Prerendered cutscenes. Blizzard vs Squaresoft / Enix [Poll]

So as we've come to expect, both companies produce some of the best pre rendered cutscenes in the business, but who do you prefer?

Special mention goes to Oddworld Inhabitants too.

Blizzard

Warcraft 3

Starcraft 2

Squaresoft / Enix

Final Fantasy 8

Final Fantasy 13 (possible spoilers but it's in japanese)

I'm not the biggest Final Fantasy fan--I find 7 to be extremely flawed--but if there is one thing that Squaresoft has always excelled at, it was the prerendered animation. IMO, they are a step ahead of everybody else. The animation, music, art direction, and choreography should more be compared to groups like Pixar than other game companies.

FFXIII on the PS3 has the the best cut scenes i have ever seen. and its pretty amazing that they re-rendered them to match the english voices.

I'm not the biggest Final Fantasy fan--I find 7 to be extremely flawed--but if there is one thing that Squaresoft has always excelled at, it was the prerendered animation. IMO, they are a step ahead of everybody else. The animation, music, art direction, and choreography should more be compared to groups like Pixar than other game companies.

Heirren

Who's jaw didn't drop when they first saw the pre rendered cutscenes from FF8. :P

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I'm not the biggest Final Fantasy fan--I find 7 to be extremely flawed--but if there is one thing that Squaresoft has always excelled at, it was the prerendered animation. IMO, they are a step ahead of everybody else. The animation, music, art direction, and choreography should more be compared to groups like Pixar than other game companies.

Dataleak

Who's jaw didn't drop when they first saw the pre rendered cutscenes from FF8. :P

And they still look good. Squaresoft work well within the confines of the current rendering standard. They understand the limits and what/what not to cover up based on the technology they are working with. Other companies, imo, rely far too much on what the current best this or that is. "oh, a new transparancy effect is out--this will blow peoples minds."

[QUOTE="Heirren"]

I'm not the biggest Final Fantasy fan--I find 7 to be extremely flawed--but if there is one thing that Squaresoft has always excelled at, it was the prerendered animation. IMO, they are a step ahead of everybody else. The animation, music, art direction, and choreography should more be compared to groups like Pixar than other game companies.

Dataleak

Who's jaw didn't drop when they first saw the pre rendered cutscenes from FF8. :P

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[QUOTE="Heirren"]

I'm not the biggest Final Fantasy fan--I find 7 to be extremely flawed--but if there is one thing that Squaresoft has always excelled at, it was the prerendered animation. IMO, they are a step ahead of everybody else. The animation, music, art direction, and choreography should more be compared to groups like Pixar than other game companies.

shalashaska88

Who's jaw didn't drop when they first saw the pre rendered cutscenes from FF8. :P

Zell choking on a hotdog. :lol:

I think I prefer the quirkiness of those Blizzard cutscenes, but Final Fantasy can't be beaten for pure spectacle.

Blizzard. WoW's prerendered cinematic blew me away, and so did warcraft 3's.

Blizzard, simply because they put them to better use. Some of the overly dramatic scenes in FF13 were a bit much, but some of them were awesome though.

SE without a doubt, they have breathtaking CG.

Square Enix.. because some of their games consist of prerendered cutscenes only while blizzard games are always all about the coregameplay and the cutscenes are peripheral

Eh, I'm pretty sold with the Lich King intro.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95vcgv-pK_4&hd=1

Square is good, but when it comes to CG, Blizzard takes the cake.

2 months ago I would have said Blizzard, but some of XIII's CGI blew me away like no Blizzard cutscene has

SE without a doubt, they have breathtaking CG.

HAZE-Unit

im sorry but voting blizzard?

FF13 and FFX look better then anything blizzard has done (keep in mind FFX came out in 2001)

besides, blizzard rip off too much content from warhammer and warhammer 40k, orcs and trolls this orcs and trolls that, square comes up with new ideas everytime. (well they use to)

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SE without a doubt, they have breathtaking CG.

110million

im sorry but voting blizzard?

FF13 and FFX look better then anything blizzard has done (keep in mind FFX came out in 2001)

besides, blizzard rip off too much content from warhammer and warhammer 40k, orcs and trolls this orcs and trolls that, square comes up with new ideas everytime. (well they use to)

Ultizer

Ignoring Blizzard when it comes to CGI is a slap in the face to be honest. It's easily onpar with SE, if it doesn't have the same grandeur.

I´ll go with Blizzard in this one,I don´t really like the style of SE cutscenes.

Long live Square Enix :D

Think about it. This isn't even a cut-seene;

im sorry but voting blizzard?

FF13 and FFX look better then anything blizzard has done (keep in mind FFX came out in 2001)

besides, blizzard rip off too much content from warhammer and warhammer 40k, orcs and trolls this orcs and trolls that, square comes up with new ideas everytime. (well they use to)

Ultizer

Blizzard.. It feels far more realistic.. Guns in final fantasy games feel like peashooters where it seems to be similar to things like what you would see on saturday morning cartoons.. Make alot of noise, and colors.. But hardly hurts or kills anything.. Furthermore the environments in most FF games cutscenes are entirely too clean and sterile.sSubZerOo

You talk about Blizzards pre renders and you don't even include the Wrath of the Lich King one?aaronmullan

My bad. Was trying to compare CGIs from the same time period, sort of. Plus that's the first time I've seen WOTLK. Not a WoW fan. :D

People are actually voting FF? :lol:RichardStallman

You talk about Blizzards pre renders and you don't even include the Wrath of the Lich King one?aaronmullan

Blizzards...and unlike SE, Blizzards are all made in house

Blizzard ones have more styIe and atmosphere. Square's human character design is worse than Blizzards, and their monsters are creative but don't feel as part of one world like Blizzards do.

Very personal though, as both rawk.

I don't know if these are the "best", but the cut-scenes in halo wars are nothing to scoff at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWaf8CVS6cg watch it in HD if you can, the SD version looks really pixelated.

And between those cutscenes that I saw in this thread, the Starcraft II scene impressed me the most, so I'll go with blizzard as being the best, even though I havn't really seen many cutscenes from either company.

Forget graphics. I vote these as the most intense CGI videos...

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/exclusive-aerial-world-in/45679

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/exclusive-gc-world-in/23744

What about Team Ninja? Not saying they are the best but they have done some pretty nice cg cutscenes.

I haven't seen FFXIII yet so I can't fully comment. But, pre FFXIII, definitely Blizzard. The WoW/WC3 cutscenes alone are by far the best seen.

Going to have to go with Blizzard.

There are a lot of great cutscenes in WC3, but this one came to mind when I saw this thread.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luuUE0x7-TY&feature=related

Blizz all the way did you not see the wrath of the lich king trailer?