I’m a game design major, and one of my favorite classes I’ve taken so far was the history of games.
This doesn’t just include video games, it included games as a whole. There’s some origins of the games we have today that may surprise you.
Anyway, with the upcoming remake, I wanted to share with you some facts about the original Final Fantasy VII game.
FF7 was originally meant to be released on the Nintendo 64, but was later decided to be released on the Sony Playstation.
The reason why was because the Playstation used CDs while the Nintendo still used cartridges.
FF7 had so much data that it would not all fit on the cartridge. While at the time the N64 did have advanced graphics, it didn’t support full-motion video so it couldn’t handle games with a lot of full-motion video like FF7.
When FF7 was released, it was released in what was known as the fifth generation of game consoles, or the 32/64 bit era.
If you’re wondering what we’re in now, we are currently in the eighth generation.
We should also remember that at the time, this was advanced.
This is how Cloud looked in the game running in real time.
And for the PS3 this is how Cloud looked running in real-time.
This is how Cloud looks fully rendered in the Advent Children movie.
And this is how Cloud looks running in, an unpolished, real-time on the PS4.
I know most people don’t really care about any of this, because people want to see the stories and characters. People are on edge on what might change about FF7, and if it’ll still be the game we remember from childhood, if these characters will still have the same personality we remember.
Everyone knows the graphics of this game will be beautiful, I don’t think there’s any debate on that, I just wanted to share the evolution of graphics and technology that took place from 1997 – 2016.
Advanced texturing, shading, lighting, animation, and audio that personally blows me away that when you look back at old games from the first Playstation era, we were completely in awe at the beauty at that time.
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