Reply 20 of 31, by King_Corduroy
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wrote:I corrected you because there actually are adventures without any graphics, text adventures, but those aren't point and click 😉.
It depends. I don't mind early 1990s 3D graphics as long as the gameplay is solid, PSX games look a lot better if you're using a CRT TV like me, of course it will be unwatchable on a LCD. I'm not jumping on the "old 2D graphics is better than 3D" bandwagon, I played 1985-1991 DOS games as a kid with mostly EGA graphics and compared to that the PSX seemed like virtual reality to me. Everyone always compares jerky PS1 games to "60 fps SNES sprite goodness", but they're forgetting that old DOS 2D games from before the SVGA era were even choppier while having very ugly 2D graphics (and I still love them despite that, they're my childhood). But then, I have a weakness for "bad 3D/CGI". What is sad however is that modern games mostly look worse than prerendered 1997 graphics and if you don't believe me, look at Riven (which looks better than many modern games in my opinion and is freaking beautiful), yet I see people thinking we have "lifelike graphics".
But then, I read scans from 1990s gaming magazines which call Voodoo 1 graphics "almost confusable with video", and realize that the newest games for a given time are always considered "photorealistic" by gamers until something newer comes along when it becomes "horribly ugly, my eyes are bleeding". Total lack of perspective.
Yeah your right actually now that I think about it, I own many games of the MMX era that are 3D and I still love them so I'm not sure what I meant. 🤣 Games like POD, Vangers, Omikron, Total Annihilation, MDK, Mechwarriors etc will always be great games. I never did subscribe to the whole "horribly ugly, my eyes are bleeding" thing since I never had state of the art hardware I was always at least 5 years behind (in 2007 I was over a decade behind). CRT monitors do make all the difference though when playing these games and like you said PS1 games especially. I also use a tiny 13" Sharp TV for my consoles because it looks... well... sharp. 🤣
In fact I'm using a Samsung Syncmaster 753DF on my main Core 2 Duo PC right now, it seems a bit out of focus but other than that games look freaking fantastic on it. Even modern games like GTA IV benefit greatly in terms of picture quality. I don't think I'm ever going back to LCD (despite my electric bill probably going up).
Also yeah I own a 1984 PCjr so I got to play plenty of text adventures (including the greats from Infocom). 🤣
Also speaking of which I also have a soft spot for some of the CGA games as well, example Empire : Wargame of the Century. That game is freaking phenomenal!
I was born in 1990 so most of my gaming came in from 95 til probably 2004-ish (unless High school counts for that too then I would go til 2008. 😜). I mostly played the NES since it was easy to set up (We only had a single 486 Packard Bell when I was really young) and Super Mario Bros. 3 and Double Dragon never got old, but later we had multiple 90's computers so I played those much more (Duke3d, Doom, Quake, Warcraft 2, Starcraft, Command and Conquer, Civilization 2, Vangers (Dedicated so much freaking time to that game) etc.).
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