The thing that really stops me from enjoying a lot of old games I liked back in the day is the abysmal controls. Years of having good controls has ruined my ability to go back to when devs were still trying to figure out the whole 3D thing.
It’s better if you look at games that are not 3d.
What do you mean by “Bad Graphics” ?
Fact: PS1 games in an emulator with increased resolution looks super cool
not only based, but also gay.
because gay is good, therefore the original point is good.
edit: lemmy does not respect formatting 100%. I wanted larger gaps between sections.
i’ve got an old version of FCEUX that I boot up all the time to run The Guardian Legend. One day, I’ll do a full run in one sitting. Then, maybe I’ll speedrun. I can dream.
Old Graphics =/= Bad Graphics
edit: furthermore old =/= bad. Old is a quantitative measure and bad is qualitative. Trying to use one measure as the litmus for the other is like saying “there are five apples on that tree, they must taste terrible.”
inb4: i dont care if it isnt a perfect analogy and there’s actually some study somewhere that showed that apple trees that retain prime number multiples of fruit on their branches statistically taste worse when rated on a blind taste test.
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It’s almost like mechanics trumps graphics.
See Dwarf Fortress.
Not really? I would love to play complex game like df or cataclysm with good 3d graphics.
Check out Going Medieval. Doesn’t have everything DF has, but it’s something.
It’s low-poly so it’s not that big of a jump, but the 3d camera alone makes it so much easier to play than dwarf fortress.
DW has good graphics now compared to what it use to have.
Shitty visual aesthetics has kept me from playing so many games from small devs, i don’t want their crappy pixel-graphics bullshit, I played those when I was a kid I don’t need that anymore now that we have the ability to do better…I don’t want one or the other, I want both. I would rather play a game with mediocre mechanics and great graphics than one with great mechanics and mediocre graphics.
I think this kind of attitude means you’re going to miss a lot of fantastic games, honestly. Games offer a lot more than just visuals, and many very pretty games are extremely bad games.
everyone is free to play whatever they want, but everyone is also free to call your opinion dumb. which it is.
To each their own, but when I play games I want games that are fun to play. When I want realistic graphics I just go for a walk.
by that logic xkcd is bad
Yeah! And people who play unpopular sports despite small crowd sizes - what are they, insane?
They’re not bad graphics, they’re good graphics… for their time
Nahhh, some of them really were bad graphics. Morrowind and Mario Sunshine came out in the same year.
Morrowind is beautiful :(
I also frequently lie to myself.
The scope of each of those games is so vastly different that I don’t think that’s a fair comparison. The art styles are wildly different too.
Different styles. All Morrowind’s missing is ragdolls and physics.
Though Oblivion Rosacea is hard to look past…
There’s a charm to early 3D. Late 2D is a timeless look, but early 3D is unmistakably mid 90s to early 2000s stuff.
I’ve been running the original Resident Evil trilogy. The graphics age it, of course, but the games are just awesome. Resources are limited. You have to consider what’s worth wasting ammo on. You have to consider if you’ve done enough to justify a save. The puzzles aren’t terribly difficult, but they’re satisfying. And I love a good old fashioned jump scare.
Sometimes I play old games because of the graphics, not despite them. For nostalgia and the fact that my crappy laptop can handle them.
I think Final Fantasy IX looks outstanding. That’s fairly old now.
I love chunky pixels and great gameplay. I love games that you can get hundreds of hours of fun out of, only take up 1gb of storage, and can run smooth on a dinosaur PC. No DRM, supporting a small team who respect you as a supporter and passionately make a piece of interactive art you get to enjoy the rest of your life.
The graphics snobs have the worst brain dead takes man. Not being able to enjoy a game just because it ask you to use creativity and imagination to interpret the art that acompanies the interactive experience. But I guess to each their own. Who knows maybe in 20 years when their old favorite games look like shit their tune might change. In the meantime I hope they enjoy the 170gb weekly updates for the newest unoptimized reheated game franchise. I hear the newest version of the Ark dinosaur game is doing just great, I’m sure the next assassins creed and cod and whatever Bethesda is making in between skyrim releases will give you a novel and memorable experience.
Only 1GB. A lot of the good old games fit on a CD and had enough space left to have a full album of red book music!
It’s cute that people think those are low res graphics.
It’s cute that people think the games they are playing have good graphics
It’s cute that people think
It’s cute
No u
You can have my Project 1999 when you pry it from my cold, dead, fingers.
I bought Trackmania United Forever last weekend and it’s kinda interesting because the stadium environment still looks great, most of the rest look ok and some others look pretty bad.
