303568, RE: y'all crazy Posted by Wonderl33t, Mon Jun-04-18 10:28 AM
It's true that my take is somewhat hindsight, but I'm also very biased toward good sprite graphics. Even at in the day of the N64 I couldn't understand why people liked the 9 FPS tornado of triangles better than sprites. Titles like Star Fox and Wave Race blew me away at the time, though, no doubt.
>the first-gen 3D consoles were an *amazing* jump. you went >from StarFox, where you could count the number of polygons, to >something like Wipeout (first-generation PS1)? stunningly >different. > >when new games came out, the majority of the reviews were >solely about the graphics! everyone was slack-jawed for years, >and then just when you thought you hit a standard, something >like Tekken 3 would come out and blow you away again. > >PS1/Saturn/N64 have definitely aged the worst because of frame >rate (30 FPS used to be acceptable, and even into the 20s was >standard) and high resolution advances. but that era was a >graphical marvel for the time.
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