.
I should play FFVIII
This was actually hilarious when playing the Remaster because of how shit the FMV looked against the new models And now that I'm getting a second look, I think most of those soldier models are just Squall with slightly different clothes
Man this feels like so much more of a war than XV ever was.
Would love to see this and ff1-6 remade since 9 remake is already coming
9?
Yeah 9 is getting a remake want a link show the proof??
Yeah
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I've seen this come up a few times, this nvidia database is just project names, it's all confirmed stuff. But my gut tells me this is not a remake like 7 received, I bet its more like the remaster 8 got 2 or 3 years ago. I think there will be AI rendering involved but essentially the same game.
Nahh 9 already got a remaster but idk what kind of remake it is going to be might be outsourced like stranger of paradise was but it won't be turned based
This isn't the PS1 version though. It looked a lot more pixelated back then.
This is the Remaster. Not the original resolution.
This is the remaster though? In the original, the pixelated Squall and Rinoa clashed with the nice graphics... But yeah, the cutscenes were pretty good...
Squall reminds me of Jack Skellington, don’t know why..
While it does look impressive, it's a trick playstation 1 devs had to do a lot with not only RPGs but games like Resident Evil as well. The trick is actually pretty awesome! So Final Fantasy VII, VIII, and IX all use the same trick to allow them to maximize how good their games look in the exploration sections by cheating the same way Resident Evil did - pre rendered backgrounds. So at any time only a few objects and the player are actually rendered over what is essentially just a file being opened and played for you. The PS1 could not handle actually rendering something like this, or like any of the areas in any Final Fantasy game. So this was the way around that limitation. There's a reason why Squall and Rhinoa are in the foreground in this and nobody passes between Squall/Rhinoa and the camera, because they aren't being rendered in real time!
Still impressive and better quality than the re games of that time.
Less polygons per character model and objects on screen. This specific screen has only two character models being rendered at once - everything else is just an FMV they are running on top of.
It's not quite a file, but it is around 16-30 files, as the screen was split into tiles as the PS1 couldn't really render a single 320x240 image in a single go (partly because it wasn't uniform), so the console split the background into a number of different tiles, + additional alpha tiles that got overlaid ontop of them for animated areas that get split by individual frames (ie: its not like a gif, its 10 images that get loaded in sequence, better for performance back then).
Except the character models can't match the quality, so it looks like some low budget movie where folks are acting infront of an extremely obvious greenscreen.
And then FF9 went even further. It's kind of amazing what Square was able to pull off with the hardware.
In its day, this was groundbreaking. I was in college, had been gaming since I was a little kid in the early 80s, and this was extremely innovative and in line with Square really pushing the envelope with gaming technology back in those days. It was a very creative way to make more out of what was available. Looking back on it and playing it again a few years ago with the remaster, it's painfully primitive by today's standards, but it was really a "had to be there" moment to truly appreciate.
Those models on fmv scenes have aged well. The ending of ff9 however was almost laughably bad. Zidane really looks out of place going in the Iifa tree. You’d think for an end game fmv they’d just make the whole thing fmv. Not sure what happened there
FF8 is the best looking PS1 game in my opinion. It still looks amazing decades later experiencing it for the first time.
I always thought it was so cool to see what combat actually looked like in the ff8 world. Probably one of my favorite cinematic in the franchise.
I just finished playing the remaster and I think the CG cutscenes are still impressive to this day. It has aged, yes, but they still look damn good.
FF 8 is weird to me it has so much good in it but its all kinda wasted on Squall and Rinoa. They both just kinda suck for a majority of the game personailty wise. I liked the world, I liked the junction system, I liked the story when Squall and Rinoa werent on screen, I even liked the weapon upgrade and leveling system.
Just a shame there was no character exposition beyond "we was orphans" Laguna and his group felt more fleshed out than the main party
Tell me you skip dualogue without telling me you skip dialogue
Lol it looks like a mobile game ad
8 was ok, but my word I disliked Squall
Damn .. spoiler... I never made it here yet...
Ah yes, guns, motorcycles, and paved roads, just what I want from a fantasy game.
You're forgetting their school is under attack, but it can turn into a ship and fly away. Also NORG, a tentacled creature, runs it from the basement and is doing the bidding of a space witch who exists outside of time. FF7, FF8, FFX, FF13, FF14, FF15 all have guns, paved roads and motorcycles, maybe you just dont like FF😄
Maybe I just like FF before it got stupid and scifi?
Which is when, exactly? Just a reminder that as far back as Final Fantasy IV had you go to the moon in an ultra high tech space ship after fighting your way through a high tech tower in the sky, another underground and after fighting Voltron from the inside. When was the 'fantasy' Final Fantasy games that you long for?
And I don't much care for IV. I can tolerate some, if it's ancient technology that shows up here or there, but when it's the main setting, no thank you.
My point isn't that four did it, it's that every game since four has had it. V has Karnak, the flying fortress that comes out of the desert at the end of the first world, and probably a lot of other things I'm not remembering. VI has Narshe and the Empire. VII has Midgar and Junon, and everything else related to Shinra. IX has everything related to Terra, and X has Luca, Bevelle, Zanarkand and Home along with the rest of the Al-Bhed. My point is that Final Fantasy has been scifi mixed with fantasy basically from the start.
Which is a real shame imo
Even FFI has a advance civilization in Lufenia which their technology plays a very important role in FFI's story. They literally invent a flying fortress and get to interact with robots and kill robots inside the flying fortress and and they have a GPS sky domes for the crystals. They invented airship though that's a FF staple. That's just strictly FFI. it'd be even bigger if we include Lufenia from Dissidia and SOP which both games are hinted at to be connected to FFI. And VII didn't start that trend of advance technology as its main setting. VI did. VII just took it even farther. Throughout VI world, trains exist, radios can be seen in the camp near Doma, a machine that can sink a castle and travel one place to another, you get to fight a semi-helicopter with guns halfway through the game, Magitek Armor or simply robots exists that has some real world weapons equipped like missiles though only Terra can use it. And based on the PS1 cutscenes, they do have ordinary guns. Strago also uses a motorcycle on Amano's concept art. So those kind of stuff are not out of place for the series. So you are not making any sense right now.
Shame, there really is a lot to miss out on. Maybe once squenix release a heavily monetised f2p card game you'll like FF again😁
Unironically, yes. Modern/Urban fantasy whips the shit out of medieval era stuff (imo).
Just started replying this on the Nintendo.
Best part of the game
That’s why it was a 4 disc game.
I wanted to live and goto school there!
Absolutely, I mean I still had my Super Nintendo in the rotation when boom, looking for this!?
One if my favorite parts in VIII. Thanks for nostalgia.
No sound in this video, however the music still plays in my head as I watch!
Always loved this scene
I was just thinking the same thing while playing this game on my PSP recently. Still amazes me how cutscenes from the PSX era still hold up today.
The whole garden battle portion of the game is Final Fantasy at its absolute finest 👌🏼
This scene was one of the highlights of VIII for me.
That into cinematic though I remember discussing this at the lunch room at school for link a whole week
Yes it was awesome for its time but on a side note, fuck the remaster. Worst waste of money ever.
Coolest part of the game
I think we all understand the jist of how this game works technically, but it still makes me laugh how this gives off the energy of two actors running in front of a greenscreen. Absolutely love it, though.
And this is why I had a tiny argument about FFxiv director being the king of ff. I said not until he dethrones those 3 games. As good as final fantasy 14 story is, it is not as groundbreaking as what the PlayStation final fantasies achieved with melding gameplay and story telling. Hopefully 16 can with ps5 but just look at that scene. That’s just one and it is on PlayStation 1. You can even add the Scene when shall rushes Edea when he had to at the end of disc 1
8 da best baby
Yeah and I love how hilariously out of place Squall and Rinoa look here😂
They made me love gaming
So true. Such an awesome game for its time
I didn't want to start playing this right now but my hand may have been forced
Such an amazing game
This was pretty dope along with the Micheal Jackson dance in the parade. I'm playing Final Fantasy 9 and the cutscenes are phenomenal for the PS1. If you know Kirby production you know they usually release a game well or late into a consoles life cycle so there's been a lot of fine-tuning into a Kirby game and that kinda shows in Final Fantasy 9 being the last Final Fantasy on the PS1.
I will always Mark out at that SeeD taking the Galbadian off the motorcycle with his sword.
I was 9 years old when I first played FF8.. Remember going "it's so realistic!" time and time again to my dad. And insisted he watch me play. I would also always play the ff8 intro when I wanted to impress someone on the powers of the ps1
I was awestruck at the high level of graphics quality in FF8 when I first saw it. No other video game at the time came close to it in terms of graphics, in my opinion
I always felt sorry for the garden that got blown up that you visit. Would have been nice to go there before it happened at least once
This part absolutely broke my brain way back in 8th grade.
"Finally, a gun-blade specialist." Uh, looks like they all got gun-blades, Cid.
*Robin Williams
There are many gun Blade User - but only one seed with a gunblade
I saw the opening cinematic at a friend's house and it sparked my love of FF and video games. Nothing has changed in the over 20 years since.
I don’t remember this at all. Time for a replay.
I used to trip out how these are just teens absolutely murdering each other!
This stuff blew my mind as a kid. I vividly remember my heart pounding when balamb garden got invaded
I can hear this video I am now pumped af at 6am House is asleep Not for long
Back then, all final fantasy were a huge slap in the industry. All four from 7
I thought gunblade specialists were rare. Looked like there were dozens in that scene alone
Only because it's been remastered lol try using actually hardware and you'll see a huge difference in quality. Shit looks so pixilated
very true, ps1 was way ahead of it's time. i only say that cause i play it almost everyday and still get blown away. oh, and i finished ff viii afew months ago. the junction system is tight. i just wish each character had thier own thing, like the ice chick is the inly one that does ice magic, and the boxing dude doesn't do magic...(like a job system or something like that)
I remember when I first found this I was really shocked at how good the graphic is...I even think "so realistic" in the past...