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I truly don't know how to explain this to anyone who wasn't around then. (startrek.website)

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[–] thehatfox@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Toy Story came out in 1995 but nobody then expected we would have graphics like that in real time for a long time to come. There were claims made at the time comparing the graphical abilities of the PS2 and Xbox generation to films like Toy Story and they were widely derided at that time.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Yeah, marketers doing their usual thing lol.

These days, I often can't tell if cutscenes are pre-rendered or rendered by the game engine (or another real-time renderer packaged with the game).

Though that some of the old Blizzard cutscenes that impressed me a lot at the time stopped being so impressive even a decade ago. Like the Diablo 2 ones are on the far side of the uncanny valley still, but I remember being awestruck by them back in the day.