Old 3D games have aged the worst. The old 2D games are still very playable, but I think they all jumped on the 3D train too early, before the hardware was ready, and before they had really figured things out. Sure, they might not have made the necessary progress without releasing games and hardware being released, but I think they could have left the experimenting stage up to PCs where its much easier to experiment with changing hardware and let the consoles wait out another generation and stick to more 2D games.
It seems like they stopped making 2D games when the PS1 and N64 came out, when they really had a lot of advancement that could be made. We’ve started to go back to 2D in the last 5 years and we’ve had some interesting things come out of it.
I remember every time I got or played a new console or handheld thinking that the graphics couldn’t get any better than this,but it did and my tiny little mind was blown every time it happened.
To be fair the game at the bottom is Operation Flashpoint, a game known for it’s scale and simulation more so than it’s graphical fidelity.
Ever wanted to get shot down behind enemy lines and have to use the stars to navigate back to base on an hours long hike through a forrest infested with 1980’s communists? With no save points? It was the game for you.
So accurate, I remember playing The Legend of Dragoon as a child and thought it looked amazing. Looking back I realize just how creative of an imagination I had, game is still fucking amazing but I really wanna see it get a remaster
Bruuuuuuuuu
GoldenEye on N64
Keep in mind that you were playing on an analogue CRT TV so the edges were blurred a bit by the resolution.
Impossibru
Old 3D games have aged the worst. The old 2D games are still very playable, but I think they all jumped on the 3D train too early, before the hardware was ready, and before they had really figured things out. Sure, they might not have made the necessary progress without releasing games and hardware being released, but I think they could have left the experimenting stage up to PCs where its much easier to experiment with changing hardware and let the consoles wait out another generation and stick to more 2D games.
It seems like they stopped making 2D games when the PS1 and N64 came out, when they really had a lot of advancement that could be made. We’ve started to go back to 2D in the last 5 years and we’ve had some interesting things come out of it.
Welcome to the rice fields, muthafucka
That is Operation Flashpoint for PC. It was awesome!
Idk I miss the more cartoony less realistic graphics.
You still remember it wrong and way too optimistic if you think tha OF was close to PS1 level graphics.
I remember every time I got or played a new console or handheld thinking that the graphics couldn’t get any better than this,but it did and my tiny little mind was blown every time it happened.
Back then with 13 pixels: Wow, it’s so realistic!
Today with millions of pixels: Wow, that looks like shit
Uses a 2001 pc game to describe a ps1 game.
Second screenshot looks like the original Operation Flashpoint. They don’t make games that fun anymore. Or that ugly.
The pink guy
No way
PS1 looked way worse than that
As someone who played PS1 etc…. no, the graphics looked like shit, and I saw them as they were, that was just the state of games, so I accepted it.
People keep trying to tell me that I think of old games as having better graphics than they did, and it’s getting quite annoying.
IMPOSSIBRUUUUUU
I see you’re using the French Stewart skin.
Story and gameplay >>>>>>>>>>>> graphics
Lol no. Ps1 games did not look that detailed
To be fair the game at the bottom is Operation Flashpoint, a game known for it’s scale and simulation more so than it’s graphical fidelity.
Ever wanted to get shot down behind enemy lines and have to use the stars to navigate back to base on an hours long hike through a forrest infested with 1980’s communists? With no save points? It was the game for you.
[EDIT: Here’s the mission, it takes this guy 20 minutes but it took me all weekend, with many deaths, back in the day.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrlnexC9Zfw)
Is that the “Impossiburu” face?
Wow, it’s Filthy Frank
Don’t mock Operation Flashpoint, that game was so amazing
IMPOSSIBRU!
So accurate, I remember playing The Legend of Dragoon as a child and thought it looked amazing. Looking back I realize just how creative of an imagination I had, game is still fucking amazing but I really wanna see it get a remaster