How much did Final Fantasy VII revolutionise the series?

[Bolivar]

3D wasn't a sudden drastic change in the gaming world, many other games had 3D graphics before

of course not, but this thread is about the series. even though you're still wrong in that there were no graphics like VII's in the gaming world at the time.

Except for the fact that there was a SGI demo years before FFVII was released. Can you honestly say that you didn't expect FF to go 3D? Note that Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy are indeed two separate franchises.

the demo is irrelevant to the topic of this thread. 3d models over pre-rendered backgrounds tilted at any given angle is a drastic change from the previous games which was continued even to X. It revolutionized the series.