FMV automatically makes them good endings? FF7 had FMV at the end, does that make it a good ending? Endings are the same now as they were then, only the technology is different.

To be honest, I don't just want some showcase of graphics with no meaning. And they tried to put meaning in game endings long before 3d and FMV. Not as far back as the Atari or anything though. I think that's what you mean, back before endings were endings.

But that is a timeless art. I remember beating the 1p Quake 2 back in 1999, and you get a nice "well done" text as an ending.