DTHUREGRIF opened this issue on Sep 22, 2001 ยท 111 posts
otaku posted Sun, 23 September 2001 at 12:25 PM
I'm not going to add to this thread by expressing my personal opinion about Dinas looks or the technical quality of the model. What I will say is that if you are going to make claims like "best model ever made", "like nothing youve ever seen before" and comparing it to the Final Fantasy models, be ready to be attacked and challenged. Also consumers have varied opinions of what "best" and "most advanced" mean. High polycounts and photo realistic textures are only part of the equation, memory use, easy usability, versatility, rendering time, customizing and support also play into a models quality. One thing the creators may want to checkout is there is a making of Final Fantasy book out now, and if you look at the meshes of the characters you'll see that they have even less mesh detail than Vicki or Dina. All the hype and attacks here remind me of the American Godzilla movie. The movie is viewed as a failure even though it didn't do that bad at the box office, but it didn't live up to the hype. The effects were higher quality the monster was more realistic, but it failed to capture the hearts of Godzilla fans. I don't own Dina so I'm not qualified to comment on her. I'm just expressing my opinion about the hype and the attacks on the model.